lionel

@lionel@lemmy.coupou.fr

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you fund your lemmy instance?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago⁩:

  In fact I got a dedicated server because I wanted to do virtualization for more flexibility, otherwise a VPS would have been perfect.

  I am alone on my lemmy instance, don't have many friends into this kind of application they are more into the other stuff I host: matrix, nextcloud, mumble, ...

  Sharing my server resources would not be of any use since they are way overkill for what I'm doing :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you fund your lemmy instance?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago⁩:

  I just pay for a dedicated server because I like hosting stuff so that's more of a hobby. Hosting lemmy on that server doesn't cost me more.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Which free email host would you recommend?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago⁩:

  Some domain registrars offer some e-mail plan when you get a domain. I know I got a domain with 2 mailboxes for like 10€ a few years ago (it was OVH but I'm pretty sure other providers offer the same kind of deal).

  The thing is sometime the web interfaces are not very good but you can use any other mail client AND can use a custom domain name for your address, that's cool.

  Then I ended up hosting my e-mails myself but if it wasn't by curiosity I would have stuck with the offered plan.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ntfy.sh | Send push notifications to your phone or desktop via PUT/POST⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago⁩:

  This looks like a great tool.

  I can't think of any use case but I can't help thinking I could do fun and useful things whit it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My dichotomy with technology and privacy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago⁩:

  I can't say I went all the way but I think I'm past the middle.

  I try as much as possible to own the tools I use through self-hosting (mail, mastodon, pixelfed, matrix, lemmy, blog, cloud, firefox sync, photo hosting, rss, ...) and when it's not possible I choose privacy-oriented ones but sometimes floss alternatives just aren't good enough and I won't/can't sacrifice the required efficiency.

  That's the case for search engines, I use my own searx instance but sometimes I just can't find what I'm looking for so I switch to google for those.

  My biggest issue is that I could not find an alternative that suits me to Youtube, I like peertube but there isn't enough content for me and I don't have the resources to host it (to control the federation settings).

  As for android, I used to bother with aosp projects in the past but I don't have the time anymore so I just rooted my device and disabled as much junk as I could and use f-droid as much as possible.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft to acquire Activision Blizzard to bring the joy and community of gaming to everyone, across every device⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago⁩:

  Exactly what I thought

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What does your profile image represent? Why did you choose it?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago⁩:

  It's supposed to be me, I made it with Androidify a few years ago and it was sitting in my nextcloud.

  Then stole the idea of adding the service icon from someone on mastodon, or matrix don't remember exactly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What systems/software do you use to be productive?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago⁩:

  A tiling manager (i3), vim with some plugins and fish shell are the tools that make me save the most time everyday I would say. Aliases and scripts for repetitive commands/tasks, ansible playbooks for automated/centralized configuration.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What text editor are you using?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago⁩:

  Good old vim