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Cake day: October 14th, 2025
  • Brutal, i worked in b4 consulting before. They had Macs but you basically had to know someone to fight for it on your behalf.

    I feel your pain, i struggled with a dell craptop for years. I swear to god, those things are designed to be awful.

    (Although, shortly before i left i saw the new ones they were handing out which had Ryzen CPUs and actually looked pretty decent, but idk how well they worked because i left obv)

  • Maybe this works for a small-medium business, but for large enterprises (i work for a massive tech company) it doesn’t work like that.

    Corporate devices are bought through enterprise service agreements, which have to go through the lawyers as well as the procurement team. Although you could get a contract from Lenovo for the actual devices, a Linux distro would have no service agreement, so that would kill it right there (+ legal would probably flag the risk of malicious code being injected into the OS, i.e. xz). Ignoring thag, devices that are onboarded need to be able to fit into existing device management solutions (ABM/MDM, EDR, DLP, AD, etc etc).

    And before any of that, there would be some survey that goes out to determine how many employees would realistically make the switch. For Linux, that number would likely be so low that the business teams would decide it isn’t worth a discussion because of low business impact & user desire (not to mention that now the IT teams also need to be skilled up to support it).

    I couldn’t even get a FOSS browser extension approved to be installed on my device, much less spur a movement for adding a whole new set of devices to the corporate inventory.

    (Editing to add, i did talk to the IT guy and he said he wished he could give me one because he wants one too lol)

  • Honestly, between the MBP and a similarly priced Dell as a company laptop, i choose the MBP.

    The battery is better, the screen is better, performance is better, etc

    Dell doesn’t know how to make a laptop & windows sucks ass. Macos is so locked down by default that all the restrictions on a company laptop don’t change the user experience all that much.

    In an ideal world, id love a debian thinkpad or framework. But we don’t live in an ideal world, so had to choose between the two worst possible options

  • Are you pointing cloudflare directly to Lemmy? I have mine going from cloudflare to Nginx Proxy Manager configured to serve Lemmy.

    There is some additional configuration necessary for a reverse proxy in front of Lemmy, which is potentially where things are getting messed up for you?

  • It’s a program that uses an SDR to pick up the signals broadcasted by planes (ADS-B) containing their flight information. Then the data gets uploaded to an aggregator (FR24, Flight Aware, ADS-B Exchange) that gives a global view of all planes in the sky.

    You can use the aggregators for free without uploading, but you get some perks for being a contributor. I just do it because it’s cool and I use the platforms for getting info on flights I’m taking (you can tell if your flight is gonna be delayed if the plane is delayed elsewhere for example).

  • The audacity of this company to increase prices when:

    A) downloads are locked behind the paywall but havent worked in years (probably close to a decade at this point)

    B) they focus all the development time on bringing bullshit to the platform (live tv, rentals, other streaming app searches, etc)

    Requiring a subscription for remote access is actually fucking insane, they don’t have any bandwidth costs associated with that other than authentication so ???

    This will drive people to Jellyfin, and watch how fast Plex drops into irrelevance when all the selfhosters move away. Plex is (now was) the #1 thing to that both myself and others in this community would recommend to someone looking to get into selfhosting. ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯ not anymore, wonder how much the revenue will drop?

  • Hey, can you elaborate a little bit more? Based on my Google search, casa-os is a front end for selfhosting? So, I would assume that you are not connecting to the right ports.

    So, my assumption is: casa-os is using your port 80 and 443, so when you set up the DNS A Record, and navigate to it in your browser, it takes you to the homepage for casa-os. If this is indeed the case, then you have a couple options. You could:

    1. Change the ports that casa-os is using and then rebind NGINX to 80 and 443
    2. set up a second device just for NGINX (which is what I do, I use a Raspberry Pi just for network entry for stability reasons)
    3. (I’ve never done this, so YMMV) you might be able to use Tailscale Serve
      • You would have it serve the port for NGINX under your Tailscale DNS name
      • Once you’re there, I imagine that you could use a CNAME DNS record or something on your custom domain in order to continue using the domains that you want, sub domains, SSL, etc.

    Let me know what ends up working for you. I hope that either option 1 or 3 work, if those fail then you can definitely get it working via option 2 :)