Ja. Ich glaube vor allem brauchen wir clevere Lösungen… Also die machen hier knaller Sachen. Alte Bahntrassen zu Fahrrad-Infrastruktur umbauen, und dann kann man schön auf direktem Wege durch’s Grüne fahren, fern ab vom Autoverkehr, maximal 1,5% Steigung… Aber dann machen sie auch wieder richtig dumme Sachen. Spuren umwidmen, aber das ist richtig ätzend dort zu fahren. Manchmal sogar baulich getrennt, aber nach 800m verschwindet dann der Radweg sang und klanglos und man endet erstmal inmitten einer riesigen, vielbefahrenen Kreuzung… Irgendwie enden Radwege gerne genau da wo es kompliziert ist… Manchmal nehmen sie den Autofahrern etwas weg und das bringt etwas, manchmal ist aber auch niemandem damit geholfen, weil irgendwie guter Wille da war, aber sonst nicht so viel.

Also ich denke worauf es ankommt ist, dass man fitte Stadtplaner in den Behörden sitzen hat, die sich da was sinnvolles ausdenken. Gerne auch maßgeschneidert für die spezifischen Gegebenheiten. Und man die tatsächlichen Probleme ausmacht und die mal mit Geld bewirft… Also ich denke letztendlich ist es das, was wirklich hilft.

Letztendlich muss auch was in den Gesetzen stehen, das ist klar. Ich finde es nicht falsch was hier gefordert wird. Ich finde es trifft aber auch nicht so wirklich.

Ja stimmt, solche Radwege haben wir auch. Und das dauert dann mindestens 5 Jahre bis jemand den Asphalt repariert. Oder die werden einfach nicht von Stöckern, Laub und Schnee freigehalten, und dann kann man da manchmal eh nicht drauf fahren. Und die Rennradfahrer wollen sich auch nie den Weg mit lahmen Rentnern und Fußgängern teilen, sondern fahren trotzdem weiterhin auf der Landstraße… Also das Problem ist definitiv da. Und baulich getrennt ist meiner Meinung nach auch die einzige clevere Variante. Das ganze Linien auf den Boden malen, und dann wird man trotztem 20cm vom LKW überholt ist echt kein Gewinn.

Uh. Nette Idee! Aber ist das nicht auch ein bisschen dumm formuliert? Also was ist, wenn es eine extra Fahrradtrasse gibt. Aber die nicht entlang der stinkenden Landstrasse geführt wird? Dann müssten irgendwie trotzdem alle 60 fahren… Oder das Land wird dazu angestiftet die Radinfrastruktur immer entlang der Landstrassen zu bauen, und das ist auch eigentlich nicht so pralle.

Ich mein, mir hier kann es egal sein. Wir hier im Ruhrgebiet träumen alle davon, irgendwo mal wieder 60km/h zu fahren. Aber hey, Stau, Baustelle, Berufsverkehr, die nächste Baustelle…

Kind of the reason why I quit Netflix. For once it got more expensive each year. And at some point there was less and less of my favorite shows on there, so I’d need to subscribe to a second service for Star Trek… then a third one for all the good stuff that’s Disney… And I don’t even watch that much TV. So instead, I just quit. Maybe one day I’m gonna read a book on a Friday evening 😆 Or the stuff the government forces me to pay for.

Puh, ziemlich fokussiert auf Video. Ich ersetze damit mehr meinen Chat, Cloud-Office, Social Media… Aber der Return of Investment ist da weniger die Abo-Gebühr 😅

The Firefox Browser has translation built in and it works fairly well. We have LibreTranslate as a self-hosted service, I think it’s okay… Not particulary good, more okay in my experience. And what I tend to do is just copy-paste text to my local LLM and tell it to translate. Most models will do it. They have to be trained on multiple languages for that, and can’t be too small. You could try one of the Ministral models at whatever size fits and doesn’t heat up your computer. But I bet the average model from Meta and Google will do as well, I think they all have multilangual capabilities these days. And for web use, I’d recommend using Firefox. I can read Japanese websites with that. It’s not perfect by any means, but low on the resources and it only takes a few seconds, even on battery power on my laptop.

Hmm, sorry. I’d guess your internet connection doesn’t work any more. So apt can’t fetch the packages. That’s kind of hard to debug, though. You’d somehow need to fix networking before you can proceed. But we don’t really know what broke. And if that’s really the only issue at play.

Maybe a Live-USB stick and a rescue mode can help here?! Other than that I’m out of options.

Clear up some space first and then try something like this:

dpkg --force-all --configure -a  
apt --fix-broken install  
apt-get -f install  

I’ve had issues like that before and oftentimes it’s recoverable. A bit unfortunately if the wrong packages got damaged. Can be quite an effort to get it going again and it depends on the exact situation.

Yes. I’m not very educated on the Worpress side of things… Kinda necessary, though, to keep compatibility with the Fediverse AND the No-AI people in my opinion. I mean the Fediverse is kind of the place for people to go if they don’t want algorithms and bots to dominate the place?!

I mean if no single software fits your bill, maybe go for a combination of them? Post your blog posts in a Ghost installation, your podcasts in Castopod and have your community on a NodeBB forum? The Fediverse kinda includes the idea it’s all one big network anyway. So you don’t have to squeeze everything on a single server and one CMS.

Other than that: Wordpress is open-source. You could also wait for the enshittification to happen. We’re fairly sure someone is going to fork it and maybe they’ll provide a seemless migration. So if you’re patient enough, you might be able to stick with your current setup. Just that you Wordpress will some day have a different name and developer community. These things happen all the time. I’ll just switch from Firefox to LibreWolf once I’m unhappy with Mozilla’s decisions. Solves the user-facing part of the issues, and there’s almost no effort involved.

Nice, thanks for the link! I wasn’t aware of that. Sadly as with all shiny new things it doesn’t fit all my requirements… I’d really like to speak to my house in my native language. But I figure English will do. I’m gonna try that.

Not sure if an ESP32-S3 is fast enough for more advanced DSP plus the rest of an voice assistant. At least I found some ESP32 libraries with noise reduction, echo cancellation… There is the ESP-ADF and a project called ESP32-SpeexDSP. But I didn’t try that yet. The Rockckip / Luckfox development board looks nice as well. A Cortex-A7 and a few hundred megabytes of memory might come in handy. And whatever the NPU does. But I don’t have a clue what kind of software and libraries we got for embedded Linux or custom processing units.

Anyway. I think the production-grade stuff mostly uses multiple microphones and a combination of beamforming and echo cancellation. I got 4 inmp441 microphones here. But I lack the software/libraries to tinker with that kind of signal processing.

Uh, noise cancellation is hard. First of all, the audio pipeline currently isn’t able to resample the microphones, so mic and output need to be connected to separate i2s buses, or it won’t work simultaneously in the first place.

And then I had some luck with the microwakeword component. It often triggers correctly even with noise in the background. And I have an automation that mutes all media players and the TV when the wake word is triggered. That’s my “noise cancelling”.

I think more elaborate noise cancelling is going to require some dedicated hardware (or maybe some proprietary ESP-ADF functions) and a microphone array. But that’s probably as expensive as an Voice PE?!

I’m not in a good place with the voice assistant anyway. Don’t own a graphics card. So it’s slow. And Whisper never gets all the words right for me. So it’s down to the speech-to-phrase addon. And that seems to be broken as of now. At least I get more connection errors than commands through. I think I’m going to do the Sendspin media player first. And then maybe add a microphone and voice assistant later.

I’m currently doing it the other way around. Assemble multiple satellites and spread them through the house. With upcoming Sendspin and Music Assistant this might do whole house audio soon. But I don’t own a Voice PE. I just bought some microcontrollers plus MAX98357A codec/amplifiers and connect them to random old speakers I have in my e-waste / upcycling bin. The one thing with an 3.5" audio jack might just go into the preexisting soundbar or stereo in the livingroom.

PeerTube has a collaborative wishlist and community votes on new feature proposals. If you want to see this within the PeerTube project, consider adding it to the list, or upvote it if it’s already in there:

• https://ideas.joinpeertube.org/

No worries. Your post was well-written. And I’m glad people could offer some advice. Not even the proficient Lemmy users get all of this right all the time. I just figured I’d drop you a comment in case the mods take action, to spare you the effort to also learn about the modlog and how to look up their note… But seems it wasn’t necessary 😄

Sorry, I don’t have an answer to your question, but two other communities that would fit: !homelab@lemmy.world and !homelab@selfhosted.forum

They’re both not really active, though. And someone asked about OpenSense hardware before and didn’t get any answers…

Just writing this so you have some other places to look up, in case your post gets deleted, I think you’re technically in the wrong community here. As per rule 3 in the sidebar, this community isn’t about hardware questions.

Sorry, I’m not not able to help with that. Maybe there’s a limit how many old messages your server or client syncs?

I suppose it’s old drama by now. And I didn’t check if there’s new one in the meantime. As of now, both projects are active. Both have a userbase. Judging by the lasst commits, it’s still the case that Tuwunel is a one-man-show and Continuwuity is a community project.

I think whether you do closed source software is a personal choice. Based on considerations of your application. Like money, of if you want to rely on a company and how well they do their job, if it’s still gonna be around in 7 years. If you can customize it enough to suit your needs. Or you base the decision on ideology.

I’ve been using Yunohost on the NAS. And it’s simple, works well and is pretty reliable, I didn’t get any major issues for many years now. (And in general, community maintained open-source software has served me well. So that’s what I do.)

Downsides as a proficient Linux user are: You can’t just mess with the config while the automatic scripts also mess with the config. You need to learn how they’re set up and work around that. Hope software has a config.d or overrides directory and put your customizations there. Or something will get messed up eventually. And you can’t just change arbitrary things. The mailserver or SSO or reverse proxy and a few other components are tightly integrated and you’re never gonna be able to switch from postfix to stalwart or something like that. Or retrofit a more modern authentication solution. It is a limiting factor.
And YunoHost doesn’t do containers, so I doubt it’s what you’re looking for anyway.

I’m a bit split on the entire promise of turnkey selfhosting solutions. Some of them work really well. And they’re badly needed to enable regular people to emancipate themselves from big tech. Whether you as an expert want to use them is an entirely different question. I think that just depends on application. If you have a good setup, that might be better suited to your needs. And if done right might be very low maintenance as well. So switching to a turnkey solution would be extra work and it might not pay off. Or it does pay off, I think that really depends on the specifics.

Isn’t that processor almost 15 years old? Nor sure what kind of price is alright for that. 250 seems a bit much but I don’t really know. I mean it’d probably work fine and 24GB is plenty of RAM for a few selfhosted services. I don’t think you need a graphics card for most services. Though Jellyfin can make use of the video encoder in it. Or use the encoder that comes with the iGPU in the processor. (Edit: Not sure in this case as it’s a very old generation.) And maybe the machine learning features in Immich can make use of the graphics card. Otherwise a GPU just wastes power in a server.

No idea about power consumption. I don’t know where you live, some countries have really cheap electricity. Some don’t and you maybe don’t want to run a random (old) gaming pc, because some waste a lot of power and some don’t and there is no good way to tell except measure it.

Yes, surely. I mean we’re a bit in a different situation in a digital place. Votes are way easier here (than in real life) and we can easily automate it into bigger processes.

For example I could envision something like a jury to make judiciary decisions. Not sure if that counts as direct democracy… But we don’t have to ask everyone about every moderation decision. Maybe just grant everyone the ability to report stuff and then the software goes ahead and samples 15 random people from the community (who arent part of the drama) and makes them decide. I believe that could help with fatigue. And speeds it up, we can just set the software to take people who are online right now, and discard and replace them if they don’t get at it asap.

Or make it not entirely direct, but at least do away with the hierarchies in a representative democracy. Instead of appointing moderators, we’d form a web of trust. I’m completely free to delegate power to arbitrary people and if my web of trusted people arrive at a score of 30 it’s spam, it is spam for me. And someone else could have a different perspective on the network. That’d help with all the coordination as well, because I can just not care, and the platform automatically delegates the power. And once I do care, I’m free to vote and that spares other people the effort to do the same. That’d at least make it direct in a way that we’re all moderators and users at the same time.

Of course democracy is a trade-off. And there’s a million edge cases, and we need some other things which go along with it. Accountability and transparency. We’d need an appeal process, for example with my first example if the jury doesn’t do a good job.

I’m probably not at a 100% perfect solution with these ideas. But I’m fairly sure we’d be able to do way more in a software-driven platform than the analogies we can take from countries and their approach at decision making. Especially regarding hierarchies within the system. However, things also clash. Transparency might be opposed to privacy. We have a lot more abuse on the internet than in the real world and it’s maybe not just easier to do votes here, but also easier to manipulate them, than what we’d take inspiration from in the offline world.

2. PieFed did a public poll to form a roadmap for 2025. I think it turned out very well. PeerTube also does that. The open-source tool that looks like GOG’s website is called Fider

I love it as well. Though, from a software developers perspective, it rarely goes all the way. There’s just so many technical decisions to be made, limitations, vague requirements, contradictions. Sometimes users think they want something but they really need the opposite of it… And they always want wildly different things and more often than not it’s not healthy for the projects to approach it that way. They’d instead do it in order as mandated by the technical design, have more pressing issues and all of that is buried beneath layers of technical complexity. So the users hardly know what’s appropriate to do. I believe that’s why we often gravitate to the “benevolent dictator” model in Free Software. Or why some regular (paid) software projects fail or exceed budged and time planning.
It should be that way, though. If software is meant for users, the developers should probably listen to them, so I love what these projects do, to at least augment their development process with some participation and guidance by the target audience. And some people are really good at it. (Edit: And we might have elements of a meritocracy as well, and people need programming skills to participate in some ways… So, I think we might not be able to do more than try to make it as democratic as possible. At least as far as we’re talking about the development process itself.)