Social Feed | Marcus Obst

mastodon - 2024-12-17 at 16:25:22

What's the deal with YouTubers not only holding tiny lapel mics, but now also holding giant studio mics in their hands as if they were rock stars?
What a weird culture.

mastodon - 2024-12-15 at 13:26:42

That was an interesting waste of time. Just installing Ubuntu and find out that sharing a folder over the network is going to be a PITA was a big bummer. Then I installed Linux mint because I used it before... that was easier, but still no sharing out of the box. Then got sidetracked with CasaOS which, turnsout dies at installation because of some Docker esoterica. That's it for Linux for a while. Also booting that mac mini takes forever even with Linux. Oh well...

mastodon - 2024-12-14 at 14:50:24

I guess it's going to be Linux. Unless I want to invest in a SSD. Is linux going to be ok with that i5 4GB RAM and 500 GB HD in it? I know for a server the disk and network IO is important, but I'm not going to transcode movies on the fly... A lot to figure out.

mastodon - 2024-12-14 at 14:39:34

I have better things to do than trying to turn this late 2014 #macmini into a home server. I don't even know if I need a home server (for storing all my music maybe?) and I don't know if I want to put Linux on that Mac instead of being stuck with old Mac OS Montery. #ThinkingOutLoud

mastodon - 2024-12-06 at 08:46:14

Admittedly, trying to get off #flickr and move to #piwigo was just half successful. I sold usage rights to a photo that allowed me to justify the use and re-subscribe to Flickr pro[1]. But not without airing my frustration about the price hikes to the Flickr staff, and got a 30% discount in return.
[1] also vendor lock-in. Didn't want to lose the photo selection, and reducing it to a 1000 for the free account was an impossible task. It's already hard to select what to upload, but what to delete?

mastodon - 2024-12-06 at 08:41:08

For the longest time I hated Wordpress, but having it used more for my job, I really learned to like it more than I hate it. Not going to touch its code base though. Just installing 5000 Plugins :)

mastodon - 2024-12-06 at 08:39:18

In another attempt of #self-hosting: I'm trying to import 12 years of travel notes/images from #tumblr to a self-hosted #Wordpress instance. I expect it to look terrible (many galleries) and "I might delete later" like a goofy selfie. I think tumblr is still the most convenient platform to post to, but I don't need the ads and the community, the blog is just a diary for me and a sign of me being alive to maybe 2 people who managed to bookmark the url. I want to own my content. It's important.

mastodon - 2024-11-19 at 15:58:22

#TinyHelper: If a website has no #search, or it's not good, here is a #bookmarklet that opens a dialog for a query and searches google with the `site:`parameter:
```
javascript:(function(){var query=prompt('Enter search query:');if(query){var site=window.location.hostname;window.location.href='https://www.google.com/search?q=site:'+site+'+'+encodeURIComponent(query);}})();
```

mastodon - 2024-11-08 at 23:59:56

@thisismissem @european_alternatives I honestly don't like the balkanization of the internet, but I understand the need for alternatives.

mastodon - 2024-11-06 at 13:13:19

@carnage4life Americans always want something new. People (or only the media?) thought it was a younger, competent President, but the new thing Americans yearn for is Christo-Fascism at scale. This is frighting.

mastodon - 2024-11-04 at 15:27:20

Airwaves, Prairie, IL

mastodon - 2024-11-03 at 02:40:52

#AI #Slop in the wild. Casey, IL

mastodon - 2024-10-27 at 14:42:24

It's a bit weird to experience the US looking at its #election2024 choices and thinks “mmmh guess were going for fascism, watcha gonna do, y'all?”

mastodon - 2024-10-27 at 14:33:31

It's that time again when (American) political hobbyists make all sorts of predictions online just to say later 'I told you so'. #election

mastodon - 2024-10-18 at 14:45:19

@autiomaa @Edent @mkj I read about Zotero a lot when I started using Obsidian. But haven't checked it out yet, because of my habit to bookmark things/take notes and then rather google than search my own repository :)

mastodon - 2024-10-18 at 14:42:37

I wrote down the steps I took to move from #Flickr to #Piwigo and make it look a little better than the standard installation looks like. https://marcus-obst.de/blog/moving-from-flickr-to-piwigo

mastodon - 2024-10-18 at 14:32:17

@autiomaa @Edent @mkj This extension is amazing! I'm using it a lot to fight against link rot and build my personal Internet Archive (somwhat). Only knew the Chrome extensions, but will check out their GitHub page. Thanks!