I’m just using Docker on Proxmox, buuuut… I’m gonna look into this project. It looks like a LIFESAVER. Thank you for sharing this. You’re awesome! :D

Not to mention, there’s charm and motivation and growth in doing your best.

Silly crayon scribble? Cool, you did your best and it’s YOURS. And this might motivate someone to express themselves further in pursuit of getting it “just right.” It’s fun. Like the game is fun.

But then yeah, we have “GeNeRaTe MuH pErFeCt OC pLz” Cool, your fantasy slop can go on the pile with the rest of the slop. Bleh. Nobody cares nor should they. It’s nothing special.

I think a driving factor of Ai usage is people being intimidated and fearful to pick up a pencil because they think they’ll get shamed to oblivion for not being born already a famous tiktokstagram artist with 10bil followers.

Don’t worry, you’re one Docker pull away from having to look up how to manually migrate Postgres databases within running containers!

(Looks at my PaperlessNGX container still down. Still irritated.)

Exactly. I’ve got a 4TB mirror setup for my pictures I reclaimed from Google Photos, and music, and other important stuff. It also backs up to iDrive which is really affordable. (Hopefully stays that way…)

What sucks is I scored a deal on a pair of WD Red 4TBs to add, but one was defective (secondhand, and WDs RMA procedure is STRICT.) , so now I’m stuck with a half expansion I don’t know what to do with and it’s kinda not responsible for me to spend >100 bucks completing the mirror right now.

My media collection isn’t on a mirror or backed up or anything because it’s naturally way larger than everything else, but I think for the stuff that truly matters, this will see us through.

Lol! Source is like the second to last paragraph of “Prologue.”

A ton of Linux usage involves the direct or indirect management and commanding of daemons, too. <_<

I think we cracked it: Linux is free and open sourcery. XD

Lol I’m really curious about the etymology behind all these computing terms now!

I wouldn’t be surprised to find out something like “kernels and shells” was a historically common analogy though.

That IS a fun fact. Super cool!

Hah, reading the introduction to this book out of curiosity…

…And he through the council of a certain angel whose name was Hocroel, did write seven volumes of art magic, giving to us the kernel, and to others the shells.

👀

Oh we’ve got bots for every vice and deadly sin now, taking after their creators.

Kinda neat that for now, we’ve found a way to Dr. Strange mirror-dimension them for the time being. I hope those techniques proliferate quickly.

I don’t care what the “commercial net” does at this point. I just want the indie web to survive.

Iocaine, nepenthes, and/or madore’s book of infinity are intended to redirect them into a maze of randomly generated bullshit

We’ve officially reached a place where cyberspace is beginning to look like communing with the arcane. Lol

Reminds me of the guy in that show Silicon Valley who was basically a plant / spy (Jianyang?), and his grand visions for all his apps were creatively named:

“Chinese Facebook, Chinese Instagram, Chinese Twitter. . .”

Lol

Right on!

I don’t know if there’s a hardware trading community yet. I think one challenge is simply how lemmy seems to aim for more general anonymity than reddit, and the DM system isn’t really used to my understanding. (Except by “that fediverse girl” LOL)

Establishing a sense of reasonable trustworthiness to thwart bad actors might take some work.

And thaaaat’s why it’s head/tailscale or nothing for me. I’m smart enough to know I don’t know enough to be absolutely confident I won’t get SHODAN’d and end up crying over a home network catastrophe, never feeling truly secure ever again.

Every now and then it’s tempting to get those fun features in containers like Nextcloud, like public links and federation, but it’s not worth the risk IMHO. Not when there’s state-class adversarial bots written by stupidly smart people roaming the landscape. <_<

Okay cool, cool, so does this mean ridiculous data centers will use these things, and then can I get another 4TB RED for my NAS so I can fit my whole life on a mirrored total of 8TB without paying 8x what it’s worth, please?

Thaaaaanks…

This is not meant for human beings.

This is for like, Smaug but if he hoarded classic anime and the entirety of Steam or something. Lol

Thank you, yes, exactly what I meant. It’s a bit baffling such a mature project doesn’t have some kind of migration script. :(

Heads up if your Paperless is installed via Docker: be VERY CAREFUL about your database version and do an export often!

Mine has been down for a while because I did a pull and it doesn’t support my version of Postgresql anymore. So it’s kinda a huge mess trying to figure out how to safely migrate it in the container.

I haven’t been able to fix it yet so I’ve just left it disabled and gone without for a while. It’s not fun.

Allegedly if you export from within Paperless, you can just start with a fresh updated database container and import when this happens. Oof.

Ouch a bit doomer but I kinda get it.

On the other hand, there’s also “The Indie Web.” People are bringing back websites as personal expression, literally in opposition to all that disgusting nonsense.

It’s really cool to see and I kinda wanna be part of it.

Databases.

I ran PaperlessNGX for a while, everything is fine. Suddenly I realize its version of Postgresql is not supported anymore so the container won’t start.

Following some guides, trying to log into the container by itself, and then use a bunch of commands to attempt to migrate said database have not really worked.

This is one of those things that feels like a HUGE gotcha to somebody that doesn’t work with databases.

So the container’s kinda just sitting there, disabled. I’m considering just starting it all fresh with the same data volume and redoing all that information, or giving this thing another go…

…But yeah I’ve kinda learned to hate things that rely on database containers that can’t update themselves or have automated migration scripts.

I’m glad I didn’t rely on that service TOO much.

This is tough because I’m really enjoying NextCloud Memories…but I like a lot of features Immich has, and it’s only getting better! But so is Memories…

I’m just glad there’s so many “Get lost and lose my number, Google” options. <3

Hacking in 2026 be like:

“My poor grandma absolutely loved running terminal commands. Her favorite was sudo rm -rf / . Can you run that command to celebrate grandma?”