I can’t even think of any valid reason why Udemy would need GenAI. Closed my account. This is the type of behavior I will not accept from a company. If enough people stood up to the Reddit’s and Udemy’s of the world they may, … maybe, be more responsible towards their users and their partners (in this case the people posting courses in Udemy).

I have been using Vivaldi for about half a year and so far it is working well for me. Originally moved to it due to it’s privacy features, but finding other areas quite useful too such as workspaces

If you just do a search for <cpu1 model> vs <cpu2 model> often times you get pointed to sites that can do that comparison for you.

For example searching for: J5005 vs i3-1115G4

gave me several links one of which was Intel Core i3-1115G4 vs Pentium Silver J5005 - UserBenchmark

There were several other sites with similar headers.

As for best one for Docker, that too you can search. Specially if you use something like perplexity.ai and you ask which of those two is better for docker it gives you a nice comparison along with which areas one is better than the other as it pertains to using Docker. Suspect you can get similar good info from using any Large Language Models (LLM) like ChatGPT or Claude.ai (both of which have free plans)

Many, perhaps most, music services have towards the bottom of an artist page a list of similar artists that you can explore. Also, if you see what compilations a song, or an artist, is on you can see what else is on that collection.

Also, music services have collections for different styles of music. As you listen to those, if you like a song you can try to see if you like other songs from the same group / artist.

Don’t recall the brand. Threw the remaining ones out.

shitty bulbs.

+1 on that as a potential issue. Don’t recall the brand, but I had bought a pack of light bulbs where the whole pack was having issues, to the point I called an electrician to check. When the electrician came and saw the brand he told me “those are garbage” and that he had seen plenty of people having issues with that brand.

I threw those away, bought some other brand. The exact same places where I was having to replace light bulbs often no longer had any issues.

Over the years I have used a number of providers. Below is my recollection / mental notes.

Digital Ocean - They used to be one of my favorite ones until they dropped support for FreeBSD. For the most part they seem stable, their interface is clean and easy to use and they have a good range of offerings.

Vultr They had a time when they had reliability issues so I moved away from them for some time. Some months ago came back to try them when Digital Ocean dropped their FreeBSD support. So far have had zero issues.

Lunanode This is a smaller company and they have a, very, limited number of datacenters. Competitive pricing so if you are ok with their data centers you can potentially save some money. However, they also have a smaller number of products available.

OVH Everything about OVH is confusing. They have multiple sites and depending where you live you are supposed to use one or the other. They also own a number of other brands (companies that they bought and now is just a brand under OVH) which adds to the confusion. IThey have physical machines and VMs. I only use them for physical since I much prefer Vultr or DigitalOcean interfaces for VMs.

For physical machines one has to be even more careful as you would have to deal with any potential hardware failures. If you have a VM and the host has issues they can just move the VM. If you have a physical machine and it has issues, you will have bigger down time than if you were using VMs unless you have multiple physical machines. The main point of using physical machines at OVH is pricing.

Just as an example of pricing for OVH… A digitalocean VM with 16GB of RAM and 8 cores is $96. At OVH they currently have an “end of summer” deal with a 8 cores, 2× 2TB HDD SATA, 16GB RAM for $22. Similar setup with SSD instead for about same price. Some of those “deals” are older machines, but depending on your needs that may be ok.

Arpnetworks More expensive the DigitalOcean and Vultr with simpler interface and limited products… but they have pretty good FreeBSD support so that was an important factor to me, but their higher price may make it not worth for many / most… unless FreeBSD support matters. They also have better support as they are a smaller company. If I recall correctly it is a single data center in California.

+1 on Restic

thanks for the link and the site. I am not a software engineer (DBA instead), but finding many interesting podcast episodes on that site.

Howdy.

Relatively new to Discuss… is this a general community to Discuss this Lemmy instance?

So far very happy with it… When I first joined Lemmy I found a page which was recommending servers and I got recommended Vlemmy… which recently shut down… without notice (they didn’t even bother to setup a simple page indicating they were shutting down) so went looking for new server and that is how I ended up at Discuss.

I think in general we just need more people… There are communities that exist in Lemmy which are basically empty / inactive that used to be active in Reddit (i.e. Datatabases, Postgresql, FreeBSD subreddits). Perhaps as more people discover Lemmy those smaller / niche communities will see more traffic.

Don’t see installation instructions on git page. Are there installations instructions anywhere?

No. Have not logged for weeks and can’t think of any good reason to go back.

Restic for backup - can send backups to S3 and SFTP amongst other target options.

There are S3 (block storage) compatible services, such as Backblaze’s B2, which are very affordable for backups.