But you’re getting literally the same Patreon content.

PWAs aren’t great on iPhone… They intentionally limit some functionality to push people towards the App Store.

Some people want everything as apps for some reason.

Why does Apple feel they deserve a 30% cut? In cases like this, Apple aren’t providing any value at all.

• Apple aren’t providing the content - the creator is.
• Apple aren’t providing a platform for the content - Patreon is.
• Apple aren’t providing a platform for discovery - people aren’t finding Patreon creators solely via Apple products.

Sure, Apple are providing a payments platform, but why do they deserve 10x what Stripe charges?

I have to use Fedora at work (or Windows 11 or MacOS). All our production systems are CentOS, so the supported client Linux distro is Fedora, as they can reuse a bunch of scripts, Chef recipes, etc.

I liked it enough that I started using it at home. I like using the same OS on both work and personal systems. I share scripts and dotfiles between them.

I disabled the graphical interface as I use the mini PC with Debian as a server and only ssh to it

Oh yeah, that makes sense.

If you’re used to Windows then maybe give KDE a shot. Similar concepts to Windows (like a taskbar at the bottom of the screen) but extremely customizable. You can install KDE on Debian - on an existing system, the easiest way is to run tasksel and select KDE Plasma.

I’ve been using Debian on servers for 20+ years, but ended up using Fedora on my desktop and laptop.

Debian is stable, meaning it doesn’t change often. Packages don’t get major version upgrades during the lifetime of a Debian release. That’s fantastic on servers, but can be annoying on clients since you don’t get the very latest drivers, the newest version of KDE, etc. Linux drivers move pretty quickly, especially for newer hardware.

You can run Debian testing, which is a more up-to-date development branch, but you need to make sure you pull security updates from unstable as the security team do not upload to testing. https://github.com/khimaros/debian-hybrid

If you’re new to Linux, then also consider Linux Mint Debian Edition.

Interesting case. If the plaintiff wins, I suspect this will mean that sites with videos won’t be able to use third-party analytics scripts (not just Meta pixel, but also things like Google Analytics), which would be a pretty large change for the industry.

I’d love to see first-party tracking become more popular again. I self-host Plausible for my sites, but I’ve considered switching to Swetrix.

uploads a copy of the key to their Microsoft Account

Microsoft added that feature because people kept losing their encryption keys and thus losing all their files if they need to have their computer replaced. They get complaints either way - privacy advocates complain when the key is backed up, and sysadmins/users complain when the key isn’t backed up.

I’m not sure - I haven’t looked into the implementation yet. I haven’t actually seen this tagging feature in the UI so I’m not sure how to even use it.

It looks like Lemmy 1.0 (currently in alpha testing) will support filtering by keywords, too: https://join-lemmy.org/news/2025-12-24_-_Lemmy_Release_v0.19.15_and_Testing_for_1.0

Doesn’t Hikvision support RTSP?

Though, on the other hand, having the video saved offsite is useful because then anyone with physical access to your home can’t get rid of the video showing they’re there.

I have Blue Iris configured to send all alert videos to one of my storage VPSes via SFTP. As soon as someone is detected outside, the video clip is sent offsite.

The server and the PoE switch that powers the cameras are also on a UPS, which helps if the intruder tries to shut off the power at the main breaker (which, here in California, always needs to be located outside).

It’s in response to you saying isolate the cameras from the internet entirely

The cameras themselves should always be isolated. No internet access for the cameras at all. Your NVR can have network access, and is what would handle uploading the videos to internet storage somewhere.

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Any cameras that can operate entirely offline are good. Dahua and Hikvision are good too. Look for cameras with RTSP and ONVIF support. ONVIF is a standardized API for interacting with cameras and can handle things like pan/tilt/zoom, sending events from the camera to the NVR (eg motion detection), and a bunch of other things.

I use Blue Iris as my NVR, which is usually regarded as the best, but there’s other good software too (like Frigate), and hardware solutions too.

Just follow best practices - keep them isolated on a separate VLAN with no internet access. If you want remote access to your NVR, use a VPN like Tailscale.

Tags would be useful for so many things - much more than content filters. For example, posts in a world news community could be tagged with the name of the country.

Having said that, it looks like tags were added in July 2025: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/5869. I didn’t know about this!

I think what’s missing is filtering by tags.

Ohh… I forgot about this. If they’re still doing that then I wouldn’t recommend them.

For less tech-savvy users, I usually recommend some off-the-shelf hardware, so they have multiple people they can go to in case of issues with either the hardware or the standard built-in software (like the manufacturer, or other people that are also familiar with products from that manufacturer).

Synology used to be the best for that, but maybe not any more. A lot of brands have gotten into NAS hardware over the last year or two so I’m not sure what’s the best now!

I’d probably just get a Synology and install Immich on it.

Fibre optic is generally better for this use case, but Ethernet would work fine too. Be sure to use CMX rated cable, as it’s rated for outdoor use (uses a more durable, UV-resistant jacket, and is suitable for direct burial).

Run it in conduit so you can easily replace it in the future if needed.

Get rid of the SD card and only use the SSDs. It’s a common point of failure with Pis - SD cards aren’t designed for frequent writes.

Consider using NFS instead of sshfs for more reliability.

Definitely… I use Borgbackup for my backups, which encrypts the backups before sending them to the remote server. Not all use cases can do that though, so sometimes it’s useful to have filesystem-level encryption.