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cowloom wrote
Reply to anyone know of a pdf reader on linux that lets you invert colors, or set background and text colors? by hollyhoppet
Atril lets you invert colors. It's under View -> Inverted Colors.
twovests wrote
Reply to comment by astroaron in This is cool, how do I do this? by astroaron
Yay :D I'm happy to hear that!! Good luck :)
astroaron OP wrote
Reply to comment by twovests in This is cool, how do I do this? by astroaron
Alright! I'm working through learning now (getting myself more comfortable with SSH before I start trying the Caddy server), and will let you know when I move on to doing! Thank you so much, again
nomorepie wrote
Reply to What's your favorite type of potato? by flabberghaster
Baked
missingno wrote
Reply to What RSS reader do people recommend? by voxpoplar
I've been using Feeder on Android.
devtesla wrote (edited )
Reply to What RSS reader do people recommend? by voxpoplar
I've used Feedbin since before google reader shut down, which is a great service but requires a subscription. Very nice web app, super reliable, consistently gets new useful features. It handles email newsletters too, and stuff like YouTube and podcasts is handled well. For feeds that don't have full text it can go in and grab a reader view of the site, which rules. You can set up push notifications if you really need to.
$50/year is kinda high? But I use it every day and straight up never had any issues so I'll definitely stick with it.
twovests wrote
Reply to comment by astroaron in This is cool, how do I do this? by astroaron
Learning enough self-hosting to set up Postmill is difficult, but doable! Having some Linux experience is a pretty good start.
I don't know your exact skill level, but I figure you're at least familiar with using the Linux command line and with using Google/StackOverflow/etc.
I'd recommend doing all your learning on a Raspberry Pi (or other spare computer to install Linux on), if you have one, so you aren't paying ~$10/month to a VPS provider.
What is your main OS? (Windows? MacOS? Linux?) This matters a bit for what tools you'd use to manage your server.
If I were to recommend some "milestones" along the way to hosting Postmill, I would break down the goals like this. Except for the Postmill specific steps, you can find good guides for any of these all over the internet:
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Learning:
- Set up Linux on a Raspberry Pi (or spare computer).
- You can go straight to the VPS if you want.
- Set up SSH (using key auth only) to that Linux machine, and only use SSH to manage it. (No desktop GUI!)
- Set up a Caddy server on that Linux machine and set up a 'hello world' page.
- I very highly recommend Caddy because it's very "production ready" by default, easy to install (because Go compiles to static binaries) and easy to use.
- Set up a Postmill instance on your Linux machine using Docker and Docker Compose.
- Set up Linux on a Raspberry Pi (or spare computer).
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Doing:
- You'll repeat a lot of the work you did above, but it should go a lot faster once you've done all the trial-and-error. Plus, you'll have your
history
from the above to refer to.
- Set Linux on a VPS with a provider like DigitalOcean.
- Buy a domain from a registrar like IWantMyName, and set up the A and AAAA records to point to your VPS.
- Set up SSH (using key auth only -- extra important this time!) to the server, if you didn't in part 1.
- Set up a Caddy server and set up a hello world to your domain.
- Install Postmill on your VPS using Docker and Docker Compose
- You'll repeat a lot of the work you did above, but it should go a lot faster once you've done all the trial-and-error. Plus, you'll have your
I luv to talk about this stuff so pls ask any questions you have :3
twovests wrote
Reply to What RSS reader do people recommend? by voxpoplar
I use the browser extension FraidyCat. I wish I had something that was foss/selfhostable/good that I could also get on my phone, but cestlavie and whatnot
astroaron OP wrote
Reply to comment by twovests in This is cool, how do I do this? by astroaron
Hey thank you so much! I know my way roughly around linux, don't know much about self-hosting unfortunately. All my previous website work has been very plug and play haha. But I'll read over the instructions here and see how much I think I can handle.
nitori wrote
Reply to What RSS reader do people recommend? by voxpoplar
I use Epyrus which is a fork of Thunderbird 52
voxpoplar OP wrote
Reply to comment by neku in What RSS reader do people recommend? by voxpoplar
I actually used to use it. I moved to Newsblur because they had a working app on F-Droid when The Old Reader didn’t. I care a bit less about having a mobile RSS feed now, though.
neku wrote
Reply to What RSS reader do people recommend? by voxpoplar
when google reader went down someone made a clone called the old reader which is basically fine. if you need any specific features vs just a chronological list of posts its probably not quite right but for my needs its pretty much fine. the free version supports 100 subscriptions max so it might not suit you
nitori wrote
Reply to What's your favorite type of potato? by flabberghaster
fried
Moonside wrote
Reply to What's your favorite type of potato? by flabberghaster
The Swedish fingerling is excellent when roasted or stewed. They are almond shaped so they have crispy skins.
hollyhoppet wrote
Reply to comment by flabberghaster in What's your favorite type of potato? by flabberghaster
i've been in the hypoallergenic pit before they're a nice place to reflect tbh
hollyhoppet wrote
Reply to What's your favorite type of potato? by flabberghaster
i've really come around on russet potatoes tbh. love the thick skin and they crisp nicely if you're cooking something crispy with them
for mashed/whipped though i'll take a yukon gold any day of the week
flabberghaster OP wrote
Reply to comment by oolong in What's your favorite type of potato? by flabberghaster
We have a wide selection of pits, several hypoallergenic options are available for your convenience.
oolong wrote
Reply to comment by flabberghaster in What's your favorite type of potato? by flabberghaster
my pit allergy begs to differ
flabberghaster OP wrote
Reply to comment by oolong in What's your favorite type of potato? by flabberghaster
It's not harmful to go in the pit.
oolong wrote
Reply to comment by flabberghaster in What's your favorite type of potato? by flabberghaster
i'd like to submit this as evidence of a violent threat against my person??
flabberghaster OP wrote
Reply to comment by oolong in What's your favorite type of potato? by flabberghaster
Wrong answer. You're going in the pit.
oolong wrote
Reply to What's your favorite type of potato? by flabberghaster
couch
twovests wrote (edited )
Reply to This is cool, how do I do this? by astroaron
Hi! I'm the current sysadmin of jstpst and I recently figured out (with lotsa help from emma) how to host it!
Right now we're hosting Jstpst on a DigitalOcean VPS using Docker.
Are you already familiar with selfhosting on Linux? The whole "Rent a VPS or something, set up a domain, host a service, put it behind Nginx or whatever" and all the "sudo nano /etc/blahblahblah"?
If so, you have the prerequisite skills :D I'm using Docker to host Postmill because I've had so many pains with dependency conflicts and upgrades before. Docker's promise that I would never have to worry about that again has held true.
The repo with Dockerfiles is here: https://codeberg.org/Postmill/Postmill
The docker instructions are here: https://codeberg.org/Postmill/Postmill/wiki/Serving-Postmill-using-Docker-and-Caddy
The Docker Compose (which sets up and links the multiple Docker images which a Postmill install uses) is here: https://codeberg.org/Postmill/postmill-docker-example
For directed guidance, are you familiar with using Linux and hosting web services / sites on Linux? (I think you can do this on other OSes too, but I can't speak to BSD or Windows or whatnot)
cowloom wrote
Reply to would it be weird if i just picked up litter in the woods? by hollyhoppet
not at all, I think that would be a great thing to do. a friend of mine would always bring a plastic shopping bag or two with her when she went hiking, and she'd fill it up with trash she saw as she hiked. when we went on group hikes, she'd bring one for everyone who came with us. it was sort of a minigame to do as we hiked.