Yeah, I’ve started to feel a bit of that on windows. At least with MS deprecating things that people used, or constantly changing your settings with every update. I guess a terminal script is no different than a magic black box in the same way that a program or driver is. Hmm. Good point.

On-screen keyboard

Nice try Linus 😂

And on windows, you can do all of this without touching the keyboard…

For me, a few things keep me from sticking with it. The community used to be a problem but it’s not as bad as it used to be. Seeking help online regarding anything related to network services are still rife with the “git gooder” useless fucks. Two months ago I was told, “you shouldn’t be doing this if you need a guide.” I was trying to deploy a Lemmy instance… Using the guide provided by Lemmy devs… That they recommended for beginners… FML with a curling iron…

Another big one for me is access to solutions. I have never encountered a problem with windows that I couldn’t find a solution or at least an explanation for. But I frequently find issues with linux that I am apparently the first to ever experience.

And lastly, it seems like not using a terminal at all to do completely normal things is even remotely possible. Powershell allows all kinds of things that would be otherwise burdensome or impossible, but none of those are required for use. On the flip side, it feels like everything I want to do in Linux tends to require me to copypasta a terminal command, open the terminal, and run. Why? Why is there no “control panel” style settings tools? Why is every setting scattered to the .conf fucking wind? My kingdom for a distro that I don’t have to nano my fucking way through.

Software compatibility??? That is a problem I would love to have when it comes to trying to switch OSs. That would mean that everything else is already working and only MS products are acting up. Also… who switches to Linux but still requires MS Office??? Why does this person exist? Lol

Anyway. Haven’t tried the switch in a few years and it seems like things have changed a lot in that time comparatively to the preceding years, so I may be a bit out of touch. But that’s why I quit last time. I would love to not need windows ever again. But my worst windows day is still better than my best Linux day.

Small down payment at best.

So frustrating. I got it working for about 10 minutes. Added users, authenticated them, made posts, uploaded banner, logged in and out many times. Then it just shut down. 502: bad gateway.

I tried to rebuild it fresh and found out that the ansible method has you request a new letsencrypt cert EVERY TIME IT RUNS. And after 5 certs, it bans your domain for 168 hrs…

So now I have to wait until next week to try again, and I’ll only have 5 chances at getting it right.

I keep looking at the mastodon documentation and it’s so nice. It’s complete and thorough. I just wish a Lemmy dev or literally anyone would write a better guide.

I’m just so fucking deflated right now. Thinking of buying a new domain just so I can keep testing.

try starttls (port 587)

😃 OMG it just worked! Thank you so much!!! You have no idea how excited I am to get my instance up and live! Here is my current lemmy.hjson after a successful ansible install:

  email: {
    smtp_server: "smtp.sendgrid.net:587"
    smtp_login: "apikey"
    smtp_password: "theActualApiKey"
    smtp_from_address: "[email protected]"
    tls_type: "starttls"
  }

For others, I’m using digitalOcean for my VPS and sendgrid for the SMTP relay.

Thanks for getting back to me!

Okay, sendgrid gives me this:

Configure your application with the settings below.
 	Server 	smtp.sendgrid.net
 	Ports 	25, 587 	(for unencrypted/TLS connections)
		465  	(for SSL connections)
 	Username 	apikey
 	Password 	theApiKeyGeneratedBySendgrid

I edited my lemmy.hjson file to this:

  email: {
    smtp_server: "smtp.sendgrid.net:25" #also tried ports 587 and 465 with no difference
    smtp_login: "apikey"
    smtp_password: "theApiKeyGeneratedBySendgrid"
    smtp_from_address: "noreply@myDomain"
    tls_type: "tls" #also tried "none" with no difference
  }

The only change is that now when I select “forgot password” the button turns into a rotating arrow for a few seconds and then nothing. No emails in spam, nothing. Any ideas? I feel like I’m getting closer, and maybe I’m using the port wrong?

This, the don’t just rip off framing every time they need to replace it. There will be some way to access it. When I traveled for work, I had a tool bag for a few things, chiefly the thermostat.

Oh, interesting, thanks! I’ve dabbled with Linux so I’m familiar with it. I believe my nas is NTFS, but I could be wrong. But if so, I wonder if it’s possible to mount an NTFS location to a Linux server… Something to research while working tomorrow 😄

Local resources only, and they even have a FAQ that confirms that they have no intention of supporting media libraries on network locations. So dumb. Don’t get me wrong, I would love to ditch Plex. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I mean, it’s a NAS. Yes, it’s technically a “computer” but so is your TI86 (I wouldn’t call it a PC, it’s not exactly running minesweeper lol). My NAS is not optimized to run media center streaming services. My media center server, however, is. My media server is great at that, but you what it really sucks at? Also handling multiple TBs of file storage. Yes, an all in one network service machine would be great, alas, I don’t have optiplexes abound. I have a metaphorical web of multiple devices that all do different things. You know, like a network.

All my storage is on the PC running Jellyfin.

You know how I already knew this? Because that’s literally the only use case that Jellyfin supports. Got several TBs on a NAS? Lots of people do. Jellyfin apparently can’t even conceive of such a diabolical topology.

Jellyfin can’t utilize local network storage… How is that a useful tool for a HOME MEDIA SERVER???

It looks as though there are methods for utilizing network storage solutions. This has not always been the case with Jellyfin but either way I was dead wrong. My bad folks.

Boy, KSP2 is different than I imagined…

Why is ALL administrative documentation all but absent? Why is there NO documented support for SMTP?

Some sodomite sent me a bucket of poop.

You know what doesn’t bring balance to the otherwise dark content of the podcast?

I figured out the problem, digital ocean was only applying the top RSA key, which is my Putty key. The keys I added to DO via WSL were not getting added to the authorized key list. So I added my key to the authorized keys file and it worked. Well, it let ansible access the server. I’m having other issues but will work on them later.

Apparently including the people who developed Lemmy who chose to recommend Ubuntu…