If you have the talent to run a server somewhere, do it for your friends and get people to the Lemmy ecosystem.

I’ve been using Plex and Plexamp for ages. I have about two terabytes of flacs in my NAS, and Plexamp seamlessly encodes it to 128 kbps Opus when listening on a mobile network, or streams the flac as-is if on Wi-Fi. It has a good recommendation engine and a very nice UI. Worth the money, if you ask me.

What I like about Lemmy is how it’s UI and backend are completely separate. I’ve seen others already asking for old.reddit type of an interface, so it is just a matter of time now…

At home:

• HomeAssistant OS in a Raspberry PI. Runs all the lights, curtains, heating, air-conditioning and media at home. (Linux)
• Hifiberry with a good DAC connected to it, runs mpv, airplay and chromecast audio. (RPI, Linux)
• TrueNAS together with over 40 terabytes of space (FreeBSD)
• Plex and Plexamp for music (FreeBSD)
• OPNsense router runs the whole home network (FreeBSD)
• A private git server for stuff I don’t want to push to a public server (FreeBSD)
• Jellyfin server for movies and television (FreeBSD), client on an NVIDIA Shield (Android)
• Unifi controller to handle the home WiFi (FreeBSD)

Remote:

• Akkoma for Twitter-like communication on the Fediverse (Linux)
• Lemmy to talk with y’all in here (Linux)
• PostgreSQL as the central database for all my remote services (Linux)
• Elasticsearch for searching the Fediverse (Linux)
• SearXNG as my private search engine (Linux)

Did you ask them what kind of cream and bacon they used, so we can make it at home 🚎

Looks delicious, one of my favorite pastas.

I know, I was trolling a bit.

There’s two shops here in Berlin that sell guanciale, and pecorino romano is quite easy to find too. It took me a few years to perfect my carbonara, but I can make it quite good nowadays.

If you go into any restaurant and order carbonara here, you get cream and bacon. Oh, oh, and the last time I was in the US, I had to see the Olive Garden with my own eyes. I got some trolly pictures there, take a look at their idea of what carbonara is:

Took me a while to understand where the name carbonara comes from. In Italy it means the coal miner. So you put enough black pepper to it that they look like a little coal pieces sprinkled around the pasta. Delicious.

You should use the search first. Search for https://lemmy.world/c/dfw and wait until it appears in the results. Then click the link and subscribe.

It might take a few secs, depending on the server load.

Funny how things can be different. In my circle everybody uses it, even my mom. We’ve also had a very active group chat with my friends for many years in Signal.

My friends appreciate privacy. Everybody knows Meta is shit, and so are the other American big corporations. My mom likes to talk with me and Signal is not a problem for her, if I reply to her messages from that channel in a few minutes anyhow. Our friend chat also has one week period until the messages are deleted for good. You can talk more freely about everyday things.

I think the people using the Fediverse is already seen weird by the majority. I’m ok with that.