More info about it here: https://www.ghacks.net/2024/08/13/windows-11-start-menu-is-getting-a-new-layout-to-organize-your-apps/

I love how microsoft never learns their lessons.

tldr is that you can hide the button that asks for payment and it says "purchase immich" instead of "purchase liscence"

Basically nvidia shadowplay for linux

Not op but thought this may be interesting

Looking for a budget router for a home (3 floors, 3000sq feet, 11 devices), because my current router is utter garbage

(bad range and doesnt support nat loopback, which makes me have to mess with dns far more than necesary, and all the messing around gets wiped out when the router restarts or unplugs itself and my computer caches the external dns server, ~~i hate it so much please i need to get rid of it~~)

edit: it only has to cover maybe 1500sq feet, not 3000

• It needs to be suitable for a small homelab. (ie: 4 ethernet ports and a functional webui)
• preferably supports openwrt or some other open-source software, and i - would prefer to spend less than 70 CAD.
• Wifi 6 is uneccesary as most devices in the house dont support it.

Thank you in advance!

Everyone here has been overreacting about the Mozilla layoffs, but they only laid off poeple working on the metaverse, ai, and their VPN and stuff. They're actually refocusing on Firefox. People have been freaking out about them working on ai now, too, but theyve been doing ai for a while (Mozilla common voice anybody?)(Firefox's translation feature?) And it's always open source, and runs offline, they're not gonna add a shitty internet-connected ai sidebar.

Here is the entire internal memo fore the interested:

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Scaling back investment mozilla.social: With mozilla.social, we made a big bet in 2023 to build a safer, better social media experience, based on Mastodon and the Fediverse. Our initial approach was based on a belief that Mozilla needed to quickly reach large scale in order to effectively shape the future of social media. It was a noble idea but one we struggled to execute. While we resourced mozilla.social heavily to pursue this ambitious idea, in retrospect a more modest approach would have enabled us to participate in the space with considerably greater agility. The actions we’re taking today will make this strategic correction, working through a much smaller team to participate in the Mastodon ecosystem and more rapidly bring smaller experiments to people that choose to live on the mozilla.social instance.

Protection Experimentation & Identity (PXI): We’re scaling back investment in some of our standalone consumer products in the Security and Privacy space. We are reducing investment in market segments that competitors crowd and where it is challenging to deliver a differentiated offering. Specifically, we plan to reduce our investments in VPN, Relay, and Online Footprint Scrubber. We will maintain investment in products addressing customer needs in growing market segments.

Hubs: Since early 2023, we have experienced a shift in the market for 3D virtual worlds. With the exception of gaming, education, and a handful of niche use cases, demand has moved away from 3D virtual worlds. This is impacting all industry players. Hubs’ user and customer bases are not robust enough to justify continuing to dedicate resources against the headwinds of the unfavorable shift in demand. We will wind down the service and communicate a graceful exit plan to customers.

Right-sizing the People Team

Given the reduction in staffing and lower headcount budget moving forward in MozProd, some roles have been consolidated in the People and other support services orgs so that we are offering the right level of support to our product portfolio. Optimizing our org to sharpen focus.

In 2023, generative AI began rapidly shifting the industry landscape. Mozilla seized an opportunity to bring trustworthy AI into Firefox, largely driven by the Fakespot acquisition and the product integration work that followed. Additionally, finding great content is still a critical use case for the internet. Therefore, as part of the changes today, we will be bringing together Pocket, Content, and the AI/ML teams supporting content with the Firefox Organization. More details on the specific organizational changes will follow shortly. Within MozProd, there are no changes within MDN, Ads, or Fakespot. There are also no changes to Legal/Policy, Finance & Business Operations, Marketing, or Strategy & Operations.

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I HAVE FIXED IT

basically the issue was thaty router doesn't support NAT loopback, and as such when a request for the routers external IP comes from the inside, the router throws it out. This can be fixed by editing your computer's host file to redirect the domain to the local IP of the server, or by setting up a dnsmasq proxy to make any requests redirect to the internal IP of the server.!!!

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so, i have immich set up behind an nginx reverse proxy, here is the configuration:

server {
    server_name [my domain];
    # https://github.com/immich-app/immich/blob/main/nginx/templates/default.conf.template#L28
    client_max_body_size 50000M;

       location / {
        proxy_pass http://192.168.0.69:2283;
        proxy_set_header Host              $http_host;
        proxy_set_header X-Real-IP         $remote_addr;
        proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For   $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
        proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto $scheme;

        # http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/websocket.html
        proxy_http_version 1.1;
        proxy_set_header   Upgrade    $http_upgrade;
        proxy_set_header   Connection "upgrade";
        proxy_redirect off;
}

    listen 80;
    listen 443 ssl; # managed by Certbot
    ssl_certificate /etc/letsencrypt/live/[my domain]/fullchain.pem; # managed by Certbot
    ssl_certificate_key /etc/letsencrypt/live/[my domain]/privkey.pem; # managed by Certbot
    include /etc/letsencrypt/options-ssl-nginx.conf; # managed by Certbot
    ssl_dhparam /etc/letsencrypt/ssl-dhparams.pem; # managed by Certbot

}
#server {
#    if ($host = [my domain]) {
#        return 301 https://$host$request_uri;
#     } # managed by Certbot


#    server_name [my domain]
#    listen 443 ssl
    # https://github.com/immich-app/immich/blob/main/nginx/templates/default.conf.template#L28
#    client_max_body_size 50000M;
#    listen 80;
#    return 404; # managed by Certbot
#}

http works at all times, (when connecting thru domain) and https ONLY WORKS if i am not on the local network (the sever is an old laptop) i i am using a vpn (or in another building) it works fine, and DNS requests from inside the same network resolve to the public IP, as expected.

I am stumped.

ps: the connection times out when connecting to it on the same network (with domain) and tcpdump and access.log dont pick up anything

Edit: formatting Edit2: the pinging works from the router (it has a debugging feature), but not from my pc (with https)

Edit3: i had wireshark open while curling the domain, and it pings my home ip (the good one) but receives no reply

So i have gotten a t490 just recently, and ive installed fedora on it, gnome power profiles daemon said it was "on my lap" and wouldn't let me change the power profiles even when on a desk. So i masked that, and installed auto-cpufreq, but the laptop still draws about 10W (according to powertop) when watching a youtube video, leading to 4-5 hours of battery life.

any tips on how to reduce the power consumption?

Title says it all (i have turned on 165hz on settings). Its a cheap monitor, do some 165hz monitors not truly give you that experience? Or are my eyes fucked