What’s happening on your servers? Any interesting news things you tried?

I didn’t do anyone other than updating Mastodon (native deployment) lately due to a lack of time. Reading so much about Immich caused me to consider trying it in parallel to Nextcloud but I’m not sure if I want to have everything twice.

Not quite homelab, but I’m about to install Linux Mint on my mom’s laptop and that had me thinking about creating an off-site backup in her place again since she has a fiber connection. I’m still not sure about the potential design though, but currently my only backup is in the same rack as the live stuff.

  • HotChickenFeet@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    2·
    18 hours ago

    I’ve been running Kavita for a year and a half +, and honestly cannot tell where the donate button is, other than going into the settings and clicking the “kavita+” selection. Maybe I’m oblivious. Can you share what you’re seeing? As well with the telemetry option?

    • matsdis@piefed.socialEnglish
      2·
      10 hours ago

      Telemetry is in Server -> General -> Allow Anonymous Usage Collection. When you opt-out, it also send a final message to the server that you’ve opted out. The the telemetry itself looks reasonable, I don’t mind sending it. It’s really just the dark pattern of opt-out vs of opt-in that bothers me.

      The donate button is the heart in the bottom left menu (not visible in the settings). It’s unobtrusive. I wouldn’t bother to remove it, except the tooltip says that I have to pay to remove it - now it has to go. Asking for donations is fine, but asking for money to remove a button is disgusting.

      • HotChickenFeet@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        1·
        10 minutes ago

        Thanks!

        Telemetry: I was able to find it, but it was already disabled. Maybe i noticed and unchecked it when I initially setup.

        Donate button: Ah, I see where you mean. Interestingly I do not see it when accessing from my mobile device, either as a mobile site or requesting a desktop site. But when accessing it from a desktop browser I do see it in the bottom left.

        A quick test shows ublock origin can block the element from showing. I believe that even if the user donates, it is not sufficient to hide this button, and the user must opt to pay for Kavita+ which is a subscription, not a one time license/etc, and forgoing it may lock other features a user is interested in.

        https://wiki.kavitareader.com/donating/ https://wiki.kavitareader.com/kavita+/