sj_zero
@sj_zero@lotide.fbxl.net
- Comment on In coal-addicted Poland, partisan politics throttle geothermal’s growth 2 days ago:
Hawaii is an odd one. By definition as a volcano they can have virtually unlimited energy, and yet there's something like 90% imported coal for their energy utilization. Far as I'm concerned that should be at the top of every environmentalists wish list.
- Comment on Crunchyroll Faces Cancelation: Why Anime Fans Are Choosing Piracy After Latest Update 3 days ago:
"Crunchyroll is also ignoring the needs of groups who require Closed Captions to understand the scenes better."
They're called anime fans.
- Comment on Gremlin Grandma 1 week ago:
This guy gets it.
- Comment on Gremlin Grandma 1 week ago:
I'll still put magus in my party every time.
Fight me.
- Comment on James should have used his money 1 week ago:
It's a kid's show, of course he is.
- Comment on FFS Plex, the server is on my local network 1 week ago:
Well, let me tell you a story.
Recently I needed to use BitTorrent to download a very large file from an independent project. Usually I can just use my web browser, but this one was in the hundreds of gigabytes there just was no way.
So I installed the original official bittorrent client, because I'm really out of the game I haven't torn today anything outside of my browser in years now.
I had to pay close attention to not install multiple pieces of unwanted software. I had to uncheck a bunch of stuff and carefully navigate the installer. Even after that, the client was junk and constantly showed multiple videos ads at all times, and besides that it just didn't have the horsepower to download my torrent for me.
I remembered using transmission on Linux so I decided to try getting that instead, turns out it had a Windows version.
Downloaded, ran the executable, pressed next three times, opened up the torrent file, pointed to my existing download hoping it'd figure out what parts the file needed and in fact it did and the download was done quickly.
If I had failed to uncheck any of the boxes, I guess you could call me stupid for non-un checking them, but to me it seems a lot simpler using the FOSS products that never had any checkboxes to uncheck in the first place.
Meanwhile, and honestly I didn't use Plex very much because it just didn't seem like a very good product, but I also seem to remember I kept on ending up on the plex.net website instead of my own server. I think it was something along lines of if you go in to change certain settings it'll change domains on you? Either way, it was just not very well set up compared to Jellyfin, which had everything that I was using right there I never even remotely tried to send me somewhere else.
- Comment on FFS Plex, the server is on my local network 1 week ago:
Zero with jellyfin.
- Comment on FFS Plex, the server is on my local network 1 week ago:
By default for me it seems to really want me to get off of my server altogether and get onto their servers, and it seems to really want to get me off of my media and onto their half-baked streaming service.
Really complex compared to just having my media show up.
- Comment on Those who are hosting on bare metal: What is stopping you from using Containers or VM's? What are you self hosting? 1 week ago:
I'm using proxmox now with lots of lxc containers. Prior to that, I used bare metal.
VMs were never really an option for me because the overhead is too high for the low power machines I use -- my entire empire of dirt doesn't have any fans, it's all fanless PCs. More reliable, less noise, less energy, but less power to throw at things.
Stuff like docker I didn't like because it never really felt like I was in control of my own system. I was downloading a thing someone else made and it really wasn't intended for tinkering or anything. You aren't supposed to build from source in docker as far as I can tell.
The nice thing about proxmox's lxc implementation is I can hop in and change things or fix things as I desire. It's all very intuitive, and I can still separate things out and run them where I want to, and not have to worry about keeping 15 different services running on the same version of whatever common services are required.
- Comment on FFS Plex, the server is on my local network 1 week ago:
Honestly, I lowkey hated plex when I was using it. We never used it because it wasn't very good at the one thing it was supposed to be fore.
It was trying so hard to get me to use their media, when what I wanted was to watch my media. By contrast, jellyfin just shows me my media.
If you have a few bucks, the chromecast with android TV is what I'd recommend. The jellyfin app for android TV looks and works great -- as good as any paid streaming service imo. I got my wife using it daily, and she's not a tech person at all.
- Comment on Yes, That Great-Looking 'Star Trek: Voyager' Game Will Let You Spare Tuvix 2 weeks ago:
The big question is: Can you replicate Tuvix, then split the replicated tuvix back into the Neelix and Tuvok, then toss all 3 into the warp core?
I really want to go full Janeway on this.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 2 weeks ago:
Diablo 2. Not reloaded or whatever, the one you can install run and play without an internet connection.
- Comment on Upgrading ungrounded two-prong outlets to grounded three-prong? 2 weeks ago:
Ideally the ground should be as close to the cold water pipe entering the house as you can get, yeah.
Honestly, I wouldn't want to just use my cold water line well into the house as a ground for exactly that sort of reason.
- Comment on Dressed to Impress 2 weeks ago:
I bet a guy who is mostly paralyzed is a freak.
What you gonna do? Beat his ass? You'll be the guy who beat a guy in a wheelchairs ass forever, and he won't even feel it anyway.
- Comment on Upgrading ungrounded two-prong outlets to grounded three-prong? 2 weeks ago:
In many jurisdictions, connecting to the copper cold water line is acceptable. The copper line runs through the ground and so is essentially the same as a grounding electrode.
- Comment on Trump’s $100,000 H-1B visa fee could hurt US growth, economists warn 2 weeks ago:
I think normal people who need things like food and shelter might not see the benefits of all the economic growth that makes the top 0.1% even wealthier.
The only one who gets paid in % of GDP is the government.
Trump isn't ultimately the guy to change any of that, but "economists warn" "could hurt [...] Growth" isn't a good reason to do or not do anything.
- Comment on Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2025, Week 38] 2 weeks ago:
Sad that uglymug epicfighter is almost over.
- Comment on "Reborn as a Vending Machine, I Now Wander the Dungeon" Season 3 Announced with New Visual 2 weeks ago:
What!
3 seasons?!
Tbh liked the books more than the anime.
- Comment on Study finds that fast walking can reduce lung cancer risk by 50%: A simple health indicator for cancer prevention 3 weeks ago:
Once again procrastinating proves the top strategy.
Nothing but up, my friends!
- Comment on ‘Opposing the inevitability of AI at universities is possible and necessary’ 3 weeks ago:
The key is that we need to get out of the cargo cult of credentialism and start refocusing on what schools in general are actually for: making sure individuals learn.
If we tell people the piece of paper is all that matters, of course they'll do whatever it takes to get the piece of paper. By contrast, you can't cheat learning. You're only cheating yourself.
- Comment on I wrote a book called Future Sepsis 4 weeks ago:
https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=GauEEQAAQBAJ
Yes, it didn't show up in search for me either. Really bizarre. (I probably didn't buy enough advertising)
- Comment on Nextcloud (Docker) calendar sent email reminders for a few days, then stopped. Cron job is working, test emails also work 4 weeks ago:
Since calendar is an app, but fundamental email service isn't, one thing that I found is that apps can interact in ways that are completely unintuitive.
For example, I activated the ncdownloader app, and it caused mail to stop showing emails, or I activated nextcloud music and it stopped nextcloud news from updating.
You should check your logs, because usually when there's a problem it will show up in there. The logs I'm referring to are in your administrator panel. It will be completely unintuitive as to what exactly is going on. The other thing that you can do is just pay attention to which apps you've installed, and if there are any that are a little bit unusual, just try to disabling them and seeing if calendar mail works after that.
- Comment on I wrote a book called Future Sepsis 4 weeks ago:
I've been keeping an eye on it, and this morning future sepsis went live on Google Play books.
- Comment on US high school students lose ground in math and reading, continuing yearslong decline 4 weeks ago:
The fact that a nontrivial number of grade 12 students are functionally illiterate is a civilizational disgrace.
Part of the problem is the cargo cult of the diploma. People who tend to be successful financially finish high School, therefore the numbers for people who finished high school look better, so people assume that it is a piece of paper that makes them better and not the sort of attributes that would let you graduate from high school. But that's not how it works, it's the other way around.
Unfortunately, the United States isn't magic. It had good people becuse it had high standards, but once those high standards go away oh you're left with is a nation full of people who aren't good enough to compete in a global market.
We just haven't realized it yet because the economy is still largely supported by boomers.
- Comment on Sources to purchase mp3s? 4 weeks ago:
I personally used 7digital to rebuild my music collection. They sell good licensed mp3s.
I have absolutely nothing negative to say about them. The prices were decent, the files are boring DRM free MP3s, and they had a really good selection of music.
Honestly it looks almost exactly the same as when I used it for the first time like 15 years ago.
- Comment on Our understanding of lightning has been driven by fear and shaped by curiosity 4 weeks ago:
"I'm Jim. I have to hold the geiger counter at the spot lightning is going to strike. I'll let you know what I find."
- Comment on My reaction when there's a new Star Trek show for pre-schoolers 4 weeks ago:
"From Hell's heart, I stab at thee"
- Comment on AI adoption rate is declining among large companies — US Census Bureau claims fewer businesses are using AI tools 4 weeks ago:
IMO, AI is a really good demo for a lot of people, but once you start using it, the gains you can get from it end up being somewhat minimal without doing some serious work.
Reminds me of 10 other technologies that if you didn't get in the world was going to end but ended up more niche than you'd expect.
- Comment on Randy Fine warns judges who release violent criminals: 'Your day in court is coming' 4 weeks ago:
Generally speaking, judges are immune to consequences for the decisions they make except in very narrow circumstances.
- Comment on What is the current state of Matrix? 4 weeks ago:
I didn't like synapse or dendrite at all, but conduit has been great.