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- Comment on The whole "toilet seat up, toilet seat down" gender debate could be solved by everybody putting the seat and lid down. 8 hours ago:
While true, quantity of poop particles also matters.
Your body can fight off loads of bacteria. But once it gets to an infection point, it can’t keep up and you become ill.So yeh, poop is everywhere. As long as it’s small amounts, it’s fine.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
I also hope Embark do the right thing and get VAs back in to voice quests and cut scenes.
Use the generated voice for items and locations only. Maybe, as an emergency, for continuity.I guess it gives them unbelievable leverage over the VAs: “We are offering you $10 to do 4 hours of voice lines. Or we will just use the model we have already trained”.
Which then puts even more downwards pressure on VA wages.I bet Embark has made bank, and it would be a massive PR win to get the VAs back in at an industry standard rate to do the quests and cutscenes.
- Comment on Unifi Anonymous...? 2 weeks ago:
Pretty much any mikrotik is a fantastic piece of kit to have.
It is so unbelievably versatile.
I love the various mikrotik routers, switches and APs I have. I use them all the time for little ad-hoc networks and projects and stuff.
You will learn a lot about networking when using them.But Unifi is a hell of a lot easier to use, and I have not found anything I can’t do on unifi (but I don’t do bgp, mlag, etc at home).
- Comment on RAM prices soar, but popular Windows 11 apps are using more RAM due to Electron, Web components 3 weeks ago:
Pretty sure all ram manufacturers are Korean? I guess China puts chips on PCBs, maybe? But South Korea has the knowledge . And it had met domestic demand. RAM prices have been acceptable for many many years.
It’s the AI sector that is inflating demand (maybe by circular investment and contracts).
So, I don’t see anyone investing 10 years into the future to make ddr6 ram where their business plan relies on current trends. - Comment on RAM prices soar, but popular Windows 11 apps are using more RAM due to Electron, Web components 3 weeks ago:
It must take so much R&D to achieve anything remotely comparable to what Samsung, Micron (/Crucial… RIP) and SK Hynix can produce.
Fingers crossed they can either undercut the 3(now 2) big producers, which is doubtful. But hopefully they can help reduce the maximum price that decent memory can inflate to. Because at some point a medium sized customer is gonna get fed up of the Samsung/micron/skHynix bullshit, and custom order the ram they need, and such a smaller producer will provide a much better service for a similar price
- Comment on RAM prices soar, but popular Windows 11 apps are using more RAM due to Electron, Web components 3 weeks ago:
Only for multi CPU mobos (and that would be pinning a thread to a CPU/core with NUMA enabled where a task accessed local ram instead of all system ram). Even then, I think all ram would run at the lowest frequency.
I’ve never mixed CPUs and RAM speeds. I’ve only ever worked on systems with matching CPUs and ram modules.I think the hardware cost and software complexity to achieve this is beyond the cost of more ram or faster storage (for faster swap)
- Comment on Would a cheap, used raspberry pi 3 make for a good test server for following random self hosted tutorials? 4 weeks ago:
Oh, and on the “fail often” thing…
Get a basic/old/free pc/laptop and install Proxmox on it.
Loads of tutorials out there, but the basic installer will get you to a “I’m learning” stage.Create a VM, install Debian, play around.
Then: create a new VM, install Debian, create a snapshot, play around until it does what you want, restore the snapshot, do the steps that got you from vanilla to what you want. Create snapshots along the way as checkpoints.Proxmox is amazing for learning VMs and server things
- Comment on Would a cheap, used raspberry pi 3 make for a good test server for following random self hosted tutorials? 4 weeks ago:
Raspberry pis are an easy intro to actually using computers (instead of using something like windows).
Raspbian is great (based on Debian) and there is a HUGE community for it.So yeh, it’s a great started for $25, as long as you have a PSU and SD Card. And an hdmi cable + monitor + keyboard at your disposal (and a mouse if you are installing a desktop environment (IE something like windows, whereas headless is a full screen CLI).
And don’t get your hopes up for a windows replacement.But… Why not run a Virtual Machine? If you have a windows machine, run VirtualBox, create a VM and install Debian on it?
That’s free. You can tinker and play.
And the only thing you are missing from an actual raspberry pi is that it isn’t a standalone device (IE your desktop has to be on for it to be running), and it doesn’t have GPIO (ie hardware pins. And if this is your goal, there are other ways).If you really really want a computer that is on all the time running Linux (Debian, a derivative (like raspbian) or some other distro) - aka a server - then there are plenty of other options where the only drawback is lack of GPIO (which, in my experience, is rarely a drawback).
And that is literally any computer you can get your hands on. Because the raspberry pi trades A LOT for its form factor, the ethernet speed is limited, the bus speed is limited (impacting USB and ethernet (and ram?)), the SD card is slower and will fail faster than any HDD/SSD. The benefit is the GPIO and the very low power draw - rarely actually a benefit.I’d say, play around with some virtual box VMs. See what you want, other than Fear Of Missing Out (things like PiHole? They run on Debian, or even in a docker container). Then see if you actually want a home server, and what you want to run on it.
It’s likely you won’t want a raspberry pi, but a $150 mini pc that can actually do what you want. - Comment on There should be a "last used combination" faucet handle for sinks so you don't have to balance hot and cold everytime during winter 5 weeks ago:
Yeh, bath/shower ones seem affordable.
But for a standalone sink, they seem to be significantly more. - Comment on ‘Too little, too late’: damning report condemns UK’s Covid response 1 month ago:
That sounds like a fantastic contribution to the fediverse.
Sounds like suspicious behaviour. So removing and even tracking that kinda crap would be some great tooling!
Perhaps an addition would be something that notifies people that interact with the deleted post/user to let them know of the deleted accounts behaviour. - Comment on There should be a "last used combination" faucet handle for sinks so you don't have to balance hot and cold everytime during winter 1 month ago:
I’m amazed at the comments explaining incoming water temperature fluctuations and pressures…
No no, thermostatic tap/faucet mixes waters depending on the output temperature. Ignores all of the variables except the thermal mass (I guess reaction speed) of the thermostatic system.
I think they are normally like 10x the price of a standard mixer tap tho.
So, it’s a budget choice - Comment on Is Fast Charging Killing the Battery? A 2-Year Test on 40 Phones 1 month ago:
The planned obsolescence is most likely a deliberate trade off rather than actual planned obsolescence.
If fast charging did do significant damage to battery life and this was known at the time of implementation, the decision would have been “users want fast charging phones” Vs “users want devices that last a long time”.
In this instance, the convenience of fast charging absolutely would have won.“Users want a clear and easy to use device” Vs “users want a robust device”. Which is why we all have glass screens, and the glass technology had to catch up to further expectations.
“Users want easy wireless connectivity” Vs “users want fast and reliable network speeds”. WiFi wins, and has to catch up to further expectations.
- Comment on What's your favorite case of a game making fun of you? 1 month ago:
And you finally get to jump
- Comment on Why isn't the rest of the world doing anything about the USA? 1 month ago:
I hear that the US has oil and WMDs
- Comment on YSK - the crazy questions all jobs on usajobs.gov now ask 2 months ago:
Id love to believe this is to weed out the bad applicants.
People that answer “lol, I just want a job” actually get the interviews - Comment on Today's Massive AWS Outage That Took Down Your Favorite Sites Is Still Going On 2 months ago:
Um, akshually it’s a DNS issue not a router issue.
I think.
It looks like a router issue. But it’s always a DNS issue - Comment on Microsoft is making every Windows 11 PC an AI PC 2 months ago:
I installed endeavouros on my windows laptop.
The installer guided me through the partitioning, setting up systemd-boot, and it was all great.
I had to disable bitlocker in windows (not that bothered about) and secure boot in bios (also not that bothered about).Ran smoothly dual booting both for about 4 months.
Then a windows update hit, and fucked the boot.Thankfully, this is a common enough thing that there are plenty of tutorials out there.
A liveUSB of endeavouros, some tinkering, and I was back up and running.The cause seems to be FastBoot, where windows keeps the boot partition mounted. What I think happens is that bios tries to read the boot partition, which is configured/loaded for windows (because it never cleaned up after itself due to FastBoot being on) and boots into windows.
Since turning off FastBoot, I haven’t had any issues in the past 8 months. - Comment on Microsoft is making every Windows 11 PC an AI PC 2 months ago:
Steam took the cap off the toothpaste tube.
Microsoft is giving the toothpaste tube a good squeeze! - Comment on Today's Massive AWS Outage That Took Down Your Favorite Sites Is Still Going On 2 months ago:
Oh look, fediverse is still working.
You can share in the smug grin - Comment on £6 million repaid to workers as Government cracks down on employers underpaying their staff 2 months ago:
Is this labour doing an actual labour thing?
- Comment on Those who are hosting on bare metal: What is stopping you from using Containers or VM's? What are you self hosting? 3 months ago:
Ah, fair.
- Comment on Those who are hosting on bare metal: What is stopping you from using Containers or VM's? What are you self hosting? 3 months ago:
3x minisforums MS-01
- Comment on Those who are hosting on bare metal: What is stopping you from using Containers or VM's? What are you self hosting? 3 months ago:
A NAS as bare metal makes sense.
It can then correctly interact with the raw disks.You could pass an entire HBA card through to a VM, but I feel like it should be horses for courses.
Let a storage device be a storage device, and let a hypervisor be a hypervisor. - Comment on Those who are hosting on bare metal: What is stopping you from using Containers or VM's? What are you self hosting? 3 months ago:
especially once a service does fail or needs any amount of customization.
A failed service gets killed and restarted. It should then work correctly.
If it fails to recover after being killed, then it’s not a service that’s fully ready for containerisation.
So, either build your recovery process to account for this… or fix it so it can recover.
It’s often why databases are run separately from the service. Databases can recover from this, and the services are stateless - doesn’t matter how many you run or restart.As for customisation, if it isn’t exposed via env vars then it can’t be altered.
If you need something beyond the env vars, then you use that container as a starting point and make your customisation a part of your container build processes via a dockerfile (or equivalent)It’s a bit like saying “chisels are great. But as soon as you need to cut a fillet steak, you need to sharpen a side of the chisel instead of the tip of the chisel”.
It’s using a chisel incorrectly. - Comment on Those who are hosting on bare metal: What is stopping you from using Containers or VM's? What are you self hosting? 3 months ago:
I would always run proxmox to set up docker VMs.
I found Talos Linux, which is a dedicated distro for kubernetes. Which aligned with my desire to learn k8s.
It was great. I ran it as bare-metal on a 3 node cluster. I learned a lot, I got my project complete, everything went fine.
I will use Talos Linux again.
However next time, I’m running proxmox with 2 VMs per node - 3 talos control VMs and 3 talos worker VMs.
I imagine running 6 servers with Talos is the way to go. Running them hyperconverged was a massive pain. Separating control plane and data/worker plane (or whatever it is) makes sense - it’s the way k8s is designed.
It wasn’t the hardware that had issues, but various workloads. And being able to restart or wipe a control node or a worker node would’ve made things so much easier.Also, why wouldn’t I run proxmox?
Overhead is minimal, get nice overview, get a nice UI, and I get snapshots and backups - Comment on Those who are hosting on bare metal: What is stopping you from using Containers or VM's? What are you self hosting? 3 months ago:
I’ve never installed a package on proxmox.
I’ve BARELY interacted with CLI on proxmox (I have a script that creates a nice Debian VM template, and occasionally having to really kill a VM).What would you install on proxmox?!
- Comment on Today's featured article on Wikipedia: Myst V: End of Ages 3 months ago:
A typo/brainfart
- Comment on Today's featured article on Wikipedia: Myst V: End of Ages 3 months ago:
Myst 6…?
A brainfart/typo
- Comment on Today's featured article on Wikipedia: Myst V: End of Ages 3 months ago:
The remaster of myst 1 is good, the remaster of riven is good.
Must 3-6 felt… Thin. Like, the game was about it being 3d and the tech… Not the puzzles.I feel a true successor to the myst 1 & 2 games is Quern: Undying Thoughts.
Felt like the original premise, but in a modern game engine.Another game that gave me the same hook as Myst is Blue Prince. A rogue lite puzzle game that is amazing.
- Comment on Options for protecting home IP on my self hosted home srver 3 months ago:
In that case, maybe look into proxmox and VMs.
Then run docker inside a VM. Have multiple VMs of docker for different environments (eg a VM for containers that should only use a VPN, another for media server stuff, another for experimenting… Whatever)Learning proxmox (or another hypervisor) is well worthwhile, because the base installer sets things up to just work for virtualization. And VMs are great for learning to run services.
Then you can spin up VMs for isolating environments, and have the benefit of oversight and management tools as well as snapshots. Snapshots means you can take a snapshot, tinker and break things, then roll back to a known good snapshot and try again.I use proxmox on any bare metal before I start setting up VMs for services. Even if it’s just a single VM with the majority of resources allocated to it.
Is proxmox overkill for running a server for some docker containers? Yes.
Does it make things easier? IMO, yes. At least operationally safer/easier.