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- Comment on Labor says Dutton has questions to answer over timing of share purchases 1 day ago:
The ordering of how right wing they are matters. That’s the whole point of preferential voting.
If you abstain from ranking all candidates, you are acting the same as US voters claiming that “both sides are the same” and then not voting, particularly if your preferred minor candidate(s) doesn’t have a chance of winning in your electorate.
- The Coalition’s attack on the climate authority is a cynical attempt to put ideology over facts – it must be called out | Kylea Tinkwww.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 2 days ago to australia@aussie.zone | 4 comments
- Comment on Labor says Dutton has questions to answer over timing of share purchases 2 days ago:
That’s a wasted vote, and not an option in the federal elections. It’s just as important to keep the extreme right-wing Liberal and National parties from power, as it is to preference the better minor parties (make sure to investigate as some minors and independents are extreme right-wing nutbags)>
- Submitted 3 days ago to australia@aussie.zone | 33 comments
- Comment on Intel GVT-g - ArchWiki 4 days ago:
AMDGPU virtio native context is somewhat of an equivalent to the other options, although the pieces are not all available yet. Linux guest only as well.
And there’s Venus but that’s for Vulkan only (but a lot can be done with that alone on Linux guests).
- Comment on Email provider for home server alerts 4 days ago:
Mailrise combined with your apprise provider of your choice (I use gotify).
- Submitted 4 days ago to australia@aussie.zone | 5 comments
- Comment on Alshark - An epic retro space JRPG spanning a galaxy! (PC-98 Paradise) 5 days ago:
I love these obscure (outside of Japan) computers and consoles. It’s like being nostalgic for an era I didn’t experience myself.
- Comment on Jellyfin is not just good... but *better* than Plex now?! 6 days ago:
The other thing is that my libraries are alphabetical in Jellyfin, so “Anime” comes before “Kaiju”, and I truly can’t stand the idea that Godzilla gets sent to the back of the bus.
If you mean the order the libraries are listed in the web interface, you change that from “User settings” -> “Home”.
- Comment on Jellyfin is not just good... but *better* than Plex now?! 6 days ago:
Plex is closed source and gradually being enshittified. You might not leave today, but you should have an exit plan.
- Comment on Does AI detect breast cancer better than doctors can? 1 week ago:
One issue I could see is using it not as a second opinion, but the only opinion. That doesn’t mean this shouldn’t be pursued, but the incentives toward laziness and cost-cutting are obvious.
- Submitted 1 week ago to australia@aussie.zone | 3 comments
- Comment on Kindle Is Making It Harder to Switch to Rival eReader Brands. 1 week ago:
There’s also calibre-web for a self-hosted option with a web interface.
- Comment on How often do you run backups on your system? 1 week ago:
btrbk works that way essentially. Takes read-only snapshots on a schedule, and uses btrfs send/receive to create backups.
There’s also snapraid-btrfs which uses snapshots to help minimise write hole issues with snapraid, by creating parity data from snapshots, rather than the raw filesystem.
- Comment on Why doesn't phones numbers have a "DNS" servet so we can just type in words like we do with the internet? 1 week ago:
Even just switching mobile voice standards is painful, as seen in Australia recently. In theory, you just need VoLTE support to use calling over 4G, but it turns out there is a bunch of other compatibility issues like emergency calling and carrier issues that complicate matters.
- Comment on Some examples of video games with an UI layout ripped off of another game? 1 week ago:
Tokyo Xanadu draws from the typical Persona UI, setting and day to day gameplay (except the combat system).
- Comment on What can I actually do with 64 GB or RAM? 1 week ago:
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Compressed swap (zram)
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Compiling large C++ programs with many threads
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Virtual machines
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Video encoding
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Many Firefox tabs
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Games
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- Comment on Mexican President Threatens to Sue Google Over 'Gulf of America' Label on Maps. 2 weeks ago:
Putin and Trump are best friends so you might expect Russia to follow. But perhaps Putin wants to show he’s the dominant one in said relationship.
- Comment on PayPal owns brands like Venmo, Honey and is heavily integrated into eBay - if you're looking to stop giving your money to bad companies, take a second to search their subsidiary brands as well. 2 weeks ago:
Not the modern X.com to be clear; Musk just has a weird fetish for the letter X like an edgy teenager.
- Submitted 2 weeks ago to australia@aussie.zone | 3 comments
- Comment on Audiblez v4.0 is out: Generate Audiobooks from Ebooks 2 weeks ago:
Could be useful for web articles and scientific papers too (if it could be configured to ignore reading out all of the boiler plate and citations).
- Comment on Freed At Last From Patents, Does Anyone Still Care About MP3? 2 weeks ago:
There are better lossy formats, like opus.
But MP3 still has its place as it’s supported everywhere.
- Comment on I've set up docker services behind nginx proxy manager so they're accessible with https, but the http services are still open. How do I close them? 3 weeks ago:
There’s likely a firewall on the system that hosts the docker services, and docker’s default bridge rules bypass it when publishing a port. And since the docker rules are prioritised, it can be quite difficult to override them in a reliable way.
I personally use host networking to avoid the whole mess, but be aware you’ll have to change the internal ports for a bunch of services most likely, and that’s not always well-documented. And using the container name as the host name won’t work when referencing other containers, you’ll have to use e.g. localhost:<port number> even inside the network.
You can do the bind to localhost thing that others have mentioned, as long as the reverse proxy itself is inside the docker network.
- Comment on Got myself some energy monitoring Zigbee plugs and made an interesting discovery 3 weeks ago:
My desktop PC idles quite high as well. The semi high-end consumer motherboards on the AMD side tend to use a lot of power at idle, so I think that’s a big part of it (at least the x570 series, can’t speak for later). And as others have said, high refresh rate and multiple monitors can make things worse.
- Comment on Got myself some energy monitoring Zigbee plugs and made an interesting discovery 3 weeks ago:
It has never occured to me my whole life to not suspend
Reliability issues with suspend-to-ram are rather common. Shutting down is an option, but session save and restore is a relatively recent thing and not supported by all desktop environments. I.e. it’s the post startup part that takes the longest.
- Comment on How do you keep up? 3 weeks ago:
I use NixOS so if an update breaks, I just roll back. And since it’s effectively a rolling release distribution there isn’t any risk of being left behind on an outdated version.
- Anti-trans campaigner hit with apprehended violence order over ‘disturbing’ conductwww.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 3 weeks ago to australia@aussie.zone | 3 comments
- Comment on When would it make sense for someone to get a domain name? 3 weeks ago:
Yoink!
- Comment on When would it make sense for someone to get a domain name? 3 weeks ago:
Less than $10 a year depending on top-level domain and provider.
There’s also 1.111B class xyz domains which are very cheap number only domains at 1 USD a year or so but are longer and less memorable. Useful for private/test uses.
- Comment on When would it make sense for someone to get a domain name? 3 weeks ago:
One benefit is to obtain SSL certificates using Let’s Encrypt or similar, which is nice to have even if you’re only hosting services on a LAN/VPN, to avoid certificate warnings (and to benefit from using a reverse proxy). You can use self-signed certificates, but this is annoying in it’s own right.
You technically don’t need to buy a domain for this since you can use a free DNS provider, but you can use shorter names and sometimes there are cases where you might need to switch DNS providers, in which case you have to change that domain everywhere, which is quite disruptive. If you own your domain, you take it with you when switching DNS providers.