ikidd
@ikidd@lemmy.world
- Comment on Home electricity bills are skyrocketing. For data centers, not so much. 1 day ago:
I have 54 solar panels that are 1x2m apiece (108m2 total), and they generate barely enough to keep my house running in the winter, and have to be supplemented by a generator in the winter for December and January since it’s entirely offgrid.
I don’t think a couple panels on a balcony are doing much more than charging a couple phones.
- Comment on What's it going to take to truly stop the US? 3 days ago:
I don’t think we want to see what the world’s biggest military would do if there were large-scale attacks on American soil. This planet would be a smoking ruin before calmer heads prevailed. They lost their fucking minds for more than a decade after the WTC strikes and still haven’t recovered, and are currently backsliding.
Man, fuck that.
- Comment on China calls for Maduro’s immediate release, accuses US of breaching international law 3 days ago:
Like, I think what the US has done is illegal, but it’s pretty rich coming from the country of hostage diplomacy.
- Comment on What are good option for self hosting home security camera? 3 days ago:
If you get a camera that is ONVIF compatible, you won’t need an app to set it up. Vikylin, amcrest are a couple I’ve used.
Use tailscale to access your cameras, don’t portforward them. They are pathetically terrible for security.
- Comment on Linux Slicer 5 days ago:
Pick a well supported distro like Fedora or Ubuntu and you’re more likely to have less problems with things like that, because if the devs are testing against anything, those will be the distros.
- Comment on Where are you running your wireguard endpoint? 1 week ago:
OPNsense
- Comment on What is with these videos where it's just someone reaction to shit someone else is doing? 1 week ago:
Its affirmation therapy for insecure people. “Somebody likes the thing I like!”
- Comment on What is with these videos where it's just someone reaction to shit someone else is doing? 1 week ago:
Its literally being done now. Its excruciating.
- Comment on If you have ANY Canadian ancestor, you are likely a Canadian citizen as a result of recent changes in Canadian law 1 week ago:
Dammit, I knew there was a downside to avoiding people so thoroughly.
- Comment on I need to vent about plastic milk jugs 1 week ago:
It’s so the sides don’t sag or bulge when full. It’s like corrugations in metal roofing/siding.
- Comment on OpenVPN hosting practices [Question] 1 week ago:
Why the hell would the FUTO guide recommend OpenVPN? It’s a nightmare.
For your own sanity, learn about Wireguard.
- Comment on Offline TTS in 2026? 1 week ago:
Happy to help.
The docker setup is probably less maintenance than a straight install, but your usecase might need the bare install. there’s also Home Assistant that can add Piper as an Addon (which is a docker container inside the HassOS docker container).
- Comment on What the Linux desktop really needs to challenge Windows 1 week ago:
I’ve bought several Dell laptops over the last 20 years, the Windows install on them was strangled in it’s crib every time, and it was still miles cheaper than these other vendors.
If anyone needs to have Linux preinstalled on their computer and can’t click through the 3 steps in a typical Linux install nowadays, they probably should use something like a SpeakNSpell instead of a computer.
- Comment on How AI broke the smart home in 2025 2 weeks ago:
If a home automation product isn’t self hosted, it can fuck right off
- Comment on Where do you guys buy your 3D print and such at? 2 weeks ago:
- writes the guy on the platform he uses for free.
- Comment on Offline TTS in 2026? 2 weeks ago:
Piper just moved to github.com/OHF-Voice/piper1-gpl
It’s fine, and it’s probably the best TTS you’re going to run locally.
- Comment on Where do you guys buy your 3D print and such at? 2 weeks ago:
Are you coming from a CNC background? I ask because it seems like everybody in the CNC world wants people to pay for designs, and everyone in 3D printing just uploads it to Printables or Thingiverse for free. I’m always surprised at the difference between the two hobbies that are so closely related.
- Comment on Do you rebuild your container images yourself? 2 weeks ago:
Rebuilding containers is trivial if they supply the dockerfile. Then the base image is up to date, and you can add any updates/patches for things like the recent react vuln.
- Comment on Do you ever watch old classic TV shows and realize that they are all dead 2 weeks ago:
I mean, it was a show about old retired women to start with…
- Comment on Self-Host Weekly #150: Watchtower No More 2 weeks ago:
Someone linked this fork, seems maintained:
- Comment on Self-Host Weekly #150: Watchtower No More 2 weeks ago:
Watchtower, the automatic container image update platform notorious for breaking things
That’s kind of a bullshit allegation. Watchtower did what it did, if you set it up to grab unstable tags, then too bad for you.
- Comment on xkcd #3182: Telescope Types 2 weeks ago:
The Core was possibly the worst movie I’ve ever watched.
- Comment on Mozilla’s new CEO is doubling down on an AI future for Firefox 3 weeks ago:
I figured you did. It’s the guy you were replying to that seems confused.
- Comment on it is legal to keep a kangaroo as a pet in oklahoma 3 weeks ago:
More like livestock.
- Comment on THIS is a real test of how old you are. If you score 20 your future is short 3 weeks ago:
Add this number to 35 for your age.
- Comment on ‘Invasive, deceptive, and unlawful’: Texas says your TV is tracking you illegally, and is suing to stop the dreaded Automatic Content Recognition 3 weeks ago:
Someday, maybe, the Paxton-bot will become self-aware.
- Comment on Mozilla’s new CEO is doubling down on an AI future for Firefox 3 weeks ago:
You really don’t understand what a browser engine is, do you?
- Comment on Bed head 3 weeks ago:
You missed the stream of shit they emit pretty much constantly.
- Comment on Raspberry Pi 4B 3 weeks ago:
idk about a 4b these days but the 5’s are stupid priced. You can get a refurbed 6th gen intel machine with 16gb of ram and an SSD for the price of a 4Gb Pi 5. Add an ESP32 running ESPhome or Firmata and you’ve got everything you could do with a Pi and a lot more.
- Comment on Unifi Anonymous...? 3 weeks ago:
Do their radios still not do 801.11af? You still need to have their stupid POE injectors hanging on the wall?