TrenchcoatFullofBats
@TrenchcoatFullofBats@belfry.rip
- Comment on EU considers tariffs on digital services Big Tech 3 weeks ago:
Agreed. I’ve been using Krita quite a bit lately and honestly, it’s really good. I haven’t used an Adobe product for a few years, but it’s been able to do everything I want it to do so far.
- Comment on EU considers tariffs on digital services Big Tech 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, switched to a different company for kitchen stuff, bought it on their site and everything, felt good about it.
Delivery day comes, guess who delivered the package? Amazon. So that was great.
- Comment on Microsoft tells Windows 10 users to just trade in their PC for a newer one, because how hard can it be? 5 weeks ago:
That’s definitely been true in the past, but the gap’s narrowed a lot. GIMP (with plugins) and Krita cover most Photoshop-style workflows, and Inkscape does a pretty good job with vector work. For many graphic design tasks, Linux has solid native tools now—just takes a bit of adjustment if you’re used to Adobe.
- Comment on AI cracks superbug problem in two days that took scientists years 2 months ago:
“I wrote an email to
GoogleGryzzl to say, ‘you have access to my computer, is that right?’”, he added. - Comment on The Smartwatch That Was Too Good For This World 2 months ago:
Apparently one of the people on the Rebble board is working on the project:
Some people are working on this for my new company, Core Devices, including Joshua (also one of the Rebble board members), Gerard (firmware) and crc32 (Cobble). We’ll be joined soon by Steve Penna, my OG Pebble colleague who helped build the Pebble Android app.
Heiko, the brilliant mind behind much of Pebble’s aesthetic and engineering beauty, is helping as technical advisor, along with my first colleague at Pebble, Andrew Witte and another key Pebble design leader, Mark Solomon. Others are helping via the Rebble community Discord.
- Comment on The biggest breach of US government data is under way 2 months ago:
It is also a problem that Musk had someone kick the door down while effectively screaming at the top of his lungs that the door is now open while his “special employees” on loan from Ben Chang run through the door.
- Comment on My help button is grayed out 2 months ago:
Or a Microsoft Answers page where the advice is always and eternally to run sfc /scannow, regardless of what the actual problem is
- Comment on I got plans this weekend. 2 months ago:
Oh man, you were lucky. We only had “Biota of Freshwater Ecosystems - Identification Manual Number 9 - Crayfishes (astacidea) of north and Middle America”.
Mom kept saying that if I got good grades, she’d get me the “Freshwater Crayfish 12: Proceedings of the Twelfth Symposium of the International Association of Astacology held on August 3 to 9 in Augsburg, Germany” cartridge, but Algebra was hard that year…
- Comment on It's fire... Maybe concerning but fire still 5 months ago:
…in their cabins, into piles of money
- Comment on Post your setup. no matter how uggo 5 months ago:
Yeah, the tablet runs Fully Kiosk and I tried the same thing with the battery percentage thing and ran into the same issue, so I just simplified and made the automation time-based.
The tablet also likes to freeze a few times a day, so I also created an automation that toggles the smart plug power whenever HA loses connection to the tablet for more than 5 seconds, then toggles back to the original state at the start of the automation, which corrects the problem. Until the next time. But hey! It was only $60, so it’s fine.
- Comment on Post your setup. no matter how uggo 5 months ago:
That’s a nice setup. I am weirdly jealous of the sliding shelf. The CS350B is very nice as well.
- Comment on Post your setup. no matter how uggo 5 months ago:
Heat, then suction?
On a related note, I solved the battery issue with my wall mounted Fire tablet (for an HA dashboard) by connecting the power supply to a smart plug and setting up an automation to only give it the juice for about 3 hours per day, spread throughout the day
- Comment on Post your setup. no matter how uggo 5 months ago:
Image From top to bottom:
- Patch panel (with artisinal, handmade cables)
- TP-Link managed switch Shelf 1:
- PFSense 4 port firewall
- Lenovo m910q w/Proxmox (cluster node 1) running 2 VMs for docker hosting: Ubuntu for media stuff (arrs, navidrome, jellyfin, calibre, calibre-web, tubesync, syncthing) and Debian for other stuff (paperless-ngx, vikunja, vscodium, redlib, x-pipe webtop, fasten health, linkwarden, alexandrite), 1 Win 10 VM for the very few times I need to use windows, some Red Hat Academy student and instructor RHEL 9 VMs, and an OPNsense VM for testing Shelf 2:
- HP Elitedesk G5 800 SFF w/Proxmox (cluster node 2) with an Nvidia GT 730 passed through to a Debian VM used primarily as a remote desktop via ThinLinc, but also runs a few docker containers (stirling pdf, willow application server, fileflows)
- Shuttle DH110 w/Proxmox (cluster node 3) with 1 VM running Home Assistant OS with an NVME Coral TPU passed through as well as a zooz 800 long range zwave coordinator (the zigbee coordinator is ethernet and in a different room) and two LXCs with grafana and prometheus courtesy of tteck (RIP) Shelf 3:
- WIP Fractal R5 server to replace the ancient Ubuntu file server to the left (outside the rack, sitting on the box of ethernet cable) that is primarily the home of my media drives (3 12 TB Ironwolf drives) and was my first homelab server. The new box will have a Tesla p4 and RX 580 GTX, i7-8700T and 64GB RAM in addition to the drives from the old server. I’ll be converting the Ubuntu drive from the old server into an image and will use it to create a Proxmox VM on the new server, with the same drives passed through. Bottom:
- 2 Cyberpower CP1000 UPS with upgraded LiFePO4 batteries. The one on the left is only for servers and only exists to give the servers time to shut down cleanly when the power goes out. The one on the right is only for network devices (firewall, switch and the Ruckus R500 out of shot mounted higher in the closet)
- Comment on YSK: You don't own your Kindle e-books. 6 months ago:
My Gen 2 only had whispernet, which relied on the Sprint EVDO network, both of which no longer exist (the company and the network type).
- Comment on YSK: You don't own your Kindle e-books. 6 months ago:
FWIW, Amazon deprecated mobi files recently and epub is the new “sideload” standard. You still have to email the file to the kindle address to be able to read them, or convert to azw3.
If you’re already using Calibre, check out Calibre-Web, which essentially uses a Calibre database as the back end. The interface is so much nicer than Calibre.
