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- Comment on Good experience with neko remote browser 2 days ago:
Perhaps there was an easier lighter-weight way of doing this?
sshuttledoes exactly that. It’s basically a VPN that uses SSH tunnelling. If you have a host in the same network as the target machine, and you can SSH into it,sshuttlecan route all TCP traffic between you and the target (or a subnet) through the host without having to bind local ports manually. - Comment on ISPs seem designed to funnel people to capitalist cloud services 4 days ago:
- Comment on Garage - S3-compatible Object Storage alternative to Minio 1 week ago:
Minio is about to get Redis’d.
- Comment on Your help needed: PhD research on why people choose to self-host 1 week ago:
I use self-hosted services in the following categories as much as possible…
That question could really use a “not applicable” option. I don’t operate any home automation solutions, so any answer from me would be invalid.
- Comment on All you have to do is bump into hitler's biological parents before he was conceived, and you've erased his existence. No "assassination plot" is necessary. 1 week ago:
That’s not how any of this works. Not-quite-Hitler would still be exposed to the same influences and grow up to be the same person.
- Comment on "You can't just have Geralt for every single game" says his voice actor, and if you think The Witcher 4 making Ciri the protagonist is "woke," then "read the damn books" 1 week ago:
Having a consistent definition of “woke” is too woke for some dinosaurs.
- Comment on Who knew decanters could be in funny shapes 2 weeks ago:
dickanter
- Comment on What are the minimum or recommended requirements for a personal home server? 2 weeks ago:
The minimum spec is whatever e-waste you can find that still powers on.
My home server has an i3-4160, 10 gigabytes of mis-matched RAM, a ten-year-old 240 GB SSD with 36000 hours on it, and three 1 TB hard drives in a RAID5 array each with ~25000 power-on hours. It runs Proxmox on the metal with a virtualized OPNsense, Nextcloud, and Jellyfin server (plus smaller services). Jank levels are high, but not fatal, and it was mostly free.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Oh, you bitter elder of autumn.
- Comment on If darker coloured materials get hotter in the sun faster, will a display with the screen on or off change how quickly it heats up? 2 weeks ago:
What about LCD? Switching the state of a cell results in mechanical changes, which might influence how much sunlight it absorbs (even if it’s minuscule compared to the heat generated by the backlight)
- Comment on Understanding your target audience when marketing 3 weeks ago:
“So you slipped in the bathroom… and fell on top of the shampoo bottle?”
- Comment on Nintendo Anti-Piracy Policy Device Lock Update Warns of Console Bricks for Unauthorized Use 3 weeks ago:
You “own” your car, but the dealership stole the keys, removed the engine, and locked the wheels because you bought a used set of winter tyres from a reseller.
- Comment on Nintendo Anti-Piracy Policy Device Lock Update Warns of Console Bricks for Unauthorized Use 3 weeks ago:
Best argument in favor of emulation so far.
- Comment on Oblivion Remastered or something idk 3 weeks ago:
Wrestle the cave bears.
- Comment on hexbear users are the rick and morty fanbase of lemmy instances 3 weeks ago:
Stop feeding the troll, for crying out loud. Look at their comment history. Social media literacy died in 2020, I swear.
- Comment on The first driverless semis have started running regular longhaul routes | CNN Business 4 weeks ago:
Americans will do anything to avoid just using trains.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Then pedantic netizens will point out that it’s a complete mischaracterization of Schrödinger’s thought experiment.
- Comment on Epic reduce their cut to 0% for the first $1 million in revenue for devs on the Epic Games Store 4 weeks ago:
Physical media died when games expanded beyond their capacity. Optical discs are physically fragile, they have a limited shelf life, they have to be reproduced by specialized equipment (not considering piracy here), they have to be physically transported to the customer, some regions are financially unviable (imagine the Helldivers 2 situation but with every game), and production has to end at some point. Having to set up a physical supplier also severely limits the ability of indie or solo developers to have any kind of success or even presence.
Physical media is obsolete, and people clamoring for its return are nostalgic for a world that doesn’t exist anymore.
- Comment on Raspberry Pi cuts product returns by 50% by changing up its pin soldering 4 weeks ago:
The main problem was that it interrupted the line. We’d have to stop and inspect each product, then reposition or replace the connectors, before the reflow oven. It also ran the risk of damaging the connector, the PCB, or even the inserter head if the insertion force was too high. We had a higher rework and scrap rate compared to similar SMD-only products, but using pin in paste meant that wave soldering could be skipped altogether, and I guess someone above my pay grade determined that it was better in terms of finances.
This is just my own experience. I don’t know Rpi manufacturing practices.
- Comment on Raspberry Pi cuts product returns by 50% by changing up its pin soldering 4 weeks ago:
I used to work on an SMT line, and pin in paste was the bane of my fucking existence. The parts (mainly connectors) were rarely within tolerance, and a leg or two would consistently miss their holes, if not outright rejected by the inserter.
- Comment on Even PewDiePie thinks you should install Linux on your computer after saying he was "tortured by Windows" 5 weeks ago:
Could be, I have no idea. I’m Hungarian (not a fact I like to advertise), and in my language, “néger” is the correct word. It’s not considered vulgar because the word simply doesn’t have the same historical context. We also have a popular hard candy called “Negró”, so named because of its black color.
- Comment on Even PewDiePie thinks you should install Linux on your computer after saying he was "tortured by Windows" 5 weeks ago:
This was about Torvalds, not Tech Tips
Wrong again. I was comparing Pewdiepie’s video about Linux to LTT’s Linux challenge. Felix has shown a considerable understanding of Linux and relevant components that many “tech” entertainers (least of all Linus of LTT) don’t.
- Comment on World of Goo 2 is out now on Steam and a great pick for puzzle game fans 5 weeks ago:
It’s also available directly and DRM-free on the developer’s website: worldofgoo2.com
- Comment on Even PewDiePie thinks you should install Linux on your computer after saying he was "tortured by Windows" 5 weeks ago:
Your comment is pointless, this isn’t a thread about LTT.
- Comment on Cities Skylines 2, Kerbal Space 2, Planet Coaster 2, Frostpunk 2... What Went Wrong? 5 weeks ago:
I was there with KSP from the early days. Squad was not in the video game business, they were a billboard advertisement company. The lead dev HarvesteR started it as a passion project. It found success with the alpha and full release in 2015.
Then in 2017 Take-Two bought the rights to the game. Squad kept working on the original, but development of the sequel was handed off to Star Theory with Private Division publishing. The game was delayed, then development was moved to a new studio, Intercept Games, which was owned by Take-Two. They also poached a third of Star Theory’s personnel, which resulted in the studio’s death. They fucked around for a few years, released the early access version, then sold Private Division, closed Intercept Games, and abandoned the game.
In short: corporate interests.
- Comment on Even PewDiePie thinks you should install Linux on your computer after saying he was "tortured by Windows" 5 weeks ago:
Mint on one vomputer, Arch with Hyprland on another.
- Comment on Even PewDiePie thinks you should install Linux on your computer after saying he was "tortured by Windows" 5 weeks ago:
His peak of popularity was in a different era of societal awareness. His humor had an edge that was often crude 15 years ago and unacceptable today, culminating in him dropping the N bomb during a livestream several years ago, and even after apologies, people just can’t let go.
Some others are simply hating on him because he has opinions that don’t fully align with theirs. Others, simply for being popular.
- Comment on At some point, kids watching older cartoons will no longer understand why putting a thermometer under a desk lamp was a way to skip school. 5 weeks ago:
You mean hotboxing weed in a tiny car?
- Comment on At some point, kids watching older cartoons will no longer understand why putting a thermometer under a desk lamp was a way to skip school. 5 weeks ago:
The VHS was a bastard on an entirely different level. My cousin lost his The Empire Strikes Back tape because a roller got stuck and the tape got twisted around the reader head.
- Comment on At some point, kids watching older cartoons will no longer understand why putting a thermometer under a desk lamp was a way to skip school. 5 weeks ago:
I grew up with analog audio, and still have most of my dad’s late 70s “high tech” equipment, about a hundred vinyl records (mostly 33s with a few 45s), and several boxes of audio cassettes. Given the chance… I wouldn’t go back. That era had some severe issues that we just had to deal with because it was the best that contemporary technology could offer.
- Magnetic tapes have a finite shelf life. If not stored in a dry and cool place, the polyurethane tape absorbs moisture, which ruins the binder and the ferromagnetic coating falls off. Eventually the tape itself disintegrates.
- Magnetic tapes are susceptible to mechanical damage, they naturally stretch, and they can scratch if the rollers are dirty.
- They are also obviously vulnerable to electromagnetic fields.
- Playback quality is strongly dependent on the recording equipment, the magnetic medium’s quality, and the playback device.
- Even though the compact cassette is the icon of media sharing, copying is never 1:1 and always incurs a loss in quality.
- The best achievable audio quality can’t physically reach the quality of most digital recordings because of the granularity/resolution of the medium and the noise introduced by the pickup and amplifier circuits. The same is true for vinyl records: the superior audio quality is just a myth.
