spaghettiwestern
@spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Selfhosting Sunday - What's up? 4 weeks ago:
Power loss protection on SSDs is an interesting addition I hadn’t come across before.
We live in a very windy area and power blinks are common. A high endurance MicroSD was in use the first time the Pi wouldn’t boot, but I was in town and it was just annoying. It was a big issue when the Pi wouldn’t boot from the SSD while I was out of the country.
We don’t have high bandwidth demands so any decent OpenWRT router works fine and supports both Adguard Home and Wireguard. What I really like about putting WG in particular on the router is that if the router is up, WG is working, and the routers come back up without fail after every power outage. A 2nd Wireguard instance still runs on my Pi but since switching to WG on the router a year ago there hasn’t been a reason to even connect to it.
My problems with the Pi had me looking for other solutions and I ended up with a mini Dell laptop running Debian. (Can’t easily run WG on it due to some software conflicts.) It alleviates the need for a UPS and runs for 6+ hours if the power goes out, rather the minutes provided by my small UPS.
One of these days I’ll find a bogus reason to talk myself into upgrading the router with more powerful hardware. Mikrotik looks like a great option and I’ll take a look at RouterOS. Thanks for the info.
- Comment on Selfhosting Sunday - What's up? 4 weeks ago:
In my experience mini computers don’t handle power failures nearly as well as purpose-built hardware.
After several power failures the SSD on my Raspberry Pi became so corrupted it wouldn’t boot, and I was 250 miles away at the time. Overlay file systems work but are a PITA to maintain. By contrast my routers have never had a problem even with repeated power failures, so instead of relying on the Pi I’ve moved my DNS and Wireguard servers to my router.
Besides adding a UPS, how do you deal with power failures? Are you somewhere where they’re not much of a problem?
- Comment on Selfhosting Sunday - What's up? 4 weeks ago:
I’ve been using DuckDNS on a multiple platforms for a couple of years and it works great. Never had a problem.
- Comment on Elon Musk pressured Reddit’s CEO on content moderation 4 weeks ago:
So Musk wants the content he, personally finds objectionable to be moderated. Racist Nazi shit and hateful GQP posts are perfectly fine, just like on Twitter.
- Comment on Sergey Brin: We need you working 60 hours a week so we can replace you as soon as possible 5 weeks ago:
Have had espresso machines for years and can confirm it can be very difficult to find shops that do repairs and have replacement parts. Good luck with the startup.
- Comment on Differences between humans and AI: Why The CAPTCHA May Be The Ultimate Battleground Between AI And Humans. 5 weeks ago:
Is anyone else just done with CAPTCHAS? I refuse to deal with them at all anymore unless I absolutely need to get to the content they’re blocking.
- Comment on Battle of the dirt-cheap tablets: Amazon Fire HD 8 vs. Walmart Onn 8 5 weeks ago:
Icons cannot be removed from the launcher screen, they can only be combined into folder. The folders cannot be hidden or removed. Preinstalled programs cannot be uninstalled or disabled. Nothing works until the tablet is registered with Amazon. There is no app drawer. It’s possible to install another launcher, but it’s not possible to use it because Amazon has hardwired the home button to their launcher. (There used to be ways around that but Amazon has systematically disabled each of them.) Their Silk browser is terrible. Most every Amazon app provided is terrible.
I get that it’s cheap and there will be significant compromises, but at least some of Amazon’s apps should be somewhat comparable to non-Amazon apps.
I’ve gotten around some of this by loading the Play store and F-Droid, but it’s clear that Amazon’s tablets are not only cheap but they’re low effort products.
- Comment on Plex is increasing Plex Pass prices and paywalling remote playback for personal media at $1.99/month or $19.99/year. 5 weeks ago:
I installed Plex a couple years ago and when I found I actually had to sign into their servers to access my own media it was immediately uninstalled. It was only a matter of time before they pulled this kind of shit.
- Comment on How Tesla blew its lead. 5 weeks ago:
Anyone arguing that Musk didn’t know exactly what he was doing is just another Nazi pissing in the wind and deserves every bit of blow back they get.
The only thing Musk didn’t understand is that he was branding himself and everything he touches as nothing more than Nazi scum for the rest of his miserable life.
- Comment on Battle of the dirt-cheap tablets: Amazon Fire HD 8 vs. Walmart Onn 8 5 weeks ago:
I recently bought cheap refurbished 10" Amazon Fire specifically for web browsing, and the author is spot on when he says it’s “obnoxious to the point of hostility.”
Amazon places a huge “Register now” nag across the launcher that can’t be removed without registering, and even the calculator won’t work until you do. Wigets aren’t supported by Amazon’s launcher and it is impossible to load an alternative. There are a host of other deliberate annoyances Amazon has created to make sure the tablet is used for their purpose rather than your own.
It was only $35, but it’s not worth even that much. Amazon has truly made enshittification an art form.
- Comment on Meta claims torrenting pirated books isn’t illegal without proof of seeding 2 months ago:
I want to know how to switch groups.
- Comment on HP ditches 15-minute wait time policy due to 'feedback' 2 months ago:
How about a bot that types slowly, so it can have time to consider what it’s going to say? Or perhaps a web page with an “Analyzing problem” status bar that takes several minutes to complete, because computers just do better if they’re given time to work on a problem?
- Comment on Meta claims torrenting pirated books isn’t illegal without proof of seeding 2 months ago:
Another example of Republican principles. Corporations are protected by laws but not bound by them, while the average citizen is bound by laws but not protected by them.
- Comment on HP ditches 15-minute wait time policy due to 'feedback' 2 months ago:
“We’re always looking for ways to improve our customer service experience.”
LOL!
- Comment on Kindle Is Making It Harder to Switch to Rival eReader Brands. 2 months ago:
Overdrive’s being phased out and being replaced by Libby according to the 2 libraries I frequent. I wonder if it will still be supported on Kobo OS once the website and apps are shut down?
- Comment on Kindle Is Making It Harder to Switch to Rival eReader Brands. 2 months ago:
It’s not just Amazon. Libraries (and Libby, the app they use) are also making it difficult to do anything but read in a browser or use Kindle.
- Comment on Reddit Blames Google Algorithm Changes For Not Hitting User Growth. 2 months ago:
The really amazing thing is that spez’s planet-sized ego created the whole user exodus. People were willing to pay a monthly fee to continue to use the site ad-free via our mobile apps. Hundreds of other companies remove ads when people pay fees, but all of that revenue is just gone along with a big chunk of contributors because spez had a tantrum.
- Tesla has sued customers and journalists in China — and won most times, review findswww.cbsnews.com ↗Submitted 2 months ago to technology@lemmy.world | 4 comments
- Comment on Elon Musk just offered to buy OpenAI for $97.4 billion 2 months ago:
“NaziAI” has a real ring to it.