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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Survey: More Than 1 In 4 Americans Feel They Need To Make $150,000 Or More To Live Comfortably⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Don’t really have taxes at that income level. In the US, ACA pays full insurancne premium (currently, that will change if the billionaire tax cut passes), and ‘wellness checkups’ are $0 out-of-pocket by law. Most of my dinner recipes are around $2.50/serving at 900 calories. I’m able to walk most places I go, but car insurance is $100/month. Don’t feel like dating, raising kids, or making big vacations. I average something around $7-800/month on ‘entertainment’ like video games & hobby materials, which leaves $300-400 savings. $350/month is 10%, which is around 2x the US average savings rate (fred.stlouisfed.org/series/PSAVERT). Savings for emergencies like insurance deductible and for retirement.

But that’s my point: my housing probably isn’t everyone’s idea of ‘comfortable,’ my diet is pretty carb-heavy and probably not everyone’s idea of ‘comfortable.’ I like it, though. It feels comfortable to me; I don’t consciously restrict any of my spending - all the numbers I’ve given you are post hoc analysis. I’ve been doing it for a decade.

I don’t dispute people feeling like they need $150k to live comfortably. Lots of people want kids. Lots of people want to take a nice vacation time-to-time. There’s a massive propaganda machine out there trying to convince everyone that they need just a little more than they have right now to feel good about themselves, and I believe that propaganda starts wearing thin by the time you get to $150k, $200k. They’ve got to live their life; I can only live mine.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Survey: More Than 1 In 4 Americans Feel They Need To Make $150,000 Or More To Live Comfortably⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
That’s what I said: “Comfortable” depends on feelings. Once you know what feels comfortable, then you can quantify.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Survey: More Than 1 In 4 Americans Feel They Need To Make $150,000 Or More To Live Comfortably⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Well, then I can say that $40k is definitely “comfortable.” That’s $1500 rent, $300/month food, another $200 gas/elec/internet, a thousand left over for odds & ends and another couple hundred saved.

Pretty much my budget in a MCOL major metro.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Survey: More Than 1 In 4 Americans Feel They Need To Make $150,000 Or More To Live Comfortably⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
You can’t define “comfortably” without feeling.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨EVE Frontier Goes Public Today with Founder Access: New Era⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
They keep trying to find new ways to monetize the Eve lore, but no one plays Eve for the lore. And the people who are into Eve’s unique kind of economy-battle simulator don’t seem like they’re particularly interested in first-person-view type alternatives. I suspect it will dribble about for a while, then go the way of Dust 514 and Valkyrie.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨NAS Power Consumption⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
You can only spin drives down if they’re idle. If you have a service that touches it - say, homeassistant logging data, tvheadend updating EPG - then they’re going to keep spinning.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨NAS Power Consumption⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
I switched from an I3-530, nominal TDP 73W, to an N-100, nominal TDP 7W, and power from the wall didn’t change at all. Even the i3 ran around 0.1 CPU load, except when transcoding, and I’m left with the impression that most of the power goes into HDDs, RAM, maybe fans, and PS losses. My sense is that the best way to decrease homelab power use is to minimize the number of devices. Start with your seyrver at 60W, add a WAP at 10-15W, maybe a switch at 10-15W… Not because of the CPUs, necessarily, but because every CPU every CPU comes with systems to keep the CPU going, keep the power regulated, etc.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The american crypto mafia⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
It’s from a Molly White doot. I don’t see it on her website www.citationneeded.news but she’s definitely been all over Trump’s crypto.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Donation-supported file host Catbox got kicked out of Patreon and temporarily from Ko-Fi, now running at deficit of approx. $1,388/month.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
The reason for his post was that a provider shut down his access on the accusation of CSAM, without (according to him) much if any investigation. Cloud providers have all manner of automated systems for reporting CSAM, copyright, and other potential abuses, and generally seem to take a guilty-until-proven-innocent approach. They may or may not even be responsive to defense or explanation. Colo isolates you from abuse of those systems.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ISPs seem designed to funnel people to capitalist cloud services⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
My ISP seems to use just normal DHCP for assigning addresses and honors re-use requests. The only times my IP addresses have changed has been I’ve changed the MAC or UUID that connects. I’ve been off-line for a week, come back, and been given the same address. Both IPv4 and v6.

If one really wants their home systems to be publicly accessible, it’s easy enough to get a cheap vanity domain and point it at whatever address. rDNS won’t work, which would probably interfere with email, but most services don’t really need it. It’s a bit more complicated to detect when your IP changes and script a DNS update, but certainly do-able, if (like OP) one is hell bent on avoiding any off-site hardware.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you actually audit open source projects you download?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Daniel Stenberg claims that the curl bug reporting system is effectively DDOSed by AI wrongly reporting various issues. Doesn’t seem like a good feature in a code auditor.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Prototype of RTX 5090 Appears With Four 16-Pin Power Connectors, Capable of Delivering 2,400W⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
I, for one, would rather just see them use a couple of 2/0 AWG welding cables, bolted onto a 5mm copper plate on the board. If you need 200 amps, make it look like 200 amps.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UPS input load⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
The UPS needs some power to keep its batteries full. Could be that it’s triggering off some threshold to do a charge cycle instead of just running a constant trickle. I’ve noticed that my laptop and phone charge that way, for example.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Using DVD slot for second 3.5" drive?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
…hanging from their cables…
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨3-2-1 Backups: How do you do the 1 offsite backup?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
It really depends on what your data is and how hard it would be to recreate. I keep a spare HD in a $40/year bank box & rotate it every 3 months. Most of the content is media - pictures, movies, music. Financial records would be annoying to recreate, but if there’s a big enough disaster to force me to go to the off-site backups, I think that’ll be the least of my troubles. Some data logging has a replica database on a VPS.

My upload speed is terrible, so I don’t want to put a media library in the cloud. If I did any important daily content creation, I’d probably keep that mirrored offsite with rsync, but I feel like the spirit of an offsite backup is offline and asynchronous, so things like ransomware don’t destroy your backups, too.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Moving servers and rack equipment⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
With only 15U, assuming devices don’t stick out the back, I’d move it face-up, so devices are more hanging from their ears than cantilevered. A full, 42/48U rack is extremely top-heavy and tipping during move is a serious risk, but 15U is fine. It’s still very dense, and OP should try to ratchet-strap it to hard points in the trailer.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Zuckerberg’s 2012 email dubbed “smoking gun” at Meta monopoly trial⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
There are still “favors” to be done.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla suffers worst quarter since 2022 as deliveries tumble⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
My thought exactly. OTOH, I feel like the anti-Musk ball only really got rolling in March, and this report can’t possibly cover March - it’s got to be Dec24-Feb25, so probably just a hint of things to come.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Selfhosting Sunday - What's up?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
It kind of amazes me that, in this day and age, email has turned out to be the lynchpin of security. Email as a 2FA endpoint. Email password reset systems. If email is compromised, everything else falls. They used to tell us not to put anything in email that you wouldn’t put on a postcard…how did this happen?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ISO Selfhost⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Wonder if there’s an opportunity there. Some way to archive one’s self-hosted, public-facing content, either as a static VM or, like archive.org, just the static content of URLs. I’m imagining a service one’s heirs could contract to crawl the site, save it all somewhere, and take care of permanent maintenance, renewing domains, etc. Ought to be cheap enough to maintain the content; presumably low traffic in most cases. Set up an endowment-type fee structure to pay for perpetual domain reg.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ISO Selfhost⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

At least my descendants will own all my comments and posts.

If you self-host, how much of that content disappear when your descendants shut down your instance?

I used to host a bunch of academic data, but when I stopped working, there was no institutional support. Turned off the server and it all went away (still Wayback Machine archives). I mean, I don’t really care whether my social media presence outlives me, the experience just made me aware that personal pet projects are pretty sensitive to that person.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Good to exercise at home instead of gym?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
For me, the effort of going somewhere to exercise is a big impediment, and I’m self-conscious exercising in front of people. The low barrier to start a daily workout wins, hands down.

Others find camaraderie just having other people involved in the same process, or really enjoy the variety of machines and options of a well-equipped facility.

You have to figure out which type of person you are. The most important thing is just to do something. (Unless you have specific, Jason Momoa-type goals in mind)
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Starting to self host⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
If you’re already running Pihole, I’d look at other things to do with the Pi.

www.adafruit.com has a bunch of sensors you can plug into the Pi, python libraries to make them work, and pretty good documentation/examples to get started. If you know a little python, it’s pretty easy to set up a simple web server just to poll those sensors and report their current values. Only slightly more complicated to set up cron jobs to log data to a database and a web page to make graphs.

It’s pretty straightforward to put www.home-assistant.io in a docker on a Pi. If you have your own local sensors, it will keep track of them, but it can also track data from external sources, like weather & air quality. There a bunch of inexpensive smart plugs ($20-ish) that will let you turn stuff on/off on a schedule or in response to sensor data.

IMO, Pi isn’t great for transport-intensive services like radarr or jellyfin, but, with a Usb HD/SSD might be an option.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨dear republicans, what's the point of alienating every single ally of the US?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Not just Russia. Any kind of meaningful restraint on multinational corps & billionaires requires international cooperation, or the entity just changes the region where it stores/performs/recognizes whatever thing.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK: Gas stoves cause cancer⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Since this article is specifically about pm 2.5, I’m going to chime in and say I have a gas range with no extractor, and the only time my pm2.5 sensor picks anything up is when frying generates smoke and oil aerosols. That’s more a function of cooking temperature than fuel, and my induction hotplate will generate just as much.

CO2? Definitely more with gas. Trace chemicals? Probably more with gas, but all the studies I’ve seen are just about running the cooktop, with no food, in a sealed room. Run the extraction hood or open a window when you cook - it’s not just heat source.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK: Gas stoves cause cancer⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
I’ve got one, just a 120V, home-use thing, but it gets far hotter, faster than on my stove. Tends to have a cool spot in the very center, maybe 3" diameter, unless you circulate the wok, and you can’t flame food by tossing it in the fire (which you can’t really do on a residential stove, either). It’s a decent approximation of a wok jet for home cooks.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sooo, where did the blatant Nazism suddenly come from?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Eugenics and the idea of a ‘chosen’ race is also powerful - you might be genetically destined for greatness, and the fact you have not achieved it is due to systematic oppression by a hidden conspiracy. People love that shit.

I think OP is asking why narratives around that theme keep coming back to the Nazi narrative, specifically. Why not another example of populist authoritarianism, unburdened by the systematic murder of millions of civilians? Why not invent a new narrative rooted in their own national history?

I think the answer to that is: creativity is hard. Once people have a successful first draft, they tend just to edit that draft rather than pitch it and come up with something completely new. People recognize any borrowed elements and return to the archetype. If you’ve every tried to write anything by committee or group project, you’ve probably seen people choose to edit a horrible first draft, retaining the same basic structure (however flawed) rather than start over. Committees where someone finds an existing, related text online, which then becomes an anchor for whatever the committee had planned to draft.

In short, Nazis serve as ‘best practices’ example for any new ethnic nationalist group by the simple fact of their existence.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨France runs fusion reactor for record 22 minutes⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
That’s my point: fusion is just another heat source for making steam, and with these experimental reactors, they can’t be sure how much or for how long they will generate heat. Probably not even sure what a good geometry for transferring energy from the reaction mass to the water. You can’t build a turbine for a system that’s only going to run 20 minutes every three years, and you can’t replace that turbine just because the next test will have ten times the output.

I mean, you could, but it would be stupid.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨France runs fusion reactor for record 22 minutes⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
If you’re not sure how the fire works, it seems kind of stupid to build a turbine for it.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What does the 3-2-1 rule look like for you?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
I’ve always understood 2 as 2 physically different media - i.e., copies in different folders or partitions of the same disk is not enough to protect against failure of that disk, but a copy on a different disk does. Ideally 2 physically different systems, so failure/fire in the primary system won’t corrupt/damage the backup.

Used to be that HDDs were expensive and using them as backup media would have been economically crazy, so most systems evolved backup media to be slower and cheaper. The main thing is that having /home/user/critical, /home/user/critical-backup, and /home/user/critical-backup2 satisfies 3 copies, but not 2 media.