Godort
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- Comment on I'm something of an expert myself 3 weeks ago:
Also remember to flip the switch on your power supply
- Comment on Simple NAS hardware for home use? 5 weeks ago:
It really depends on how much you value your time and how good you are with configuration
A QNAP or Synology will work and be pretty simple to configure out of the box. Installing custom software is possible, but can be tricky as they require you to enable sideloading. Both have supported app stores with available apps to do what you’re looking for (QNAP has apps for both torrents and Plex. Not sure about Synology)
However, you will get way more bang for your buck by building one from scratch using something like TrueNAS and the Arr stack, but this can require a fair bit of technical knowledge about configuring containers and securing network services(Especially if you want them to be accessible remotely)
Most people here do selfhosting as a hobby and as a result, the time spent trying new configurations is negligible as it wouldn’t be much of a hobby otherwise.
- Comment on Senators reintroduce the Kids Online Safety Act, mandating platforms like Meta to mitigate harms; Apple endorses KOSA 5 weeks ago:
As with most things of this nature, it’s presented in a way that makes it difficult to argue against, but the evil will come with how it is enforced.
Basically everyone agrees that harmful content should be harder for children to access, and reigning in social media’s exploitation of psychology is laudable.
Right now, there isn’t a good way to control access without handing a ton of personal information to a 3rd party agency with questionable oversight. When you want to access pron in meatspace, you share your name and age with the store clerk, who will promptly forget it. The system doesn’t translate to a digital medium with permanent records.
- Comment on Hideo Kojima proposes a game where the protagonist forgets abilities if players take too long a break 5 weeks ago:
This feels like a Peter Molydeux tweet
- Comment on In a few years, new smartphones will be as big and heavy as the first cell phones. 5 weeks ago:
People use their phones primarily as media consumption devices. That means bigger screens are desirable to the public at large.
We were well on our way to miniaturization until your phone also became a pocket computer
- Comment on OS-busting bug so bad that Microsoft blocks Windows Insider release 1 month ago:
With how much they’re trying to integrate copilot, I imagine they tried to remove a bunch of settings to make them accessible through copilot only
- Comment on Like us, I wonder if other animals are kept awake by embarrassing memories 1 month ago:
Squirrels are known for storing large amounts of nuts all over the place, hense the term “squirreling away” but they often forget about stores, leading to new trees sprouting
- Comment on Just Consider it. 1 month ago:
I have considered it. I agree to your proposal.
- Comment on World of Goo 2 is out now on Steam and a great pick for puzzle game fans 1 month ago:
I just finished world 2 last night. So far this game does all the things a sequel is supposed to. It feels like more of the first game, but with new content added.
- Comment on I wonder what the specs are on the technology that disables shopping cart wheels 1 month ago:
Im not sure exactly how the system works, but if I were designing one, there would be 3 approaches I can think of.
The first is to equip the lock with a GPS system and dictate that it locks if it’s not within range of a particular location. This one would be the most expensive to implement, but should come with minimal opportunity for messing with it.
Next down the list is each lock is equipped with a radio to connect to a wifi or sub-GHz broadcaster, and as soon as it misses enough heartbeats to a central control point, it locks the wheels. This could be disrupted by jamming the signal, but jammers of this type are highly illegal, and easily trackable.
Last is the cheapest option, which is to include an RFID module tied to the lock and a system to broadcast a signal at the perimeter. If a cart comes within range for a long enough period then the RFID tag is activated and the wheels lock.
I suspect it’s probably a sub-GHz radio situation, with the broadcast power tuned to be within a few 100 meters of the store. If you had some kind of SDR you could probably pinpoint the signal they use and repeat it, letting you wheel a cart outside the zone, but as soon as you stop the signal the wheels will lock.
- Comment on What do office workers actually do? 1 month ago:
I work in an office as a network administrator. Largely my day to day is a meeting every morning to go over what everyone is doing for the day, then looking through and responding to all the alerts that came up from all the servers I manage(things like failing backups, unexpected reboots, stopped services, strange login behavior, etc)
Then, if I still have time in the day, I put time towards some of the long term projects I have which largely consists of finding things that can be automated and scripting up solutions to that
- Comment on Mid game review: Brütal Legend (2009) PS3 2 months ago:
I pre-ordered this game because I loved Psychonauts and this game was marketed as a sort of heavy metal themed Zelda game.
I then learned about 2 hours in that its also an RTS, which is a genre I never got along with and set it down never to be played again. Thankfully, when you’re a patient gamer, you can’t be lied to by advertising.
- Comment on I'm making a hedge maze in Inzoi - Check my work? 2 months ago:
There was a short story I read a while back that also featured that plot point, but I don’t remember what it was called.
Only that I found it after reading into inspirations for The Laundry Files by Charles Stross.
- Comment on Australian owner of Toronto café chain fighting Ottawa to save $8K of Vegemite 2 months ago:
This sucks, but I can understand both sides here.
Canada has strangely high standards when it comes to food regulations. Especially in restaurants. And lowering those could result in an influx of low quality processed foods entering the market.
On the other hand, the reason it’s failing to meet the standard is that it has added vitamin B which feels a bit absurd since those additions are allowed in other products here.
I hope this gets resolved in a way that lets this dude keep selling Vegemite at his shop.
- Comment on How do I stop having expectations at the workplace? 2 months ago:
on my last thread somebody wrote that unspoken expectations are premeditated resentments
How do I stop having expectations?
This is almost certainly not what they meant. You can’t expect someone to read your mind and solve problems you might have.
If management is not meeting your expectations, then the answer is to have a conversation with them about it, not to remove them altogether.
- Comment on Why Does Dr. Wily Keep Getting Away? Is the Legal System in 20XX a Joke? 2 months ago:
That whole album is full of bangers.
From the somber Father of Death, to the jazzy sounds of The Hounds, to the very 80s rock of Breaking out and Light up the Night. Every track on that album is good.
It’s far more polished than the noisy, almost punk vibe the first album has.
- Comment on Why Does Dr. Wily Keep Getting Away? Is the Legal System in 20XX a Joke? 2 months ago:
Ah, The 4th directive.
- Comment on Other than Canada and Australia, which countries are best alternatives to traveling to the USA? 2 months ago:
It depends what you want to see from the US. The US is massive and there is a huge difference in visiting NYC vs visiting Omaha.
It also depends where you are. For example if you’re in the EU then visiting places like Paris or Amsterdam are probably out as they are accessible as a day trip.
- Comment on 'An engineering masterpiece' — reviewer raves about fastest large capacity SSD ever built, but it won't be cheap 2 months ago:
Similar enterprise-grade SSDs go for around $16K
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Hollow Knight fans were, of course, let down with the lack of a Silksong appearance again, but I hope they expect that by now.
I’m already wearing my clown makeup, you don’t have to be so hurtful.
- Comment on Windows 11 is closing a loophole that let you skip making a Microsoft account 2 months ago:
I feel like this was already the case
- Comment on 3's grip looks the most comfy 2 months ago:
This is the correct answer
- Comment on I am untethered and my rage knows no bounds! 2 months ago:
I miss my wife, Tails. I miss her a lot.
- Comment on They are lying to us 2 months ago:
Is the thing labeled “What the Fuck” a mercury rectifier?
- Comment on The ESP32 "backdoor" that wasn't | Dark Mentor LLC 3 months ago:
I mean, this doesn’t really change anything from a practical perspective. It just highlights that the verbage in the press release was alarmist.
It’s still a security concern that most users will be unaware of.
- Comment on How do you think smartphone manufacturers will comply with EU's replaceable battery regulation? 3 months ago:
Things get a little nebulous when you’re talking about microcode running on a proprietary IC.
- Comment on Poor guy 3 months ago:
No, you don’t understand. He’s rich and white, so he shouldn’t be subject to those pesky regulations.
That’s how it works in the US, so obviously that’s how it should work in South Africa too.
- Comment on Micron just demoed the world's fastest SSD with PCIe 6.x tech, a sequential read speed of 27GB/s, and yes, it's just a prototype for now 3 months ago:
When do we start needing active coolers for our drives?
- Comment on Micron just demoed the world's fastest SSD with PCIe 6.x tech, a sequential read speed of 27GB/s, and yes, it's just a prototype for now 3 months ago:
You can get spinning rust all the way up to 32 TB in a single 3.5" disk and 8 TB in an NVMe drive. The tech is out there, but it takes time for the price of stuff like that to come down when there isnt much demand for it.
- Comment on Current World situation has me like 3 months ago:
Your magic number is “64517”