Fedegenerate
@Fedegenerate@lemmynsfw.com
- Comment on Can I offer you a nice egg in this trying time? 🥚 17 hours ago:
Why would there be a deviled egg, just left there on the windowsill for 12hrs, if not for you to eat it.
- Comment on People who say 'the rich get richer, the lazy live for free, and the middle class pays for it all' don't realize how expensive it is to be rich and how close middle class is to being below the poverty line. 1 week ago:
The difference between a million and a billion is about a billion. Millionaires are closer to zero than they are the ultra rich.
- Comment on If Valve creates an "entry point" for living room PCs, the console-beating Steam Machines will follow, argues Baldur's Gate 3's publishing director 1 week ago:
I’m waiting for the price then checking the specs of the nearest comparable mini pc. I’ll lean valve over beelink/minisforim and then over everyone else. But I think that’s the closest comparison.
- Comment on People are playing fewer games and new releases are "struggling", say Ubisoft UK, warning of falling revenues 1 week ago:
No earn, only spend.
- Comment on the self-hosting rabbit hole is a bottomless pit, isn't it? 2 weeks ago:
WAF has consistently held me down to earth. “What will that enable you to acheive that you can’t do already?” With a couple mini pcs and a rpi I’m good. I’d love shiny things, but beyond LLMs there’s not much it would enable me to achieve that I can’t already.
That, and other hobbies. I don’t want to be an amateur system admin during the summer. So all winter long while I’m tinkering I’m adding up how much it adds to my maintenance schedule.
- Comment on Using Fail2ban to protect exposed services 2 weeks ago:
Honestly, I wouldn’t.
I only run it this way because a VPS had 0 WAF, and I’m terrified of opening ports. VPS is the well trodden ground, there’s tonnes of guides. Mines a hack job borne of necessity, it works though, and I am proud of what I cobbled together.
It was my first time solving my own problems. I had my meager skill set, a basic idea of what I wanted, some vague notion of how I was going to achieve it, and a thick forehead to smash against the problem till it gave way for me.
- Comment on Using Fail2ban to protect exposed services 2 weeks ago:
I use tailscale for my non-tech family.
I run a rPi with tailscale, pihole and nginx on it in their house. They connect to the their WiFi, get adblocking for free. They go to “homarr.sever” pihole captures this sends it to nginx and gets reverse proxies to a homarr LXC on my server. From their they can click links to the services which are at on “service/.######.xyz”. Again pihole captures the request, sends it to nginx which reverse proxies it over tailscale to the appropriate LXC.
- Comment on Is self-hosting becoming too gatekept by power users? 2 weeks ago:
There should be both. Minimal config + gui options for people just getting into the hobby or just want the thing. And a more open option for people who hit the limits of the first or sang to do interesting shit.
I go back and forth on my server. During summer I wish it was all Docker YAMLs so I can press “update” in Dockge and I can enjoy the weather.
But I also do non-typical things. Users have a rPi in their house that captures requests and routes them through Tailscale to my server for remote access without a VPS or opening ports.
I’m not too technical so I often struggle setting things up, and documentation can be less than helpful at times, sometimes I really wished there was a gui, but it’s doable.
- Comment on Recommend that new users join geographically local instances 4 weeks ago:
I’m in the UK therefore: no.
- Comment on Interesting effect when your BF is sucking on a peppermint 4 weeks ago:
Can’t say that I recommend the practice, particularly if she’s sensitive to changes. The lady I tried with had a cast iron microfauna though, never had a UTI in her life.
- Comment on Interesting effect when your BF is sucking on a peppermint 4 weeks ago:
You gotta Fisherman’s Friend a gal once in awhile.
- Comment on Fictional 4 weeks ago:
I prefer the Eldrich explaination. We are so much larger and more powerful, and smarrer, and more handsomer than ants, why would we care?
Perhaps there are are gods with pet species, but we are not one of them, or if we are we have a sadistic owner, or we just don’t understand what’s going on because we are ants.
All moot, I’m not religious, but it’s the only explanation that makes sense to me.
- Comment on We must act now: without a written constitution, Reform UK will have carte blanche to toxify our nation 5 weeks ago:
Parliament is soverign. No previous parliament can bind a future parliament. The right won’t be limited by words on a page.
- Comment on Just to make this clear 5 weeks ago:
You’re in a shitpost comm.
The joke is that men don’t know what chubby is. My joke is that men don’t know what women without makeup look like.
- Comment on jotty·page - Checklists & Notes made it easy 5 weeks ago:
Omw, a replacement for Vikunja and Joplin? Sign me up!
- Comment on Just to make this clear 5 weeks ago:
When I say I like girls without make up, I mean the left too.
- Comment on How to start off small with the intent to expand 5 weeks ago:
Start with Pi-Hole. Use docker and Portainer on any e-waste you have. There’s a thousand guides, it’s easy (comparatively), immediately useful and you’ll learn right quick about redundancy when you break it. Oh you’ll learn so much when you break your only instance of Pi-Hole.
You’ll want to use Podman, Dockge, LXCs, what have you eventually. But Docker/Portainer are the standards. Everyone that can use Podman/Dockge can use Docker/Portainer, not the other way around. You’ll get more help doing standard things on standard platforms.
You learn, what Docker is, how it works, what a compose file is, how they work, what maintenance is like. Then branch from there, after Pi-Hole what’s the most impactful, media? Jellyfin, plex & *arrs what’s your poison? All available though docker. Keep adding services until you cant stand the upkeep, you expand beyond your hardware, or you know you have all you want.
Docker is least effort to learn to do this stuff, you may want to out grow it eventually, but I don’t think you’ll ever not use docker/podman for something. Even when you have everything set up as a NixOS box, there’s likely gonna be a docker/podman host running something, best to learn it now.
Then tinker with what you have. Docker is good but has limitations, what is Proxmox, what’s an LXC? In summer I wish everything was on Docker so updates are painless (comparatively). In winter I’m glad I’m in proxmox and can tinker away.
My entire homelab used to live on a rPi4 running Debian, and docker doing almost everything on your list. My current pair of n100 minis can do everything on your list. I think (I’ve not tried game servers).
It doesn’t take much
- Comment on Which game would you erase from your memory, in order to experience it fresh once again? 5 weeks ago:
What I love most about the game is the community’s refusal to spoil it for others. Spoilers exist, but you really have to look for them.
Honestly, it’s a testament to how good the game is that we all collectively, agreed to say nothing about it beyond “It’s incredible, I wish I could play it for the first time again. Go play it”. I wasn’t told to not spoil it, I just won’t.
Anyways, Outer Wilds is mine. There’s lots of games in this list that I love: MGS, KOTOR, FO:NV, I would rate all of them above Outer Wilds in a “my favourite game” list.
But, Outer Wilds really gains something from the first experience above and beyond what those others do, and it’s worth preserving.
- Comment on Dog attacks are still rising - even after the XL bully ban 1 month ago:
The fact that we’re even talking about bully XLs is proof the last dog ban didn’t work. Don’t know how people were fooled into believing this one would.
- Comment on Dog attacks are still rising - even after the XL bully ban 1 month ago:
Sees evidence it doesn’t work, *let’s do it more".
They’ll just buy rottweilers, or create a new breed. Ban those, they’ll create more new breeds. Ban all dogs so there’s no “loopholes” they’ll raise goats or something.
Breed bans don’t work, you have evidence it doesn’t work (this isn’t the only breed ban, it didn’t work in the past either). It’s weird to assert they do.
- Comment on Big Brother just got an upgrade. Starting December, Amazon’s Ring cameras will scan and recognize faces. Don’t want to be in their database? Too bad — walk past a Ring and your face can be stored... 1 month ago:
Oh I do love a bit of ablelism. I’m clearly mentally ill.
I have shown you that you can’t tell by looking at the lock.
I have suggested other locks than electric. Yale, keypad.
I do not want to replace my lock, I want to add another lock.
1 abhorrent statement and 3 incorrect statements. Can you admit they’re incorrect?
Now answer the question, which of the above locks were locked?
- Comment on Big Brother just got an upgrade. Starting December, Amazon’s Ring cameras will scan and recognize faces. Don’t want to be in their database? Too bad — walk past a Ring and your face can be stored... 1 month ago:
Okay, so that last picture - that knob has 2 positions for locked vs unlocked, which whomever owns the lock presumably would know upon visual inspection. Like how every lock like that works. Are you human?
Incorrect, thats my lock it spins more than 360 degrees. I’ll prove it
I swapped its state. Is the first picture locked, or the second? Your arrogance is astonishing.
The rest of that… I go back to my previous point regarding fires and needing a key to exit.
What’s my current SHTF plan and why do you believe it’s insufficient?
Changing a mechanical lock is simple and I’d never keep a lock like that on my door, along with most normal and sane people who can critically think. Housing codes were written in blood.
What’s my current SHTF plan, and why do you believe its insufficient
That’s nice, if I changed it to the above lock, would the first picture be locked? Or the second? Please answer you’ve tre to evade the question a number of times now. I’ve given you the lock you want, I’ve shown you locked and unlocked states.
Second question you’ve ignored: what, in you’re understanding, is the problem I am trying to solve? How do seeing intruders faces solve it?
You can’t keep ignoring me to assert your position, that’s not a conversation. A conversation is back and forth, you didn’t lie the lock, I showed one you like. You didn’t like only having one state, I’ve shown you both. I tell you you’re not listening to the problem I want to solve, you continue to solve a different problem.
Quit it.
- Comment on Big Brother just got an upgrade. Starting December, Amazon’s Ring cameras will scan and recognize faces. Don’t want to be in their database? Too bad — walk past a Ring and your face can be stored... 1 month ago:
The interior of your door cannot be a key lock like that due to code.
I am one of the dozens of people that do not live in your city, as such suffer different laws. Also my house is older than any such laws. I implore you to think that perhaps I know my locks better than you. So again, I’ll ask the question you avoided: is that lock open or closed? You didn’t answer the question.
Your second paragraph is just telling me things I’ve been telling you. Yes, if someone want in they’re coming in, the electronic lock isn’t for that, I’ve repeated that almost every comment. So I’ll ask you a second question: what do you believe the second lock is for? I don’t think you know despite me repeating that and infinitum too.
A camera inside the house isn’t visible and as such can’t act as a deterrent, it doesn’t even solve the problem you posted. Again, imagine for a minute, that I know the layout of my house better than you.
- Comment on Big Brother just got an upgrade. Starting December, Amazon’s Ring cameras will scan and recognize faces. Don’t want to be in their database? Too bad — walk past a Ring and your face can be stored... 1 month ago:
Yup, cameras, should I set them up, will store locally. I don’t think I want a camera on the lock though.
That article says that I, as a random bypasser, suffer all the disadvantages of Ring but without any of the benefits of owning one. I’m still not getting a ring though.
- Comment on Big Brother just got an upgrade. Starting December, Amazon’s Ring cameras will scan and recognize faces. Don’t want to be in their database? Too bad — walk past a Ring and your face can be stored... 1 month ago:
All my locks are bypassable by breaking my window. All locks are pickable, all electronic locks are hackable.
My locks don’t look any different between “locked” and “unlocked” except by carefully looking down the door jam. It’s just a keyhole in a door. A camera pointed at the door doesn’t solve the problem I am trying to solve.
Thank you for your input though.
- Comment on Big Brother just got an upgrade. Starting December, Amazon’s Ring cameras will scan and recognize faces. Don’t want to be in their database? Too bad — walk past a Ring and your face can be stored... 1 month ago:
I know, which is why it’s not going to be my primary lock.
For someone to bypass my locks, instead of breaking a window, a bunch of things have to come about and they’re all “and” statements.
First, I would have to forget to lock the door, I don’t typically forget, I just get anxiety about it and it can ruin a nice day. With the electric lock I would be content someone can’t just opportunisticly walk in.
And someone would have to want to get in my house enough to put effort into it. They’re breaking a window at this point regardless of the locks. Or they’re testing a neighbour’s door, with only one lock.
And they would have to identify that only the electric lock is active.
And they would have to have the tools/skills to break an electric lock. Along with the skills/tools to break a traditional
If any of those statements is false, I would be no worse off, or better off, with an electric lock. If they want in, they’re coming through a window.
I did think about a Yale as an auxiliary lock, but I’ve run up against it’s advantages (read: locking myself out) more than once. Also, if they can bypass the main lock, they can bypass a Yale, I figure, as it’s a similar skillset.
- Comment on Big Brother just got an upgrade. Starting December, Amazon’s Ring cameras will scan and recognize faces. Don’t want to be in their database? Too bad — walk past a Ring and your face can be stored... 1 month ago:
I was looking to install an electronic lock as a redundancy for the tumbler lock to decrease “have I locked the fucking door” anxiety.
The problem could be solved with Yale lock. I’d just be swapping the disadvantages of a Yale for the disadvantages of an Electric lock.
But cool automations are cool, and who doesn’t love a little over engineering?
- Comment on Green Party Set To Debate Policy Of Abolishing Landlords 1 month ago:
Greens going from strength to strength. Re meda isn’t going to like it.
- Comment on Record breaker Starmer is the 'most unpopular PM since polling began' 1 month ago:
I didn’t say he was a political figure. I listed but one example of him being a cockwomble, one you agree with.
There are more, the “what’s wrong with Clarkson” question was answered.
- Comment on Record breaker Starmer is the 'most unpopular PM since polling began' 1 month ago:
Climate change denial for a start? Of course he walked it back after started to affect him personally, typical conservative really.
To ask “What’s wrong with Clarkson?” you’d have to know nothing about him.
