tomkatt
@tomkatt@lemmy.world
- Comment on Reducing power consumption of a desktop PC 6 days ago:
Neat write up.
Power consumption is a big reason I ditched my full size server for an AMD mini-PC. Way more efficient with a tdp of 25w, and idles pretty low (sub-10w).
- Comment on DIY YouTuber builds cheap VR headset and makes it open-source 2 weeks ago:
Basic headset would be good for sim racing.
- Comment on Looking for recommendation to upgrade my Raspberry Pi-based home server 2 weeks ago:
I use an AND mini-PC with Ryzen 5700u, 32GB RAM, connected with my home NAS. Similar software stack, the server is hosted via Proxmox, no issues.
- Comment on Logitech will brick its $100 Pop smart home buttons on October 15 - Ars Technica 2 weeks ago:
I have a Zigbee antenna. Will have to double check. I’m pretty sure the lights work with the antenna, but scenes are only possible if you’ve integrated them (generally via hue through something like Homekit).
- Comment on Logitech will brick its $100 Pop smart home buttons on October 15 - Ars Technica 2 weeks ago:
This is why it’s a great idea to refuse to install everything that’s possible, including smart switches, cameras, lights etc. that rely on the good will of some company to keep running.
Even then you can get fucked over. I’ve used Hue lights for years, and back when I bought them, you didn’t need an account to use them, just an app and network connection. Years later, they forced an online login for the app, requiring you to be online to interface with the bulbs. You can kind of work around it with Home Assistant, but you still need the account now to add the bulbs, and I don’t think scenes work without an account either now.
- Comment on it's true! 2 weeks ago:
Benefits of living in bumfuck. Though to be real, I’d never buy or build in a HOA. It’s a choice.
- Comment on it's true! 2 weeks ago:
It essentially all takes care of itself, it’s a whole ecosystem. There’s no standing water for mosquitos thanks to the foliage. There’s also lizards, the occasional frog, birds. The deer eat some of the taller stuff. Even with the deer, there’s at least one mountain lion in the area I’ve seen, which I presume helps keep the population reasonable. I dunno, it doesn’t really need any tending, other than to clear a path where I need.
Aside from that, my neighbor has pine trees, and occasionally pine cones take root and need their root- balls shoveled out. That’s the only big maintenance because I don’t want the big trees on my property. I wouldn’t mind, but for two things:
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They always seem to root down near the road on my driveway path or walk-down.
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I have solar panels and can’t have them growing up on the southeast side side of the house, and that’s where they tend to fall.
Besides that, I have to knock down the occasional wasp nest (paper wasps) on the house, but if they nest away from the house I leave them alone. It’s all minimal maintenance. If you let nature do its thing it tends to find a balance. Humans are the ones usually screwing it up.
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- Comment on it's true! 2 weeks ago:
I know this is a meme, but shit like this is why I allow wild growth on my property. First year I owned my home the ground got muddy as hell from the new build since the ground was all dug up and tilled.
From the second year on I’ve only mowed a path for my driveway and the front walkway and the rest grows wild. Sweetgrass and other native plants anywhere from like 1 to 3 feet tall and the area is high desert (Colorado) so the “weeds” suck up any moisture they can get, no flood, no mud. It’s great.
- Comment on I'm tired of teen superheroes 3 weeks ago:
Not sure about the TV show but I’m pretty sure the comic spans over 100 years.
- Comment on I'm tired of teen superheroes 3 weeks ago:
I posted this on your other thread in c/rant, but will add it again here in case others might be interested in some of the books:
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Consider more mature / adult oriented series, and literature. Marvel and DC will always appeal to the status quo.
Try Image comics. Spawn started adult and things go on from there. Tons of shit goes down including the end and rebirth of the world. Savage Dragon has run on so long that characters who weren’t even born when the series started are grown adults with kids, and the main character is literally dead (not comic book dead, just dead and gone).
In books there’s stuff like Soon I Will Be Invincible by Austin Grossman, Murs Lafferty’s Playing For Keeps, Paul Tobin’s Prepare to Die! (a somewhat vulgar example at times but also hilarious, the hero’s power is to take a year off someone’s life by punching them. Most villains just surrender when he shows up, and rarely want to fight him twice).
Also good is Marion G. Harmon’s Wearing the Cape series, wherein time passes, crazy shit goes down, heroes get hurt, die, retire, etc. Starts with the main character at 17 I think, but as of the current book she’s well into her 20s and married. This one is a mix of junior and adult capes, where superheroes are state and government sponsored as a legal requirement.
- Comment on I'm tired of teen superheroes! 3 weeks ago:
Consider more mature / adult oriented series, and literature. Marvel and DC will always appeal to the status quo.
Try Image comics. Spawn started adult and things go on from there. Tons of shit goes down including the end and rebirth of the world. Savage Dragon has run on so long that characters who weren’t even born when the series started are grown adults with kids, and the main character is literally dead (not comic book dead, just dead and gone).
In books there’s stuff like Soon I Will Be Invincible, Murs Lafferty’s Playing For Keeps, Paul Tobin’s Prepare to Die (a somewhat vulgar example at times but also hilarious, the hero’s power is to take a year off someone’s life by punching them).
Also good is Marion G. Harmon’s Wearing the Cape series, wherein time passes, crazy shit goes down, heroes get hurt, die, retire, etc. Starts with the main character at 17 I think, but as of the current book she’s well into her 20s and married. This one is a mix of junior and adult capes, where superheroes are state and government sponsored as a legal requirement.
- Comment on Unified Theory of American Reality 3 weeks ago:
After a certain tipping point, stupidity en masse becomes indistinguishable from malice. The result is more important than the intent.
- Comment on We don't use the word 'fascist' because we wish harm on anybody. We use it because words mean things. 3 weeks ago:
Thanks, for some reason when I was looking at post earlier it was just the screenshot, no link. Maybe it didn’t load properly, happened to me sometimes with Lemmy.
- Comment on We don't use the word 'fascist' because we wish harm on anybody. We use it because words mean things. 3 weeks ago:
Got a link? I don’t know who this is but my curiosity is piqued.
- Comment on I'm gonna die on this hill or die trying 3 weeks ago:
En Dash (single dash) usage is not standardized for literature to my knowledge, and is primarily used as a divider for ranges, in lieu of the word “through.” E.g. The year 1998-2006 (or 1998 - 2006) can be used in lieu of “The year 1998 through 2006” in text. It’s also used to denote negative numbers and compound words, of course. It can also be used to denote relationships, E.g. - The Johnson-Winters wedding party, or the Osea-Belkan War.
Informally I’ve read that a a single dash can be read as a half-beat, shorter than a comma, but I don’t think it’s actually defined in style guides for writing.
Fun fact: En Dashes and hyphens are not the same thing, though often used interchangeably, while a double-hyphen is often considered an exact equivalent to the em dash.
- Comment on I'm gonna die on this hill or die trying 3 weeks ago:
My bad, I was probably overly aggressive there anyway. I’m a nerd and the idea of em dash as emoji horrified me.
- Comment on I'm gonna die on this hill or die trying 3 weeks ago:
An em dash is an emoji.
The fuck it is. Em-dashes have existed in literature and text since long before the existence of computers and are a traditional form of textual form pause length:
- comma (,) - one beat
- em dash (–) - two beats
- semicolon (;) - three beats
- period (.) - four beats
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
Rsync is great. I’ve been using it to back up my book library from my local Calibre collection to my NAS for years, it’s absurdly simple and convenient. Plus, -ruv lets me ignore unchanged files and backup recursively, and if I clean up locally and need that replicated, just need to add —delete.
- Comment on Apple has REMOVED the ICEBlock app from the App Store due to “objectionable content.” 3 weeks ago:
Fuckers.
- Comment on U.S. solar will pass wind in 2025 and leave coal in the dust soon after 3 weeks ago:
Phrasing.
- Comment on Steam Autumn Sale 2025 Has Begun 4 weeks ago:
We just split duties there, and tbh our third run of the game was mostly custom characters just because the combat is so fun. For that run we sent Yrliet to the inquisition, spaced Idira, told Agents she wasn’t needed, and pointed Cassia off the ship at the first sign of trouble. Was actually a hilarious run, and ended up siding with <spoiler guy> at the end for the first time, who was as crazy as I thought but not actual evil and still emperor aligned.
We’ve also played a ton of Solasta, and looking forward to Solasta 2, but absolutely despised BG3. We want to go in adventures, not play a soft-core fuckin’ simulator.
- Comment on YSK that only by being yourself will you find people who like the real you. No one can beat you at being you, but you’ll only ever be second best at pretending to be someone else. 4 weeks ago:
In that case check out Tokyo Jihen too. Shiina Ringo’s great, but I particularly like her rock music with Jihen.
If you have any recommendations let me know. Always on the lookout for good music.
- Comment on Steam Autumn Sale 2025 Has Begun 4 weeks ago:
Rogue Trader is excellent. Wife and I have put almost 300 hours into that one with co-op.
- Comment on Steam Autumn Sale 2025 Has Begun 4 weeks ago:
I’m finding this sale underwhelming, and my backlog is already huge. Might skip it this time.
- Comment on YSK that only by being yourself will you find people who like the real you. No one can beat you at being you, but you’ll only ever be second best at pretending to be someone else. 4 weeks ago:
I listen to Japanese rock in my car on the way home. So is the real me an eccentric, or someone who’s accommodating of others?
No clue, but Tricot and Man With A Misson are perfectly good rock out tunes.
- Comment on Amazon is making it impossible to remove the DRM from Kindle Books 4 weeks ago:
It’s not about the devices. Kobo books are very easy to remove DRM from, and don’t require owning a physical Kobo device or their app to do so. All it requires is two Calibre plugins. Also, I might be wrong, but it seems Kobo has a lot more DRM free books in general, compared to Amazon.
Kindle has always required either the Kindle app or an actual physical Kindle to de-DRM.
- Comment on Amazon is making it impossible to remove the DRM from Kindle Books 4 weeks ago:
Might be too late. Winterbreak hasn’t worked since 5.18.1 and the latest firmware is 5.18.5. If you’ve been updating your firmware normally, jailbreak has been unviable since around April or May.
- Comment on Amazon is making it impossible to remove the DRM from Kindle Books 4 weeks ago:
To be fair, if you OCR the pages via camera, you haven’t actually circumvented DRM. That means it’s a completely legal backup, as the DRM on the original file was untouched and unaltered. This definitely does fall under fair use.
- Comment on Amazon is making it impossible to remove the DRM from Kindle Books 4 weeks ago:
Not entirely true. E-ink is trademarked by the e-ink company, sole manufacturer of e-ink displays.
- Comment on Amazon is making it impossible to remove the DRM from Kindle Books 4 weeks ago:
Amazon is full of shit. EPUBs only work by using send-to-Kindle which converts it to a file that works (either AZW3 or KFX. Despite the misinformation, EPUBs do not work on Kindle, except if you jailbreak, as you can then use KOReader to read them natively.
That last point is salient, as it means the hardware supports the format just fine. Amazon intentionally does not directly support EPUBs in their software.