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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK that United has significantly escalated their war against basic economy passengers⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I used to work in a job that involved handling radioactive materials. We had dosimeter badges to track long term exposure to radiation. One pass through the full body scanner at a TSA checkpoint would make the dosimeter badge come back from the lab at greater than monthly allowable exposure. I’ll take the grope.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do cell phones have a data limit but home internet doesn't?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I have the opposite. Unlimited phone data, but it throttles above some high number that I’ve never hit. Capped home internet from crapcast, 1.3 TB, I haven’t hit it but I’ve come within a couple gigabytes.

  They offer unlimited data if I use their modem/router for an extra $10/mo. Of course their modem comes with the wonderful feature of a public hotspot for any other Comcast customers in the area. I’ve been thinking about getting their modem, putting it in a metal box and just using pass through with my opnsense box.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK that United has significantly escalated their war against basic economy passengers⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  For US carriers off the top of my head, Spirit and frontier are all airbus fleets. Allegiant has one 737 in their fleet I think and is otherwise Airbus. JetBlue and Breeze have no Boeing products. All the big airlines have lots of Boeing products.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Instance admins, how much does it cost you to run your instance? How much does that represent per active user?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  For my single user instance, I can be charitable and say that it’s running on hardware that I already had that is running regardless on spare otherwise unused resources with a already registered domain so the only cost is time spent setting it up. Or I could apply all the costs from the server Lemmy, then it would be about $1200 initially plus ~$10/mo per user.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Civilization 7 dev on Ages system and series shakeup: "It's going to be the hardest thing for fans to get adjusted to"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, cracked Denuvo games actually run better because you aren’t running a virus anti piracy software in the background. It runs at the kernel level and Crowdstrike is a pretty good case study on why that’s bad.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Any non-tech-background self-hosters?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My one and only reason is that I’m a turbo-nerd. No professional or even educational tech background at all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Forgot to pay my domain for a year and now I have to spend £2200 ($3000) if I want to get it back⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I had a squatter get mylastname.com after my dad died. After a while I guess they noticed that I registered mylastname.net and orffered to sell me mylastname.com I didn’t respond and they let it expire. I should probably register it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ubiquiti U7 Pro Max WiFi 7 Access Point Teardown: To fan or not to fan⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Good luck if you don’t have a dream machine and you aren’t using 192.168.0.0/16. If the APs don’t find a dream machine they won’t get an IP from DHCP for some godforsaken reason and revert to 192.168.1.20 and won’t do anything until you configure them with ssh. Except you have to ssh on a lan that doesn’t exist which is a huge pita. This is why I have omada APs now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft is reportedly auto-installing the HP Smart app on Windows 10 and 11 PCs⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Got an HPE Aruba switch, it’s the only HP thing I’ve ever had that I like. Getting new firmware from HP was a pita though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Where did the abbreviation "w/" for "with" come from?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Just wait until you encounter morse code abbreviations, some of which are still used in some industries. Like the wonderful X abbreviations, such as:

  Wx - weather

  Mx - maintainence

  Tx/Rx - transmit/receive

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Recommended Domain & DDNS Providers?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Cloudflare if you want one of the handful of TLDs they support, namecheap otherwise. For namecheap I still point the nameservers at Cloudflare so they can manage the site. For DDNS I use DDclient, it works, that’s about all I can or should say about a DDNS client.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How has Instagram largely avoided being associated with Facebook/Meta?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Pi-hole is software that runs typically but not necessarily on a raspberry pi. It maintains a list of known advertising and tracking servers and blocks them by rerouting at the DNS level. For example an embed in a page tells your computer to contact tracking.facebook.com pihole tells your computer that that website is at 0.0.0.0 instead of it’s real IP address. Nifty thing is that you can redirect all of your DNS queries at the router so even devices that can’t normally run ad blockers can take advantage of it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The other day I heard a friend talking about how "the moon's gravity affects our internal organs." This sounds like bull, but is it? And if so, how would I correct their misinformation?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  people sleeping or feeling worse around that time.

  Well there’s a great big bastard of a nightlight out so I guess that makes sense.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is the need for so many instances?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  For what it’s worth, once you get to the single user level, the cost is pretty much nil assuming you have the hardware and domain already

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Notes from a Mastodon migration⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  This is a big part on why I think self hosting is the way to go with federated platforms. At least I probably shouldn’t ever have an issue with the admins/moderators at lemmy.teuto.icu. Being able to just point the domain name somewhere else should make migrating as simple as spinning up a new container too.