CaptainPedantic

@CaptainPedantic@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨BentoPDF v1.16.0⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I thought it was neat and installed it, but I had no specific use cases.

  It came in handy when I was trying to combine a bunch of PDFs a few weeks later. Then I used it again to remove some pages from another PDF. I like having it around

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cosmic Christmas Tree⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  NGC 2264 in the constellation Monoceros (next to Orion) for the curious.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Word.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I got so frustrated trying to use Word to write a document at work that I just gave up and wrote the whole damn thing in LaTeX.

  Sucks to be the guy who has to edit it when I’m gone.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Swimming in gold⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My wild guess is that he’s sitting at a desk with a whole bunch of RAM which is super expensive.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sans serif fonts are woke because they're easier for dyslexics to read⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Lower "L"s and upper "i"s are basically identical in Calibri. It’s a sans serif font that’s hard to read for everyone. Calibri is an shit font and never should have been used on any government documents.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨**How** should I properly document my homelab?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve got a bunch of notes in Trilium.

  I have a note for each service with the docker compose file, notes on backups, any weirdness with the setup, and when I update each service.

  I also have a note for the initial setup of my server (mostly setting up docker, setting up mergerfs and snapraid).

  Other than that, I have one note for each device for my setup. (Wifi AP, OPNsense router, switch, etc) That I populate with random crap I might need to know later.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Parking police⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve never seen an ad on my car’s screen. My brother’s car from 2013 has a backup camera, and that car literally cannot communicate to any server that could serve ads.

  If car companies wanted to put ads on screens, they wouldn’t need an excuse to put in a screen, they’d just do it. But they wouldn’t do that, because ads are a safety hazard and they’d have their pants sued off. I can’t even connect a new Bluetooth device to my car (pressing 1 button) unless the parking brake is applied. Stellantis is in hot water for their braindead attempt at “ads” in their cars, and that’s just a pop-up that shows up when the car is stopped.

  Not even Google maps advertises to me when I use Android Auto, and ads are Google’s thing

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Moisturize me⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  “Think it’ll rain?”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ringtone⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Crap. Now I’m hungry

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Personally, I never travel anywhere without it⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The plane is a Vickers VC10 for anyone curious.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm cooked, chat.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Hey man, at least you have hair. I’ve been losing mine since I was 16.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Immich v2.2.0 adds OCR⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Laughs in i5-4590

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Marketing Doesn't Work on Nerds⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This article is about software tools, not those other things.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Behold, a better mousetrap!⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This isn’t realistic! The core is too small to go supercritical when scaled down to mousetrap size. Immersion broken.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hardware Suggestions For A Beginner?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Here’s what I did: I bought a $50 Dell Optiplex desktop with a 4th generation Intel CPU on ebay. I stuffed in 3 HDDs from ServerPartDeals and a boot SSD I had laying around. This machine draws 50 to 60 watts continuously.

  I got caddies for the HDDs from my local used computer parts store. I got 5.25 in to 3.5 in adapters from Amazon.

  I added a 10 gig SFP+ card (which isn’t fully utilized since my network is mostly 2.5 Gig). Realistically, the onboard gigabit port is adequate.

  I got a SATA PCIe card so I can add a 4th drive if needed.

  I also bought a Nvidia Quadro P400 graphics card (similar to a GTX 1050, but half the price) for $30 on eBay for Jellyfin transcoding. I couldn’t get the onboard Intel GPU to play nice with Jellyfin.

  Excluding the cost of the drives, this setup cost me about $130.

  Tailscale works pretty well, but I usually use Wireguard to connect to my router remotely. I’ve had issues getting Tailscale to work well with my reverse proxy, but I suspect that’s a me problem rather than a Tailscale problem. I have OPNsense and Adguard running on an ancient Mac Mini that serves as my router. (If you follow this route, make sure you get a Thunderbolt Ethernet adapter, not a USB one.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  At least in my case, my DOC IS 3.0 modem was having connectivity issues. My neighbor in another apartment had similar issues: dropped connections, slower than expected speeds, etc. Switching to DOCSIS 3.0 modems solved the problem. I guess Comcast upgraded their hardware and it wasn’t compatible with my modem anymore

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨File collecting program?⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Certainly!

  I’ve never used this one, but it could also work for you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨File collecting program?⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s PairDrop might have what you need. It’s for transferring files rather than uploading and then downloading later. You could get creative with authentication. Maybe put files in an encrypted archive file.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We gonna fight⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not necessarily. Some leftists demand conformity in beliefs. “If you don’t believe XYZ, you’re a shill/neoliberal/fascist etc.”

  I feel like favoring free thought and opposing conformity leads to arguments, but demanding conformity leads to enemies (like this meme).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When building a home server, could a used/cheap PC do the job?⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  When I build my NAS/server last year, I bought a used Dell Optiplex from 2013 on eBay for $50. I tossed in an old SSD I had laying around, and squeezed in 42 TB worth of HDD drives.

  The only real downsides of doing it this way are

  • No realistic way of upgrading hardware
  • Limited space for internal drives
  • No hardware transcoding abilities out of the box
  • More power consumption than buying something newer
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Encrypted backups to the cloud⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I use Kopia to backup to Backblaze B2. I also use the Kopia UI since I can’t be bothered to figure out the cli for it. I have it running constantly in the background so it automatically takes care of everything.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨i'm your god now.⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I never squash spiders. They’re either my buddies and they catch insects that get into the house, or they’re entirely too large to squash; they’d make a mess. If my wife sees a spider and gets scared, I put it outside. It helps that there are no (common) venomous spiders where I live.

  Mosquitos, crane flies, flies, and wasps are all fair game though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨True love⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Tell the time, the date, and act as a stop watch according to the manufacturers website. My $250 watch does all that and it looks better.

  I can totally understand buying a nice/expensive watch, they look nice, the feel nice, they’re accurate, they can do cool stuff. I don’t understand buying a watch that costs more than most cars cost, especially if it only does the most basic watch features.