CaptainPedantic

@CaptainPedantic@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Behold, a better mousetrap!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Certainly!

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

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨File collecting program?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨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?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨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.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.