CatLikeLemming
@CatLikeLemming@lemmy.blahaj.zone
she/they
Bit of a mess, kinda depressed, and going through a gender identity crisis :3
(Ongoing issues, brain pls fix)
- Comment on And they even get a seizure when you take their ipads away 6 days ago:
Those are harder than the dopamine of brainrot content though. I struggle with it myself. I know programming is far more rewarding in the long-term, yet I often end up browsing lemmy instead due to the immediate dopamine hit compared to the delayed one.
These kids won’t have any sense of self-control or understand why one is better for them than the other and the kind of parent that gives a child a tablet and just turns on YouTube does so because they don’t want to actually parent. So while this is decent advice for proper parents, these kinds of parents aren’t gonna do that, because it requires more work for them.
- Comment on Tesla sales plunge 40% in Europe as Chinese EV rival BYD's triple 1 week ago:
Oh they have a lot to do with the decisions of politicians. But more on topics of economy and how they can profit as much as possible, rather than the supply of arms. Still I swear every second politician here is getting
bribes“funds” from the car lobby. - Comment on Tesla sales plunge 40% in Europe as Chinese EV rival BYD's triple 1 week ago:
I think part of it is that they can actually do anything long-term. Even the most altruistic president in for example the US will get four, at most eight years to do what they’re planning. That’s not enough time to do anything meaningful, all the while they’re dealing with flak from the consequences of the last presidency, and their successor will at best take credit for their achievements, at worst destroy them before they succeed. And that’s assuming the citizens didn’t elect a self-serving megalomaniac.
Winnie the pooh, I’m pretty sure, actually cares about his country. He’s by no means benevolent, but he has the power, resources, and time to build proper infrastructure and reshape the country as he sees fit.
Socially they’re way behind from what I, as an outsider, can tell. Women’s rights at least seem somewhat acceptable with definite room for improvement, but queer rights are even worse. Oh and there’s a literal genocide of Uyghurs so that’s pretty fucking bad.
But the benefits of China’s dictatorship lie in the fact that they can actually think in the long-term and not just until the next election (the politician’s equivalent of the next financial quarter) so they can wield their powers and resources to achieve these goals. The glorious leader must be praised for centuries to come, that can’t happen if the earth becomes uninhabitable due to climate change or the country crumbles in on itself due to failing education and a failing economy.
Now if only that applied to citizen’s rights…
- Comment on Building my first NAS: Assistance on part selection please 1 week ago:
may require command line and config files to do it
I’m comfortable enough with those, that shouldn’t be an issue then. Thanks for the info!
- Comment on Building my first NAS: Assistance on part selection please 2 weeks ago:
Oh I didn’t even consider the fact that I might need to pass through the iGPU. Thanks for pointing that out, will double check. Although it’d be very odd if TrueNAS struggled to do that, considering how many people use it and how many of those have some kind of self-hosted streaming service. But of course, always best to check anyways!
- Comment on Building my first NAS: Assistance on part selection please 2 weeks ago:
Very helpful, thank you! The CPU choice has had to be remade anyways as I have mentioned in other places in this thread.
Looking at the 5750GE it seems to be OEM-only, so I’m not sure where to reputably get my hands on that.
The 5700G looks very intriguing, it’s only barely more expensive compared to the last price of the 4650G I saw. If I find nothing else, I’ll probably go with that one then.
I am still concerned about wattage though, I struggled to find any regular CPUs with a notably lower TDP than 65W - although I’d honestly be most intrigued by what it draws at idle-ish, because if it’s like a <5W difference there I wouldn’t bother… but of course idle changes depending on the system so not like that can be properly listed anywhere.
Do you potentially also have any Intel suggestions? Other people here mentioned an AMD iGPU might cause problems with Jellyfin.
- Comment on Building my first NAS: Assistance on part selection please 2 weeks ago:
Got it, thank you
- Comment on Building my first NAS: Assistance on part selection please 2 weeks ago:
Is noise the most important prio? Would you spend money for this goal?
Not the most important, but it is an important factor. If I am not losing much otherwise, I’d like to keep it not louder than say, an idling fridge. I would spend some more for quieter drives and fans, since those are the biggest noise concerns.
How about power usage?
Absolutely important, power prices here are some of the highest globally.
How about price limitations?
I’d very much like to stay below 2000€, preferably below 1750€. Currently it’s coming out at around 1600€.
When looking at harddisks, there is that performance issue called “CMR or SMR” (google it). Your ST8000NT001 seem fine performance-wise as the use CMR.
Yup, took that into account, but nonetheless thanks for mentioning it!
If you need really quiet ones, then maybe you want “desktop” harddisks. But many of them use SMR which limits their performance.
Doesn’t need to be super quiet, just not disruptive, I’m planning on having the NAS in the hallway.
Most guides recommend Raidz2 currently. Do you use backups?
Raidz2 means there are two entire “unused” drives which would be quite painful for my budget. I am planning on renting around 1TB of rsync storage and throwing things like Immich’s data on there. This is fine to me since I’d prefer one backup off-site anyways. Any of my jellyfin stuff can always be redownloaded as long as I keep a list of what I got somewhere else.
When buying SSDs, check for the “TBW” spec.
Noted
- Comment on Building my first NAS: Assistance on part selection please 2 weeks ago:
Prices fluctuate but last I checked it was around 1600€. Also, after posting this thread I re-checked the CPU and noticed that isn’t even available in my region anymore apparently, so I’ll have to find a suitable replacement there anyways.
- Comment on Building my first NAS: Assistance on part selection please 2 weeks ago:
A friend of mine had an unRAID NAS and moved that over to TrueNAS later after being bothered by the licensing costs, that’s why I was looking into the latter more. I do know how to RTFM, so I think I should be fine on that? But maybe there’s gonna be a huge negative surprise, I suppose I don’t know that yet
- Comment on Building my first NAS: Assistance on part selection please 2 weeks ago:
How come? I’ve seen those recommended quite often.
- Comment on Building my first NAS: Assistance on part selection please 2 weeks ago:
Ah, sorry, I should’ve specified this further. Whether this can run what I need it to isn’t the primary concern, I believe it can do so, I primarily attached my decision making basis just in case it changes anything.
I’m more concerned about things like picking the correct drives, or if limiting my motherboard selection through an ITX case was a bad idea, or if my choice of not going with ECC was a poor one, those kinds of things.
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- Comment on linus tech tip 1 month ago:
Most of these criticisms are from a time which they have at least claimed they’re out of. They made a huge deal about apologizing, slowing down, and doing things properly. Have they done so? Hard to know without a look behind the scenes, but so far I haven’t heard any new complaints.
- Comment on Realized 99% of all my chargers are USB-C. This can only mean one thing. New USB bout to drop! 1 month ago:
There’s good and bad. Every few months the EU tries to ban encryption without backdoors again for instance, because “oh dear, think of the children!”.
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- Comment on Bazinga 5 months ago:
In a literal translation it would be, but considering it’s not a big bang, but the big bang, it’d be “Urknall” which I’m not sure how best to literally translate to English, but it’s something along the lines of “bang of origin” or “original bang”.
That doesn’t make the tweet any less wrong though, this is just semantics.
- Comment on Half Life: Alyx is Five Years Old Today 5 months ago:
There is, yes, but it’s pointless. I think some people are missing the point of Alyx being a VR game, the game would suck pretty bad in pancake mode. It’s the intricate interactions with the world you simply can’t get with a mouse and keyboard that make it special compared to other Half Life games. They didn’t just make a regular Half Life game and said “well we’re just gonna force this to be in VR now”, they made a VR game and set it in the Half Life universe.
- Comment on Half Life: Alyx is Five Years Old Today 5 months ago:
Somewhat hot take… I’d argue Boneworks (not Bonelab) was “better”, at least if you’re used to VR and if you judge by freedom and replay value. Don’t get me wrong, playing through Half Life Alyx was fun and engaging, but to me it had little to no replay value, since for all it did great in visuals, audio, accessibility, and especially story, it failed dramatically in physics. Since I played Alyx right after Boneworks, I kept trying to pick stuff up which I ended up not being able to for larger objects, and the first time I tried to knock a Combine over the head with a pipe I was so sorely disappointed. Alyx has absolutely everything Boneworks is missing, yet that physics core is what kept me coming back to the latter. It really clicked for me when I noticed how many things in Boneworks one can solve in alternate ways by “abusing” physics. Climbing is a learned skill and combat can be as much shooting as it can be using knives, fists, shoving someone off a ledge, or grabbing an enemy and throwing it at others. It’s what truly made me realize how much potential VR had, being able to interact with a full physics simulation, where even your own body is a physics object, with your physical hands is amazing.
- Comment on You have been SWIVELLED! 11 months ago:
Hey, there are far worse options than Rin for doing so ;3