njordomir
@njordomir@lemmy.world
- Comment on Docker Backup Stratagy 3 hours ago:
Interesting username. Are you a fellow student of Internet Comment Etiquette?
I know at least some of my containers use Postgres. Glad to know I inadvertently might have made it easier on myself. I’ll have to look into the users for the db and db containers. I’m a bit lost on that. I know my db has a username and pass I set in the docker compose file and that the process is running with a particular GID UID or whatever. Is that what your talking about?
- Comment on Docker Backup Stratagy 12 hours ago:
I miss this from cloud hosting. It’s helpful to be able to save, clone, or do whatever with the current machine state and easily just flash back to where you were if you mess something up. Might be too much to set up for my current homelab though. My server does have btrfs snapshots of everything directly in grub which has let me roll back a few big screwups here and there.
- Comment on Owners of laptops with very cheap aftermarket batteries, is it worth the discount? 12 hours ago:
I’ve replaced the battery on my laptop twice. Didn’t recognize the brand (might have been Dentsing or something like that) but it outperformed the stock battery in it’s flattening state and maybe even when it was new! I watched it pretty closely for a while though and I’d NEVER buy a battery off temu.
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- Comment on Google is launching Offerwall, A new tool for publishers /websites to paywall their content. 2 days ago:
Yeah, I don’t care if they invent a paywall that jumps out of the screen and gives me a top notch scalp massage. I don’t do paywalls.
- Comment on What are your approaches to donating? 5 days ago:
If there is a donation button and its a project, media item, service, etc that I use enough that I would buy it, I often donate. The amount depends on how badly they need the help. If I they try to steer me to recurring donations I don’t donate at all (having the option as an opt-in is okay).
- Comment on Tesla Robotaxi Freaks Out and Drives into Oncoming Traffic on First Day 5 days ago:
If we’re gonna let them on the road, I say that software should get points just like a driver, but when it gets suspended all the cars running that software get shut down.
- Comment on VPN Registrations Increase by 1,000%, less than Hour After PornHub Blocked France From Accessing its Website. 2 weeks ago:
I hate how VPN access is the scaffolding holding the building up making things look normal. You can visit all your normal web sites, you can bypass georestrictions, you can be a little less tracked than you might otherwise be. But what happens when they decide to do away with that scaffolding and we all find out they tore down the house behind it while we were enjoying “normalcy”. Too much of making the web functional depends on vpns and adblocking. We shouldn’t have to do this stuff and Chromes adblocking scandle should impact millions of users all around the world unilaterally removing adblocking from the web. I fear for the day we have a US only internet and a global internet, not just on paper, but in actual practice.
- Comment on Google Restricts Android Sideloading—What It Means for User Autonomy and the Future of Mobile Freedom – Purism 2 weeks ago:
I agree. Not having access on my terms is absolutely a deal breaker for me and could cause me to stop doing business with a company.
- Comment on Florida ban on kids using social media likely unconstitutional, judge rules 3 weeks ago:
Right. This shouldn’t be about restricting children; but rather, this should be about restricting corporation’s bad behaviors. It’s also not just children that are impacted. Mining online dopamine-junkies for data by placing money extractors right on their weak spots is unethical, like selling someone crack, or phone scamming the elderly.
- Comment on Front Brake Lights Could Drastically Diminish Road Accident Rates 3 weeks ago:
Can we do this in the same bill as the popup spikes that take out your tires if you stop across the crosswalk? The guided RPGs replacing red light cams can wait a little longer.
- Comment on Whatever happened to cheap eReaders? – Terence Eden’s Blog 3 weeks ago:
Ianaged to gent KOReader on my Grandpa’s old Kindle. One device has now entertained two people for what is likely a decade or two of combined service.
- Comment on Need a second opinion on a project idea (Pi5 car headunit) 4 weeks ago:
That was my first thought. How do you keep it cold enough to run in a place like Arizona, Spain, or Mexico? It also reminded me of my Windows Mobile days before I had a smartphone when someone on a Windows Mobile forum took a Dell Axim x51v and built a dock for it that exposed all the ports so he could use it with an external display as an infotainment/nav system. He called it the Aximizer. An old android phone with a micro-hdmi port might be the modern equivilant.
- Comment on The world is falling apart! Send us your money! 4 weeks ago:
I hate how everyone follows the social marketing playbook now. There’s so little community building and genuine connection with constituents. Everything is optimized by some social media marketing guru types with a masters degree in being an asshole.
- Comment on The world is falling apart! Send us your money! 4 weeks ago:
One $5 donation buys you a decade of nagging donation emails and a bunch of capitulating spineless politicians.
- Comment on Is America headed for an age of dumb phones? 4 weeks ago:
I saw that one. Wasn’t it a newer Android version too instead of an ancient one like most of Boox’s stuff?
- Comment on Is America headed for an age of dumb phones? 5 weeks ago:
I wish popular cell phones would offer an eink option. I know there are 1-2 phones out there, but they always seem to be on some ancient version of Android.
- Comment on What's up, selfhosters? It's selfhosting Sunday again! 5 weeks ago:
Went through and verified that a number of things were backing up and updating correctly. I feel a little less weight on my shoulders knowing things are working as they should.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
I’d like to think as a group, we are a healthier addiction than Reddit. :)
- Comment on Still booting after all these years: The people stuck using ancient Windows computers 5 weeks ago:
Good for them. If it works, it works. I wouldn’t connect it to the internet though.
- Comment on Netflix will show generative AI ads midway through streams in 2026 1 month ago:
After that comes the part where the AI hallucinates a world where advertising guidelines don’t exist and gets the company sued for some very illegal advertising.
- Comment on Google Says iPhone Adoption Of RCS Has Led Users To Share 'More Than A Billion' Messages Daily, Yet SMS/MMS Still Reign Supreme In The U.S. 1 month ago:
Missing an important message like that is a fear of mine. I’ve also noticed a number of google products don’t function well while on VPN. I’ve decided to dump the problem, Google, rather than the scapegoat, my VPN. I’m about 70% degoogled right now, but every product counts.
I tried RCS when it was newer, but I didn’t see any benefit to me and it didn’t play well with how often I reset and redo my phone.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
At this point, we should all be very familiar with what it means to be a “Facebook friend”. Only someone with the emotional depth of a Lego mini figure would think this is a good idea.
Additionally, real friends don’t exploit your weak points to sell you shit, whether products or harmful ideologies.
- Comment on Satellite images reveal Huawei’s advanced chip production line in China 1 month ago:
“Them” in this case being the business owners, not the workers or the people their tech is used to oppress.
- Comment on Mark Zuckerberg Thinks You Don't Have Enough Friends and His Chatbots Are the Answer 1 month ago:
When Zuck builds his inevitable broligarch dick rocket, he should try to land it on the sun.
- Comment on Slate, a no-nonsense EV pickup for $20k 2 months ago:
No mention of safety in the article. Does a manufacturer of this size have to do crash tests?
Also, this sounds like the Spirit/Ryanair of cars. Everything costs extra.
For years, I drove ~10-20 minutes to and from work. Mostly stroads and freeway. I could never justify buying an extra nice car because I didn’t use it that much. Same for a nice car stereo. I’d just listen to NPR and talk radio for news, traffic reports, and maybe a quirky story about some cultural oddity or eclectic artist. If I spend thousands on a sound system it goes in my house, where I live and vibe. Now I work from home, ride my bike everywhere, and a tank of gas can easily last me a month. My current car was purchased for about $20k. If my car died for some reason, I don’t even know if I’d be willing to part with 20k to replace it. I appreciate that these guys are building something for ordinary people and not another faux luxury lifted minivan the size of a garbage truck.
I can see a lot of retired people buying one of these to drive to their once a week bridge tournament or bingo night.
- Comment on Even the U.S. Government Says AI Requires Massive Amounts of Water 2 months ago:
Milk :D Build a heat pasteurization plant next to your data center and you can use the server heat for something productive.
- Comment on Even the U.S. Government Says AI Requires Massive Amounts of Water 2 months ago:
I was wondering about this. Why wouldn’t it be closed loop? My buddies and I allegedly built a moonshine still in high school and the coiled pipe or hose coming out the top recondenses the liquid that boils off. Why not do something similar and pump the hot water under snow covered sidewalks to melt them and then send it back to the data center to get heated again once it has lost enough heat?
- Comment on Chinese robots ran against humans in the world’s first humanoid half-marathon. They lost by a mile 2 months ago:
I agree, it’s a bit of a weird take especially when we’re talking about robots in a marathon, not in a textile factory or flipping McBurgers.
I guess I was thinking: why give up the efficiency of wheels/tracks/propellers for walking (a less simple movement) and why only one set of arms? Why would you want a robot to look human at the cost of being as multitasking and movement challenged as it’s owner? I kept imagining Angry Bender from Futurama where he has 3 very maneuverable metal tentacle arms on each side. (Though normally he’s pretty humanoid in shape too). I still think we’re overly anthropomorphizing them and it’s a bit creepy. It seems like we’re building the tech based on Hollywood as much as anything else. I hear you when you say the shape is a good “fit” for our built environment, but I think we can do even better so it’s interesting that we decided our bodies were the pinnacle of biology and technology.
- Comment on Chinese robots ran against humans in the world’s first humanoid half-marathon. They lost by a mile 2 months ago:
Do these people miss slavery so much they have to build humanoid robots so they can own them?