CouncilOfFriends
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- Comment on I cannot hook an ethernet cable to a router because the router is using all the plugs. What is a backup to make a Lemmy instance with Yunohost? If there’s no other way, what else can I use? 2 days ago:
If he wants you to do this, explain that you will buy a basic $10-20 unmanaged port extender (switch) and then take one plug out of the old router, connect to the new switch, and plug the cable you disconnected to the new one. You can always reverse those steps and reboot things if needed, but I wouldn’t expect this causing any problems given how often I’ve changed ports for things without any need to reboot.
The key here is making sure it’s an unmanaged switch, you don’t want a router doing Network Address Translation behind another router or you’ll have double NAT which breaks certain port-dependent services unless ports are forwarded on both routers, but instead a simple switch doing Layer 2. If you have a spare router, many can be configured in the settings to act as a dumb switch as well, but with an 8 port Netgear switch being $17 that’s the easiest solution.
- Comment on If spez manipulated reddit in the right way could he ignite a revolution? 1 week ago:
He’s too busy pushing users over to Lemmy at the moment
- Comment on “Bionic Girl” Debuts New Wireless Hands That Even Work When Detached From the Main Prosthetic 1 week ago:
I’m getting more rocket fist vibes
- Comment on China scientists develop flash memory 10,000× faster than current tech 2 weeks ago:
By tuning the “Gaussian length” of the channel, the team achieved two‑dimensional super‑injection, which is an effectively limitless charge surge into the storage layer that bypasses the classical injection bottleneck.
- Comment on Do you use your blinker in a car? 3 weeks ago:
I felt dumb using it at a roundabout because nobody does there, then I looked it up and found it’s something you’re supposed to do. No harm in over communicating when you’re on control on a few thousands pounds of metal.
- Comment on Proxmox vs. Debian: Running media server on older hardware 1 month ago:
My server runs Debian VMs in Proxmox on an i7-2600 which has a lower benchmark than the 6600k. I also used the Perfect Media Server guide, and have 2 x 8T data drives pooled with MergerFS and 1 for parity, these are passed through to the main VM from Proxmox with ‘qm set’. One thing I often forget after deleting/restoring this VM is to run qm set again after restore, ensuring it has the flag to not back up those drives or else backups will fail and I have to go uncheck the backup option to fix it. If I need to spin up another VM for tinkering it’s also easy enough to mount the NFS share as a volume with docker compose.
Proxmox rarely shows CPU usage go above 50%, and this handles the whole *arr stack plus usenet and torrents in a single VM and compose file. I don’t even have GPU passthrough setup because the motherboard on this older rig didn’t support something like IOMMU. Never had issues with Plex or Jellyfin transcoding for Chromecast.
- Comment on Why doesn't phones numbers have a "DNS" servet so we can just type in words like we do with the internet? 2 months ago:
In practice the stagnation of IPv6 it seems to be a recognition of the unintended security that NAT with IPv4 adds. From a security perspective, having every device use a public IP and trying to prevent malicious software from simply opening whatever ports it needs per device would be another attack vector.
- Comment on Why doesn't phones numbers have a "DNS" servet so we can just type in words like we do with the internet? 2 months ago:
In the internet age where scammers across the globe can and will use personal information to target you for social engineering scams, it is better from a privacy perspective to have phone numbers be information you volunteer to people. Before widespread internet it made sense to give out numbers in the White Pages because physical mail forwarding was the other option to find people when their phone number changed. If a scammer can simply go down a list of most common names and a number string they can more easily make it appear they have a fake Amazon delivery, PayPal transaction, or other fake alert customized with their name. Most people will not use their critical thinking and it’s a big enough problem already.
- Comment on We are at the Wolfenstein stage of capital. 6 months ago:
Just today I was listening to Peter F. Hamilton’s “Exodus: The Archimedes Engine” and the mention of attack dogs with diamond-tipped teeth sounded a little wacky for sci-fi. Sometimes life can be stranger than fiction.
- Comment on Solar panels between railway tracks? 6 months ago:
I was about to comment that it makes more sense to put panels in open space, but looking into it does appear some numbers crunchers did the math on efficiency gain from being able to swap old panels with a dedicated machine on the rails, versus the other option.
