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- Comment on Amazon and Audible flooded with 'forex trading' and warez listings 21 hours ago:
Dang, that would have hurt with real money.
I always stick to mutual funds and ETFs. The few individual stocks I’ve picked on my own have always lost money. I lost $750 to Beyond Meat, and a couple thousand with BitCoin Cash (should have held it for another year, but hindsight etc.). My mutual fund picks have all gone up. Some more than others, but none have lost me money.
- Comment on Mods, what tips or etiquette do you recommend for reporting? 6 months ago:
Blocking spam is not selfish, no.
- Comment on Problems with creating my own instance 6 months ago:
I just updated my comment above with more info, FYI.
- Comment on Problems with creating my own instance 6 months ago:
I’m not a pro at Docker, but I’ve spun up over 30 different services using Docker Compose so I’m more than a novice. I would say that Lemmy’s documentation is the worst I’ve ever seen.
The website points you at that compose file which is (I think?) designed for Ansible. I think there’s another example somewhere without all the jibbery joo, but I can’t search for it right now.
- Comment on Can anyone help me figure out Frigate/go2rtc 6 months ago:
I think the docs recommend (and this is how I have it set up) leaving the go2rtc stream as you have it currently, and changing the stream path for the camera config to
rtsp://127.0.0.1:8554/nursery - Comment on Damn SAS connector! I got the wrong cables. 6 months ago:
Looks like OP might need SFF-8482 type connectors?
- Comment on Increase your Linux Server Internet Speed with TCP BBR Congestion-Control 7 months ago:
Interesting. I’d be interested in hearing other people’s experience with this. Is this BBR stuff enabled by default on any distros?
- Comment on I fixed my dad's angle grinder with a ball bearing I salvaged from my gerbil's old excercise wheel a few years back. 7 months ago:
Nice! I love the feeling of digging through my box-o-crap and finding exactly what I need.
On a related note, I just replaced the bearings in the wheels of my suitcase (it has roller blade wheels). The bearings were $.75 USD each, plus $7 shipping. They were a standard size, 608.
- Comment on What kind of valve is this exactly? Never seen that exact connection type 7 months ago:
I agree it’s an odd looking crimp, maybe just an older style of what we have today. I’d guess that’s the last likely thing to leak.
Best case scenario the dishwasher line just needs to be tightened. Worst case you can replace the whole thing with a sharkbite type valve, but you’ll probably need to cut back the previously crimped section of PEX (note: I really have no clue about that).
- Comment on What kind of valve is this exactly? Never seen that exact connection type 7 months ago:
Sorry, could you provide a little more information? You say it leaks from the “valve”, but there are 3 different places it could be leaking from, and all are part of the valve – the valve being the whole device from pipe to pipe.
If you’re thinking of replacing the whole thing, I’d focus more on the type of pipe, which looks like Pex coming from the house, and probably some sort of standard dishwasher feed line on the other side.
Ideally you could buy a replacement valve before starting the project, but you might have to remove this valve and take it to the hardware store to make sure you get the correct thing.
I’ve never worked with Pex, but I believe you can either crimp it with a special tool or use the sharkbite system.
- Comment on The flowerbeds in front of my house could use some work. 8 months ago:
Yeah it seems pretty fickle, but it sure is nice. There are different varieties, too, which makes it even more compelling.
- Comment on The flowerbeds in front of my house could use some work. 8 months ago:
Lavender likes sun. It also likes well-drained soil and a neutral to high pH, so add lime to the soil and sprinkle more lime every year.
Source - we have Lavender in front of our house, and it didn’t die yet. It’s less than a year old, though.
- Comment on Hardware Acceleration in Linux in Proxmox 8 months ago:
I did this recently and I wish I could answer you, but I’m on mobile and don’t remember exactly what got it working. I also referenced the guide linked below, along with the proxmox documentation.
If you start blacklisting drivers, you’ve gone too far for passing through Intel quicksync. I think I’m the end it was a pretty basic config, like checking motherboard settings and adding text to the grub config.
Also don’t guides say you have to use q35 as the machine type for the VM, but that didn’t work for me. Only 440fx works for me.
- Comment on Lemmy Active Users looking good 8 months ago:
Isn’t that good enough?
- Comment on When Pi-hole is down? 9 months ago:
Thank you, I’ll bookmark it for later.
- Comment on Read You (RSS client) 0.9.12 released with support for FreshRSS & gReader API 9 months ago:
Nice, I just installed FreshRSS (the LinuxServer version) and got it working with 0.9.12.
I had to use url.com/api/greader.php as the URL in the app. I also had add an API password under my profile, and in Administration -> Authentication I enabled API access.
- Comment on Router recommendation 9 months ago:
I have an RB5009 and it’s great. I’d say they’re actually quite easy to get going with the default config. It’s when you get the itch to start messing with stuff that the learning ramps up.
- Comment on When Pi-hole is down? 9 months ago:
That sounds cool. I’ve never messed with scripts on Mikrotik, but would it be possible to share what you have?
- Comment on What should I use my RPi4 9 months ago:
Yeah that’s true, your devices will still have a cached copy. Still… losing the host would be a pain.
- Comment on What should I use my RPi4 9 months ago:
Vaultwarden is super, but I’d be hesitant to run it on a Raspberry Pi unless I had good backups in place. I’ve always run stuff off MicroSD cards with Pi’s, but I’m sure there’s a way to use real drives which would make me feel better.
- Comment on One thing I hope to see in the Fediverse is people engaging with old content 10 months ago:
A week ago someone commented on my 9 year old reddit post.
- Comment on Linkwarden - An open-source collaborative bookmark manager to collect, organize and preserve webpages 10 months ago:
I think they do it to be funny (I hope). Like making fun of the folks on Facebook who write stuff like “I hearby declare that all of my posts are my property and can’t be harvested for data” or whatever.
- Comment on Google Photos Alternative 10 months ago:
The number of redundant drives actually doesn’t make much difference, but it does “help”. Instead of picturing individual drive failures, picture a house fire.
Also picture the next step after one of the drives fails – you’ll be copying all of that data off of your 1 good drive, putting a lot of stress on it. That drive is likely from the same batch, same age, etc. as the failed drive. The likelihood of your good drive failing during the recovery process is higher than one might like.
- Comment on Google Photos Alternative 10 months ago:
What happens when your Synology fails? Do you have offsite backup to Backblaze or something similar?
- Comment on Help needed setting up NGINX reverse Proxy / HA / Vaultwarden using Duckdns 10 months ago:
Only 80 and 443 get forwarded to nginx. nginx handles everything from there. Close the other ports.
- Comment on Help needed setting up NGINX reverse Proxy / HA / Vaultwarden using Duckdns 10 months ago:
Which ports did you forward?
- Comment on Seems like world deleted the Threads discussion post 10 months ago:
Oh gotcha. I’d suppose that if a person is that concerned with Threads, they’re probably invested in the idea of Lemmy such that transferring to another instance is not out of the question. Someone who’s not interested in putting in the effort to transfer probably doesn’t feel strongly either way about Threads. That’s just an assumption on my part, of course.
- Comment on Seems like world deleted the Threads discussion post 10 months ago:
I don’t think the world admins really care if users transfer away. That’s just federation in action. Good stuff.
- Comment on PSA: the federation problem is still present in Lemmy 19.1, the GitHub issue has been reopened 10 months ago:
I’m going to set up a cronjob to restart the Lemmy docker container every 6 hours. That seems to be around when stuff stops working usually.
- Comment on Devices getting router IP as DNS 11 months ago:
Like the other poster said, this will be configured on your routers settings. You can configure more than one DNS address, the 2nd (etc.) being backups if the first one stops working.