gdog05
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- Comment on ‘It’s only gotten worse’: As ACA premiums are set to climb, some Americans opt to go uninsured 1 day ago:
“Opt to go uninsured” is certainly how I’d phrase the choice between affording rent and food or healthcare.
- Comment on Did it really used to be common for guys to go to a bar every night like in Cheers or The Simpsons? 1 day ago:
Had to stop though since I found myself going through the fridge on a Sunday once looking for some alcohol.
I had a similar experience except I’d open the fridge before work and instinctively grab a beer or start to grab one before I realized I was just there for creamer.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
I want to believe you. Is your satisfaction with Australia in any way attributed to your username? If I were a tourist who meets you in a bar and I asked you what fun things there are to do in the area, would you grab your wrist as you punch upward? Do you drive a Ute with dual exhaust that has chrome Goatse hands around the pipe. Man, I have so many questions about Australia.
- Comment on Can a person who is a convicted felon/ rapist even get nominated for the Nobel Peace Price? Extra points if you can ELI5 that. 2 weeks ago:
The back tattoo was Roger Stone. Although we’ve not heard much about him for a while, I promise he’s got his sticky little mitts in the administration currently. In some fashion.
- Comment on Readarr alternative suggestions? 2 weeks ago:
Surprised no one mentioned LazyLibrarian. I guess no one else could figure out how it works. I still try after updates… Nope. If it works, I just don’t understand it.
- Comment on Immich finally goes stable, a talk with the team 3 weeks ago:
Have you tried just explaining when you use jargon? If you don’t understand the term enough to explain it, I get it. That’s how I am with the laws of thermodynamics. But, no reason to be hostile about knowing the term and not the definition.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
How did you install Jellyfin? Just like on a Windows/Mac/Linux machine? Docker?
The other device, is it on the same network and/or subnetwork as the Jellyfin install? It will not do remote connections out of the box.
- Comment on This should be true 3 weeks ago:
And if you’re fairly wealthy, you’ll just spend enough to hire an accountant to move it offshore and then donate to a politician via a church and then the govt pays you taxes.
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- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
After having some issues with TrueNAS killing containers after updates, I went to Unraid and have never been happier. TrueNAS file sharing permissions also never did make sense to me. I got them to work but never quite grok’d them. Unraid performs exactly like I’d expect. I hand rolled a NAS using Ubuntu way back in the day and didn’t have the desire to tinker on the NAS side of things too much.
On Unraid, I roll a larger xfs array for all of my media and large storage, then I have a two disk ZFS array for my more important documents and pictures. That gets archived up to the xfs array and my cache nvme drives have their own ZFS pool. I don’t gain a ton by doing this, it was just fun to set up and I feel reasonably secure with my personal data.
I also run a smaller, lower powered machine with Proxmox and I run Home Assistant on it. Mostly because of tinkering with hardware support in Home Assistant, I didn’t want it messing with my NAS needing restarts and such. But, Unraid is my workhorse. Day in, day out, it does exactly what I suspect with no surprises. I’ve had drives go bad and need replaced. I’ve had the whole machine just die and had to build a new machine. Unraid did exactly what I expected and needed every step of the way. The docker support is fantastic and super stable. Running multiples of the exact same container by duplicating and with only different port settings works great. I can’t say that for my independent docker installs without a bunch of tinkering on things I couldn’t seem to find enough about when I ran into issues.
I tinker on the things I enjoy. I do not enjoy having an unusable server. The anxiety is actually pretty insane for me. I would pay for Unraid many times over to get this combination of factors.
- Comment on POV you are rich 4 weeks ago:
In fact, the taxes reverse. The government pays you.
- Comment on Should you copy a person's accent when pronouncing their name? 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on So she's saying that she's a sexual bull? 4 weeks ago:
Just directs them into her with a red towel.
- Comment on TikTok To Be Sold To Trump’s Right Wing Billionaire Buddies And Converted Into A Propaganda Mill 5 weeks ago:
The US… Self contained… Image
- Comment on Marketing Doesn't Work on Nerds 5 weeks ago:
Is that marketing or is it just finding stuff they want to own?
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- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
There’s an image in my preview but not in the post itself. Weird. Wonder if it’s a Boost issue. I’ll take it down and try again. Editing didn’t seem to fix it.
- Comment on I wonder why the widespread adoption of the internet hasn't been good for society as a whole. 5 weeks ago:
I grew up pretty certain in the ideas that AIDs was gay cancer, Boy George was straight, Marilyn Manson had a rib removed to perform auto fellatio, Mother Theresa was the very idea of kindness, a girl couldn’t get pregnant if she sucked on you after cumming in her, and that jet fuel could melt steel beams.
(Some of those I only half-believed and maybe not all the best examples)
- Comment on Anyone automate anything with smart thermostats and outdoor temp? 1 month ago:
Using the Ecobee thermostat, I use the built in weather module in Home Assistant to give local weather data to the system. In summer, I set it up to watch for the lowest overnight temps via forecast, and trigger on the lowest temperatures we’d see. Then I’d drop the house temp to 66 or 64 degrees when the AC had to do the least amount of work. Then I’d use the basement air to keep the upstairs cool enough and use the AC as little as possible.
My last house was old and had some drafts I couldn’t find. So in the winter, if the weather turned to windy I’d increase the temp a degree or two for comfort.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
I am old enough to remember when people got paid enough to do those things in their middle aged years…
- Comment on Podcast automation? 1 month ago:
I will check that out, thank you!
- Comment on Podcast automation? 1 month ago:
Anything that you’re aware of that will also strip out the 28 minutes of commercials in a 36 minute podcast?
- Comment on The Browser Wasn’t Enough, Google Wants To Control All Your Software 1 month ago:
You are correct, Graphene only runs on Pixel phones. I know there’s a few open mobile OS options out there but I’ve not spent any time researching them. There is a very good chance if you absolutely need an identification, then you can’t get away from Android. Hopefully someone else sees your comment and has an answer.
- Comment on The Browser Wasn’t Enough, Google Wants To Control All Your Software 1 month ago:
I wouldn’t self host email. But I would pay for a host and get away from Gmail. Wait until Black Friday and get free/cheap services from a bunch of places. Maybe even proton if you’re okay with them. Also, using your own domain for email is pretty cool (to me).
- Comment on The Browser Wasn’t Enough, Google Wants To Control All Your Software 1 month ago:
You’ve got some good suggestions, I think most of the suggestions I can think of. Nextcloud is of course the big one but after using it for quite a while, I think it’s important to break down your needs. If you need file sharing/syncing only, there are better options that are easier and faster. If you only need chat/voice, rocket chat is really lightweight and easy. If you need file sharing, online office suite, chat, etc. Then Nextcloud is the right option. Just keep in mind, even if you think you need some of those things, will anyone but you ever actually use them? No, they won’t, because they don’t appreciate how cool it is to self host and how much effort you put into it.
- Comment on The Browser Wasn’t Enough, Google Wants To Control All Your Software 1 month ago:
I don’t know myself, but Graphene OS (on Google Pixel phones) has a pretty impressive sandbox layer for the play store and the apps it installs. It might be worth looking into if you’re not aware of it currently. (But if you’re aware of the Fairphone, I’m guessing you probably know about Graphene).
- Comment on The Browser Wasn’t Enough, Google Wants To Control All Your Software 1 month ago:
I will help hand hold anyone who wants to build servers or services (to the best of my ability) to replace Google services with their own.
- Comment on YSK that if U.S. housing and U.S population projections hold, the Electoral College will shift further away from Democrats after the 2030 census. 1 month ago:
You’re right, we’ve got several states, mostly Republican leaning, that are winner take all. But these extra blue seats could potentially allow for an entire state swing in some states as yaroto98 pointed out. If it doesn’t do that, what it will do is piss enough people off because they’re not represented to get the groundswell needed to force changes.
- Comment on YSK that if U.S. housing and U.S population projections hold, the Electoral College will shift further away from Democrats after the 2030 census. 1 month ago:
Something missing from the displayed data, not sure if the article goes into it (not going through NYT paywall bullshit to find out) but Idaho, Utah and Texas will very likely gain a blue voting electoral college vote. If, after this Trump bullshit concludes (providing it concludes), we don’t have a major overhaul of how elections work including a change to first past the post, we kind of deserve fascism or all out civil war.
- Comment on leading ai company 1 month ago:
Someone keeps fixing the CSS color coding of an input field border and someone else keeps copy/pasting the old version when they’re doing basic edits.
