Emma_Gold_Man

@Emma_Gold_Man@lemmy.dbzer0.com

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FCC restores net neutrality rules that ban blocking and throttling in 3-2 vote⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The way this works in the server world is “95th percentile” billing. They track your bandwidth usage over the course of the month (probably in 5 minute intervals), strike off the 5% highest peaks, and your bill for the month is based on the highest usage remaining.

  That’s considerably more honest than charging you based solely on the highest usage you could theoretically use at any time point in a 24 hour period (which is how ISPs define the “max bandwidth”) and then charging you again or cutting off your service if you use more than a certain amount they won’t even put in writing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Or we could do metric time⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Even easier and more comfortable - count the pads instead of the knuckles. You can count to 12 with one hand, or 144 with two

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft now permits uninstalling Edge, Bing, and OneDrive to adhere to the EU's Digital Markets Act.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  They are

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It’s Surprisingly Easy to Live Without an Amazon Prime Subscription⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Off topic, but as a pen lover - those are lovely! Especially enjoyed the shaping of the left ones.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Haier hits Home Assistant plugin dev with takedown notice⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  literally no one will ever have that problem, but lets humor your ridiculous made up bullshit

  Wow, your username really fits.

  Actually, it’s a description of some of the issues I’m dealing with right now. And yes, we’re DIYing it with ethernet wired switching outlets on a separate clan and subnet. And yes, we use a chest freezer.

  And yes, there are more automatic and passive ways to do some of these things, like planting deciduous trees to shade your south wall in summer but not winter. Not everyone owns their home and land though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Haier hits Home Assistant plugin dev with takedown notice⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There are problems they can actually solve, mostly heating and power related:

  • In summer, lower the blinds on south facing windows when the sun comes up to reduce solar heating, then raise them in the evening to increase air flow against the window panes. This reduces the need for air conditioning, resulting in a surprising amount of power saved.

  • On a home solar system, start the washing machine, dishwasher, and dryer that were loaded in the morning when the batteries reach 80% charge. Allow them to run off the inverter rather than taking the charge/discharge losses involved in battery storage, reducing the size of both battery bank and solar array needed.

  • Lower the freezer temperature when there is a power surplus, and raise it back to normal when not so that cooling energy is used when it’s cheapest/most available

  If you don’t work from home, you can’t do the second two yourself. They require automation. Reducing baseload requirements and battery storage needs can make a transition to renewable power much cheaper and more efficient. With mass adoption, that extends to power grids and not just off-grid homes, and has significant effects on things like the amount of lithium that needs to be mined or the number of coal and LNG power plants that are needed fo r times that at iff-peak for wind and solar generation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Scientists Have Reported a Breakthrough In Understanding Whale Language⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  No, they’ll need to raise it with the Elders if the Internet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pluralistic: "If buying isn't owning, piracy isn't stealing"⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think there’s an exception to be made in your argument for abandonware. There are classic arcade games that wouldn,'t exist any more but are widely available due to MAME support.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is the most efficient method to set up a home server?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  For a privacy friendly OS, surprised nobody has mentioned Freedombox

  It’s designed explicitly for your use case, along with an easy path to other self hosted services. When you’re ready for more than it offers through the web interface, it’s a full Debian install under the hood - so you can install whatever you need to. Privacy friendly and super stable, with smooth upgrades to new releases and security updates for old versions several years after the new one is available.

  As far as hardware, your old computer is probably more powerful than a Pi and can support more drives, but the Pi will be more power efficient. As others have mentioned, if you care about your data long term then backups are a must, so a separate NAS or a Pi with a large drive for backup storage is a good idea as well, whatever OS you choose.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GoOn⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  True enough for database or dictionary storage, but a lot of times things get implemented in arrays where you still wind up with two copies of the same uint32.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GoOn⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  And dupe check. 0.0.0.0 and 000.000.000.000 may both be valid, but they resolve the same

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GoOn⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Better hope the goon hasn’t heard of IPv6 either, or you’re toast

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How is your experience with Fedora as a server?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  As a professional sysadmin for a (not just web) hosting provider, any time I’ve run into Fedora on a server it has been an indication that:

  1. The client was running something obsolete and unmaintained that would not survive an update. This would generally be a version of Fedora 2-12 versions behind current
  2. Overtime was in my future as rolling updates broke their business a critical application
  3. The system was set up by a client’s family, friend, or other nonprofessional sysadmin who would (or could) no longer support the rickety framework they had built on top of it, or
  4. Some combination of the above

  I could imagine it working in a devops environment at a company with a real development team that also happens to understand what sysadmins are for, but haven’t run into that in practice.

  Seriously though, for a server you need something where security updates don’t end the day a newer version is released. LTS releases and security backports matter for stability, and you don’t get that with Fedora.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla Vision fails as owners complain of Model 3 cameras fogging up in cold weather⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  All the core features, eh? Try your door handle when the battery’s dead then say that again with a straight face.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Teen boys use AI to make fake nudes of classmates, sparking police probe⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Your point 1 seems to forget something important: kids are often cruel, and bullying is frequently the point. So long term consequences for their classmates can be an incentive more than a deterrent.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Top Apple analyst says MacBook demand has fallen 'significantly'⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Apple was known for the one-button mouse in 1983, 15 years before the iMac

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨T-Mobile switches users to pricier plans and tells them it’s not a price hike⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My bad then.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨T-Mobile switches users to pricier plans and tells them it’s not a price hike⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Literally Figuratively pissing on the customer and telling them it’s raining.

  FTFY

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Unity apologises.⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Exactly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My own mail server⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I can’t take credit for writing it, but here you go!

  workaround.org