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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are there any story ripoffs that are actually good?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Seth MacFarlane is a huge Trekkie and The Orville is him paying homage

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨3D printing in an unheated workshop⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  My printer (ender 3 V3 SE) has just finished its first winter a modern, but uninsulated garage (insulation on the ceiling but nothing else other than the cavities in the breeze blocks). I think it got down to near freezing, but not below.

  Absolutely 0 issues with the printer itself. I have had 1 spool of PLA go a bit stringy due to moisture, but it was just sat in a cardboard box; I made no effort to keep it dry.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Keycloak or alternative?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve been using Authentic for a while now and it works very well. There is also a Teraform provider to manage it as code. I do mostly OIDC, but also use it as a proxy for a few things that do not support that and just need to be locked down (Esp home and longhorn dashboards for example).

  The disadvantage is that it is not the lightest option. If that is important to you, look at Authelia.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Price gouging⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I like James May’s description

  A plane elegantly uses the laws of physics to fly. A helicopter just beats them into submission.

  Or something like that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Advice for setting up baremetal k8s lab⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I run k3s on my bare metal cluster and for a lab I think it is excellent. Gets the cluster up and running easily so you can learn about actual Kubernetes stuff.

  Personally I run it on fedora coreos, but I would not recommend that for everyone. I would just use whatever distri you like. All the usual suspects will work perfectly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anyone have any experience with TubeArchivist?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  That absolutely true yes, I’m not sure you can even preview what you have downloaded in Pinchflat.

  We use Jellyfin/Kodi for playback generally

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anyone have any experience with TubeArchivist?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I tried it alongside Pinchflat and ended up settling on Pinchflat.

  Why? I’m not going to say TA is bad, it worked well, but Pinchflat’s logic works better for me. Also, I was using TA with an existing Elastic search cluster. When I switched my logs to Loki/Garage I decided not to keep the ES cluster around just for TA.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3204: Dinosaurs And Non-Dinosaurs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  What is funny is that you probably struggled to say words like “shoulder”, but “dimetrodon” posed no problem to you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's your opinion on Ubiquiti/Unifi gear?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Just use switches and APs and I’m happy. Had 2 generations of AP and will eventually upgrade to the current ones, but am not in a rush.

  I have no desire to expand beyond that, but the networking gear works well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨what does your "workshop" look like?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Mine is a single garage that is a mixture of workshop and gym. Squat rack at one end, cabinets down one wall and bench down the other. There is also a bike work stand too, but the bikes are all stored elsewhere.

  In the middle is a massive pile of empty boxes, because it is a garage and my wife keeps dumping them there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Self hosting Sunday! What's up and how long?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  2 this week

  Accidentally had 2 Jellyfin pods trying to write to the database together and corrupted the DB. Not really anyway to fix it so just killed it and rebuilt the library.

  Also, my son’s Minecraft server got corrupted. Longhorn backup to the rescue 🛟

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨After Years of Waiting Jellyfin Finally Lands on Samsung Tizen TVs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  We have both.

  Kodi use Jellyfin for its media library and Kodi is excellent for a lot of the TV we watch. catch Up TV has replaced the decoder for watching terrestrial TV.

  One thing that sucks in Kodi though is Arte (a franco-german channel that is a leans towards “intellectual”). For that, the LG WebOS app is much better than the Kodi add-on. Other than that 1 app, we could happily plug Kodi into digital signage panel if they weren’t stupidly expensive.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The TV industry finally concedes that the future may not be in 8K⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I cannot fathom why, but people do not seem to capable of understanding resolution, screen size and viewing distance as important factors that interplay with each other.

  8k is absolutely pointless on a 49" TV that is several metres away. However, I will take 4k over 1080 on even a 24" computer screen every time.

  That is just me though, your preferences and vision may be different to mine. Same with the monitors. You like multiple screens, I prefer a single larger screen.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon tech workers leaving for other jobs in response to return to office mandate⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  My company announced RTO the same day Amazon did. The Union is up in arms, but honestly the powers that be are handling it pretty well. My boss is happily going to the office for a couple of days a week. She’s a million miles from enforcing it on us though. Exceptions are already in place for people like me (3 hour TGV ride from the nearest office) and even a few people who just said “I really don’t want to”.

  I’m sure a few people will leave and not be replaced, but perhaps they were just dead weight anyway. I couple that I know about definitely are.