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- Comment on The TV industry finally concedes that the future may not be in 8K 6 days ago:
Sorry, the best I can do is install a camera and microphone on our next model, to spy on you and force interaction with advertisements.
- Comment on Getting worn out with all these docker images and CLI hosted apps 1 week ago:
IT is a very wide field, and maybe that generalization is actually not good
That was what set me off. I was having a bad morning and misread the tone to be more dismissive than it likely was.
- Comment on Getting worn out with all these docker images and CLI hosted apps 1 week ago:
I’ve misread the tone, I agree. I apologize for that. However, I find that his complaints were not about things that are always “fundamental core principals of working in IT”. For some, sure, but where I work I’m by far the employee with the most familiarity with CLI/powershell and scripting. Almost everything is done via a GUI or web interface if it can be. I would tell any of my coworkers that maybe IT isn’t for them.
I also, in a rush to finish, misremembered and incorrectly reread some of your words too quickly. You did not recommend the “clone a repo” solutions, you advised against them. Again, I apologize. I still am suspicious of this massive collection of self hosted services that work perfectly with each other after like 20 minutes of tweaking and little maintenance. That was what I was trying to imply with that section. I’ve lost close to a dozen 6-10 hour sessions on Saturdays pulling my hair out because I can’t seem to find out how to do some specific things that it seems like I need to do to make some “easy” new service to work with my setup. It’s like that Malcom in the Middle (?) clip of the dad 5 projects deep at the end of the day trying to fix some simple problem in the morning.
I’ll try to document some of my issues this weekend. I would honestly appreciate any help or recommendations.
- Comment on Getting worn out with all these docker images and CLI hosted apps 1 week ago:
That being said, I think there’s a bigger issue at play here. If you “work in IT” and are burnt out from “15 containers and a lack of a gui” I’m afraid to say you’re in the wrong field of work and you’re trying to jam a square peg in a round hole.
Honestly, this is the kind of response that actually makes me want to stop self hosting. Community members that have little empathy.
I work in IT and like most we’re also a Windows shop. I have zero professional experience with Linux but I’m learning through my home lab while simultaneously trying extract myself from the privacy cluster fuck that is the current consumer tech industry. It’s a transition and the documentation I find more or less matches the OPs experience.
I research, pick what seems to be the best for my situation (often most popular), get it working with sustainable, minimal complexity, and in short time find that some small aspect of my setup has literally zero documentation for getting some other vital part of my setup working. I find some two year old Github issue comment that allegedly solves my exact problem that I can’t translate to the version I’m running because it’s two revisions newer. Most other responses are incomplete, RTFM, or “git gud n00b”, like your response here
Wherever you work, whatever industry, you can get burnt out. It’s got nothing to do with if you’ve “got what it takes” or whatever bullshit you think “you’re in the wrong field of work and you’re trying to jam a square peg in a round hole” equates to.
I run close to 100 services all using docker compose and it’s an incredibly simple, repeatable, self documenting process. Spinning up some new things is effortless and takes minutes to have it set up, accessible from the internet, and connected to my SSO.
If it’s that easy, then point me to where you’ve written about it. I’d love to learn what 100 services you’ve cloned the repos for, tweaked a few files in a few minutes, and run with minimal maintenance all working together harmoniously.
- Comment on Data centers will consume 70 percent of memory chips made in 2026 - supply shortfall will cause the chip shortage to spread to other segments | Tom's Hardware 2 weeks ago:
They use a different kind of RAM.
It’s the capacity to make RAM and the materials required to make RAM that is going to datacenters.
- Comment on What a great idea 3 weeks ago:
Going early and going late often helps a lot with avoiding people who meander around blocking movement through the store.
Unfortunately, where I live is pretty heavily populated so the shelves are also a lot more empty if I go late or go too early.
- Comment on How we get to 1 nanometer chips and beyond 3 weeks ago:
Not an expert but… typical computers do what they do by transmitting (primarily) electrical signals between components. Is there electricity or isn’t there. It’s the “bit” with two states - on or off, 1 or 0. Electricity is the flow of electrons between atoms. Basically, we take atoms that aren’t very attached to some of their electrons and manipulate them so that they pass the electrons along when we want them to. I don’t know if there is a way to conduct and process electrical signals without using an atom’s relationship with its electrons.
Quantum computing is the suspected new way to get to “better” computing. I don’t know much about the technical side of that, beyond that they use quantum physics to expand the bit to something like a qubit, which exploits superposition (quantum particles existing in multiple states simultaneously until measured, like the Schrodinger’s cat metaphor) and entanglement (if two quantum particles’ states are related to or dependent on each other, determining the state of one particle also determines the state of the other) to transmit/process more than just a simple 1 or 0 per qubit. A lot more information can be transmitted and processed simultaneously with a more complex bit. As I understand it, quantum computing has been very slow going.
That’s my shitty explanation. I’m sure someone will come along and correct my inaccurate simplification of how it all works and list all that I missed, like fiberoptic transmission of signals.
- Comment on Why Are Cars Getting Rid Of Android Auto? 5 weeks ago:
I’m afraid the best I can give you is a proprietary, always online, underpowered, half-assed piece of spyware that will probably end up costing you a yearly subscription fee if you don’t want advertisements.
- Comment on The upvotes have been removed for your safety 1 month ago:
Just another layer - the button did nothing to begin with.
- Comment on The richest people in the world are morally bankrupt 1 month ago:
Bill Gates who has more or less devoted his life to saving as many lives as possible.
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Buffett who last I heard had donated some 50 or 60 billion to different foundations.
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Even Musk, for all his recent evil got rich trying to reduce our dependence on gas cars
Maybe they are happier than OP suspects - I’m not them so I can’t really comment on that. As far as your framing of their motives and achievements though… Hard disagree, especially Musk and Gates. All three fucked over tons of people to get their obscene wealth.
I’d go into great depth as to why, but it usually ends in nothing being learned and a lot of my time wasted so I’ll just hard disagree and bow out.
- Comment on I Went All-In on AI. The MIT Study Is Right. 1 month ago:
The few times I’ve used LLMs for coding help, usually because I’m curious if they’ve gotten better, they let me down. Last time it was insistent that its solution would work as expected. When I gave it an example that wouldn’t work, it even broke down each step of the function giving me the value of its variables at each step to demonstrate that it worked… but at the step where it had fucked up, it swapped the value in the variable to one that would make the final answer correct. It made me wonder how much water and energy it cost me to be gaslit into a bad solution.
How do people vibe code with this shit?
- Comment on When the AI bubble bursts.. 1 month ago:
But if you fire half your staff while only making 400 units…
- Comment on Tuvix - Self-Hosted RSS Aggregator 2 months ago:
FYI, a few typos in “3. Organize with Categories” first paragraph in the getting started tutorial/blog post.
- Comment on Infosys co-founder once again calls for longer than 70-hour weeks - and no, he's not joking 2 months ago:
If you pay low enough wages and workers are too exhausted to do anything about it, lower productivity is profitable. It’s about the bottom line.
- Comment on Why do some Americans "feel ashamed" for being American even when it's not their fault? 2 months ago:
Thanks for the demonstration.
- Comment on Why do some Americans "feel ashamed" for being American even when it's not their fault? 2 months ago:
For instance, I too voted for Harris, and I’ve been called a gEnOciDe suPpOrTeR, a bOoTLiCkEr, and. bLuEmAga™. Just for voting against a fascist.
The hatred between left leaning Lemmy users over the last election is crazy to me. Instead of focusing on getting rid of the current fascist regime together, so many just dogpile on anyone based on whether they voted for Harris. I feel like every other political post has a flame war that starts with a comment blaming the news on anyone and everyone on the left who didn’t vote Harris or criticized dems during the campaign.
There are those of us with a bit of nuance though. I was and still am disgusted and disappointed with the Dem’s positions and empathize with those who sat out in 2024 but I voted Dems them over the party looking to fast track fascism and white nationalism. I regularly get flamed for suggesting we move on from blaming each other and focus on getting rid of the fascists here and now.
- Comment on Infosys co-founder once again calls for longer than 70-hour weeks - and no, he's not joking 2 months ago:
If the workforce makes a pittance and is too exhausted to rebel, the bosses win.
- Comment on The reason women cover their drinks 2 months ago:
He is. He’s more or less the USA’s shadow president - he maneuvered himself to be Trump’s right hand man and has the clown president’s trust for many domestic issues, particularly anything related to non-white people.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
I’m a leftist, not strictly a Democrat. I’m not happy with Democrats, but R’s and D’s are not the same. You are just taking any opportunity to stir shit up like some kind of paid troll.
Kindly fuck off.
Thanks
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
So it’s the finger wagging that’s uncomfortable?
- Comment on Home Assistant Connect ZBT-2 - A USB adapter that plugs into your Home Assistant system and opens up a world of smart device options 2 months ago:
I grabbed a TubesZB and it has made things so much easier. I can put it wherever I need it and if I need to migrate my HA VM to another host there is no fuss. Literally did it the other day and it worked flawlessly.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Your banal chattering is unnecessary. Are you able to grasp the importance of my experiments? Begone from my sensory range, lest I have you disassembled for servitor parts
- Comment on I finally understand Cloudflare Zero Trust tunnels 2 months ago:
Do you have any solution for services that aren’t over a browser? I’ve been using Tailscale but I’m looking for alternatives. Pangolin only seems to work for either browser-based services or opening ports to the Internet, unless I’m missing something.
Ex. How do I connect a client app on my phone to my subsonic server for music without opening my home server to the net?
- Comment on Just work a little harder 2 months ago:
Free access to healthcare goes a long way, and it changes the system in a number of ways.
In America, imagine an entire parasitical industry exists. It exists by collecting money from people in exchange for offering them access to healthcare. The more treatment someone receives, the less profit that industry makes. The more hurdles they place between a patient and the services they need, the more money they make.
Imagine having a medical condition but knowing that if you lose your job, you might lose access to the treatment for your condition.
If you are poor enough here in the US, you might qualify for MEDICAID. Depending on where you live, you likely have to jump through a ton of arbitrary hoops to keep your coverage. If you get a job, maybe a raise or extra hours, even a slightly better job? You might lose your MEDICAID.
Or some politician decides to cut the optional state expansion to MEDICAID. With less income from these sources, the only hospital near you might decide it’s not profitable to stay open and now you have to travel an extra hour or two to the nearest hospital.
It doesn’t need to be a utopia. It just needs to be better than this.
- Comment on Breaking: Google is easing up on Android's new sideloading restrictions! 2 months ago:
Are we now protesting that they reversed their decision?
…no? I’m not really protesting so much as offering what I think the other person is trying to say. I think they are saying that Google crossed a line, and walking it back doesn’t change that fact.
In my opinion, Google has crossed countless lines over the last 5-10 years. I’m looking for alternatives that meet my own needs. That search has accelerated over the last few years, when the things Google has done have been most egregious. This isn’t a protest. This is disillusionment. I’m abandoning ship.
- Comment on Using Fail2ban to protect exposed services 2 months ago:
I’ve had a pretty good experience with it aside from this recent problem with my phone. It’s a big deal right now - I have a number of self hosted services I use on my phone. When I left it enabled, it would happen multiple times a day, though it would get fixed if I just quickly disable-enable it… at least until it randomly happens again in an hour or two.
Unfortunately, my mother has been having a number of health issues so there is no fucking way I’m going to risk missing calls and texts…so I just deal with being disconnected for now. I really wish there was a solution or something I could do to figure out what’s going wrong.
- Comment on Using Fail2ban to protect exposed services 2 months ago:
I’ve had to stop using it. In the last few months I have more and more suddenly lost all connectivity outside of my tailscale network. I tried excluding apps but I still will randomly fail to receive SMS or calls, suddenly getting them delivered in a rush when a disconnect from tailscale.
- Comment on Breaking: Google is easing up on Android's new sideloading restrictions! 2 months ago:
I think it was fairly obvious that the move was going to piss people off, they just misjudged to what extent. Modern business strategy is to claim to listen to customer feedback and just quietly plan to implement it anyway, just do it more subtly, more quietly, and more slowly.
- Comment on Valve Announces New Steam Machine, Steam Controller & Steam Frame 2 months ago:
It is very hard to make a device that is affordable, compact, efficiently cooled, and modular. Offering complete support is also infinitely more difficult when hardware is not controlled for. GPU and CPU are both customized AMD chips.
If you want to swap your GPU, build your own SFF. Hopefully they’ll have SteamOS available for general use soon.
- Comment on Why all the free-stuff Facebook groups you’re part of just changed their name 2 months ago:
Much of it was all posted in a short period of time. I ignored him after he picked it up and told me what it was for. I’m just always saddened and frustrated that there seem to always be people jumping to take advantage of any situation, be a middle man.
In the long run, it’s again at least better than wasting it. I don’t have the patience to deal with trying to sell most things. It’s not like I went out and bought the stuff with the intent of giving them away to someone who needs it for free. It just… doesn’t feel as rewarding as knowing it is actually going to help someone besides a middle man.