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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Labour MP claims it'd cost "Upwards of £100bn to Nationalise Water". He is an extremely smart man. Why does he lie like this?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s easy to nationalise

  Step 1, be the government Step 2, create a new bill or whatever Step 3, walk in to the water companies Step 4, fuck the shareholders and give them nothing

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Say Hello to the World's Largest Hard Drive, a Massive 36TB Seagate⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  So if you have been around long enough you might remember the Hitachi (IBM) deathstars wizardprang.wordpress.com/…/the-last-deathstar/

  I see Hitachi and think no fucking way, where as Seagate I used to see as an always yes. Now I just stick the disks in a zfs array and call it done

  What I’m really waiting for is large capacity ssds with sata.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows 11 will soon be able to describe images on your screen using AI — and it'll all be done locally⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve been using Ubuntu since 7.04, it’s all Linux underneath just with a slightly different look

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a font/typeface designing program that is available for Windows or Linux that supports creation of variable fonts and OpenType features?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Fontforge and inkscape? I’ve never gone deep in to it before, but an inkscape wiki page does reference export to font forge as an svg

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Which guides to trust for novice / normie getting started?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The traditional way is man pages and howto guides, which contain loads of information. You can get man pages in terminal or html (but I can remember how).

  Next up is online tutorials like you are using, however with complicated setups, like a full mail server, the info gets very specific and can often go out of date.

  Then we have readthedocs, which are the project specific instructions which tend to be very good.

  How ever my personal favourite is the arch wiki, you’ll need to know how to change commands to Debian based systems, but it does give a lot of info and insight that is up to date.

  For moving from Goole photos look at photoprism, immich and nextcloud, there are others, but these are the ones that made my short list

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Star Wars is an ode to the stupidest use of battle lasers⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I thought they were plasma based weapons

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UCLA team finds high levels of dangerous air particles(PM2.5) in air near electric vehicle fast charging stations.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Urban backgrounds n=4 and gas stations n=8

  are you fucking kidding me

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why, just why?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The guy at work was mentioning immigrants and hotels today, I use him as a baseline as to what the sheep in society are thinking. He’s now actually blaming the previous conservative government and labour for the mess we are in., instead of just the labour government. It’ll be interesting if I hear about this tomorrow

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What would you recommend to fix this home network issue.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Like others have, I also run unifi access points, run a dedicated network cable to each one and you should be sorted, bit of work but totally worth it in the long run. I think a couple of the pro models have dual network ports so you could in theory daisy chain one from the other, never tried it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla's European car sales nosedive for fifth month as customers switch to Chinese EVs⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  With my cheap over night tarrif (UK) I pay approximately 2p a mile, I’m planning a road trip to Europe soon and have calculated with a pay for discount EV charge card, I’ll average about 14p/mile. I’m saving between £60-£80 a month compared to my old diesel car, which pays off the charger install ~£900 in a year. Diesel price have dropped in the UK since I got mine.

  For servicing it’s coolant every 3 years or so, and that pretty much it. We have a MOT in the UK, for every vehicle over 3 years old, then yearly, that covers more than what is needed on the yearly services for my car. Only thing it doesn’t cover is lubricate the charge port, but I think I’m ok with that

  Also the cabin noise is almost silent, no gears, constant predictable acceleration, and I can plug anything I want in to the 240v outlet in the back seat

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Been a good couple of years⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Rif somehow shielded me from all the fuckery that was happening in Reddit, when I finally tried the mobile app and website from longer than 2 mins, I was like, oh yeah, ah, ok, bye

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Relive the days of unhinged GPU box artwork — new book catalogs 300 retail boxes with both horrors and delights⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah yes let’s order a GPU for this work computer, box turns up, wtf is that

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can deliberate noise harassment still be a crime if it's done every day from 7:30 AM till 10:30-11:30 PM?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Ok the only people that can help you are the council, noise complaints are the responsibility your local council unfortunately, given the cuts that have happened over the years this means that they are underfunded. What you need to do is get the local noise complaints number and call it every single time it happens. This is what is called a statutory noise complaint. Just Google it. At the same time you need to start a noise complaint diary,

  the columns are date, start time, end time, severity*, weather, and details.

  Severity is on a scale of 0 to 4, with 0 been nothing and 4 been OMFG argh. Details need to include what type of noise it is and most importantly how it affects you. Headache? Lack of sleep, emotional distress? Got to town however remember that this is going to be a legal document that could get used in court eventually. Also important is to do it daily even if there is no noise. Include if you are away on holiday etc if it regularly happens on a weekend etc. The council should send you this info after the first couple of incidents

  Now for the nighttime banging on the walls and screaming, if it just randomly starts in the middle of the night that sounds to me like someone is or could be having domestic abuse. I apologise in advance if this upsets people. You should contact the police and let the know that.

  If any of your neighbours are affected try to get the in on it as well, it’s much more effective with multiple people.

  Eventually you will be asked to place a “noise recording device” in the room that is most affected, at this point you know something is finally going to be done about, eventually…

  If you have any remote possibility of moving house in the next year or so don’t go down this route as i believe that you have to declare it to the next house buyer

  The problem we have in the UK is that most of the laws, procedures and police are built around people not wanting to be complete knobheads. Unfortunately the people have realised this and also realised there are no consequences for their actions

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thousands of Asus routers are being hit with stealthy, persistent backdoors⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You have to fill them with both ends of a cable or the bits leak on the floor

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Self hosting email, FLOSS, Python ...⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Postfix and write a milter (mail filter), you can get them to interact a various points in the mail delivery.

  I think most things can be accomplished within postfix

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s because they have pivoted to subscriptions on office, ads on windows and general data harvesting.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What do I actually need?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Just sailing? Single hard drive connected to what ever

  Hosting stuff you care about? Some form of raid/zfs/whatever with at least 2 discs and a backup plan, also hooked up to what ever

  That is the bare minimum. Buy used and expect your needs to change within a month/year.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do I decrease acne after shaving my face?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Is it acne or in growing hairs causing the acne? Try not shaving against the direction of growth, do across or with the growth. I use a wet alum block sometimes, helps with small cuts and irritation after, however it stings like fuck. One block will last you a life time unless you drop it. Also a face scrub can help the day after, however the wife has an oil based soft one that makes my skin worse, I have to use a more aggressive non oily one

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Am I Being Unreasonable In Regards To A Paid App?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Name and shame, then move on to something else, lots of issues with “lifetime” licences, you are a paying customer and should be treated as such.

  LTT had problems with a team viewer lifetime licence and had a few good videos about it.

  Disclaimer: I love opensource and have a mild hatred of closed source software

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Writing is on the wall for spinning rust': IBM joins Pure Storage in claiming disk drives will go the way of the dodo in enterprises⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree that single HDDs are terrible, but once you raid multiple of them together, it becomes much better. And now with zfs even better still

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jack Daniel’s maker says Canada pulling US alcohol off shelves ‘worse than tariff’⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You know the greatest part of this seeing a Canadian get angry, I don’t think I’ve ever seen that before.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Office support in Windows 10 ends in October too - what that really means⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Who needs align right when you can just hold the space-bar till it’s there, or if you are a pro tab then space for perfect alignment

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Office support in Windows 10 ends in October too - what that really means⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I forced it on our office over maybe 15 years ago, I’ve finally just about stopped receiving complaints. The vast majority of the push back was document compatibility, but not in the way you think. The problem was the original document was created by a fucktard or opened by one, so many people don’t know how to correctly format a document using styles, know how to use page breaks, line breaks, etc etc. that’s us recieving documents and creating documents. To be fair I didn’t initially fully understand this as well, but it literally took me 4 hours to read the manual.

  Other problems include Microsoft’s fuckery using a supposedly open standard and allow proprietary code/content within the same open standard.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'It's extremely worrisome.' NASA's James Webb Space Telescope faces potential 20% budget cut just 4 years after launch⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s going to be measles or some other preventable disease

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why Mark Zuckerberg wants to redefine open source so badly⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the licence type he is looking for is shareware

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Petition: Prohibit publishers irrevocably disabling video games they have already sold⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ok name me one petition that has done something ever

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Noob stuck on port-forwarding wile trying to host own raw-html website. Pls help⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Are you on carrier grade NAT (CGNAT) public IP in the address space 100.64.0.0 to 100.127.255.255?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨MPs back proposals to legalise assisted dying⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The only reason I can see to be against this is because of religion, as long as safeguards are put in place it should be a non issue. Switzerland has been doing it since 1942

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Half of Young Norwegians Say Online Piracy Is an Acceptable Way to Save Money * TorrentFreak⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah assuming young means below 16, you can’t expect babies to know how to do online piracy, give them until they at least 10 or so

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨But yes.⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Hydro is just more dense steam, wind is less dense steam, it’s steam engines all the way!