BearOfaTime
@BearOfaTime@lemm.ee
- Comment on Solar powered server rack 2 weeks ago:
I believe mailbox.org is all renewable, and I’m pretty sure it’s solar.
But you need a massive battery bank to run stuff, batteries have a limited lifespan (especially the crap used in a UPS).
It’s not cheap, you generally want to overbuild everything, and there are ongoing costs (hardware failures, batteries, etc).
But it can be done. Just have to do the math for your max power draw, then how much uptime you need determines the size of your battery bank and number of panels (which is influenced by how much sun you get/how consistent it is). You need enough panels to run your system and charge batteries, given the limitations of sun availability.
- Comment on JetKVM's Source Code is now public! ✨ 2 weeks ago:
Wow, install Tailscale or Wireguard and you’ve got a killer remote support solution.
- Comment on NYPD arrests migrant who allegedly set woman on fire on subway train, watched her burn to death 4 weeks ago:
Oh, Ffs, an illegal alien set a woman on fire and burnt her alive, and you’re going to use this kind of bullshit argument?
Get out of here.
Fox is the only marginally not full-on leftist propaganda, and even they aren’t an actually conservative news outlet.
- Comment on San Francisco hires ‘fat-positive’ body image expert to work for health department 4 weeks ago:
Hahahahah
Ya know, we should bring back fat shaming. MOOOOOOOO
- Comment on LG discontinues all UHD Blu-ray and Blu-ray players 5 weeks ago:
Storage is cheap for what you get.
A DVD movie ripped to MKV is 3-5GB.
A 12 terabyte drive is ~ $100. That’s… 2400 movies (if my math is right). My current movie collection is about 300 movies, 500GB of storage (I’ve ripped some stuff to MP4).
Having a backup of 12TB would cost perhaps $100/yr (Im paying less than that for backup of my 4TB storage).
Alternatively you can replicate your library with friends and family, pretty simple to do. Drop a mini pc with a drive in it running Kodi/Casaos/Freedombox, whatever, behind the TV at everyone’s house, for less than 20w of power you have a replicated media player.
- Comment on LG discontinues all UHD Blu-ray and Blu-ray players 5 weeks ago:
40 seconds?
More like 10 minutes
- Comment on California could become the first state to require social media warning labels 5 weeks ago:
Ooh, wow, warning labels.
Wasting more tax dollars
- Comment on The Verge raises a partial paywall: ‘It’s a tragedy that garbage is free and news is behind paywalls’ | Semafor 1 month ago:
This is the way.
Same with mobile apps. And give me a way to support a dev without using Google Play (I realize iOS is more problematic).
- Comment on The Verge raises a partial paywall: ‘It’s a tragedy that garbage is free and news is behind paywalls’ | Semafor 1 month ago:
Well vox is garbage anyway, so no loss.
- Comment on Broadcom reverses controversial plan in effort to cull VMware migrations 1 month ago:
It’s not a reversal, it’s a minor adjustment to keep companies from leaving, so they can jack the prices again next year.
- Comment on Every mosquito you kill with your hands makes them evolve to be better at avoiding you. 1 month ago:
When does this movie hit theaters, or is it made for TV?
- Comment on Workbench tale: Resurrection of a dead Emlid Reach RS+ due to extremely low battery 1 month ago:
I think it’s funny opening it somehow breaks the IP67 rating. It looks held together with screws, so there must be some kind of gasket. If nothing else, a quick bead of silicone would address that.
I learned something new today about FE batteries. I didn’t realize they are more forgiving.
- Comment on Today I found out about blinking LEDs 1 month ago:
Lol, awesome. An “entertaining mistake”.
Though I’m sure at the time there was a little annoyance.
Neat, thanks for the post, a great reminder to verify stuff.
- Comment on Social media firms raise 'serious concerns' over Australian U-16 ban 1 month ago:
Ah, yes, “it’s for the children” that we want to create a system to track you.
- Comment on Is this Samsung USB c adapter fake? 1 month ago:
Interesting.
- Comment on Is this Samsung USB c adapter fake? 1 month ago:
Isn’t that a heat sync?
- Comment on D-Link refuses to patch yet another security flaw, suggests users just buy new routers — D-Link told users to replace NAS last week 1 month ago:
Right?
Something this old is going to be power inefficient compared to newer stuff, and simply not perform as well.
I would know, I just booted up a 10 year old consumer router last night, because the current one died. It’ll be OK for a few days until I can get a replacement. Boy, is this thing slow.
- Comment on Some videogame ads from the 1990s 1 month ago:
Where were these?
Because I don’t recall ever seeing ads like this.
- Comment on good replacement options power efficiency and affordable "large" storage 1 month ago:
Good points.
Also, SSD isn’t always necessarily more power efficient than spinning disks. It depends on the specific disks, and the use-case.
I’ve seen a table posted on Lemmy with data on different drive power consumption for idle, Read, and write. Sometimes SSD consumed more power.
- Comment on Mastodon Says App Downloads Up 47% on iOS Amid Twitter Exodus 1 month ago:
But hey, I am sure it will be completely different this time.
Exactly.
- Comment on In general, people on Lemmy don't want high effort or high quality posts that take longer than 30 seconds to digest. 2 months ago:
TL:DR
- Comment on D-Link refuses to patch a security flaw on over 60,000 NAS devices — the company instead recommends replacing legacy NAS with newer models 2 months ago:
Exactly!
If you need external access, use an external access infrastructure that’s designed for that purpose, with controls and monitoring.
- Comment on D-Link refuses to patch a security flaw on over 60,000 NAS devices — the company instead recommends replacing legacy NAS with newer models 2 months ago:
So what you’re saying is I should be able to pickup one of these used for a song?
- Comment on Is there a gesture length/speed slider in Android settings? I'm frequently having to double/triple swipe for a single action (as a new Android user). 2 months ago:
I’d think smooth display could be it. Sounds similar to the Lineage setting.
Chech for a touch sensitivity setting. Maybe your phone needs the option to increase turned on.
Have you checked with Graphene forums/chats (I forget where they have rooms, XMPP maybe?).
- Comment on M4 Mac Mini Power Button Has New Bottom Location 2 months ago:
Can you just flip it over and leave it upside down? Cause I certainly would.
- Comment on Is there a gesture length/speed slider in Android settings? I'm frequently having to double/triple swipe for a single action (as a new Android user). 2 months ago:
There’s a setting in Lineage for swipe speed, sort of. I forget what it’s called and where it is (always have to look for it). Not sure if Graphene has it.
It may be in Developer Options: go to Settings, About, and tap Build Number 5 times. Now go back to Settings, System, and you’ll have a Developer Options. In there, Window animation scale, Transition animation scale and Animator Duration scale affect how quickly windows are drawn and animated. None of which affects swipe speed.
Just found my notes for this issue in Lineage. Go to Settings, System, Touch Screen, Smoothness. Higher setting is faster. Not sure if Graphene has this, looks like Divest doesn’t (and it’s based on Lineage).
- Comment on Microsoft wants $30 to let you keep using Windows 10 securely for another year 2 months ago:
Look at it this way, $30 per machine is a helluva lot cheaper than mitigating whatever 11 will break.
Not to say don’t update, but Enterprise works on this stuff in advance, testing their systems with the newest versions as their Betas are released, to develop their mitigation strategies (including staged deployments).
Even there, $30 is cheap insurance if they need a little extra time to address issues.
For the home user, fuck that. Just ensure your security model includes layers, e.g. Don’t run as admin, isolate systems that are at risk, etc.
Hell, at homeI run different VLANS for my own stuff (cause I do risky things), one for TV (because those things are terrible about security), another one for everyone else, and a guest network.
- Comment on I benchmarked 6 different metal USB sticks 2 months ago:
The contacts were surprisingly robust. Mine just died, sadly.
New ones are crappy knockoffs, but they’re cheap enough.
- Comment on I benchmarked 6 different metal USB sticks 2 months ago:
LaCie IAmAKey. No longer made. Current ones are made from aluminum and bend easily. Originals were stainless and rigid.
My 2006 one just died, and I’m so frustrated with the new ones. Fortunately they’re pretty cheap, so who cares.
- Comment on Why do we all have mayonnaise in our fridges instead of béarnaise sauce? 2 months ago:
And making mayo shelf stable (pasteurizing), makes it dull in comparison to fresh too.