Dyskolos
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- Comment on It's winter. so what is your favourite icecream / gelato / frozen yog flavour? 3 days ago:
Málaga… The one and only.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Ah thanks for the vivid trip down memory lane. It’s sad you have to really search hard to find such pearls nowadays.
- Comment on Putin will be tried for war crimes, Ukraine's prosecutor general vows 3 months ago:
Since when will billionaires be anything-ed for anything?
They could shoot a baby in the head on a public busy street with hundreds of witnesses and a 4K video recording of it, and nothing would ever happen.
- Comment on Average website visit in 2024 4 months ago:
Dunno. But why else should they offer such thing “for free”? What else gainful there is in millions of people identifying millions of images? If it’s not for training AIs, i would have no better idea :)
- Comment on Average website visit in 2024 4 months ago:
Are there even some left? Good old text+image-websites with pure information. Ahh the good old times.
But why #5? What do have against https?
- Comment on Average website visit in 2024 4 months ago:
Actually i never help google to work for free. Answer X-1 fields correctly and one totally not. Gotta do it twice at least, but be consistent. For one captcha they know the answer, for one they don’t. You’re working by helping them identifying objects in that one. Don’t 😈
- Comment on Average website visit in 2024 4 months ago:
Same in germany. That makes the whole thing even more useless, as everyone just is a subscription-based shit now…
- Comment on It’s Surprisingly Easy to Live Without an Amazon Prime Subscription 4 months ago:
I think that’s one of the ones I tried. It’s just more convenient to have unlimited access to music, whether I own it or not.
Yeah sure, I get it. I actually use Tidal Hifi. But not really for streaming but for downloading and discovering new music. Has its benefits for sure.
What do you do for lights? Like motion/position detection into each room? Or voice control?
It’s mostly based on motion. If it’s dark enough in a room and you enter it, light goes into a - we call it motion-light - cyan. So it’s clear to us it’s automatic. If no motion after 2 minutes is detected it slowly fades out for like 20s so you got a chance to “renew” the light by moving. Unless you switch a scene on, then it just stays on. If you switch it off, the automatic mode is on again. Took a good while to fool-proof it :-)
Voice control too, yes. But also homebrew. No Alexa-shit or similar. Also control by watch, or even outside over telegram.
I’ve wanted to get into automation several times, and I’m never settled enough in a house to spend the money. There’s always some reason we want to move and I don’t want to do all that permanent work to move. I even worked at an IoT company for a few years on backend and embedded code, so I have literally no excuse…
Oh dude, we moved like 5 times in the last 5 years :-) Good thing is, we take the stuff with us. I use zigbee, not wiring. Wiring is superior, but also very fixed. So yeah, I regularly have to place everything again and adapt the scripts a little bit. But nothing much changes actually. Just a lil more extra-work after moving. Awesome, for an IoT-company I would even consider working again :-)
Lol, excuses…It’s a time- and money-sink, there you have great excuses. Also at least once a month I have to tinker here and there, or change a battery. Since Star Trek i wanted a home that reacts to voice and does things automatically. And tablets which give a great overview. Or, as mentioned, our watches. Automatic doors would be awesome now! And they gotta do the WOOOSH-sound!
- Comment on Which OS do you use for your homeserver? 4 months ago:
Ubuntu and WinServer2019 vms split over a proxmox-machine and server2019-hyperv-machine
2 each for replication.
- Comment on It’s Surprisingly Easy to Live Without an Amazon Prime Subscription 4 months ago:
I still have it somewhere I’m sure, but I really gave up on it, for the convenience of youtube music of all things.
Can’t complain about convenience. I use MediaMonkey since v0.1. It actually replaced my self-made music-archiver because it was simply superior and I couldn’t match it. And for mobile we just sync our favourite playlists and be completely mobile even when there’s no net. It’s the only serious tool for serious collectors :-)
Every time I mean to start setting up servers, some reason (or my wife) talk me out of it. I’m jealous. It’s on my bucket list. I’m the only guy I know who has run server clusters professionally who has never had his own.
lol. Sorry :) My wife actually talks me into it while I try to talk myself out of it (i’m a horrible cheap fuck). I actually managed to hook her on the smart-home, as she runs into walls now when the system is down because there is no light. We forgot how to use switches :-) Seriously though: You should. If you have some kind of passion for it, just do it. I don’t need it professionally anymore (long retired) but just love to keep up and tinker. And nothing beats a working self-hosted something.
I have had a couple over the years; usually use the “nuke and restart” solution.
Oucchhh. That could’ve gone bad. Ok, granted, with family members working on the same machine/network, danger rises. We have a global firewall and a global ad-/tracker/malware-blocker. Wifey often nags that some sites won’t work, and then it’s manual-fix-time for me, but so she can surf freely without fear. I don’t even have any virus-/malware-scanner-crap installed anymore for decades. I occasionally check manually if something’s hooked somewhere and that’s it. And when I’m really really really suspicious of something, there’s a sandbox. Honestly more “normal” software phone home and do shit i don’t want than warez ever did. Every effing software wants to phone home, install 3 services no-one needs and what not.
And don’t get me started on the “purchase software and own it” to “rent it for extortionate prices and never have anything”. It so became the standard everywhere. Wait…what were we originally even talking about? :-)
- Comment on It’s Surprisingly Easy to Live Without an Amazon Prime Subscription 4 months ago:
Here’s a few of mine (not sure if any come from Amazon): Control (this was awesome!)
Aye, i’d second that list! Yet I usually have them on steam before they ever show on epic. So most of my epic-freebies i have twice in my library now. The tool “play-nite” is great for multi-library-gaming btw. includes gog, amazon, itch, ubi, steam, epic etc.
I remember the old days of curating my mp3 collection every 6 months, removing dupes and fixing organizational shifting.
Still do that. For over 25yrs I nourish my library. Just the MP3s made room for FLACs.
But if I do that stuff for apps, I have to maintain freaking sandbox environments for each app
Yeah ok, I get that. I’ve got 2 servers running 24/7 with proxmox/hyper-v, so those tools all run in seperate VMs. But especially in this case, it’s practically no maintenance. I’m still wondering why it works so flawlessly :-) As to the viral issue…I must say that i’m in the warez-scene since the early 90s and I never had a virus-problem. Ever. Though the majority is pure media, so no problem at all. And even if there should be a problem, I’ve got daily backups of everything. So I just go back to yesterday :-)
I’m in an ok place right now. And Amazon is still the cheapest place to buy anything, for me. If I spend over $1000/yr there on everything, a lot more if you count the holidays, then Prime has already justified itself. And slower or not, Amazon with Prime is STILL the fastest Christmas shipper.
Totally worth it in that case. I spend like 600 bucks for a ton of stuff for wifey this xmas, and even though it took them a day longer than usual they all came on point. And prime paid itself quickly. Rest of the year it’s not that much, so I just surf on the usual trial or just use free shipping or just pay 3,99 if need be.
Then we had to fight with Ring for 2 weeks because they wouldn’t cancel the order. We got the Cameras the 2nd week of January and my wife was on the phone with them 6 or 7 times before they finally approved a return. Amazon has this thing called “Free Returns” on most items. You can literally write in “I was drunk shopping” for your return reason and nobody bats an eyelash.
Aye, that’s totally my reason to shop at this fucking monster called amazon. No hassles, no worries, you get your crap the day they tell you, if you have ANY problem, you’re helped in 5 minutes at max. Dunno where you’re from, but we call our country “service-desert”. Some might be cheaper than amazon and it’s often tempting (my GPU was 2000,- elsewhere and 3000 on amazon…and i regret not using amazon), but if anything happens, you’re screwed and everything takes forever. Or they charge you extra fees, usage-fees, “this item isn’t defective and will be returned to you at your cost plus fee” etc. You just never have to worry. One gift we needed to return (glass broken), but as it classified as “food-item”, they told us to keep it and it will be refunded. Now we have 2 glass decanter for free instead of 3 for full-price. You won’t see that elsewhere here. No way. First you gotta prove it wasn’t YOU that broke it at home. I could on for hours…
- Comment on It’s Surprisingly Easy to Live Without an Amazon Prime Subscription 4 months ago:
Okay, guess my prejudice about the amazon app was a but premature grounded on misanthropic bitterness 😊 I retract that statement and stand corrected.
Oh autonauts. This i even bought on steam before it went for free. Still don’t regret. Still can’t recall a game i actually played on epic. Though i gotta admit i bought a looooot of games on steam.
Hm. Maybe i picked a bad bunch or had bad luck that one time i tried prime. It just never occurred as a prime (no pun intended) reason to pay… Errr… Prime.
I totally hear you on the convenience-point. Warez were never convenient. Just “free”. Yet, with a tiny amount of “work” (given you’re not a tech-illiterate) the sailing-seas-way is a child’s play nowadays. I enter the name of the series/movie, wait for the download (full speed 24/7)and simply watch it on emby with all comfort there is. From phone, tablet, laptop, desktop… My maintenance-time is below an hour per year (and i even love tinkering). All for below 19 bucks in the quality i prefer.
Dishing out 100 bucks would need a lot of benefits to convince me. Though i get you. Trading money for tinkering-time. All depends on our preference and skill and nerdiness 😂
- Comment on It’s Surprisingly Easy to Live Without an Amazon Prime Subscription 4 months ago:
Ok tbh i never tried the amazon app. But i doubt it just downloads and that’s it. No tracking? No phoning home? No play-statistics? Hmm
Yeah sure, we all got epic accounts filled with freebies. But i never heard of anyone actually using the app instead of maybe even playing one of those freebies and then quitting the app again 😁
Ok, they might indeed be the cheapest, thanks to the massive added value. Maybe it was a local thing? I tried watching like 3 things. And one i could rent, the others pay extra and i was like “wtf? This is prime? Fuckit”
And i didn’t mean to question your choice. It seems to be the best deal for you.
It just sucks that you’d need like 5 services and still can’t watch EVERYTHING. And in case of netflix (i assume that’s valid for the others too) we e. G. Only get 30% of what the muricans can watch. Same price. Or use a vpn.
I really tried being legit, but I’m back to *arr and emby. Not 10 bucks a month for 99% of everything. Did i mention netflix didn’t even work on any of my droids because of rooting? Fuck this.
- Comment on It’s Surprisingly Easy to Live Without an Amazon Prime Subscription 4 months ago:
Interesting. For me it’s the other way round 😂 The games are on their app (nope, thanks) or epic (no thanks). The digital goodies are only nice if you game any of those. The tv stuff is the worst I’ve seen back when i actually paid for my series/movies. Rarely nothing there and the interesting stuff still asked for money.
Books i can’t judge… I have a tolino full of epubs 😁
- Comment on It’s Surprisingly Easy to Live Without an Amazon Prime Subscription 4 months ago:
I effing hate amazon and what it stands for. Yet, it’s one of the very rare companies here (krautland) that actually give a damn about support and reliability.
Got a prob? It’s solved saturday night.
Got a prob with <most other german companies>? You can call us mo-fr between 11:00 and 12:00 but only when it’s not fullmoon. Also your estimated queue time is 2hrs. And wait till you hear our mind-dissolving on-hold-“music”…
When amazon says “it’s in stock and can be with you tomorrow if u order within 2hrs from now” then it is like this.
You get the gist…
So, on topic: i only buy prime when i plan to order a lot of stuff the coming month. For occasional orders i don’t need prime. Most of the time i can just use another free trial instead of actually paying.
- Comment on This tool for finding bad USB-C cables 5 months ago:
lol, no pun intended, just too stupid to type on phone :-)
- Comment on This tool for finding bad USB-C cables 5 months ago:
There are some cheap testers for that. Even om amazon
- Comment on Sideloaded app stores are coming to iOS in the EU 5 months ago:
You mean, beside apple-crap itself? 😁
- Comment on Literally a virus 5 months ago:
Jeez. You must be an old fart to know that classic 😁
- Comment on Every time I'm trying to decide what new show I should check out 5 months ago:
You might be right, the inconsistency was well around. But it still was a good show. I always perceived her as a more “indecisive” captain. Or one being able to change her opinions. Whatever. It’s what it is. The best female captain we had so far 😊
- Comment on bash.org is gone 5 months ago:
I know, there’re even gopher, Finger and BBSs still around. But being around isn’t really the same as alive. Except technically.
- Comment on Every time I'm trying to decide what new show I should check out 5 months ago:
She is! Always wondered why she got so much hate in the community. Not as much as Archer did though. Which is also great IMHO.
- Comment on bash.org is gone 5 months ago:
Amen. Guess it’s the curse of the unknowing youth. They grow up with this bullcrap. I hate discord so much. “oh buy nitro, have stupid stickers!” ugh.
I really really really miss IRC. What was wrong with it? Why did it die? Did we all die?
- Comment on Netflix Just Saved The Most Underrated Star Trek Show — Creators Tease What's Next 5 months ago:
You made it sound very tempting. But all the other guys already sold me on giving it a chance :-) And me too. didn’t like lower decks or enterprise at first neither. But they both grew on me and totally earned their place in my trekkie-heart.
- Comment on Netflix Just Saved The Most Underrated Star Trek Show — Creators Tease What's Next 5 months ago:
“removed by mod”? Damn. Now I wanna know :-)
- Comment on Netflix Just Saved The Most Underrated Star Trek Show — Creators Tease What's Next 5 months ago:
Okokok, you all got me convinced already ,-)
- Comment on Stuff I began feeling very concerned as well as anxious about stuff I have been hearing about 5 months ago:
Well, there are some (good) reasons. From different perspectives:
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sometimes you’ll end up at your own restrictions from “back then”. Where you can’t fix or add anything but need to rebuild the foundation.
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a simple monetary reason. Just giving updates for free to people who bought a license 15yrs ago, is not a sustainable business-model.
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technological advancements you couldn’t predict. Like TPM and whatnot.
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simple marketing for clueless people. “I’ll better get the newest macos, windows still is at winXP” or the likes.
I’m not fan of it either. Win10->win11 wasn’t much of a change. Except things most people don’t care about (but need more modern hardware for) and the horribly nasty startmenu. For gamers there are some nice things, but those could’ve been a patch, like you say.
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- Comment on Stuff I began feeling very concerned as well as anxious about stuff I have been hearing about 5 months ago:
Nah i think they didn’t do an MS-app. But on a desktop the website works fine, so there isn’t really a reason. If you absolutely need one, there surely are apps to containerize websites as an “app”.
- Comment on Netflix Just Saved The Most Underrated Star Trek Show — Creators Tease What's Next 5 months ago:
Very well put. That spirit is what i want from my treks. So yes, will watch it 😌 Thanks man!
- Comment on Netflix Just Saved The Most Underrated Star Trek Show — Creators Tease What's Next 5 months ago:
Oh the majority here seems to like it, so i will give it a go. I just thought it was (from the presentation) very kid-targeted.