MuttMutt

@MuttMutt@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do I make the Wordpress media library be somewhere else?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  wordpress.org/plugins/exmage-wp-image-links/ might fit the bill

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Self hosting piefed⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  When you are running chown what is the exact command you are running and from what directory? Where are you getting your instructions? What error are you getting exactly? Did you verify that the directory has the correct owner before continuing? What are the directory permissions? What are the directory permissions supposed to be?

  It’s impossible to troubleshoot without the information.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Homelab hardware choices⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly, I suggest going onto ebay and buying an old server hardware. My TrueNAS and OpnSense boxes as well as my 10G switch and my 48 port 1G switch were purchased used on ebay. My TrueNAS came from UnixSurplus www.ebay.com/str/unixsurpluscom and I have purchased hardware for others from them. They list their TrueNAS ready systems under FreeNAS but it doesn’t matter, the HBA’s are flashed to IT mode already so all you need to do is add drives and install an OS.

  Yes 10G can be useful if you have a lot of users or transfer large files. I edit video and I store it all on my server.

  Yes 8GB of RAM will be limiting, ZFS needs a minimum of 16GB to function correctly.

  The switches and AP’s shouldn’t care what the router OS is. I use OpnSense, my 10G switch is a Quanta LB6M, my 1G study is a Dell Power Connect 5548, I have 2 TP-Link EAP650 AP’s with a TP-Link Omada OC200 controller and will be adding another AP when my upstairs is finished.

  For POE I just use an injector with my Power Connect. My AP’s, the OC200, and multiple cameras are all POE.

  I’ve found that if the equipment powers up and works for a week it will continue to do so for a long time, I’ve used the Quanta LB6M since 2016 or so.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wondering if running a single user Lemmy is an overkill⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I will have to take another look. I’ve seen it before but didn’t see anything about Lemmy and such.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are good option for self hosting home security camera?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I use Reolink. Some of the older cameras don’t work as well but setting them to reboot on a schedule works pretty well.

  Frigate is not able to control the PTZ function of my RLC-823S1 but the Duo 3V is amazing. I would like to be able to track people who step onto my porch so I can get an image of their vehicle or direction of travel, but I mainly just use it to look around if I hear a noise.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenWRT router⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Hardware routers can be killed for many reasons. Age and an inability to upgrade them to suit current needs is the biggest one. OEM’s do the fairly quickly as they build devices auth the resources to work for today and maybe tomorrow. After their product is no longer made they want it to be obsolete not long after so they can claim they can support is no longer viable.

  OpenWRT tries to augment and support devices for as long as possible but at the same time the hardware limitations still exist and often the storage will no longer support the latest version due to the size of the new version.

  As far as when that will happen depends on multiple factors that have the ability to change at any time. There viable be a massive flaw in a portion of the software that requires a huge rewrite and the addition of code that will make the software too large to fit.

  Sometimes someone will create a version with less used features available so that it can still be used but it’s a losing battle

  If you want true longevity repurpose an old computer into a router. OpnSense is what I use and recommend. Add in something like a TP-Link EAP650 or two and you have a rock solid platform that can handle a lot more and last much longer. Add Power Over Ethernet (POE) along with an Omada controller and you can position the AP in a place where it will work the best for your use. You can have enough access points to have a full signal anywhere even if your place is the size of the Louvre. When new technology comes out you can upgrade the AP’s as needed when needed and upgrade the router as well in a similar fashion.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wondering if running a single user Lemmy is an overkill⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s something I’ve wanted to do for a while. Honestly I want to host a Lemmy instance and my own peertube instance.

  Two things are stopping me. I don’t understand certain points of how things interact in the software or how to set it up properly to self host and be comfortable in it’s security. I barely understand docker and some other stuff. It sucks because I understood how to use DOS at an around 14 by reading the manual. I also don’t have the funding to do so in a way that I would feel comfortable at this point. I don’t fully trust co-mingling my home services with web services due to the security risks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anyone in the US also feeling extra suicidal after hearing the news today?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m just sick of all the political junk.

  Trumps a dipshit, all politicians are liars. Maduro was a tyrant in a country full of corruption and massive human rights violations. Two wrongs don’t make right but at the same time doing nothing isn’t right either.

  Edmund Burke: “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”

  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venezuela#Government_and_po… en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_in_Venezuela

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If libertarian socialists are on the left and anarcho-capitalists are on the right what ideology is in the middle?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The leave me alone, live and let live, enough with the politics because every politician lies (we can tell because their lips are moving) middle.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some common *unforced errors* to be wary of?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Same, cats are fine. Them crapping in my garden not so much. Cleaning a litterbox… not happening.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some common *unforced errors* to be wary of?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Treating other people like dirt.

  The person you treat like crap today may just be the person choosing whether to save your ass tomorrow.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Whats the best use for 75 dollars?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In the humble words of Bender B Rodriguez, you could buy one 75.00 hookerbot or seventy-five 1.00 hookerbots.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you had too, how would go about running a Instagram account?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My other half runs Facebook and that type of stuff. I handle most of YouTube stuff and two websites. There’re are plugins I use that allows me to email in posts to my website and any posts made are also sent to Facebook in shortened form.

  I record video while scuba diving using a DJI Action 4. On the surface I use my S21 with a DJI Osmo Mobile 6 while recording audio with a cheap wireless lav mic that is usb c. To manage the social media’s i use my tablet and computer she has a Tab a9 for complete management of YouTube, email, Facebook, And whatever else she has setup.

  Most of my stills are from video and only show remote underwater locations or where I am at. I do my best at home to keep views of structures to a minimum. Look up Imagepipe f-droid.org/…/de.kaffeemitkoffein.imagepipe as you can use it to quickly strip tags and resize pictures.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Explained: Why you can't move Windows 11 taskbar like Windows 10, according to Microsoft⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Simple solution is to switch to Linux. Ubuntu Cinnamon 24.04LTS had worked great for me so far.

  If you absolutely can’t or won’t switch look at openshell open-shell.github.io/Open-Shell-Menu/

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨at what point in life it's too late to go back to school?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Your good until your in a pine box or an urn.

  Learning should never stop for any reason. However you do have to temper your expectations when learning a trade or skill you can’t use due to personal limitations. This needs to be taken into account but that is something an individual should weigh on their own with the people in their life.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I’m small down there and get my fiancé off with a big dildo. Do you see any issue with this?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There is nothing wrong with using toys with someone you love and want to give pleasure to. A toy alone works to make a person climax but they are so much better when you have another person there to share it with.

  I look at toys as something that makes it a little bit easier to ring her bell. Sometimes it’s about her desire to orgasm while I am inside of her.

  My late wife found it more and more difficult to climax at all before she passed and I still remember her last one riding me with a toy on her clitorous. If I had been intimidated by a toy I wouldn’t likely have that memory at all as it had been about a year before that when she had last climaxed which also included a similar toy. Being together was the most important part of it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Storytime about a PC not booting and looking for help⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I keep a monitor in my server closet and bring a USB wireless mini keyboard if I need to physically access something but the majority of my hardware has KVM built in.

  Older commercial hardware uses more power than a mini computer in a homelab but has many advantages like often coming with more ram, more powerful (and often multiple) CPU’s, SAS backplanes, plus empty PCIe slots that can support GPU’s and other devices.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it a bad idea to learn Russian because of the war?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Learning Russian could be useful in certain geographical areas near Russia, in the military, or translator position. It’s also possible that when hostilities end (or escalate) more position openings could occur. But to learn for personal life the use will be limited.

  I don’t personally see how learning a language could be offensive, it’s knowledge not a lifestyle or way of supporting current hostilities. The hate people have is mainly towards the Russian government and policies, anyone who extends that to a language likely also have a lot of other issues they lump together and are being small minded.

  The only person who can determine the need to learn the language is yourself. I doubt the world will be overrun by Russian speaking soldiers any time soon, Mandarin is more likely in that kind of a situation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I get junk mail from T-Mobile & Verizon offering services that when I call them they say my address is not available for service. Both offer those services to my neighbors. How do I deal with this ?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t remember what all it was but part of the issue was that the long term residents had internet through AT&T so they figured that was good enough. They also insisted that new residents could get DSL because they had it even though that wasn’t true.

  Beyond that there were going to be more boxes installed in front of a few houses and the complaints about property values being reduced. Along with the HOA president befitting a major jerk since he was in control of a whopping 17 houses.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I get junk mail from T-Mobile & Verizon offering services that when I call them they say my address is not available for service. Both offer those services to my neighbors. How do I deal with this ?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  All the wifi stuff like that is in the public spectrum in the us. Only regulatory requirements are for towers and things of that nature.

  You can also setup repeaters in a similar fashion to make it work. An old radio tower from ebay or a telephone pole in a field with a couple units, a battery, and a solar panel creates the link just as easy. The WISP I worked for around 2010 did this to bounce a signal about 15 miles over some rough terrain and a military base. They provided free internet for the land owner to do it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I get junk mail from T-Mobile & Verizon offering services that when I call them they say my address is not available for service. Both offer those services to my neighbors. How do I deal with this ?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You have to escalate beyond the regular people. General support staff are basically trained script monkeys who don’t know or understand how things function or even have information that higher tier people have. If you get to a higher tier person who knows why service isn’t available it might be a simple we need to run a line in the area and if a couple more people want the service we will set it up kind of deal.

  Or find a better way to make things work for you. More ISP’s have been created to cover the gaps that others leave than you can imagine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I get junk mail from T-Mobile & Verizon offering services that when I call them they say my address is not available for service. Both offer those services to my neighbors. How do I deal with this ?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Helped a guy with a similar issue. His HOA was denying access to an ISP in the area and AT&T was shutting down its DSL service in the HOA due to line issues (the previous owner had DSL but they refused to provide service.)

  Anyway his parents place was basically in line of sight to his place so I helped him setup a long range point to point link vs using a Verizon mifi that would drop to 1 Mbps about a week into the month because the high speed data (10 Mbps at his location) was all used up. His parents connection was around 250 Mbps and he was able to get around 75 Mbps at his house. He used it for around a year before the HOA was told the easement was made for utilities and since the isp was classified as a utility they couldn’t deny access. Didn’t stop multiple people like the HOA president from pulling utility marker flags and putting up signs for no trespassing right at the road edge even though the easement was about 5 feet into their property.

  ispdesign.ui.com is a good way to figure out if it will work for you to set something up. Just be sure that you buy equipment with the same frequency you are using in the configuration (the fresnel zone is different for different frequencies en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fresnel_zone) and most any brand equipment will work. If you have questions I will do my best to answer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I get junk mail from T-Mobile & Verizon offering services that when I call them they say my address is not available for service. Both offer those services to my neighbors. How do I deal with this ?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  If you are tired of receiving the offers send them a cease and desist letter via registered mail.

  legalclarity.org/how-to-legally-tell-someone-to-s…

  If they continue contacting after about 30 days it is harassment and you can file for a restraining order and sue them for damages.

  When you go to send the letters be sure to keep a copy for yourself along with the receipts for the mailing and be sure to have a witness to the mailing. I would just ask the person at the post office to do this for proof that what you sent was the same as the copy you keep for yourself.

  If you want the service then you need to find out why your neighbors have the service available and you don’t. That means escalating the call to a support person.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are people buying refurb pcs just to strip out the DDR 4 ram with the current price hikes on new ram?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not… but 32gb of ram is good enough for my desktop. And the 128gb in my server is working out great. My router only has 16gb but it’s working fine. I do have 96gb sitting in a server board i need to find a use for though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the best way to answer someone who accuses you of being a bot because they don't like what you have to say?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Just tell them exactly how beneath you it is by not responding. lemmy.world/post/39694506

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Nah. Get the 8gb now and leave the other slot empty. Then later on you can grab another 8gb and double your ram if needed.

  Probably find some cheap sticks on ebay, just be sure to get the same specs for speed and timing and you should be fine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How does "DNS" work on the dark web?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I just thought he was a cross eyed nimrod.

  Then again I don’t follow any politics. As far as I am concerned every elected or appointed government official has the iq of a potato and couldn’t fix a hole in the ground.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do some people have so many tabs open on their browser?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Everyone has their own way of dealing with things. I do a lot more research on my tablet as it’s almost always with me. My desktop is used for video editing, some gaming, dealing with SBC (small board computing) devices, managing the homelab, and is also acting as my camera DVR.

  Since most everything is already in the browser for me using something else to save the links is a slowdown outside of emailing something to myself for use on my desktop. It’s also the reason why I don’t use apps for many things, apps are linear and really don’t allow you to explore tangents like a browser with a new tab opening a link.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do some people have so many tabs open on their browser?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I keep tabs open so I can refer back to them when working on stuff or when I am planning things.

  Right now I’m in the middle of house repairs on a former slumlord property. Will be installing 7.2KW of solar panels in a system that can island without causing issues. Need to rip and replace the back porch because the roof was rotten already and the floor is not much better. Trying to run and build a YouTube channel in the SCUBA diving niche. Planning for a dive trip to Cozumel in April so I can get more footage for said channel. And trying to start a non-profit that will support SCUBA training for teens and young adults who survived childhood abuse. While also running a website for the YouTube channel and the non-profit. All while dealing with life, family, a dog, and two vehicles. I do EVERYTHING with my own hands because I don’t have cash to pay others to do it for me.

  When I am preparing to make a purchase I also tend to have even more tabs open as I compare prices and costs for shipping among other things. The replacement materials for our roof was about 5K total for just under 3000sq ft of roof and I had to install venting that previously didn’t exist. Just made the next to last purchase for solar and have 6500 invested and about 1000 left to go for the racking and a few miscellaneous things.

  It takes a lot to remember everything so keeping tabs open is a huge stress reliever.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So now that it's that time of year again in the US, what are some tips and tricks for dealing with that one relative who goes on about the same bullshit for hours and won't shut the fuck up?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I just wish I had gotten away and found them sooner.