empireOfLove2

@empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anyone have long range 802.11ah / HaLow experience?⁩ ⁨⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  And at significantly lower transmit power too. Ubiquiti 5ac ptp rigs use like 8w, 802.11ah can make a link with under a watt. Sure it won’t be fast at all but if you’re doing a remote embedded device on a solar panel, it makes a huge difference.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple becomes third company in history to crack $4 trillion market value⁩ ⁨⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Yet 42 million people need food stamps to not starve to death

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We never stop being kids. Our playground just gets bigger.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  The only difference between men and boys is the size of their toys.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple Reportedly Moving Ahead With Ads in Maps App⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Be realistic, not many people using apple devices (or any mobile devices tbh) are going to care or be intelligent enough to pull an open source alternative

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mini pc for home server?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  That shelf sag scares me, sir. At least reinforce each layer with a slab of plywood or something.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mini pc for home server?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Whatever is cheapest. When youre first starting out basically any hardware will do, it just needs to boot Linux. As you progress and find more stuff to put on the servers, you’ll discover what you’re real hardware needs are.

  When I first started, it was a hand me down single core AMD Sempron machine (socket 754!) that I later upgraded to an Athlon64 and 4gb of DDR. I managed to bodge that poor thing into running a Minecraft 1.5.2 server.

  Personally I would stick with the i3 machine since I am assuming it’s an office PC that can be had for cheaper than a Pi 5 (which is quite inflated in price IMO). x86 still retains better software support vs ARM and they are significantly easier to attach large cheap storage to via SATA. Power cost will be greater but I doubt an office i3 pulls more than 70w wall power at full load.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I always wondered why hotel rooms had bibles⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Gideons usually distribute them.

  Some specific hotel chains, mainly Marriott’s, are owned by Mormons and also mandate that the book of Mormon be placed in the rooms too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm not paying $8 for a pack of Skittles⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I normally thought this way, but most cinemas make cents at best on movie tickets. Vast majority of the ticket price goes directly to the producer. The only way they cover the rest of their overhead (and stay in business) is thru concessions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨On January 1st of 2026, Texas will be required to give ID to download apps from the app stores. It doesn't matter if it's NSFW or not.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  No no, illegal for CITIZENS to use. I’m sure they’ll have a licensing requirement allowing their use for corporate entities of course.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft wants you to talk to your PC and let AI control it⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Someone watched Star Trek and took their interfaces a bit too literally

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨On January 1st of 2026, Texas will be required to give ID to download apps from the app stores. It doesn't matter if it's NSFW or not.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m sure those will be illegal by the end of 2026

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Am I getting this right? The vibe of different lemmy instances⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  lemmy.dbzer0.com - Anarchists who hate tankies and any rules except their own, which are different and therefore better

  I mean. The only real rules we have mostly surround don’t be a dick and the bare minimum to manage a public forum. If you can’t really pass that test then you weren’t welcome in the first place.

  Lemmy is what you make of it. You have to put effort into tuning your subscribed communities, blocklists, etc. There is no algorithm to filter the chaff for you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jeep pushed software update that bricked all 2024 Wrangler 4xe models⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They won’t. Funded by Amazon, corporate tracking will still be mandatory.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dual shaft (or through shaft) motors in series?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What are you gaining by coupling them instead series? Are you trying to obtain higher accelerations? Never really heard of two motors before.

  As long as the steppers have their steps in sync, I think it should work. If the step positions are out of sync even half a degree you’ll be seeing motor heating and poor performance as the motors try to fight each other into position. But I feel like you won’t see as much speed benefit as you think since you’ll run out of belt tension and rail stiffness, causing unwanted vibrations and oscillation at higher acceleration.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In bizarre move, Framework embraces deeply extremist views⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Why the fuck does every single company doing anything of value end up being run by fucking Nazi chuds???

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who's branded? Sound off⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You can still get that branding today! Old GM cars have never been cheaper on fb marketplace.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bezos plan for solar powered datacenters is out of this world… literally⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sure, but engineering materials still start to break down at such high continuous service temps. And mechanical heat pumps become very impractical above 250C as things like compressors and phase change refrigerants also break down under extreme temperatures.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Those who don't use dashboards, how are you managing your services?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  service still up = no problem
  Can’t access service = problem, better ssh in

  Simple as

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How can I optimize my jellyfin, specifically transcoding and the CPU usage involved? I'm running it off a mini pc so resources are everything⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A. Run a batch transcode and make all your stored files compatible with your end players.
  It sounds like the more recent things you are downloading are in a codec that is not compatible with your playback devices. E.g, older torrents are frequently an H.264 stream in an MP4 container. Many modern releases are being distributed in H.265 or AV1, as they have significant size and quality benefits, but many older devices don’t support them natively.

  B. Sounds like you are still relying on CPU transcoding which is absolute dog. What mini pc specs do you have? If it’s an AMD or Intel CPU/APU then it should have hardware encode/decode included in it’s integrated GPU. See the Jellyfin docs on hardware acceleration here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Filament won't adhere?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I have had bad, wet sections of PLA refuse to adhere to beds or its own layers. There’s a lot of ways a filament manufacturer could fuck up the blend or moisture control, especially with cheaper shit.

  Cut a section out and hold a lighter or heat gun under the end until it softens and curls up.
  Good filament should look smooth and the same color. Bad filament will get bubbly, wart-looking texture and take on a yellow sheen. The bubbles are moisture leaving the plastic and the yellow sheen is the plastic breaking down, it will have no adhesion.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Need assistance solving unexpected and random I/O errors in homelab⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My default goto with any stability issue is to first force a drive self test

  smartctl -l selftest /dev/nvme0

  And then I would also run a complete extended memory test (memtest86) to ensure bad ram isn’t doing something dumb like corrupting the part of the kernel that handles disk IO.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New U.S. gov't rule says chipmakers have to make one chip in the US for each chip imported from another country to avoid 100% tariffs — Trump admin allegedly preps new 1:1 chip export rule under new t⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And how do you define “chips?”

  For every one advanced semiconductor maybe being made at a US fab you’re going to have 40-50 supporting “chips” for power regulation, signal processing, amplification, etc etc etc… Does a MOSFET count as a “chip”? A 555?

  Also advanced processors being made here like 90% of the time are going to be offshored to be packagd for final use, since all the advanced packaging technologies are stuck in Taiwan et al.

  More numpy’s bullshit from a demented dingus who doesn’t know how to turn a door handle properly anymore.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If my first kiss was pre-transition and i am now a guy but i always had a guy brain, does that make my first kiss with a "straight" guy gay ?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If you still outwardly presented as female and the person you kissed considered you female, then no it was not gay.

  Realistically it doesn’t matter and you can kiss whoever the fuck you wanna

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A ‘demoralizing' trend has computer science grads out of work — even minimum wage jobs. Are 6-figure tech careers over?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Its more than that; companies also continuously propagate the message of “shortage of workers” while continuing to raise the requirements for entry level positions more and more. It reaches a point where “entry level” is not attainable for most fresh grads to get experience, and keeps their starting wages (and continuing wages) very well depressed due to the high supply.

  Its a very targeted campaign to make sure educated workers don’t get too many ideas of independence in their heads.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The youngun’s call winter “cuffing season” for a reason.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨squeeakrub⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨squeeakrub⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Expanded polystyrene is the devils personal creation and I will hear no other opinions

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hmm this "unisex" bathroom seems biased...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  brother if you got wood how tf are you peeing sitting down. That shit pointing up

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are your favorite open source 3D printers?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  If it counts, One of my friends in college had a bedslinger mish mash of like 4 different printers cobbled together to make a sort of bastard child prusa i3 equivalent. It actually made decent quality prints although it was pretty slow. That’s about as open source as you can get.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Turning gaming setups off and on⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  They will wear faster being on (accumulating capacitor and electron gun power-on hours) than they do turning on and off. They are not like a hard drive where there are mechanical components that wear faster during start and warmup, they are primarily solid state electronics that care only about power on hours.