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- Comment on LG joins Sony and TCL in abandoning 8K TV market 2 days ago:
It really is always crazy to see the different perspectives. I've actually unsubscribed from a channel for the bad quality youtube put on all their 1080p videos. I'm also still eagerly awaiting the slomo guys bluray release of their greatest hits.
- Comment on LG joins Sony and TCL in abandoning 8K TV market 2 days ago:
Well, that, and vhs is one of those things that is fun to play with. It's never going to be perfect, and that's enough to keep people like me coming back to see what new improvements I can make to my vhs setup this time.
- Comment on LG joins Sony and TCL in abandoning 8K TV market 2 days ago:
New blurays are 30-50 each. New DVDs are 5 or less, each. Libraries usually have bigger dvd collections than bluray collections. People use what they can afford, not what is best.
- Comment on If only 2 weeks ago:
I'm just waiting for bell bottom pants to come back. I bought a pair for a shaggy halloween costume one year, and not only are they super comfortable, they make my ass look amazing too.
- Comment on The holy journey 2 weeks ago:
Well, he has two tabs, so more like two spiritual experiences at the same time instead.
- Comment on Does Prusas textured sheet...work at all? 2 weeks ago:
Tbh I've used hairspray and glass with no issue as well. It cheap after and easy to clean. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
If you end up doing glass, check these babies out while you're at it; https://www.amazon.com/TBWHL-Prtiner-Picture-1inchx0-55Inch-26mmx14mm/dp/B08M9DH8Z4
- Comment on Silent Storage Solutions for Homelab? 3 weeks ago:
I have used this card for a couple years.
Pros:
- five m.2 sata slots
- single slot pcie, and short / not extending past top of slot
- incredibly cheap
- mine has been reliable
- no extra power needed
- no pcie bifurcation or other special motherboard features required (works in anything)
- the individual drives do show up as individual drives in Debian for me and can be accessed separately (not a hardware raid card)
Cons:
- pcie 3.0x2 speed in an x16 slot (2GBps)
- doesn't support m.2 pci
- doesn't support booting from the installed drives
If all you're looking for is cheap, quiet, storage, and you don't mind losing out on total read/write speeds, thisll actually do great just about anywhere.
- Comment on How do you feel about the removal of tokens from arcades ? 5 weeks ago:
We literally know that people with germophobia ironically suffer infection much more because they shoot their immune system to hell.
[Citation Needed]
- Comment on How do you feel about the removal of tokens from arcades ? 5 weeks ago:
Dallas area. https://freeplayinc.com/faqs/
- Comment on How do you feel about the removal of tokens from arcades ? 5 weeks ago:
We have a local barcade, but with actually pretty great arcade games. They charge a cover fee, close down to minors early, and charge nothing at the games themselves. It is the best thing ever. Makes the arcade experience honestly better than it was back when it was actually big.
- Comment on Was board so I made my own Nativity scene 1 month ago:
I don't mean to say it's not a name in use, just that coke might not have as many Jesus bottles as they do Joshua bottles, depending on where this scene was made.
- Comment on Was board so I made my own Nativity scene 1 month ago:
Just a heads up, but Joshua is just another name for Jesus. https://www.behindthename.com/name/joshua OP was actually kinda clever with that one considering how much more rare or unlikely an actual Jesus would be.
- Comment on What steps can be taken to prevent AI training and scraping of my public facing website? 1 month ago:
Another one; https://iocaine.madhouse-project.org/
But yeah, OP. You can't reliably stop web scrapers from stealing your data. You can only make more difficult and costly to do so, at the expense of your own server, and in the case of anubis, at the expense of your real users.
I plan on switching to a RPI hosted website at some point, so I can add either iocaine or nepanthes to my website. Might as well make most of the data from my website poison to all the scrapers when I get the chance.
- Comment on Guarding My Git Forge Against AI Scrapers 1 month ago:
Yeah. The corporations with money are always going to beat the casual users without in regards to processing capability.
There are smarter ways to discourage the big companies from taking pictures of your house than by adding speed bumps to your driveway.
- Comment on Guarding My Git Forge Against AI Scrapers 1 month ago:
POW built in to the web spec would be hell. Making every single device in the world do that extra bit of work would noticeably affect energy use across the planet.
- 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? 2 months ago:
If you have to engage, swear at them. Most LLMs don't swear without a lot of cajoling.
- Comment on Decreasing Certificate Lifetimes to 45 Days 2 months ago:
- Comment on Gatekeeper: The first open-source DDoS system. Has anyone tried mass hosting this as a group? 2 months ago:
What you're talking about has existed for decades at this point. Most grey/black hat forums rightfully ban collective ddos tools when they see them. Turns out that the difference between duplicating a copyrighted work, and actively attacking a private server are vastly different, legally speaking, and get prosecuted a lot more forcefully when found.
- Comment on Local DNS on Pihole 2 months ago:
My dns config options always have at least two spots. Obviously, this means I need two piholes to fill them both up.
More seriously, it has actually saved my network from going down a couple times already.
- Comment on All grown up now 2 months ago:
The joke is that the OP grabbed pictures of old people with one superficial trait that matches the original characters. Two if they're feeling lucky. Curly hair, a bandanda, effiminate hair (with miss-matched genders), a famous white dude with a vaguely similiar frown.
The blatant everything disparity is the whole joke.
- Comment on Never ride in a car with a guy who just got dumped 2 months ago:
My 2019 Toyota corolla can go 120mph. My statement wasn't about capabilities, it was about the sheer stupidity of driving those speeds at basically anywhere not set aside for it.
- Comment on Never ride in a car with a guy who just got dumped 2 months ago:
120kph is about 75 mph. So for this meme, 240 kph or so. Very much a speed you don't want to be going anywhere near a city, or a highway with a curve in it in the next five miles.
- Comment on The Future of Advertising Is AI Generated Ads That Are Directly Personalized to You 2 months ago:
I'll give you 'satire'. But I don't really agree with 'critiques'. The lesson i got from the movie was "stupid people can't really have empathy, so they just need to shut up and let actual smart people do the important work", and also eugenics.
If it was critiquing the modern corporate structure, it would have included actual critiques of the modern corporate structure, rather than a single poor idiot in charge of a big company who should have just let the smart guy fix it all for him.
- Comment on The Future of Advertising Is AI Generated Ads That Are Directly Personalized to You 2 months ago:
The other part is that they depicted the corporations as completely innocent idiots too; "the computer said the money went away so I had to fire people and now they're all rioting in the streets!" As if the company wasn't at fault for all of that.
- Comment on Why Signal’s post-quantum makeover is an amazing engineering achievement 3 months ago:
It's not completely out yet. That was likely AWS being down.
Also, the new quantum protected message encryption headers are about 2kb. If that's causing issues with your internet, you may want to consider looking at new internet.
- Comment on Tempo (fork) v3.17.14 android subsonic client 3 months ago:
When you do get around to changing the graphics, maybe you can ditch the ovaries and uterus look of the logo.
Lmao I hadn't even noticed, but yes, definitely that.
- Comment on For crying in the sink, stop posting imgur links 3 months ago:
Imgur blocks my VPN. It's one of the reasons I hate them. I'm not going to poke a hole in my network just to see what your ass was too lazy to actually post to your instance.
- Comment on So, did a new printer drop? LOL 3 months ago:
It costs money for them to attempt to sort between honest/upfront advertising and the scummy kind.
- Comment on I am attempting to get into self hosting after a shockingly frightening experience. I am very lost though. 3 months ago:
Honestly? Don't do the whole switch, or even a big switch from a few services to another.
Start small. Very small. Try doing just one service you rely on, like your images or music. Immich just announced their first stable release. I use navidrome for my music. Make sure to test these on a copy of your data, not your actual data.
Once you've got one service working as you want it to do, then you can try your hand at another service. This way, you don't get stuck trying to do everything all at once.
It may be worth considering how much (if any) you want to spend at the start, too. That'll inform your next immediate task; setting up basic backups for your data. A spare drive is a good start, but it may be worth keeping another one at your parents house, or similar.
- Comment on The demise of Flash didn't bring any big HTML5/JS equivalent for watching animations; fast internet and better video compression made those types of animations become raster videos as well 3 months ago:
We wish the security issues were what killed flash, but it had more than twenty years of security issues failing to kill flash. Flash died because it was replaced by newer technology.