Brewchin
@Brewchin@lemmy.world
- Comment on "Frieren - Beyond Journey's End – Season 2" New Character Visuals 3 days ago:
This is the most accurate image possible for Frieren. Books > Mimic risk. nomnomnom…
- Comment on Reducing Homelab Laptop energy consumption 1 week ago:
10W? That’s incredibly low - under 10mA wherever in the world you live. About the same as an LED bulb, or a tenth of an average incandescent lightbulb.
For comparison: my NAS and NUC (mix of HDD and M.2 drives; both hosting services) draw 75W combined at idle, measured via Home Assistant and a smart plug, and that’s generally considered low-power self-hosting.
I’d be pleasantly amazed if you could get a laptop to use less, so I look forward to other replies.
- Comment on Press any button to start ♥️ 1 week ago:
Right? She’s what made me chuckle aloud at this meme. 😄
- Comment on Best "bang for your buck" NUC/Pi setup for Jellyfin/HomeAssistant/PiHole? 2 weeks ago:
I still use all 3, though I’m slowly moving CPU intensive containers to the NUC. The Pi is untouched so far, partly because having edge services there will make it easier of I decide to implement a DMZ.
The NUC+Proxmox is a great combination. Bit of a learning curve (eg. as with Docker, you need to pass devices in Proxmox and then to the container; same with CIFS shares), but there are lots of resources out there. I have no regrets going this route, and it had low power consumption.
On Windows thing, I was specifically referring to the server OS as the NUC came with Win11. Do whatever works for your desktop/gaming setup.
Though I also switched that to Linux (EndeavourOS, though there are other game-friendly options) a couple of years ago, and its worked out great. Guild Wars 2 was my most modded Windows game, and I can run all except one of the Windows-based addons I want for it. Setting it all up the first time is a ball ache (as it was with Windows, but that was done over time 🤷♂️). 😊
- Comment on Best "bang for your buck" NUC/Pi setup for Jellyfin/HomeAssistant/PiHole? 2 weeks ago:
I was hosting most of my Docker stuff on my Synology DS920+, use Docker in a Pi 4B for AdGuard Home and WireGuard, and found myself wanting to use Home Assistant.
Can’t use Docker for HA if you want HACS (addons) and Synology decided to kill USB drivers some time back, so looked around for options. Considered a Nabu Casa Yellow with a CM5 compute module (for Voice PE) and its price was more than a GMKtek N150 NUC, which has far higher specs and enough headroom for other things. So I got the NUC.
First thing I did was nuke Windows and replaced it with Proxmox, then installed Home Assistant OS (HAOS) as a VM in it. Plenty of headroom left, so now it’s also got a Linux VM, a few LXCs, etc. (The Proxmox Helper Scripts site makes it very easy).
Could easily install AGH or PiHole and a bunch of other things on it. Think it’s the best bang for buck thing I’ve bought in years.
- Comment on [News] Original “Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End” Manga Goes on Hiatus to Allow Authors to Recover; Serialization Pace and Format to Be Adjusted 2 weeks ago:
Only in manga is the phrase “hiatus to recover” considered a normal thing in a creative industry.
What the hell kind of workhouses are these manga publications?
Based on all the “I’m so desperately sorry to make you dear readers wait an extra week (or more) for the next issue, but my brain has fallen out, my wife/husband has paid a hitman on me, and I’ve fallen into a coma” apologies I’ve seen from mangaka over the years, there is zero chance I’d encourage anyone to get into this for a job. 😬
- Comment on What’s wrong, babe? You barely touched your Spaghetacos 2 weeks ago:
Genuinely amazed one (in particular) of my university housemates didn’t come up with this abomination.
He’d be devastated to see this… 😅
- Comment on The Web is Going to Die 3 weeks ago:
The Green brothers are interesting and thoughtful. They try to be an overall positive influence on the internet, even aside from their vlogbrothers thing.
- Comment on Discord customer service data breach leaks user info and scanned photo IDs 4 weeks ago:
FTA: The IDs leaked were from people appealing age verification.
That’s different from the age verification process, which goes through a third party provider.
In short, the leaked IDs were from a standard shitty support platform (Zendesk, Salesforce, etc), not the much-advertised “safe and private” age verification system.
- Comment on Imgur blocks access to UK users after proposed regulatory fine 4 weeks ago:
This kind of malicious compliance is exactly what this dogshit Think Of The Children Act needs. Convenience is everything to the majority of population.
If other major sites and resources do this, then the pressure from the people impacted by it will force UK PLC to un-fuck this awful legislation.
- Comment on suspicion 1 month ago:
This is the most cooker meme I’ve seen (to date) on Lemmy…
- Comment on Notepad gets AI features like Summarize, Write, and Rewrite, using local and cloud models. 1 month ago:
It certainly removed my ability to say “Companies are shoehorning AI into everything! I wouldn’t be surprised if they do it with Notepad…” as a form of mockery. It was one of the first damned victims.
- Comment on Value Age verification 1 month ago:
In case anyone is unaware of the point of this: it’s about the UK’s (for now) new age verification law, where you have to be 18 to have a credit card.
This really is the least-worst implementation of this I’ve seen so far, providing you have (or can get) a CC.
And at least it lets you continue buying games/content until this awful law gets repealed or rewritten by competent adults.
- Comment on Damn 2 months ago:
Jamie Lee Curtis with wonky aspect ratio?
Come on, OP… but also: yes. 😄
- Comment on UK Official Calls for Age Verification on VPNs to Prevent Porn Loophole 2 months ago:
Doubling down on the batshit. Everyone knew VPNs were going to be the low effort workaround to this authoritarian batshittery.
I get what the (well meaning, I think) people lobbying for this are trying to achieve, but everything from the lobbying to legislation to enforcement seems to be happening in the worst way imaginable. Almost like it’s an intentional “You want to see how badly can we do this? Hold my drink! YOLO!!”
For me, the tell was UK PLC leaving it up to the sites themselves to decide who/how the verification would be done. Classic bad management “I don’t understand the slightest thing about any of this, but HOW HARD COULD IT BE?!” response. It’s like the “series of tubes” stupidity all over again.
- Comment on Sony Q1 2026 Earnings Call; "...in gaming business and moving away from a hardware-centric business to more to the community- based engagement business..." 2 months ago:
Are you linking “everything is an Xbox” with growing their platform? Are you new at internet arguments?
- Comment on Sony Q1 2026 Earnings Call; "...in gaming business and moving away from a hardware-centric business to more to the community- based engagement business..." 2 months ago:
I mean, it sounds like they’re copying Microsoft’s “everything is an Xbox” lunacy, but its unclear if that’s reality based on what I read there.
But I’d not be surprised if the “Spider-Man pointing at Spider-Man” meme applies to this, given how focussed the VP of each company’s console division is on their main competitor.
But who knows… Perhaps not even them? 🤷♂️
- Comment on The Best Anime on Netflix You Can Watch Right Now 2 months ago:
Most of these are also on Crunchyroll, if it’s useful.
- Comment on 'Maybe' financial tracker shuts down, releasing a final v0.6.0 2 months ago:
Not sure it is the same kind of thing, but I’ve been using Homebank ever since the various personal financial management applications pulled out of the UK market.
- Comment on You Can Now Disable All AI Features in Zed - Zed Blog 3 months ago:
I swear “How to disable AI in x…” is all our lives now. 😬
- Comment on Reddit users in the UK must now upload selfies to access NSFW subreddits 3 months ago:
By “that shit”, do you mean every website/app that may contain age-restricted (not just sexual) content? Because that’s what comes into force in the UK next week.
I’ve been dreading this for decades. 🤬
It’s not just Reddit, nor are they the first to roll it out early.
- Comment on Threads is nearing X's daily app users, new data shows 3 months ago:
Doesn’t every Instagram user automatically have a Threads account now? (Even if they’re unaware of it.)
Meta faking Threads user count that way on top of what’s happened with X user count would explain this “milestone” quite easily.
- Comment on There's still no sign of Star Citizen 1.0, but it did just get a revamped referral program so the die-hards can tempt in even more saps 4 months ago:
If it eventually gets outed as being Ponzi scheme, I’ll not be remotely surprised.
- Comment on Waterfox 6.5.10: Bing terminates search syndication deal 4 months ago:
Thanks for checking and the update.
- Comment on Waterfox 6.5.10: Bing terminates search syndication deal 4 months ago:
Oh no… anyone know what this means for DuckDuckGo?
- Comment on Pornhub is Back in France. 4 months ago:
Le petit mort , ahem, comes in many forms…
- Comment on Reddit in talks to embrace Sam Altman’s iris-scanning Orb to verify users 4 months ago:
What?! Think of the shareholder value! /s
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
My take on ads is this: I’ve been using the internet since 1989 - before search engines, advertising, SLIP/PPP/ADSL, etc.
When ads began to appear on websites in the late 90s, I was OK with it. A banner ad here, etc. Then they started to move. And flash. And make noise. And then popups, and pop-unders.
At that point I started to BLOCK THEM ALL. If your business model is a game of distraction from the site I’m visiting, then fuck you, your family, and anyone you’ve ever met.
Moving on to UI web-based stuff, the demise of excellent sites like AltaVista (with its superior search syntax) and the growth of Goooooooogle (with its astonishingly and intentionally shit search syntax), the progress and intention was obvious.
There was a brief period where Google, etc, provided what people wanted. But that time has passed. Now it’s all in on GIGO: garbage in, garbage out.
tl;dr: Once advertisers started to behave like gambling sites, they were yeeted to the hell in which they belong.
- Comment on Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan and ‘A Better Tomorrow’: AI-Powered Kung Fu Film Plan Debuts in Shanghai 4 months ago:
Inevitable, really. And zero surprise it’s coming out of China.
- Comment on 16 Billion Apple, Facebook, Google And Other Passwords Leaked — Act Now 4 months ago:
Reads more like an advertorial. Low on detail, high on “passkeys are the future”, and plenty of typos.