folekaule

@folekaule@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who remembers when you needed a separate "Download Manager" to handle concurrent downloads?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Old and tired: use the release year in your product version.

  New and exciting: increment all your past product versions as they age!

  Your users will love it!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Password managers are less secure than promised⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That is helpful, thank you! I will look into the master server option. I can spin up Docker containers on the NAS.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Password managers are less secure than promised⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I also use KeepassXC, and it’s great. I’m interested in setting up Syncthing between my Android, Linux desktop, and NAS. Do you have any tips or articles/resources that you used to set it up?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨HP has laptop subscriptions now⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My employer leases our computers for 3-5 years. I get a new model when my lease runs out. I don’t really mind the guaranteed refresh except having to move all my stuff over. I would be way more pissed if they moved to BYOD.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hrmmm⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Very insightful, thank you. I’m mainly looking to deter or stop an intruder. I’m too old and weak to put up a close combat fight. My area is pretty safe for now, but we’re in deep red territory so who knows.

  Your advice jibes with what I’ve read online and been told by other experienced gun owners/ex military. Thank you for the straight forward recommendation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hrmmm⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  As someone who doesn’t know much about guns: if .22 is not enough, then what is “a proper rifle”? Why would I need a rifle, pistol, and a knife/baton? If I am just defending myself and my family, will I still need all of these things?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hrmmm⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Thank you! So many people don’t realize that. It’s even one of the citizenship test questions used when you go through naturalization:

  51. What are two rights of everyone living in the United States?

  • freedom of expression
  • freedom of speech
  • freedom of assembly
  • freedom to petition the government
  • freedom of religion
  • the right to bear arms
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AltaVista?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Metacrawler ftw

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wrong number... hopefully⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe he’s not talking about his face.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Im stupid but have money⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It does sound like you may be suffering from depression, but it also sounds like you are receiving treatment. Assuming this isn’t something medical, maybe you need a change of scenery to change your outlook.

  You could travel, as I would have. You could also engage in a hobby (perhaps with friends, new or old). If you’re feeling altruistic, maybe think of something that you wish someone had done for you, when you were in a worse situation. Maybe you know someone who’s down on their luck and you can help them. It doesn’t have to be with money, it can be in other ways. I’ve heard that one way to break out of the depression spiral is to focus your attention outward instead of inward. That would be a way to do it.

  I hope you find your way out of the funk. As bleak as things look, there are still things to be happy about and be grateful for. Don’t let your past prevent you from appreciating the present.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Im stupid but have money⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If I were in that situation I would buy a shitty flat, pay it off, then spend as little time there as possible while traveling the world. Maybe have some passive income from the flat by renting it out. Not having kids to worry about would make all that a lot simpler.

  But you should do what makes you happy. Try not to worry too much about the future and enjoy what you have now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Using Immich in combination with NAS permissions⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I can only think of two ways if the top of my head:

  • Immich runs as root and sets ownership (sounds unsafe)
  • Immich is the owner of all the files, but each user has a specific group (bobs-photos) of which Immich and the user are members. Then use the setgid bit to set group ownership and make it g+rwx.

  Both sound pretty brittle to me, though, and I haven’t tested this specifically.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amiga vs. Atari ST: A rivalry that defined 16-bit home computing⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I remember the rivalry and how, in the beginning of the 90s, I made good friends with a guy from the “other side” (Him with Atari, me with Amiga) and quickly found we had more in common than we had differences.

  Declaring a common enemy in the PC, we both watched our favorite platforms slowly die off with the advent of games like Doom that those old platforms were not equipped to handle.

  Most of all I miss the demo scene and all the creativity it fostered. There doesn’t seem to be a modern equivalent for PC where programmers, musicians and artists come together to showcase their work like that. I hope I’m wrong and just haven’t found it yet. I would love to see that be a thing again, especially with AI slop taking over everything.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Should speakers hum when they're connected to a stereo, but the volume of is turned all the way down?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Thank you! TIL

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Should speakers hum when they're connected to a stereo, but the volume of is turned all the way down?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Not all! So about this bridge…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Should speakers hum when they're connected to a stereo, but the volume of is turned all the way down?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I hope people realize you are being sarcastic.

  I’m no stereo expert, but from what I understand the hum comes from interference or ground problems. I’ve been told that adding ferrite chokes (like the ones on old VGA cables) to your cables can help, but you probably have to try a couple of things to fix it.

  Also: typically, only analog cables have issues with electronic interference. Digital either works or it doesn’t. In other words, gold plated triple shielded digital cables are a waste of money.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stop using MySQL in 2026, it is not true open source⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Both MySQL and MariaDb are named after the developer’s daughters.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to vote?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I vote up if I think it adds value to the discussion or should be seen more. When I down vote it’s because I feel is not adding value or off topic.

  I miss the way Slashdot votes worked, where there are separate counts for each sentiment like agree/disagree, insightful, funny, etc. Maybe reaction emojis are the modern version of that?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Devastated PC builder orders DDR5 RAM from Amazon, receives DDR2 and some weights — counterfeit 32GB kit a worrying sign of rising return and sales fraud⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Same. I’m lucky enough to have two within driving distance. I’m genuinely worried about them staying in business if PC building takes a nosedive thanks to the RAM/SSD prices.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you healthcheck your containers?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
  1. Some kind of monitoring software, like the Grafana stack. I like email and Discord notifications.
  2. The Dockerfile will have a HEALTHCHECK statement, but in my experience this is pretty rare. Most of the time I set up a health check in the docker compose file or I extended the Dockerfile and add my own. You sometimes need to add a tool (like curl) to do the health check anyway.
  3. It’s a feature of the container, but the app needs to support some way of signaling “health”, such as through a web API.
  4. It depends on your needs. You can do all of the above. You can do so-called black box monitoring where you’re just monitoring whether your webapp is up or down. Easy. However, for a business you may want to know about problems before they happen, so you add white box monitoring for sub-components (database, services), timing, error counts, etc.

  To add to that: health checks in Docker containers are mostly for self-healing purposes. Think about a system where you have a web app running in many separate containers across some number of nodes. You want to know if one container has become too slow or non-responsive so you can restart it before the rest of the containers are overwhelmed, causing more serious downtime. So, a health check allows Docker to restart the container without manual intervention. You can configure it to give up if it restarts too many times, and then you would have other systems (like a load balancer) to direct traffic away from the failed subsystems.

  It’s useful to remember that containers are “cattle not pets”, so a restart or shutdown of a container is a “business as usual” event and things should continue to run in a distributed system.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do people with epilepsy triggered by flashing lights, drive past trees that are backlit by the sun?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They don’t, unless it is sufficiently controlled by medication. A doctor has to sign off that they think you can drive safely. Regulations vary by jurisdiction. Here in Ohio, USA you get a two-part license that says you need a doctor’s permit every time you renew your license to say you can continue to drive. Then you carry a piece of the paper (the second part) with your DL.

  For the doctor (neurologist) to be confident that you aren’t going to have seizure while driving, you have to have been seizure free for some time, plus maybe have regular EEG scans to confirm that you are not susceptible to seizures while being exposed to blinking lights. The blinking lights are part of the EEG scan. You basically hyperventilate (on purpose) while they flash lights at different frequencies and measure your brain waves. If the response is too severe, you fail.

  Like any condition, epilepsy comes in many forms and many levels of severity. Some epileptics can barely function and can have brain damage from too many seizures. Some people have no effects at all as long as they are on medication.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oechslegrad⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Because Kelvin is an absolute unit

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do I need a NAS ?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  True open source products are your best bet. TruNAS and Proxmox are popular options, but you can absolutely set up a vanilla Debian server with Samba and call it a NAS. Back in the old days we just called those “file servers”.

  Most importantly, just keep good backups. If you have to choose between investing in a raid or a primary + backup drive, choose the latter every time. Raid will save you time to recover, but it’s not a backup.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do I need a NAS ?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is a qualified truth. In theory what you’re saying is true but for example with Synology they use their own raid format and while they ostensibly use btrfs they overlay their own metadata system on top.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do I need a NAS ?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Gotcha. I face similar issues with Synology. Their hyper backup format doesn’t seem to be standard. I’m considering setting up Borg Backup for offsite so I can restore it onto non Synology devices later.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do I need a NAS ?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Was this Synology by chance?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New Year? In this economy?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Heck yeah…Just in time to make a push to finish my CS degree right at the height of the .com boom and Y2K cleanup. The world is my oyster. If I can reuse my current knowledge, maybe go join some startup that actually makes it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When they told me to invest in bitcoin, I bought all this at $20 dollars an ounce 100 years ago.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My fat ass: “a vault full of chicken breast?”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨WTF BIT ME?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Looks like your Windows 11 update is almost complete. Or it could be fleas, bed bugs, or lice. I’m not a bugologist.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨monumentale⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Entertaining! Well done. LGTM and ⛴️