Carrot
@Carrot@lemmy.today
- Comment on Outer Wilds drawing I made 3 days ago:
They have a mode to turn off the creatures for exactly that reason. I haven’t tried it, but other than the spooky factor the creatures don’t add a ton to the game, so it probably wouldn’t lessen the experience. (There is a small thing, but it’d spoil some story elements if I were to say them here)
- Comment on KDE Plasma going all-in on Wayland and will drop the X11 session completely 1 week ago:
lol I guess I don’t know enough to argue it either
- Comment on KDE Plasma going all-in on Wayland and will drop the X11 session completely 1 week ago:
I don’t base the choice of my OS on being able to play one game. KDE is a DE, not an OS. X11 is a window manager, not an OS. Almost always, I will use a Wayland (another window manager) session, but to play Oblivion streamed to my TV, I have to switch to an X11 session. The guy asked for any features that aren’t compatible with Wayland. I have one that I keep X11 around for, so I gave it. Given that you don’t even seem to understand what you are arguing, I’m confused why you piped in with probably the stupidest “solution” to my use case.
- Comment on KDE Plasma going all-in on Wayland and will drop the X11 session completely 1 week ago:
Not OP but I’ve got exactly one thing that doesn’t work on Wayland that works on X11. For whatever reason, Streaming Oblivion Remastered from Steam on my Linux desktop to my TV will not show video in Wayland, but does in X11. It’s literally the only reason I’ve got X11
- Comment on FOX BREAKING NEWS ALERT! 2 weeks ago:
Eh, I haven’t seen any evidence that Trump is straight. Evidence that he’s definitely not gay, sure, but no real evidence of straightness. Sure, he’s in a heterosexual marriage, but so is my wife and she’s bi, so that’s not much to go off of. He seems to pass legislation that harms the wellbeing of lgbtq folks, but it’s not uncommon for people in power to show disdain for lgbtq people while being one themselves. It’s also not uncommon for folks to experiment with their sexuality in their early adult years, even if he isn’t bi, that doesn’t take blowing someone completely off the table.
The long and short of it is that I haven’t seen anything that would make me think Trump wouldn’t have blown some guy. It’s not hard to believe that he were willing to blow a guy, especially if it were a one-off thing he was trying in the spur of the moment at an Epstein sex party. It’s honestly a toss-up, and to act like it’s more or less likely to have gone one way or the other seems foolhardy here.
Also, do you have links to anywhere that Trump has professed to being straight? I couldn’t find any personally, but if you have them then that would make it more likely this email was just a joke. But if you don’t have them I can’t help but feel you are doing the exact thing you claim to be against: spreading misinformation.
- Comment on Drug deal 3 weeks ago:
I mean, that and they taste completely different?
- Comment on FOX BREAKING NEWS ALERT! 3 weeks ago:
I agree, I really don’t like people saying it was Bill Clinton, there is currently only evidence against that claim. But your second statement seems disingenuous, as there isn’t any sign that it was purely a joke, either. A better way to say your second line without showing a bias would be to say that “There is no evidence to show whether or not it was a joke, or to be taken seriously.” To be clear, the quote from Mark Epstein was “For the avoidance of doubt, the reference to ‘Bubba’ in this correspondence is not, in any way, a reference to former President Bill Clinton. Any attempt to conflate that reference with President Clinton, or to read sweeping implications into them, misrepresents both the purpose and the tone of the original correspondence.”
There are a few ways to read this response, one being that it was all a joke, one being that it did happen and Bill Clinton wasn’t involved, and Putin doesn’t have the picture, and one being that it did happen, Bill Clinton wasn’t involved, and Putin does have the pictures. Without further clarification, we don’t know for certain which of these is the truth.
I do appreciate your desire to keep the facts straight.I know that it’s fun to jump to conclusions and speculate, but we are doing the credibility of anyone left of republicans a disservice when we spread lies. It makes it much easier for the Rupublicans at the top to spin a narritive that their followers can dismiss the things we say. I hate Trump as much as the next guy, but he does enough stuff to paint himself a hypocrite that there’s no need to embellish the truth.
- Comment on Are you ready for a $1,000 Steam Machine? Some analysts think you should be. 3 weeks ago:
I’ve priced it out for myself, and I couldn’t get a build that’s as good at that price, not on new hardware at least. Not sure how they worked out their numbers
- Comment on Valve Announces New Steam Machine, Steam Controller & Steam Frame 3 weeks ago:
You are also missing the huge advances they’ve made in their contributions to FOSS, like proton, FEX, arch, etc. Steam has done an insane amount of legwork to get Linux gaming off the ground. They are the one company that made migrating off of Windows and onto Linux a valid option for me, and a bunch of other folks. Linux was ~0.89% of their userbase in 2020, and since their contributions to these FOSS projects, it has gone up to 3.05%. That’s crazy, considering it had been at or below that 0.89% since 2016.
- Comment on YouTube deleting videos documenting Israeli human rights violations 4 weeks ago:
I highly recommend shelling out the $12 a year for a domain to tie to your email through Proton, that way, if Proton starts to enshitify, you can change email providers without having to migrate all your accounts to a new email. I am actually going through the exact same process, and I never want to have to do it again lol.
- Comment on If websites are slow for you, this is why, AWS is breaking everything 1 month ago:
As someone with a little insider baseball knowledge, it was just a few hours down of DynamoDB and DNS. However, that caused EC2 to go down for ~1 day, which causes pretty much 1/3 of the internet to go down. Once EC2 sorts themselves out, then teams/companies (almost all amazon services use EC2 in the back end) that use EC2 have to get their ducks back in a row, and that can take any span of time, depending on how well their code was written to handle failures + how many people they are willing to pay oncall/overtime.
- Comment on Looking for a good kindle reader alternative 1 month ago:
E-reader support is still pretty clunky on Kavita, but doable. I normally host my books on Kavita, and then download them to my eReader, and that does a fine job, but it won’t sync progress across devices
- Comment on Framework supporting far-right racists? 1 month ago:
All the worst posts, the ones with actual hate speech, have been removed by moderators. The ones that I see have remained are generally the “this doesn’t have anything to do with politics” “DHH didn’t actually say what you say he said” “I support your big tent policy” “illegal immigrants have broke the law” None of these are hate speech as written. I don’t like them supporting Omarchy, and I don’t agree with what the posts in support of Framework’s stance, but I would say Framework has moderated where necessary in that post
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
If you already pirate content, welcome to the rabbit hole that will simultaneously make your life way easier and way harder.
- Comment on Meet the first person to own over 40,000 paid Steam games 2 months ago:
While I completely agree that Steam is a pos for not letting you actually own your games, I personally keep mine all downloaded so that if Steam ever does something stupid I can run the DRM remover and still have all my games. This gives me peace of mind buying on Steam, but does take up like 10TB of space
- Comment on Important Notice of Security Incident 2 months ago:
Was on the fence for a long time, and I made the move just recently (after the pricing changes. Didn’t effect me since I was grandfathered in, but I saw it as a harbinger for worse things to come) With the creation of Wizarr, it solved my biggest problems with Jellyfin. I can just send an invite link, and it creates accounts for people on Jellyfin, Audiobookshelf, and Kavita, and lets me set up introductory guides for everything. Despite the menu UI/UX being significantly worse than Plex, playback is smoother, load times are shorter, and it can actually handle streaming to really slow internet speeds, something that Plex had a lot of trouble with.
The only app I noticed missing was the Tizen app, but they are working on getting it approved. I only had one family member using a Tizen TV, so I just gave them an old chromecast to run off of instead.
- Comment on better than most I know in Florida 2 months ago:
My guy, expect to see shit when in a shitposting community, that’s the whole point. If you don’t like shitposts (not sure why you are saying it isn’t a shitpost, it’s literally a perfect example of one) then block the community and save yourself some cycles.
- Comment on YOU HAVE NO POWER HERE 3 months ago:
Woah, i didn’t know that the effect would be so drastic. I want to point out to those struggling to get it to work that, as diverging mentioned, your arm needs to be fully extended. Also, the blind spot is about a thumb’s width, at least for me, and is only visible at a specific x/y axis location. Any deviation from that single spot will cause it to stop working. I could tell I was close to the spot when parts of my thumb would disappear, and just had to slowly move it around until I found the spot that looked like the thumb was gone completely.
- Comment on Post your homescreen 3 months ago:
I am selfhosting! And yeah, I actually forgot there was a theme on the phone/messaging/camera apps, the theme just came with the OS and I haven’t bothered changing anything. The browser isn’t themed, it’s just the GrapheneOS browser Vanadium.
- Comment on Post your homescreen 3 months ago:
- Comment on Honestly 3 months ago:
50% chance of your 50% chance of you waifu becoming real becoming your waifu
- Comment on As governments around the world are set to make the Internet more restrictive and privacy-invading, we need a solution 4 months ago:
I2P is basically this
- Comment on Help me figure out the way to scale laterally? 4 months ago:
Fair, I’ll try to get my kill-a-watt plugged in to check next time the server powers down and report back. Power is fairly cheap where I live, and I’ve got solar, so that’s never been a huge concern for me. I’d have to check, but I’ve always assumed it’s pulling ~10 watts per drive at normal times, and as far as I know my power bill is pretty much reflecting this. (Due to how my data pool works all drives need to be spinning when in use, and my drives get basically zero down time).
And that’s good, when I first got into self hosting I was greedy for storage and didn’t have the money to pay for redundancy, and I got bit a few times. Now my media server is running on 2 8-drive pools, each with two drives of parity. Ends up being around 200TB of useable space. I don’t have backups on my media pools, as right now I’m using 24TB drives and the cost to back that up just doesn’t make sense. I do however have my personal cloud on mirrored drives with a backup at my brother’s house, also on mirrored drives, so it’d be pretty unlikely for me to lose the important stuff.
- Comment on Help me figure out the way to scale laterally? 4 months ago:
I subscribe to the philosophy that each server should handle one thing. I’ve got a NAS that stores all data for all other servers other than boot drives. I’m using only spinning rust for data, so the network speed is never the bottleneck for my system. My NAS is a 24 bay chassis with the LSI card in IT mode. I got an LSI card that is powered from the PCIe port itself, and power usage for the card itself seems negligible, but spinning 24 drives takes a decent bit of power. I’ve got 20 drives in it now and it’s pretty loud, but substantially quieter than the dell r720 it replaced. It’s in my basement so it doesn’t bother me, but if sound is an issue, and you don’t need a ton of space, definitely go with SSDs. I’ve also got a media server that handles all media streaming (movies/TV/audiobooks/music/ebooks/comics/manga/roms). It reads/writes it’s data to the NAS. I’ve got another server running my personal cloud (nextcloud, password manager, testing new SH services). Again, the nextcloud data is on the NAS. Both servers store backups to the NAS, as well as a second local drive. I’ve also got a handful of raspberry pis running the smart house stuff, and one running the Ubiquiti Controller. All are running the PoE hat with the m.2 port on them for stable boot drives, and store their backups on the NAS. I’ve kind of stopped running proxmox + virtualization when I switched off of the r720, as I find that running Debian on bare metal with btrfs backups is simpler for me, and I run almost all of my services in Docker. I’ve had a motherboard go out on my media server, and was able to swap the motherboard and get everything back up and running in a little under 2 hours. Longest part was the motherboard swap itself.
- Comment on Fairphone announces the €599 Fairphone 6, with a 6.31" 120Hz LTPO OLED display, a Snapdragon 7s Gen 3 chip, and enhanced modularity with 12 swappable parts 5 months ago:
Do you interact with people outside of audiophile circles? I’m not in any, and I haven’t heard anyone in person complain about a missing headphone jack in many years, not after a few years of airpods being available. Hell, I don’t know anyone who uses wired headphones anymore. I have heard people mention that my phone is too heavy, and I’m using a pixel 9 pro. Before this phone I was using a pixel 5, and I had people telling mW my phone was too small/plastic-y. I don’t think you have an understanding of “normal people” They aren’t tech enthusiasts, they aren’t audiophiles, and they are genuinely shocked when I tell them about how egregiously most tech companies are violating their privacy, but are quick to say that they don’t care/don’t want to give up creature comforts to prevent it.
- Comment on Tough, Tiny, and Totally Repairable: Inside the Framework 12 5 months ago:
Fellow Thunder user?
- Comment on Google is intentionally throttling YouTube videos, slowing down users with ad blockers 5 months ago:
It’s not perfect, but I use grayjay. They have an android app and a desktop client, and are usually pretty quick to make updates that will sidestep Google’s anti-adblocking measures (within 1-2 days.) Again, not perfect, but I don’t mind a slightly worse experience to avoid having to see an ad. Plus it has sponsor block support built right in
- Comment on Letter tier list. open for peer review 5 months ago:
OP’s name? Sal
- Comment on The joy of quitting a shit job with an asshole boss 5 months ago:
Notice is never legally required. You’re allowed to leave at any time, regardless of position. Would it screw over the company? Yes. Is it unprofessional? Yes. But you have zero obligation to give notice.
I work a high-paying job in tech with plenty of responsibility, but due to how upper management completely screws me, I will likely be leaving with same-day notice. If the company wants respect, they must first give respect.
- Comment on I don't like to brag, but 6 months ago:
Just know that if you are a manager, everyone is reacting out of obligation
