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- Comment on Trans people in Kansas are being ordered to surrender their drivers licenses 16 hours ago:
I think the trans movement dug a deep hole for itself when it promoted transition surgery for minors.
We didn’t. Noone is even advocating for that. That is 100% a right-wing straw-man.
That works both ways though, when an “F” on the license is for someone who is 6’3" with quarterback shoulders and five-o’clock shadow.
Exactly, and now there’s gonna be a ton of beardy, muscly men who are forced to revert to an “F” on their licenses.
- Comment on Trans people in Kansas are being ordered to surrender their drivers licenses 23 hours ago:
No, with the incorrect one.
- Comment on i unapologetically love male pits 2 days ago:
It absolutely is.
There’s also a lot of different variations of fetishes involving piss. For the “get pissed on / in / drink it” part of the fetish, I have a hunch that piss sits right on the boundary of gross/humiliating, but not actually harmful.
Well.
For me at least.
- Comment on Hetzner (European hosting provider) to increase prices by up to 40% 4 days ago:
So do they
- Comment on Hetzner (European hosting provider) to increase prices by up to 40% 4 days ago:
Here’s the email I got from them:
Dear xxx,
This mail is to inform you about an unfortunate, but necessary price change that we must make.
There have been drastic price increases in various areas in the IT branch recently. That is why, unfortunately, we must also increase the prices of our products.
The costs to operate our infrastructure and to buy new hardware have both increased dramatically. Therefore, our price adjustment will affect both your existing products and new orders.
The underlying causes of the increased costs are, among others, the exploding demand for AI-related computing power and for cloud services. In addition, raw material prices and production costs have also generally risen for manufacturers. The costs for RAM and SSDs especially have risen by a large amount. For example, the cost for DRAM memory has increased up to 500% since September 2025. And according to market researchers like TrendForce, this price trend will continue throughout the year.
We have genuinely tried hard to optimize our costs and to prevent increasing our prices for as long as possible. But we can no longer compensate for the strain that it has placed on our operations. We want to continue to deliver quality products that meet both our standards and your expectations, so we must take this step.
The price changes will take effect on 1 April 2026 for both new orders and existing products. For orders placed before 1 April 2026, but delivered after 1 April 2026, the adjusted prices will apply.
The following existing products, listed under the customer number specified in the subject line, are affected by the price increase as follows.
Product previous price New price as of 1 April 2026 Server Auction € 43.56 € 44.87 all prices incl. 21% vat
We know that price changes are always a challenge for everyone. However, we believe that our products’ prices and conditions still have a competitive price-to-performance ratio.
We have prepared a list of all new prices for you on Hetzner Docs at docs.hetzner.com/general/…/price-adjustment. Starting on 1 April 2026, the new prices will also be on our website.
If you do not wish to continue your contract, you can cancel the products within the regular cancellation periods via your administration interface.
We hope that you will be able to understand and accept our decision, and that we are sorry that we have to change our prices.
If you have any questions, we will be happy to help. Please log onto your account and go to “Support” in the menu and create a support request.
Kind regards,
Hetzner Online
- Comment on Hetzner (European hosting provider) to increase prices by up to 40% 4 days ago:
1.31 for me!
- Comment on China: DeepSeek Paints Grim Picture of Its Home Country 1 week ago:
Did you prompt it in English, or on Chinese? This is just a next-token-predictor, and it will largely use its English training data for its English output prediction.
This is not surprising. Nor is it indicative of, well, anything.
- Comment on I'm fed up with Copilot, and I'm not sure it can be fixed 2 weeks ago:
It’s because people get mislead by the “agent”, assuming there’s something actually intelligent at the other end, able to act like they would, just… Automated.
- Comment on I'm fed up with Copilot, and I'm not sure it can be fixed 2 weeks ago:
What a clown. In what world do you require an LLM to check for duplicate pictures??
I mean, good on him for realizing that LLMs are dogshit. But still.
- Comment on Man posts his incorrect opinion online 2 weeks ago:
Shouldn’t it be the other way round? If I’m a guest at someones house, IMO I should go out of my way to do as the host does.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, and Steins;Gate 0 rated higher than the original… What?
- Comment on How many containers are you all running? 4 weeks ago:
Eh… Not really. Qemu does a really good job with VM virtualizarion.
I believe I could easily build containers instead of VMs from the nix config, but I actually do like having a full VM: since it’s running a full OS instead of an app, all the usual nix tooling just works on it.
Also: In my day job, I actually have to deal quite a bit with containers (and kubernetes), and I just… don’t like it.
- Comment on How many containers are you all running? 4 weeks ago:
I’ll DM you… Not sire I want to link those two accounts publicly 😄
- Comment on How many containers are you all running? 4 weeks ago:
Zero.
About 35 VMs though, each running either a si gle service (e.g. Paperless) or a suite (Sonarr and so on plus NZBGet, VPN,…).
There’s additionally a couple of client VMs. All of those distribute over 3 proxmox hosts.
SSL and WireGuard are terminated at a physical firewall box running OpnSense, so with very few exceptions, the VMs do not handle any complicated network setup.
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- Comment on Getting worn out with all these docker images and CLI hosted apps 4 weeks ago:
NixOS for the win! Define your system and services, run a single command, get a reproducible, Proxmox-compatible VM out of it. Nixpkgs has basically every service you’d ever want to selfhost.
- Comment on Getting worn out with all these docker images and CLI hosted apps 4 weeks ago:
Lost me at LLMs. My Nix config is over 20k lines long at this point, neatly split into more than a hundred modules and managing 8 physical machines and 30+ VMs. I love it.
But every time I’ve tried to use an LLM for nix, it has failed spectacularly.
- Comment on This New Android Smartphone Is For Everyone Who Misses the Blackberry 4 weeks ago:
You can, without root even! Take a look at uad-ng (universal android debloater). Comes with a community-curated list which sorts APKs into 5 tiers from “recommended to uninstall” to “yeah don’t, your phone needs this to boot”. Apps disabled through this do not come back after updates.
Removed 140+ apps from my Xiaomi, 120+ from my GFs Samsung S24, and 90+ from my brothers Motorola Edge something.
- Comment on Microsoft Outlook Outage Leaves Users Without Email; Tech Company Working On Resolving Issue 4 weeks ago:
Called their support. They were super nice, and then told me that if I still had access to my 2fa, I could simply add a second mail in my account without needing access to the first one.
Made total sense when stopping to think about it for a second 😄
- Comment on No need to be rude 5 weeks ago:
Not sure. You mean something like r/NuclearRevenge and Co?
- Comment on Microsoft Outlook Outage Leaves Users Without Email; Tech Company Working On Resolving Issue 5 weeks ago:
Oh, yeah. Wasn’t actually worried of the mails themselves (multiple devices which have all of them, plus a daily borgbackup offsite), it was just knowing that I NEED to fix, this, now, because email is unfortunately kinda important.
Fun conundrum: had my personal mail as the only contact at my hosting provider. Requested a KVM for rescue. “Thank you for your request! We’ll email you the link to your KVM access!” Gahhh.
- Comment on Microsoft Outlook Outage Leaves Users Without Email; Tech Company Working On Resolving Issue 5 weeks ago:
Same. But also, I’ll never forget the adrenaline when I actually legitimately fucked up once. Was a sweaty 2 hours of recovery.
- Comment on No need to be rude 5 weeks ago:
We really, really do. I miss r/PettyRevenge and cousins, plus r/TalesFromTechSupport.
- Comment on `continuwuity` vs `tuwunel`: where to go from `conduwuit`? 1 month ago:
Sorry, unfortunately can’t help you there. My matrix server is not federated, I remember back then I created an account on matrix.org specifically to read these. But maybe they got deleted in the meantime?
Anyways, I have been really happy with
continuwuity, to the point that up until now, I haven’t even looked attuwunelagain. The maintainers ofcontinuwuityseem really nice and engaged, and both from a usage and stability point of view, as well as for the actually surprisingly fast release cycle, I have no complaints. I found and fixed a bug a couple weeks ago, and the dev process was also very friendly and relaxed.In short: while I don’t know how things are on the
tuwunelside, I’m very happy to have gone withcontinuwuityand have high hopes for the future of the project. - Comment on We all took foreign languages in school and none of us can actually speak those languages 1 month ago:
And yet, in non-English speaking countries, virtually every kid is taught English to a level that’s at least “roughly business”.
I also reject your premise of 8 hours / day for a year; how about 1-2 hours / day for 4-8 years.
In the case of English, school kids would get more like 2-4hrs per week and be perfectly fluent after a couple of years, btw.
- Comment on Music Assistant 2.7 - Taking over the airwaves 2 months ago:
FWIW, I’ve been using Music Assistant with my Sonos speakers without issue.
HOWEVER, I’m using MA as part of Home Assistant, and have the speakers ck figured through HA, not MA. MA just sees the speakers as HA Media Players. That works really well.
- Comment on Here is a more polished release of nanogram. Fully compatible on raspberry pi now. 2 months ago:
Almost 9k lunes of python in a bash script. Lmao. No.
- Comment on LG Update Installs Unremovable Microsoft Copilot on Smart TVs, Ignites Backlash 2 months ago:
Awesome haha. ALmost exact same setup here, incl. OpnSense with an isolation vlan in which (brother) printer and TV are.
- Comment on LG Update Installs Unremovable Microsoft Copilot on Smart TVs, Ignites Backlash 2 months ago:
I only use the Nvidia Shield remote. It obviously does everything on the Shield, plus tv on/off, and volume. Then I remapped the Netflix button on it to open a little quick actions menu to select brightness/picture mode levels.
Haven’t touched the lg remote since
- Comment on LG Update Installs Unremovable Microsoft Copilot on Smart TVs, Ignites Backlash 2 months ago:
Incredible. What a shit idea.
Anyways, kids, remember: never let your smart devices talk to the internet. We actually love our LG OLED - it’s fantastic hardware. But it has not once, and never will, get the chance to phone home.
