Onomatopoeia
@Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe
- Comment on Microsoft is working on a new wireless file transfer option for Windows 11 18 hours ago:
There was a time when Foldershare enabled you to share folders across the internet without any Microsoft services.
Then they bought it and killed it.
- Comment on People currently in their 60s and 70s grew up in the '60s and '70s 19 hours ago:
I don’t see that case in the post?
- Comment on Former President Joe Biden's cancer diagnosis: What does a Gleason score of 9 mean? 1 day ago:
I forget - wasn’t there a change to the scoring system recently (last 10 years?) because Gleason was too ambiguous, or was Gleason the new model to address the scoring limitations?
- Comment on Former President Joe Biden's cancer diagnosis: What does a Gleason score of 9 mean? 1 day ago:
I don’t think for prostate treatment necessarily does. In Biden’s case, he’s been declining for years - it seems like mortal disease comes on the heels of major cognitive decline - sadly I don’t think he’s going to live much longer, and it won’t be prostate cancer that gets him.
Also, most men will get prostate cancer if they live long enough. The approach has changed in recent years, to only treat if it’s growing too fast or you get it very young (because it normally grows so slowly you’ll die of old age first).
- Comment on What do I actually need? 1 day ago:
Start with one thing you want to do, the most important thing.
Enumerate the requirements of that thing (machine to host it on, the kind of OS it requires, network connectivity, etc).
You’re doing what I’ve always heard as “solutioning” - getting overwhelmed with potential solutions before clearly identifying the problem (e.g. Requirements).
Solve that first thing, then move on to the next thing.
Odds are you can get started with something much simpler than jumping feet first into solutions like Proxmox (which has nothing to do with your stated goals, it’s a storage/redundancy/virualization system). Forget about all that - if you eventually come to a point where you need those capabilities, you can deal with it then.
I would start with redundant local data and a cloud backup. Three local drives with data sync’d or mirrored is much easier/cheaper to get going than spending time setting up a NAS that you don’t know you need…yet.
Or, if you know you need a NAS, then start there and get that established, stable first. Then start yout saying efforts. Pretty much all NAS solutions today support some kinds of virtualization/containerization. I don’t recommend Proxmox as your start.
- Comment on What do I actually need? 1 day ago:
You can always add your own router between the cable company and your network. This is, after all, what the entire internet looks like.
I currently have 2 routers downstream of my cable modem, because I had them and it was easier than setting up a business class router.
- Comment on TrueNAS Scale, hard disks, and pools 1 day ago:
Since ZFS keeps the config info on disk, I’m with another commenter wondering about your disk health.
Check the SMART data for each drive.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 days ago:
Hondas (90s) have been the easiet manual to get moving I’ve ever seen. You practically can’t stall them.
And I disagree with the truck - those can make learning harder. One of the hardest I’ve ever driven was a Ford from the 90’s. Heavy as hell clutch that was too small, terrible gear ratios so starting off was a bitch, with big gaps between the gears.
But I’ve also driven old trucks with granny gears - an extra-low gear below first for getting moving with a heavy load. Those you just let off the clutch and the truck moves at a walking pace.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 days ago:
Meh, you’re not going to hurt a modern manual with a learner. They’re not even likely to hurt the clutch.
Internals if a transmission are primarily made of 3 materials: brass, aluminum, and *hardened steel".
Aluminum is for shift forks, I can’t even imagine a way to break one.
Brass is for synchros, which can be worn by grinding - which isn’t really easy to make happen anymore, plus but it’s not like you’re gonna sit there and hold it while it’s grinding, you’ll release it quickly. The last car I remember having grinding issues was because they didn’t use a synchro for second gear so you got a short little growl if you didn’t shift “just so”. Last time I drove that car it had 250k on the odometer.
I’ve seen dragsters miss-shift on 1960’s gearboxes that weren’t built for 450hp/500lb torque, and they’ve survived it fine (I’ve also seen them fail the same way). A new driver in today’s cars just can’t do that kind of damage unless it’s intentional - and that would take some time.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 days ago:
You can learn to drive stick in 20 minutes with the right teaching approach.
I learned in about 10 minutes, with my brother teaching me… Not exactly the teacher of choice. And these were cars without tachometers or hydraulic clutches.
The key is learning how the clutch engages, where it’s “catch point” is. Using the “No throttle” method, people pick it up, fast.
Plus with cars today you don’t have to rely on downshifting to slow down - Brakes are just that advanced now (though you still want to brake in short cycles for long downhills to prevent overheating).
- Comment on [deleted] 3 days ago:
Yea, I think this is kind of “the way” to teach manual. It really focuses on getting a feel for a clutch and the non-linearity of friction in it.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 days ago:
“clutch portal”… I’m not really sure where that portal goes… Lol
- Comment on [deleted] 3 days ago:
Yea, getting the lesson from Dad is probably a great thing. He’ll enjoy helping, it’s good bonding time, and he’ll have stories for the future!
- Comment on (i feel really stupid asking, but what the hell!) could i be of french descent? 3 days ago:
Yea, a sibling did a DNA anaylis and it doesn’t match what we know (our family history is well understood due to people tracking it since the 1700’s.)
Most people in the US with my surname come from a very small set of immigrants (3 or 4) from about 1700-1800.
The thing is, my genetics are heavily influenced by who each generation married. Easy to see just on the US tree how quickly genetics mix, and it’s not like those immigrants were purely anything either.
- Comment on (i feel really stupid asking, but what the hell!) could i be of french descent? 3 days ago:
Well, the Normans invaded Britain in 1066, this changed Old English to Middle English, so…
- Comment on Selfhosting on old MSI laptop 4 days ago:
Never had this happen, and I’ve carried laptops since the mid 90’s, and they’ve always been plugged in most of the time.
Get to office, plug on, get home, plug in and sit overnight in the charger with no use.
I’ve seen a few expanded batteries, but that’s across the hundreds of laptops in my support circle. It’s very rare.
Every laptop I’ve had in the last 5 years has battery protection built in anyway. I’m running 2 laptops from 2019 that have it.
Though you do make a good point, something to figure out if your laptop does this. And to keep an eye on the batteries anyway (like check battery health quarterly), and replace if it gets down significantly (I replace mine at 70% health).
- Comment on Selfhosting on old MSI laptop 4 days ago:
RAID isn’t backup, or even redundancy, it’s for creating large storage pools. It’s at the mercy of the controller and all the hardware. In fact, the more disks you have, the more likely you are to be impacted by a failure.
In a typical RAID 5, if one drive fails, the entire array is at risk until the drive can be replaced, and resilvered. During resilvering (rebuilding the drive with all the data it should have, parity, etc), the entire array is at even more risk because of the load on the other disks.
With dual parity and hot spare (less data storage total), you get a little more security since the parity is doubled and the hot spare will be automatically resilvered if a drive fails, but that’s not without similar risks during that process.
Here’s a real-world example of RAID risks. I have a 5-drive NAS with 5 1TB drives, which gives me roughly 4TB of usable space (1TB parity). It runs software RAID using ZFS (a highly resilient file system, that can build arrays using varying disk sizes, and has some self-healing capability). I’ve had a drive go bad, replacing took 30 hours to rebuild. During that time, the entire array is “degraded”, meaning no parity protecting the data. If another drive were to have failed during this read/write intensive period, I would have lost ALL the data.
To protect against this, I have 2 other large drives which this data is replicated to. And then I use a cloud storage for backup (storj.io).
This is a modified version of the 3-2-1 method that works for my risk assessment.
Without offsite backup, you’re always at risk of local issues - fire, flood, etc. Or even just a massive power spike (though that’s not much of a risk, especially if you use a UPS).
- Comment on [deleted] 5 days ago:
Because the people wanted it that way
Haha, love when people decide to just cowboy shit up their way. I’m sure they had reasons, but that’s still just awesome.
The US didn’t (still doesn’t) use area codes for local calls on/to landlines (by definition, calls in the same area code are considered local). The reason the area code is important in places like Montreal (large cities) is the number of subscribers. Seven digits gets you 1 less than 10 million numbers.
Though I suspect the original reason was performance on old mechanical switches (which were still in use into the 2000’s in some US cities). I’ve been in them and those switches are nuts, and crazy loud. If you can route calls to a new switch just using the area code, you don’t have to wait for 6 digits - just start routing after 3, and the new switches will handle the rest. Sort of a load balancing for switching, and would make calls faster - you could bounce the call out of the switching center sooner, especially in areas before tone dialing was a thing (again, mechanical switching was tied to “dialing”, tone became a thing with electronic/digital switches.
I don’t know this is what they did, I’m just guessing.
- Comment on Fake reviews on Play Store by Plex staff 5 days ago:
It doesn’t even work right on the same net sometimes.
- Comment on Fake reviews on Play Store by Plex staff 5 days ago:
Google says you can’t. It’s a violation of their ToS.
- Comment on Fake reviews on Play Store by Plex staff 5 days ago:
Google ToS
- Comment on Fake reviews on Play Store by Plex staff 5 days ago:
Is it?
Have you performed the analysis on Plex reviews and know exactly how many 5 star reviews were posted by employees?
Because I don’t, and that’s a problem, as well as a Google ToS violation.
I hope their app gets dropped from the store, at least long enough for them to have to go groveling to Google to get in reinstated, especially since Google likes to drop OSS devs for undisclosed reasons, and make them jump through hoops to get back on.
- Comment on Fake reviews on Play Store by Plex staff 5 days ago:
Oh, ffs, really? That’s kind of the reason for a download feature.
Pricks.
- Comment on Fake reviews on Play Store by Plex staff 5 days ago:
Mostly without being transparent, and stating they work for the company.
- Comment on Fake reviews on Play Store by Plex staff 5 days ago:
It’s biased and problematic because they don’t state they work for Plex.
Thing is, had they been transparent about it, at least we could give them credit for acknowledging that up front. Now we have to wonder how many reviews are from employees.
- Comment on Fake reviews on Play Store by Plex staff 5 days ago:
I stopped trying to use Plex years ago (like 10) when that shit was just painful… AND they wanted to charge me for the luxury of that pain.
I’m sure it got lots better, but it left such a bad taste in my mouth at the time I’ve gone without easy media watching instead, and tried all sorts of things.
Hopefully Jellyfin keeps improving. I’d rather donate to them every year than pay a sub to Plex.
Glad it’s worked for you though, and I mean that. When Plex worked for me, it was pretty good.
- Comment on Fake reviews on Play Store by Plex staff 6 days ago:
I don’t disagree with you, at all. But what’s the $3/mo subscription you’re talking about? I haven’t had a Chrome/Firestick/whatever since like 2012, so I’m out of the loop
- Comment on Fake reviews on Play Store by Plex staff 6 days ago:
Hitchcockian study of human nature. Everyone should see it at least once, too fully understand the meaning of gaslight.
- Comment on Time to suffocate Russia's economy after 17th EU sanctions package, France says 6 days ago:
Ooh, 17th! This will work this time!
- Comment on [deleted] 6 days ago:
But, why?
Seriously, if you understand how this came to be, I’m curious. I’d think they implemented land lines using extant hardware systems of the era, and the number structure surely was well established by that point?
Now I’m off to go down a rabbit hole of telecom implementations worldwide.