Onomatopoeia

@Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stupid question, but are there free VPS/VM instances for a jobless girl who wants to run her own instance?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago⁩:

  Pi is a good option because of it’s low power draw.

  However I find used mini pc’s and Small Form Factor desktops to be a better value and their idle power is similar to the latest Pi (while costing about the same as a new Pi).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  You’ve been corrected on this before: chav doesn’t mean poor.

  So take your strawman elsewhere.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is Windows still bloated⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I wouldn’t expect those to be upgrading to 11

  Every desktop/laptop will upgrade to 11 - no business will accept the risk of maintaining an OS that’s out of support (with some exceptions). So you don’t have a choice.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is Windows still bloated⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I couldn’t have written it better.

  The only disagreement I’d have is that Win2k was the major turning point when NT architecture hit mainstream. Suddenly we had NT core with a UI that users understood and dynamic events (PnP).

  Though for us in IT, NT4 was the major turning point - a solid OS that you could actually use in business.

  XP brought a lot more user functionality (plus better performance), and Windows 7 brought the current version of 64-bit architecture.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is Windows still bloated⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s no value in switching to ARM, basically.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Someone should make a strip mall with 80s/90s stores that no longer exist⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Just go to a defunct mall

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do we eat dessert?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Why are you on social media when studies have shown it’s bad for your mental health?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK What are you eating⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean the basic rules apply: If it’s in a box/in the center part of the store, it shouldn’t only be used occasionally.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Harmony - Yet Another Discord Alternative⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d you just call it YADA without it being an acronym…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a spreadsheet that doesn't mess with the data I enter?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Hahahahahaha

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a spreadsheet that doesn't mess with the data I enter?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Libreoffixe won’t do tables, ever.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there any good laptop cleaners so I can set it to max settings and get rid of bloware that are free?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Just uninstall any apps you don’t use/want.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Am I messed up being in my 30ish believe in Superheroes actually exsist? And we just don't hear about them? I just like to think that their is a person or persons out there.....q⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Uhh, do you still believe in Santa or the Tooth Fairy?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What’s the endgame?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s no “end game” - the world’s in constant flux.

  There’s a million stories, a million agendas, a million players (8 billion?)

  Every day there’s a change in circumstance, so every day each agenda/story shifts to accommodate, as the players take new approaches to achieve whatever goals they have today.

  Nothing is ever as simple as “end game”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a spreadsheet that doesn't mess with the data I enter?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  AFAIK, when you save to CSV with Excel it doesn’t add anything.

  But you won’t have a Table either, as that requires saving yonan Excel format.

  As for the rest just format your columns as “text” in Excel.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Imagine re reading your own written love note to your girlfriend just to make sure it doesn’t feel like chatgpt wrote it.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh, my writing is so inconsistent there’s no doubt.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Remote KVM recommendations⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  RustDesk is a great option too for just Remote Access. Though I find it’s performance a bit slow, and with VPN I can use any tool I need same as on the LAN (my workflow is unchanged).

  I do use RustDesk for the adhoc situations (friend needs help/new machine, etc). It’s faster to setup for ad-hoc support vs adding a Tailscale client.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Remote KVM recommendations⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You’ll need port forwarding to expose RDP yo the internet

  No. Do NOT do this. RDP isn’t designed for the internet, it’s a security hole, even more so in a small business where they aren’t going to use advanced security (2FA, certs, etc).

  Remote access should always be over a secure connection, such as a VPN.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Remote KVM recommendations⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Ooh, I’d forgotten about Netbird!

  Thanks for the reminder to test it as an alternative to Tailscale.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Remote KVM recommendations⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Install Tailscale on all the machines and you’re set.

  Alternatively Hamachi.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I don't have money to pay premium to not see ads. What in the world makes you think that I have money to buy what you are advertising me?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Exactly.

  Annoy you into paying.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I don't have money to pay premium to not see ads. What in the world makes you think that I have money to buy what you are advertising me?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re not the target audience.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cheapest 14x4tb NAS⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Others have mentioned power - you may want to do some math on drive cost vs power consumption. There’ll be a drive size point that is worth the cost because you’ll use fewer drives which consume less power than more drives.

  Having built a number of systems, I’m a LOT more conscious of power draw today for things that will run 24/7. Like my ancient NAS draws about 15 watts at idle with 5 drives (It will spin down drives).

  More drives will always mean more power, so maybe fewer but larger drives makes sense. You may pay more up front, but monthly power costs never go away.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cheapest 14x4tb NAS⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  And while more drives means more failure opportunity, it also means when a failed drive is replaced, it’s likely of a different manufacture period.

  I have a 5-drive NAS that I’ve been upgrading single drives every 6 months. This has the benefit of slowly increasing capacity while also ensuring drives are of different ages so less likely to fail simultaneously. (Now I’m waiting for prices to come back down, dammit).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cheapest 14x4tb NAS⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve never run into issues running desktop hardware without ECC as servers - since the 90’s.

  I just don’t think the extra cost is worthwhile - I’m not running systems/services that will have catastrophic failures without ECC (or have weird bitflips that would corrupt some transaction).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sftp client gor android?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yea, that’s a challenging part for sure, one that I still deal with.

  It can be done, but you need to configure the sync jobs “just so”. Send only from the phone, don’t sync deletions, etc.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How many times a year do you wash your jeans?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The 60’s - when jeans were still very rough material and needed a LOT of breaking in.

  Today’s jeans are wimpy by comparison.

  But regardless of the material, I wash my pants when they get dirty, not every time I wear them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sftp client gor android?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Does it have to be SFTP?

  I use both Syncthing and Resiliosync - both are better on battery than conventional file transfer mechanisms, and they don’t require babysitting. They simply sync files as you define.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  McDonalds coffee is way Bette, and its $1

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  No, even their regular coffee is awful.

  McDonalds coffee is better than Starbuck’s, and its $1.