Onomatopoeia

@Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not about being a “bad dad”. The question is whether this is reasonable with this specific kid. Pros/cons, risks, etc.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨SMS Forwarding⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Yep this is what I’m doing currently, with Lineage as the phone OS and Monocles for XMPP on the phone.

  I don’t use voice, so I don’t really care about it anyway.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows 95 turned 30 today⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Hahahaha.

  Oh dear God what’s the story behind that?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What do you use for music library streaming?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes… Which is OP is already using a streaming solution, clearly that’s the direction.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Help diagnosing server freeze issue⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  As others have said, it’s probably overheating.

  That’s a mini, and likely doesn’t have any fans at all (or something perfunctory), so probably won’t handle being run at high cpu for more than a few minutes.

  I currently have a small-form-factor pc with the same issue - drive and general box temps were high (drive was 110f, continuous, within range but on the edge). It would randomly reboot.

  Replacing the paste on the cpu cooler helped a lot (no more random reboots), but adding a compressor-type fan dropped box temps (and more importantly drive temps), down to room temp.

  I think the best you may be able to do is add an external compressor fan with some duct tape.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why people say they have a "boy cat" or a "girl cat" but when the cat grows up, they don't call is a "man cat" or "woman cat"?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  They do? Who does this? I’d say ask them.

  I use the terms “male” and “female”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DNS server⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah, unbound has the root DNS servers hard coded. That’s a significant point.

  Any reason you couldn’t do the same with any other DNS server such as PiHole?

  I’m really trying to understand why I’d run two DNS servers in serial, instead of one. All this sounds like it’s just a different config that’s been built in - is there something else I’m missing that unbound does differently?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DNS server⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks for the clarification.

  How is that different than unbound? Isn’t it also forwarding requests?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If I invented a shirt that caused cameras to be damaged when filmed/photographed, would I be committing a crime by wearing the shirt at events with cameras?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Quickly?

  Every country is already a surveillance state, and has been for multiple decades.

  Just look at Britain with cameras everywhere since at least the 1980’s.

  Fucking Ring crap just doubled down on it, and idiot people don’t even care they’re providing the means. 1984 nailed it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Round Two: Can I manage to set up Jellyfin correctly this time?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Tailscale has the Funnel feature too, which puts the endpoint on Tailscale’s servers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Round Two: Can I manage to set up Jellyfin correctly this time?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Meh, I won’t expose ports anymore - last time I did I had someone hammering on it hard enough to slow my consumer router.

  I closed the port and would still have someone hammer it occasionally for months, hoping the port was still open.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think what’s happening is this post is trolling, and the link goes to a vid of you-know-who singing you-know-what.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If a friend sent me this via email I’d think they’d been hacked and it was a scam

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DNS server⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Cool, thanks for the clarification. This is good info to have in here in general.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨For some reason suicide is illegal. If someone is going or trying to commit suicide and get talked down are they still in trouble or get locked up or sent to a medical facility?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s illegal in most states in the US.

  You’d get detained, and sent for medical/psych eval.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK that despite being outside of US jurisdiction, Lego has dropped diversity and inclusion terminology from its annual report⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What’s the US have to do with it?

  China doesn’t have DIE, despite Blackrock heavily investing in China.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DNS server⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Guess I’m not following, both still have to request from other DNS servers, so what does unbound add?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DNS server⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What’s the use-case for pihole and unbound together?

  Aren’t they both DNS servers?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gen Z Is Cutting Back On Video Game Purchases⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You nailed it with the age thing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Expanding storage on simple home server⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  External failure rates are hit and miss because frankly, they often get abused.

  I’ve had some last for 10 years, other for 2, and I’m not kind to mine.

  I’d say they have 2 issues to deal with: temp and being dropped. The cases have no cooling, and larger drives need greater cooling than smaller drives.

  I currently have 2 external drives (4 TB each) I use for local redundancy. When sync happens, they get quite warm, so I keep an old 80mm case fan on them. These are 5 year old drives that have been running this way for 3 years. SMART doesn’t report any errors or high temps, but without the fan I’m sure it would.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Expanding storage on simple home server⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It won’t make streaming slower unless you have multiple clients streaming, as in several.

  I find the network to be the bottleneck - my gigabit network connection saturates with 3 streams, and I’m using a conventional hard drive for my media (OS is on an M2 drive). This doesn’t seem to affect the video quality though.

  Frankly SSD is overrated for common stuff, there are other bottlenecks that usually hit us first, such as network or processing.

  As you build out, make sure you consider backup in your costs, don’t spend your money just on storage.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We dont talk about love no more because we are weak bitches.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I do not think that word means what you think it meana5

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there anything I can do to decrease the gap in my blinds?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You can also add sheer curtains in front of them if light is coming through. I find blinds alone are never enough.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Asking for suggestions on managing media⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My server currently doesn’t have a video card (just the crappy on-board), it transcodes fine for one user (which is all I ever have). I don’t even notice an uptick in cpu when it’s transcoding (I’m sure it does, it just doesn’t seem to impact performance).

  This is a 5 year old Dell SFF, running Windows, with 3 Windows VMs in VMware. It has no trouble transcoding, while converting videos using Handbrake. It’s maxed, but it does it.

  I do plan to get a video card, it’s just not urgent.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Asking for suggestions on managing media⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Hell, I’ve found ripping a DVD to MKV results in a 3-5gb file.

  Then converting that MKV using handbrake, I can bring the size down as much as 75%. When you’re talking about a thousand videos, that adds up.

  TV series (especially older stuff) I can consistently reduce 80%+. This makes a real difference for shows that were on for 10 years.

  And these all look fine on a 65" TV from 6’ away. Why store more if I don’t have to?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there anything I can do to decrease the gap in my blinds?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Haha, I chuckled

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there anything I can do to decrease the gap in my blinds?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A more complete picture would help, but my approach would be to move the blinds closer together, then fill any exposure that then occurs on the perimeter with something the same shade as either the wall or the blinds.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Help making a table more movable⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My experience with the furniture slides is while they’re great on carpet, on hard surfaces they will hold onto anything hard (like a grain of sand/a seed) and then drag that along the floor, marring it.

  Thick felt is the answer, and it’s a wear item. But it should easily last a year.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I tried living entirely on IPv6 for a day, and here's what happened⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It boils down to cost: who’s going to do all the engineering work to re-IP a business, and that without considering lost productivity.

  6 is great for the backbone, to relieve the pressure on IPv4. But I have zero need of v6 inside my flat network with a handful of machines.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Soup of Theseus⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You get the upvote for shaving the pubes of a bear