Onomatopoeia

@Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you keep up?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Wow, neat approach.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you keep up?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t update unless I’m bored

  Hahahaha, one of my kind!

  My upgrades usually occur because I’m setting up a new system anyway, that way my effort is building for tomorrow in addition to the upgrades, and I get testing time to ensure changeover is pretty smooth.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you keep up?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  As I said “how to reproduce this in a home setup”.

  I’m running multiple machines, paid little for all of them, and they all run at pretty low power. I replicate stuff on a schedule, I and have a cloud backup I verify quarterly.

  If OP is thinking about how to ensure uptime (however they define it) and prevent downtime due to upgrades, then looking at how Enterprise does things (the people who use research into this very subject performed by universities and organizations like Microsoft and Google), would be useful.

  Nowhere did I tell OP to do things this way, and I’d thank you to not make strawmen of my words.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you keep up?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  In the business world it’s pretty common to do staged or switchover upgrades: test new version in a lab environment, iron out the install/config details. Then upgrade a single production server and do a test with a small group of users. Or, build new servers with the new stuff, have a set of users run on it for a while, in this way you can always just move those users back to a known good server.

  How do you do this at home? VMs for lots of stuff, or duplicate hardware for NAS type stuff (I’ve read of running TrueNAS in a VM).

  To borrow from the preparedness community: if you have 1 you have none, if you have 2 you have 1. As an example, the business world often runs mission-critical systems in a redundant setup in regionally-different data centers, so a storm won’t take them down. The question is how to reproduce this idea in a home lab environment.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨NAS Hardware selection⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Also have a backup plan.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨NAS Hardware selection⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Consider how the NAS will be used. Is it just file storage, or will you want to stream from it?

  If just file storage, you can use lighter hardware.

  I’m running a 5 year old Dell Small Form Factor desktop as my NAS/media server. It’s power draw is under 12 watts unless I’m converting files. There’s room for 3 data drives (boot drive is M2). It has no problem streaming, unlike my consumer NAS.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fediverse Frustration: The Homogeneous World of Lemmy Feeds⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Right?

  I stopped reading after that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Full Android image backup in 2025?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Not unless you’re already bootloader unlocked, which requires a factory reset to do so.

  The best you can do is try to backup apps using ADB (which is hit and miss, and restoring is very hit and miss).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Library⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  3? You’ve been playing THREE games? How? Where do you find the time!?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Managing Subscriptions: Rocket Money Alternatives?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Serious question - is it really that hard to just have a spreadsheet?

  I can’t imagine having so many subscriptions that a pretty simple spreadsheet couldn’t handle it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft won’t support Office apps on Windows 10 after October 14th⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Office 365, which I refuse to use for my personal computer.

  I still use some Office apps from 2006 (Visio, Project) because they serve my personal needs.

  Work? That’s my employer’s problem.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can you see yourself cutting off by a generation of gaming?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I stopped buying games after COD something, the last multilayer where you could host your own server.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Resistor/Capacitor broke off, anyone knows if it matters?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That was an extra, I wouldn’t worry about it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨And because you deserve it, here's one from the top shelf⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Exactly

  But I’m not the one coming on here telling everyone weed eases pain.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I still don’t think companies serve you ads based on spying through your microphone⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Except I’ve had experiences that aren’t explainable by alm this:

  Discussing a random, never-thought-of-before idea with a friend, in the car. Neither of us had ever thought of this thing before (honestly don’t recall now what it was). Discussed it for 2 minutes, then moved on.

  Later we’re both seeing related ads, yet neither of us searched for anything.

  And it was something way out of left field for both of us, that neither of us had ever thought of before. The related ads were so jarring that we both told each other about it.

  Oh, and my phone was rooted, de-googled (lineage), with heavy restrictions for the apps, no social media (I still don’t have any accounts with any of them, except here), etc. The other phone was an iPhone.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I still don’t think companies serve you ads based on spying through your microphone⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve had a very similar experience.

  Once discussed something, out of the blue, something I’ve never been curious about in my life, in the car, with a friend who also has never thought about the same thing.

  Hours later we’re both seeing related ads.

  Now, I get that the amount of data required for such analysis is supposedly outside the bounds of what phones can do. But I can’t see any other explanation. Neither of us ever searched anything in this subject, we talked about doe a couple minutes and moved on, never doing anything about it. We have very different interests, too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Help identify a terminal type⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Since they’re on a garage door opener, they’re probably designed to be very simple to operate. Not to malign electricians or general contractors, but they don’t have the time to deal with fussy mechanisms - they’ll deal with it once, then never use that brand again.

  Since the hole is at an angle I’d guess they’re spring loaded but manually operated. That little slot on the top of the orange buttons looks designed for a flat screwdriver to push it down, opening the clamping mechanism, and it’s spring loaded to come back up and clamp the wire.

  Just my guess. Can you shine a light into the hole and see the mechanism at all?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨And because you deserve it, here's one from the top shelf⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Weed sucks for pain.

  Opiates are the only thing I’ve found that makes by difference at all.

  Not everyone is you.