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- Comment on What if 11 hours ago:
reminiscent of one of the greatest I think you should leave sketches
also garfeild
- Comment on Why does it seem like everyone is so good looking and beautiful nowadays? 2 days ago:
come to my house, i look like shit
- Comment on 4chan Is Dead. Its Toxic Legacy Is Everywhere 6 days ago:
There’s a supposed message from one of the admins promising it will return
If it does come back it will likely take ages given much of the 20 year old hacked together source leaked. If they simply relaunched as is it would likely go down again in minutes
- Comment on Synology could bring “certified drive” requirements to more NAS devices 1 week ago:
No need to be sorry, I did not take it that way, we are best friends forever. More to clarify that there are a ton of old server parts out there for dirt cheap if you’re okay with saving e waste from the trash heap.
You are absolutely right that homelabs are totally fine on consumer grade hardware but check server parts too, you might be surprised at the deals you find, especially locally. My build was a 10th gen intel build and cpu/mobo/32gb ecc ram/heatsink missing fan was $125. That was several years ago though and now we got tarrrrriiifffsss
- Comment on Synology could bring “certified drive” requirements to more NAS devices 1 week ago:
The only reason I even have “server” parts is because they were dirt cheap at the recycling center. Before I used this my rig was an old pc from a doctors office I worked at they were going to throw away from like 2009. It was awful spec wise but it did the job. My current build is overkill but I wanted to play with vms and local LLM stuff and the hardware was cheap, so why not?
low power is definitely something to consider though. That said there are some people that have made impressive builds out there. There are some low power builds on the unraid forums that use even less power than one of these things. It’s a bit more up front because it relies on some niche hardware but the power usage is so low it’s maybe worthwhile if you use it for years
I just fail to see the benefit of these. Ease of use for sure but assembling a pc is really not difficult and installing an OS is not hard either. And an os like unraid or truenas is pretty simple to use, they hold your hand a lot. Like I get that running Debian is something not everyone wants to do but then it’s like, just don’t do that then?
Frankly if you’re capable enough to configure the dockers you’d run on one of these, like plex or Jellyfin, I would think you could handle those things??
- Comment on Synology could bring “certified drive” requirements to more NAS devices 1 week ago:
I remember arguing with some nerd that this overpriced shit was not fucking worth it and my build based on old server parts I got from a local computer recycler was infinitely superior in every way
I wish I saved that post so I could reply with this link. I feel so validated. Never trust companies. It’s why I say you should never fuck with plex, even if it is a bit easier to deploy than Jellyfin.
- Comment on How are the blatant anti-competitive practices of Apple just…allowed? How is this even possible? 2 weeks ago:
at no point did I deny apples practices are shitty and anti consumer
but the history of how we got here is that microsoft spent time lobbying hard to make sure that companies like apple could do exactly what they are doing
apple is far from the only one who does it as well? Basically every modern tech giant flexes their anti consumer muscle every day. the one defense of apple is that you can basically avoid their shit by not buying it, as opposed to a company like google who are actively vying to utilize their extreme dominance in browser market share to change the internet forever to make adblocking impossible (very similar to 90s microsoft behavior)
Those who don’t learn from history are doomed to repeat it, etc etc
Sorry you were challenged to read what was roughly 3/4 of a page. Maybe this is more digestible for you
- Comment on How are the blatant anti-competitive practices of Apple just…allowed? How is this even possible? 2 weeks ago:
Funny enough, apples behavior was enabled by microsoft setting really shitty precedents in the 90s. oh whoops!
Seriously though microsoft was a force in the 90s and early 2000s. If you weren’t around for it you simply don’t realize how insane it was for something like computing to have come around and quickly take over the world with microsoft being the thing. you only had a pc (or maybe laptop). That pc ran windows over 90% of the time, and you used internet explorer over 90% of the time. Like I’m not making this up, IE, the worst browser of all time, peaked at 95% market share in 2002.
Nowadays edge is a minor contender but a distant third (chrome about 70%, safari about 17%, edge about 5, Firefox 2.5). Windows market share still dominates on PC but has fallen significantly from 90+% in the 1990s to 75ish% for windows 10 and falling. Plus nowadays people don’t use PCs nearly as much. I’m on a phone right now, which is the dominant computing device (and windows phone was a joke)
Anyway in true American capitalistic fashion when they had this undeniable monopoly apple was a joke at the time and Linux was for extreme hobbyists and servers and such. So what did microsoft do? Destroy competition, destroy any political machinations that could threaten their future with hefty lobbying, destroy open standards in favor of their own proprietary bullshit, etc. Europe attempted some antitrust stuff against them similar to what is happening to google now (to forcefully break off IE from windows) but it was unsuccessful
So when you’re frustrated about the fact that tech does not play nice together? Does not adhere to open standards, forces proprietary bullshit on you, open displays anti competitive and anti consumer behavior? Blame microsoft and politicians that were grossly ignorant to a rapidly changing world (although to be fair you don’t have to be a tech genius to understand that computers being forced to work with each other and have transparency in how they work is beneficial)
And the next time you see some dork praising bill gates for being the “cool billionaire” because he has a charity remember that his wealth is built on these destructive practices. He lead microsoft through this period and this doesn’t even touch on how he destroyed countless businesses that dared to compete by leveraging the size of his company (eg draining their resources with lawsuits) rather than competing fair and square.
He personally fucked the landscape of technological advancement for generations on top of that because he had the arrogance to think that microsoft knew how best to handle it. Now it’s blown up and he doesn’t care because he got his bag. His charity is the same problem: he holds his wealth and decides what causes are worthwhile, like a king. Fuck him, and fuck all the technocrats that have no sense of ethics aside from “make me more money and do whatever I want”.
- Comment on America is fucked 2 weeks ago:
This is beyond car brain. This is the increasing amount of people simply not giving a shit about the social contract over the years coupled with cops not doing their actual jobs in favor whatever it is they do (sitting in their cars fucking around in their phones and harassing minorities?)
But you see the lack of concern for the social contract in many other aspects of american life. Asking people to wear a paper mask during a pandemic was probably the most notable recent non car example. We all know how that went. In other cultures it’s a regular practice; you simply do it as a courtesy when you have recently had a cold. In A america during a pandemic 30-40% of the population revealed themselves to be utterly pathetic toddlers that can’t handle being asked to do something by a perceived authority figure or slightly inconvenienced.
- Comment on Will Trump tariffs and implied trade war have a significant effect on the global emissions of greenhouse gases? 2 weeks ago:
Even if it didn’t (it will) his administration is doing all kinds of nasty rollbacks on climate initiatives and regulations related to the environment sooooo
- Comment on Most people in the workforce today have never had to answer the question "Smoking or nonsmoking?" 3 weeks ago:
I ended up picking up smoking in college in the early 2000s and I have to wonder if the constant exposure to second hand smoke in places I worked, in cars from family members, etc, was a factor
I was disgusted at the time but then I fell into it. I quit eventually, which was a nightmare, but I do think the exposure to second hand nicotine from the age of like 2 was maybe a factor
- Comment on Most people in the workforce today have never had to answer the question "Smoking or nonsmoking?" 3 weeks ago:
I remember working in restaurants in high school, coming home, showering, and the stench of cigarette smoke just releasing itself from my hair
Fun times
- Comment on Media Do Distributor Sells MyAnimeList Site to Web3/AI Company Gaudiy 3 weeks ago:
That’s part of the appeal to me, baka doesn’t bother with the SEO game
- Comment on Media Do Distributor Sells MyAnimeList Site to Web3/AI Company Gaudiy 3 weeks ago:
I wish mangaupdates/bakaupdates did anime too. It’s the best aggregator. No bullshit, no ads (probably, if there are any they disappear with Adblock), straightforward design straight out of like 2005. Given their relationship with scanlation groups they could also have a pretty awesome database of fansub releases potentially.
Would be so much better than those random spreadsheet websites where some discord channel decides the best release with no criteria they are willing to share publicly and erases the existence of all others like seadex and sneedex.
But even if they didn’t I still would prefer to just use that for everything. It’s just a comfier website. I hate MAL, anidex, etc
- Comment on Best way to prevent Bambu A1 mini from updating firmware? 4 weeks ago:
That’s similar to the isolated vlan but someone who knows more about networking than me will probably be able to explain why the vlan is superior. I would imagine it’s failsafeness, the vlan is just its own thing
The benefit of doing the domain specific firewall blocking would be if you wanted your printer to otherwise have internet access (eg to check octoprint remotely). I don’t print when I’m not home due to the risk of fire and I don’t trust opening up my printer to the web, so I don’t bother with this. Others may have different opinions on acceptable risk
- Comment on Best way to prevent Bambu A1 mini from updating firmware? 4 weeks ago:
Easy mode: don’t connect it to internet
Slightly harder and mode: add exceptions for bambus servers in your routers firewall so that requests to that domain are blocked
Dependent on hardware that you own and less likely: create a virtual lan for your 3d printer that does not have internet access but has intranet access, allowing you to connect between computers but not to the web (my preferred solution)
- Comment on If you work hard enough, your work will [pay off].’ And that’s not true. 4 weeks ago:
Working hard increases the chances of success is a better way to phrase it but networking is basically a necessity and luck is paramount
- Comment on Luxury bones? In *this* economy. 4 weeks ago:
I do own a house (finally got one in my late 30s) but part of what got me here is ignoring dental care (missing 2 teeth)
I would be missing three but I went to Costa Rica once for unrelated reasons and got an implant while I was there. Ruined my trip a little bit because getting an implant sucks but it was $750 vs $5100 in America (with pretty good insurance)
If you’re missing teeth for a long time (I’m pushing 8 years now) the rest of your teeth start moving around. It’s a real problem. Additionally once this happens missing teeth can exacerbate hip and back problems! Your jaw misaligns and then your posture gets fucked up
best country in the world
- Comment on These Electronics-free Robots Can Walk Right Off the 3D-Printer. 4 weeks ago:
Somewhat misleading headline but still cool
- Comment on The Enshittification of 3D Printers – Are We Losing What Made Them Great? 4 weeks ago:
It’s a three way street though. Lazy consumers are to blame for enabling but bad companies are worse for having anti consumer practices to begin with. And the biggest failure of all is our government for allowing anti consumer behavior to run rampant and not allow any meaningful regulation to go through because they’re utterly corrupted and pro corporation.
In the “normies” defense in a functional society I shouldn’t have to research every purchase I make to ensure it is not hostile against me. However, we live in a dystopia where it is necessary to either manufacture your own foss solution or research for the purchasable option (that is often just the least hostile but still fairly hostile)
- Comment on The Enshittification of 3D Printers – Are We Losing What Made Them Great? 4 weeks ago:
We have become so normalized to anti consumer behavior it doesn’t even matter anymore
Like it used to be that a videogame manufacturer charged for a dlc that was already on the game disc, you had to pay to unlock data that you technically had purchased but not licensed, and people threw a fucking fit. Now it’s like “this new tech device will only work if you insert $20 bills every 30 minutes” and people are like “oh well that sucks but what are you gonna do? I need a toaster that can send me a notification when my toast is done”
Fuck the companies that do anti consumer bullshit, fuck the youtuber dummies that normalize it because they got $50 and a free shitty printer, fuck the government that has completely failed to regulate anything, and fuck the dummies who constantly enable this nonsense because they refuse to spend 10 minutes researching their purchases and instead spend the rest of their life in credit card debt because they have $1100 in monthly subscriptions to stupid bullshit that makes their stuff work for 18 months until the company goes bankrupt, their device is bricked, and they replace it with another piece of shit that has the same anticonsumer bullshit
- Comment on The Enshittification of 3D Printers – Are We Losing What Made Them Great? 4 weeks ago:
I build an original voron 1.0, reused the parts to build a 2.0, and built that into a 2.4 with mostly newer parts because the frame was just fucked from all that nonsense. I have a very low serial from back when they did that on the subreddit, not sure if that’s still a thing
Even with the raggedy frame it was a great printer. But building it properly it’s bulletproof. Costly but if you want a forever printer that you can mod it’s the way to go imo
- Comment on I tried THIS and it actually works all the time 5 weeks ago:
thank god you circled it, I wasn’t sure what was being pointed at
- Comment on Someone help me understand the sonarr to jellyfin workflow 5 weeks ago:
Oh right duh. Disregard what I said, obviously. Been ages since I’ve used a setup that’s not one big pool
- Comment on Someone help me understand the sonarr to jellyfin workflow 5 weeks ago:
Do you have sonarr set to copy or hard link on import
Copy will fuck over your ability to seed, hard link will result in the files staying on your torrenting drive
- Comment on How effective would sanctions on US by the international community be? 5 weeks ago:
To be clear I agree with you still. I think they should do it but I think they won’t
I am an American and this action will cause me pain but I think things need to get worse here unfortunately. I think the only potential silver lining of this situation is that it may get so bad that people finally develop a bit of class consciousness and demand change.
I do not hold out hope for this though, and even if it does occur I do not hold out hope that it sustains beyond our four year election cycle. Power forces and moneyed interests working against it and such. But it would be nice
- Comment on How effective would sanctions on US by the international community be? 5 weeks ago:
Ultimately I agree with you but if I’m a leader of say, Canada or somewhere in the EU I wouldn’t bank on it
For one I’ve also been around many “disordered folks” as you call them (outpatient therapist) and rhetoric can escalate. This is a common behavioral pattern called an extinction burst. You stop giving into his bullshit? That’s the most dangerous time of all. Even putting that aside there’s just the risk of him getting escalating amounts of unchecked power. Those threats might get cashed once he decides he wants to check and see if he can actually get away with it.
But that aside it’s not him as much as the entourage. There’s a group behind him and some of them are clearly looking to push him towards alienating the us from all their allies. He doesn’t work in a vacuum. He has a bunch of people saying “maybe you should do this”. He even has people saying “you have to do this, I gave you x million dollars”. Again, if I’m leading Canada this is what truly worries me. Trump may be a chickenshit but the warhawks behind him that want to sell a bunch of military gear and get contracts are frothing at the mouth for this kind of thing.
- Comment on How effective would sanctions on US by the international community be? 5 weeks ago:
Would also depend on how captain dipshit responds. This could be interpreted as an act of aggression considering he and his cronies are itching for a reason to invade somewhere
- Comment on Another treasure stolen from us 5 weeks ago:
This picture was a horrible reminder that animal crossing for the GameCube basically took up an entire fucking memory card. But at least they gave you one with the game to make up for that
Still didn’t use that slot
- Comment on I'm an American software developer and the "broligarchs" don't speak for me - ratfactor 5 weeks ago:
You’re seeing the end result of “boycott” problems right now though
They will simply take your money. They will pay you increasingly less, tax the little bit they pay you increasingly more, and use the money from the taxes they forcibly take from you to launder your money right back to the oligarchs. Why do you think musk is destroying shit? Why do you think they are pushing to privatize everything? That last little bit of power you have, to vote with your wallet, will become increasingly meaningless