bluGill
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- Comment on Is there an optimal home/apartment size that most people would be happy with? 4 days ago:
It is my obwervatoin that as houses approach 325m2 people start looking for more luxury in the space vs more. Beyond that more space isn't needed unless you are rich enough to win the cities largest mansion competition and so people who are rich but not rich enough to compete don't go bigger even though they could.
Live in a pup tent and you want a bigger one, but in a bigger tent you start thinking lights or a cot before bigger.
there is of course a lot of variation. you can be happy in anything - but you will want more anyway until you get to about 325
- Comment on Why are love potions always romantic in nature? Why hasn't anyone made a non-romantic variant? 1 week ago:
Anti love potions exist and have been regularly used since before recorded history. We call the poison.
- Comment on what do you use to add weight? 1 week ago:
Used it as a pattern to cast it in metal
- Comment on Microsoft says Copilot will 'finish your code before you finish your coffee' adding fuel to the Windows 11 AI controversy that's still raging 1 week ago:
The AI is doing it though. I type "in [tab]" and I get the whole line. Sometimes I don't even have to type anything.
I've never been able to get an AI promt to write useful code though.
- Comment on Microsoft says Copilot will 'finish your code before you finish your coffee' adding fuel to the Windows 11 AI controversy that's still raging 1 week ago:
I like auto complete because I'm a terrible speller I'd write "int countOfCommplixThang", but auto complete guesses "int countComplexThing" Sometimes it even comes up with a better name than I would
- Comment on Do I need a NAS ? 1 week ago:
NAS can be two different things.
NAS is just "network attached storage": a computer that has a bunch of disks attached to your network. IF you put a single disk on your network and nfs/samba to share it you have created a simple NAS - I strongly recommend you put in more drives for redundancy, but that is all NAS is.
Often NAS is taken to mean not just the above, but a custom machine that does the above. The downside is these custom machines are often slow, and put weird hardware/software on them such that if the whole box breaks (as opposed to just a single disk failing which they are good at handling) you may not be able to recover anything. One variation of this you want more space and discover you can't upgrade it at all. They are an easy way into NAS, but the downsides are such that I can't recommend them anyway.
- Comment on Do I need a NAS ? 1 week ago:
Many NAS work like that though. Hardware RAID always seems to work like that so if you get a fancy card that supports RAID you been make sure you have a good long term support contract that will be there for you when there are problems (if you are not paying hundreds of thousands per year you don't have a good support contract)
Not all are that way. Many run ZFS which is great for this and you can replace broken hardware and recover. BTFS is commonly used as well, probably not as good as zfs but likely good enough.
- Comment on Family Email w/ Custom Domain 1 week ago:
I've been using fastmail for a long time for this now. I've been happy, not to expensive. I'm surprised they haven't been recommended, normally when the question is asked there are a million fastmail recommendations
- Comment on Why do languages sometimes have letters which don't have consistent pronunciations? 1 week ago:
There are 26 letters in the latin alphabet. There are between 38 and 49 sounds in English depending on dialect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_phonology (I've seen reports as high at 56 but I can't find sources so I'll stick to Wikipedia which is often accurate) There is no way to have nice spelling in English. Some languages using the latin alphabet have various accent marks which help. At this point the dialects of English are different enough that reformed spelling would need to start with reforming how we pronounce words. (there are other alphabets in the world, I have no comment on if any would be better)
- Comment on Why do languages sometimes have letters which don't have consistent pronunciations? 1 week ago:
English was written long before the printing press. However it always (at least to my knowledge) used the latin alphabet which predates any written English I can find by more than 1000 years. Note that I'm not an expert on English linguistics, so if is someone claims something before 1200 I'm not aware of it but that doesn't mean they are wrong.
- Comment on Self hosting Sunday! What's up, selfhosters? 2 weeks ago:
Changed my family dashboard from magic mirror to a home assistant dashboard. I'm missing some cute things, but the major functions work better, and I get some options that I didn't before.
- Comment on YSK that in 1994, Ukraine voluntarily gave up nuclear weapons. Europe and the United States promised they would defend Ukraine if it was ever threatened. 2 weeks ago:
The US promised to bring this to the UN security console and did. However Russia has veto rights on the UN security console and so this went nowhere.
- Comment on Hardware raccomandation for new selfhoster 2 weeks ago:
RaidZ1 is not the same as a mirror. I'm not sure if you are allowed to have Z1 with only 2 disks, but if you are you still shouldn't because while it scales down that far it still does parity calculations and writes that to the second disk instead of just writing a copy of the data (the parity calculations probably result in the same data, but I doubt this is optimized)
- Comment on Hardware raccomandation for new selfhoster 2 weeks ago:
ZFS snapshots are easy to settup. If you don't notice that you deleted all the snapshots for a month you never will.
you still should have offsite backups for a fire, but the notion that raid isn't backup is not really correct since for most people the situations that raid with snapshots isn't enough protection will never occure and to the risk is acceptable. Plus raid is a lot easier to get right. For that matter if you have a backup but don't have the password after the fire you don't have a backup.
though if you rely on raid alone I'd want 3 disk redundancy.
- Comment on Electricians of Lemmy: Planning a kitchen re-wire. Sub-panel or direct run? 2 weeks ago:
Panels need to be accesable I'm not sure what you mean by void, but it may not be an allowed location.
- Comment on [Blog] If fiber infused material is abrasive to soft metals, it may be useful as a sanding medium 2 weeks ago:
You start with course sandpaper and move finer. So step one of this is you need sets abrasive filaments that get progressively finer grits.
- Comment on Electricians of Lemmy: Planning a kitchen re-wire. Sub-panel or direct run? 2 weeks ago:
Consistency. If you are going to run a subpanel to each room I'd like sub panels, but a mix is not what you want as then nobody is ever sure where to find things. The worst would be a subpanel but some circuits run back to the main anyway - lights is the likely area to see this as those are often shared between several rooms.
If you add a subpanel make sure you can get at it easially to add more in the future. You never know what else you might want in the future. That you think a 30 amp break in the main panel is enough implies that you have a gas stove/oven - you might want to switch to electric in then future for various reasons. Thus make sure there is space for 6 more circuits (2 for the cooktop, 2 for the oven, and 2 for things nobody has thought of today) For the same reason you should get at least 75 amps to that subpanel - even though you will likely only use 30 at max you want that extra space for the future. (I'd go 100 - it doesn't cost that much more and you can upgrade the main panel in the future.
I don't recall NEC saying anything about how much a subpanel needs to feed with, other than "enough". I haven't checked the latest though. Still 30 amps doesn't seem enough for a kitchen even if allowed - some day you will throw a party and that won't be enough for all the things pluged in. NEC requires 2 different 20 amp circuits for counter top use, 15 amps is not allowed, and if I were you I'd consider putting in 3 just to be sure. I'd say less than 50 amps isn't enough for your current uses (and I'd go for 100 on the assumption that the main service gets upgraded some year)
Honestly though, most people don't use subpanels for a kitchen. It doesn't save money and most decorating plans cannot work around a subpanel - this ends up being the big killer.
- Comment on If we ever find a planet with life in it, we could never set foot on it, because the interaction of the two biologies can have unpredictable consequences 2 weeks ago:
For that matter they have not sent travelers to us.
- Comment on If we ever find a planet with life in it, we could never set foot on it, because the interaction of the two biologies can have unpredictable consequences 2 weeks ago:
We currently couldn't detect life on earth from nearest star and it is unlikely we ever can build anything good enough to. Which means if we discover life we know they are plenty advanced as to make our efforts uneeded as they can tell us a better protocol. Not that we have the ftl needed to reach them anyway.
- Comment on xkcd #3167: Car Size 2 weeks ago:
True, but as a general rule until you get to the F350 class or higher states don't charge that extra tax.
- Comment on xkcd #3167: Car Size 2 weeks ago:
The F350 is the smallest vehicle where they charge by weight. Unfortunately they don't check for how much you use it, so for the 6 times a year I use mine I'm paying $.10/mile - while someone else who uses it for hauling as a job is paying $.01/mile.
- Comment on I'm unsure what to self-host 2 weeks ago:
Everything starts with what my family needs/uses. Jellyfin for media. Grocy to track which kid has done their chores. Home assistant to make a nice dashboard in the kitchen to see the family calendar (still on google) and the chores. I've tried a few other things, but those are the ones important to me.
- Comment on I'm unsure what to self-host 2 weeks ago:
I only have leagally owned movies. I'm technically violating some law but since I can show the judge the originals and they are not available outside myhome they won't dare go after me - a jury won't convict and even if one would I'm a perfect 'normal man' who proved the law is unjust. I won't be as well known as Rosa Parks in history but I'd be a perfect story to rally around to get the las changed and they won't risk that
- Comment on Wendy’s to close hundreds of restaurants as struggling customers cut back on dining out 3 weeks ago:
If you compare the cheapest burger to the most expesnive cut of steak or something they are. Often people do make such comparisons because they that is what they are cooking at home vs what they eat when they go out. You can buy premade frozen burgers you just microwave to cook as well - I've only seen the price in vending machines where they are more than a fast food burger but you can get them at grocery stores too.
But if you are cooking real meals with similar ingredients it is cheaper to cook at home.
- Comment on ‘Digital ownership must be respected’: UK parliament debates Stop Killing Games campaign, but government doesn’t budge 3 weeks ago:
My supply managemet reys know that, I just know they talk about it is a routine thing and the suppliers salesmen act like it is normal. I'm not in those conversations often but I've heard them.
- Comment on Meta is earning a fortune on a deluge of fraudulent ads, documents show 3 weeks ago:
I don't understand why legitmate companies are not in arms over this. When that many ads are scams your customers will learn that facebook ads are scams and not buy from you either. Fool me once...
- Comment on Low cost continuous fiber 3D printer 3 weeks ago:
The bane of 3d printing is generally between layers though. Layers are not strong, but they are much stronger than the between lawyer connections.
- Comment on ‘Digital ownership must be respected’: UK parliament debates Stop Killing Games campaign, but government doesn’t budge 3 weeks ago:
There is no reason consumers cannot demand this even though they haven't. There is no reason the law cannot demand it even though it hasn't.
The important part is that the idea exists and is common enough in OTHER situations. When you ask for it there will be people who know what this means and there is a whole industry of "we escrow your code for you" that can handle the details. If you make a new law you have plenty of examples to look at and so are much less likely to accidentally create some unintended consequence that is worse than the current situation.
- Comment on Whatever happened to pickup artists? Did they evolve into alpha males or ascend to a higher plane? 3 weeks ago:
That always worked - on a minority of women. There are only a few men willing to descend to those disgusting levels so it worked out for them. (if it was any more society as we know it would break down).
The men who did it crossed the political spectrum trying to blame people you don't like for everything does your side no favors.
- Comment on Can a Smart TV piggy back the internet of a HDMI device? 3 weeks ago:
After verifying that OP's intent was met I gave a more fun answer that abused the letter of what was asked.