brygphilomena

@brygphilomena@lemmy.dbzer0.com

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3128: Thread Meeting⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  A mechanical thing with interchangeable parts where nerds discuss the performance, compare, and customize them.

  The “why” someone is into a thing, imo, is more important than the thing, usually.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe not the best word choices. But I don’t think they’re problems without knowing more about their relationship. Sometimes parenting you have to be hard and direct. You don’t always give choices, now I know they are 22 and that makes it a little weird. But parenting doesn’t exactly stop when someone turns 18.

  And “evolve” wouldn’t have been so strange if it were replaced with “grow”. It sounds more like “push yourself out of your comfort zone.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reddit will block the Internet Archive⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Instead of regulating tech, they are going the fuck over everyone route.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Your favourite piece of selfhosting - Part 1 - Operating System⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s been a long term build. With unraid it’s been pretty easy to slowly add disks one disk at a time.

  I’m moving everything towards 22tb disks right now. It’s still got a handful of 4 and 5tb disks in it. I’ve ended up with a pile of smaller disks that I’ve pulled and just… sit around.

  I also picked up a Synology recently that houses 12x 12tb disks that goes into that total count. I’ve got another couple Synologys just laying around unused.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Your favourite piece of selfhosting - Part 1 - Operating System⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yep. It’s a 4u super micro chassis with the associated backplanes.

  I had some servers left over from work. It’s set up to also take jbod cards with mini-sas to expand into additional shelf’s if I need that.

  My setup really isn’t much of an entry setup. It’s similar to this: …supermicro.com/…/4u-superstorage-ssg-641e-e1cr36…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Your favourite piece of selfhosting - Part 1 - Operating System⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I used to really like esxi, but broadcom screwed us on that.

  Hyper-v sucks to run and manage. It’s also pretty bloated.

  Proxmox is pretty awesome if you want full VMs. I’m gonna move everything I have onto it eventually.

  For ease of use, if you have Synology that can run containers, it’s okay.

  I also like and tend to use unraid at my house, but that’s more because of my insane storage requirements and how I upgrade with dissimilar disks fairly frequently. (I’m just shy of 500tb and my server holds 38 disks.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ICE agents pointed guns at a US citizen when she walked out on to her yard to ask why they were arresting her (legal immigrant) partner.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I really hope whoever gets in after Trump, if someone does, basically signs an EO saying all illegal citizens in the USA as of X date are now citizens. With all rights and privileges that conveys.

  If that were me, I’d disband ICE in it’s current form. They’d be reformed solely for customs enforcement. I’d only enforce immigration issues if and when an illegal immigrant was arrested and convicted of a felony.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some games with absolutely fantastic soundtracks?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I really like the soundtrack to Suikoden. Maybe it’s nostalgia, but it’s one of the better ones for me.

  And lunar silver star story is pretty good too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How abnormal is it for a mother to be her son a fleshlight for his 18th birthday?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Giving their son a sex toy, whatever, not common, but it can help have a normal conversation about sex and realistic expectations.

  For his birthday, kind of weird. I don’t think it should so formal a thing. Just so it and have the conversation about safe sex and how porn isn’t like real sex.

  For his 18th, uhhhh little late to the party.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US | FCC to Appoint a Babysitter to Make Sure CBS Isn't Anti-Trump⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ministry of propaganda.

  They could restore the fairness doctrine instead, but that would hurt fox, newsmax, and oan so much they won’t even consider it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘If I switch it off, my girlfriend might think I’m cheating’: inside the rise of couples location sharing⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Privacy is something that I think needs to be actively encouraged. It is a right, and thinks like location tracking are creeping their way into daily life and eroding that right.

  No one should have the ability to violate that. And we shouldn’t be making it easier to.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘If I switch it off, my girlfriend might think I’m cheating’: inside the rise of couples location sharing⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yep. This is one of those hard lines for me. And I feel like it’s a red flag for anyone who demands it from a partner.

  I trust my partner and they trust me. I actively encourage them to do things without me, because I want them to be an independent person. I want them to have friends that I don’t hang out with.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are the ramifications of letting an old domain that was used for email go back into the market?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I let a domain expire once and even though I had changed the email to something else. One of my accounts still used it and support didn’t help. I ended up having to rebuy the domain to get back into my account.

  Keep it until you are 100% sure that NOTHING is tied to it. Just set up forwarding from the old domain to the new one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How big is your media library?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  What did you lose?

  And there are plenty of shows that I’ve had to manually recover at times. And plenty more that I can’t find a copy of at all. I don’t get too attached to much, and those I’ll usually be seeding on multiple machines myself at that point.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨People angry that Superman represents kindness are outright admitting that they don't want to be good people⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I really don’t know how to convince people they should care about others.

  I don’t know how to teach empathy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How big is your media library?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Haha. Thanks. I really didn’t want to pay Netflix or any other streaming service. But it might have been cheaper than hdds and electricity.

  This is something I’ve been building for over 10 years at this point. I’ve gone through so many iterations of servers and storage architecture. I’ve lost my entire TV and movie library multiple times. (I don’t back it up because a. It’s expensive at this scale and b. this data is easy to rebuild over time.)

  It’s been a part of learning about hosting and data management that I’ve brought to/from my work.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How big is your media library?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  13200 movies 1200 shows

  Over a 1/4 PB of data.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨As of 30 minutes ago at the time of posting, the NYPD has detained two young Black men after they refused to show ID without explanation or cause.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  They are lying threatening to influence the election

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My reason for wanting HomeAssistant and a locked down VLAN...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  ratcloud.llc/pages/about

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump Team Has Full Meltdown Over CNN Story on ICE-Tracking App⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  No, no, no. They painted the targets on themselves.

  This app is telling people where to avoid. Not where to go.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump Team Has Full Meltdown Over CNN Story on ICE-Tracking App⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Ntfy.sh

  There are ways around that

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are your favourite single-player games without much fluff, grinding or difficulty spikes?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Lego games are great for just putting on and playing. So very little intro tutorials and learning. They just are fun.

  I’m in the same boat where I don’t want anything that takes too long to get into. I don’t have the time to learn complex mechanics anymore.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Young men are 'playing videogames all day' instead of getting jobs because they can mooch off of free healthcare, claims congressman⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  And the diplomacy and politics.

  And scams. Or baits, escalations, and war strategies.

  I ran my small alliance for a bit. The organization skills corralling 200 active people for an op is insane. Spending days prepping and doing logistics moving tons of ships. Making arrangements and mutual defense agreements. It was arduous work.

  Then to have the fight not happen. Or the target not to drop. And having to manage the morale of everyone who devoted the time for it or purposely made sure they were free.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk wants to rewrite "the entire corpus of human knowledge" with Grok⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  advanced reasoning

  If it’s so advanced, it should be able to reason out that all human knowledge is standing in the shoulders of others and how errors have prompted us to explore other areas and learn things we never would have otherwise.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Eve Online developers CCP are being sold off, according to reports⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It also somewhat helped curb alts. You couldn’t just have an alt that did a thing in day.

  But the isk and resource faucets were a problem from day one. It’s a resource hoarding game and it became too safe.

  That era to me was also filled with clever scams and IMO as CCP made it safer for people it took a lot of magic out of the game. You used to have to be smart and attentive to play. Now it throws warnings at you for all sorts of things. Or got rid of some very fun mechanics (like pos bowling and lofty wars)

  I also used to love spending 2m to war dec a corp. I would have dozens of wars going. And it wasn’t like small corps. It was fun to war dec all the big alliances at once with your little 5 man corp.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Eve Online developers CCP are being sold off, according to reports⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh man. I had some good times with bomber bar. Both joining them and baiting them.

  I loved taking a rorq out with a massive tank and a full rack of smart bombs. Blowing up an entire fleet at once was so satisfying.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Eve Online developers CCP are being sold off, according to reports⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Or really knew how to manage their one game. They did something really cool, and then it reached its end game and had no idea what to do when that happened.

  They add more ships, over and over, but more ships became harder and harder to balance. They changed resource allocation so it was less necessary to fight for space. They changed mechanics so people lost less. But it’s largely a game of wealth acquisition and when people don’t lose as much you have inflation and everyone had the end game toys.

  They added a half dozen different currencies for different things. They added daily quests. They added login rewards.

  Their end game was people fighting each other for space they controlled. But they never were able to deal with when everyone just sort of… Made pacts and stopped fighting over space. They never really, truly dealt with n+1 being the solution. They only made it where that became the necessity.

  I’ve played for over a decade and while I haven’t logged in in a while, I still have an account.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  We put cameras in birds nests. Houses don’t make us not wild.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The hidden cost of self-hosting⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  When I got a new phone, immich was weird about the photos that came over when I transferred my phone data. After I confirmed they were all backed up (in like 3 places) I just nuked the copies pictures and videos from my phone.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Front Brake Lights Could Drastically Diminish Road Accident Rates⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Some people don’t care about their cars at all. They will damage their own just to spite another driver.

  I’ve driven big 30ft box trucks that are governed at 60mph and daily a 2 seater sports car. There is nothing worth fucking up my day just to win an argument on who gets to go first.