brygphilomena
@brygphilomena@lemmy.dbzer0.com
- Comment on I've never been in a situation where me having a gun would have made things bettter. 1 day ago:
Ive considered conceal carry.
People would say my .38 special with 6 rounds isn’t enough. If six rounds ain’t enough to create an opening for me to run like a little bitch, shits really hit the fan and more bullets isn’t gonna solve it.
I just want to run away.
- Comment on What's it going to take to truly stop the US? 2 days ago:
This stupid regime wants to spur domestic manufacturing. What better way to help than to cut us off?
- Comment on "Refrigerate after opening and store in the refrigerator door." Why the door for this mayo? 5 days ago:
The kind that has the condenser and evap coils.
The area closest to the coils is coldest. The doors often open and close and the air nearest them when closed has to get cold again.
And the air is often moved over the coils by a fan. If you block the air flow, then that area gets really cold and will freeze.
- Comment on (Technology Connections) I made my whole-home humidifier slightly less terrifying [34:38] 1 week ago:
Haha yea. I’m very tempted to just be lazy and replace my thermostat with one that can control the humidifier too. I just might need to run new thermostat wire and I don’t think mine will pull easily.
- Comment on (Technology Connections) I made my whole-home humidifier slightly less terrifying [34:38] 1 week ago:
I’ve the same humidifier. I’m seriously considering doing the same upgrade.
- Comment on In a way, a gift card is kind of the opposite of a credit card 1 week ago:
Or in California. For the USians, you can probably call and complain that you live in CA and have them reissue it.
In CA, they also have to pay out in cash if it’s less than $10 and you request it.
- Comment on How AI broke the smart home in 2025 1 week ago:
It’s why I live so much commercial stuff and things like bacnet.
Everything basically is just basic I/O with either analog or digital signal wires. Well documented. But it typically requires lots of actual wires running back to a controller.
I hate how consumer stuff is all different connections in so many different ways and they don’t care if they deprecate a feature or something. What works today can be fucked up because they have unilateral control to change how their shit works in “updates.”
- Comment on How come hypothetically if I make meth in my home. Knowing full well it could explode and take out my neighbors houses, why am I not charged with attempted murder? 2 weeks ago:
Gas is much, much cheaper. Like, insanely cheaper. Many homes were built long before it was normal to have 200 amp service.
It’s only in relatively recent years where heat pumps are becoming more common. And resistive heat uses a lot of electricity.
Gas has had decades and decades to be made safe. We have odorants so people can smell it, meters and sensors to monitor for abnormal usage and leaks, and it needs to be contained to cause an explosion.
Leaks outside suck, but aren’t really that dangerous because they can dissipate and be blown away by wind.
- Comment on If your federal government cut internet access to your whole town then where in your town would you think that "the people" would get together to protest ? 4 weeks ago:
That’s where they got that Picasso!
- Comment on Settings you believe ANY game should have? (This is me advocating for a restart/reboot button on ALL games) 5 weeks ago:
Oh, definitely.
Fuck carry weight. Fuck inventory management.
Unless there is a serious, compelling reason and they game is about that, let me turn off micromanage shit. I want to explore the world and dungeons and not worry about whether all the loot I can pick up is worth it or to decide each and every single item whether I want it or what I need to toss to pick it up.
- Comment on Damn robot vacuum designs 1 month ago:
The thing vacuums under there, why would the dock need to be bigger than the robot?
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- Comment on Does anyone have experience with Mumble? 1 month ago:
I still think it’s better than discord. And alliance auth tied in super easy.
Besides, I think it’s better that it’s usually hosted on an individual corp/alliance level.
Shut should do one thing. And do it well.
- Comment on Long-time iOS user considering switch to Android - Need advice on $1000 flagships 2 months ago:
Totally fair.
I do admit the phones look cool and have some very nice features. But they’ve been on my “never buy” list for a long time for all their products, phones included.
I think not being able to uninstall Facebook was one of the breaking points when I last trialed their phone.
- Comment on Long-time iOS user considering switch to Android - Need advice on $1000 flagships 2 months ago:
It’s been a while since I used Samsung. My work phone is a Samsung flip of some sort that gets powered on once a month.
However, it’s not just their phones that have me turned off. Their TVs built in OS is shit and they just had a whole lot of bad press for their fridges that will start showing ads. Not to mention how their appliances tend to have the shortest lifespan of comparably prices appliances.
Good hardware, but consistently anti consumer software.
- Comment on Long-time iOS user considering switch to Android - Need advice on $1000 flagships 2 months ago:
Samsung is on my shit list. Their spammy, ad riddled UI is infuriating.
I don’t trust them. They lock their phones down and don’t let you remove their bloatware or block their ads/notifications.
Fuck them. Never buy Samsung.
- Comment on White House joins Bluesky and immediately trolls Trump opponents 2 months ago:
I saw this before I saw anything from the accounts.
- Comment on He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him 2 months ago:
“a career criminal with a rap sheet dating back to 1980s”
What a shitty way for ICE to refer to someone WRONGFULLY CONVICTED AND IMPROSONED since the 1980s.
He isn’t a career criminal. He isn’t a career anything. He had the opportunity to have a career stolen from him.
- Comment on ICEBlock Owner After Apple Removes App: ‘We Are Determined to Fight This’ 2 months ago:
No. We weren’t. This discussion was about phones and the software we are being allowed to install on them.
The law does nothing to restrict us in that capacity. The restrictions are imposed by the manufacturer of the phone.
You made the fallacious false equivalency of comparing that with guns and laws.
- Comment on ICEBlock Owner After Apple Removes App: ‘We Are Determined to Fight This’ 2 months ago:
That sounds like just changing who is verifying the developer. Whether it’s the EFF (because they aren’t going to put their name and reputation at risk for unreviewed source code) or google, the issue is the same.
Someone has to be the middle man in deciding what is allowed to be installed.
- Comment on ICEBlock Owner After Apple Removes App: ‘We Are Determined to Fight This’ 2 months ago:
Except we aren’t talking about the law. We are talking about corporations that sell you something and then retain control over it.
You have no say in the process, you have no representation. These are not rules that we as a society have determined to be in the best interests of all of us. These are unilateral decisions placed upon us. You have no recourse if you disagree other than don’t use the thing.
Guns don’t prevent you from doing anything. You still have the capability to do whatever you want with the thing. However, if you use it in a manner than harms someone else, in a way that we as a society have proposed, voted, and created laws prohibiting, then you deal with the consequences. But that is very different from having something in the gun that prevents it from taking ammo from another manufacturer. Or making it unable to shoot unless you pay a monthly fee.
- Comment on Cause and Effect 2 months ago:
Media literacy and how to validate sources. Unfortunately, the second part was primarily taught in college when I was still in school.
Critical thinking is very difficult to teach. Its so much easier for people to just accept whatever confirms their current preconceived notion. It also requires that the person is both open to learning new things and that they are open to the idea that they may be wrong, misinformed, or not know everything.
So many people are simply over confident about their own knowledge.
- Comment on Those who don't use dashboards, how are you managing your services? 2 months ago:
Unraid has a table of the docker containers.
I don’t need metrics or stats. I wouldn’t look at, or care about them anyway. Dashboards feel like tech enthusiast crap. Tech and resources for the sake of having tech. My services are to solve a problem, not look at metrics of.
- Comment on How to Get Hardware Transcoding BACK on Your Synology NAS 2 months ago:
At this point, I’d say build your own if you are wanting anything more than basic file sharing.
Lots of resources out there and even NAS style cases to make it basically the same as any off the shelf NAS.
Xenology has been mentioned here, but I haven’t used it
FreeNAS is good, but I haven’t used it in years.
OpenMediaVault is supposed to be good, but again I haven’t used it.
Unraid is good and has super easy support for docker. I primarily use this because of its ability to use different disk sizes for the array and does what is the equivalent of software RAID. It’s not the fastest thing on the market, but for my use case (primarily Plex/Jellyfin) I don’t need the fastest reads or writes. It supports hardware passthrough for VMs or to docker containers so they can take advantage of hardware for acceleration. It also runs off a flash stick, so I don’t waste any disks on the OS.
- Comment on How do you secure your home lab? Like, physically? From thieves? 3 months ago:
Mine is primarily a 4u server, in a rack. That’s screwed to the wall (for added stability).
They’d need a couple guys to unrack it. It’s in the garage I rarely ever lock, behind the cars which are more valuable and easier to steal. Behind the much more valuable tools.
Garage does get warm in the summer and cold enough in the winter the fans do funny things.
Anything important gets replicated to another location as well as backed up to a cloud bucket. So if it got stolen it would suck, but not the end of the world.
- Comment on Immich mobile app sync V2 3 months ago:
- Comment on Immich mobile app sync V2 3 months ago:
I just have my data folder and database being copied to backblaze. It’s relatively cheap. Most hosting providers don’t necessarily do backup unless you configure that on your own anyway.
- Comment on what's your take on employers banning the use of languages other than English between coworkers at the workplace? 3 months ago:
With the NLRB it would have been illegal in the states. A form of preventing workers from organizing.
- Comment on Samsung brings ads to US fridges 3 months ago:
Stay away from Samsung. Period.
They’ve been on my boycott list for a long time.
- Comment on Roku wants you to see a lot more AI-generated ads 3 months ago:
That’s been my experience too. I had heard so much good about it, but it feels so janky.
I really wish there was a normal minipc option with a good remote controlled UI. But they all have such terrible interfaces or if it’s running Linux, weird limitations by streaming vendors who lock Linux to 1080p because they are afraid of piracy, as if that actually prevents anything at all.
I can’t stand how normalized these invasive ads have become. I have a child at home and she is too young to know how intrusive ads are. I don’t want my 7 year old being shown ads for content that they aren’t mature enough for.