brygphilomena
@brygphilomena@lemmy.dbzer0.com
- Comment on New server for the family, Proxmox or TrueNAS, LXC or Docker? 1 hour ago:
Headscale is a locally hosted version. You can also just manually do wire guard. But tailscale is just a management tool for setting up an overlay network using wire guard.
- Comment on Plex now will SELL your personal data 5 days ago:
End user management.
Essentially, accounts and passwords are not my problem.
- Comment on Plex now will SELL your personal data 5 days ago:
Setting up a server? Pretty darn easy.
Teaching all your friends and relatives to figure out what app to use and login with your dyndns random entry or IP address. Or even more difficult, using VPN.
It’s not the hosting that’s hard. It’s the watching for non-tech people.
- Comment on Telegram and xAI agreed a one-year deal to distribute Grok; Telegram will get $300M in cash and equity from xAI and 50% of subscription revenue 6 days ago:
Fuck telegram. I get so many spam messages there.
- Comment on Why do people care so much that their friend or family member’s partner is attractive and not just loving? 1 week ago:
Everyone’s definition of attractive is different, but typically everyone wants their partner to be both loving and attractive. It’s the “full package.”
So they care because they want you to have both, they want the best for you. So long as you find him attractive, that should be good enough.
- Comment on How are Americans so outgoing and extroverted and how can I become the same? 2 weeks ago:
My mentality that has helped (before I worked in retail and dealt with hundreds if not thousands of people a day) was realizing that they will probably think about me just as much as I think about them in a few hours. Which is not at all.
There is a little nihilism of “nothing in this conversation matter” mixed with I learned I kind of like people. The vast majority of people are nice.
- Comment on Let's put an end to the discussion; what is the best way? 2 weeks ago:
I have one. We still use the plastic bags, but just needed a place to put it that wasn’t “out.”
- Comment on Very gently, I’m sure 3 weeks ago:
In the firework industry we use ABS in our mortars because they will stretch and rip if a firework explodes in the tube rather than shatter and turn into shrapnel.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Best PE teacher I had actually made it a class where we had to learn the rules of the games and were given tests on them. Then we spent a couple weeks playing the games and she had the kids acting as referees enforcing the rules we learned. We played basketball, baseball, football, bowling. She taught us different dances like line dancing and square dancing. When it was winter and there was enough snow. We even learned cross country skiing.
Then I moved to a different school and my PE curriculum became "run a mile.’ I have exercised induced asthma. Running was a literal hell for me.
- Comment on Does anyone else hate knowing stuff and looking "smart"? 5 weeks ago:
The curse of competence.
Being smart means I keep getting handed more work.
- Comment on Windows 10 LTSC – the version that won't expire for years 1 month ago:
This is basically what killed my Linux laptop. Some windows update borked the partitions (and not just grub) so that Linux wouldn’t boot anymore. I would never recommend using both on the same disk.
I don’t really use that laptop for much anymore though.
- Comment on In the not too distant past this was a thing 1 month ago:
I’m not wearing it now. But I have an old Casio calculator watch I wear.
Same one Dennis Nerdy wears in Jurassic Park
- Comment on LG TVs’ integrated ads get more personal with tech that analyzes viewer emotions 1 month ago:
As much as I loathe Samsung for many of their practices, there are options if you look for Commercial signage or hospitality tvs
- Comment on LG TVs’ integrated ads get more personal with tech that analyzes viewer emotions 1 month ago:
This Samsung is out of stock, but there are options. You just need to look for signage displays or hospitality tvs.
- Comment on Self-Driving Teslas Are Fatally Striking Motorcyclists More Than Any Other Brand: New Analysis 1 month ago:
Don’t waymos have remote drivers that take control in unexpected situationsml?
- Comment on OpenWrt Two will be a higher-performance router with 10 Gigabit LAN and WiFi 7 support - Liliputing 2 months ago:
I run an older half depth supermicro server with a sfp+ PCI card for my router. At this point, it feels like dedicated boxes just aren’t worth it for routers except for enterprise where I need a support contract.
- Comment on OpenWrt Two will be a higher-performance router with 10 Gigabit LAN and WiFi 7 support - Liliputing 2 months ago:
That’s not entirely true. Having a router with multiple interfaces is useful for multiple physical networks like VoIP, OOB, dmz, etc. We use vlans a lot for that now, but it’s not fair to say only two ports is the only choice.
- Comment on DOGE Plans to Rebuild SSA Codebase in Months, Risking Benefits and System Collapse 2 months ago:
The kind that thinks all those edge cases don’t matter and if they don’t get payments it’s just another example of “waste, fraud, and abuse.”
- Comment on Justice Department asks judge to order Google the "immediate" sale of Chrome 2 months ago:
X Chrome
Ughhhhhhh
- Comment on “Awful”: Roku tests autoplaying ads loading before the home screen 2 months ago:
DRM. They don’t like how open Linux can be so to combat people using it for pirating their content the companies restrict it.
For instance, Netflix is capped at 720p on Linux unless you are on Opera, apparently.
- Comment on “Awful”: Roku tests autoplaying ads loading before the home screen 2 months ago:
I have a 200+TB library for my Plex and jellyfin instances. The Roku was just a family friendly launcher and remote. I bought them when you could still disable ads in the secret menus and most of the Roku BS is blocked by a pair of piholes, but I’ve gotten annoyed chasing new urls to blacklist.
It’s DRM for the other app bullshit that becomes a hindrance for going the Kodi route. There really isn’t a good alternative that I’ve found. Linux boxes will limit some services to 720p and jt’s mostly baseball and local news programs that I’ll lose.
For the news, I need to look at something like hdhomerun or something else I can pair with an OTA antenna.
For baseball, not much other than the absolute mess that live streaming sports is. Doable, sure. But a pita and sketchy last I looked into it. My season ticket comes with MLB.tv, but the irony is that I’m “in network” so all my teams games are blacked out for me. I had previously created a VPN tunnel and routed one of my Rokus to a different state to watch it. But it’s not a user friendly experience.
For games, I already have a batocera box running on an old dell thin client with way more power than a pi, and it has Kodi on it. But the UI/UX still sucks.
- Comment on “Awful”: Roku tests autoplaying ads loading before the home screen 2 months ago:
I have a Roku ultra in my kid’s room.
I do not want her subjected to ads when she turns on the TV.
This is unacceptable to me and I will be replacing all my Rokus immediately.
- Comment on “Awful”: Roku tests autoplaying ads loading before the home screen 2 months ago:
A buddy sent me this recently. I’m intrigues. www.monoprice.com/product?p_id=46513
- Comment on “Awful”: Roku tests autoplaying ads loading before the home screen 2 months ago:
When my girlfriend moved in, she had a big TCL Roku TV its software absolutely sucks. But it would keep a blinking led on ALL THE TIME if it wasn’t connected to wifi.
I put it on my iot network, and I’m considering null routing it.
I actually had a Roku box plugged into it since it had a better experience, but I’m probably going to switch that to a Nvidia shield pro because of this ad bullshit.
- Comment on “Awful”: Roku tests autoplaying ads loading before the home screen 2 months ago:
I know it’s being lazy. But if you have the regex you could post, I’d appreciate it.
I had this happen to me just a few days ago. Within the hour I bought an Nvidia shield and came up with a plan to install the projectivy launcher and button remapper.
I’m mostly happy, it’s much more snappy but it’s missing a couple apps I used on the Roku (WGN and Marquee Sports). At least I can use my own pictures for the background and screensavers.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Totally reasonable. I don’t shuck anymore, so I don’t have the concern of getting the wrong disk.
I’ve personally never had a problem with their returns before. But I haven’t had a doa disk out of their “renewed” internal disks yet.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Specifically the renewed drives sold by Amazon. They are the returned/refurbished drives. I’ve probably bought 10 or so in the last few years and that’s how they’ve all come. I haven’t had a failed drive out of them yet. (Seagate 22tb and WD reds 18tb)
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Amazons renewed drives usually come well packaged. Antistatic bag, suspended inside very thick air pocket thing that completely encases the drive, inside a good cardboard box.
- Comment on FCC chair says we’re too dependent on GPS and wants to explore ‘alternatives’ (read: multi billion contract with Musk) 2 months ago:
A good 5 years ago or so I was getting a breakfast burrito when an older couple came in asking for directions. They had an old school mapbook. It took a minute to orient myself, but I found they were on the wrong page.
Its one of my bucket list items, but an old school road trip with nothing but a mapbook and a compass. No real destination, no time frame. Just the open road and exploring. And no GPS to make it efficient or optimized where I’ll soar right past everything.
- Comment on Apple reveals M3 Ultra, taking Apple silicon to a new extreme 2 months ago:
Weird that my mind just read that as MKUltra.
Maybe appropriate for AI.