brygphilomena
@brygphilomena@lemmy.dbzer0.com
- Comment on What's your self-hosting success of the week? 2 days ago:
Is dnsmasq rate limiting tbe pi’s IP? Or is opnsense intercepting port 53 outbound and sending it to dnsmasq anyway so all pi DNS queries are being resolved in dnsmasq?
- Comment on xkcd #3214: Electric Vehicles 6 days ago:
I have 25 and 23 year old cars. Pretty much the only thing that would cause me to get rid of them would be a crash or the frame rusting out.
I’ve replaced motors and rebuilt trans on each of them respectively. And I’ll continue doing that. Parts are still easily accessible and when they aren’t anymore, pretty much everything is metal and a machine shop can fab something up.
- Comment on 390TB video game archive being taken offline due to skyrocketing RAM, SSD, and hard drive prices — AI-driven supply squeeze results in closure of one of the largest online video game archives 1 week ago:
I never used this, hadn’t even really heard of it.
But I use gazelle games for my needs. I’m surprised myriant didn’t have torrents for its collection.
That might be a quick an dirty way of archiving the whole site for people. This seems like a perfect use of distributed peer to peer storage and networking to reduce costs.
- Comment on Banning children from VPNs and social media will erode adults' privacy 1 week ago:
Age restrictions and id verification side step the real issue that they don’t want to deal with.
Actually regulating the companies making these addictive, harmful sites.
- Comment on Tulsa police pepper sprayed children for walking out/protesting 1 week ago:
Cops are all impatient little bitches. If you don’t comply, they escalate just because they can’t fucking wait for someone to calm down.
- Comment on DVDs are the new vinyl records: Why Gen Z is embracing physical media 1 week ago:
Those arent drives. Those are NAS housings. Specifically listed as “diskless” meaning they don’t contain any hard drives or ssds
- Comment on DVDs are the new vinyl records: Why Gen Z is embracing physical media 1 week ago:
I think you missed his point. The NAS is cheap. The disks to put in it no longer are.
- Comment on xkcd #3211: Amperage 1 week ago:
Yea, but what device draws that much power. In the us, most space heaters are 1200w, so about 10 amps. So he’d need to really have a high load device. You might be able to find some 30amp single phase loads.
Putting them all on their own circuit does so much to actually protect him unless he has various extension cords or those 2 receptacle to 6 receptacle devices.
For 500 amps, he should be running 1000 gauge wire. Which would be so impressive to run since each leg would be almost an inch and a half thick and $50 a foot. Each breaker would be over $2k, if he went with the cheapest 500amp breaker.
- Comment on xkcd #3211: Amperage 1 week ago:
If each outlet is its own breaker… what’s he running that’s goong to melt those wires?
Unless he has some 16 gauge extension cords going to an electric dryer or something…
- Comment on Across the US, people are dismantling and destroying Flock surveillance cameras. Anger over ICE connections and privacy violations is fueling the sabotage. 2 weeks ago:
Specifically say you are invoking your right to silence and specifically say you are invoking your right to council.
If they continue to pester you after this, it’s a violation of your rights and a lawyer will have more ammunition to defend you.
If they come back hours later and try talking to you again, you invoke them again. After a significant period of time (whatever the cop decides) they can try again to “see if you’ve changed your mind.”
But just staying silent is not the same in the courts as invoking your right to remain silent.
People tend to want to talk and fill silence. You’ll have to control your urges and learn to be comfortable in silence.
- Comment on Western Digital details 14-platter 3.5-inch HAMR HDD designs with 140 TB and beyond 2 weeks ago:
I set up a community on midwest.social (because I’m in the midwest) !homelabsales@midwest.social
- Comment on What dating apps are really optimizing. Hint: it isn’t love 3 weeks ago:
As a dude, I wasn’t matching while I was swiping often. I’d swipe in the morning and then see what came up through the day.
They may have changed their apps in the… 10 or so years since I used them. But the premise is the same, the more you swipe right on the better the odds of matching someone that swipes right on you. Even if you don’t swipe right on everyone, be extremely generous on your swipes.
- Comment on What dating apps are really optimizing. Hint: it isn’t love 3 weeks ago:
On essentially all of them, they went to a swipe right to like and a swipe left for no.
Except when actually trying to make a match, it’s more advantageous to literally swipe right on everyone to maximize matches and then unmatch if you match with someone you aren’t interested in.
But if you are swiping left, you will match with significantly fewer and potentially none. It becomes demoralizing. And it takes much longer to make a decision if you are looking at everyone including those that don’t match with you so you go through fewer people to potentially match with.
Wait until you match with someone to look at their pictures and their profile, and only then, decide whether to stay matched or unmatch.
I had quite a few short relationships from tinder and bumble. But some of those wouldn’t have happened if I were more picky at the swiping stage.
- Comment on In a blind test, audiophiles couldn't tell the difference between audio signals sent through copper wire, a banana, or wet mud 3 weeks ago:
I have a set of Sony studio monitor headphones. I can hear more nuance and parts of the music I simply can’t hear in any of my ear buds or noise canceling headphones. They aren’t wireless, so I don’t really use them that often though.
It doesn’t matter the cable, the amp, shitty 128kbps mp3 or vinyl. I can’t hear much, much better with the drivers in them.
I’d say 90% of anything that matters is the driver. But past a certain midrange point, there just isn’t really much or any improvement.
- Comment on Western Digital details 14-platter 3.5-inch HAMR HDD designs with 140 TB and beyond 4 weeks ago:
Ah, no. Sorry. Midwest, USA.
- Comment on Western Digital details 14-platter 3.5-inch HAMR HDD designs with 140 TB and beyond 4 weeks ago:
I’d imagine they are using ceph or similar.
You have disk level protection for servers. Server level protection for racks. Rack level protection for locations. Location level protection for datacenters. Probably datacenter level protections for geographic regions.
It’s fucking wild when you get to that scale.
- Comment on Western Digital details 14-platter 3.5-inch HAMR HDD designs with 140 TB and beyond 4 weeks ago:
It’s about half of mine, with about 30 drives. Whatcha running?
- Comment on Western Digital details 14-platter 3.5-inch HAMR HDD designs with 140 TB and beyond 4 weeks ago:
Is there a Lemmy community for trading surplus hardware yet?
I have a pile of HDDs and servers that I no longer use. I’ve transitioned almost all mine to 20tb+. I might have 8 or 10 4tb REDs laying around. They’re old, probably have thousands of power on hours in the smart data though.
- Comment on If God had wanted us to have nearly unlimited clean energy, He would have placed a fusion reactor into the sky. 4 weeks ago:
Driving by the one in California was always a trip. You could see the lines of sunlight being reflected from the mirrors in the air; it was so bright.
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
Do you know there is zero black ice before you hit the road? Do you know the condition of their tires? Did they have winter tires or summer tires? Are they good drivers or inexperienced?
Lots of reasons different cars would want to go slow. So long as they stay to the right, whatever.
- Comment on YSK grab a cup of coffee and read this article if you want to truly understand what's happening in Minnesota 1 month ago:
I think property damage and sabotage of equipment is valid.
However, with how their propaganda is, they equip property damage with violence.
And I think we, as a country, need to realign our views on that. Property damage is not violence. Violence is harm to an individual. To a person. Not economic damage, but actual physical health damage.
They will respond with violence to property damage. And that needs to be fought.
So if their cars have tires slashed, windshields broken, it’s not violence.
If they are blocked on the street and can’t drive down it. It’s not violence.
Tear gas and “less-than-lethals” are violence.
They have been violent to us, the people. Exclusively.
- Comment on YSK the four rules of firearm safety 1 month ago:
Between my buddies, whenever we are looking at each other’s guns we’ll pick it up. Check that it’s unloaded, hand it to the other person and they will also check it again that it’s empty.
We don’t care if we literally watched each other clear it right before handing it to us. We always do it.
- Comment on I've never been in a situation where me having a gun would have made things bettter. 2 months 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 months 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? 2 months 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] 2 months 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] 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 months 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.