brygphilomena
@brygphilomena@lemmy.dbzer0.com
- Comment on How big is your media library? 1 day 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 day 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? 4 days 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? 4 days 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 week ago:
They are
lyingthreatening to influence the election - Comment on My reason for wanting HomeAssistant and a locked down VLAN... 1 week ago:
- Comment on Trump Team Has Full Meltdown Over CNN Story on ICE-Tracking App 1 week 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 week 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 week 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 week 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 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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] 3 weeks ago:
We put cameras in birds nests. Houses don’t make us not wild.
- Comment on The hidden cost of self-hosting 3 weeks 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 5 weeks 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.
- Comment on Front Brake Lights Could Drastically Diminish Road Accident Rates 5 weeks ago:
Oh yea. I’ll watch the wheels, their head, and if I can see them reposition their hands, I’ll look for that.
I don’t trust anyone when I’m on the road.
- Comment on Front Brake Lights Could Drastically Diminish Road Accident Rates 5 weeks ago:
Up and down arrows? Up is away from you and down is towards you.
- Comment on Front Brake Lights Could Drastically Diminish Road Accident Rates 5 weeks ago:
< and > for turns. X for brakes.
Honestly, we should focus on functionality rather than aesthetic.
- Comment on Front Brake Lights Could Drastically Diminish Road Accident Rates 5 weeks ago:
I cannot stand how in some vehicles if I turn on the signal to indicate I am planning to change lanes, it will beep at me that there is a car there. I’m indicating I plan on it. Not that I’m turning the wheel right this second. I know there is a car to my side, I’m going to change lanes behind it, but am indicating mostly to the car behind them.
- Comment on Front Brake Lights Could Drastically Diminish Road Accident Rates 5 weeks ago:
It’s possible. Red really is only supposed to be on the back to indicate the rear of the vehicle.
It’s why on stretches of road where passing in oncoming lanes is legal, they tell you to turn on your headlights. Its so that there is a distinguishing feature between the front and rear of the car.
- Comment on Front Brake Lights Could Drastically Diminish Road Accident Rates 5 weeks ago:
As someone with ADHD, it is relaxing. And it is super enjoyable. I like thinking about how the weight of my car shifts going around corners. I like trying to be as smooth as possible shifting gears. There is a lot of information and the focus on it all quiets the noise normally in my head.
Leave early enough you aren’t stressed about being late.
Just let the asshole aggressive driver in.
Leave more than enough space that you have time to react.
Don’t treat it as a competition and it’s a pleasurable experience.
- Comment on Front Brake Lights Could Drastically Diminish Road Accident Rates 5 weeks ago:
Is love then to know when someone is slowing down to turn when I’m trying to pull out. So few use turn signals, and even those I don’t really trust until the car is noticably getting slower.
- Comment on Samsung teams up with Glance to use your face in AI-generated lock screen ads 5 weeks ago:
I tried a Samsung phone a year or two ago. It lasted less than a day before I was so infuriated that I vowed never to use Samsung again. It is SO invasive and pushes so many ads and bloatware.
- Comment on New server for the family, Proxmox or TrueNAS, LXC or Docker? 5 weeks 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 1 month ago:
End user management.
Essentially, accounts and passwords are not my problem.
- Comment on Plex now will SELL your personal data 1 month 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 1 month 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 month 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.