brygphilomena
@brygphilomena@lemmy.dbzer0.com
- Comment on He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him 5 days 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 weeks 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 weeks 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 weeks 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 weeks 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 weeks 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 weeks 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? 2 weeks 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 weeks ago:
- Comment on Immich mobile app sync V2 3 weeks 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 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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.
- Comment on We must not posthumously sanitize Charlie Kirk's hateful life 5 weeks ago:
Pretty generic of a phrase. It’s sane washing a lot of it, and the media has continually pushed the angle that he has been working to get the younger generation into politics.
If that’s the work he is referring to, then yea, fine, let’s continue it. But if it’s the hateful, divisive way he was doing it, then it should die with him.
Fuck Charlie Kirk, and has his regressive political views.
- Comment on Tesla FSD turns off more U.S. consumers than it attracts, survey finds 1 month ago:
That’s… Still terrible, you see that, right? Disabling a feature that I’ve paid for for any reason, at all, is unacceptable.
The parenting behavior of big tech companies is insulting.
- Comment on xkcd #3128: Thread Meeting 2 months 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] 2 months 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 2 months 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 months 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 months 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 months 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 months 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 months 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? 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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? 2 months 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? 3 months 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 3 months ago:
I really don’t know how to convince people they should care about others.
I don’t know how to teach empathy.