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- Comment on How AI assistance impacts the formation of coding skills 3 days ago:
I do the same. I start with the large task, break it into smaller chunks, and I usually end up writing most of them myself. But occasionally there will be one function that is just so cookie-cutter, insignificant to the overall function of the program, and outside of my normal area of experitise, that I’ll offload that one to an LLM. They actually do pretty well for tasks like that, when given a targeted task with very specific inputs and outputs, and I can learn a bit by looking at what it ended up generating. I’d say it’s only about 5-10% of the code that I write that falls into the category where an LLM could realistically take it on though.
- Comment on Tesla profit tanked 46% in 2025 | TechCrunch 4 days ago:
If you ignore the election bump in Nov 2024 that had completely reset by Mar 2025, their stock is up 100% in a little over a year. Yes that counts as skyrocketing, considering sales and profit have plummeted over the same time frame.
- Comment on Microsoft gave FBI a set of BitLocker encryption keys to unlock suspects' laptops: Reports | TechCrunch 5 days ago:
Interesting, I haven’t seen that approach before
- Comment on Microsoft gave FBI a set of BitLocker encryption keys to unlock suspects' laptops: Reports | TechCrunch 1 week ago:
You can’t do that anymore, at least not with a normal Windows installation. All of the tricks of forcing it offline, clicking cancel 10 times and jumping up and down don’t work anymore, they’ve disabled them all, the only way to install Windows 11 now (using the normal Microsoft installer) is by linking it to a Microsoft account.
- Comment on Sorry Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that! PCs refuse to shut down after Microsoft patch 2 weeks ago:
Or it works initially and then crashes (yes that does happen), and if it happens mid-flash that’s a problem.
- Comment on Sorry Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that! PCs refuse to shut down after Microsoft patch 2 weeks ago:
I wonder if the software you need for cars would run under Wine.
While maybe it could work, that’s not the kind of thing you want to mess around with, since if it misbehaves even a little bit it can brick your ECU and leave you with a multi-thousand dollar repair bill
- Comment on Sorry Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that! PCs refuse to shut down after Microsoft patch 2 weeks ago:
Exactly. A lot of people seem to think that different = worse, or that not supporting the same software means it supports less software. I couldn’t move to Windows right now because there is a ton of stuff I use Linux for that Windows has no alternative, or the alternatives are terrible. It works both ways.
- Comment on BentoPDF v1.16.0 2 weeks ago:
BentoPDF is for editing PDFs, Paperless is for organizing PDFs. Think GIMP vs Immich.
- Comment on Upgrading storage to usb drives 3 weeks ago:
Do not split a RAID array across drives in separate USB enclosures.
Doing RAID on USB drives is alright, as long as they’re all in the same enclosure and use a single USB interface. If you split an array between drives with separate USB interfaces, you will face corruption and rebuild issues when one of the controllers has a hiccup or comes up slower/faster than the other, which WILL happen. If you need to run a RAID array on USB-connected drives, use a 2-bay USB-connected DAS. I’ve used the QNAP TR-002 in the past, it works fine, just set it to individual mode.
- Comment on Going to a Protest? Don't Bring Your Phone Without Doing This First 3 weeks ago:
Shut off and leave your phone at home, buy a pay-as-you-go to bring with you for emergency contact/coordination
- Comment on Cheapest way to back up a *lot* of data? 3 weeks ago:
4-bay DAS with a handful of big HDDs in RAIDZ1. Load it up, then store it in your office at work or at a friend or family member’s house. Retrieve and update somewhere between once every few weeks to once every few months, depending on how often your critical data is changing.
- Comment on China’s ‘artificial sun’ breaks nuclear fusion limit thought to be impossible 3 weeks ago:
Yes, because the argument was never “we’ll have fusion in 20 years”, it’s always been “we COULD have fusion in 20 years IF research was properly funded”. It’s never been properly funded, hence it’s always 20 years away.
- Comment on Windows users keep losing files to OneDrive, and many don't know why 3 weeks ago:
Notifications will go a long way toward helping with that. Check all assumptions, check all exit codes, notify and stop if anything is amiss. I also have my backup script notify on success, with the time it took to back up and the size and delta size (versus the previous backup) of the resulting backup. 99% of errors get caught by the checks and I get a failure notification. But just in case something silently goes wrong, the size of the backup (too big or too small) is another obvious indicator that something went wrong.
- Comment on 200 million records exposed in massive Pornhub data breach — here’s what we know so far 3 weeks ago:
Anyone who would sign up for a porn website using their .gov email address deserves to have it leaked
- Comment on Microsoft Office has been renamed to “Microsoft 365 Copilot app” 4 weeks ago:
It’s happening at a lot of companies. Last year our C-suite cancelled some big IR&D projects (where we were designing real products that could actually be built and sold) in order to dump $300k/mo into renting a cloud AI infrastructure that none of the employees want or use.
- Comment on Devastated PC builder orders DDR5 RAM from Amazon, receives DDR2 and some weights — counterfeit 32GB kit a worrying sign of rising return and sales fraud 1 month ago:
Depends on what you’re buying. Wiredzone and Provantage are solid, and for anything storage or camera-related B&H is my go-to.
- Comment on Apple announces more ads are coming to App Store search results 1 month ago:
I agree with everything you’ve said here. The App Store is an absolute abomination, even when you search for the exact name of the app you’re looking for it’s several pages down in the results. The App Store is as bad as Google Search now, nothing but ads and garbage, and now they want to make it even worse? I honestly don’t even see how they can add more ads, like physically how? The App Store is nothing but ads already. I just wish there was an alternative.
- Comment on An Apple fan says they lost '20 years of digital life' after using an Apple gift card 1 month ago:
You do realize this happens to people on Android all the time as well, right? Google shuts down accounts for random inexplicable reasons all the time, and when that happens the user loses all of their apps purchased through Google’s store. What are you suggesting he do differently? Other than just…not have a smart phone or apps on it?
- Comment on My Favorite Self-Hosted Apps Launched in 2025 1 month ago:
Thanks! BentoPDF is fantastic, I never knew I needed this
- Comment on Crucial is shutting down — because Micron wants to sell its RAM and SSDs to AI companies instead 1 month ago:
Samsung doesn’t actually make dimms as far as I know
They do both. This is what I have in my server, for example:
- Comment on Introducing SlopStop: Community-driven AI slop detection in Kagi Search 2 months ago:
I think so. I’ve been using it for over a year, as another poster said Kagi feels like Google did 15 years ago, before it destroyed itself.
Every time I use a search on another machine, my first reaction is “oh my god what is all of this shit everywhere? ads, spam, AI slop, shopping garbage, etc”, then I quickly realize it’s not my computer and that’s just what Google looks like now.
- Comment on Why do so many services require email configuration? 2 months ago:
dealing with incoming spam is just way more work than paying to have it hosted.
The right way to deal with spam is not to use filters in the first place. It’s not like Gmail or Proton or <insert your favorite email provider here>'s spam filters are perfect either, far from it, they still let a ton of shit through. The right way to deal with spam is to use unique aliases for each account that you can shut down if they leak.
- Comment on I keep waffling on Proxmox. Sell me. For or against. 2 months ago:
In my opinion, Proxmox is worth it for two reasons:
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Easy high-availability setup and control
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Proxmox Backup Server
Those two are what drove me to switch from KVM, and I don’t regret it at all. PBS truly is a fantastic piece of software.
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- Comment on TikTok may become more right-wing as China signals approval for US sale 2 months ago:
They explicitly said that the goal of buying it was to turn it into a rightwing propaganda machine
- Comment on How often do you update software on your servers? 2 months ago:
Every couple of days. I don’t auto-update, but I’ve streamlined the process to the point that I can just open a single web page and see the number of pending updates for every system on my network, docker containers included, each one with a button. Clicking the button applies the update and reboots if necessary. So it takes about 15 seconds of effort to update everything, which is why I don’t mind doing it so often.
- Comment on An ex-Intel CEO’s mission to build a Christian AI: ‘hasten the coming of Christ’s return’ 2 months ago:
I don’t have any problems with building beautiful things like cathedrals or making art in the name of God
What about Catholics praying to little figurines of saints? Because that’s been going on for a long time
- Comment on Why is Unraid popular in the self-hosting community ? 3 months ago:
I am more surprised by how popular Proxmox seems to be here, which is really just adding a lot of unnecessary complexity
I switched to Proxmox for one reason: PBS. As far as I know there is no match with plain KVM. Proxmox also makes setting up and maintaining a high-availability setup very easy, which is a nice bonus.
- Comment on Personal data storage is an idea whose time has come 3 months ago:
Got a friend or family member willing to let you drop a miniPC at their place?
You could also go the offline route - buy two identical external drive setups, plug one into your machine and make regular backups to it, drop the other one in a drawer in your office at work. Then once a month or so swap them out to keep the off-site one fresh.
- Comment on 3 months ago:
The hard links aren’t between the source and backup, they’re between Friday’s backup and Saturday’s backup
- Comment on 3 months ago:
If you want a “time travel” feature, your only option is to duplicate data.
Not true. Look at the --link-dest flag. Encryption, sure, rsync can’t do that, but incremental backups are fine and compression I handle at the filesystem level anyway.