greybeard

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows Marketshare since 2010⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Apple always refers to iPad’s OS as “iPad OS”, not iOS. I wonder if the browsers make the same differentiation in their user agent strings.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows Marketshare since 2010⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  ChromeOS is pretty far from normal Linux. It’s closer to something like Android. Uses the Linux kernel, but doesn’t bring the freedom, flexibility, or even GUI tool that come with a Linux desktop. SteamOS does come with all of those.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I bought an Ender 3 V3 (corexz) recently, and have been having bed adhesion issues. Please help me interpret this bed adhesion test result⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Every 4-5 prints? What are you doing to your printer? I rarely even alcohol wipe down my plate. I have one side marked for PLA and the other for PETG (Since I’ve found the PETG residue tends to cause PLA not to stick). The only time notably clean my plate is when I accidentally forget to flip it between material changes or I touch it in the build area.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Disney Invests $1 Billion in the AI Slopification of Its Brand⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s how a lot of episodes of Star Trek worked. They would adapt SciFi short stories to the Star Trek universe. It’s a great way to both get great stories and support authors. I don’t think the “short story” publishing machines still run, unfortunately.

  Heck, now that I think of it, there was actually a DS9 episode about a short story publishing company.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I certainly can become a problem. Reaching back to Digg, MrBabyMan had way too much power and influence, even though he basically just spammed news articles 24/7. Thankfully, Lemmy/Piefed doesn’t seem to be designed to promote people over content.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨U.S. Pedestrian Deaths Up 77% Since 2009 & The Auto Industry Knew It Would Happen⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Mega trucks ans SUVs are what sells, I guess.

  Unfortunately, people buy what they are told to buy through advertising and marketing. The demand for sports cars didn’t dry up because people lost interest, but because better margins were found in large vehicles (and since emissions requirements were easier to hit for large vehicles than small powerful ones).

  If the auto industry decided small cars were more profitable, the entire marketing machine would start touting the benefits of small cars, and in a few years, people would be claiming they always loved small cars and are so glad they are back so they can replace their monster trucks with tiny hatches.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thank Mozilla for Killing Localization on Support Mozilla (And Replacing Human Contributions With AI Bots)⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks for the tip of checking about:config. You can specify an external server, it is also in the about:config. browser.ml.chat.provider. I’m not sure it’s a feature I will ever use, but I tested it with my local Open WebUI and it seemed to work.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thank Mozilla for Killing Localization on Support Mozilla (And Replacing Human Contributions With AI Bots)⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  How nice of them to have easy options for paid third party services, and hide the local options under about:config where I’d have no idea it even exists without a kind stranger letting me know.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thank Mozilla for Killing Localization on Support Mozilla (And Replacing Human Contributions With AI Bots)⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They’ve also put it into the right click menu. And I think they integrated into the “click and hold link preview” feature they just added. And, annoyingly, with all this added AI, they made no provisions for locally hosted AI.

  They also added AI translation in addition to their old translation system for webpages. I think the old one just used Google Translate, so the AI translation is a privacy win because it is done locally, but I may be wrong on how it used to work.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨what would you do with an old dell server?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Another worth while consideration is heat generation. That takes more power to offset that too. During the winter maybe it wont be so bad, but it can be brutal in the summer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Promised myself I will support them after they go stable. They kept their promise and so did I⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Wasabi is a very affordable destination for backups. And it has the advantage of not being one of the big three.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Think Big, Print Bigger: Introducing the Prusa CORE One L! - Original Prusa 3D Printers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m glad they are offering a bigger option. The CORE One is the same build plate size as the MK3&4. It’s got some extra z height, but that’s it. I’m enjoying my CORE One, but the limitation on bed size is a little frustrating, especially now that some of their biggest competitors are offering much larger build plates at similar prices.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube is taking down videos on performing nonstandard Windows 11 installs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know if this is the case, but I’ve found that often Windows commands see the space as optional. It’s weird, but generally works.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meet Mico, Microsoft’s AI version of Clippy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  And the search Dog and Wizard. I suppose those don’t count much, but they are worth remembering.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How gamers were nickel and dimed in 80s and 90s (besides arcades)⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ll go to the magazine isle of Walmart with a pen and paper like a normal person, thank you very much.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AWS crash causes $2,000 Smart Beds to overheat and get stuck upright⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Have you tried using crystals instead of touch screens? If it was good enough for Kirk it’s good enough for Janeway.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AWS crash causes $2,000 Smart Beds to overheat and get stuck upright⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Theoretically what they were offering can be useful. It both heats and cools, so you can leave the house temperature higher or lower to save on energy costs while staying comfy in bed. It has tilting feature which can be nice for reading or watching TV. Also, you’d hope that it would be a comfy bed in general for that price.

  Of course this event shows the makers are fools and the concept of a subscription being needed, for an already overpriced bed, to do what a nob could do, is insane.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are there any good 3D Nintendo FAN made games?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Breaking the 3D rule you set, there is Super Mariomon. It’s a romhack for Pokemon Emerald that does a complete conversion to into a Mario based monster hunting game. The story, the map, the monsters, all 100% replaced. Because it isn’t Pokemon, the creators took some fun liberties on some of the core concepts of Pokemon like gyms. They also masterfully mined Mario lore to fill out a full dex of 151 critters.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Avatar Legends: The Fighting Game - Official Announcement Trailer⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Obviously I can’t specify on this game, since it isn’t out yet, but there are plenty of cases were games are released very light on content and use season passes as a way to fill it out, as well as attempt to keep the player counts up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Avatar Legends: The Fighting Game - Official Announcement Trailer⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Personally? I’d rather buy the game and have the whole game.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Arr Podman Quadlets Setup⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m really glad to see quadlets taking off. I’ve been playing with them myself and really happy with the results. They pair well with ansible. Letting you write your quadlet files in a way that makes them highly portable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Selfhosting Sunday! What's up?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I haven’t gotten too far, but right now I’ve got persistent volumes being pushed by NFS from my NAS. I’m using rocky Linux VMs as my target, but for this use case, Fedora CoreOS should be the same.

  I haven’t yet tried using Ansible to create the VMs, but that would be cool. I know teraform is designed for that sort of thing, but if Ansible can do it, all the better. I’d love to get to a point where my entire stack as Ansible.

  I don’t yet have Ansible restarting the service, but that should be a simple as adding a few new tasks after the daemon-reload task. What I don’t know how to do is tell it to only restart if there is change to any of the config files uploaded. That would be nice to minimize service restarts.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Selfhosting Sunday! What's up?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Here is a redhat blog about it: https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/quadlet-podman

  This docs page has more details: https://docs.redhat.com/en/documentation/red_hat_enterprise_linux/10/html/building_running_and_managing_containers/porting-containers-to-systemd-using-podman

  And last, this page shows most of the options you’d expect to find: https://docs.podman.io/en/latest/markdown/podman-systemd.unit.5.html

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Selfhosting Sunday! What's up?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Unfortunately not. I found documentation largely lacking. I mostly read the docs and searched specific questions that came up(which often just took me back to the docs). I did as a local LLM for help, but found it’s knowledge base lacking. Sometimes it would work for a hint, but it more often than not made up parameters and features.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Selfhosting Sunday! What's up?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I spent some time last week learning both Ansible and Podman Quadlets. They are a powerful duo, especially for self hosting.

  Ansible is a desired state system for Linux. Letting you define a list of servers and what their configuration should be, like “have podman installed” and “have this file at this location with this content”.

  Podman quadlets is a system for defining podman containers as a service. You define the container, volumes, and networks all in essentially Systemd unit files.

  Mixing the two together, I can have my entire podman setup in a format that can be pushed to any server in seconds.

  And of course everything is text files that git well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GTA V was released on this day, 12 years ago⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What are you talking about, there's a new Elder Scrolls release every year. Skyrim Remastered, Skyrim Deluxe. Skyrim Limited Edition. Skyrim for Switch. Skyrim Premium Deluxe for Switch, the list goes on.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube is now flagging accounts on Premium family plans that aren't in the same household⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I'm not sure how Orion gets away with it, but Apple has been deadset against allowing other browsers to exist on their platform, Chrome, Edge, and Firefox on iOS are just a Safari wrapper. This strongly limits what they can offer for extensions. The only people who own Apple phones is Apple, everyone else is just renting.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  But someone has to be the smarted in the world, who are you to say it isn't me? /s

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What foss MP games are still active?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  For games where there is a list of servers, it would be cool to have a central software like gamespy to let players know where the other players are.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘We didn’t vote for ChatGPT’: Swedish Prime Minister under fire for using AI⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  One thing I struggle with AI is the answers it gives always seem plausable, but any time I quiz it on things I understand well, it seems to constantly get things slightly wrong. Which tells me it is getting everything slightly wrong, I just don't know enough to know it.

  I see the same issue with TV. Anyone who works in a compicated field has felt the sting of watching a TV show fail to accurate represent it while most people watching just assume that's how your job works.