greybeard

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨what would you do with an old dell server?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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)⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

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

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Arr Podman Quadlets Setup⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨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?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨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.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Florida sues some of the biggest porn platforms, accusing them of not complying with the state's age verification law⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  And all the alcohol ads.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘If I switch it off, my girlfriend might think I’m cheating’: inside the rise of couples location sharing⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There is the case of the worriers. People who, when not given positive confirmation otherwise, assume the worst. I'm not talking cheating, but like accidents. "He's 5 minutes late, maybe he got in a car accident and died!" It's not healthy, but it is common and isn't a trust issue.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Password manager by Amazon⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  LastPass's biggest problem was that they were almost the first in the game, and mistakes/choices they made 20 years ago bit them hard when they got hacked.

  There were two major issues with LastPass's security model:
  1. Non-Password data wasn't encrypted. So usernames and urls were visible by the people who stole the vaults.
  2. Passwords were encrypted with a number of iterations based on when the account was created, so older accounts were only run through a single iteration. The iteration process makes it much harder to guess the master password(by making it take a longer time). So single iteration makes it pretty quick to guess the password.

  So with flaw 1 you could see what vaults might have valuable passwords like banks and crypto wallets. And with flaw 2 you could reasonably quickly break into the vaults of long time users.

  So aside from their lax security allowing the compromise to happen in the first place (Nothing is fool proof), they weren't providing the level of protection most people assumed.

  More modern password managers like BitWarden fixed those problem a long time ago.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨KDE Plasma Bigscreen (Android TV alternative) is back from dead⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Being Linux, if you were really motivated, you could probably write a shim service that converted CEC to basic input that it does support, or someone out there probably already has.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨KDE Plasma Bigscreen (Android TV alternative) is back from dead⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You are probably correct that the firewall is the culprit. Good suggestion.

  I realize disabling the firewall for testing is OK, but I recommend looking up what it takes to open the ports or app in the firewall instead. I've spent my whole career running into and fixing instances where techs disabled firewalls for "testing" and never re-enabled them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨KDE Plasma Bigscreen (Android TV alternative) is back from dead⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  As others have mentioned, the websites tend to be limited both by resolution and functionality.

  My TV supports CEC(most do these days) which will pass the remote input onto the devices connected to it, like a computer. Which means with Plasma Big Picture I can navigate with my remote, and any app that supports navigation with simple arrow key input would work great.

  Unfortunately, the streaming websites, last time I tried, absolutely suck at that and assume you are navigating with a mouse.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨KDE Plasma Bigscreen (Android TV alternative) is back from dead⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Glad to see it being picked back up. I tried it previously and I really didn't like it. It felt half baked. The new version looks like a substantial improvement. Now if only every streaming app didn't lock their services behind DRM and mobile apps.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨(LLM) A language model built for the public good⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Machine learning is a subset of the AI branch of computer science. I agree that the pop culture definition of AI is different than the computer science one, but the computer science one is still valid.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PieFed.World is now open⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Interstellar is what I'm using. Generally usuable, but certainly doesn't understand the things that make PieFed special. With so many of the major Lemmy instances spooling up secondary piefed instances, it means it is probably only a matter of time before this issue is resolved.