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- Comment on California’s New Bill Requires DOJ-Approved 3D Printers That Report on Themselves 1 week ago:
But….if someone sold a manually operated plastic extruder, that’s fine?
And if someone separately sold CAM software that’s fine too?
Just sayin’
- Comment on ‘I feel like I’m in a financial prison’: Trump Wall Street plan puts ‘mom and pop’ investors at risk, advocates say 1 week ago:
They want to pay off failed or money losing institutional/private investments with your 401k
They will retire rich and you’ll foot the bill
- Comment on Glance home dashboard 1 week ago:
Yes, and not only is this project very generically named, searching for what I was looking to do was difficult because of the wide range of options in terms of what a home dashboard should be…
Many people want home automation integration, I don’t have any (centralized) home automation
Many projects with UI designed for smallish touch screens (e.g. wall mounted info panels, where you need to tap to see info)
Many projects want a full fledged grafana type install, overkill for me/my tiny homelab
I was aiming for something more akin to those hotel lobby TVs which show useful local info and news on a fixed refresh cycle. This was also common on cable TV years ago: some channels would just show weather and news headlines 24/7 on a fixed cycle with music.
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- Comment on Western Digital runs out of HDD capacity: CEO says massive AI deals secured, price surges ahead 1 week ago:
Its the “service economy.” Instead of making things, industry (in the US at least) is heavily skewed towards providing services (aka things you subscribe to or need to buy each time you use).
It does not benefit the individual.
- Comment on Wendy's closes US restaurants and focuses on value to turn around falling sales 1 week ago:
I also used to get the chicken sandwiches (spicy, or asiago) pretty frequently. Like once or twice a month, but pretty consistently from like 2010-2019. The few times I’ve been since 2021, the price went up and the chicken cutlet (which used to be really thick, and real chicken breast, usually hot and juicy too) was thin, and full of mystery meat. And the price was higher. That sandwich used to fill me up, and now its just a few bites.
Well, I haven’t been back. And I’m not going back, regardless of how many changes they make, because I discovered my local pizza shop has a nice chicken sandwich that’s like $2 more but many times bigger and tastier.
- Comment on Ars Technica makes up quotes from Matplotlib maintainer("An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me"); pulls story 1 week ago:
That poor guy, the ai is just ganging up on him
- Comment on DoorDashers are getting paid to close Waymo's self-driving car doors 2 weeks ago:
Well, in that case maybe you just forget to shut the door ;)
- Comment on DoorDashers are getting paid to close Waymo's self-driving car doors 2 weeks ago:
Hmmm…so it costs Waymo $11.25 if you “forget” to shut the door.
Maybe people will become very forgetful.
Or, upon reflection, just don’t use Waymo, and don’t play into it at all.
- Comment on ai;dr | (ai; didn't read) 2 weeks ago:
I’m stealing that post title to use myself
- Comment on I ❤️ selfhosting 2 weeks ago:
It’s like a delicious home cooked meal, instead of fast food.
- Comment on Self hosting Sunday! What's up and how long? 3 weeks ago:
Recently obtained a free circa-2017 mac mini which I installed Linux on, to create a docker hosting environment. Current have Jellyfin, SearXNG, and Forgejo.
My much older NAS serves as the NFS drive for the Jellyfin media (formerly, I ran Plex directly on the NAS, but this was slow/unreliable as the NAS has only dual 1Ghz ARM cores).
One of the drives in the NAS died Thursday night, but no serious issue as its RAID 1. I wonder if the new load on it pushed it over the edge. (Also, I wonder if I could use the mac minis SSD as a sort of cache in front of the NAS, to reduce wear on it, if that would even help…)
Luckily I had some gift cards from recycling old tablets and phones, so I could get a replacement drive at minimal cost. I went with a cheap WD Blue drive instead of the 2.5x more expensive Seagate IronWolf drives I had used in the past. We will see how that fares over the next few years.
Upon replacing the drive yesterday, I found the one that failed was a 2017 mfg date, so its life was 8 years (from when I initially populated the NAS). The other drive was replaced in 2021 (but it actually failed in 2020, I just left the NAS unused for a year at that time, so it had a life of 3 years). Some insight into the life span of the Iron Wolf drives.
Things I’d like to add soon:
- kiwix instance
- normalize my ebook/magazine collection
- setup to download my youtube subscriptions to Jellyfin’s media directory so I can avoid the youtube app/website
- something for music to ditch that subscription
- Comment on Microsoft CEO Looking Ahead to 2026 1 month ago:
They would love if they can get you hooked on a monthly subscription for human thought
- Comment on Mozilla’s new CEO is doubling down on an AI future for Firefox 2 months ago:
🤷♂️ ironfox exists
- Comment on SoftBank sells its entire stake in Nvidia for $5.83 billion 3 months ago:
They did the same in 2019 (note the date on the article)
- Comment on Notepad gets AI features like Summarize, Write, and Rewrite, using local and cloud models. 5 months ago:
It is possible to restore the old notepad.
I didn’t include a link because I could not find a non-spammy one, but a search finds a few. I did it on my work PC.
And switching to a FOSS OS is probably preferable, but that’s not always possible.
- Comment on An AI analyst made 30 years of stock picks – and outperformed human investors by a ‘stunning’ degree 8 months ago:
It “made” the money based on a backtest. It means nothing.
- Comment on Google confirms more ads on your paid YouTube Premium Lite soon 8 months ago:
The $ revenue share to creators per video view has dropped, even though the percentage of Google’s ad revenue shared with the creator has remained the same. So to me this means Google is earning less per video view. (That could also be just a result of the ad market in general collapsing, eg advertisers just pay less)
Also, Google has added new requirements to get the video share. You need to post new videos at a regular cadence, or they kick you out–even if your old videos are still getting views. (began being enforced in 2023, I think). Its another way they can keep their revenue numbers looking OK by cutting a cost associated with older videos.
Google has also escalated their efforts to make it more difficult to view content without also viewing the ads.
So maybe its wishful thinking, but I think they are feeling the squeeze.
Unfortunately unlike the reddit or twitter situations its significantly harder to accumulate enough fresh video content to attract the views necessary to get the ball rolling and make a shift away from YouTube.
- Comment on Google confirms more ads on your paid YouTube Premium Lite soon 8 months ago:
Adblock/revanced are working. Google’s ad revenue is getting squeezed and so they need to shoehorn more ads everywhere to get the same revenue levels, since so many people never see the ads.
Keep using them. You’re making business really difficult for scummy Google.
- Comment on Amazon is reportedly training humanoid robots to deliver packages 8 months ago:
Amazons “genius” packing bots will throw a tiny fragile thing with a medium size heavy thing in a box 16x too big along with a shred of packing material.
Can’t wait to have that same “genius” applied to the actual delivery itself.
Seriously, I make maybe 5 or 6 Amazon purchases per year. I would say at least 50% of those disappoint in some way: the item was misleadingly listed, or it was damaged in shipping, or it doesn’t arrive when the promised. I really don’t find it convenient at all.
