HiTekRedNek
@HiTekRedNek@lemmy.world
- Comment on To the rapidly aging person reading this: GameFAQs is 30 years old, and people are sharing their memories of the venerable guide hub 5 days ago:
laughs in Nintendo Power magazine
Get off my lawn, kids! 🤣
- Comment on I keep waffling on Proxmox. Sell me. For or against. 1 week ago:
Uh. OpnSense on bare metal can also do snapshots, if you set it up correctly…
- Comment on Why don't cars have a way to contact nearby cars like fictional spaceships do? 1 week ago:
It’s called a CB radio. Enjoy.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
If a business charges nothing for a product then it is not the product. You are.
Sometimes that’s harmless as in they’re wanting you to try their service. Your business for other projects is still the product in that transaction.
Other times it’s your personal data that is the product and they’re wanting to then turn around and monetize that data.
But in both scenarios, you, or something of yours, is the product.
- Comment on 1X Neo is a $20,000 home robot that will learn chores via teleoperation 2 weeks ago:
There’s hydraulic devices you can attach to basically any door to make them close automatically, and a micro-radar presence-sensing light switch is maybe $100 bucks if that.
- Comment on "It’s not about security, it’s about control" – How EU governments want to encrypt their own comms, but break our private chats 2 weeks ago:
More evidence to support my distrust of governments in general.
- Comment on Darkenstein 3D free on Steam 3 weeks ago:
Is this the greatest game ever written?
No. It’s just a tribute.
- Comment on Why do so many hand dryers not dry hands? Am I doing something wrong? 4 weeks ago:
Very regional.
In areas with high humidity they don’t work all that well
- Comment on Not promoting hate speech but what happened to all the slights/slurs/vulgarity from like the 20s and 40s. There were so many. Now it seems well I can only think of three? 4 weeks ago:
“Alabama Ingenuity” is the phrase I typically use these days.
- Comment on New Rules Could Force Tesla to Redesign Its Door Handles. That’s Harder Than It Sounds 4 weeks ago:
I had a 1989 Ford Probe without a handle that stuck out like a typical car. It was recessed instead.
Better for fuel efficiency, which was the intention of these stupid flush mount ones Tesla has been fawning over.
- Comment on Aight. Let's be honest. How many of you dress for yourselves, and how many dress for others? 4 weeks ago:
I dress to avoid indecency charges.
- Comment on Logitech will brick its $100 Pop smart home buttons on October 15 - Ars Technica 5 weeks ago:
And that’s the fault of whoever uses those hubs. You can use practically any zigbee hub you wish. Zigbee is zigbee.
- Comment on Logitech will brick its $100 Pop smart home buttons on October 15 - Ars Technica 5 weeks ago:
You didn’t look very hard.
Cheap zigbee stuff exists everywhere. And zigbee is an open standard, so if it works, it will work until the equipment breaks.
- Comment on Which would be better? 5 weeks ago:
The Linux kernel isn’t really much different between any distribution of Linux.
If it works on one, it works on the rest, in like 99% of cases.
The only real exception to that is custom distributions built specifically for a particular device or subset of devices.
In other words, for embedded devices, like phones, routers, TVs and such.
And those aren’t going to be running Ubuntu.
- Comment on Bezos plan for solar powered datacenters is out of this world… literally 5 weeks ago:
Naive? No. What’s naive is thinking that if you give power to anyone over your own data , even your government, that it will.protect it.
You think the EU cares about your privacy? I know my own government is doing it’s level best to destroy mine, but at least I’m aware of it.
You, however, have the naivete of Pollyanna and think your vaunted EU is better.
- Comment on Bezos plan for solar powered datacenters is out of this world… literally 5 weeks ago:
That sounds like privacy, not evil.
Because history, as well as current events, tell us that governments will absolutely make privacy illegal, so if you can do an end run of them by not being beholden to ANY government, then that is absolutely a good thing.
- Comment on Those who are hosting on bare metal: What is stopping you from using Containers or VM's? What are you self hosting? 1 month ago:
In my own experience, certain things should always be on their own dedicated machines.
My primary router/firewall is on bare metal for this very reason.
I do not want to worry about my home network being completely unusable by the rest of my family because I decided to tweak something on the server.
I could quite easily run OpnSense in a VM, and I do that, too. I run proxmox, and have OpnSense installed and configured to at least provide connectivity for most devices. (Long story short: I have several subnets in my home network, but my VM OpnSense setup does not, as I only had one extra interface on that equipment, so only devices on the primary network would work)
And tbh, that only exists because I did have a router die, and installed OpnSense into my proxmox server temporarily while awaiting new-to-me equipment.
I didn’t see a point in removing it. So it’s there, just not automatically started.
- Comment on Those who are hosting on bare metal: What is stopping you from using Containers or VM's? What are you self hosting? 1 month ago:
My reasons for keeping OpnSense on bare metal mirror yours. But additionally I don’t want my network to take a crap because my proxmox box goes down.
I constantly am tweaking that machine…
- Comment on How did easy access to Porn while growing up impacted Gen-Z ? 1 month ago:
Depends on the face?
If it’s your mom’s? Absolutely.
- Comment on How did easy access to Porn while growing up impacted Gen-Z ? 1 month ago:
Probably the same way easy access to it affected my own generation.
Not a damn bit. At least one out of every friend group had a dad with porn magazines and tapes, and they’d get passed around during, and after school.
I was born in 1976.
- Comment on Samsung brings ads to US fridges 1 month ago:
Yeah. We have a smart washer. It’s out in our detached garage/shop so even if the chime were on, no one in the house would ever hear it.
The only “smart” feature we use on it at all is remote notifications.
And we don’t use the GE app for that either. I have it linked through our Home Assistant, so no one in the family needs their crap on our phones. Yes, HA must link into their servers, but the only real data GE gets is how much we use it, and the “city” where our internet connection says we’re in… which is 300 miles away from our actual home, in a completely different state.
- Comment on Campaigners urge EU to mandate 15 years of OS updates 1 month ago:
By replacing it with something better.
- Comment on Taliban leader bans Wi-Fi in an Afghan province to 'prevent immorality' 1 month ago:
Because almost everyone else in the world has begun referring to their entire internet connection as “Wi-Fi” and it pisses me off, too.
- Comment on RFK Jr. Blames violent video games for Mass Shootings. 2 months ago:
Spoons made me fat!
- Comment on It's Not Just You: Music Streaming Is Broken Now 2 months ago:
Opus/ogg @256 sounds at least as good as mp3 @320.
- Comment on It's Not Just You: Music Streaming Is Broken Now 2 months ago:
Same. In my younger days, I couldn’t really tell much difference between mp3 and CD. Now? I can absolutely tell.
Yea, 320mp3 sounds close but if the music has a lot of very low or very high frequency music, mp3 seems to clip it off, even 320.
Opus seems to handle the extreme ranges better though. But if you have an MP3, and convert it, it’s no better. Converting lossy to lossy is a no win outcome.
- Comment on How come butthole scratches doesn't get infected with poop bacteria ? 2 months ago:
I just tried to turn my comment into a lisp joke, but realized I don’t really know lisp as well as I used to 35+ years ago, and I’m not going to reteach it to myself for the sake of a joke. Sorry. 🤣😂
- Comment on How come butthole scratches doesn't get infected with poop bacteria ? 2 months ago:
works in a literal jail
Of course, the 20 years of trucking has made my butthole very tough.
Wait…
That did not come out right!
- Comment on How come butthole scratches doesn't get infected with poop bacteria ? 2 months ago:
<insert fat joke> <also insert insertion-into-rectum joke> <also insert rectum-no-dang-near-killed-em joke>
- Comment on Why I Ditched Spotify, and How I Set Up My Own Music Stack | LeshiCodes 2 months ago:
Lidarr + last.fm recommended list.
