HiTekRedNek
@HiTekRedNek@lemmy.world
- Comment on FBI Couldn’t Get into WaPo Reporter’s iPhone Because It Had Lockdown Mode Enabled 1 day ago:
Set up Immich and move all your photos and videos to it.
You can also run syncthing on your android phone just fine, allowing you to simply mirror everything on it to any file server of your choice.
- Comment on Would the United States actually risk a Tiananmen Square incident? 4 days ago:
I am not saying it’s worse, I’m saying it was still a collosal government fuck up that resulted in the deaths of an entire family.
Are you trying to tell me that it was ok simply because they believed in a sky daddy???
- Comment on Would the United States actually risk a Tiananmen Square incident? 4 days ago:
It’s crazy that you believe that government propaganda from then, but rightfully distrust the government now.
- Comment on A Netadmin's NAS: Creating a maintenance-free NAS based on RouterOS, from a homelab holdout's perspective 4 days ago:
laughs in FreeBSD
- Comment on Would the United States actually risk a Tiananmen Square incident? 4 days ago:
Just to add: Ruby Ridge…
- Comment on TIL putting solar panels on land currently used for biofuels would produce enough electricity for all cars and trucks to go electric 1 week ago:
I’ve played enough EU4 that I know exactly where it is. 🤣
- Comment on RAM Prices Got You Down? Try DDR3. Seriously! 1 week ago:
I bought an 8G ECC RDIMM DDR4 the other day for 15 bucks cash.
Guy around my age who “bought the wrong kind” for his laptop, and forgot about it until it was too late to return it.
I’m gonna hold onto it a little longer, then see if I can’t make 30 or 40 bucks off it. 🤣
- Comment on A generation taught not to think: AI in the classroom 3 weeks ago:
It’s cute that you think THIS is where “not taught bow to think” begins.
Ever since the first government run school was created, it’s been about teaching what to think, and not how to think.
When “public education” was first proposed in the USA, it was seen as a way of teaching the “poor unfortunates” just enough to be able to run the equipment in the factories. If you wanted your child to have an ACTUAL education, you hired private tutors.
But now, even that is frowned upon. “But kids need socializing!” Meanwhile their definition of that is a little different than simply teaching your kids how to behave around others…
- Comment on How I discovered a hidden microphone on a Chinese NanoKVM 1 month ago:
Can’t speak to him, but I have used unix-like software since the 1990s.
The entire UNIX philosophy boils down to one simple fact. Everything is a file.
This makes maintenance a breeze as no special tools are needed.
You don’t need to install anything to read log files.
You can pull a hard drive from a dead system, and just read all the logs.
Most of systemd is just a solution in search of a problem.
- Comment on GOP overhaul of broadband permit laws: Cities hate it, cable companies love it 2 months ago:
In other words, city governments are mad that they can no longer hold up approvals in order to get more fees coughbribes from these companies.
- 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 2 months ago:
laughs in Nintendo Power magazine
Get off my lawn, kids! 🤣
- Comment on I keep waffling on Proxmox. Sell me. For or against. 2 months 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? 2 months ago:
It’s called a CB radio. Enjoy.
- Comment on 3 months 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 3 months 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 3 months ago:
More evidence to support my distrust of governments in general.
- Comment on Darkenstein 3D free on Steam 3 months 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? 3 months 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? 3 months 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 3 months 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? 3 months ago:
I dress to avoid indecency charges.
- Comment on Logitech will brick its $100 Pop smart home buttons on October 15 - Ars Technica 3 months 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 3 months 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? 3 months 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 3 months 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 3 months 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? 4 months 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? 4 months 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 ? 4 months 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 ? 4 months 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.
