HiTekRedNek
@HiTekRedNek@lemmy.world
- Comment on What do you use for music library streaming? 1 day ago:
I have a few smart playlists set up that are each various genres of music. It’s not perfect, but it works well enough.
- Comment on What do you use for music library streaming? 1 day ago:
du -hd1 | grep Music 3.0T ./Music
- Comment on What do you use for music library streaming? 1 day ago:
I use navidrome. And what’s nice about it is, there are 3 people in my household, they can all access that. We all have our own favorite tracks saved in our preferred player, and we can still save a good chunk of them to our phones.
In my case, I have a random mood playlist of 200 tracks that gets updated every morning before I wake up, my phone app caches all 200 of them, so I can play them without network access.
- Comment on What do you use for music library streaming? 1 day ago:
You’ll know it when you find it. 🤣
- Comment on What do you use for music library streaming? 1 day ago:
I have over 3 TB of music. SD cards aren’t quite that big yet.
- Comment on Americans’ junk-filled garages are hurting EV adoption, study says 3 days ago:
You’re being a dick. All I did was share some info you might have found interesting. Fuck off.
- Comment on Americans’ junk-filled garages are hurting EV adoption, study says 4 days ago:
You’ve missed the point.
The point is the useful trivia I just told you.
- Comment on Americans’ junk-filled garages are hurting EV adoption, study says 4 days ago:
I have a garage that could hold 4 cars if you parked 2 rows of them…
My single income household of 3 is just barely above the national poverty level.
- Comment on Americans’ junk-filled garages are hurting EV adoption, study says 4 days ago:
Would you mind posting your phone book
Did you know that before cellular phones were a thing, the phone company regularly sent out books with everyone’s name, phone number, and sometimes even their address in them?
You could even find such a book in public in these little things called “Phone booths”.
- Comment on Gemini for Home is Google’s biggest smart home play in years 5 days ago:
Sounds like a skill issue
- Comment on Gemini for Home is Google’s biggest smart home play in years 5 days ago:
Former trucker here.
I’ve been using home assistant for a year. No degree in software engineering here
Stupidly simply to set up.
- Comment on SpaceX says states should dump fiber plans, give all grant money to Starlink 6 days ago:
It’s cute that you’re worried about me. But it’s still better than whatever else is currently available at my house.
- Comment on SpaceX says states should dump fiber plans, give all grant money to Starlink 6 days ago:
I’d rather have fiber, too. But until it’s available here, this is the next best thing.
- Comment on SpaceX says states should dump fiber plans, give all grant money to Starlink 6 days ago:
Physics says otherwise.
Geostationary orbit, which is where hughesnet satellites are, is approximately 22 THOUSAND miles away.
That’s a round trip of 44 thousand miles.
That’s a long time of 236ms just for the satellite connection, before any other connections are added in.
That’s worse than my dialup latency was.
Meanwhile, my Starlink ping averages less than 30ms, because these satellites are MUCH MUCH closer.
- Comment on SpaceX says states should dump fiber plans, give all grant money to Starlink 6 days ago:
TIL 120 is 4 x 70…
- Comment on Antimatter, an expansive sandbox strategy game with planetary colonization, city-building, space station building, spaceship design and galactic exploration, releases a demo on Steam. 1 week ago:
How well does it work in proton?
- Comment on Starlink tries to block Virginia’s plan to bring fiber Internet to residents 1 week ago:
And then they use that government to pick winners and losers rather than letting the market decide. And at that point, the economic system is no longer capitalism.
When government is capable of picking those winners and losers, government service becomes more attractive to capitalists than running an actual business.
Ever notice that, for all their bluster, it’s usually the big business types in government that push regulations in the name of protecting one thing or another? Kids, environment, jobs, etc…
Because it’s not really about helping those kids, or protecting the planet, or anything else. It’s about continuing the size and scope of government to make it harder for new competitors to enter the market and provide a service cheaper than the established players can.
Did you know that in many states in the US, if you have a kid, but don’t have a grid power connection to your local power provider, that you can be charged with child endangerment? Even if you have off-grid electrical power.
Your local power provider loves that. It’s basically illegal to not have their service, so they can charge you basically whatever they want. “What about the public service utility commissions?” What about them? They’re all corrupt AF, and worse, typically run by unelected bureaucrats.
Then, add in the localities where the the utility commissions are so corrupt that they allow those same power companies to charge you a fee if you do add your own power generation. Because remember, you still have to have their service. So if you add, say, solar panels, they levy additional fees on you to make up for lost revenue.
And we can’t even vote the fuckers out, because it’s mostly unelected bureaucrats, and even the few elected officials that exist are just completely bought and paid for by the very same utility company they’re supposed to regulate.
- Comment on Starlink tries to block Virginia’s plan to bring fiber Internet to residents 1 week ago:
Fascism is fake capitalism, because the market is not deciding anything, government bureaucrats are.
Capitalism is when the market decides who “wins” and “loses” in the race for more money.
But when you add in government overreach and regulatory capture, it loses all semblance of capitalism.
- Comment on Intel CPU Temperature Monitoring Driver For Linux Now Unmaintained After Layoffs 1 week ago:
There’s no need for the government to prevent people from becoming wealthy.
The only ways to become that wealthy all involve monopolies.
But every single monopoly that has ever existed, has only managed to become a monopoly due to help from allies in government. AKA Regulatory Capture.
When governments are large, and filled with bureaucrats that aren’t answerable to the public, monopolies are far more likely to emerge, as those same bureaucrats enact more and more regulations that make entering the market more and more difficult for those of modest to little means.
- Comment on Intel CPU Temperature Monitoring Driver For Linux Now Unmaintained After Layoffs 1 week ago:
Because I’m not an anarchist. There is a role for government in maintaining its monopoly on the use of force.
But nothing else.
- Comment on Intel CPU Temperature Monitoring Driver For Linux Now Unmaintained After Layoffs 2 weeks ago:
Competition.
Without force, how can they stop a small player from offering a competitive option?
- Comment on High-severity WinRAR 0-day exploited for weeks by 2 groups 2 weeks ago:
Ark uses p7zip…
- Comment on Intel CPU Temperature Monitoring Driver For Linux Now Unmaintained After Layoffs 2 weeks ago:
It’s odd that you think it’s fundamental to capitalism when it’s exactly the opposite. True capitalism is an unfettered marketplace.
What we have now is a system here the profits are private, but the losses are socialized.
You may think that’s an effect of capitalism, but it most definitely is not.
You are conflating a system of governance with a system of economics. And I get it, because in a controlled economy, the government is usually the one doing the controlling.
What we have is something in the middle, taking the worst aspects of truly free-market capitalism, and marrying it with the worst aspects of a controlled economy.
Our government the picks winners in this setup we have. Instead of letting the market decide.
Your issue is that you see all the things this half-breed, partially-socialist economy gives us, and you blame it on the market. But the market didn’t get us here.
History tells me what will happen if we finally give in, and give total control of the economy over to the politicians. And I do not want that for my children, or their children.
- Comment on No, the UK’s Online Safety Act Doesn’t Make Children Safer Online 2 weeks ago:
A bureaucratic regulation doesn’t actually do what it purports to do, and which is the entire point of it’s existence?
No way.
Who could’ve forseen that?!
- Comment on Intel CPU Temperature Monitoring Driver For Linux Now Unmaintained After Layoffs 2 weeks ago:
Not exactly. And larger companies simply CANT destroy competition without assistance from the government.
If you are free to choose what to buy, and who to buy it from, you can choose to buy from the startup. You can choose to buy from the guy running a business out of the back of his pickup. Or out of his garage. Or any number of options.
Problem is, right now we have our government enabling monopolies. Propping up failing, or non-profitable businesses by making it illegal to do business without spending millions or more on regulations that seem good on the surface, but when you start to dig into them, you see the vast majority of them were actually pushed by the big name businesses to stifle competition.
Our wallets should be the only regulation. Would you willingly buy products from a company that doesn’t respect the environment? No? Well guess what! That’s the power of the free market.
There’s, right now, a hybrid truck manufacturer in Canada that is right now staring down the barrel of excessive regulations that will limit their ability to build hybrid semi trucks.
How many other would-be entrepreneurs simply don’t even bother trying because there’s no way they can afford it?
How many small 1 to 2 person businesses would be in existence right now to compete with all these large companies?
- Comment on Intel CPU Temperature Monitoring Driver For Linux Now Unmaintained After Layoffs 2 weeks ago:
But if history is any indicator, they will. “Too big to fail!”
What’s crazy is, people will say “See how capitalism fails us?” when that is socialized capitalism. The government should not be bailing out any companies. If they can’t survive without government money, they don’t need to exist.
- Comment on European Commission launching #Wifi4EU initative, 93k high-speed private access points across the EU, free of charge. 2 weeks ago:
In my case, it’d be fine. I already mainly use data for phone calls, and I also have 2 phones, one of which is work-provided, so I’ll still have communications…
- Comment on European Commission launching #Wifi4EU initative, 93k high-speed private access points across the EU, free of charge. 2 weeks ago:
If I had this in the US, I’d be cancelling my cellular service entirely, I’d still keep my home service though, to VPN into it for a bit more security when using a public wifi connection.
I would also just transfer my phone number to one of those cheap voip providers, then just use voip from my phone everywhere.
- Comment on Popup Ads in Your Pickup Truck? RAM Trucks Now Feature Scammy Ads on the Center Display 2 weeks ago:
So were they.
- Comment on Proxmox 9 released 2 weeks ago:
IPMI + BMC are wonderful things.
