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- Submitted 1 hour ago to selfhosted@lemmy.world | 1 comment
- Comment on cheapest way to connect several SATA HDs via USB? 1 week ago:
I have one of these. It’s usb 3.0 only which it sounds like is what you have anyway. It’s not part of my NAS, I just use it when I need to quickly look for something on an old drive, but it’s been pretty reliable for me for the last few years and was cheap, so I have no complaints.
- Comment on cheapest way to connect several SATA HDs via USB? 1 week ago:
Ah my mistake. As I’m sure you’ve found you can certainly get USB-SATA adapters. They’ll be $15-20 each, so you’d realistically be better off getting 2 2-drive enclosures since that would be about the same price but much cleaner. I’ve used Sabrent for this for a while and they’re fine. There are occasional usb disconnects so it’s not good for anything mission critical. And never do anything port-powered when connecting drives over usb, always use parts that get their own wall power.
- Comment on cheapest way to connect several SATA HDs via USB? 1 week ago:
Buy a cheap LSI card on ebay, they can usually be had for around $15-20. Make sure it’s either in HBA or IT mode, or that there’s a way to put it into that mode. If it’s in HBA/IT mode, you can then just use it like more SATA ports. Buy a pack of LSI-SATA cables (there are two kinds, get the kind that includes the SATA power connector). Then you can put the card inside your computer and the drives anywhere that the cables will reach.
- Dark Energy Debate Reignites As Study Finds Universe's Expansion Is Actually Slowinghothardware.com ↗Submitted 1 week ago to science@mander.xyz | 3 comments
- Submitted 2 weeks ago to technology@lemmy.world | 305 comments
- Comment on "Analog bags" are in. Doomscrolling is out. 3 weeks ago:
Yep. Encouraging a whole new generation of casual artists, makers and readers can only be seen as a great thing. I would just add that we all need to remember how to slow down, and understand that’s good and necessary to do so every so often.
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- Comment on "Analog bags" are in. Doomscrolling is out. 3 weeks ago:
The 31-year-old keeps one bag at home in Northern California, carrying it from room to room, and another in her car
I think the problem is that we’ve forgotten how to just do nothing and be content with it (or even a bit bored with it). While I think unplugging is good, this just seems like replacing one kind of attention addiction with another.
- Comment on A $60 Mod to Meta’s Ray-Bans Disables Its Privacy-Protecting Recording Light 3 weeks ago:
I’m going to mod my regular glasses with a couple of ultra-bright IR LEDs and hope that these cameras do a crappy job of filtering it out.
- Comment on The procedure is harder once they psionic. 3 weeks ago:
“man, people back then would read just about anything " I say to myself as i swipe through my feed of garbage.
- Comment on Mom they're fighting again 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Buffalo chicken 4 weeks ago:
Jesus I hope it’s the first one.
- Comment on Am I getting this right? The vibe of different lemmy instances 4 weeks ago:
I don’t think it matters as much as you think it does. However, for actual humanities subjects probably mander.xyz may be the best fit, as they’re the instance dedicated to nature and science and AFAIK nobody defederates them.
- Comment on The Chicago Rat Hole Was Not Made by a Rat 4 weeks ago:
Squirrel hole doesn’t have the same cache´ as rat hole
- Comment on Looking for a good kindle reader alternative 4 weeks ago:
I’ll second the kobo ecosystem but add that if you install the 3rd party koreader software on it it will make syncing to a local calibre-web seamless. And it leaves the stock reader software in place so you can read drm encrypted files if needed. I have a similar use case to yours where I use the device to read books but also papers, which I usually pdf and put in a specific shelf in calibre
- Comment on Why China Built 162 Square Miles of Solar Panels on the World’s Highest Plateau 5 weeks ago:
Yeah, in the coming years we’re going to see a lot of “cheap electricity enables China to…” headlines.
- Comment on Cast your spell on me 1 month ago:
I did this once in college to use up food plan “points” that would have expired at the end of the semester. I drank half a mug of espresso and was NOT ok afterward.
- Comment on Hotdog, egg, and pickle bunt aspic 1 month ago:
What did the world do to you that you felt the need to make this?
- Comment on 1 month ago:
I love this image. I think it should be required on the any smartglasses packaging like the surgeon general’s warning is on a pack of cigarettes (for now).
- Comment on Bulls On Parade 1 month ago:
Who on earth downvoted this masterpiece?
- Comment on Plump prophet proved perfectly precise 1 month ago:
Bring back old-school Orangina!
- Comment on If reincarnation exists, you could do the same thing the next life and have no memories of it. Think of all the bad things that happened to you, it can happen OVER AND OVER AGAIN! 1 month ago:
Isn't that more like if you're stuck in a time loop?
My understanding is that if you're reincarnated you're still in the current timeline (ie time has continued to pass), you're just now in a different body.
And if it's not a dharmic path-style of reincarnation and you're just reincarnated into whatever living creature needs a soul, you'd probably come back as some kind of bacterium for the next 200 trillion times before -- if you're reeeeallly lucky -- then reincarnating as a tardigrade.
- Comment on Chinese companies cracked the code on getting people at home hooked. Now, they're exporting that playbook globally. 1 month ago:
Ironically this article is about how China mastered the ultra capitalist art of getting people to buy (and crave) shit that they don’t need. They have mastered marketing and advertising. And they are now exporting this to the rest of the world.
- Comment on ActivityPub vs RSS Atom etc. Why Federate instead of aggrigate? 2 months ago:
RSS still leaves data in silos. If I love the content on site.com and they decide to put it behind a paywall, enshittify it, or the site goes down, that content is lost. On the fediverse, as long as it has propagated across the network it can be found on other instances (the content being comments in this case, not offsite-linked materials).
- Comment on Google admits the open web is in ‘rapid decline’ 2 months ago:
Not broken, working as intended (for them). They just happened to say the quiet part out loud this time.
- Comment on Google admits the open web is in ‘rapid decline’ 2 months ago:
This is all according to plan for Google tho. What could be better than having everyone sign up for the GoogleNet? We’ll finally back to the ways of pre-Internet AOL and Compuserve.
- Comment on Google admits the open web is in ‘rapid decline’ 2 months ago:
Ever since search engine “optimization” became a thing — which was not long after the Internet was opened to the public in the ‘90s.
- Comment on Sam Altman says that bots are making social media feel 'fake' 2 months ago:
_bots are making social media ̶f̶e̶e̶l̶ 'fake' _
FTFY - Comment on What if LGBT adopts a white and grey striped flag to replace the rainbow? Then Florida would have to abolish crosswalks entirely. 2 months ago:
Don't tempt them. It's hard enough to cross the street as it is.
- Comment on Look at that plumage, bro. 2 months ago:
I bet he just reads it for the articles.