cenzorrll
@cenzorrll@piefed.ca
- Comment on systemd has been a complete, utter, unmitigated success 9 hours ago:
That’s all handled with adding the
x-systemd.automountoption to my fstab entry. If it disconnects it’s unmounted, when it’s available again it mounts when something tries to access it.I have occasionally needed to restart some services if they didn’t like getting disconnected, but as far as mounting goes it’s handled pretty smoothly with that option.
- Comment on AI blamed again as hard drives are sold out for this year 18 hours ago:
I brought my 2003 laptop back to life for shits and giggles recently. It’s made me realize how bloated software has become. It’s still just as usable as it was 20 years ago when you remove all the fancy crap and use programs designed for tasks rather than living in a web browser. Sure its not fast, but once I replaced the spinning drive with an ssd, it became pretty damn usable in a modern day scenario. I really thought I would just upgrade as far as I could for fun, then slap an old archived distro on there from my college days for some good old PTSD/nostalgia. But it’s actually usable so I occasionally pull it out and do stuff on it. I’m ready to slap jaunty jackalope on it and relive going to my uni’s library to write a 10 page research paper thats due the next day, but it’s still ready to rock in modern times.
- Comment on systemd has been a complete, utter, unmitigated success 20 hours ago:
Do you mean a hang on boot when trying to mount? For that I use the
nofailoption in fstab. I also use thex-systemd.automountoption so if something is not mounted for whatever reason, it tries to mount it when something attempts to access it. - Comment on systemd has been a complete, utter, unmitigated success 1 day ago:
I have a wait-for-ping service that pings nas A, once it gets a successful response it tries to mount.
I lifted it from a time when I needed to ping my router because Debian had a network-online service bug. I adapted it to my nas because the network-online issue eventually got fixed and mounting my shares became the next biggest issue.
It seems like this person might have grabbed that same fix for what I eventually did because our files are…oddly almost exactly the same.
- Comment on systemd has been a complete, utter, unmitigated success 2 days ago:
I’m not great at any init things, but systemd has made my home server stuff relatively seamless. I have two NASs that I mount, and my server starts up WAY faster than both of them, and I (stupidly) have one mount within the other. So I set requirements that nasB doesn’t mount until nasA has, then docker doesn’t start until after nasB is mounted. Works way better than going in after 5 minutes and remounting and restarting.
Of course, I did just double my previous storage on A, so I could migrate all of Bs stuff back. But that would require a small amount of effort.
- Comment on 3 days ago:
The indicator turns into a “manager’s special”, no need to pay an employee to slap them on anymore
- Comment on Fairphone 5 bricked by faulty Android 15 update 3 days ago:
This is the event that happened last year.
- Comment on Western Digital runs out of HDD capacity: CEO says massive AI deals secured, price surges ahead 1 week ago:
They’re saying that even when it bursts and there’s all these components laying around, they’ll still be useless for consumers.
- Comment on Interview with a ‘Just use a VPS’ bro (OpenClaw version) 2 weeks ago:
…"We don’t just dump production applications in $HOME like crazy people”
Hey, I don’t dump them in home, I test them in home and never move them.
- Comment on Should I be using Debian? 2 weeks ago:
It sounds more like you want to have fun distro hopping, and believe me: I can tell you from experience that distro hopping isn’t fun if you have to rely on that machine.
This is 95% of my use case for VMs. Want to check out opensuse? Set up a VM and try to do something in it.
- Comment on Should I be using Debian? 2 weeks ago:
Which is what makes it an excellent server distro. And also why I don’t tend to use it on anything with a screen.
The most messing around I’ve done with my server after setting it up is update to trixie. I think I might have had to reset it two or three times in the past 6 months for the reason of “I didn’t feel like actually troubleshooting”
- Comment on Installing **self-hostable** services on a cloud server isn't self-hosting ??? 3 weeks ago:
I can agree with this. My internet is trash, and I refuse to go with the faster provider in the area on principle (they took municipal funds to bring faster internet in the mid 2000s and didn’t do a thing until over a decade later), so I can’t feasibly share anything outside of my household users. I’m seriously considering setting up some hosted services if I can’t get fiber when I’ve nailed down my setup. I’d rather host everything at home, but I’d much rather offer my relatives access to something that isn’t selling their info to anyone with a checkbook. If I’m maintaining it and I’m the one who can accidentally lose everyone’s stuff with a bad command, I’m self-hosting it.
- Comment on Lab anxiety 4 weeks ago:
“Decontaminated vacuum chamber to prevent future false positives”
“Glassware temperature limits tested and confirmed”
- Comment on The whole "toilet seat up, toilet seat down" gender debate could be solved by everybody putting the seat and lid down. 1 month ago:
I’ve had my neighbor get their sewer line worked on that somehow resulted in making my toilets explode with sewer gas and shit particles.
The lid stays down.
- Comment on Reverse Proxy: a single point of failure in my lab 1 month ago:
Our new dog chewed up the Ethernet cable from my modem to my router while I was at work (well, commuting to) the other day. She found the only exposed 6 inches of it and went to town. Everything runs through the router. I had also just re-done some music library file structures and reset my downloaded songs right before leaving, assuming it would queue up and fill up the cache as I went about my day. Something I hadn’t done for over two years, but I wanted a music library so we could put calming music on for the pup that wouldn’t end up in my carefully curated library.
I have my music app set to pre-cache 10 songs, and ended up with 12 songs downloaded, so somewhere around 5-10 minutes after I started playing music on my commute was when the tasty cable was discovered. That was an excruciating day, listening to the same 12 songs over and over again.
Lesson learned about single points of failure in a new way. The worst part was I got a message about it from my fiancé when I got to work, so I knew what happened and there was nothing I could do about it. I just got to look at the world’s strongest firewall all day long.
- Comment on Snitches get switches 1 month ago:
Some of it, at least with plants, is that the invasive species has taken over a niche of the native species. So in removing it, you alter the balance of the ecosystem. Native birds in an area may be at more risk than a native bush due to a loss in habitat, so it’s better to leave an invasive bush if it provides that need for the bird
- Comment on Findroid v1.0.0 with a complete redesign is here 1 month ago:
Yes, and works on android 6, which is getting to be quite rare these days.
- Comment on Upstate NY creativity. 2 months ago:
In another week, it’ll be a gate embedded in the snow with a pile of rust and four tires surrounding it.
- Comment on Marco Rubio bans Calibri font at State Department for being too DEI 2 months ago:
Calibri kind of sucks, it’s better on screen then TNR, but it’s ugly as shit still. A better font could probably be found that reads well on screen and in print. But:
Rubio did admit in the memo that Calibri wasn’t the “most illegal, immoral, radical or wasteful” example of DEI to his mind’s eye, but he still berated the font for contributing to “the degradation” of the State Department’s official correspondence.
Fuck this guy, regardless.
- Comment on RAM prices soar, but popular Windows 11 apps are using more RAM due to Electron, Web components 2 months ago:
I brought a laptop from 2003 back from the stone ages. It runs surprisingly well, is up to date, and only really struggles with web stuff because of the state of things.
Antix linux running on 2GB ram, Pentium m 1.4GHz, and an SSD in an IDE enclosure. Uses about 200mb of ram. As far as being functional, the screen is small and low res, and it doesn’t do these newfangled video formats. But if you consider 90% of my work life is in spreadsheets and documents and low resource applications, it really could be just fine. I’m not saying I would enjoy it if it was all I had to use, but I could if I needed to.
- Comment on RAM prices soar, but popular Windows 11 apps are using more RAM due to Electron, Web components 2 months ago:
Open source developers are just like you and me. They’ll get fed up with the bullshit and start developing things they need with the resources they have, just like they’ve always done.
- Comment on Would a cheap, used raspberry pi 3 make for a good test server for following random self hosted tutorials? 2 months ago:
Rpis are great for always on things with low power use but not if you have many low power use things. But you would really be feeling that 1GB of ram, and microSDs kind of suck to run off of. I would honestly save the $25 and put it toward one of the $100 tiny/mini/micros.
I would not steer you away from an RPI if you don’t have one, they are very useful and fun, but if you’re looking for learning about self hosting, you’re probably going to end up getting something more powerful anyway
- Comment on Which SBC for TV streaming? 2 months ago:
The Le Potato AML-S905X-CC has h.264 and h.265 decoders up to 4k, emmc connector So you don’t have to run off an SD card. I’ve used it as a media player and its pretty damn solid. I can’t speak to streaming games because I don’t do that, so I don’t know if it’s a different format. It does not have a powerful processor, so if the stream is encoded differently I wouldn’t expect it to be very good.
Its pretty old, around rpi3 performance, but having the decoders in there make it better than the RPI 4 for playing those types of videos.
- Comment on ChatGPT is down worldwide, conversations disappeared for users 2 months ago:
Ah, but you see, they don’t do it now.
- Comment on It's important! 3 months ago:
That last sentence. Perfection.
- Comment on We shouldn't have to go to college in order to afford a house by 30. 3 months ago:
I got lucky and bought a house in 2015 at 28, I barely pulled it off with roommates, barely pulling it off now with a fiancé. There’s no way I could buy a house now. I’m not even sure we could upgrade if we needed to.
- Comment on Passkeys Explained: The End of Passwords 3 months ago:
Unfortunately, per the comment you replied to, that isnt under my control.
- Comment on Passkeys Explained: The End of Passwords 3 months ago:
Oh, I agree, but I have to argue enough with professionals who know better as it is. I have to do it every day with recent PhDs as a BA who’s been doing the job for 15 years. At this point it’s not my problem if something happens. I have other things that affect me every day to fight about. I’ll just continue cycling through my no repeats after 10 changes, 12 character passwords and using my yubikey for docusign for my own sanity.
- Comment on Passkeys Explained: The End of Passwords 3 months ago:
K, I’ll go tell the CEO that they need to come up with something different.
- Comment on Passkeys Explained: The End of Passwords 3 months ago:
I’ve found a pretty good use for a passkey. Docusign. About every 3 months I need to docusign something at work. The process involves logging in, changing your password, logging in again, opening the document, logging in to sign, logging in to finish. The only steps you get to skip if there’s more than one document is the initial log on, and changing password. So with a passkey I just touch it a bunch of times and there’s no password change.