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- Comment on Hisense TVs force owners to watch intrusive ads when switching inputs, visiting the home screen, or even changing channels — practice infuriates consumers, brand denies wrongdoing 2 days ago:
Unfortunately manufacturers are starting to get wise to this as well. I recently bought a new Vizio smart TV with no intentions of connecting it to the internet and during the initi setup it kept very persistently insisting that it needed to be connected and after setup it constantly bitches at me that it’s not connected.
- Comment on Navidrome & demo.navidrome.org 5 days ago:
That’s interesting. I checked my logs and I only see a few hits for insights.navidrome.org but nothing for demo.navidrome.org. I’m on version 0.59.0 so I’m a little behind.
- Comment on nothing really matters 1 week ago:
Completely disagree, but I suppose it’s a matter of preference.
- Comment on nothing really matters 1 week ago:
I grew up thinking I didn’t like rice. It turns out I just didn’t like rice cooked like this. Do not drain rice. It ruins it. Cook it with just enough water for it to be absorbed by the rice. roughly 2:1
- Comment on How do you effectively backup your high (20+ TB) local NAS? 2 weeks ago:
I mean, if you want a full mirror, rolling your own backup target is going to be the cheapest option even with the current high price of hardware. Other options are cloud storage, or using another media like tape. Cloud storage is of course an on going cost which rules it out for me, not to mention privacy concerns. There are certain “cold storage” options from cloud storage hosts which are considerably cheaper but they have limitations on how the data can be accessed and how often. The tape route is possible but it’s not really viable for home use due to the high upfront cost of the drives. Outside of that, backing up a subset of your storage as others have suggested is the only other option. Creating viable backups without breaking the bank is a challenge as old as computers, unfortunately.
- Comment on How do you effectively backup your high (20+ TB) local NAS? 2 weeks ago:
So you have 56TB of total storage, but how much of that 56TB is actually used? Take the amount of storage used and add 10-12% to that figure. Now you create a new NAS (preferably off-site) with that amount of storage and that becomes your backup target. Take an initial backup (locally if possible to speed up the process) and then you can use something like rsync to create incremental backups going forward. This is the method I’ve used and so far it has worked out well. I target 10-12% more than the amount of used storage for my backup capacity because my storage use grows reasonably slowly. If your usage grows faster you might want to increase your “buffer” a little more so that you’re not having to constantly add drives to your backup target.
- Comment on Website 4 weeks ago:
Yeah that’s a common issue I’ve seen with Gemini and ChatGPT as well. They can do simple tasks but as soon as it’s something that requires more than a 5-6 steps, or if there are complications along the way they will get lost. Also ChatGPT will commonly just make up commands if it doesn’t actually know how to do something.
- Comment on Retro StarCraft prizes 4 weeks ago:
Hell yeah!
- Comment on Retro StarCraft prizes 4 weeks ago:
I remember someone on Reddit gifting me 0.25BTC and I never redeemed it once I saw I had to create an account and a wallet. Just couldn’t be bothered. That would be enough to pay off my house today.
- Comment on 'What a great way to kill your community': Discord users are furious about its new age verification checks — and are now hunting for alternatives 4 weeks ago:
The Linux client sucks
- Comment on Follow the rules! 5 weeks ago:
Pretty sure you got that backwards, bud. Everytime there’s a problem the sysadmins can’t solve they immediately blame it on the network. Then we gotta dig out our sysadmin hats and fix it for them.
- Comment on Follow the rules! 5 weeks ago:
As a network admin, the sysadmins are a bunch of fucking monkeys.
- Comment on CEO of Palantir Says AI Means You’ll Have to Work With Your Hands Like a Peasant 5 weeks ago:
These morons really think AI is going to allow them to replace the technical folks. The same technical folks they severely loathe because they’re the ones with the skills to build the bullshit they dream up, and as such demand a higher salary. They’re so fucking greedy that they are just DYING to cut these people out in order to make more profits. They have such inflated egos and so little understanding of the actual technology they really thing they’re just going to be able to use AI to replace technical minds going forward. We’re on the precipice of a very funny “find out” moment for some of these morons.
- Comment on Windows 10's extended support ends in eight months, but users are still rejecting Windows 11, at least in Germany 1 month ago:
Oh no! Anyway…
- Comment on Ring Cameras Join Flock and Amazon to Now Create Direct Data Access for ICE 1 month ago:
You can just use analog security cameras and a DVR of your choosing. Don’t let the word analog fool you, the cameras are available in up to 4K resolution. Since the video is recorded to the DVR and not some random company’s server it is safe. It requires a little more setup and know-how but it is by no means difficult. Check the surveillance section on B&H’s website. There are tons of options.
- Comment on Mixarr – a music discovery companion for Lidarr/Plex 2 months ago:
Might also consider looking into Navidrome support. Not sure if it’s even possible but in my experience Jellyfin’s music experience is kinda crappy.
- Comment on Valve: HDMI Forum Continues to Block HDMI 2.1 for Linux 2 months ago:
But why does the HDMI fourm not want a open source 2.1-compliant implementation? Is it DRM related? I feel like it’s DRM related.
- Comment on One man's trash is another man's garbage 3 months ago:
Ah, fascinating. Poor Xerox though.
- Comment on One man's trash is another man's garbage 3 months ago:
I think Microsoft put the recycle logo on theirs because Apple used the “Trash bin” moniker and Microsoft wanted to appear more green or whatever.
- Comment on Self hosted DNS 3 months ago:
I’m pretty sure Cloudflare requires you to use their nameservers if you purchase a domain through them. So you would need to transfer your domain to another registrar first. I’m not an expert on this stuff and prefer to just use a dynamic DNS service instead of paying for a domain.
- Comment on Yo dawg, heard you like fedoras 3 months ago:
- Comment on PC Master Race 4 months ago:
My excuse these days is… I already built the damned thing. If there’s a game I want to play I can just upgrade it for (in most cases) less than the cost of a console + game to play the new game I want. PC gaming offers a lot of flexibility in that way.
- Comment on Study Claims 4K/8K TVs Aren't Much Better Than HD To Your Eyes 4 months ago:
ITT: people defending their 4K/8K display purchases as if this study was a personal attack on their financial decision making.
- Comment on They need to bring you in to feel their power over you 4 months ago:
I work for local government and we were recently ordered to return to office because leadership was concerned we would look “lazy” to the public if we were allowed to work from home… I don’t work directly with the public in any shape or form. On top of that I’m geographically located about 1.5 hours from the rest of my team so I report to a different office than they do, so we still meet on Teams.
- Comment on Need help with printer recommendations 5 months ago:
I recently got a creality printer for free and as someone who had little interest in 3D printing before, it’s been great. Completely maintenance free so far and I’ve gone through two entire spools of filament so it’s getting a ton of use!
- Comment on Spotify is finally launching support for lossless music streaming 5 months ago:
Ah, feels good to know I just set up my Navidrome server and have been obtaining my entire music library for personal streaming.
- Comment on Make it make sense 6 months ago:
Yeah, in theory it’s great but every time I try it people just cut in front of me then slam in brakes causing me to have to brake then adjust then repeat ad nauseam. People suck.
- Comment on Remember to dry your filament kids 6 months ago:
Weird. I’ve never dried my filament and never have this issue.
