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- Comment on The most bizarre tech announced so far at CES 2026 12 hours ago:
I was curious what this nonsense looks like - and found out that the $5k is the preorder price. It goes up to $5600 once its shipping.
Looking at it in their videos it just reminds me of every “Robot turns bad and kills everyone” story. Just needs red eyes to replace blue.
- Comment on YSK there is an intense Zionist propaganda campaign ongoing 1 day ago:
I’d be hard pressed to think of one that wasn’t, yeah.
- Comment on YSK there is an intense Zionist propaganda campaign ongoing 1 day ago:
I would say by their judgment that is what makes them “good”.
- Comment on My recent modifications to an old industrial(?) air filter (and a brief rant about appliance design) 2 days ago:
I have a full set of security bits, not just torx, but the really annoying part was that its a mini set (I mostly work with smaller electronics), and the shaft isnt very long. That 4” depth I mentioned? I had to chain adapters because even my flex extension was too thick to fit.
What a pain in the ass.
That said, now I can save myself the headache of remembering what I need for when I have to go in there again. I’m just waiting for the stupid and completely unnecessary touch control panel to die, and its going to get some physical buttons instead I guarantee it.
Ridiculous Honeywell crap. At least it does a good job of filtering the air.
- Comment on My recent modifications to an old industrial(?) air filter (and a brief rant about appliance design) 3 days ago:
I feel like this is a huge problem specifically with Honeywell tbh. I have one of their air filters, and had to take it apart over the weekend - my youngest had shoved any random thing possible in there, from magnets (learning letters sort of thing) to a metal ruler he nabbed from my office.
The screw holes were obvious, but set back around 4” or so. Checking in with a flashlight, I thought “Oh, that looks about a T20, this should be easy peasy”. About 10 minutes and a bunch of random expletives later, I realized that they were security t20s. Seriously. Wtf Honeywell? Its an air filter. AN AIR FILTER. Why the hell would you use security screws???
I have those bits of course, but aside from me (and my dad before he passed away, though the bits are still in his toolbox in the same spot) I don’t know anyone else who does. Maybe a couple folks I work with, but its a short, short list.
And why? No one is calling Honeywell for repairs on this unit. It was a fairly cheap HEPA system. It would just end up in a landfill rather than be repaired.
So now written on the inside under the vent cover that’s removable to replace the filters, it just says “T20S” so I don’t waste my time if I need to reopen it and I forget.
Sorry, needed to vent/commiserate on the very stupid designs of Honeywell products.
I think you did some solid adjustments to make it easier for next time - and yeah, it looks fine, its no less attractive IMO because its just a filter. Its not a center piece and it should not be.
- Comment on Mom with the real questions 4 days ago:
Yeah everything is a player (including the piano), and aside from the instruments themselves there are hundreds of rolls - originals (which my kids saw how they are made with an old Mr. Rogers episode I put on for them), customs my FIL made of his own music, and some modern pop we’ve picked up for them.
And yep, AMICA is a great option, my FIL is a member still I think. We are definitely going to take at least one of them, I have a feeling it will be the big pneumatic upright. Which I’m prepping a controller conversion for to allow him to do midi with it to test playback before making a new roll. The controls all work but I need to replace one of the relays…
And now you know why that’s the one we’ll likely end up taking (and its also one of the bigger ones).
- Comment on Mom with the real questions 4 days ago:
Now that’s the kind of thing my wife would love to have. Maybe at some point we’ll take away someone else’s space occupier.
We’ve got a few pieces of furniture, the one in really not looking forward to is the musical instruments. We’re talking full grand piano, player piano, pneumatic uprights, etc. They are huge. There is no way my wife won’t want at least one, and I’m probably the only one who knows how to do the maintenance despite it being her parents stuff and she has a few siblings.
- Comment on With New Year's a couple days away what selfhoted party games do people have going? 1 week ago:
Card games is pretty much it for us. Though with 2 kids, events are generally out right now. Once they are a bit older that will probably change.
I used to self host a cards against humanity style game that was browser based, but cards are just easier. There are a few I think on the awesome self hosted list, like a mincraft clone and a scrabble one, so the games section there may be worth a look.
- Comment on The events at hogwarts were just an escalating series of magical school shootings 🤔 2 weeks ago:
I have them tagged as “right wing PoS” so I’m not sure youre getting anywhere with them.
- Comment on The events at hogwarts were just an escalating series of magical school shootings 🤔 2 weeks ago:
Its also gloriously hilarious, plus….
Your magic is strong, but my squats are stronger
Is just pure poetry
- Comment on What are your opinions of using Pi-hole for DNS within a homelab environment? 3 weeks ago:
I use technitium, but there is nothing “wrong” with using a pihole. I used to run several (containers, plus one physical), and have set up quite a few for family and friends.
- Comment on Announcing Linkwarden for iOS & Android 4 weeks ago:
LinkDroid and LinkGuardian are android apps for LinkWarden available on F-Droid, FYI.
Linkguardian via IzzyOnDroid repo:
https://apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/index/apk/dev.elbullazul.linkguardian
LinkDroid via F-Droid repo:
- Comment on Big Brother Is Watching Your Online Criticism of ICE Crackdowns 4 weeks ago:
I’d prefer the first time that they finish, with a lasting stillness after. No need for a second round.
- Comment on Amazon’s AI ‘Banana Fish’ Dubs Are Hilariously, Inexcusably Bad 5 weeks ago:
Regarding point 1, its a factored in value already. Replacing multiple stages of production simultaneously is a massive risk - voice acting + editing + editor review + production review on the cut.
This part:
it’s entirely possible that they did, in fact, do quality review. Extensively. But at some point the generation costs exceeded their allowed budget and this is what they settled on.
I’d call entirely likely.
It would also mean that there was almost no testing of the llm’s output prior to pushing it to production work, or basic items like intonation would have been called out.
Its also possible that the production team knew it was dogshit and pushed it out on purpose so people could see it for dogshit. Anime fans are not known for being supportive of poor adaptations after all, maybe they hoped for backlash? I know if I were on that team I’d prefer it.
At some point I’d expect management to have recognized it for being terrible though.
- Comment on Amazon’s AI ‘Banana Fish’ Dubs Are Hilariously, Inexcusably Bad 5 weeks ago:
So do they not even have internal review?
OK, so it gets generated. Just like if someone sent a real recording, someone should listen to it, right? And make mention if there’s parts that are noisy, or theres a random change in eq that feels jarring, or… I don’t know, because it sounds like an adult voice on a 6yr old reading the lines?
- Comment on Looking for a good wiki based off of a git repo 1 month ago:
As well as any other mermaid renderers I’ve seen:
- Comment on Looking for a good wiki based off of a git repo 1 month ago:
Forgejo has a built in wiki capability.
I just use that, with configs in the repo.
- Comment on VTT Virtual Tabletop 1 month ago:
Wow, cauldron is looking great! I saw it a long ways back (like pre-1.0) and promptly forgot about it (thanks ADHD).
Wasn’t even thinking about vtt and going to have to stand up an instance before thanksgiving!
- Comment on Return to the year 2000 with classic multiplayer DOS games in your browser 1 month ago:
ME was basically 98 but much less stable, so a lot of people grabbed a copy of 2000 one way or another to run it at home. XP came out in 2001, bringing an end to DOS based kernels in the Microsoft lineup.
- Comment on Return to the year 2000 with classic multiplayer DOS games in your browser 1 month ago:
ME was the only consumer release in 2000.
2000 was the direct successor to NT4 and was specifically targeting the business market. It was available in Pro, Server, Adv Server, and Datacenter editions. I would not call it a consumer Windows OS.
- Comment on Widespread Cloudflare outage blamed on mysterious traffic spike 1 month ago:
No longer relevant pro tip - an extra pair was typically left at the incoming service, which was used for testing. It worked as a second line and didn’t interupt the main pair, allowing for a functionally free second phone line (that didnt have incoming service).
Perfect for modem use!
- Comment on Self hosting Sunday! What's up, selfhosters? 1 month ago:
Honestly with what Seagate has been doing with their externals, shucking is probably best avoided at this point.
That said, yeah, seems like and its not a perfect option either, seems like I’ll have to use multiple sources and just keep an eye out with a daily check or something.
- Comment on Self hosting Sunday! What's up, selfhosters? 1 month ago:
A recent t480 purchase may replace my second workstation tower, which I think is about to become my most powerful server in the cluster….
So nothing new hosting-wise, but that tower I can shove the spare 12tb and 4tb drives I have and net myself another 30ish TB’s of usable storage, more once I replace the 12TBs in one of my NAS boxes with 18tb or more.
Speaking of which - where the hell do I track prices these days? diskprices.com seems to be a mess of inaccurate pricing and shucks.top can no longer track even half of what they used to. What a mess.
- Comment on FOX BREAKING NEWS ALERT! 1 month ago:
Thats a slim and trim article there. You’d have think they’d at least put the email info in from the dump.
- Comment on Dubba bubba 1 month ago:
Cue, BTW.
Queue is for making a line, cue is the signal for them to say their lines.
- Comment on The 'if this goes down, I riot' self-hosted app 1 month ago:
Ceph for the proxmox cluster, 2x48 port switch + 16 port 10gbit as the core, 2xNAS (technically one is the backup, and there would be a few moments of downtime as the containers restart - a different container with the same config pointed to the backup NAS instead).
UPS and internet are the SPoF.
- Comment on The 'if this goes down, I riot' self-hosted app 1 month ago:
Well the only way my media server goes down is if the power is out for more than a few hours or my internet connection is down.
So I’d have to say that.
- Comment on Is there a formalized ban appeal process for the fediverse? Do I just direct message a mod? 1 month ago:
Even in the comments on this post I can see the argument that basically boils down to “spaces that don’t cater to me should also bear the effort of keeping out of my way” being voiced.
I think that sums it up well, even if the sidebar was presented the very first time someone went into a community, some people wouldn’t read it, some people wouldn’t care about the rules, etc.
So thats where moderation has to step in like happened here. Every community has rules, its not on the community (or the server) to make sure that visitors are aware of them, its on the people joining in on the conversation. I don’t know that there is a better way to present the rules than simply making them available.
- Comment on Is there a formalized ban appeal process for the fediverse? Do I just direct message a mod? 1 month ago:
The blahaj server is dedicated to the gender diverse, and a safe space server.
196 is a safe space community, since before Lemmy (r/196 is over 10yrs old)
It is quite specifically a community that contains people who have dealt with these sort of divisive comments before, and a server that has dealt with those sorts of divisive comments before, and is explicitly not permitted on either the community or the server itself. Detailed out rather thoroughly in the sidebar, including noting comments that challenge someone’s identity.
So yeah, OP only has themselves to blame, though I’ll say the argument that resulted in a ban has zero merit anyway (for reasons previously mentioned).
- Comment on Is there a formalized ban appeal process for the fediverse? Do I just direct message a mod? 1 month ago:
Slight correction, I said no other context matters.