eli
@eli@lemmy.world
IT nerd
- Comment on [deleted] 4 days ago:
This is what I was looking into recently. I just want to replace my shitty Spectrum router.
I was looking at Topton N150s on AliExpress, but $250+(tax/shipping) is terrible, with no RAM.
I saw people using the Lenovo m720q/m920q with a pcie 4 port, so I’m leaning towards that.
We’re about to get fiber in the next year or two, so I want to get something that can handle 1g up and down.
There’s a lot of options, none perfect, but none terrible.
- Comment on Bluesky raises $100 M Series B as new CEO takes charge 6 days ago:
I think one of the best things I’ve done recently was setup a freshrss instance and grab all of the websites I’m interested in that have RSS feeds.
Now I’m pretty much only using Lemmy to argue with people and go to my rss instance to read the news.
- Comment on Nvidia Announces DLSS 5, and it adds... An AI slop filter over your game 1 week ago:
Idk why, but this reminded me of the South Park episode where everyone is using photoshop to show off their girlfriends.
Had to make the meme
- Comment on Firefox's beta feature "Smart Window" shared browsing and search history to AI models without prompting 2 weeks ago:
To be fair, YouTube is a giant piece of shit. On mobile, IronFox and Firefox are terrible with it, but switching to Chrome and everything loads instantly.
We all know Google is purposely slowing down non-chrome browsers.
- Comment on Firefox's beta feature "Smart Window" shared browsing and search history to AI models without prompting 2 weeks ago:
Yeah it’s all just in the GUI to enable and disable what you don’t want.
I don’t get what people are complaining about with LibreWolf being “too hard”. Like it’s 1 minute clicking through menus and you’re done. 5 minutes if you need to read and search things up real quick.
But LibreWolf, ublock installed by default, and then set up containers. Just pure bliss.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Beyond stupid. I get the game for free because I bought a AMD GPU. So I can’t exactly choose a different game…
I hope performance is fine, otherwise this is going to get neg review from me.
- Comment on Streaming didnt exist in 1970 2 weeks ago:
Been self hosting my own content since Netflix removed King of the Hill. Cancelled my sub immediately.
For the most part I was doing everything manually with a seedbox, SFTP, and then renaming things.
Just scrapped that setup and did a docker environment with gluetun, qbit, and some *arr apps. Pretty good so far, some annoyances, but was a bit easier than I expected.
- Comment on 'More Than 400 Piracy Domains Completely Wiped': Top 10 Anime Streaming Sites Targeted in New U.S. Government Report 2 weeks ago:
Some may, I do not. If I can’t watch anime then…I’ll just go and consume some other type of media. Video games, movies, tv shows, YouTube…
It’s not my problem that these studios don’t want my money. Why do I have to jump through hoops to spend money? Or there’s zero avenue to buy/stream these shows legally since they’re not available on XYZ service.
Why do these companies think they’re entitled to my money when they haven’t even tried taking it?
- Comment on 'More Than 400 Piracy Domains Completely Wiped': Top 10 Anime Streaming Sites Targeted in New U.S. Government Report 2 weeks ago:
Zero revenue is still zero revenue.
I’ll just keep downloading my anime then and they’ll still get zero money from me.
- Comment on Online age-verification tools spread across U.S. for child safety, but adults are being surveilled 3 weeks ago:
For real. What is stopping a program from querying if an account is an adult or child, and then seeing if there’s an email or username or whatever tied to that account age?
So now we have a database of children with their names and emails? Addresses? Or if a system gets hacked and that information is sold to bad actors?
What is stopping a pedophile from making a “child” account and then being lumped in with a group of other children?
These are things you think about in the first 10 minutes of questioning whether something like this is viable and how it can be exploited.
- Comment on Online age-verification tools spread across U.S. for child safety, but adults are being surveilled 3 weeks ago:
I can’t wait until it’s leaked that these child accounts are being used to target minors for whatever: ads, sexual exploitation, etc.
- Comment on Day 596 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 3 weeks ago:
This is one of my biggest gripes with Gen 3. The HMs are weirdly placed/acquired IMO and after gym 5/6 you’re doing a lot of back and forth across the map.
Still a great game, but terribly paced.
- Comment on Day 594 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 3 weeks ago:
I grew up playing Gen 1-4 as they came out. But I think Gen 3/Emerald is my favorite and honestly I think it’s where Pokemon peaked. I loved Gen 4, but that and the later gens never “clicked” with me.
Anyways, if anyone is looking for a replay of Emerald I would highly recommend the ROM hack “Modern Emerald”. It’s Emerald with Gen 1-3 Pokemon all being available(with like 5 Pokemon from Gen8&9) and some QOL updates and other content stuff. It’s probably the best Gen 3 experience out there at the moment(well from a vanilla perspective).
Or if you want a twist, Pokemon Emerald Rogue is another great hack for Gen 3 that makes the game into a Rogue lite genre game.
And a shout-out to PokeMMO if anyone wants a MMO experience.
My kids are still a bit young…but my oldest is about to turn two years old and I bought them a Anbernic RG35XXSP and I’m going to put Pokemon Red or Blue or Yellow on it and have them play. I remember playing Pokemon Blue at 3 years old on my Gameboy Color and I genuinely believe it helped me with reading comprehension before I started school.
- Comment on Microsoft Confirms 'Project Helix,' a Next-Gen Xbox That Can Run PC Games 3 weeks ago:
Personally I hope no one buys this “console”. There’s been way too many rumors and general discussions that this will be the “last Xbox” and Microsoft has already lost the “first party” game front.
There is zero reason to buy Xbox at this point. Game Pass is stupidly expensive(and you can’t even buy Gold separately anymore). This new “console” is supposed to be stupidly expensive as well.
I would hope this would force people to just switch to PC, but the hard heads will buy Xbox and the noobs will buy PlayStation.
I loved my original Xbox and the 360, but Microsoft has been on a steep decline since. The writing’s been on the wall for a long time.
- Comment on Lemmy.zip & Piefed.zip Server Update March 2026 3 weeks ago:
As a sysadmin and homelabber, this is extremely interesting to me. Seeing the data and monthly bandwidth alone for Lemmy.zip seems insane to me.
Thanks for the transparency! I’m curious what your month to month costs are for each instance? And do you utilize Hetzner EU servers only?
I’ve been tempted to spin up my own kind of sites, but it’s been hard to gauge bandwidth and data storage requirements based on projected user base estimates.
- Comment on Firefox 148 introduces the promised AI kill switch for people who aren't into LLMs 4 weeks ago:
It comes with ublock installed by default, it also defaults to having certain features enabled by default like clearing cookies on browser exit, letter boxing enabled, and webgl disabled. This may or may not hamper your usage of the browser, but you can enable/disable this stuff via the settings.
You can also go to the Firefox extension marketplace and install extensions natively.
- Comment on DVDs are the new vinyl records: Why Gen Z is embracing physical media 4 weeks ago:
What’s the point of having the experience when our memory deteriorates?
See how stupid that argument sounds?
Guess what, you can do both!
- Comment on Xbox Co-founder Says Microsoft is Quietly Sunsetting the Platform 4 weeks ago:
The Xbone is what made me go PC full time.
Been a Xbox gamer since the original Xbox with Halo CE. LAN parties galore. Halo 2 and the beginning of Xbox Live was amazing. Bought a X360 at launch, got Gears and Crackdown for the Halo 3 multiplayer beta. Halo 3 was peak.
And then Xbone announced. Always online. Kinect required. “Sports” “Live TV”. Yeah, not falling for that. “Can’t just flip a switch”.
Yeah I cancelled my Xbox Live sub and built a PC. 2500K with a 550ti. Haven’t looked back since. All of my friends in our group did the same, but some bought a PS4 as well for the SP games.
Microsoft just doesn’t care. They have enough money to not care. But the writing has been on the wall for a long time for Xbox and I’d be genuinely surprised if they release another console and I’d be even more surprised if anyone actually buys it. It’s a dead ecosystem.
- Comment on DVDs are the new vinyl records: Why Gen Z is embracing physical media 4 weeks ago:
The last two links are drives.
I linked the NAS over and over from different storefronts as a petty response.
I know what diskless is. My entire original post has a paragraph explicitly saying to buy a NAS and drives and their prices, because shocker I searched for current prices of items before posting my original comment, so then I’m not caught talking out of my ass like some other commenters are doing here in response to my post.
- Comment on Firefox 148 introduces the promised AI kill switch for people who aren't into LLMs 4 weeks ago:
Like the other commenter said, there isn’t a LibreWolf for android, but I am using IronFox and it’s been fine. I don’t see a huge improvement or anything, but I don’t see any degradation either. So, so far it’s been a fine alternative.
- Comment on DVDs are the new vinyl records: Why Gen Z is embracing physical media 4 weeks ago:
I didn’t miss his point. I wrote what the price of the drives are, he said nope, and I linked drives for that price.
- Comment on DVDs are the new vinyl records: Why Gen Z is embracing physical media 4 weeks ago:
Idk what to say to you other than you’re being intentionally flippant. These are very simply things to search for online. The fact that I linked items proving my price claims are accurate and you sit there and move the goal posts and change the subject is the most moronic thing I have ever seen.
Go touch some grass and then find something else to occupy your time with.
www.newegg.com/p/N82E16822995008?item=N82E1682299… microcenter.com/…/DH2300_NASync_2-Bay_Diskless_NA… nas.ugreen.com/…/ugreen-nasync-dh2300-nas-storage… bhphotovideo.com/…/ugreen_95432_nasync_dh2300_bun… www.adorama.com/udh2300.html www.newegg.com/p/1Z4-000B-00KK3?item=9SIA5ADK9A13… www.newegg.com/…/N82E16822148767?item=9SIAAEE5MZ4…
- Comment on DVDs are the new vinyl records: Why Gen Z is embracing physical media 4 weeks ago:
And that’s completely valid, but I just want to warn others that physical items deteriorate.
I’m currently digitally archiving photos of my great-great grandparents. You know how disappointing it is to have these photos, but then see they are all water damaged or torn or crumbled to all hell because of improper storage? Some scans are ok, others are terrible and will require work on my end to restore them digitally.
I’m sure we have thousands of digital photos of ourselves, but how many of those are backed up properly? How many of us will be regretting not backing things up properly and we can’t share these photos with our grandkids or great grandkids or to reminisce because our phones died or Instagram shutdown or we stopped paying for iCloud?
All I’m saying is take your Polaroids, but also take plenty of digital photos and back them up as well.
- Comment on DVDs are the new vinyl records: Why Gen Z is embracing physical media 4 weeks ago:
I cut/paste a single file or folder, depending on my mood, out of a directory that is backed up and then do a PULL/sync through the TrueNAS GUI from Backblaze
Not sure on Synology…I’m sure there is a method though
- Comment on DVDs are the new vinyl records: Why Gen Z is embracing physical media 4 weeks ago:
Please at least Google something before talking out of your ass
- Comment on DVDs are the new vinyl records: Why Gen Z is embracing physical media 4 weeks ago:
Yes, and yes. I’m running TrueNAS and I test a restore once a quarter or so, worst case once every 6 months.
I haven’t had to do a full restore…so that’ll be the true test, but I do have a sister TrueNAS at an off-site location for off-site backups. I went simple with this off-site one and just use Tailscale and Syncthing.
- Comment on DVDs are the new vinyl records: Why Gen Z is embracing physical media 4 weeks ago:
This has been the biggest and dumbest take I’ve seen come from the GenZ/GenA crowd. Polaroids were a big hit a few years ago and I can’t help but wince at this stuff. Yeah it’s cute or whatever to hold it in your hand, but in 1, 5, 10, 30 years…when that photo or DVD is bent/scratched/lost, you’ll be kicking yourself in the ass for even bothering with it.
Just pirate your content, take photos with your $1000 phones and print the photos out, and learn to backup your own shit. Buy a 2 bay NAS and backup your shit to it. And then backup your NAS to a cloud like backblaze.
My dad has been doing this since the early 2000s. We have our family photos AND videos from 1990-2026 all backed up on a NAS, which syncs to backblaze. ~600GBs of data. And the cloud backup on backblaze is $7.25 a month for that data.
Literally anyone can go buy a a $200 2-bay NAS, then grab two 1TB hard drives for $40 each. $280 for a NAS that will last you YEARS. And then figure out whatever service you want to backup to for a cloud backup.
- Comment on Firefox 148 introduces the promised AI kill switch for people who aren't into LLMs 4 weeks ago:
I’ve already switched over to LibreWolf a month or two ago. Clean, simple, and it just works.
- Comment on Discord delays global age verification rollout after backlash - Dexerto 4 weeks ago:
No idea, I never used screen sharing on Discord unless it was a very rare occasion to share my view when playing a specific game. So, I’m not the right person to ask…sorry
- Comment on Discord delays global age verification rollout after backlash - Dexerto 4 weeks ago:
Matrix the protocol, yeah, is fine. The clients? Only Element Classic seems to work decently on Android, the newer one sucks. The other half dozen clients are atrocious. On desktop Element is fine, but I was experiencing extreme latency, however that was during the initial “rush” to find a Discord alternative a week or so ago.
But, my biggest gripe is trying to explain what Matrix is to other people. Then have to explain what federation is, then the fediverse. Then I get dumb questions of “Why do I need to create a Matrix account to use Element? Can’t I just use a Element account?” which either means they didn’t understand my previous explanation or they weren’t paying attention.
With Fluxer or Root or whatever, I can say “Go make an account on Fluxer.app and then go use the web version until the app is released” and everyone understands that just fine.
