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- Comment on can you boot a server if someone tries to connect 14 hours ago:
That’s how it works. Wake-on-LAN wakes the computer if the computer receives a network request. Which is the same thing you’re asking for, right?
- Comment on Looking for a VPS. I don't know who to choose. 1 day ago:
I’ve been using Contabo. German company, several geographic locations for your nodes, reasonably priced.
- Comment on What happened to cylindrical plugs? 1 day ago:
I’ve been half-assed monitor shopping, and the USB-C capable ones are still far more expensive; they exist, they’re just pricey. I’ll consider USB-C to have “won” when the price difference is negligible.
- Comment on What happened to cylindrical plugs? 1 day ago:
BNC is better, but I’ve only encountered it, like, twice.
Honestly, I’ve never been happier since USB-C took over. I compare today to the early 90s and having 8-12 different connectors - two of which looked identical but were incompatible - to hook up a single Sun workstation. I clearly remember dreaming of a day when there would be a single connector for everything, and we’re really close. Higher wattage demands and video connectors (HDMI, DP, DVI) are the only hold-outs - and I’m not sure why USB-C hasn’t conquered video yet, unless it’s a cost thing, because it’s certainly capable.
- Comment on What happened to cylindrical plugs? 1 day ago:
In not the person you replied to, and I can’t speak about the engineering merits; but as a user I hate F-type connectors. They’re bad enough when you have to only install them once in the lifetime of the connected device - it’s the threaded screw that’s the worst, I think, for which no non-technical user owns a tool beyond their fingers, from which the bevel invariably strips the flesh; although I’ve also bent enough of those pins trying to get something connected in an awkward place, or because I was tired, or being sloppy. It’s not a connector that’s convenient for amateurs, and most of its users were and are amateurs.
As a connector for multiple, frequent dis- and re-connection, it’s an utter disaster. Sure, that’s not what it’s designed for. It was designed to be a semi-permanent extension of permanent wiring, and I’m sure it’s great at that.
The context of the whole thread, though, was end-user, repeated, frequent connections for people who have to be reminded by a manual that the thing needs to be plugged in. Coax is horrible for that.
- Comment on YSK: Gas stoves cause cancer 2 days ago:
Yeah, our last house had an electric stove and vented into the kitchen. I had to roast out on the deck :-(
- Comment on In a thousand years, will historians regard today as the digital dark ages? 2 days ago:
The oil runs out in another 30 or 40; things are going to fall apart pretty quickly after that, when we won’t be able to get enough food in to maintain cities.
- Comment on In a thousand years, will historians regard today as the digital dark ages? 2 days ago:
I was scanning, and thought you said we’d be battling nuclear mutants for the last bottle of Tabasco.
I don’t know which version is more probable.
- Comment on YSK: Gas stoves cause cancer 2 days ago:
Oh, 25 years old, or something? I’ve looked at replacing it with something newer and easier to clean, with electric controls instead of dials, but they’re enormously more expensive and the basic manual dial versions are still available, and cheaper.
I mean, there’s not much to a gas stove. I’ve taken mine completely apart because the peizo starter fried itself. You don’t need more than physical dials to control gas flow, like a water faucet, and a peizo starter. Making them more complex is really silly. Even my in-laws stupid giant, expensive Viking has manual dials and peizo starters, although they only have to turn the dials on and the starters go automatically until they detect that the gas is burning. I have to press my dials to trigger the starter. Even in the Viking, the gas control is still just a valve; as long as there’s gas pressure in the lines, you can manually start it with a match with no electricity. Their’s is about 10 years old.
Funny, though: our fireplaces are reversed. Our gas fireplace is peizo started; their’s you have to manually light with a lighter.
- Comment on YSK: Gas stoves cause cancer 2 days ago:
Nope, not personally. I mean, I have had hoods that just vent into the kitchen, but never on a gas stove; only on cheap electric ones.
I believe they exist, but IME gas stove installation code says it has to vent outside, because of the gas fumes. With electric stoves, installers can get away with just venting into the kitchen, so if something burns you get your smoke alarm.
I roast coffee beans, and I do it by placing a cookie tray on my stove, and put the roaster on that. It is a major PITA, but if I do a dark roast it produces smoke - like real, dark, something’s-burning smoke - and if I don’t have it under the vent it sets the smoke detectors off every time. But under the vent, it just sucks it all out and jets it outside.
This is the first house I’ve owned that has a gas stove, but my in-law’s place has a big Viking in it with, like, 10 burners; it’s a monster, and the hood on that looks like it came from a restaurant. Their’s vents outside, too.
I have no doubt there are places in the US where gas is cheap and even trailer homes have gas stoves and no outside venting, and maybe older homes. I dunno. But every gas stove I’ve personally seen in the US in the past decade has vented outside.
- Comment on YSK: Gas stoves cause cancer 2 days ago:
Mine works when the power is out. The only electrical part is the starter.
Also, I can heat my house (well, keep the temps above freezing) with my gas fireplace. I just have to manually click the pezioh electric starter.
OTOH, when the power is out, I can’t run my stove vent hood, which vents outside and is why I don’t worry much about “particulate matter.” Never seen a non-externally-vented gas stove; I thought they were against code in the US, but whatever. The fireplace is entirely enclosed and sealed, and vented outside; heat circulation is via a fan that runs air around the heat box - which also doesn’t run with power out, making it less efficient. But it still beats having the pipes freeze.
- Comment on You'll need a RTX 2060 Super at minimum for Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater 4 days ago:
2 opponents have acquisition, one looks like they’re firing, there’s a third ready for a snap shot, and they all have AKs.
Player is… reloading a handgun.
I know it’s a video game, but my suspension of disbelief has limits. This isn’t sci-fi; there are no magic shields or SuperArmor; so player only survives if
- the opponents have Storm Trooper levels of aim capability
- Player is wearing level… hell, I don’t even know what body armor is effective against 7.62x39 at - what - no more than 7 meters here. And it’s going to hurt like hell in any case
- the opponents are all out of ammo
I mean, utter, blinding incompetence aside, player 1 is dead. Even with a massive plot shield, it would be hard to swallow.
Maybe they stole some armor cloth from the John Wick universe; that stuff is sci-fi level good.
- Comment on Encrypted backups to the cloud 5 days ago:
Restic to BackBlaze. B2 support is built in to restic, so all you need is an account and credentials.
Most of my home data - servers, PCs - I back up to HD and B2. I have a few VPS I only back up to B2.
- Comment on NUT UPS support question 5 days ago:
I’ve never had a Cyberpower that hasn’t worked just find with but. Nuts a PITA to configure, but other than that it likes Cyberpower. I have that model - without the 3-R - and it’s great.
I would be extremely surprised if the 3-R version didn’t work. With Cyberpower, I don’t even bother to look up compatability. I bought 3 EC850LCDs blind, for the router and a couple other servers around the house. They all came up just fine.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 days ago:
No time to spare, got to be efficient!
Those tend to be infrequent travelers, though, or young 'uns hitchhiking or railing through Europe. I’ve yet to meet an experienced traveler who hasn’t learned that changing hotels is the worst part of any vacation.
My wife and I have a two-hotel limit. If we’re go to southern France, we might stay a week in Provence, and then change to Saint-Tropez for a few days. Oh, I guess there’s always an extra hotel before departure: we always spend the last night near the airport, but that hardly counts since you don’t unpack. But we look at vacations now from the perspective of “base of operations”.
One of these days we might try a river cruise, although I have this premonition it’s going to be a terrible experience. And we once considered a bicycling vacation run by a company that would move your luggage from hotel to hotel, and you spent the day biking between them. That might be worth all of the hotel changes, but as we get older it gets harder to pack lightly enough to make changing hotels easy.
The “whirlwind tour” is, simply, the most awful concept in the entire history of vacation travel. Oh, and cruise ships. Cruise ships might be worse. I’m glad Venice banned them.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 days ago:
Also they seldom get to practice their English.
Even with all of the tourism? From the US and UK? I know French is a common second language in the UK, but surely Paris gets its fair share of pensioners speaking only English.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 days ago:
Not my experience.
There’s a definite Parisian superiority attitude I find extremely annoying, but by and large the issue I found isn’t that they don’t speak English, but that they refuse to speak French.
It may be that my French is so bad that it’s painful, but I’d try. And usually I’d get a pause, a look, and then they’d switch to English.
The countryside is different. English isn’t as common as it is in Germany. But, if you speak passable German, they’ll at least speak German with you.
- Comment on Jellyfin is not just good... but *better* than Plex now?! 1 week ago:
How many episodes in the show? Depending on the hardware, that could take a few minutes. If it’s trying to index over a network mounted drive, it could take a long time. My material was mounted locally over USB3 on an older 16-core Ryzen machine.
Once indexing is done, it’s fast, but there initial indexing can be slow.
- Comment on Jellyfin is not just good... but *better* than Plex now?! 1 week ago:
How long did you give it? It indexes the library. I had to rebuild my library once, and while I don’t have a huge collection - mainly just rips of my DVD collection, about 450 films, and it takes over an hour to index everything. Until it’s done, not everything shows up.
- Comment on A single tuna (once canned) will be eaten across the world at different times, potentially years apart 1 week ago:
If you buy more expensive tuna, you’ll get cuts that are clearly from one fish. Albacore, for instance, I’ve never seen come in that shredded form.
Also, if you’re interested in sustainability, look for line-caught tuna. It’s not the only sustainable fishing practice, but it’s an eat one to remember. In the US, there’s an MSC certification on the can that’s a reasonably indicator that the company practices sustainable fishing.
If you’re getting cans full of flakes, it’s probably not all from the same fish, or even the same kind of tuna.
- Comment on Which reverse proxy do you use/recommend? 1 week ago:
I mean, the basic config file for Caddy is 1 line, and gives you Let’s Encrypt by default. The entire config file for a reverse proxy can be as few as 3 lines:
my.servername.net { reverse_proxy 127.0.0.1:1234 }
It’s a single executable, and a single 3-line file. Caddy is an incredible piece of software.
- Comment on The best place to get water from a hotel room is the shower head 1 week ago:
To quote stupidcasey:
think fascism literally means to fassen together like a bundle of sticks that is harder to break than one stick
But also… What?
- Comment on Good mail server for selfhosting 2 weeks ago:
Thank you. I may try it; postfix seems to give me grief ever other update, like they can’t leave the damned config file alone.
- Comment on Good mail server for selfhosting 2 weeks ago:
I miss the old days, before you had to worry about spam.
I’m not OP, and I have everything set up fine now; Mailcow would replace what I currently have with the same software components, so I don’t see any value there - for myself.
Something like Maddy is completely at odds with the Unix philosophy, and yet I’ve fought enough with postfix to dislike it enough to want to try an all-in-one. I dread the DKIM setup, though; that took so much time, and the mail server configuration wasn’t the hard part. Maybe now I’ve got it configured for my domains, switching email server software will be easier.
- Comment on Good mail server for selfhosting 2 weeks ago:
I was going to ask if anyone had experience with Maddy, which is an all-in-one solution I’ve been eyeballing for a while.
Getting DKIM and postfix set up correctly was such a PITA, and then dovecot, I’m nervous about having to go through all that again and fretting about accidentally configuring an open relay, so I haven’t tried it yet. But it looks nice, and has been around for a couple of years.
- Comment on TFW you think you got away with it for 137 years but then the cops come knockin 2 weeks ago:
Get. Out. Really? So, if you shoplift a greeting card when you’re in your teens, you have to keep looking over your shoulder and expect a knock on your door even when you’re 80?
- Comment on Does bong water count as cold brewed tea? 2 weeks ago:
I wondered; I wasn’t sure how the chemistry of this worked, because of the existence of edibles.
Chemistry is a massive knowledge gap for me.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Ok, no shade, sincerely, but this whole post is so sketch.
- Comment on TFW you think you got away with it for 137 years but then the cops come knockin 2 weeks ago:
There’s no statute of limitations on murder. In the US. I assume since much of our law descends from British law, it’s much the same there.
He’s safe from execution, at least; the UK abolished it.
- Comment on Which selfhosted TTS provider should I use with home assistant? 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, so I dug into it, and it’s definitely not offline. It uses gtts, which ultimately makes calls to google.com for the tts. You can track it down yourself, but you’ll eventually end up here, which talks about how to change the google host name in case it’s blocked.
I’m not sure why you believe not needing an API key means it isn’t calling a Google API, especially in this case where it clearly states it’s using an unofficial channel - which is the same trick third party YouTube clients use to access YouTube videos without using API keys.