Dave
@Dave@lemmy.nz
- Comment on 1 hour ago:
I recently got a solar system and came to the conclusion that if you can sell power back to the grid (not everyone can) for some reasonable percentage of what it costs to buy it, then it will always be worth it to be connected (assuming you already are).
Quite simply, if you have enough solar capacity to get you through the winter (no house is going to have months of battery storage), then you will always be creating far more than you need in the summer. Selling this excess will easily cover any costs associated to being on the grid.
Also at current prices batteries are good for backup power only, it’s always cheaper to sell excess power to the grid in the day and buy it back at night than it is to have battery capacity to get through the night. I worked out it would take 40 years for our battery to pay for itself (assuming the battery kept a constant battery capacity for 40 years…) but less than 10 years for the rest of the system to pay for itself.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Made up spellings are bad, but good luck searching for anything that isn’t a made up spelling or two words put together.
- Comment on Backup/Server Options - is Syncthing / Nextcloud really the go? 2 weeks ago:
I think versioning is the better option.
are you writing about losing the backUp drive?
No, losing your main version. Imagine you have a computer with syncthing and a server where it syncs to. If you chose no deletions, then it will sync all files to the server but all the stuff you deleted (draft documents, random files, photos from that time your kid held the camera button on your phone down and took 3000 photos in 30 seconds) will be deleted from your computer but still there on your server.
When you computer gets struck by lightning and everything is destroyed but the server is fine, now you have to re-sort out all your files because all the stuff you deleted is still on the server version.
Your suggestion of enabling the option to keep previous versions is probably cleaner. Personally I prefer to keep previous versions and deduplicate to save space.
- Comment on Backup/Server Options - is Syncthing / Nextcloud really the go? 2 weeks ago:
Yes, if you go with something like syncthing, have it also sync to a server where you run borg backup so you get the incremental backup.
- Comment on Backup/Server Options - is Syncthing / Nextcloud really the go? 2 weeks ago:
Yip you can do that but then it’s messy! And what if you overwrite a file by accident?
And if you do lose your hard drive then you have a weird state to restore from.
I’d much prefer the ability to restore to a point in time that comes with something like borg.
- Comment on Backup/Server Options - is Syncthing / Nextcloud really the go? 2 weeks ago:
Remember sync isn’t a good backup. You’re thinking of loss of drives but if this is important data you need to also consider mistakes.
If you accidentally delete files you shouldn’t, you don’t want this deletion to sync to all your copies so it’s gone for good and the backup doesn’t help.
Personally I use borgmatic to keep incremental, deduplicated backups. Then I can go back to previous states.
If you install nextcloud all in one, it comes with a backup solution (also borg based). Then devices don’t need a copy of every file. But you’ll want your server to have a backup drive for this.
I then sync my borg backup to a backblaze b2 bucket for offsite, encrypted backup using rclone. That then meets the 3 2 1 backup plan.
I notice you mention Jellyfin. I don’t back up my Jellyfin media, the cloud storage for that could get very expensive and I could get it again if I needed it.
- Comment on android 2 weeks ago:
Can confirm, my banking app works fine.
- Comment on LOL GitHub [2018] 4 weeks ago:
I love that he’s like “I co founded Netscape and Mozilla, now I run a dance club and pizzeria”.
Dude’s living the dream.
- Comment on 🚀 Boost for Lemmy 1.0.20 - PieFed Support 5 weeks ago:
I think PieFed has only recently got an API for apps to connect to, hence the surge.
- Comment on Google search boss says AI isn’t killing search clicks 5 weeks ago:
Holy crap, I hadn’t considered that we have the technology to create articles on the fly based on search terms.
That could be a serious weapon of war - you get your site to the top through SEO, then show each user personalised propoganda. You show googlebot the genuine page but adjust the page based on what you know about the user.
- Comment on Google search boss says AI isn’t killing search clicks 5 weeks ago:
To give credit to the people trying to make good search, the internet is so much worse than it was a decade or two ago.
Over that time the ad driven internet has encouraged low quality, high volume websites full of articles designed around common search terms.
It started before AI, but now you can drum up an article in seconds it has got much worse.
- Comment on Google search boss says AI isn’t killing search clicks 5 weeks ago:
AI is driving more searches
This is hilarious. People are searching more because they aren’t getting results they need from AI, which drives ad revenue so Google’s doing great!
- Comment on Amazon is considering shoving ads into Alexa+ conversations 1 month ago:
Yeah that’s why I called it out. It seemed like it was an important part.
There probably isn’t an actual reason why you couldn’t connect it to a wall plug in a way that replicates this setup even if a bit hacky. E.g. short cable then attach the unit to the top of the plug. It’s not that heavy and may attach fine without coming out of the wall.
- Comment on Amazon is considering shoving ads into Alexa+ conversations 1 month ago:
How far away is the Home Assistant Voice Preview from what you’re looking for?
It doesn’t plug directly into the wall but instead uses a USB C cable (that you provide). Other than this, mine can answer questions, search the internet, turn things on and off, play music via Spotify, Jellyfin, etc. Tell me about the state of stuff in Home Assistant (temps in rooms, how the solar is doing, what’s on my shopping list and can add things, etc).
It requires you already have Home Assistant set up but it is a pretty good experience so long as you’re willing to do some amount of tinkering to make it your own.
Like other comments say it’s not general public ready but it’s pretty close and costs $69.
- Comment on 12ft.io down? 1 month ago:
This article says it did it by disguising itself as a web crawler. So can I just set my user agent to googlebot and paywalls will disappear?
- Comment on Do Australians in the northern hemisphere celebrate Christmas in July to have a Christmas that reminds them of home? 1 month ago:
In New Zealand it’s pretty common to have a midwinter Christmas, even if you have never lived in the Northern Hemisphere. Not that everyone or almost everyone would do it, but in my experience most people would have at least heard of the concept (and I know people who do it most years, and others that do it occasionally).
This is in addition to, not instead of the normal summer Christmas.
- Comment on McDonald’s AI Hiring Bot Exposed Millions of Applicants’ Data to Hackers Who Tried the Password ‘123456’ 2 months ago:
I live in New Zealand and there are many 24/7 McDonalds in busy areas. Clicking randomly on their NZ map it’s pretty easy to find them: mcdonalds.co.nz/find-us/restaurants
It’s the same with Australia: mcdonalds.com.au/find-us/restaurants
Actually, the same for the US. It’s not hard to find 24/7 ones (you need to search for a city before they show on the map): www.mcdonalds.com/us/…/restaurant-locator.html
screen shot of mcdonalds restaurant search showing many 24 hour mcdonalds in chigago
- Comment on McDonald’s AI Hiring Bot Exposed Millions of Applicants’ Data to Hackers Who Tried the Password ‘123456’ 2 months ago:
Are you saying that there are not many McDonalds that advertise 24/7 service, or that they advertise this but don’t actually provide it?
- Comment on McDonald’s AI Hiring Bot Exposed Millions of Applicants’ Data to Hackers Who Tried the Password ‘123456’ 2 months ago:
They have over 40k locations. Many are 24/7. They also surely churn through employees, have many part time employees, and probably get many more applicants than they hire.
The employees will be hired by the franchisees but they still use the McDonalds software.
Millions is not a surprise to me at all. Perhaps that it’s tens of millions is a little surprising, but it still seems within the realm of possibility.
- Comment on Time travel doesn't work unless you also have teleportation. If you travel to the past/future, Earth will be in a different position in its orbit, and you'll die in space. 2 months ago:
Their point is that (as per relatively), all movement is relative to something. So if the earth moved away then you must be measuring in relation to some other reference point. There is no absolute positioning system. So when you say the earth is moving, what is it moving in relation to? And why did you pick that reference point instead of having a time machine that uses earth itself as a reference point?
- Comment on There are major holes in this theory 2 months ago:
From random searching around it seems technology helps a lot. There are definitely fewer icebergs at that location these days but despite many reddit commenters claiming none it seems there are a few icebergs that make it there: map of iceberg locations
Sinking location: geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=Sinkin…
Apparently radar makes sure ships know about any icebergs well in advance, and there are also ice patrol planes and satellite tracking to make them pretty much a non-issue. Unless you’re the MV Explorer cruise ship that sunk in the Antarctic after hitting an iceberg in 2007. But that was outside of shipping lanes and monitoring areas as far as I can tell.
- Comment on There are major holes in this theory 2 months ago:
For sad reasons, yes. Probably a lot lower chance than it was 100 years ago.
- Comment on xkcd #3109: Dehumidifier 2 months ago:
Hmm odd. Maybe just try again?
- Comment on xkcd #3109: Dehumidifier 2 months ago:
That’s odd. Any error?
Federation from your instance Lemmy.world to the instance the community is on (programming.dev) is healthy, so that doesn’t seem to be the issue.
How far did you get? Any error?
My guess would be that you’ve tried to upload an image that is over the size limit - I think this is imposed by your own instance (Lemmy.world), and I’m not sure what the size limit is but I think 5MB per image is pretty common. If you drop the image size or upload elsewhere then link it, does that work?
- Comment on xkcd #3109: Dehumidifier 2 months ago:
What about !diyelectronics@programming.dev?
Or if you are using Home Assistant you could post in !homeassistant@lemmy.world
There is a Lemmy community search function here if you want to check other options: lemmyverse.net/communities
- Comment on Might be time to find another job 2 months ago:
Huh. Here in NZ tea, (instant) coffee, milk (and usually Milo as well) are virtually always provided by an employer (only by social convention, as far as I can tell, not a legal requirement). I kinda assumed Britain would be the same since we must have got the custom from somewhere.
- Comment on Student visa applicants will now be forced to make their social media accounts public 2 months ago:
I’ve heard social media where you interact with strangers instead of “friends” referred to as “antisocial media”.
- Comment on Why are living beings not being cooked alive constantly at the tekpersatures we are? 2 months ago:
I cook cut off a part of myself and sous vide it at my body temp and it would cook and be edible.
Can you really? Your internal body temp? Around 37C or under 100F? I can’t find any sous vide recipes that low. I can’t find anything under 50C, which would kill you if it was your internal body temperature.
- Comment on It is what it is 2 months ago:
Except the part where all incognito tabs/windows share the same session.
- Comment on Seriously, it was all the rage back when I joined my first instance. 2 months ago:
And you still won’t explain why!
