Dave
@Dave@lemmy.nz
- Comment on How should Lemmy & Piefed handle voting activity from banned/deleted accounts? 18 hours ago:
I agree this makes the most sense.
- Comment on Peter Thiel and other tech billionaires are publicly shielding their children from the products that made them rich 1 day ago:
He probably just wishes he put it in the contract signed with the mothers.
- Comment on AI bots may lead to the end of the internet as we know it 1 day ago:
Is there anything that prevents a tech bro buying the hardware and accessing the network to post with their LLM the way they do with the internet today?
- Comment on I assigned myself one of these things but why do they exist? 3 days ago:
To my knowledge Lemmy doesn’t have user tags. So any tagging will be client specific.
- Comment on Thilk 3 days ago:
I mean, milk and gelatin is just shitty panna cotta. Add a few more ingredients and it will be good.
- Comment on Star Trek: Starfleet Academy actor Kareem Diané decides to do their AMA on Lemmy! 5 days ago:
Hmm interesting, I thought he’d been on Mastodon since well before Bluesky existed.
- Comment on Star Trek: Starfleet Academy actor Kareem Diané decides to do their AMA on Lemmy! 5 days ago:
George Takei is on Mastodon and has been for years, surely he would have done something.
- Comment on It should be a strict rule 5 days ago:
As the real estate agent said, Location Location Location, and we’re right next to the airport! It will be very convenient if we have to fly one day.
For the uncultured, The Castle: youtube.com/watch?v=C97Su6Vtxxs&t=24s&pp=2AEYkAIB
- Comment on Texas becomes leading test ground for small nuclear reactors 6 days ago:
So how long until it’s small enough to power a Pip-boy?
- Comment on 6 days ago:
I got a kobo recently and was amazed to find you can sync it with calibre-web to basically run your own book store. Browse and download any books from your server. Pretty cool.
- Comment on Overseerr & Jellyseerr to merge into Seerr 1 week ago:
Ah right, that makes sense!
- Comment on Overseerr & Jellyseerr to merge into Seerr 1 week ago:
I could have sworn I read this announcement a couple of months ago.
- Comment on What are some Fediverse server hosting tips? 1 week ago:
Your instance would have private/public keys for communicating with other instances. By changing software, all that is gone, and you might find other instances rejecting your federation activities, this is doubly true if you used the same username, because they would already have a record of that user with a different public key.
I’d suggest using a subdomain or a new domain, re-using a domain for a different Fediverse server is likely to have issues. A subdomain would be treated as a different domain so would be fine.
This is also something to know for a different scenario: taking your lemmy instance and changing the domain but keeping the content is likely to break federation as well.
- Comment on Home renovations 1 week ago:
Ok but for real, that wouldn’t work, right? How would them holding it complete the circuit? The circuit is just gonna be from one screw to the top of the pole back through another screw, not the part the person is holding.
- Comment on I have a rasberry pi 5 collecting dust, what are some neat useful things i can do with it? 1 week ago:
Well I don’t know if dependent is the right word. I’m fully aware that Home Assistant is something I play with for fun.
I can check the app and see how much power my solar has generated today, how hot my water heater is, or see what temperature it is inside or outside. None of that is helpful for anything other than for fun.
Though I can do thinks like bump up the target temperature of my hot water when the solar is making too much power in order to store that energy as heat, which is pretty cool.
What can I say, this is some people’s idea of fun. I got security cameras (that I can view through home assistant) and put them not pointed at entryways or windows because I don’t care about security, I pointed them at areas where the dog is and the kids play so I can play with object and facial recognition, all locally processed.
It’s ok to not think it’s your idea of fun, but if anyone uses home assistant in a way that they rely on rather than just for the fun of playing with the technology then I’d love to hear what that use is!
- Comment on Scary! 1 week ago:
I didn’t learn about Precordial Catch Syndrome until I’d nearly grown out of it.
Wikipedia says ages 6-12 but other sources say from 6 through to early 20s which is more in line with my experience.
- Comment on Man posts his incorrect opinion online 2 weeks ago:
The same in NZ. Is this that you never ever wear shoes on inside?
Is it acceptable to walk into your own house and walk around with shoes on? Sure.
Do most people do that most of the time? In my experience, people will be shoes off in their own home most of the time, but it’s not some big taboo to keep them on if you’re popping in to grab something.
- Comment on Nextcloud/OneDrive Files-only Replacement 2 weeks ago:
In my experience it’s not quite the same. Using webdav through the distro account seems that it’s fully online. And folder access or file access contacts the server.
The virtual file experience is more of a hybrid. All the folders actually exist on disk, as well as shells for every file. If you try to open a virtual file, in the background Windows will seamlessly download it for you. At that point the file is actually on your disk. This way regularly accessed files on on your hard drive and seldom accessed ones are not, saving local hard drive space while providing an experience almost like if all the files were actually on your drive.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 2 weeks ago:
I just finished RoboCop: Rogue City.
It was enjoyable, but I did have to look up how to beat the final boss, where I realised I had missed an entire game mechanic (upgrading your default gun using boards you find around the place). I thought you just got to put upgrades into the board, I didn’t realise you were supposed to change the board to newer better ones as youfound them.
- Comment on Nextcloud/OneDrive Files-only Replacement 2 weeks ago:
On Windows, Nextcloud seems to tap into some Windows function to provide files on demand. Is there any Linux cloud file service that can do it?
- Comment on What kind of stupid rule is that? 2 weeks ago:
Hmm yeah that’s what we figured. We were on holiday, we couldn’t take food home to eat later so just forced the food down then didn’t eat again for 24 hours 😆
- Comment on What kind of stupid rule is that? 2 weeks ago:
Ok serious question. I live in a country where they don’t serve you free bread.
What do you do if you eat all the delicious bread then you aren’t hungry anymore?
I had this real life scenario happen when I was in Canada and we felt obligated to order mains even though we didn’t want them.
Is it socially acceptable to pay for your drinks and leave?
- Comment on How many containers are you all running? 3 weeks ago:
Well the containers are grouped into services. I would easily have 15 services running, some run a separate postgres or redis while others do an internal sqlite so hard to say.
If we’re counting containers then between Nextcloud and Home Assistant I’m probably over 20 already lol.
- Comment on I would also be confused 3 weeks ago:
But how do I read these subtle hints, can’t she just tell me how she’s feeling?
- Comment on OpenAI Wants To Create Biometric Social Network To Kill X’s Bot Problem 3 weeks ago:
Chat GPT, generate me an image of an eyeball.
- Comment on Do people eat this? 3 weeks ago:
Fat and salt are the key ingredients in most fried food, so it’s basically deep fried bread.
- Comment on Buttcoin 3 weeks ago:
Here’s the thing. Either it is all speculators and someone will be left holding the bag, or it’s a real investment.
Do you believe now that it’s a real investment? If so, then there’s no reason not to buy in now.
If you don’t believe it’s a real investment, and the price could crash at any point and you lose all your money, then it was as true back then as it is today and selling out was the wise thing to do even if in hindsight you could have made a lot more money.
Many people would compromise though, sell half to get their original money back and leave half. Then sell half again when/if it doubles, etc.
- Comment on Amazon is forcibly upgrading Prime members to Alexa Plus, and users are not happy 5 weeks ago:
Well if you do, contribute it to home assistant and I’ll install it 😆, it’s actually a little surprising conversions aren’t supported natively but I guess there is a lot to cover and they will get there eventually.
- Comment on Amazon is forcibly upgrading Prime members to Alexa Plus, and users are not happy 5 weeks ago:
Home assistant has an automation event that lets you set the conversation result, but you’ve already passed my ability haha so I can’t tell you how to pull the result in from an external service.
It may well be worth building it as a home assistant integration rather than just custom sentence triggered automations.
- Comment on Amazon is forcibly upgrading Prime members to Alexa Plus, and users are not happy 5 weeks ago:
Worth noting you need both the speaker part and the server part. Home assistant sells both as out of the box ready to go but you do need both parts.
It’s also worth noting it’s a Preview Edition, as in not yet consumer ready.
It works but you will find quirks, and will find things it can’t do that you’d expect it to, and things it can do that others can’t.
It’s also very customisable, if you’re a bit technical (honestly you don’t need to be that technical these days, it has come a long way).