IronKrill
@IronKrill@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Nova Launcher gets a new owner and... ads 1 week ago:
Seconded. Looks good and I’ve found browsing by letter is way faster than the traditional folders (although you can still use folders with premium). I bought the upgrade after a few months.
- Comment on Microsoft Confirms Windows 11 January 2026 Update Issues, Releases Fixes 1 week ago:
Another confirmed bug caused some systems to fail to shut down properly after installing the update. According to Microsoft, a separate fix has been issued to resolve the shutdown issue on certain Windows 11 builds.
So they fixed it a month ago after breaking it years ago and almost immediately break it again? lol
- Comment on Hytale is OUT NOW in early access! 2 weeks ago:
A little ironic to post this on a game inspired by Minecraft, the most prolific example of an early access model working out.
- Comment on we need more users 2 weeks ago:
The quality has held despite a drop in users.
I feel like I’m going mental over here because this has not been my experience. The quality has always been spotty, but the last few months I’ve noticed more and more posts linking to awful “news” rags or no source at all. Worse, I rarely see people questioning the lack of quality information, simply gobbling it up because it aligns with their world view. Plus 70% of the comments on this platform could be generated by a classic r/subredditsimulator style bot and nothing would change; the same 5 points about AI, capitalism, and Linux are made in every thread in the exact same style every day.
And yes I’m mostly talking about news communities because Linux comms are usually fine but repetitive and while I’d love to interact with non-news content there just… isn’t much being made.
- Comment on This EV Was Already Cheap, Then Dacia Knocked Off Nearly $6,000 2 weeks ago:
In North America, the point is to be your main method of ttansportation. Work, groceries, friends, all require cars to get there in a reasonable time frame. Yes there are longer trips, and personally I would not feel comfortable with a 200km max range, because the nearest large towns are upwards of that already. But for those that rarely leave their cities, you could make it work, especially if your spouse had a gas / longer range car. Seems fine for a city car.
- Comment on The 2025 Steam Awards Winners 3 weeks ago:
The top 4 picks aee decided by user nomination a ~month before.
- Comment on Does Lemmy need a fork or a rewrite due to its maintainers views? 4 weeks ago:
In this nazi analogy it would be less of buying chairs and more the nazis giving away chairs for free that come with blueprints so if the nazis started installing spikes in their chairs people can just build their own from the blueprints, they just choose not to because it’s a lot of work. Which is fine if you don’t want those chairs, but a lot of people are fine with those chairs as long as the nazis don’t start any camps.
- Comment on What free to play games can run smoothly on my old laptop? 5 weeks ago:
Best suggestion in this thread! Trackmania Forever slapped when I had a low powered machine.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Thank you for so bravely speaking on behalf of all artists.
- Comment on Are people buying refurb pcs just to strip out the DDR 4 ram with the current price hikes on new ram? 1 month ago:
Depends. The price of the same DDR4 kit I bought earlier this year are now 4x what they were.
- Comment on Decreasing Certificate Lifetimes to 45 Days 1 month ago:
Let’s just skip to the point and make it 1 day
- Comment on 1 month ago:
All I can read this as is that 1 in 4 Americans are still delusional.
- Comment on Waymo Forced to Halt Overnight Operations As Punishment for Causing Nonstop Ruckus 1 month ago:
Ah yes, people slow down near cops for the love of the game, not because they’re afraid of a ticket or jail time.
- Comment on Why isn't it considered vegan to harvest animals who die naturally? 2 months ago:
I think it would depend who you ask. I consider myself vegan and would have no major issue with someone using roadkill for parts. I mean, I would find it disgusting and could never myself, but if they want to and still call themselves vegan, I see no problem with it as the harm has already been done to the animal. Seems the same as harvesting bones from the forest - what’s dead is dead.
- Comment on People who don't wear earphones outside - why, and what do you do instead? 2 months ago:
I’m gonna take a safe guess that London has generally much smaller streets and cars than the majority of America, so it would be safer yes. Outside of the cities and a couple of streets downtown smaller town centres, most cars are likely to be going 50km/h or more down a road with spotty or missing sidewalks and there’s probably a 50% chance of it being an F150. Now I have had good luck with drivers here slowing for me, but it only takes one time to be permanently crippled… So is it “that” bad? Depends what your “that” is, but it is worse yes.
- Comment on What do they do with aborted fetuses? 2 months ago:
How do you think they make hot dogs?
- Comment on Study Claims 4K/8K TVs Aren't Much Better Than HD To Your Eyes 2 months ago:
Sadly most of those older YouTube videos have been run through multiple re-comoressions and look so much worse than they did at upload. It’s a major bummer.
- Comment on There was no need to ever improve upon THIS 2 months ago:
Treasure it! Not looking forwards to when I have to give up my manual hatch for whatever is on the market when it dies. Although I haven’t test driven an EV yet, I can’t imagine it’s that engaging. Perhaps I’ll just have to get my kicks out of motorbikes at that point.
- Comment on There was no need to ever improve upon THIS 2 months ago:
- Comment on There was no need to ever improve upon THIS 2 months ago:
This must be a Honda Fit interior, right? I still wish I had managed to snag one of those, but they are probably double the price of other used hatches where I am. Ah well.
- Comment on Why does the GOP think “ANTIFA” is bad? 3 months ago:
I hung around anti-SJW groups in 2016 and I’m assuming not much has changed.
Basically ANTIFA is painted as a violent group that claims normal things as “fascist”, same as the “leftists” call “normal people” “nazis”. People in these right-leaning circles get shown videos of protests after they go violent and innocent people / property starts getting damaged and are told it’s ANTIFA (I don’t know how much actually is ANTIFA, I don’t follow this stuff anymore). The name of the organisation does not matter because the right does not believe the things they are protesting against to be fascist, thus ANTIFA becomes a lie in their mind.
Looking at it from a leftist perspective, think of tactics like all the bills named the “Protect Our Children” act (or some such) that tries to strip rights away under an innocent-sounding name. Right-wing sees ANTIFA the same as you would see these law names: a deception to calm the masses.
- Comment on What is it called when you believe the U.S. political parties shouldn’t exist? 4 months ago:
Common sense
- Comment on Spotify Add Lossless Audio(24-bit / 44.1 kHz FLAC) for Premium Subscribers 4 months ago:
Gotta say I’m surprised to see Spotify adding something people actually want. It must be getting rough for them.
- Comment on Spotify Add Lossless Audio(24-bit / 44.1 kHz FLAC) for Premium Subscribers 4 months ago:
Same table aligned to cents for easier reading.
Qobuz 2.2¢ Napster 2.0¢ Tidal 1.3¢ Apple Music 1.0¢ Deezer 0.640¢ Spotify 0.300¢ - 0.500¢ Amazon Music 0.402¢ SoundCloud 0.250¢ - 0.400¢ Pandora 0.133¢ YouTube Music 0.069¢ - 0.120¢ - Comment on How come butthole scratches doesn't get infected with poop bacteria ? 4 months ago:
1-ply public washroom paper is not far off a cheese grater, so…
- Comment on AI lovers grieve loss of ChatGPT’s old model: ‘Like saying goodbye to someone I know’ 5 months ago:
AI lovers should grieve their lost brain cells.
- Comment on Am I corrupting my data? 5 months ago:
I have two identical HDDs as a mirror, another one that has no failsafe (but it’s fine, because the data it contains is non-critical)
On separate pools, I hope? My understanding of ZFS is that the loss of any vdev will mean the loss of the pool, so your striped vdev should be in its own pool that you don’t mind losing.
- Comment on [Update: Valve Responds] Mastercard Denies Pressuring Steam To Censor 'NSFW' Games 5 months ago:
If they just wanted to follow the law, they could have left it at “don’t sell anything illegal” without all the extra “brand damage” nonsense.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 months ago:
120 is definitely smoother, but I’ve found you can’t really feel it until your minimums are at your target. So if your minimum frametime is 30-60fps on a 120fps monitor, it’ll feel pretty crap compared to a solid 60 (or 75).
- Comment on [deleted] 6 months ago:
I have been using TrueNAS Scale for a while but have not used base Linux for my NAS. My opinion is if you’re looking for a quick initial setup, TrueNAS is rather appealing, but otherwise it doesn’t offer much. It has ZFS pre-installed, gives you a webUI to monitor basic things about your machine, and has fairly easy ways to setup data protection with snapshots and backups with rsync or zfs replication. In the more recent versions it even has Docker apps built-in so you can host some basic things. The downside of TrueNAS is that despite being Linux under the hood, it’s a lot more locked down so doing advanced measures is more of a pain and much of their “simpler” UI-based stuff is exceedingly basic, half-featured, and lacks documentation.
The way I use TrueNAS right now is to treat the main OS as mainly untouchable. I don’t try to break out of the limits placed upon it. I instead use a “Jailmaker” machine (defunct wrapper script for systemd-nspawn) for all my Docker needs. This way the main system remains more stable. If I have to re-install, then it’s a simple config import and my NAS is back to how it was.
I would use the built-in VM tools or the built-in Docker tools for this, but A. they weren’t implemented or weren’t working when I set this up, and B. I found their setup rather… annoying. For instance, I tried to set up some apps with their previous app system and it required configuration before working and yet nowhere did anyone explain how to configure it so I was wokring blind. No one makes guides for setting up an app in the TrueNAS UI, so the extra layer of obfuscation was just a hinderance to me. Compare that to setting it up directly in Docker, there are a million guides and great documentation for everything I get stuck on. Thus, despite being the “harder” way to set it up, it was easier due to the existence of information about it.
So, looking at it objectively, what parts of TrueNAS do I even use compared to base Linux? Not much. I use the WebUI to accomplish basic tasks such as creating or modifying datasets and permissions, snapshots, SMB shares, etcetera. All the basic things are there and I use the UI for them. But ever since that initial setup I spend most of my time in the CLI adjusting my scripts and Docker config files, creating directories inside the datasets, fine-tuning permissions… I could definitely have gone for a base Linux install as long as I knew what to install for ZFS support, some manner of WebUI, and so on. TrueNAS just did all that initial setup for me, and having a more locked-down OS forced me to use safer methods of installing programs via containers and keeping my install a lot more portable which I plan to continue no matter what OS I use.
This was probably not helpful, but that’s been my experience of TrueNAS for what it’s worth.
