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- Comment on Submitting an App for iOS approval 3 days ago:
For the money angle, something like a Digital Ocean droplet would be appropriate here. They are $4/mo and you don’t even need to run the thing all the time, just when you need an app version approved.
- Comment on Submitting an App for iOS approval 3 days ago:
You don’t need to give them a premier experience, you aren’t trying to sell them on the features of your app. It just needs to function.
Load in those 20 royalty free songs and let the algorithm suck at picking the next of the 20.
- Comment on Submitting an App for iOS approval 3 days ago:
Yes, iOS app approval is a pain in the ass. They do test the app and if it has to connect to a server, they will ask you to provide such for them to test against.
Setup a virtual host that you only spin up when they need to approve a new version. Give it some royalty free music to serve.
- Comment on What is this control for and how do I use it? 5 days ago:
It looks like a combination humidifier/dehumidifier as well as an outside air exchanger.
The air exchangers are nice as you can run them when the air outside is very cold or very hot, as they will retain a large portion of the interior air temperature, despite swapping their physical air for outdoor air. That specific setting seems like a sometimes thing, when you wouldn’t normally have windows open for awhile, but you do want fresh air that day.
- Comment on Google is Using AI to Censor Independent Websites 5 days ago:
We need other ways to discover shit on the internet.
- Comment on Looking to upgrade my NAS need advice. 5 days ago:
For DIY, just about any setup would work fine as long as you put it in a case with lots of bays. Throw 2 or 3 of these in there* and you now have however many ports are on the motherboard (probably 2 or 4) plus 8-12 more ports available via the cards.
*I’m not recommending that specific card, just something that gives you SATA ports on a PCI-E card. Just pay attention to bandwidth bottlenecks on the cards. Here is a table of PCI-E speeds.
- Comment on Looking to upgrade my NAS need advice. 5 days ago:
Since you are looking to build up to 12 bays, what you can do is buy that 4x 12TB drive set now, transfer everything over to the new system, then add the old 12TB drives into the array one-by-one expanding it to an 8x 12TB array.
- Comment on Survey shows Gmail users would gladly sacrifice features for more privacy 1 week ago:
And this is exactly why I use ProtonMail. My old Gmail is now a junk folder I check…about never.
- Comment on Why is it okay for shit to go down the drain but not food? 1 week ago:
Yeah, grease is a big deal. After things like bacon, drain the fat into the trash (or into a bowl and later the trash), then wash in the sink. This minimizes how much grease is entering your pipes and thus vastly reducing the need to unclog your pipes.
- Comment on The most powerful laser in the US recently produced 2 quadrillion watts of power 1 week ago:
The key thing here is the burst lasted for “25 quintillionths of a second long”.
Meaning it had a total output engery of 0.05 W/h, or how much energy a standard US space heater outputs over the course of an eighth of a second.
- Comment on Simple NAS hardware for home use? 1 week ago:
It’s a very old 1080p Sharp TV. I know it does have WiFi which I have not setup, but that certainly doesn’t mean the WiFi is off.
I’ll have to see if there is some way to disable the WiFi completely and re-measure it.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
The UPS should have a USB plug in the back. Plug that into your computer and it will read the battery status as if it was a laptop. Then in your OS, set the standard shutdown options when low on battery.
- Comment on Still booting after all these years: The people stuck using ancient Windows computers 2 weeks ago:
especially if you wanted to play Halo on PC
I still giggle that after years and years of Halo 3+ being a console exclusive, and Halo 2 sucking on Windows for years*, the entire Halo collection now has a Gold rating on Linux. I have very specific memories of being annoyed for years that the most prestigious Microsoft game doesn’t work on a Microsoft gaming platform (Windows).
*God damn does Game for Windows Live suck
- Comment on Simple NAS hardware for home use? 2 weeks ago:
A note on the fans specifically, you can buy quiet fans. In general, the larger the fan, the lower the speed and the quieter it is. You can also setup fan curves so they are only doing anything of note when the computer is pumping out heat (given your statements, that would be basically never).
The electricity usage is a pretty notable thing. Though, if you take the graphics card out of a desktop (use integrated graphics, a dedicated graphics card in a server is just wasted electricity) and set the OS to power saver (this mostly means it won’t boost the CPU to higher clocks), it really won’t use much power. Compared to buying dedicated NAS hardware, you may never recoup the energy costs between the hardware you have and the lower-power hardware you need to buy.
- Comment on Simple NAS hardware for home use? 2 weeks ago:
If you have a desktop, just throw a hard drive or two in it and you have a NAS. Even if you have a laptop, a hard drive in an enclosure will perform this role just fine.
- Comment on Nintendo Announces Free Switch 1 Games Upgrades for Switch 2 2 weeks ago:
Works perfectly fine on my machine I bought over two decades after the game came out, looks significantly better than when the game came out too. Sounds like pretty damn good upgradability to me.
- Comment on Still booting after all these years: The people stuck using ancient Windows computers 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, and as long as these things never touch the internet, there really isn’t an issue.
- Comment on What are the minimum or recommended requirements for a personal home server? 2 weeks ago:
What are you intending to run on this server?
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If it is just PiHole, you can basically get the weakest computer you can find.
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If you want lots of storage space, you will need to make sure you have a case and motherboard that will accommodate the drives.
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If you are running encryption on those drives as well, you will need a CPU more powerful than what comes in a Pi, but nothing crazy.
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If you are running lots and lots of VMs, you will want lots of RAM. A linux VM will use maybe a few GB each depending on what software each is running internally, a windows vm will use a bit more.
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If you are doing AI workloads, you will need a graphics card.
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- Comment on Judge admits nearly being persuaded by AI hallucinations in court filing 2 weeks ago:
Good on the judge for following up on the citations.
- Comment on VPN firm says it didn’t know customers had lifetime subscriptions, cancels them 2 weeks ago:
I see the subscription lasted the full lifetime of the subscription!
Victory!
Next problem please!
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, it’s pretty annoying. Best thing you can do do is sub to communities that don’t have it. As an example, the linux communities are pretty big and low on politics.
- Comment on Internal docs show Pornhub had 706,000 videos in May 2020 flagged for child rape or other problems, often not removed until flagged 16+ times 3 weeks ago:
Manual reviewers basically sort by ‘most flagged’ and start working down the list. By the time you get to just a few flags, it’s 99.99% BS flags, such flagged videos obviously would not be taken down and are in very, very numerous quantity. Videos that get flagged by more people are obviously more likely to be real flags and worthy of a reviewer’s time.
- Comment on Match to lay off 13% of staff 3 weeks ago:
Why the hell does Match.com have 2,500 employees?
- Comment on Palworld confirms ‘disappointing’ game changes forced by Pokémon lawsuit 3 weeks ago:
What will you argue if I bring up the fact that they ripped off countless Pokemon?
The case case isn’t about character designs, the case is about patents Nintendo filed after PocketPair released a game with said mechanics. The idea that one should be able to patent a game mechanic someone else has already released in their games is BS. Japan’s patent system sucks and Nintendo sucks for abusing it.
- Comment on Palworld confirms ‘disappointing’ game changes forced by Pokémon lawsuit 3 weeks ago:
Summoning creatures from a sphere is hardly blatant plagiarism. Many, many, many games have the ability to summon creatures from an object. Pokemon was far from the first one to do it…
- Comment on Palworld confirms ‘disappointing’ game changes forced by Pokémon lawsuit 3 weeks ago:
We are talking about gliding on a mount…a very common game feature…
- Comment on Palworld confirms ‘disappointing’ game changes forced by Pokémon lawsuit 3 weeks ago:
Japanese ones are particularly worse. In the US a successful defense is prior art, there is no such defense in Japan.
- Comment on Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College 3 weeks ago:
I want coders to learn from trusted sources too. How do you authorize a user? How do you store the password (plain text, hash, encrypt)? Do you use MD5 or SHA-256? (Always hash passwords, don’t use MD5)
If you have to encrypt some information, do you use Triple DES or AES? (never Triple DES)
When authorizing with OAuth, should I send the auth url, client secret, scopes, and redirect url to the client machine? (yes, no, yes, yes)
These are basic questions with obvious answers that are easy to find…and many programmers get them very, very wrong. Mostly out of carelessness, even the question itself didn’t pop into their head.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 3 weeks ago:
Breath of Fire IV. A nice pixel art RPG I never played this when it was new. A few hours in currently and enjoying it quite a bit!
- Comment on Grand Theft Auto VI Trailer 2 3 weeks ago:
As long as they let you turn off the upscaling I won’t complain about it. Unfortunately there has been a trend as of late to force it on; the artifacting drives me nuts. It’s always harder to to see in youtube videos though, since they are compressed quite a bit compared to live play.
Biggest thing that concerns me was their focus on pushing one into multiplayer in V. I’m worried that is going to intensify since it made them so damn much money doing that last time.
Either way, game isn’t out for a year, and it isn’t out for PC for probably two years. So, just going to go back to enjoying my Breath of Fire IV playthrough I’m currently doing. :)