czardestructo
@czardestructo@lemmy.world
- Comment on Hosting a Webserver in a RPi Model B… in 2025 1 day ago:
Ive been using a pi model B for the last four years as a wood stove monitor, data logger and web page landing page for said data. Is this a big deal?
- Comment on My dailies 2 weeks ago:
+the fact the pi is so darn cheap, has the IO and can emulate the game on the system not at all designed specifically for the task while also running a whole Linux stack and being online. Things have advanced tremendously.
- Comment on How do you think early humans survived without water bottles? Did they just live next to water sources all the time? 2 weeks ago:
My wife won’t leave the house without several water containers as it she is crossing the god damn Sahara. We live in the North East, its not even dry! I always ask her how she survied childhood without stupid fancy bottles that are marketed. Fortunately she is patient with my crap and loves me…
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
I was being dramatic, sorry, yes, this!
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
You would be the bad guy if you make him return it. Personally I would have a talk with your son about how unusual the act is and how his act could be used as leverage over him, nothing is free. Teach him healthy skepticism. Also call back those parents and tell them to fuck off, completly unacceptable they bought something connected and important for your son without checking with you first. They dont know your house or rules…
- Comment on A WYSIWYG editor for personal website? 4 weeks ago:
I migrated from WordPress to Grav and love it. If you know markdown Grav is easy, efficient and FAST.
- Comment on A fake Facebook event disguised as a math problem has been one of its top posts for 6 months 5 weeks ago:
I would like to say it was on purpose but it was not :( I might do math, spelling is not my forte.
- Comment on A fake Facebook event disguised as a math problem has been one of its top posts for 6 months 5 weeks ago:
I guess remembering grade school order of operation means you’re a guinus now? Bar has gotten pretty low…
- Comment on There were probably some people who just really liked "Never gonna give you up" and really enjoyed getting rick rolled 5 weeks ago:
I host my own cloud and various other services for myself and whole family. Any 404 resolves to a rickroll and I’m never mad, often letting it play fully.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Its essentially my garage and workbench with tools. My home doesnt have a garage so I made one. I built a modest bench into the nose of the trailer and put the inverter, battery and equipment under it. There is a cell hotspot and raspberry pi that controls the vent fans, exterior lights, etc so its a fully self contained, mobile workshop I can take wherever. I usually park it way out back on my property.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Listen to this guy, made a solar powered trailer/workshop and battery storage is the biggest limitation. If you get 3 days of bad weather the battery drains and you go offline. Or you spend tons of money over sizing the system and the batteries are wasted 95% time. Its a game of numbers and use cases.
- Comment on If you’re in the market for a $1,900 color E Ink monitor, one of them exists now - Ars Technica 2 months ago:
Plus $1000 a year electric bill
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
33% have severely deficient IQ
- Comment on I'm a 64-year-old Amazon employee. Retirement wasn't even on my radar, but now I have to leave due to RTO mandates. 2 months ago:
Which is why not enough younger employees want to climb the ladder anymore. I avoid promotions too, just not worth it. There is going to be a lot of unqualified clowns getting promoted and running companies in the future just because they were willing to eat enough shit.
- Comment on How to send backups on multiple location? 2 months ago:
I went a little crazy and setup my own wireguard VPN network, all the remote hosts connect to the VPN and the primary server connects to each of them and pushes backups. Because I use btrfs and lots of snapshots I use btrbk, annoying to setup but now my hourly snapshots get pushed everywhere, minimal bandwidth and it flawlessly has worked for years.
- Comment on Incremental backups to optical media: tar, dar, or something else? 2 months ago:
I do this except the offline copies are raspberry pis, they grab an update then turn their network card off and go black for about a month. Randomly they turn on the network card, pull a fresh copy and go black again. Safe from randomware and automatic.
- Comment on Old-school Creative Sound Blaster cards repaired and demoed 2 months ago:
Are those old ISA sound blasters worth much? I think I have a few in the basement…
- Comment on Off-grid hosting 2 months ago:
I have a trailer (workshop) with solar power, batteries, a raspberry pi controlling everything and a cellular hot spot. It pumps all the solar, battery information and light controls over MQTT and home assistant over cellular. So yes its possible, what do you want to do?
- Comment on The Most Memorable Overclocking-Friendly CPUs 2 months ago:
I overclocked my socket A athlon to the moon and loved every minute of its partial instability. Still have that CPU in the attic.
- Comment on am i insane? 2 months ago:
I’m not a doctor and a dude, just speaking from personal experiences and shared stories, but are you on birth control? Birth control pills made my wife emotionally unstable when she was PMSing and finally she had enough and stopped taking them. It was a night and day difference and she hasn’t taken them since. Just food for thought.
- Comment on Power is not energy: why the difference matters [Technology Connections] 2 months ago:
Power is a measurement of the velocity and volume of water flowing through a pipe at a given instant*
I’m so sorry, I am officially ‘that guy’, taking a simple analogy and making it annoying…
- Comment on Samsung CEO Jong-hee Han has died 3 months ago:
My 16 year old Samsung TV would like to argue otherwise! It’s a beast and 1080p is plenty good for me! But my Samsung kitchen? Holy crap it’s all so terrible…
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
This comment hits hard. There are a lot of ignorant people in my life that spout idiotic stuff and I brush it off, I disengage. I could take the time to listen, converse and correct but I don’t. I disengage, I brush it off as just “Oh boy, there goes crazy Joe rambling again! But generally he’s a good guy so I’ll tolerate it”. I need to start taking the time to push back and correct people I care about so they understand people are judging them when stupid things are said. Thank you!
- Comment on Saving this stylish amber monitor (Leading Edge DR-1240) | Adrian's Digital Basement 3 months ago:
Weird timing. I’m moving next week into a new home and the previous owner left this monitor with the computer in the attic. It was going to be a winter project to get it all operating, and I’m an electrical engineer with plenty of equipment. Thanks for the video, now I have a north star!
- Comment on Fucking leeches 3 months ago:
I rent two apartments in a state where all of that is not possible. Evictions take months and if repairs are not made quickly the tenant is legally entitled to withhold rent. But while on the topic I am most certainly on the hook for inflationary swings in:
- any and all repairs
- gas and electric
- insurance
- property taxes
- landscaping and snow removal
There is no free lunch, no one side is correct. Stop pretending this topic is black and white. There are some good landlords, many bad. Same goes for tenants.
- Comment on What host names do you use? 3 months ago:
Shit I thought I was so damn novel. Blast you.
- Comment on Fucking leeches 3 months ago:
Don’t try to talk sense into the senseless.
- Comment on is it wrong/selfish to cut contact with my trump-supporting father? 4 months ago:
You won’t miss him. You’ll miss the idea of who he was
This hits hard with some personal relationships I lost during COVID because they were anti vaccination. Couldn’t be bothered to care how their decisions affect others, that was ‘their problem’.
- Comment on We are becoming the first digital grandparents 4 months ago:
Ditto, my daughter thinks its great.
- Comment on We are becoming the first digital grandparents 4 months ago:
I came into this thread all puffed up with pride, only to be humbled by your post. Humility is important, thank you. Please accept my upvote as an insufficient offering to those who came before us.