czardestructo

@czardestructo@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fucking leeches⁩ ⁨⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Shit I thought I was so damn novel. Blast you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fucking leeches⁩ ⁨⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t try to talk sense into the senseless.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨is it wrong/selfish to cut contact with my trump-supporting father?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ditto, my daughter thinks its great.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We are becoming the first digital grandparents⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Landing page for all my services⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I host it on the host that runs the script and proxy it. I have one mission critial pi that is my uptime bot, pi hole and backup VPN if my elaborate server falls on its face. But you could easily use docker volumes too, and have the script push to that folder.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Landing page for all my services⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yep, here is the yaml but redacted

  - type: entities
              title: Communication
              entities:
                - type: weblink
                  name: Webmail
                  url: https://postale.io/
                  icon: mdi:email
                - type: weblink
                  name: Mattermost
                  url: https://mm.stuff.com
                  icon: mdi:chat
                - type: weblink
                  name: Mumble Server
                  url: https://mumble.stuff.com
                  icon: mdi:radio-handheld
  

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Landing page for all my services⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Similar, but more fancy, I have a bash script that runs every 15 minutes and ingests a config file. The config file has a super simple CSV format of every service I have. It checks that all the services are operational and generates an HTML file from it. If any services are down the HTML will show its down, otherwise its just a helpful link.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Landing page for all my services⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I just made a landing page in HASS, if you’re already running three instances could you make a page in one?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Got myself some energy monitoring Zigbee plugs and made an interesting discovery⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Older speakers like that use always on transformers, constantly wasting energy to keep the core energized. You’re correct those cannot be made any more, they must use efficient switch mode supplies.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Best HDD/SSD for local media hosting⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Thats friggin bananas. Do you live somewhere with lots of hydro power? Your cost is less than 1/3 mine…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Best HDD/SSD for local media hosting⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My SSDs use negligible power at idle, I only noticed a 1w increase when I installed two. Almost ‘free’. Also your 0.14kwh is almost certainly just the cost to generate the power minus the delivery fees. Where I live the delivery fees double my true per kWh cost. Double check your bill and divide your monthly consumption by your monthly payment to find the real cost.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Best HDD/SSD for local media hosting⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  When I bought them 2 years ago power in MA was $0.46 per kWh, this included transmission costs and all the other fees. 15W cost me $4.80 a month, so $57.6 a year and $230 over 4 years. At the time 14TB mechanical disks were about $300 so it was about a $270 ‘premium’ for solid state over mechanical so I exaggerated the ROI, but to me the 2x price premium was worth it for silence and no latency on retrieving my data. So in summary the ROI for me was more like 8 years, ignoring the many advantages of SSD.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Best HDD/SSD for local media hosting⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Does no one care about power consumption? Mechanical disks use, in my experience, 7-15w all day all the time just idling. If you live in a high energy cost area the ROI on going SSD can be as low as 3-4 years. If you can afford it, splurge for SSD. I spent ~$800 on two 8tb SSDs and I’m very happy with the choice.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If there are motherboards and daughterboards, are there fatherboards and sonboards?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Or master and slave boards…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Network Switch⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I bought all the gear to do 10gbe but ultimately went back to 1gig simply because the power consumption. The switch alone used 20w at idle and each NIC burned 8w and I couldn’t justify it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PhotoPrism vs Apple Photos currently?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So you have photoprism pointed to a folder but you push photos into the folder witb syncthing. How do you trigger the re-index or its somehow automatic? I run my photoprism in docker and I always had to manually trigger the index after changes to the folder.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PhotoPrism vs Apple Photos currently?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  As someone who has and still used photoprism for over two years and donated heavily…steer clear. Their update cycle is slow and the things they keep adding don’t seem helpful. Still no multi-user support. I’m just going to start using Nextcloud and Memories app going forward.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mini PC for Jellyfin⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Most folks ignore laptops, but if you’re OK with USB storage or getting the special caddy to install the internal 2.5" drive you can get great deals on laptops with dedicated GPUs. This one idles around 4W witb the screen off.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Intel's stock drops 30% overnight —company sheds $39 billion in market cap | As of now, Intel's market value is a fraction of Nvidia's worth and less than half of AMD's⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I use the onboard CPU of my ryzen 5600g for my jellyfin and nextcloud (memories app) duties and it works flawless.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Private Security Camera⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  May or may not be an option for you but buy any camera that supports rtsp, only allow that traffic from their network through and block everything else. Works fine for me and my Amcrest cameras. You could accomplish this with a pi and a USB network card and some basic iptables.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨btrfs drive replacement⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Been using it for over a year on two 8tb SSDs in strip and 14tb as mirror. This is on Debian and its flawless and wonderful. I run btrkbk hourly for snapshots, backups to remote locations and house keeping with 6 months of hourly snaps. Life is great.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Low usage power saving recommendations request?⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I have the micro form factor I assume the same as you. Basically just a laptop in a small desktop case. I never installed tlp I’ll have to give that a shot but I’m pretty sure it’s optimized. I have two as servers and one as a router and I’d love to get it down to 12w total! I monitor the whole server rack with an iotawatt and all my servers and networking gear hovers around 75w idle.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Low usage power saving recommendations request?⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d question that. I have three 3080 and they’re consistently about 8W each with one ssd and onboard graphics. I even went so far to splice three barrel jacks to a single 60w power supply that powers all three to avoid the losses of an additional 2 power supplies and this gets me the 8w idle power with Debian and throttling.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Gamers Nexus] Scam Warning: MSI Exposes 600,000+ Warranty Records⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They exposed the intranet RMA portal used by MSI customer reps to review RMA claims, customer communications and all the personal info of the customers. The portal has a nifty button to dump the whole database to a CSV file going back to 2017.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it better to rent a cheap/shitty place, or rent something suitable that you struggle to afford?⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I would argue living below your means is always better. Getting a cheap mortgage you can add an extra $100 or $200 a month to for the first five years makes a TREMENDOUS difference in how much interest you pay over the life of the mortgage and how soon you own it. The first five years of a mortgage are so important, all your payments go to interest. I’ve turned all my 30 mortgages into 15-20 year mortgages by over payments and it’s served me extremely well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨China is attempting to mirror the entire GitHub over to their own servers, users report⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I didn’t down vote you. I’m not saying all Chinese engineers are bad, I’m just saying a lot are bad or don’t care enough about details just execution as fast and with as little effort as possible.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨China is attempting to mirror the entire GitHub over to their own servers, users report⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You haven’t worked with a lot of Chinese engineers, have you? www.chinaexpatsociety.com/…/the-chabuduo-mindset

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gateway 2000 Computer - Brand New - Free to a good home!⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Found a taker, hopefully it goes to it’s forever home on Saturday!