czardestructo

@czardestructo@lemmy.world

• ⁨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.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Are those old ISA sound blasters worth much? I think I have a few in the basement…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Off-grid hosting⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨weeks⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

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

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fucking leeches⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ditto, my daughter thinks its great.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We are becoming the first digital grandparents⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨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.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Landing page for all my services⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨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?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Or master and slave boards…