sugar_in_your_tea
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- Comment on Best HDD/SSD for local media hosting 13 hours ago:
Nope, I live in Utah, US, which is mostly coal, natural gas, and solar, in that order, and we’ve been scaling coal back significantly and replacing it with gas and solar (and a little wind). We’re about average for the US:
The average cost per kWh in the U.S. as of January 2024 is 15.45 cents
That said, I heard that our local electricity company wants to hike rates, and that seems to be about $0.03/kWh. So my range would go up to $0.15-0.18/kWh, which still isn’t that crazy.
- Comment on Best HDD/SSD for local media hosting 13 hours ago:
Here’s my current bill:
- usage - 420 kWh
- total - $58.86 (mix of winter and summer usage)
- stated rate - $0.09-0.10/kWh for “block 1”, 0.10-0.12 for “block 2” (they charge more the more you use)
- calculated average rate (inclusive of all fees and credits) - $0.14/kWh
And here’s my previous bill (all summer usage w/ AC and whatnot):
- usage - 522 kWh
- total - $80.17
- stated rate - $0.09/kWh for “block 1,” $0.117/kWh for "block 2"
- calculated average rate - $0.154/kWh
That’s why I gave the $0.12-0.15/kWh range, because it depends on time of year, total usage, etc. It’ll probably be closer to $0.12/kWh next month since we’d use hardly any electricity (we use natural gas for heat).
- Comment on Best HDD/SSD for local media hosting 14 hours ago:
That really depends. If you’ll eventually get a NAS, I recommend a NAS HDD because they do better with 24/7 operation. They also use a bit less power than desktop HDDs (which you shouldn’t get anyway, just get an SSD for your desktop/laptop), if you care about that.
I use two WD Red HDDs in my NAS (just an old desktop PC), and I’ve had Hitachi in the past. I use SSDs exclusively for my gaming desktop and laptop though, because performance is a lot more important than cost.
- Comment on Best HDD/SSD for local media hosting 14 hours ago:
Power costs would have to be bonkers for it to matter.
8TB NAS HDDs are <$200, so even if it uses 15W vs 3W, that’s 12W difference, or 8-9kWh/month. If you pay a ridiculous $0.40/kWh, that’s $40/year. That means the SSDs would pay for themselves after ~15 years, and I’m guessing you’d replace/upgrade them long before then.
But NAS drives use a lot less than 15W, usually around 4-6W idle. So the payoff period is probably closer to 30 years…
- Comment on Migrating from Nextcloud AIO to Owncloud Infinite Scale: Good Idea? 14 hours ago:
I started and ended up bailing. The deciding factor for me was the way data is stored with OCIS (basically hashes), so backup/restore would be a much larger pain. So I’m sticking with Nextcloud as much as I hate PHP and dislike the performance issues.
- Comment on [deleted] 14 hours ago:
I’m honestly happy about this because I think car manufacturers are inflating prices and pocketing the difference. I feel like subsidies in general are pretty inefficient uses of taxpayer dollars.
I think we should pair this with a carbon tax so gas cars are less desirable, as well as reducing tariffs on EVs to keep the market competitive. However, we all know that’s not happening.
But on net, I think pre-credit EV prices will come down a bit to stay competitive with gas cars. It won’t be quite as attractive as with the credit, but estimates show a 7% difference by 2030 (35% w/ credit vs 28% w/o credit), so the difference isn’t huge. I think we’ve already crossed the tipping point where adoption will be pretty quick, so this just puts a small damper on that adoption.
- Comment on Manjaro is experimenting with **opt-out telemetry | Hacker News (More like op-out spying) 16 hours ago:
I highly recommend BTRFS as your root filesystem, and then configure snapshots. This way if an update goes sideways (pretty rare), you can roll back and wait for fixes.
I haven’t used Arch for a few years, but my openSUSE Tumbleweed install came with it by default, and it has saved me a few times in the 7 or so years I’ve used it. Maybe the new instructions include that, idk, but you’ll be glad you have it.
- Comment on Manjaro is experimenting with **opt-out telemetry | Hacker News (More like op-out spying) 16 hours ago:
Installing Arch is a lot easier than fixing a bad Manjaro update. I get that it’s intimidating, but it’s really quite easy if you can follow instructions, but budget a couple hours your first time because you’ll probably second-guess everything. The second time should be more like 30 min.
- Comment on Manjaro is experimenting with **opt-out telemetry | Hacker News (More like op-out spying) 16 hours ago:
And it’s a one-time thing, then you just
pacman - Syuinto the sunset. Consider setting up btrfs with snapshots, which is a life saver when an update goes bad. I use snapper on openSUSE Tumbleweed and it has saved me from bad NVIDIA updates a couple of times, which is the main reason I switched from Arch a few years ago. - Comment on Comcast, Disney, and IBM Are Among Advertisers Returning to X After Ad Freeze 17 hours ago:
We dropped a few months ago, mostly because we were mostly just watching Bluey, so I just picked up Bluey DVDs and cut the service.
- Comment on Comcast, Disney, and IBM Are Among Advertisers Returning to X After Ad Freeze 17 hours ago:
I think you’re also missing a huge part of it. People don’t care about Gaza nearly as much as people here think, nor do people care about her race or gender much.
You can see a massive shift in betting odds and polls around the time she had an interview where she said she wouldn’t have done anything different than Biden. My general perception is that she didn’t really have a plan, and I think that’s true for the public. I also think the public didn’t like the comparison of Trump with Hitler. Trump, on the other hand, claimed to have a plan for fixing the economy, and I think that resonated with people, especially since the economy was good under Trump. They see the inflation during COVID as Biden’s problem (I personally blame supply chain disruption mostly, and also Trump’s spending), and Harris refused to throw Biden under the bus.
I personally blame Harris’s loss on three things:
- late entry - Biden should’ve dropped out sooner so they could have a real primary
- lack of real difference vs Biden
- running mate choice - should’ve picked Shapiro from Pennsylvania, not Walz
I don’t think her being female hurt her, and it probably helped her appeal to female voters vs Trump, and Obama winning implies race doesn’t matter much either. To me, it comes down to policy and lack of a primary.
- Comment on This is a simple and satisfying way to fight Trump and Musk | It's time to delete X 1 day ago:
Yup, voted each time. Didn’t matter though, my state’s elections are almost never competitive. But it only took a few minutes and I voted at home, so at least I didn’t spend all afternoon in line.
- Comment on The Onion buys rightwing conspiracy theory site Infowars with plans to make it ‘very funny, very stupid’ 2 days ago:
Make it $0.01. No need to waste too much money.
- Comment on This is a simple and satisfying way to fight Trump and Musk | It's time to delete X 2 days ago:
Yup. Here’s what I did:
- recommend others not vote for him in 2016
- didn’t vote for him in 2016
- avoided TruthSocial and other nonsense during his first term
- encouraged friends and family to not vote for him in 2020
- didn’t vote for him in 2020
- continued to avoid TruthSocial
- encouraged friends and family to not vote for him in 2024
- didn’t vote for him in 2024
See a pattern?
- Comment on Patient gamers, which games have you discovered/played this week? 2 days ago:
I just started Lair of the Clockwork God and I think it’s definitely worth a look. You play as two characters, one who is “point and click” (can’t jump, only move and interact) and the other is a platformer (can jump, can’t interact). It’s pretty interesting, and the puzzles have been fairly easy but still cllever.
- Comment on Patient gamers, what are your favorite OSTs? 1 week ago:
Idk, the jury is still out on that one… :)
- Comment on What is your favorite Halloween older game? 2 weeks ago:
I played a bit of Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice last night for Halloween, and it definitely has that spooky Halloween vibe. Definitely check it out if you get a chance.
I’m not going to say it’s my favorite Halloween game (that goes to either Grim Fandango or Costume Quest), but it has been a worthwhile experience so far.
- Comment on What is your favorite Halloween older game? 2 weeks ago:
I know I played Curse of Monkey Island, but I don’t think I played the first two, I’ll certainly give them a try. :)
- Comment on What is your favorite Halloween older game? 2 weeks ago:
Ooh, I loved Grim Fandango as a kid, but my disk kept breaking around the end of the game. I’ll have to go replay it, it has probably been long enough to forget most of the puzzle solutions.
- Comment on What is your favorite Halloween older game? 2 weeks ago:
I played about an hour of it, and it’s okay. Expect a little less platformer and more action.
- Comment on What is your favorite Halloween older game? 2 weeks ago:
Came here to say this.
I like me some horror games around Halloween, but this is by far my favorite actual Halloween game.
- Comment on Typing monkey would be unable to produce 'Hamlet' within the lifetime of the universe, study finds 2 weeks ago:
As well as a single monkey, they also did the calculations using the current global population of around 200,000 chimpanzees, and they assumed a rather productive typing speed of one key every second until the end of the universe in about 10100 years.
They did 200k monkeys, so a little overkill from your expectations.
- Comment on Typing monkey would be unable to produce 'Hamlet' within the lifetime of the universe, study finds 2 weeks ago:
The results reveal that it is possible (around a 5% chance) for a single chimp to type the word “bananas” in its own lifetime.
That sounds a little low to me. B and N are right next to each other, so I’d expect them to mash left and right among similar keys a lot of the time. Then again, I think we’re expecting some randomness here, not an actual chimp at a typewriter, but that’s probably more likely to reproduce longer works than an actual chimp.
- Comment on Sweden, Norway rethink plans for cashless societies over fears that fully digital payment systems would leave them vulnerable to Russian security threats 2 weeks ago:
unless you mean big purchase emergencies
Yup, exactly that. I’m in the US and keep a few hundred in $100 bills, with the rest being smaller denominations. I usually have about $1k in cash in a safe, with lots of small bills. So that should be plenty to handle a couple weeks worth of groceries, or a couple large purchases (e.g. paying someone cash to move a tree or something).
- Comment on Sweden, Norway rethink plans for cashless societies over fears that fully digital payment systems would leave them vulnerable to Russian security threats 2 weeks ago:
Weird, maybe debit works differently than credit? I haven’t used a debit card for autopay for several years.
- Comment on Sweden, Norway rethink plans for cashless societies over fears that fully digital payment systems would leave them vulnerable to Russian security threats 2 weeks ago:
Is it a new account? Or is it just a new debit card number that references the same checking account?
With credit cards it’s a bit more obvious what’s going on because there’s a clear difference between closing an account (requires another credit check), cancelling a card (changes number, but doesn’t change underlying account), and reissuing a card (same number, just replaces the physical card). I’ve done all three with debit cards, and at least here, cancelling a card just means those numbers are no longer valid and you’ll get new numbers, but the account is in-tact (and you retain the same account number) and autopay is redirected to the new number automatically.
I haven’t had a debit card replacement impact the account except one time, when the checking account number was embedded in the debit card number (small bank, never again), and that was like 15 years ago.
- Comment on Feedback about our name: someone's concerns on sharing 2 weeks ago:
Eh, I chose this instance because it was one of the top 5 or so, not because of the name. I would probably hesitate to share a link from this instance, but honestly, I don’t do that anyway, I generally just share links to actual articles linked here.
So for me, it’s really a non-issue. I have much larger concerns about how Lemmy works in general than naming of any one site, such as the one mentioned in the OP (no indication from domain name that it’s a Lemmy instance, one instance lagging on updates can break when viewed from other instances, etc). So to me, it’s going to stay niche because the user experience kind of sucks.
- Comment on Microsoft wants $30 to let you keep using Windows 10 securely for another year 2 weeks ago:
Windows will be delivered as a service
Which is largely true, there have been a number of “service packs” that were released as regular updates throughout the Windows 10 lifespan. So it definitely seems they want people to not think about the specific Windows version they’re on. From that article:
Microsoft could opt for Windows 11 or Windows 12 in future, but if people upgrade to Windows 10 and the regular updates do the trick then everyone will just settle for just “Windows” without even worrying about the version number.
Windows 7, for example, had one major service pack, with a few isolated updates, whereas Windows 10 had a major update about every 6 months, and each one of those checkpoints was supported for about a year and a half. The final update was at the end of 2022, and it’s support runs 3 years.
So yeah, I think they met what they said, but the messaging wasn’t particularly clear how long that support would be provided for.
- Comment on Microsoft wants $30 to let you keep using Windows 10 securely for another year 2 weeks ago:
They weren’t told that, that was an off-hand comment by an employee (not even a spokesperson) that the media took and ran with.
- Comment on M4 Mac Mini Power Button Has New Bottom Location 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, I used one of those and it made no sense. My Logitech MX Master has it on the front and works perfectly with my work Mac. Sometimes obvious design choices should be followed…