sugar_in_your_tea
@sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on How your showerhead and fridge got roped into the culture wars 2 hours ago:
And reducing grass in desert areas.
- Comment on Windows 10 LTSC – the version that won't expire for years 2 hours ago:
Exactly. Use what you want. For me, that’s Linux, and for my SO, that’s Windows. It really doesn’t need to be a religious thing.
- Comment on Windows 10 LTSC – the version that won't expire for years 2 hours ago:
That’s an impossible metric. No OS will be 1:1 equal to another, that’s just ridiculous. But plenty of distros are ready today to replace common use cases. Maybe it won’t replacy yours, but it can replace a lot of people’s.
- Comment on Windows 10 LTSC – the version that won't expire for years 10 hours ago:
Yeah, if you’re interested, you should give it a shot.
- Comment on Windows 10 LTSC – the version that won't expire for years 1 day ago:
Exactly. I’ve been Linux exclusive for something like 15 years, and I’m usually the first to tell people to stick with Windows if there’s even one piece of software they say they’ll miss. If they really want to use Linux, they’ll ignore me. If they would’ve bailed when something didn’t work perfectly, they would likely write it off and never try it again, so it’s better to leave that door open IMO.
- Comment on Elon Musk: your new Tesla will drive from the factory floor, to your house 'this year' 1 day ago:
I suppose that’s fair. But you’re unlikely to see much difference with 1k miles.
- Comment on Airbnb will now show users the total cost of their stay right away 1 day ago:
I’ve heard about them, but as you say, they don’t show up on searches. I’ll have to look harder then.
- Comment on Airbnb will now show users the total cost of their stay right away 1 day ago:
Yup, I’m absolutely a fan of georgist tax policies.
- Comment on Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remake Reveal Livestream (starts in 23 hours) 2 days ago:
Yeah, that’s what I’m hoping for. I don’t need gameplay or anything, I just want to know more-or-less what the status is. As in, are we likely to see a release in the next couple years? Or is this a 5-years out situation?
- Comment on Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remake Reveal Livestream (starts in 23 hours) 2 days ago:
Right. Yet there’s zero timeline for release, and I’d like a timeline for release.
- Comment on Elon Musk: your new Tesla will drive from the factory floor, to your house 'this year' 2 days ago:
Yeah, I don’t bet w/ human lives, I’m not an insurance company.
- Comment on Elon Musk: your new Tesla will drive from the factory floor, to your house 'this year' 2 days ago:
It’s not like it’s going to plug itself in
It could stop at Tesla “dealerships” along the way and have the staff plug them in, or have fancy robotic chargers at just those locations. Surely there are enough “dealerships” that this is feasible for most people.
- Comment on Elon Musk: your new Tesla will drive from the factory floor, to your house 'this year' 2 days ago:
Yeah, I live like 10 miles from a Tesla dealership, about 1k from a Tesla factory. If having the car drive to me is cheaper than loading it on a truck and taking it to my local dealership, I’m fine with it having 1k miles.
- Comment on Elon Musk: your new Tesla will drive from the factory floor, to your house 'this year' 2 days ago:
Eh, I live <1k miles from a Tesla factory, and I wouldn’t be too annoyed at having 1k miles on it when it gets to me. Knock the price down a bit since you no longer need to ship it everywhere and we’re good.
- Comment on Elon Musk: your new Tesla will drive from the factory floor, to your house 'this year' 2 days ago:
Surely it would be Tesla since you don’t actually have possession of it, right? Right??
- Comment on Elon Musk: your new Tesla will drive from the factory floor, to your house 'this year' 2 days ago:
If you double it, you might actually be somewhat close to hearing a believable date for the actual time frame.
- Comment on U.S. Chipmakers Fear They Are Ceding China’s A.I. Market to Huawei 2 days ago:
Eh, most of what he has done can be undone with relatively little long-term impact. If we get someone good w/ diplomacy, I think everything would be largely fixed in one term.
- Comment on U.S. Chipmakers Fear They Are Ceding China’s A.I. Market to Huawei 2 days ago:
Yes, he is, his whole appeal is that he’s an outsider. And Reagan was also an outlier, he was an actor that decided to get into politics.
Trump ending up as President in 2016 was largely an accident. You can see the complete 180 by media orgs and the top brass of the GOP once he got the nomination as evidence of that. They had all geared up for a Jeb Bush nomination, and that obviously never materialized. 2024 was a bit more intentional, because he wanted to run again and nobody in the party really dared stand in his way.
That said, Trump is very much an outsider and got elected mostly on that basis. He’s a result of a decade or two of frustrations w/ the establishment, and now we’re seeing what that actually looks like. His approval rating took a serious hit during the tariff nonsense, and it’s only back now that he’s not doing what he promised to do. I don’t think Americans really want what he has to offer, they just want something different from what they got before.
- Comment on Trump’s Social Media Surveillance: Social Scoring by Another Name 2 days ago:
😢
- Comment on U.S. Chipmakers Fear They Are Ceding China’s A.I. Market to Huawei 2 days ago:
Hopefully other nations appreciate that Trump is a bit of an outlier.
- Comment on Trump’s Social Media Surveillance: Social Scoring by Another Name 2 days ago:
Sort of? Text and email mostly work.
Though I’m not the sentimental type and generally just make new friends. I’ve moved to a different state, so it’s not like get-togethers are happening.
- Comment on NUT server location 2 days ago:
Sure. I do run some things on the host, but I do default to containers unless I have a good reason to avoid them. Containers make it really easy to move to a new piece of hardware, and I want my disaster recovery process to be as close to:
- set up new device
- restore data
- copy down container configs
- start containers
Some UPSs communicate over the network, and if that’s what you have, containers are a fantastic solution. If you have a USB or serial (??) one, then yeah, maybe the host will give less trouble, just make sure to not forget to document the setup and config.
- Comment on Trump’s Social Media Surveillance: Social Scoring by Another Name 2 days ago:
Sure. I deleted my Facebook >10 years ago, and I haven’t missed it.
Just make sure to solve the real problem though. The police will still eventually find your posts even if you’re using Lemmy or something else relatively niche. Just don’t post crimes.
- Comment on U.S. Chipmakers Fear They Are Ceding China’s A.I. Market to Huawei 2 days ago:
preventing USA from having certain rare earth minerals
I think this is overblown. The rare earth minerals can absolutely be sourced elsewhere, it’s just a lot cheaper to get them from China.
But yeah, maybe the US will be the loser here, that really depends on how much Trump sticks to his guns. I hope he gets ousted before he can do irreparable harm…
- Comment on Trump’s Social Media Surveillance: Social Scoring by Another Name 2 days ago:
And ideally don’t commit crimes. But if you do, don’t post about them on any social media, or anywhere for that matter.
- Comment on Is it useful to create your own Mastodon instance? 2 days ago:
all new posts and comments inside that community will be mirrored to your instance
And that’s my biggest issue w/ Lemmy. It seems to scale okay, provided you have enough users to make all that traffic worthwhile. However, I’m unlikely to actually self-host since I really don’t want a copy of literally everything I sub to. Ideally, I could host my own authentication server and only the communities I host (which would probably be 0), and I’d just fetch whatever I needed from wherever it’s hosted.
- Comment on NUT server location 2 days ago:
What problems?
A VM certainly seems like overkill, but a simple podman container should be pretty problem-free.
- Comment on Beelink ME mini is a NAS with an Intel N200 processor and support for up to 6 SSDs 2 days ago:
I’m considering it. Our storage needs are modest (8TB capacity, 2-3TB stored), our HDDs are getting long in the tooth, and I want to downsize so it can fit under my bed and plug directly into the router (it’s currently connecting over wifi). So something relatively inexpensive could convince me to switch.
- Comment on Beelink ME mini is a NAS with an Intel N200 processor and support for up to 6 SSDs 2 days ago:
PCIe 3.0 is 1 GB/s per lane. So nothing life changing, but still reasonably fast (way faster a HDD). If you rarely need swap, you should be fine for the few times you do.
- Comment on Beelink ME mini is a NAS with an Intel N200 processor and support for up to 6 SSDs 2 days ago:
Sure. I just don’t see myself needing more than 8GB RAM, especially w/ fast NVMe drives as swap. It’s a simple NAS running Jellyfin (max 1-2 clients) and a handful of other services.
If I need more RAM, chances are I’ll also need more CPU as well, in which case a larger upgrade is in order. If I truly only need more RAM, I could pretty easily move some services to an SBC like a Raspberry Pi.
It’s certainly a bummer, but not a deal breaker. If the price is right and I can find inexpensive enough NVMe drives, I can compromise a bit on RAM.