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- Comment on Make me feel like a man 6 days ago:
Stop hoggin’ the froggin’.
- Comment on Make me feel like a man 6 days ago:
Is there a “terrible taste but great execution” community on here?
- Comment on Make me feel like a man 6 days ago:
Oh shiiiiiit that’s the good stuff.
Hell. Yes.
- Comment on Make me feel like a man 6 days ago:
/c/the_pack@lemmy.world
Basically everything in there will make you say “HELL YEAH” and may also inspire spontaneous hog cranking.
- Comment on Would a cheap, used raspberry pi 3 make for a good test server for following random self hosted tutorials? 1 week ago:
No, it’s nothing sinister. Most user-facing business workstations run Windows and have a Windows COA or, more recently, have the Windows product key baked into firmware, so it’s easy-peasy for the seller to install a fresh, working copy of Windows. The Dell WYSE devices are Thin Clients, which are used to access Windows (or another OS) running on another PC or a server somewhere so the Thin Client doesn’t have or need a license; this means it’s not easy for the seller to install a hassle-free version of Windows since it will immediately start pestering the user for a license and for novices they’ll assume the computer is broken and return it. The lightweight Thin Client OS they use is neither use nor ornament outside an enterprise settings so they don’t bother reinstalling that. Obviously the seller could install Linux but the majority of people who are okay with Linux would probably sneer and say “ugh, Distro X? I only use Distro Y” and reinstall anyway, so it’s easier just to sell it without an OS.
- Comment on Would a cheap, used raspberry pi 3 make for a good test server for following random self hosted tutorials? 1 week ago:
Yeah, that’s pretty good. The only things I’d be wary of with that particular listing are that it doesn’t come with a power supply (these normally take laptop-style PSUs) and 64GB of storage might not be enough once you start to get to grips with it though you could easily upgrade the NVMe SSD (or hook up an external USB drive).
But aside from that it’s a smart little system and will handle a the setup I described with no issues. The J4105 can be sluggish with multitasking in a desktop environment but for ‘headless’ setups it’s excellent and uses very little power.
- Comment on Would a cheap, used raspberry pi 3 make for a good test server for following random self hosted tutorials? 1 week ago:
No.
Unless there’s something about the RPi that you really want - GPIO, say - it’s not a good choice, especially not the 1GB model you mentioned. Virtually any used desktop or laptop PC from the last fifteen years will be more useful; if you’ve not done so already, search EBay for “USFF”. Those are desktop PCs the size of paperback books. Businesses love them and have them in fleets which means the marketplace tends to get cycled out naturally after a few years and can be had for €30 and up. Unlike a RPi 3, they usually come with storage included (and a proper SSD/HD rather than an SD card), a good quality power supply, plenty of I/O and, if course, a nice solid protective case.
Example: ebay.us/m/TxL4yR
Slap PROXMOX on that and you’ll have the seed of a solid home lab. With 8GB RAM you’ll have enough to run VMs for OpenWRT, Home Assistant, Yuno Host, and still have enough resources left over for your Debian tinkering box. Plus, by using PROXMOX you do away with the need for a KVM since you can either SSH into the VM or use PROXMOX’s web UI to access the console and use a GUI if that’s more your speed.
- Comment on Pebble Time 2 has screws 2 weeks ago:
Wasn’t that actually on the cards at one point?
- Comment on How do you handle junk email? 2 weeks ago:
Get a domain name and use that for your email; most providers let you set a catch-all that delivers everything to one place. So if you got, say, strawberrypigtails.egg you could give every service you sign up for a different address: ebay@strawberrypigtails.egg, sdf.org@strawberrypigtails.egg, pornhub@strawberrypigtails.egg and so on. Then, when you start getting loads of spam, you can look at where the email was sent to rather that where it came from and either take action against that service or just block emails sent to that address.
- Comment on Holy shiiiiit 2 weeks ago:
Dunno. I’d be satisfied if he died on his own, forgotten, abandoned, somewhere cold and dark.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
One recessed spotlight per square meter of floor space, cold white, no dimmer.
- Comment on These should be brought back 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Screw it, I’m installing Linux 3 weeks ago:
There’s a name for everything. There’s probably a name for there being a name for everything.
- Comment on PLEASE BE CONSIDERATE 4 weeks ago:
FFS, what’s wrong with you dumbasses? Watching YouTube on your phone or on the instrument cluster is fucking insane and you ought to be ashamed of yourself. Seriously, I don’t care if you’re joking or not, grow the fuck up.
Eye strain is no laughing matter. Use a tablet.
- Comment on PLEASE BE CONSIDERATE 4 weeks ago:
HELL YEAH, BROTHER, I’M CRANKIN’ M- oh, sorry, wrong community.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
I have a lot of time for Eaton kit. As others have said, not cheap but seems to work well. I’ve not used APC in a while but they used to make good hardware, even if their software was dogshit.
- Comment on Ain't no one breaking in 4 weeks ago:
“You don’t need 2FA, just make sure to pick a good password.”
- Comment on Guilty 5 weeks ago:
I always keep my cars spotless. Slightly scented, never more than a little dusty, some dirt on the carpets but nothing more.
Now my home, on the other hand. That’s a fucking pigsty.
- Comment on Remember to do your update 5 weeks ago:
Don’t forget to install SysInternals PageDefrag
- Comment on Study Claims 4K/8K TVs Aren't Much Better Than HD To Your Eyes 1 month ago:
Yeah. They went from counting pixels by rows to columns. A 16:9 widescreen 1080 display is 1920×1080, and most manufacturers are happy to call 1920 “2K”.
- Comment on Condiment udders 1 month ago:
I’ve never seen these used for condiments, but I used to see these being used all the time on soap dispensers in workshops.
- Comment on The Sodium-Ion Battery Revolution Has Started 1 month ago:
The YAVNXLT unit offers “elegant and productive for optimum serenity”, but the WZNGLPO says it can “bringing security for the family, business and happiness”.
- Comment on Fight me 1 month ago:
🤓 ACKSHUALLY
It’s not possible for a heat pump - or anything - to even be 100% efficient, let alone 400%. Efficiency is measure of how much of the input energy gets converted to useful output energy, and since heat pumps don’t actually create heat the useful output is the compressor’s ability to pump refrigerant about. The Coefficient of Performance - the ratio between energy put in and useful work done - is 400% for a heat pump (give or take).
- Comment on Huge internet outage live blog: Amazon, Disney+, Hulu, HBO Max and more experiencing issues 1 month ago:
When you’re not home it becomes part of the alarm system. When you are home it can turn on the lights or heating (or extractor fan in the bathroom) and you can aggregate it with other sensors to measure occupancy to turn those things off again. If you use Home Assistant (or something like it) you can use it to go anything that can be inferred from a door being used.
- Comment on Huge internet outage live blog: Amazon, Disney+, Hulu, HBO Max and more experiencing issues 1 month ago:
Don’t listen to him. Sure it may take a few hours a day over the course of a month or so to get right, but with the time you’ll save from all that automation you’ll break even in a few hundred years - and they it’s all gravy!
- Comment on People regret buying Amazon smart displays after being bombarded with ads 1 month ago:
You’ll pay through the nose, but look at digital signage panels. They are bristling with I/O, configurable to the nth degree, wonderfully over-engineered and utterly free from bloat.
- Comment on I will be taking no followup questions. Thank you for your time 2 months ago:
A phone would be a bit much, but an ereader with a solar charger loaded up with Wikipedia and a chunk of Project Gutenberg would probably last with a bit of care.
- Comment on I will be taking no followup questions. Thank you for your time 2 months ago:
That’s a joke-turned-plot element from one of the Hitchhiker’s Guide books. The protagonist, a human everyman stranded with a primitive culture on a distant world realises he has no idea how electricity, steam engines, medicine, etc works but he becomes a respected member of their community by making sandwiches.
- Comment on Dawg... 2 months ago:
So to be clear: there is no correlation between weed use and hotdog use, other than that they’re both in decline. This means that they created this graph showing two unrelated datasets for no reason other than that they could. Or, maybe, because they wanted to use the cursed image of a spliff in a hotdog bun.
- Comment on At 1% 2 months ago:
IF the phone can output enough power with it’s OTG port AND has the correct drivers for that cheap-ass looking USB framebuffer graphics thing AND that’s an active HDMI to VGA adapter rather than some shitty vendor-specific implementation based on some unholy bastardisation AND the phone supports external displays… then I still don’t think it’d work, tbh (but it won’t (it might though (it won’t))).
