JustEnoughDucks
@JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl
- Comment on Microsoft Office has been renamed to “Microsoft 365 Copilot app” 3 days ago:
On the bright side, this change has been around for 9 months at least because they had already changed it when I was doing IT stuff at my last job and it was impossible to find where to actually download the office suite.
- Comment on What are good option for self hosting home security camera? 5 days ago:
Or Hikvision for very similar cameras at an actually affordable price (but you HAVE to block then from the internet and/or put them on an isolated VLAN because they send everything back home).
Reolink also makes gold budget cameras, especially their doorbell camera.
- Comment on US Trade Dominance Will Soon Begin to Crack 1 week ago:
Since 1981 the large decline began. Like 80% of bad policies and shitting on the working class in america can be traced back to the 80s… I wonder what happened then.
Kamala would just have been a party line corporate puppet like Obama 2.0. But undoubtedly 100x better than trump.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
And by “tending to last longer” it is good to note that it almost always lasts 5x-10x longer, as in you only need to charge it once a month instead of every few days with medium reading, depending on backlight usage.
When I only read a few pages a day because of my schedule, my battery lasts over 6 months easily. Meanwhile my unused iPad has to be charged every week or so even if it is used 0 minutes.
- Comment on Did Microsoft do anything right in 2025? Wins, fails, and WTF moments 2 weeks ago:
They updated the Lens app (pretty much the best scanning app available) UI and haven’t enshittified it! I call that a win! I wish I could now pin it to a specific version on the play store.
- Comment on What are some unique Games to host server's of? 3 weeks ago:
V-rising
A sort of diablo-style game where you are the bad guy vampire. Very fun, but the damn server doesn’t pause time when it is empty, so I can only spin it up when I plan to play, not have it on all the time like valheim if my friends want to jump in without me and play
- Comment on surely your hobby can't be that expensive 3 weeks ago:
Isn’t spinning your own yarn an amount of work that you should be saving money? 😂
- Comment on Creating apps like Signal or WhatsApp could be 'hostile activity,' claims UK watchdog 3 weeks ago:
They don’t even stop significantly more crime now… They simply invent new “crimes” and jerk each other off for keeping the streets safe from that minority eating their lunch or going for a walk.
- Comment on My culture also loves music, dancing and telling stories 3 weeks ago:
What, artificial chocolate sprinkles on buttered white bread isn’t peak cuisine?
- Comment on LG Update Installs Unremovable Microsoft Copilot on Smart TVs, Ignites Backlash 3 weeks ago:
When KDE Plasma Bigscreen becomes bigger and usable, then you can plug any Linux device into it (or even get one of those 100€ NUCs) and have a privacy - friendly smart TV.
- Comment on Recommendations for data backup solutions ? 3 weeks ago:
It’s a bit difficult. I don’t have the money for an entire 2nd server on my network and $500 in HDDs just for a backup solution as part of 3/2/1.
I have 3TB of fault-tolerant-ish data in a ZFS mirror then 12TB in a third, single drive full of stuff that I don’t care a ton if I lost (media and stuff mostly)
Maybe I could back up the more needed data to Hetzner or something for cheaper, but it still adds up.
- Comment on Options for remote Wake-on-lan. Or I guess wake on WAN. 5 weeks ago:
Yep, openvpn with factory firmware. It even had a (limited) choice DDNS services for self hosting, on a cheap consumer router. I could never figure out if NAT hairpinning worked though.
Almost all routers have an “advanced” section where you get a lot if these nice options.
I have only bought a ubiquiti device in the last few years though, so I guess it is possible that routers have been enshittified like a lot of tech products with features locked behind a paywall.
- Comment on Options for remote Wake-on-lan. Or I guess wake on WAN. 5 weeks ago:
Sure, but you can’t access your home network anyway if your router is turned off…
I have yet to encounter a router made in the last decade that couldn’t. Asus routers, even my 15 year old tplink archer A7 could, ubiquiti always can, openwrt, pretty sure at work we did testing with a dlink router and it also had that option.
Pretty much if you don’t use a Linksys 100Mbps router from 2005, you can at least do openvpn if not wireguard.
- Comment on Options for remote Wake-on-lan. Or I guess wake on WAN. 5 weeks ago:
You can even use an ESP32 or similar since it just has to perform 1 tiny function.
Getting an WT32-ETH01 knockoff dev board for 15€ or PoE for 25€ and uses <300mW with the wireless modem off. You could even just use a WiFi module for 8€ if you don’t want something wired.
registry.platformio.org/libraries/…/WakeOnLan
There is already an wakeonlan library to generate a packet very easily.
You can even do it in pseudocode with ESPHome if you have HomeAssistant
- Comment on Your old android phone is begging to be a cheap home server! 1 month ago:
Except not on most phones, just a small subset of old phones.
- Comment on Sodium-Ion batteries could lower grid energy storage costs by 80% For cities | Edenicity 2 months ago:
Oh, maybe I misheard the video. I’ll have to watch it again
- Comment on Sodium-Ion batteries could lower grid energy storage costs by 80% For cities | Edenicity 2 months ago:
What about the performance info is wrong, may I ask?
Sodium ion has far higher lab-tested cycle count than standard lithium ion/LiPo (3000-6000 cycles vs 300-500, max 1000 cycles) though in reality since sodium iron batteries are a chemistry that has been around for a few years instead of decades, real world is only 1000-3000 for the first generation while lithium iron phosphate still beats it with 3000-5000 cycles real-world, though that lithium chemistry is significantly more expensive, but indeed relevant to grid storage.
Sodium ion batteries also have a much broader temperature range (-40 to 80C vs -20 to 60C where lithium cells are often capped at 45C to prevent damage).
Charging times: sodium ion can charge between 2C and 3C while lithium ion is recommended to charge <1C. There are a ton of methods to get around that, but those would likely also apply to sodium ion
It falls apart a bit more on density, voltage range, and discharge speed.
Sodium ion can also handle 8C discharge rates, but not up to 10C like lithium, due to their higher internal resistance.
The voltage swing is way larger (4V->1.5V) which isn’t a huge “problem” per-se, but not convenient as all of the current BMS chips and inverters were made for the very low voltage swing of lithium, so you will need seperate ICs or only use 50% of the capacity.
And of course the 30% less density or so.
I don’t think any of those are deal breakers for grid storage or a lot of “general use” when it will be much cheaper as it gets adopted and scaled.
- Comment on Is This The Last PCB You’ll Ever Buy? 2 months ago:
Cool, what does that have to do anything? Are we just swapping facts about ourselves?
I am a professional electronics engineer with experience in high speed data signal integrity analysis, years of circuit and pcb design experience in medical devices, industrial, and consumer electronics, and designing and debugging for EMC.
- Comment on Is This The Last PCB You’ll Ever Buy? 2 months ago:
Vias are necessary for literally every part of electronics design beyond the basic I take a premade module and hook it up to these other 2 premade modules (which all have many vias on them), not just small packages.
Most PCBs nowadays are ≥4 layers. You need vias to use the center layers. Vias are necessary for ground return paths, stitching, shielding, RF plane coupling, signal integrity, and much much more. Single layer designing simply does not work if one is actually designing electronics and not just quick and dirty throwing 2 data busses together for a proof of concept.
BGAs don’t need vias, they are so small (0.5mm pitch and smaller) they usually need microvias (0.15mm/0.3mm ID/AR or smaller, which brings PCB prices from 15€ to 300€ for a set). Then the vias generally have to be filled at least and capped, optimally to not suck the solder through the vias from the balls. That is a whole other ballgame.
- Comment on 28-pound electric motor delivers 1000 horsepower 2 months ago:
It is funny because electric motors have nearly unlimited* torque depending on the kind. If you have thick enough power cables and winding conductors, you can just keep pushing it harder to get more torque.
It is like the thing they are very good at, besides sound levels, double or triple the efficiency, low/no maintenance, simpler with less parts, no emissions, etc…
Literally the only good thing about combustion engines are their fuel source energy density.
I think the problem is that motorheads see the enshittification of the auto industry as a whole and just say it’s because of electric motors because it happened right about the same time as EVs started coming out and try to push back on the wrong thing.
- Comment on Think Big, Print Bigger: Introducing the Prusa CORE One L! - Original Prusa 3D Printers 2 months ago:
What does you comment have to do with anything? He asked why delaware, I answered why delaware. Companies that are from europe still have to pay property taxes on american properties, worker-related taxes for their american workers, US health system taxes, income taxes for american declared income, etc…
Foreign companies must comply with local and state tax laws or risk facing tax compliance issues and be liable to penalties or even suspension of business operations.
- Comment on Think Big, Print Bigger: Introducing the Prusa CORE One L! - Original Prusa 3D Printers 2 months ago:
The ton of US companies are registered in Delaware because it is the state for tax evasion.
- Comment on How often do you update software on your servers? 2 months ago:
I wish I could use unattended-upgrade.
It literally restarts my server even when I disable the option, leaving it hung if the USB boot key isn’t in there.
I had to stop using it, so now I just manually upgrade because that doesn’t auto-restart without my permission…
- Comment on Man Alarmed to Discover His Smart Vacuum Was Broadcasting a Secret Map of His House 2 months ago:
But on this threat model? Why would it not be good?
It has to physically accessed on the PCB itself from what I gather.
There are 2 “threats” from what I see:
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someone at the distribution facility pops it open and has the know how to install malware on it (very very unlikely)
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someone breaks into your home unnoticed and has the time to carefully take apart your vacuum and upload pre-prepared malware instead of just sticking an IP camera somewhere. If this actually happens, the owner has much much bigger problems and the vacuum is the least of their worries.
The homeowner is the other person that can access it and it is a big feature in that case.
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- Comment on ADVICE: Running out of storage 2 months ago:
Hell, a 12TB WD red Plus in the EU is 300€. $160 for a 14TB is absolute dirt cheap
- Comment on The Great Software Quality Collapse: How We Normalized Catastrophe 2 months ago:
True, but this is a reaction to companies discarding their employees at the drop of a hat, and only for “increasing YoY profit”.
It is a defense mechanism that has now become cultural in a huge amount of countries.
- Comment on Open Printer is a fully open-source inkjet with DRM-free ink and no subscriptions 2 months ago:
That is not true even a little bit. Look at any inkjet paper under a microscope made after the mid 2000s.
- Comment on Everyone should have a home server (or a friend that has one) 3 months ago:
I would be interested to see a figure of people with home servers that have had that happen to them. DoS & pwned yes, especially 15+ years ago before there were good resources, TLS, reverse proxies, or authentication front ends.
It is extremely important to note that in those days, people just opened their, often out-of-date, servers completely to the internet via a DMZ or port forwarding, let ssh be open to the internet, didn’t harden ssh at all, and most people didn’t use a VPN for downloading.
That is literally like saying that people who light wall torches in their wooden home burned their house down, so let’s not use lightbulbs or electricity.
- Comment on v2.0.0: Stable Release of Immich (complete with Merch and DVD) 3 months ago:
What is the difference between a paid service and a paywalled service in this case?
- Comment on How can I optimize my jellyfin, specifically transcoding and the CPU usage involved? I'm running it off a mini pc so resources are everything 3 months ago:
So you have absolutely no devices that are a different resolution thans you download? You don’t direct play 4k on a 1080p screen for example.