JustEnoughDucks

@JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Had a 2023 VW ID4. They literally go out of their way to make your experience worse in many cases.

  They have an app, they can read locked state, but can’t lock the car.

  Their app/website makes you completely re-sign in and re-accept cookies every month or so that breaks any API usage mildly like HomeAssistant.

  The key unlocks the door if you walk to it, 50% chance to re-lock the door when you walk away without interacting with it.

  Can detect tire pressure, but they don’t tell you what it is, only if there is “pressure loss”

  Backup cam was horrific quality, especially the field of view of a telephoto camera, especially compared to my 2015 Nissan altima

  The entertainmrnt console was terible, extremely laggy, and Android auto was the worst experience. It would take between 2 and 15 minutes to connect to android auto with multiple different phones, and it would choose 1 app per phone to not display. My girlfriends’ was her maps app which is insane. Sometimes I would be at my destination before it would connect.

  Also putting a trailer hitch on it would have been like 1500-2000€…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do I get started designing and making and/or acquiring my own pcb?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Pi pico* (now also pi pico 2) it anyone is searching for it. Raspberry pi is the SBC line.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do I get started designing and making and/or acquiring my own pcb?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  For hobby work altium is quite ridiculous.

  I design with Altium professionally every day. It is buggy spaghetti code that they got that way by shoving more and more productivity-centered features in there with little thought.

  The libraries are a complete and utter shitshow also, which is why pretty much every company just makes their own.

  It works (usually) and you can design fast with it, but for someone lightly using it for hobbies, it is a massive overkill and steep learning curve to not get any benefit over KiCAD in the end unless they want to start doing multichannel complex flex-rigid designs with mechanical linked integration.

  Plus for someone wanting to just do a half hour or hour of designing in their free time, the 3-5 minute startup time would also get annoying.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Router suggestions for a complete noob⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Or if your internet enters the house in a dead zone.

  I have a brick house and our internet comes inside literally in one far corner with the most walls around it, so if the access point in there. Half of our house gets no internet.

  I went for a cloud gateway ultra and then one access point centrally in the house where everything can reach.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Another Google Pixel 6a catches fire after battery-nerfing update⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And then you indirectly pay google as you fund the people who buy google phones every time a new one comes out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This Tiny Radio Lets Me Send Texts Without Wi-Fi or Cell Service⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Nice, 0 within 25 kilometers of me lol.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Future is NOT Self-Hosted⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the issue is more that large tech firms can absolutely deal with external security in their applications. The amount of times gmail or Microsoft 365 has been hacked and leaked a bunch of client data is statistically zero when looking at their attack area.

  Joe Dirt self hosting a mail server for his neighbors on a salvaged rack server is 1000x more likely to get hacked or lose a ton of his neighbors’ data than a big tech firm.

  That is kind of the trade off for community hosting. There are very very few backup and security-literate people in communities.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨At this point who in the world could stop Trump over doing something totally illegal? Like lets say using bunker buster bombs to destroy DEM cities? Or is USA communially FUCKED?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You mean like all of the air force brass, logistics commanders, pilots, all the way down to the MPs, who have been consistent in following illegal orders to fly black bagged and chained legal US residents that were refused due process to foreign concentration camps?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Which is funny because it routinely happens as well as nation states hiring small teams that start edit wars occasionally IIRC.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Laboratory note book for my new research group⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Also with the excalidraw plugin, hand drawing images and such is also possible.

  It is not as good for flowcharts and diagrams since there are only like 5 non-specified font sizes, but also usable for notes

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rate my one year old homelab.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Some drives are worse than others, in my experience, Seagate drives are extremely loud.

  If you get helium drives (like wd red plus > 8TB i think),or 2nd hand hgst/ WD enterprise drives) they are significantly quieter.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Solar + Battery (covering 97% of demand) is now cheaper than coal and nuclear⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Absolutely can’t wait for new battery tech for grid storage too! Sand batteries that can use otherwise-unusable sand, sodium-Ion batteries (or mainly inverters that can handle the expanded voltage range compared to Lithium-based), expansion of pumped water batteries where it works. This is about to be THE time for government-funded alternative batteries across the world. Energy would get so plentiful that it wouldn’t even be profitable for fossil fuels anymore. That is the dream. Of course there is a 99% chance that every single government in the world drops the ball completely.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My reason for wanting HomeAssistant and a locked down VLAN...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  KNX.

  Everything is decentrally programmed, and you can do extra automations and stuff from home assistant, but KNX devices are wired (generally) and will always Just Work™. More expensive that the cheaper retrofit options, but if you factor in manual overrides or getting the “better” wireless smart devices it is comparable. For core functions like lights, HVAC, roll shutters or blinds, etc… That is honestly the best option (unless you want every light to be an RGB light for some reason, then you still need smart bulbs)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fairphone announces the €599 Fairphone 6, with a 6.31" 120Hz LTPO OLED display, a Snapdragon 7s Gen 3 chip, and enhanced modularity with 12 swappable parts⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You can also look at the MKBHD 2024 smartphone camera comparison test with the FP5. I would suggest taking the test yourself if that is still possible.

  I would guess that the camera will be comparable.

  For me, daylight pics were after all of the pixels but before anything else. I like the more neutral not supremely over-saturated over-sharpened/smoothed pictures that many phones take nowadays.

  For me, it was middle of the pack for dimly lit photos.

  For the overall ELO with everyone, FP5 was on the mid-lower end (of a comparison of all flagships + pixel A series), but perfectly usable for people who aren’t doing social media as a job.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨“It changes everything:” Plunging costs of PV and batteries mean 24-hour solar a growing reality⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Hell, even here in Belgium, we take the green option to get all of our electricity from wind and solar (of which there is a ton).

  Plus tons and tons of people, like a significant portion of the population, have solar panels and batteries with grid feedback.

  Electricity prices have only gone up, even when it gets cheaper for the company. Energy companies are universally corrupt and full of shit

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Encrypting without full disk encryption question⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is similar to what I do.

  I have a USB drive with the whole bootloader + decryption keyfiles on it. I remove it while it is running as everything is stored in RAM and already booted.

  Downside being it has to be plugged in to update the boot partition during an upgrade.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there any good decentralized cloud storage for personal backups as a self-hoster?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Bitwarden

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is a Voron 3D printer worth it??⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Does the 2.4 have auto z calibration? That is what really makes a “set and forget” machine when you switch nozzle sizes and such and it with auto adjust.

  With my prusa MK3, I calibrate the z offset every time I switch filaments and recalibrate every time I switch nozzles which takes a lot of active time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Self Hosted Trello with experience?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There is also leantime.io that I have been hosting for 5 years or so. It is a bit more than planka or tarallo as far as scope I think, but it has integrated kanban, gannt charts, and hour logging which is all I need for my personal projects.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The last note taking app you'll ever need⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Your cloud example is exactly right and exactly what we want to NOT HAPPEN.

  They shoved the cloud so much down our throats so that they can force you into monthly income-sucking unneeded subscriptions. That is it. That is the single reason everyone did it.

  The result is now the average user has a much worse experience overall. One literally has to fight with Microsoft products to save things on their own computer. IoT and smart products literally won’t function without connections to their “cloud”. Phones come without SD card compatibility and with low flash memory to force you into cloud subscriptions. Now every damn piece of software is a way overpriced subscription that almost all originally started as “switching to cloud infrastructure” (fucking adobe creative cloud).

  The “cloud” has had so many data breaches and people data have been stolen, siphoned off, lost due to bugs, and sold to earn even more cash on the side.

  A huge portion of the general corporatization and bad enshittification of digital services and software in general can be attributed to “the cloud shoving down our throats” that you describe.

  AI is looking to do the same thing except castrate peoples’ digital skills, critical thinking skills, transcription skills, and writing skills in order to siphon more and more of your income off in the form of AI subscriptions while they double dip and sell everything you ever say to it and triple dip in mining everything you say to it as R&D that you pay to do

  Companies need to do the fucking R&D themselves with their revenue of a small country and stop forcing regular people to pay to be their alpha and beta testers and focus groups, and people gobble that boot up so hard because LLMs have a few small areas where they are slightly useful and can save 10 minutes per day, so people will literally sell their data, their already small income, and their soul to save 10 minutes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The last note taking app you'll ever need⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Obsidian ticks all of these boxes and syncthing to sync notes is a 5 minute setup.

  Plus it stores things in plaintext instead of a database format that vendor locks you in (despite the claim of “no vendor lock in”)

  Ooooo yay another half-baked AI shoved into everything whatever possible.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's up, selfhosters? It's selfhosting Sunday again!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not really self-hosted, but I set up obsidian with syncthing and am going to transfer all of my notes from book stack to it and let bookstack be more organized documentation and obsidian to be a big scattering of notes and tags and such. I tried it with bookstack, but the flow was too much of a barrier for me to use it consistantly

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some of your favorite prints/models?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I am going to plug my own project that I will complete in another revision when I can unpack my 3D printer when our 1st floor is completed in the renovation 😅

  DIY HOTAS

  github.com/JustEnoughDucks/LibreMiG-S

  A VESA to microscope adapter for mounting a lighter microscope (I use a digital one) to a monitor arm to save space compared to the normal boom: printables.com/…/803413-amscope-eakins-microscope…

  A shaker siphon to empty standing water: printables.com/…/833171-shaker-siphon-for-garden-…

  All of Chris Borge’s stuff where he 3d prints useful simple machining tools and reinforces them with concrete (only a few on printables): printables.com/…/1237272-rock-solid-milling-machi…

  The steam controller bumper repair. The brittle ABS they used broke 3 times for me (2 I sent back to steam and got a replacement), and I printed this in PETG and got my bumper back since the SC got discontinued and it has held up because petg is much lore flexible: printables.com/…/133723-steam-controller-bumper-r…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is your favorite retro wargame?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There was an old fighter pilot game that I used to play on linux back in the day all the time in the early 2000s. I can’t remember the name but it was because my dad’s laptop was very cool to me and ran SUSE, so I played that, super tux, and a few free games because the alternative was a windows 95 machine with a 10 gig upgraded hard drive.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨28 years later, Lego Island's lost source code has been rediscovered – but the fans who spent nearly two years painstakingly decompiling it by hand "can't have it"⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Lego is actually one of the very few companies that isn’t batshit crazy over video game IP. (Real life Lego clones are probably different though).

  They even gave a shout out to Manic Miners (a rock raiders fan remake) on the official podcast and haven’t done anything to take it down. I can’t remember if they officially said they won’t do anything also

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What webapps do you selfhost that aren't media/game servers?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Mealie is so underrated. They have meal planning, recipes, recipe parsing from the internet, grocery lists based on recipes and meal plans, like 4 different ways to organize recipes, and OIDC/SSO on top of it all!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Backblaze responds to claims of “sham accounting,” customer backups at risk - Ars Technica⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The shed as an of site backup is a good idea.

  We live in the shed (it is really its own entire stone building) during our full house renovation, so I have already run electrical and cat6a to the shed and have an old router in AP mode there.

  Hooking up one of those NAS boards or a 2nd hand old PC there would be a good backup option.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trying to avoid antitrust suits, Google senior executives told employees to destroy messages⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Do you happen to know when the last time was that a rich company was prosecuted for this?

  It seems a lot like the perjury laws: there to scare poor people into telling the truth because of almost non-existant prosecution of it.

  And if it is a fine and not jail time (white collar crimes are almost never jail time) the fine would have to be much larger than the penalties they would not have to pay because of the crime, otherwise it is simply a net win for the company

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Recipes, Meal Planning, and Shopping List⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Also mealie supports SSO with OIDC so authelia/authentik can cover it and there is no need for separate accounts.

  Also being a PWA on mobile instead of another electron app means that authentication in front of it doesn’t break anything.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some FOSS programs that are objectively better than their proprietary counterparts?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ugh I hate excel. It can’t do the most basic search and replace things reliably in all cases. I have moved literally all data analysis besides the absolute basic “count” and “sum” operations to python in spyder. 200x faster, repeatable, and has never once failed a basic operation like a search and replace. Not to mention the localization issues and the fact that it will fuck things up completely if you install a new printer because Microsoft decided the printer has priority of your document and spreadsheet layouts over choosing a default.

  I had some evaluation board software that whenever the value dipped below -1, would place the comma completely randomly in the floating point number.

  Excel almost had a heart attack when I asked it to search and replace ”-1” with “-1,” and it found all of the cases just fine, but decides to ignore the replace and not place a comma at all. If I tried to convert them to a number, it freaked out and placed the decimal place also randomly, different than the input. And of course trying to do in-place operations on a column for export is just painful.

  Hell, in notepad++ I could just regex the digit range that was preceded by a ”-1” and get everything replaced using a few brackets.

  Not to mention how terrible the graphs work in comparison and how bad they look with the default options 😅. But hey, you can automatically put in a drop shadow or frame it in a useless way.

  There are some people who can work very efficiently and do some crazy things in excel (like the excel doom) but unless you have literally been using it daily for many years and actively looking for ways to speed up, then it is just as easy or easier to do things in an actual data processing program like matlab, octave, python, or R (And I am not a coder) and you can literally copy paste a file name for the next full dataset.