JustEnoughDucks

@JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I find it very confusing to get a good workflow with it + calibre.

  I sync all of my books (and use readarr for organization or occasionally grabbing books from dead authors) via syncthing. Then calibre web won’t ingest any new books I copy to the folder, so I have to go to desktop calibre to add them manually, then it will sync the database and calibre-web has a built-in task for scanning any database changes so then the book will show up.

  Seems like a clunky method and I would think I am doing it wrong, but I haven’t found a way for calibre to scan books already organized in folders in its book directory.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New nickel-iron battery charges in seconds, survives 12,000 cycles⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  This is theoretically something sodium batteries would be good at right?

  Aren’t they not as sensitive to storage voltages? They are almost a perfect lead-acid replacement. Plus a UPS is a great usecase because it doesn’t matter if it is 33% bigger to achieve the same capacity.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Open-sourcing CORE One CAD Files Under the New Open Community License (OCL)⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Even the creator of the open source initiative has said that open source has failed and we need more restrictive licensing because open source simply is too permissive and has been aggressively exploited at the expense of the people, who it was meant to empower.

  For me, source available licenses that are open source except specifically restricting for profit hungry, exploitative companies and corpos are with something like non-commercial clauses are fine for an end product. I use CERN OHL S v2, but I can’t fault people for going noncommercial like the entirety of the art and 3D printing world pretty much already are to protect themselves.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ring calls off partnership with police surveillance provider Flock Safety⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I think Frigate also works well with standard video cards nowadays?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are people disconnecting or destroying their Ring cameras?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  In Belgium, it is legally required to put a sign up if you have cameras, you can’t point them at a place including public properties IIRC, and you can force them via the local government to move the camera if they are pointing at your property (at least in theory).

  Lasers. Blue lasers are what you can do. reddit.com/…/what_is_this_person_doing_to_my_came… (hate to link to reddit but it is a good demo)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Statistics for Strava, a self-hosted, open-source dashboard for your Strava data.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Something like endurain?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'What a great way to kill your community': Discord users are furious about its new age verification checks — and are now hunting for alternatives⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Also not very searchable on engines, especially due to fediverse server name differences, you can’t !lemmy because many of the communities don’t have Lemmy in their domain or titles or however that works. At least I have only gotten Lemmy results for like 25% of my searches.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Start-up idea⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes but they hide that as much as possible.

  • No longer warranty
  • No specs that indicate longevity
  • also has bullshit WiFi/touchscreens because it is so cheap to integrate for them

  If you are extremely lucky, there is a review for that model somewhere that isn’t just paid advertising, but outside of the US with less-used models, that is pretty much a fantasy.

  For example, even on the most expensive 1400€ Series 8 models Bosch (traditionally one of the best quality washers in the EU) now instead of a drum with bolts and a gasket, plastic welds their drum covers so it doesn’t last as long, breaks at the seam, and is almost impossible to repair correctly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨BASED?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This is also why people should seriously think about if they are ready to have a kid or want to have a kid.

  Millions or tens/hundreds of millions of kids have parents that never really wanted them and just gave in to the biological clock and/or social pressures and the kids have a shitty childhood. It sucks to be unwanted, and kids can really feel it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Start-up idea⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  And there were tons of ones back in the day that didn’t cost that much either.

  Surprise, cheap stuff existed then too, it just didn’t survive like the expensive appliances.

  The difference is now the expensive stuff ALSO barely lasts at all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discord will restrict your account next month unless you scan ID or face⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, many of my childhood best friends live a 9 hour flight away.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Start-up idea⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s literally how much they cost now and they last 10 years or maybe 15

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Non-US cloud storage for backup?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Kopia is great for this. Choose your encryption, built in support for different provider storage tyoes in the GUI to choose where to go, dedupe, folder structure scramble, etc…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨💞 FairScan > Syncthing > Paperlees-ngx⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I have yet to use a consumer ADF scanner on a printer that didn’t feed the paper at an angle until they are crushed and folded, doesn’t matter if the guides are perfectly set for A4 either. It has never worked for me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nextcloud/OneDrive Files-only Replacement⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Opencloud is a fork from Owncloud Infinite Scale just as nextcloud was a fork from the old Owncloud version.

  Apparently much much simpler and more performant than nextcloud in almost every way. It also has a secure file sharing link feature.

  They are also based in Germany.

  I am about to spin up opencloud behind traefik and authelia hopefully this week or weekend.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Claude Code is suddenly everywhere inside Microsoft⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know, that is about all Mistral can do too.

  That and python scipy is like a 50/50 for relevant code snippits.

  It had never once output compilable embedded code, even when I have tried to directly lead it there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can anyone explain why?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Also, THC drinks are all over the US now and very popular. Most of my (young millennial) friends there barely drink alcohol and have swapped them with gummies and seltzers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is the best way to drop 50lbs in two months without spending alot and no fad diets?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s technically possible by water fasting for 2 months, but that is pretty dangerous for so long and you would need a strict vitamin and salt intake to even have a chance of doing it safely.

  Definitely not a good idea, certainly not without doctor supervision.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does self hosting your own internet count?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  correct, the real mesh internet replacement is HaLow, that can get a whopping 4Mbps or something.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you have a plan for your self-hosted data if you die?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And this is why I try to recommend to every single person starting their smart home to plan it so that if everything dies, their internet, their router, power gets restarted, and their HomeAssistant gets corrupted, and you die, at the same time, that everything will work exactly as expected, because with MANY smart home systems they will just stop functioning or be stuck in a bad mode until your family hires someone to fix it.

  That’s why I lean hard towards KNX

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I might catch flak for this, but I understand Fahrenheit made a ton of sense of an illiterate bygone era (well, I guess coming back maybe)

  The vast majority of people were uneducated. Decimals were a non-starter, maybe negatives were also difficult?

  0-100 was very easy. Under 0? Don’t go outside if possible. Over 100? Don’t go outside if possible. >50/halfway? Time for a coat. Having the same scale from -15 to 40 might have been confusing and not centered for them?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DuckDuckGo poll says 90% responders don't want AI⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And Bing, and searches that use google and Bing results (DDG, ecosia)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨RAM Prices Got You Down? Try DDR3. Seriously!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well CAD software has made leaps and bounds since then. Anyone who used CAD back in the day would know what an unstable clusterfuck it was and how much longer it took than now.

  A lot of software has gotten much better, including “core” Foss like Linux and FFMPEG. There is just 10x as much software that is horrible, and windows has gotten so much worse to the point that it feels like computers have made no progress when you use it.

  Also, CPUs nowadays use about the same power as they did 20 years ago but with an order of magnitude more processing power. The first Core 2 Duo had a 65W TDP, the same as modern Ryzen 5. GPUs are just out of hand with power consumption because of profit-driven game companies and AI.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨TikTok uninstalls are up 150% following U.S. joint venture⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Now you can see 30 of the same reposted tiktok spam blasting low quality live music instead of 10!

  Oh well I guess it doesn’t matter anyway because if you try to update the app anyway it just downloads an invalid APK lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft gave FBI a set of BitLocker encryption keys to unlock suspects' laptops: Reports | TechCrunch⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Are you naive enough to believe the surveillance OS that uploads literally all of your activity along with screenshots of your desktop doesn’t automatically upload you keys no matter what little box you tick on the installer?? 😂 there is absolutely not one single 3rd party auditing that they actually follow any of the options at all that they give.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nova Launcher gets a new owner and... ads⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Mariadb got bought by a private equity strip miner company late 2024, so it will probably be mined for every enshittification possible before thrown on the garbage heap like every company private equity has acquired before it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Office has been renamed to “Microsoft 365 Copilot app”⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨month⁩ 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]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.