JustEnoughDucks

@JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Great Software Quality Collapse: How We Normalized Catastrophe⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨weeks⁩ 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)⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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  It is extremely important to note that in those days, people just opened their, often out-of-date, servers completely to the internet via a DMZ or port forwarding, let ssh be open to the internet, didn’t harden ssh at all, and most people didn’t use a VPN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)⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Immich mobile app sync V2⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Me too, and the new one I didn’t even realize this change happened. I saw there were no breaking changes, updated, and saw “oh, it isn’t synced anymore” so I reselected the folders, it ran a sync check on everything, which took a while, and everything works fine again.

  I didn’t even realize there was a difference until now, but I guess there is a start/stop sync switch.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How does streaming compare to "analog"?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I have had accubattery for my phome’s duration and Sony have the feature that you can force stop charging at 80%. In the past 3.5 years with the phone, I have charged 1 814 046 mAh in that time. Assuming avg 3.8V (not hitting too much or CV with 80%) and my local price of 0.32€/kWh, that is only 2.14€ over 3.5 years.

  Phones are absolutely crazy efficient.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Important Notice of Security Incident⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, jellyfin is absolutely even.more of a security nightmare than Plex, with multiple unfixed CVEs IIRC.

  I use jellyfin also, but I only trust it not exposed to the internet at all. That is one very big area of improvement for them.

  That and subtitle syncing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there no good inexpensive CAD software?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree I have had some chamfer and fillets trouble that even wasn’t there before (a not-completely-tangent arc cutout from a square exposes this clearly) and will cause faces to shoot to “random” positions. Things can get wonky also because the Topological Naming Problem isn’t 100% gone, but a model getting messed up is not the same as crashing.

  Still haven’t had a single crash in 1.0.2.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Loops - short form video with ActivityPub - is now open source!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  And I still can only get 0 like, 0 comment shaky cam video of a screen capture of ultra zoomed in tiktoks or blasting shitty electronika music at 100dB clipping all to hell with 2005 era Microsoft visualizer videos.

  Just like pixelfed, there is no way to discover anyone except the same 10-12 rotation of people they put in explore.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I Made An ESP32 On-Call Beeper⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Cool project!

  A ton of aesthetic effort for a simple Dev board + enclosure and a vibe coding project, especially since arduino already has libraries for MQTT, speakers, etc… Photo displays & animations galore lol.

  Injection molding is much more of an art than simply CNCing a negative of your part and squirting some plastic in it. There is a reason that injection molding services often have around a 1000€ startup & molding fee.

  Plus a custom PCB means FCC/CE certification generally.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Intel details everything that could go wrong with US taking a 10% stake⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Defense contracting.

  They do a a good amount of of military industrial contracting and work for 3 letter agencies on data processing/ high performance computing.

  They also got awarded government funding in 2024 to build logic chips for the military in-country.

  Not enough to sustain the company, but such “sensitive” programs may not be allowed to show up in revenue reports or have to be assigned to other areas or so.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Nice, 0 within 25 kilometers of me lol.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Future is NOT Self-Hosted⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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...⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨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?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Bitwarden

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is a Voron 3D printer worth it??⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨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.