JustEnoughDucks
@JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl
- Comment on Another Google Pixel 6a catches fire after battery-nerfing update 3 days 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 days ago:
Nice, 0 within 25 kilometers of me lol.
- Comment on The Future is NOT Self-Hosted 5 days 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? 5 days 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 What's the easiest way to get your own wikipedia page without committing a crime? 1 week 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 2 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. 3 weeks 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 weeks 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... 4 weeks 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 5 weeks 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 5 weeks 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 1 month 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? 1 month ago:
Bitwarden
- Comment on Is a Voron 3D printer worth it?? 1 month 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? 2 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" 2 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? 2 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 2 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 2 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.
- Comment on Synology could bring “certified drive” requirements to more NAS devices 3 months ago:
- Comment on Stepping up from Tinkercad but to what? 3 months ago:
As someone who has to interface professionally with solidworks and everyone at my company on the mechanical side uses solidworks, it is also slow as fuck when the part or assembly gets a bit complicated. Just opening it takes a few minutes. If we have to open solidworks and an assembly from scratch during a meeting, that is 10 minutes gone.
Definitely has 10x as many QoL and productvity features and much better TNP solutions and heuristics built over decades, plus very useful plugins, but speed and stability are not its strong points 😂
- Comment on Nextcloud (PHP) vs OpenCloud (Rust) 3 months ago:
Syncthing also even has basic version control, just no “web file browsing” interface.
- Comment on Note: before tariffs 3 months ago:
I would like to see the stats on that. A lot of times people who are in the industry or know someone in it see their wages and others’ wages going up and say “wages went up with inflation” where the starting wage or the wage normalized to seniority level actually hasn’t changed much at all. For example, in engineering like electriical (outside of silicon valley in the US which has its own economical wage ecosystem) has had entry level positions that have gone up around 20% since the 2008 while inflation has gone up almost 50% since 2008 and productivity has skyrocketed with CAD advancements.