JustEnoughDucks

@JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Solar modules now selling for less than €0.06/W in Europe⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Just send the energy directly back to the power executives houses with a high power laser. They want the energy for free so badly to pad their profits and buy a 5th yacht, give it to them 😉

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Solar modules now selling for less than €0.06/W in Europe⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Only partially true. The solar panels almost all inject power back into the grid. Power companies started complaining about their profits when they had to actually pay the users for their power that they generated so now home power generating houses get paid pennies on the dollar for delivering power and reducing the power capacity needed by the power companies and of course the power companies didn’t lower prices at all, so they are just sucking up the difference in pure profit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some self hosted services that you think are essential?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Depends on what your usecase is for what is “essential.”

  I think keeping household documents, taxes, medical bills, etc… In a local only paperless-ngx instance is quite essential to the organization of a household where everything is searchable and able to be organized on multiple levels compared to a simple document folder on 1 computer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"What Is Your Dream for Mozilla" - Mozilla is doing a survey, questions include "What is most important to you right now about technology and the internet?"⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Actually, the AI assistant fad isn’t all bad.

  HomeAssistant has an assistant pipeline that integrates into the most flexible smart home software around. It is completely local and doesn’t rely on the cloud at all. Essentially it could make Alexa’s and google homes (that literally spy on you and send key phrases back to your built data collection profile) obsolete. That is a way not to have to rely on corporate bullshit privacy invasion to have a good smart home.

  Indeed transcribing and translating (and preserving dying languages and being able to re-teach them) are 2 of the best consumer uses for AI. Then there is accelerating disease and climate research.

  If these were the use cases that were pushed instead of fucking conversational assistants, replacements for customer support that only direct to existing incomplete docs, taking away artists’ jobs, and creating 1984 “you can’t trust your own eyes and ears” in real time, then AI would actually be very worthwhile.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"What Is Your Dream for Mozilla" - Mozilla is doing a survey, questions include "What is most important to you right now about technology and the internet?"⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  What?

  He is saying that AI uses countries worth of energy by itself. Even a normal search query using AI uses orders of magnitude more energy than a traditional search query.

  Literally tech companies have been buying or reserving entire power plants exclusively for training AI datasets. At least Microsoft reactivated an old nuclear plant instead of buying out coal plant energy shares.

  And 90% of uses for AI are absolute dogshit corporate fluff or a shiny activity for 10 year olds to play with for 30 minutes.

  There are legitimate uses like auto note taking, voice assistants, etc… But it is destroying the environment because corporations are shoving it into every possible thing they can, quadrupling the energy growth rate and straining our electrical grids and burning tons and tons more coal to do it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Solar modules now selling for less than €0.06/W in Europe⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Here in Belgium there used to be big government subsidies for solar panels 5-10 ago.

  Now the same wattage battery + solar setup without any government subsidies is a good chunk cheaper than that time with the large subsidies.

  Pretty cool and shows the power of government renewables subsidies. A huge percentage of houses in Belgium have solar panels now. (and electricity still costs 0.30€/kWh average because of fossil fuel energy lobbies)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In general, people on Lemmy don't want high effort or high quality posts that take longer than 30 seconds to digest.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Sorry but some hobbies aren’t about validation, they are still social hobbies that require feedback.

  If someone’s hobby is being a standup comedian and they go to 10 shows and there are 10 people at each show and 1 person laughs, then that person is probably going to want to quit stand up comedy.

  It may be that the person is just not a good comedian, but it doesn’t mean that their hobby wasn’t stand up comedy and making people laugh.

  If you take the analogy that at their shows, they do long form, story comedy and then they get that lack of response and yet another person comes in, tells a recycled “your mother” joke and a “that’s what she said” joke and suddenly every seat is filled and everyone is roaring, you could see how that could make someone cynical? It’s not that they don’t actually like comedy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A 100-MW solar farm just broke ground in Wisconsin⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I wonder if it will be like the wind farm projects in the upper Midwest where projects are completely built and then red state politicians refuse to give the necessary permits for the transmission lines to connect them to the power grids.

  Politicians who just happen to have a history in oil and gas and/or ust happen to get a ton of bribes lobbying money from oil and gas companies.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bitwarden Makes Change To Address Recent Open-Source Concerns⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This seems like classic corporate backtracking when their customers spot a terrible, deliberate decision.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Healthiest way to charge Lithium Ion⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Really? My girlfriend’s A52 doesn’t have this feature. That is part of why I bought my Xperia 5ii. Is it a new feature?

  (After 3 years the battery is at 70% on mine because apparently Sony uses shitty as hell batteries and software drain glitches, while my girlfriend’s A52 always charging to 100% lasts a day and a half with 3x the use, would not recommend)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨how can i self host my music?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That is a different usecase though. That is simply syncing local musical with a server.

  I do that too because i have an SD card. Just use Syncthing for that. Much faster and less hassle. You can use any music player on your phone that you want, not just one that works with jellyfin.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨how can i self host my music?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I have heard symphonium is very good if they are looking at closed source Plex anyway. It works with jellyfin and navidrome.

  I just use syncthing to sync all of my music to my phone’s SD card. Then PowerAmp since there aren’t many fully featured music players. I am keeping my eye on Audio though, keeping it installed and updated.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨2024 Self-Host User Survey Results⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And ladies and gentlemen, that is part of the reason for the gender gap lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe soon sodium ion!

  Higher cycle counts, reduced capacity, but also not dangerous.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨And you will never catch up as Bezos make 8,000,000 per hour⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  If you can borrow against that at any time you want (read: 90% of billionaires), then you have that money effectively liquid and untaxed.

  Then they will take out a bigger loan to pay off the existing loan and as such, pay almost nothing in taxes, the stocks that they borrow against grow faster than the interest on their loans, and they can repeat this process until they die where their debt just gets eaten by taxpayers because they transfer assets at the right time to children and then their estate will pay back the debt after death (just transfer stock ownership to lenders probably)

  Even if the stock market crashes during this time, they can declare bankruptcy, free themselves of their debt, and then sell assets and they already have a huge golden elevator ready to bring them back up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Paralyzed Jockey Loses Ability to Walk After Manufacturer Refuses to Fix Battery For His $100,000 Exoskeleton⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  This is why there are separate rules and standard for implantable, wearable, and supporting medical devices.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is martial arts really that useful?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I just had a big fall on my electric bike this spring.

  There was a brick sticking out of the brick bike path and I flipped over the handlebars into the street. It was the one day I forgot to grab my helmet leaving for work.

  My hands got a bit cut up and my shoulder was slightly bruised, but I was completely fine! I only got a yellow belt in judo years ago so falling and basic things are all I learned, but that probably saved my ass from getting a hurt elbow, wrist, or hitting my head.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jellyfin hardware acceleration docker issues.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Do you have the Intel drivers installed on your machine? Are GuC and HuC working?

  sudo reboot
  sudo dmesg | grep i915
  sudo cat /sys/kernel/debug/dri/0/gt/uc/guc_info
  sudo cat /sys/kernel/debug/dri/0/gt/uc/huc_info
  

  On Debian I had to manually download the i915 full driver Zip, extract it, take out the Intel drivers, and put it in /usr/lib/firmware

  Then hardware acceleration worked on my Arc380.

  If you use QSV, your CPU iGPU will be the one that can use it, so make sure to set your render device in docker to the iGPU and not the RTX 2060

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Grid-scale batteries: They’re not just lithium⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  All of which the new sodium batteries solve. Massively improved cycle life, completely safe, and the environmental cost is a tiny fraction of what it is with lithium-based.

  I don’t get why there aren’t 50 companies rushing to produce it at-scale for in-place batteries. They should be chomping at the bit trying to get government contracts to install massive battery parks.

  Maybe it is just too new that they want to see how the small batteries do in the field.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What interesting things can I do with my home WiFi network?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Orange pi zero 3, 1.5GB. plenty for pihole and 30€ instead of 100€ or whatever bullshit RPI is charging these days.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How can I keep my forwarded port secure?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  OK that is fair, though that is not self hosted…

  VPS machines are a completely different beast than self hosting. But I guess I only said home use, not specifically self-hosting though we are in a self-hosted community. There are 1000 guides for setting up a VPN on your home network.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How can I keep my forwarded port secure?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  To be fair, if something is open by default or very easy to enable without informing about the risks, tons of people will have it exposed without thinking.

  It isn’t that “tons of people do it so it is normal and perfectly fine” but more “people don’t realize.” It also uses some nontrivial amount of resources to process and block those attempts, even if they never have a chance of getting in.

  There is yet a reason I can find to have it forwarded for home use. Need to ssh into a machine to fix it? VPN.

  There are plenty of secure web-based tools to manage your server without a VPN also.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it me or is everyone in hexbear insane?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  hexbear.net/post/3025711

  hexbear.net/post/3379624

  hexbear.net/comment/5253718 top comment, massively upvoted

  hexbear.net/post/3232536 - more “all Ukrainians are Nazi rhetoric”

  hexbear.net/comment/4594619 - more “the war is just a local conflict with everyone on Russia’s side” propaganda that is heavily upvoted. Objectively false. There is way way more nuance than that.

  hexbear.net/post/3394475 - Russia never does anything wrong. It is just Americans who of course blame it on Russia

  hexbear.net/comment/5113469 - Russia never does anything wrong. It is actually a conspiracy that Americans did it

  hexbear.net/comment/5084604 - Russia can do no wrong. Russia is destined to win and take the lands they want to annex

  hexbear.net/comment/5084494 - yet more Ukraine genocide rhetoric, straight from Russian propaganda

  lemmygrad.ml/post/4112194 - literally regurgitating unsubstantiated Russian propaganda. Literally one person saying “if you just blindly believed Russian propaganda 100% of the time, you would be right 70% of the time”

  hexbear.net/post/2763869 - “Russia is extremely generous with these terms”, they only have to give up their land to glorious leader of Russia

  imperialism /ĭm-pîr′ē-ə-lĭz″əm/ noun

  • The extension of a nation’s authority by territorial acquisition or by the establishment of economic and political dominance over other nations.

  • A political doctrine or system promoting such extension of authority.

  • The power or character of an emperor; imperial authority; the spirit of empire.

  Literally exactly the definition of Putin’s post-socialism authoritarian Russia…

  Like “the enemy of my enemy” can only take you so far. Like when Putin blatantly poisoned a political opponent and everyone on hexbear was cheering them and saying “I’m surprised it took them this long”… Supporting a murderous regime because they happen to be against an exploitative corrupt regime doesn’t even seem like a valid solution to me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it me or is everyone in hexbear insane?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Then what about when they constantly refer to the rhetoric as “truth” how Ukraine was full of Nazis that were genociding the Russian minority and how Russia invaded to save them and has committed exactly 0 war crimes?

  I completely get that the US is not a good guy, most of western civilization was built on exploitation, imperialism, and subjugation of people. I even understand the great things China has done as far as huge quality of life upgrades for their people.

  But Russia is only similar to china in that they propagate huge anti-US propaganda and technically support each other as an anti-US coalition.

  Russia is also extremely imperialist, always has been, and literally has annexed (or tried to) multiple nations in the past decades, and is currently trying to do the same. Russia is everything that hexbear stands against, yet they unequivocally support them without any doubt.

  Go say literally any critical things of Russia in hexbear. You will 100% be down voted to oblivion, if not banned. If you say anything against Putin being the greatest leader in recent history, you will be down voted to hell if not banned. I have yet to see any critical speech of Russia on hexbear that didn’t get removed or down voted so hard that the comment will never see the light of day.

  I understand being Anti-US, but if Russia was in the US’s position, they would be just as bad if not worse for the treatment of people and propagating imperialism.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it me or is everyone in hexbear insane?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe you can clear this up then:

  Why does everyone there unequivocally, wholeheartedly, unquestionably support Russia?

  Russia has barely a trace of communism anymore and it is hard right oligarchy that fits almost every definition of fascism.

  Yet the “antifa” hexbear will literally down vote you to hell and ban you if you say anything even slightly bad about Russia.

  Also news@hexbear is 80% articles about the war with everyone citing Russian propaganda as absolute truth and every western media, every human rights group, etc… is completely lying about the war.

  An interesting juxtaposition as they are in the same way pro Palestine and cite those human rights groups as telling the absolute truth in that case

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Monthly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Starter playing “To the moon”

  Great game so far, but I wish there was controller support and it could be fullscreen instead of a small box. It makes playing on the 32" TV difficult

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Recommendation engine: Downvote any game you've heard of before⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Megabyte Punch is a side scrolling fighting game where you build your robot with different parts salvaged from fought robots that give you different abilities and powerups.

  It is a super fast, casual game that you can bang out in a few nights. It has a pretty good electronic soundtrack, boss fights feel weighty even if they are relatively simple.

  One of my favorite games as far as just fun and de-stressing!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mafia: The Old Country will offer voice acting in Sicilian⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Wait wait wait, can you give an example? I have to see this 😅

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube is Losing The War Against Adblockers⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  And in all tiers: make an additional profit by selling your information without your consent (it has been decided in many courts that burying subtext deeply in forced terms of service isn’t consent)

  We are already paying them by letting them harvest our data, ads or not.

  Then they double or triple dip with the scenarios you describe. I am still paying them by being on their site with an ad blocker as they harvest my data and sell it to the highest bidder. Not to mention quadruple dipping with using our info and content without consent to train AI to sell.

  They use the argument “your data/art/photos/videos are freely posted on the internet, so we can use them how we please”. If they publish content openly on the internet, then we are free to do with it as we please.

  They can’t use the argument but say “no no no, it doesn’t apply to US”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨China constructs world's first dual-tower solar thermal plant — and it will help generate nearly 2 billion kWh annually⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Damn, I saw a video on why they use molten salt years ago, something about the balance of cost, thermal mass, and the fact that it won’t boil off like conventional liquids.