MangoPenguin

@MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Borderlands 4 is a premium game made for premium gamers' is Randy Pitchford's tone deaf retort to the performance backlash: 'If you're trying to drive a monster truck with a leaf blower's motor, you're going to be disappointed'⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Its a recent AAA game on a modern game engine, so it probably runs awful even on top of the line hardware.

  Basically every game that comes out these days in the AAA space is a horrible unoptimized mess.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Flipper Zero, Car Thieves, and a Brewing Security Crisis: What’s Really Going On?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Sounds like poor design on the manufacturers part if a $20 microprocessor and radio can break into a car.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Firefox Nightly now lets you access Microsoft Copilot from the sidebar⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Zen fork is great.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Managing proxmox, virtual machines, and others⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I run debian on everything, so I set up unattended-upgrades and basically forget about it. Docker updates are also automatic with Komodo.

  For monitoring my services I use Uptime Kuma, and get an alert if a service goes down so I can fix it.

  Been pretty solid for years now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Big Surprise—Nobody Wants 8K TVs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I can’t imagine the bitrate was high enough to make much difference in quality… But I don’t know what the technical details were.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Scan your face’ laws for the web are having unexpected consequences⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah that is bizarre, maybe malware or a malicious browser addon?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨how to start with self-hosting?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Install Debian as a server with no GUI, install docker on it and start playing around.

  You can use Komodo or Portainer if you want a webUI to manage containers easily.

  If you put any important data on it, set up backups first, follow the 3-2-1 rule by having at least 2 backups in place.

  The problem with stuff like yunohost is when it breaks you have no idea how to fix it, because it hides everything in the background.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Browser Wasn’t Enough, Google Wants To Control All Your Software⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They haven’t locked themselves to Google hardware by choice, it’s the only hardware with the security features they need so far.

  Remember graphenes goal is a very secure OS, not just a more private degoogled one, for that there’s /e/os and other options that support more hardware.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla FSD turns off more U.S. consumers than it attracts, survey finds⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Or the lie that it’s full self driving in general.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm "use NFS forfilesharing old." what's the current optimal solution for shared drives if I have like 3 linux machines in the house?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sounds like NFS might still be the way to go for you.

  For backups personally I use Restic and connect over SFTP via SSH, since that’s just built in and doesn’t need any configuration.

  For more traditional file sharing I use WebDAV with SFTPGo, since I need windows and android compatibility too, and webdav is pretty easy to setup and use.

  And I also use Syncthing for keeping some directories in sync between devices.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Second set of eyes - DNS Nameservers⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not with Bluehost.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Second set of eyes - DNS Nameservers⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Only if you enable their proxy on a DNS record, or use their tunnel feature. Otherwise it’s just DNS with no access to your traffic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Second set of eyes - DNS Nameservers⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Cloudflare is fine for DNS hosting and the control panel is well made and easy to use compared to a lot of other services, they have no access to your traffic or anything unless you specifically use their proxy features.

  Add the domain to cloudflare, change the nameservers in Bluehost, and you should be all set to use Letsencrypt via the API.

  You could also transfer the domain to Cloudflare.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Word documents will be saved to the cloud automatically on Windows going forward⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Downside is ties to Russia and performance is really bad, as I understand it’s an Electron web app, not a native application. It also won’t save to network shares properly and will lose your file if you do.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What external services do you use for your selfhosting setup?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Basically just the bare minimum

  • Email
  • Backblaze B2
  • DNS for my public domain name
  • Uptime monitoring for my website
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Word documents will be saved to the cloud automatically on Windows going forward⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  www.libreoffice.org if you want microsoft to stop messing with your office apps.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Where is Immich going to be in 1 year? What's your prediction?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You can still use Syncthing to pull photos back to the phone, Immich just stores them in organized directories as normal files.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google plans to begin verifying the identity of all developers who distribute apps on Android, even if it's outside the Play Store, starting September 2026⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Their ‘verified’ app store already has tons of fake malware apps being distributed on it, maybe they should clean up their act first.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lowering power consumption on Opteron⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well definitely faster than 1 Opteron at least: cpubenchmark.net/…/AMD-Opteron-6272-vs-Intel-i5-7…

  Single thread is massively better, but if that’s useful or not depends on the kinds of applications you’re running.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨anons brother has some strong opinions⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I wonder how the co2 from drying/making bricks compares

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lowering power consumption on Opteron⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Newer CPUs can also just be better optimized and have more faster cache and that sort of thing, so might be faster at running a process even if they’re the same on paper.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lowering power consumption on Opteron⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Those old server CPUs and motherboards just draw a ton of power, I’m not sure there’s much more you can do.

  It might be best to change hardware if you need lower power draw, a $50 PC off ebay with an i5-7500 should be faster and a only uses about 15W idle.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lowering power consumption on Opteron⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That N200 is likely on par or faster than dual Opteron 6272 CPUs, since they are so old.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Milliamp-hours per hour⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yup, this is just saying 510mA in a weird way

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Am I corrupting my data?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Essentially a container shares the kernel of the host, so uses less resources to run.

  VMs are useful when you need more isolation or a different kernel (or need to add kernel modules).

  For most purposes containers are the easy option.

  I guess I could have a Container with a bind mount to a dataset that I want to be able to share over NFS or SMB, and handle that from whatever OS I put in the Container, right?

  Yep!

  But, I could also have a VM do that, and though it wouldn’t be able to share the data with other VMs, it can do it over NFS, can’t it?

  Also yes, just a more complex setup with more performance penalty due to using NFS to share data into the VM.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Am I corrupting my data?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You wouldn’t want to write to the same file at the same time, but otherwise it works fine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Still Can't Say How Much the ROG Xbox Ally X Will Cost Due to "Macro-Economic" Conditions, Despite Announcing Release Date and Availability Details(Leaked prices $549.99/$899 for Ally/Ally )⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s almost worse, Asus also makes a lot of garbage.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft's latest Windows 11 24H2 update breaks SSDs/HDDs, may corrupt your data⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Is this 100% an OS issue, or a hardware issue just being made apparent by the OS doing something weird?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Am I corrupting my data?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Migration should be as simple as importing the existing ZFS stuff into the Proxmox OS.

  If I understand correctly, you can specify directories that live on the Proxmox Host, and they appear inside the VM, right?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Am I corrupting my data?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Proxmox supports ZFS natively with management in the WebUI. So you could get rid of TrueNAS entirely and not need to deal with HBA pass-through or anything.

  You also wouldn’t need NFS or have to deal with shares, as the data is available directly to Proxmox Containers via bind mounts.