unwillingsomnambulist
@unwillingsomnambulist@midwest.social
Suburban Chicago since 1981.
- Comment on Planet-smelting sim Satisfactory is now satisfactory enough to leave early access 2 months ago:
I can quit any time I want. Pay no attention to the fact that I played it during a Teams meeting with Corporate last night and didn’t get to bed until 2:30.
- Comment on What's a good NAS and server system under CAD$900 (USD$658)? 6 months ago:
After seeing some of Craft Computing’s videos on YT I’m considering getting my hands on one of those cheap Erying mainboards off Aliexpress with a laptop CPU on it. Seen those as low as 140 bucks with a 13th-gen i5, just add a cooler and desktop DDR4.
- Comment on Here is what 6 decommissioned servers looks like. My Jellyfin will be very happy 6 months ago:
Absolutely, and it’s usually up to the organization disposing of the drives to set and document the standard by which they abide.
- Comment on Here is what 6 decommissioned servers looks like. My Jellyfin will be very happy 6 months ago:
Somewhere, an ISO27001 auditor’s jimmies started rustling.
- Comment on Broadcom-owned VMware kills the free version of ESXi virtualization software 9 months ago:
+1 … been using PVE in my homelab for ages and just deployed a small, self-contained (i.e. non-SAN-connected) PVE cluster at the office in light of Broadcom’s shenanigans. I had no idea just how fantastically well Proxmox ran on higher-end hardware with Ceph installed. It’s glorious.
- Comment on Authy authenticator apps for desktop are being discontinued in August 2024 (Apple Silicon not included) 10 months ago:
It may very well be, especially if the basket your eggs are in is full of holes. I always figure, as long as it isn’t a pad of paper on a desk, or a company that regularly makes headlines due to security breaches, I should be okay.
- Comment on Authy authenticator apps for desktop are being discontinued in August 2024 (Apple Silicon not included) 10 months ago:
Need to pay for a subscription for TOTP. It’s like $10/year for the personal plan.
- Comment on The FCC can now punish telecom providers for charging customers more for less 1 year ago:
I currently pay $45/mo for 75/20 DSL over 1960s copper. 3 streets over, they’re paying $45/mo for 300/300 fiber from the same ISP. You tellin’ me the FCC can punish them for that?
- Comment on Good server OS for Jellyfin 1 year ago:
Debian’s great for this.
- Comment on IBM selling The Weather Channel and the rest of its weather business 1 year ago:
Yeah it’s pretty bare-bones. Pretty much the only site I am aware of that still uses image maps. The other one I like is the College of DuPage Meteorology site, though that gets even more archaic in some places: weather.cod.edu
- Comment on IBM selling The Weather Channel and the rest of its weather business 1 year ago:
Not sure if this is the case for other regions, but it’s right here for me:
- Comment on IBM selling The Weather Channel and the rest of its weather business 1 year ago:
I had a similar experience with Dark Sky, but Weather Underground was always great. The weird part of it is that I’m near Chicago, where the NWS office got trashed for their awful handling of the forecast and response to the storms that led to the Plainfield F5 in 1990 - bad radar was often cited as a reason for that response, so NEXRAD especially has been key to NWS’s improvement here.
It’s www.weather.gov/lot for me now.
- Comment on IBM selling The Weather Channel and the rest of its weather business 1 year ago:
I think it’s fair to look at IBM with a more cynical eye. Historically it’s been “acquire, way you’ll make no changes, wait a bit, make changes that piss off 80% of your customer base.” Somewhere in there is a “reduce customer service effectiveness” step that is distinct from “make changes.”
After that it’s either “sell it off to the highest bidder” or “keep at it because who else are the customers gonna use?”
- Comment on IBM selling The Weather Channel and the rest of its weather business 1 year ago:
Hate to tell you this, but it’s been shitty since the NEXRAD feeds broke and they never bothered to fix ‘em.
- Comment on [HN] Reasons to Drop Docker for Podman 1 year ago:
For the most part I’ve done alias docker=“podman” and it’s been fine. Been running multiple instances of haproxy in rootless pods oh rhel8 for over a year, it’s been unstoppable.
I also use it on my workstation as the backend for distrobox. The machine is a Ryzen 9 3900X with 64GB of DDR4-3200, always running at least two VMs. Very little resource impact with both Distroboxes running (one with GUI, one without).
Anecdotal, so also not particularly strong evidence either, but probably better than a load of marketing wank.
- Comment on How many extensions do you have installed on your Firefox? 1 year ago:
uBlock Origin, 1Password, GNOME Shell integration.
