slazer2au
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- Comment on What file format do you store your media in? 38 minutes ago:
In whichever format it came in. If someone has a guide on how to convert from whatever to x264/5 with minimal loss it would be appreciated.
When I try with hand break the quality dips to much to not make the conversion worth it.
- Comment on QWERTY Keyboards on a touch screen are still the stupid! 1 day ago:
!unpopularopinion@lemmy.world is that way
- Comment on A Reminder to Make Regular Backups of Data 2 days ago:
I prefer a variation of the Veeam 3-2-1-1-0 rule
3 copies
2 media
1 other location 1 worm (write once, read many) 0 days since a failed job.just as important as taking backups is testing your backups. Not point backing up the data only to find when you need it the backups are dud.
- Comment on Jellyfin | "We are pleased to announce the latest stable release of Jellyfin, version 10.9.0!" 4 days ago:
Neat.
- Comment on Jellyfin | "We are pleased to announce the latest stable release of Jellyfin, version 10.9.0!" 4 days ago:
cd ~/jellyfin/
nano docker-compose.yml (change version to latest or pin to 10.10) sudo docker compose down && sudo docker compose up -d - Comment on Have win7 laptop. What to play on it? 6 days ago:
Dumb question, why can’t you attach a USB mouse?
- Comment on Lemmy's major collective account cake days are coming up soon. 1 week ago:
Toss a coin to your server. Oh community of plenty.
- Comment on BREAKING: Microsoft has closed Redfall's Arkane Austin, HiFi Rush's Tango Gameworks, and more in devastating cuts at Bethesda. | IGN 1 week ago:
I can’t think of one large acquisition that benefited consumers
Because consumers are not thought of when acquisitions happen. Shareholders and maybe regulations are thought of.
- Comment on How many of you 9-5s have been given work from home forever ? 1 week ago:
Of you are a proper contractor not an employee paid as a contractor than you set your work terms because it becomes a B2B relationship not a e2e.
- Comment on Recommendations for Pacific Northwest Themed Games? 1 week ago:
- Comment on Phones have unique phone numbers, why dont computers have unique computer-numbers? 1 week ago:
Because it will be an ungodly thing to manage. The national phone databases are already a nightmare to manage. it would be far worse if we had a global one.
- Comment on Phones have unique phone numbers, why dont computers have unique computer-numbers? 1 week ago:
You seem to have be missing a fundamental thing about tech but I can’t pin down what it is. So I will respond to your edits.
but I can’t buy a static address that will persist across networks endpoint changes
You can. It’s called Provider Independent Space and it a pain to go with as an individual.
Yes, it would be a privacy nightmare, I want to know why it didnt turn out that way
Because people smarter than you, I, and everyone else in this post said 'Yes EUI-64 is a good idea in principe but the problems on a privacy perspective outweigh the advantages. So let’s build a system called MAC randomisation so people can get multiple address to access the internet with. ’
The good news is you can turn off MAC randomisation.AFAIK IP addresses (even static public ones) are not equivlent to phone numbers. I don’t get a new phone number every time I connect to a new cell tower
In some parts of the world or before 2000 if you changed mobile providers, say from Vodafone to Telstra you had to get a new number. Since that change number routing has become a nightmare and it makes the BGPv4 table look sane in comparison.
Even if a static IP is assigned to a device, my understanding is that connecting the device to a new uncontrolled WiFi, especially a router with a NAT, will make it so that people who try to connect to the static IP will simply fail.
This is a complex one due to NAT in the ipv4 space. NAT exists purely to allow devices to have the same private IPv4 address and hide behind a public v4 address.
No, MAC addresses are not equivalent phone numbers. 1. Phone numbers have one unique owner, MAC addresses can have many owners because they can be changed at any time to any thing on most laptops. 2. A message can’t be sent directly to a MAC address in the same way as a phone number
- MAC do have unique owner blocks. Cisco somewhat owned the 0000.0C block.
- Yes you can. That is literally how it works down the TCP/IP stack.
Yes, IMEI is unique, but my laptop doesn’t have one and even if it did its not the same as an eSim or sim card. We can send a message to an activated Sim, we can’t send a message to an IMEI or serial number
If your laptop has a regular Sim slot it will have an IMEI. True we can’t send messages via IMEI or serial because those systems were never designed for message routing.
- Comment on Phones have unique phone numbers, why dont computers have unique computer-numbers? 1 week ago:
In that case it is the IEEE who allocate Mac’s to orgs
- Comment on Phones have unique phone numbers, why dont computers have unique computer-numbers? 1 week ago:
I hate to break it to you but MAC randomisation has been around since 2007. Fuck we are getting old.
- Comment on Phones have unique phone numbers, why dont computers have unique computer-numbers? 1 week ago:
If you tried to route everything with a MAC address, (which isn’t possible, but for arguments sake we will pretend it is) the problem is that when you take your phone with its MAC address off your wifi and on to your work wifi, Where would the registry be? How would the Internet know how to find your phone? Do you just log into one giant global registry so that everyone can find your phone when they are trying to communicate with it? That would be a giant fucking database and everyone would always be trying to use it.
This is a solved issue called EUI-64 IPv6 addressing. It is a privacy nightmare.
- Comment on Phones have unique phone numbers, why dont computers have unique computer-numbers? 1 week ago:
There kinda is IANA . They assign addresses to regional registraties like RIPE, APNIC, LANIC who in turn assign addresses to ISPs and large corporations.
- Comment on Phones have unique phone numbers, why dont computers have unique computer-numbers? 1 week ago:
Yep. See EUI-64 IPv6 addressing.
- Comment on Phones have unique phone numbers, why dont computers have unique computer-numbers? 1 week ago:
What makes you think all phones have unique numbers? Some have no direct dial numbers.
As for each device getting a unique IP address this is somewhat in the spec for EUI-64 IPv6 address. Your IP is based on your interfaces MAC address but this becomes a privacy nightmare.
If the MAC address’s of the wifi chip in your phone is 1122.3344.5566 your IPv6 address at home can be 2001:0db8:0000:00000:1122:33ff:fe44:5566 but when at work your address may be 2001:db8:1000:0000:1122:33ff:fe44:5566. No matter where you connect to the last 4 sections of the address is the same and companies will use that as one of the data points of your digital profile.
- Comment on HECS changes to see $3 billion in student debt 'wiped out' 1 week ago:
Good
- Comment on [Serious] What is project 2025? What kind of risk is involved? 1 week ago:
- Comment on What should I run and why? 1 week ago:
to start with
PiHole DNS server
Jellyfin Home media server
forgejo Git server to hold your docker compose files. - Comment on The federal government has given an online age verification pilot the green light. Here's what we know about it 1 week ago:
Data integrity checks with industry leading third party partners.
- Comment on How many songs are about Courtney Love? 1 week ago:
Somewhere between two and eleventy billion. I have no idea what those songs are or who that person is but that doesn’t seem relevant to the question.
- Comment on If you or somebody you know ever fell for a romance scam, how did you or the person fall for it? 1 week ago:
Would depend on the visa.
- Comment on Here’s your chance to own a decommissioned US government supercomputer 2 weeks ago:
Something something Crysis.
- Comment on What's a good budget home server? 2 weeks ago:
Honestly that sounds overkill for someones. First time into self hosting.
I would start with something like a Nuc or a secondhand 1 liter PC (dell optiplex/HP elite mini/Lenovo ThinkCenter) which are dirt cheap on eBay.Do you have an indication of what you want to run that requires that mid range gaming setup?
- Comment on Is ansible worth learning to automate setting up servers? 2 weeks ago:
Learn Linux TV has a good series as does Jeff Geerling both are free on YouTube.
I prefer the Learn Linux TV one as it goes through how to integrate git and different distros.
- Comment on Checks out to me. 2 weeks ago:
Oh Wikipedia, pease never change.
- Comment on Xbox Console Sales Are Tanking 2 weeks ago:
Wow a 30% drop in revenue is quite something.
- Comment on How many of you 9-5s have been given work from home forever ? 2 weeks ago:
The trick is stop being an employee and start being an independent contractor. You decide how, when, and where to work.
Just be aware of all the other shit you now have to deal with like tax, insurance, super, etc.