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earlgrey0 , to asklemmy in TV nerds: what should I watch

Avenue 5 is a brilliant dark sci-fi comedy that I cannot stop thinking about. It’s basically a cruise ship in space but then things go wrong. The physics are actually sound which makes for some really fun and terrifying gags. It’s heavy on dark humor, but if you’re ok with that it’s such a fun ride. I am biased but I feel like this show is criminally underrated.

Track_Shovel OP ,

I’ll check it out!

Reverendender ,
@Reverendender@lemmy.world avatar

Alternate take: This show is godawful but for some reason I kept watching. It’s literally unpleasant to watch. Critics also panned it, if you find that of importance.

dditty ,

Same for me. I found the show amusing but never once laughed while watching it, if that makes sense

BarbecueCowboy ,

If you didn’t laugh when they came up with the slogan “Together, there are more of us!”, then I don’t know what’s wrong with you.

CrabAndBroom ,

As a side note, there’s a Swedish movie called Aniara which has a similar premise, except if you replace the ‘dark comedy’ part with ‘unrelenting existential horror and infinite, unfathomable bleakness’. Worth a watch lol

ByteOnBikes , to asklemmy in How does one realistically sell their large video game collection?

I’m only familiar with my area. Look into the Pacific Northwest. There’s a lot of game collectors here who really love classic games. Call them up, ask lots of questions.

Another is to join retro game communities. There was a classic game conference and those folks are always looking.

SeaJ ,

I’m sure Pink Gorilla Games would be happy to help out.

TheLastHero , to asklemmy in How to deal with being bald?

Don’t try to half cope, everyone will smell the desperation. Gotta embrace it and stay all the way bald. Other men seem to notice and care more about it than women honestly.

IvanOverdrive , to asklemmy in TV nerds: what should I watch

Scavengers Reign. If you like The Expanse, you might be into sci-fi animated with a seriously weird style. And it’s one season with the story tied up in a bow at the end.

sunbeam60 ,

I LOVED SR. It’s completely unique for animation, I felt, and every scene was like reading a Belgian comic book from the 60s.

BarbecueCowboy ,

I love Scavenger’s Reign, and don’t remember any of the characters names or the basic story at all.

I feel like it’s just a long world building art project.

HubertManne , to showerthoughts in There should be a semicolon punctuation for exclamation and question marks.

are you envisioning it as a lighter exlamation, question ??

HEXN3T OP ,
@HEXN3T@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

It’s just an exclamation or question mark combined with the purpose of a semicolon; Not quite ending a sentence, but also changing the tone midway through. It’s situational, but I’d absolutely find it useful.

HubertManne ,

ok I think I get it. seems as valid as using double question marks or exclamation marks which is kinda common.

wurzelgummidge , to world in Media Bias Fact Check - Automation

Media Bias Fact Check is totally meaningless in world news since the overwhelming majority of international news coverage seen in the west is filtered through just three global agencies, AP, AFP and Reuters and they always toe a pro US/Nato line.

01189998819991197253 , to android in Buying a Pixel 7 Pro, install Custom ROM or stay on default?
@01189998819991197253@infosec.pub avatar

Depends on your security and privacy postures.

From least private to most: stock, CalyxOS, GrapheneOS.

Security from updates on all three should be mostly comparable, as long as they keep receiving security updates, and you install them. However, CalyxOS has custom code, and tends to be slower to implement the updates.

I skimmed this comparison, and it seems pretty on point.

Some features are proprietary and, therefore, only available on stock. Personally, I went CalyxOS. I don’t miss any of the stock features, but built-in ai is useless for me. My security and privacy postures are evolving, and I may go GrapheneOS next phone. Not sure yet.

Dagwood222 , to showerthoughts in There should be a semicolon punctuation for exclamation and question marks.

Italics

HEXN3T OP ,
@HEXN3T@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

Have you tried handwriting italics? It’s not fun.

spittingimage ,
@spittingimage@lemmy.world avatar

That’s when you underline.

HEXN3T OP ,
@HEXN3T@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

And if you’re using software that doesn’t support formatting?

spittingimage ,
@spittingimage@lemmy.world avatar

You just said you were handwriting.

HEXN3T OP ,
@HEXN3T@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

Emphasis isn’t always possible with every utility, but a simple Unicode addition would work well for a variety of software, as well as be easy and readable on paper compared to underlines (especially if there’re words below). It’s also more accessible if you can’t draw straight lines to save your life. Like me.

Dagwood222 ,

Switch from block letters to cursive, or vice versa. Or all capitals. Anything that shows a difference.

sandalbucket , to asklemmy in Complexity

I have declared war on notifications. My immediate family, two closest friends, and my boss can call me. In no other circumstances will my phone make a noise or vibrate. I will check my texts when I feel like it.

Other than a few exceptions, no apps may show the notification badge either. Discord will show DMs and mentions from one or two servers. Everything else is blocked. My work email may show unread email. I’ve even turned off banners on my work chat app. I don’t think I’ve checked my personal email in months.

All my recurring charges are paperless + autopay. That’s another notification badge I forgot about - I have a budgeting app that can show transactions. I categorize them, make sure their categories are covered, and I’m done.

On the first of the month, I pay rent and set the budgeting app categories. Then I have nothing to worry about, and near-zero distractions. My biggest pain point in life is deciding what to eat for dinner.

HouseWolf , to linux in Migrating system to NVME RAID

As far as I’m aware there’s currently no way to setup drives in RAID without wiping both of them.

I also haven’t tried encrypting my home/boot drive but normally if I want to make a complete backup of a drive I use Clonezilla. It’s saved my bacon many time including recently copying a HDD that was in the process of dying on me.

It might be easiest to just backup your home directory and reinstall Nobara to the drives after you’d set them up in RAID.

aard ,
@aard@kyu.de avatar

If your install is using LVM (which anything installed over a bit more than a decade should be) you can set up the new second drive as a RAID with a missing device, add it as additional PV, use pvmove to move all PEs to the RAID, remove the old PV, and now add that disk to the RAID.

GenderNeutralBro ,

Does that really work for RAID 0? Since RAID 0 is striped (with “zero” redundancy), I wouldn’t expect an array with a missing device to work at all. But I can’t say I’ve ever tried.

aard ,
@aard@kyu.de avatar

It should work - possible that it won’t let you create a one disk raid 0, but creating a one disk raid 1 and then converting it to a two disk raid 0 should word. It’s been years since I played with a pure raid 0 (don’t see much sense in them), but managed conversion back then.

possiblylinux127 ,

On ZFS you can just setup a mirror

possiblylinux127 , to linux in Migrating system to NVME RAID

You want raid 1 minimum

Corruption is a nasty thing…

nek0d3r , to asklemmy in What email provider do you use? Would you recommend it?
@nek0d3r@lemmy.world avatar

I pay for a Google workspace account, but I’ve been thinking about self hosting. I’ve had my eye on mailcow for a bit, does anyone recommend?

CrimeDad , to selfhosted in YUNOhost

I think Yunohost is great. It was easier for me to set up that trying to figure out Docker. I run a few sites including AdGuard Home as well as personal Pixelfed and Lemmy instances with it in a VM on an older Ubuntu box. That said, I’m stuck on Lemmy 0.18.2 without pict-rs because the update script to the latest version available on Yunohost (0.18.3 with pict-rs) is broken. Oh well!

possiblylinux127 , to showerthoughts in There should be a semicolon punctuation for exclamation and question marks.

Because English needs to be more complex

JASN_DE , to selfhosted in Looking for HW recommendations for DIY NAS/Homelab

Define “very quiet”? Because that’s going to be tricky with spinning rust, depending on your noise tolerance.

sugar_in_your_tea OP ,

I’m thinking 25DB is the cap, ideally under 20DB.

I think HDDs are typically around 5-10DB, and they should spin down at night. Quieter is better, but I don’t need to go completely fanless. So basically, those tiny pizza box server fans are completely off the table, but larger, slower fans should be fine.

JASN_DE ,

I’m thinking 25DB is a hard cap, ideally under 20DB.

I think HDDs are typically around 5-10DB,

Um no. More like 20-25db at idle, up to 30 during heavy seek activity, depending on model.

I run 3x 5400rpm drives in my NAS, and the drives are definitely the loudest parts in the whole build, and are definitely noticeable in the office room.

sugar_in_your_tea OP ,

Really? I currently sit like 3’ from my current PC NAS, and while I can hear it, the fan noise seems louder (stock AMD heatsink and fan). This YouTube looks at very similar drives to what I have (my drives are WD 8TB NAS Plus 5400RPM, video is 8TB NAS Pro 7200), and the measurement is something like 10-15DB per drive. Mine should be quieter than the video, so I think it’ll be fine.

I’ll probably need to replace my drives soon since I got them 5 years ago (though they were off 80% of the time), so I may consider SSDs if the pricing looks reasonable (I’m only using 2-4TB right now, but I expect that to double or triple in the next couple years).

Anyway, this is a somewhat temporary situation. Quiet gives me options. If it’s too loud, I can keep it on my desktop. I’m more looking for lower power (currently use 50W-ish idle for whole system) and smaller form factor (current one is a massive ATX tower).

vividspecter ,

and the measurement is something like 10-15DB per drive

It seems to be a relative measurement, and so the values look to be 10-15dB above ambient, not the absolute dB of the drives. You can see he subtracts the background dB from the spl meter calibration early in the video.

sugar_in_your_tea OP ,

Ah, that’s too bad. Ambient in his office is probably way different than his bedroom, so that’s pretty lame.

aodhsishaj ,

Can confirm I am running what I am often is told is overkill here.

7200rpm hitachi 12TB drives

Just measured at 19DB at a meter away running a zpool scrub.

So it definitely depends on which HDD you have.

narc0tic_bird ,

Is your typical noise floor even under 20 dB? HDDs are also a lot louder than 5-10 dB, and manufacturers usually list dBA in their spec sheets, not dB.

kitnaht ,

A typical refrigerator is like 40dbA – 25dbA is ABSURDLY quiet. You’re not gonna hit that without a completely fanless system. If 25dbA is his hard cap, he can’t even be breathing in the same area as the computer, because that’s something like 28dbA…

sugar_in_your_tea OP ,

I’m honestly not sure, I’m just pulling stuff from various online sources to get an estimate. This YouTube video measures noise from a single 7200 RPM WD Red drive, and I have 2x 5400 WD Red drives, so I’m guessing mine will be similar, if not a little quieter. I’d measure it myself, but it’s next to 2 other PCs and fan noise drowns it out.

Basically, I want it to work under my bed. It’s a large, thick bed (king size purple mattress; so basically foam), so I can stick it pretty far in to get some flexibility on what “quiet” means. We also aren’t particularly light sleepers, so our threshold is probably a little higher than others.

That said, I’m using the stock fan for my Ryzen 1700 (Wraith Spire I think?), and that’s way too loud for a bedroom (40dba-ish?), and I can’t really hear my drives over the fan unless I get really close. The spec on the drives say something like 20-30dba for my drives (I’m guessing that’s right next to the drive), and I think that’s quiet enough for my room, especially if I can dampen vibration a bit. But since the drives will probably spin down, I’m looking for fan noise around that level or lower, if I need a fan at all.

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