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Boozilla , to nostupidquestions in What is the secret to making LED light bulbs last as long as the package says?
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Might be worth looking into phosphor-converted LEDs. A little slower to light up, but supposedly last longer and are more heat-tolerant.

rbesfe , to noncredibledefense in CHOOSE YOUR FIGHTER

Be careful, the Glock Ness monster might turn on you and demand $3.50

FlyingSquid , to pics in Olympic gymnast Giorgia Villa is sponsored by parmesan and takes many photos with a wheel of cheese
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

Please tell me this means cheese rolling will become a new Olympic sport!

en.wikipedia.org/…/Cooper's_Hill_Cheese-Rolling_a…

Oh yes there absolutely is video if you’re curious.

cpw , to nostupidquestions in What is the secret to making LED light bulbs last as long as the package says?

Check your power. I’ve had about 50 led bulbs for about 7 or more years. Only the ones in the bathroom failed because they were cheap and not rated for use in a wet and humid environment. Their replacements are coming up on 4 years old now and no signs of trouble. None of the bulbs were particularly expensive when I bought them.

BlueSquid0741 , to retrogaming in Does anyone know of a Linux-based or playable via emulator/wine of the NES Rygar?

Install ares from flathub

Download nes ROM of Rygar

Play

AndrewZabar OP ,

Sweet! TYVM Got a few responses everyone is so generous and helpful. I just haven’t gotten. Around to doing any of it yet lol.

DeltaTangoLima , to nostupidquestions in In January, is it winter in Australia?
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No - it’s definitely Christmas in summer in Australia. But somehow my dear old Gran never got the memo, and insisted on making us sit down and sweat through a full roast Christmas lunch each year, sometimes in 40°C+ heat.

dharmacurious ,

An Aussie friend from a forum I was on ages ago posted a video of his family’s Christmas tree, and it blew my mind that they decorated it with snowmen and snowflakes and shit. They had a fire going, a big ass turkey or some such (baby emu?) on the table. Whole freaking classic Christmas affair.

Why? Why do you do this? If it flipped somehow, and Christmas now came during summer here in the US, I’d be decorating the tree with flip flops (thongs?) and sunglasses, and having mojitos with a light salad for dinner lol

DeltaTangoLima ,
@DeltaTangoLima@reddrefuge.com avatar

Yeah, now I have my own family and we do our own Christmas, it’s shorts, thongs, BBQ, seafood and beer.

dharmacurious ,

When I was a kid we lived in Florida briefly.* On Christmas, we went swimming, did a cookout, and went fishing. It was awesome. Looked it up, it was 82f/27c that day. 2 months later, in February, we were in North Carolina, where there was snow on the ground, and huge chunks of ice floating in the lake at the campground we were staying at. The lake had a giant slide in it, about 50 feet/15 meters. Right in the middle of the lake. Me and my brother could not resist. Ended up swimming there on my birthday. Haha. There’s no point to this story, hot Christmas just made me think of it.

*At times like this, I never know if I should explain things like Florida. On the one hand, I’m being presumptuous if I assume someone on the other side of the planet has a working knowledge of one of our 50+ subnational jurisdictions, on the other I’m acting like I have to explain Florida to someone who has access to a super US centric internet… Blegh.

RBWells ,

I’m in Florida, and Christmas does get a tree but nobody expects snow, lol. But it’s our cool season, still winter. What bothers me more is the harvest festivals in fall. Nothing much grows here in summer, in fall we are just ramping up the garden, so in that way it’s more like spring in other cooler places.

Deceptichum ,
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I’ve never seen that in my whole life.

A roast for dinner sure, but never a fucking fireplace on.

And lunch has always been cold seafood while sitting out in the sun smashing beers.

dharmacurious ,

If it matters, they’re super wealthy, so it might be a class thing where they do it up for holidays

I_Fart_Glitter , (edited )

White Wine in the Sun is a Christmas song by Australian comedian Tim Minchin.

ace_garp ,
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Oz xmas is often sun, pool and beach oriented, with family big lunches.

Exactly like this at every house across Australia. /s

Decronym Bot , (edited ) to selfhosted in Stop services while creating snapshots during backup?

Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:

Fewer Letters More Letters
LVM (Linux) Logical Volume Manager for filesystem mapping
NFS Network File System, a Unix-based file-sharing protocol known for performance and efficiency
SMTP Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
ZFS Solaris/Linux filesystem focusing on data integrity

4 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 4 acronyms.

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ChilledPeppers , to nostupidquestions in In January, is it winter in Australia?

I live in Brazil, we call cold season winter, hot season summer :). January is summer.

neidu2 ,

As a scandinavian who has worked in Brazil for two years I can confirm that Brazilians do in fact call two identical seasons differently based on whether it’s closer to Christmas. I usually worked the night shift, and in July-ish, my Brazilian coworker usually wore a hat while on the backdeck while I was sweating like a hog.

AdNecrias ,

It’s rain season, not cold one =)

ChilledPeppers ,

That depends on where in Brazil you are, but yes,in the north (near the equator), winter is as hot as summer, and spring/autumm are the warmest seasons.

MaximilianKohler , to selfhosted in Stop services while creating snapshots during backup?

I ran into a similar problem with snapshots of a forum and email server – if there are scheduled emails when you take the snapshot they get sent out again if you create a new test server from the snapshot. And similarly for the forum.

I’m not sure what the solution is either. The emails are sent via an SMTP so it’s not as simple as disabling email (ports, firewall, etc.) on the new test server.

butitsnotme , to selfhosted in Stop services while creating snapshots during backup?

I don’t bother stopping services during backup, each service is contained to a single LVM volume, so snapshotting is exactly the same as yanking the plug. I haven’t had any issues yet, either with actual power failures or data restores.

avidamoeba OP , (edited )
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And this implies you have tested such backups right?

Side Q, how long do those LVM snapshots take? How long does it take to merge them afterwards?

butitsnotme ,

Yes, I have. I should probsbly test them again though, as it’s been a while, and Immich at least has had many potentially significant changes.

LVM snapshots are virtually instant, and there is no merge operation, so deleting the snapshot is also virtually instant. The way it works is by creating a new space where the difference from the main volume are written, so each time the application writes to the main volume the old block will be copied to the snapshot first. This does mean that disk performance will be somewhat lower than without snapshots, however I’ve not really noticed any practical implications. (I believe LVM typically creates my snapshots on a different physical disk from where the main volume lives though.)

You can my backup script here.

avidamoeba OP ,
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Oh interesting. I was under the impression that deletion in LVM was actually merging which took some time but I guess not. Thanks for the info!

HubertManne , to nostupidquestions in How do i tag another person in my comment? Not post but comment. I'm reddit it was u/name would alert that person they'd been mentioned

@andrewta does this help?

andrewta OP ,

Thanks

Blue_Morpho , to nostupidquestions in What is the secret to making LED light bulbs last as long as the package says?

Get a hold of Royal Dubai Led bulbs. hackaday.com/…/leds-from-dubai-the-royal-lights-y…

A prince was angry that leds were burning out well before their rated lifespan so funded Philips to make an actual long lasting led bulb.

aseriesoftubes , to nostupidquestions in What is the secret to making LED light bulbs last as long as the package says?

I’m assuming you have a lot of flush-mount ceiling fixtures (aka boob lights)? My experience with them is that they’re very effective LED bulb killers.

The only two that have lasted are in my range hood for light above my stove. Those experience extreme heat and yet they are fine.

They only experience heat when you’re cooking, and are able to vent that heat to a large volume of air (assuming they’re not enclosed, or only enclosed by a thin sheet of plastic). The rest of the time they’re probably powered off and at ambient temperatures. Compare that to enclosed flush-mount fixtures, in which bulbs stay on for large portions of the day, trapping lots of heat in a small space for long periods of time. That’s a perfect recipe for killing LED bulbs.

If your house was built prior to LED bulbs being so widespread, it might be worthwhile to consider new fixtures that were actually designed with LED bulbs in mind.

Also, don’t buy no-name bulbs off Amazon. Chinese factories crank out shitty bulbs that are designed and built as cheaply as possible, and they will fail quickly.

nokturne213 , to fediverse in UPDATE! Now 30% of Lemmy Apps display posts accurately

Is there a list of what each app failed? It would be nice for the devs to be able to see. I use Mlem, and there is about to be a new release rebuilding it from the ground up. Hopefully it will rate higher once that happens.

gedaliyah OP ,
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Yes, I’ve linked it in the post, and you can find the test post and detailed results.

nokturne213 ,

Thanks. Interesting how the apps, even those that have lower scores, perform better than a web browser. Using Safari and Firefox (on a laptop) and both open your links in Lemmy.world instead of that thread on my instance. Neither recognize the user as anything other than text.

gedaliyah OP ,
@gedaliyah@lemmy.world avatar

Odds are that’s Lemmy-UI. It should behave the same in any browser.

PaupersSerenade , to memes in I hope this time I get across
@PaupersSerenade@sh.itjust.works avatar

I’m always for shitting on TERFs, but I have no idea what this meme is about. Probably because I try my best to keep ‘anti-woke’ things out of my orb. Can someone please get me in on this joke that I desperately want to be a part of haha

ryannathans ,

You don’t, trust

Zozano ,
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I dont actually know either, but I assume it’s referring to a sad statistic relevant to the trans community and the role of gravity in the abrupt termination of velocity.

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