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walden ,

I’d say SSD or anything else non-spinning is a waste of money for most people’s needs. There are fringe cases, of course, like people who are editing gigantic video files or whatever.

I have a bunch of WD HDD’s that I shucked a while ago, they’ve been running non-stop for over 5 years last time I checked and I haven’t had any problems. That being said, I think Toshiba is usually considered “better”.

Either way, you shouldn’t rely on the reliability of any drive, SSD, HDD, or otherwise. If you have a backup then your worries go out the window and you can live life in peace!

walden ,

Lemmy is little too complex for a one click install.

Lemmy consists of:

  1. Lemmy
  2. Lemmy-ui
  3. Postgresql
  4. Pict-rs
  5. Probably something else I’m forgetting.

Each one of those has a number of environmental config options that need to be set before running it all. You need a domain name so that other instances can reach your instance. Your database needs a password, Pict-rs needs to know where to store things, etc.

walden ,

The docker instructions are a hot pile of garbage, unfortunately. The referenced docker compose file, for example, is for installing via Ansible I think. There’s another Docker Compose file somewhere in the GitHub which is formatted for regular installation.

walden ,

FYI here’s a link to the other compose file I was talking about: github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/…/docker-compose.yml

walden ,

Interesting. Are they both 120v?

walden ,

Yeah, it only matters with things like electric shavers (although those are all battery operated now… so it actually doesn’t matter!), vacuum cleaners, etc. I know if you plug a 120v appliance into 230v it might kill it, but I guess if you plug a 230v appliance into 120v it just won’t turn on or will run slower.

walden ,

The only downside to keeping everything in a lossless format is that over the years new formats emerge. mp3 used to be the only game in town, but now we have multitudes of lossy formats to pick from. By having your collection in mp3 format, you aren’t able to say “hey, this new format looks cool, let me switch to that”. By storing everything in a lossless format (FLAC), you can convert for mobile as you see fit.

walden ,

Just flexibility and future proofing. Having/building a music library is very time consuming, so I’ve chosen to do it properly so there’s no work in the future.

Since my stuff is all FLAC it doesn’t matter what new lossy formats become popular 25 years from now. My music server will convert it on the fly to stream it to my phone.

walden ,

For non-consumable stuff that’s really great. For food items I don’t want a resealable sticker. There’s a benefit to being tamper evident in those cases. It’d be nice if they were easy-peel and not restickable. That’d be dope!

walden ,

I blew through the $5 plan in a short amount of time. I’m a curious person, I guess! I really like it though so decided $120/year was worth it for unlimited.

Compared to DDG (Bing) the search results are really good. When using DDG I would frequently revert to Google, but not with Kagi.

walden ,

Interesting thought. Would you say you’re an anxious type of person in general?

walden ,

These are more expensive than “free”, but if you decide to make it look original it’s probably an option www.repairclinic.com/…/Dryer-Handle-Parts

walden ,

Yep, cake day

walden ,

That was a fun watch.

walden ,

Sam from Future Islands is a pretty dope guy.

walden ,

I guess it’s the same as buying Nestle Hot Chocolate knowing full well child labor was involved. It’s ok as long as your sweet tooth is satisfied.

walden ,

Blocking spam is not selfish, no.

Problems with creating my own instance

I am currently trying to create my own Lemmy instance and am following the join-lemmy.org docker guide. But unfortunately docker compose up doesn’t work with the default config and throw’s a yaml: line 32: found character that cannot start any token error. Is there something I can do to fix this?...

walden , (edited )

I’m not a pro at Docker, but I’ve spun up over 30 different services using Docker Compose so I’m more than a novice. I would say that Lemmy’s documentation is the worst I’ve ever seen.

The website points you at that compose file which is (I think?) designed for Ansible. I think there’s another example somewhere without all the jibbery joo, but I can’t search for it right now.

Edit: here it is github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/…/docker-compose.yml

No idea why they don’t link to that one in the first place. I’d fix it if I knew how.

walden ,

I just updated my comment above with more info, FYI.

walden ,

There’s a big lack of a decent RC airplane simulator on Linux. One that you can plug a transmitter in via USB or Bluetooth and go from there. Real flight is the king but it’s Windows only.

walden ,

I think the docs recommend (and this is how I have it set up) leaving the go2rtc stream as you have it currently, and changing the stream path for the camera config to rtsp://127.0.0.1:8554/nursery

walden ,

We like having one because our little one does some funny stuff sometimes.

It has been useful before for telling what kind of crying he’s doing. You can tell a lot from audio, but audio/video has helped sometimes.

walden ,

We have a cheap WiFi camera with PTZ hooked into Frigate. It has been really great, although I ended up buying another wifi AP because our 2.4Ghz is pretty crowded with IoT stuff.

walden ,

I started shaving as a hobby during lockdown. Now I help run a shaving Lemmy.

walden ,

Cartridges are expensive. We’ve been trained by Gillette to think cartridges are the only way, but there are much cheaper options.

One of these and a blade sampler pack will get you started (for anyone interested).

How should I change my polite behavior to be more accommodating?

My parents raised me to always say “yes sir” and “no ma’am”, and I automatically say it to service workers and just about anyone with whom I’m not close that I interact with. I noticed recently that I had misgendered a cashier when saying something like “no thank you, ma’am” based on their appearing AFAB, but...

walden ,

I wouldn’t worry too much about it. Strangers shouldn’t expect you to know everything about them.

walden ,

Is the problem that the bags aren’t long enough? Fill the bottom of the can with something the bag can rest on.

walden ,

That’s really cool. My shed is at 18kWh after a few months. I don’t use much so most days it just keeps the battery on float.

walden ,

Your comment got me thinking… Is this a big deal, or even a small deal?

I think it’s a deal of some proportion. If someone is trying out Linux for the first time and stumbles across how Flatpaks work and starts exploring Flathub, maybe their initial impression will be good enough to consider switching. If something appears to be polished, then maybe it is.

Pi.Alert is dead...💀 Long live NetAlert X 🚀 (network monitoring) (lemmy.world)

After thinking for about a year about it I decided to rename the project to 🚀NetAlertX. This will help prevent confusion about which fork someone is using, and differentiate it from the now stale upstream project. With about 1800 or so commits over the stale project, I thought, this project deserved a new name. It will also...

walden ,

Nice! I’m just getting a blank screen at myip:20211 after installing it with docker compose. I’ll try again later and see if I can figure it out.

walden ,

Wow. What are the chances?

https://sub.wetshaving.social/pictrs/image/7aa28dd9-07d9-42c9-aa14-be2e5d66b753.png

walden ,

It was a typo in my compose file. Oops!

walden ,

Looks like OP might need SFF-8482 type connectors?

walden OP ,

I guess my thought process is if they placed the line a tad further forward where you can see crossing traffic, including pedestrians, more people would actually stop at the designated spot. The way I see it most often now is people ignore the line completely (boy who cried wolf effect maybe), further endangering pedestrians.

walden OP ,

The lines at intersections with traffic lights make sense to me, especially since they all have crosswalks, etc. in my area.

walden OP ,

Traffic laws aren’t enforced where I am, but I wish they were. People routinely run stop signs.

walden OP ,

Now that you mention it, even if you stop at the stop line, it’s still very possible to not see any crossing traffic and then start creeping forward only for a bus to appear. By then it’s too late.

Increase your Linux Server Internet Speed with TCP BBR Congestion-Control (www.cyberciti.biz)

I recently found this on Reddit while looking into why jellyfin is effected so much by latency. I found that this worked and thought I would share it because it is generally applicable, takes five minutes to setup, and helps a lot with bandwidth on higher latency connections. I admit I am not sure of the technical stuff behind...

walden ,

Interesting. I’d be interested in hearing other people’s experience with this. Is this BBR stuff enabled by default on any distros?

walden ,

Fiber: Promotes healthy pooping.

walden ,

You’re good in my book. ☕

walden ,

Made soap out of lye and a mix of fats and oils.

Stripped a cast iron pan using electrolysis, although that might be more physics than chemistry. I had to add Sodium Carbonate so that’s pretty sciencey!

walden ,

Just curious what your preferred solution would be?

walden ,

Which house?

walden ,

My work has something similar, but I can change the default.

Selfhosted Wireless Cameras

I currently have a couple of (amazon) Blink cameras. I would like similar cameras but that are self hosted. Yes these basically are however the HW-Sync module sucks its slow. I’ve tried other chinese brands which are slower. I was about to buy the Eufy Homebase setup it seemed perfect easy low power cameras. However their...

walden ,

I don’t know anything about Blink, but for self hosted camera stuff, Frigate is wonderful.

walden ,

I have 2 Amcrest cameras. One PoE that’s super solid, and an inexpensive WiFi camera. I ended up buying another wifi access point just for the camera, and ever since it has been very solid. More a symptom of my house having tons of IoT devices than a problem with the camera, really.

walden ,

Does it work after a reboot? I vaguely remember having this problem on my old motherboard. Adding a PCIe LAN adapter and switching everything over solved it for me. Now I have a new mobo and it doesn’t have any network problems.

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