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BCsven ,

Rustdesk or Teamviewer
https://www.teamviewer.com/en/download/linux/

Rustdesk ia great and almoat feature to feature with teamviewer. Rustdesk has some non opensource code portions and some have speculated that the contributors could be chinese state actors, etc. But TV is proprietary...so...

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He clearly misses that removing key people and staff, destroys tons of progress and tribal knowledge at the company. It takes a lot of money and effort to regain the momentum.
However he does remind me of an old company owner I worked for that went from a start up in a saturated market to industry leader by being totally uncompromising in his decisions. He also left a wake of destruction, but the innovation was there because he would no stand for a no from somebody

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Police forcibly removing peaceful protestors who say israel is commiting genocide. To me this is trying to silence critisicm of the intitution supporting it

BCsven ,

I have tried templeOS. It is amazing one guy built all that. It feels like it needs training sessions to make better use of it, and also it is wacky as hell

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Lol

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The fact that Haiku installs in like 30 seconds, should raise its score

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isn't tailsOS like that

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My 2010 arm board with 256MB ram running openmediavault and minidlna for music streaming.
Still lots of RAM left.

https://lemmy.ca/pictrs/image/8de59eaf-3738-4583-aa93-007b6fe8943e.png

BCsven ,

It is the > but did he listen?
part that is the joke

BCsven ,

Just install security cameras showing you were always home

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It totally is job dependent. I have had WFH since 2009. Mostly Engineering CAD work and design feasibilities. Some peoole needed the office interaction for learning, but I already had 20 years experience so I really didn't need input until design reviews.
That role changed to more consulting in 2015 and I had to be onsite to learn the clients process and products, and get differing views from each "expert". Since COVID WFH i have been solo at home again. I get way more accomplished without random coworker hellos and idle chatter interrupting my flow.

BCsven ,

SkyDaddy Drivel

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It is way cheaper. two assembly lines to assmebly 2 packs, separate work orders, specific assembly per model ordered ( so customet doesn't pay for low end amd accidentally get highend or vice versa ), CAD and data management of two variations. It is why ModelT only came in black, is streamlines the whole process.
You see much simpler examples in other induatries ie. that use stock material. it is cheaper to stock say 3 foot precut lengths and if product only needs 2 feet you chop it off at assembly and throw away the 1 foot scrap, rather than stocking and inventorying 2 foot and 3 foot stocks.
Unless you invest in an expensive atock feeder that cuts the stock to length typed in, but that machine isn't mobile so neesa to be placed at the exact location of assembly. And if you need it two places you need two stock machines, so then you start weighing the crude method vs precise

BCsven ,

No different than BMW having heated seats but if you want to use them you have to unlock with subscription plan. This way BMW makes one model and consumer has a choice with paymwnt. Intel CPUs have this too now. Company running servers can buy low performing chip, if they want to expand capability then intel sells them a license code to unlock more performance

BCsven ,

Oh I know, its absolute shit. My only point was Tesla doing it is not new, it's how manufacturers have saved costs on making muliple product configurations.

BCsven ,

Oh I hate it. Like Toyota was offering remote car start but only if you subscribed online, otherwise your remote start button would get blocked by software. They walked it back because of consumer backlash, but not enough consumers complain.
Meanwhile Ford pattented a drive home feature so if you miss a car payment it cripples your car, and further non payment the vehicle will drive itself back to the dealership

BCsven ,

They may have, Toyota ditched their "subscribe monthly to remote start your car" after outrage

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There is no need for access to a cell signal amd a server though, when you wamt to clicl start.from your living room.. You can use the same fob tech as lock umlock your car like cars had prior. Or. you can buy after market remote start kits, Toyota waa juat frying to jump on the SaaS bandwagon

BCsven ,

Consider Solarized Light, its is easier on the eyes

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Ha, it does. I find it great for dark or light viewinng. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solarized

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Seafile has a free open source edition, and even their paid enterprise license is free under 3 users

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Instead of wifi printing, my printer is attached directly to my Pi, then Common Unix Print Server/System (later Rebranded Cupertino Print Server when apple took over the project many years later) acts as printer announcement, driver and spooler service.

Why is replacement for home device controls so complicated?

I recently learned about Home Assistant here on Lemmy. It looks like a replacement for Google Home, etc. However, it requires an entire hardware installation. Proprietary products just use a simple app to manage and control devices, so can someone explain why a pretty robust dedicated device is necessary as a replacement? The...

BCsven ,

My homeassistant is running on a pi2 with 2GB RAM. it doesn't need much.

But yes, it is a central place for processing and recording data, either from phone, imstalled electrical hardware or other devices.

BCsven ,

You just need one Pi. get a pi5 for future proofing. Docker addition , so you can host more than just home assiatant

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What is bad is when the supplying company goes out of business, you are left with junk. Self Hosting is the way.

Also if you buy Kasa TPlink plgus and switches there is a git HS100 repo that has scripts to run to preprogram your switches to use a localhost instead of baked in proprietary IP server, and scripts to associate your switches and plugs to your wifi without an app.
https://github.com/jkbenaim/hs100

With this CLI tool you can also manipulate the plugs and switches direct by IP address rather than via homeassistant server.

BCsven ,

https://github.com/jkbenaim/hs100
if you have tplink kasa hardware this cli tool lets you send direct commands via Wifi, no hub required.
it is not that the tech actually needs a server, it is that the server handles IP address changes, records data, checks switch on/off status, scheduling, etc, to provide a better experience than hitting an on off command.

BCsven ,

Out of say a year, I have used it once to help put a work quote into better formatting, the rest of the time I use it solely as a way to suggest films I would enjoy based on a previously warched list, it is actually good at that

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There are options to leave notes, or does not exist. at least for the ones I have entered

BCsven ,

Seems like a good way to crowd source finer detail

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Will keep an eye on that :)

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I just picked up a Monsterlabo: The First, it is all heatsink for the top 2/3rds so your CPU and GPU are completely fanless, I'm searching for a fanless PSU now. It will be a dead silent PC.

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Monsterlabo makes fanless cases, almost all heatsink, with upward airflow. There is another bramd where heatpipes attach to outerside aluminum finned panels, but I forget the name

BCsven ,

Sudo snapper rollback...oh he's on debian. nvm

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Same 7 years with no issues

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Sure but not as default install

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Isn't one cat, and the other a docker container of cat

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I asked copilot how to turn off copilot, and it responded with "It is probably time to change the question topics"

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Pretty much the responses I got trying to force it to tell me.

BCsven ,

It still amazes me that a country as tiny as the UK was this ambitious and powerful to expand like that. Like if any of those other countries banded together and were like Yeah, No, it's not on mate. Their numbers would eclipse the UK. maybe somebody with mechanics of colonization can explain how the UK was "succesful" at this venture

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Thanks

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Thanks

BCsven ,

Depends on your ISP, some only allow their product, some don't care. If they only allow their equipment you can often pay less rent per month by going to bridge mode, or they supply a bridge, and ypu use your own wifi router.
I think ours was $5 month for modem, $10 if you used their wifi router

I saved spreadsheet when Excel was glitching (corporate remote network), time stamp got updated however file reverted to original state with reboot - please help!

I am no stranger to Excel and Tech in general, however this stumped me! This all occurred on the corporate laptop where we connect to the network remotely using a security token ID. Any help is extremely appreciated as I would hate to have to do hours of re-work. Adulting is hard....

BCsven ,

It is possible it is opening a cached copy that has the same time and date, even if content is different.

Or the file actually did save like that and MS excel dropped your changes. It has happened to me before.

You or IT should be able to see versions if your company runs that option, to let you load as version X.

IT is going to be your best bet on figuring out if you have a good copy somewhere or if it went into the void

BCsven ,

Amazon reseller for xbox drives was getting 10 year old dirty crusty drives and swapping the HD controller to a more recent one. So SMART report looked like a young drive. Xbox casing had a sticker or warranty void. So me being me wondered and opened it to find a dirty ass old drive inside. i called Amazon and initially they said it is outside of return window and warranty...But i explained it doesn't matter when I detected the fraud it is still fraud. So they gave me my money back

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For the ones I had, the corrosion of the metal and stained labels was the give away (looked like they had been out on an autoshop repair bench), but each part had its own label dates. HDD was way older date than the controller board.

Looking for the Perfect USB Flash Drive

I've been using some cheap flash drives for things like installing OSs and the like, but now I've picked up a Dell Wyse 3040 system to play with which only has 8gb of storage. So I'm installing the OS onto a flash drive permanently (don't worry, just for messing with, nothing of value will be lost if/when the drive craps out)....

BCsven ,

I have bought 2 sata to USB adapters...they look identical ( other than expensive one has slightly heavier cord ) one for $4 one for $20. The $4 one has the blue USB 3 look to it, but it doesn't transfer as fast as the real USB 3 cord that cost $20.

BCsven ,

Welcome to Linux; where your hardware and my hardware may act completely different. :)

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