Bizarroland

Bizarroland , 4 months ago to Technology in Opinion: It's Time To Ditch 2.4GHz WI-FI

CAT5 is essentially dead. Highly recommended to use cat6/e as a minimum, or cat8. The world is beginning to switch to multi gig ethernet and CAT5 is simply insufficient for that.

Yes it will work at gigabit speeds and most things you do will not require more than gigabit but who knows what we will be running in 10 years and cat 6 can handle 10 gig over a pretty good distance which should be sufficient until it needs to be completely replaced.

That being said, unless you are currently running a multi gig ethernet setup and are running into bandwidth limitations on CAT5 or cat5e, there is no need to pull and replace what is already there. This advice is for new deployments.

Bizarroland , 4 months ago to Technology in Roku’s Ultimatum: Surrender Jury Trial Rights or Lose Access to Your TVs

You could conceivably have a basis for a lawsuit against them if you do not agree to the binding arbitration for their disabling of the hardware that you had purchased from them.

However, do not forget that binding arbitration is still a legal process and does require them to treat it with the same gravity as a court trial would otherwise require, so even if you have agreed to The binding arbitration limitation, should something go awry you still have grounds and a space to take them to court, and in many cases, binding arbitration is much faster and more convenient for all parties than using the court system.

Bizarroland , 4 months ago to Technology in AI Determines Sex of Person From Brain Scans - Neuroscience News

That's interesting. I and my father are both hyperlexic (as in, taught ourselves to read, in my case, before I could speak) but not trans or autistic.

I wonder how that mixes into the fold?

Bizarroland , 4 months ago to Selfhosted in Lemmings, what's your self hosted server power usage?

At $0.13/kwh 100 watts 24/7/365 will cost you $113.88 a year, or roughly $10 a month. Little things add up.

Bizarroland , 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago) to Selfhosted in Lemmings, what's your self hosted server power usage?

Mine is roughly 300 watts, much of which is from using an old computer as a NAS separate from my server server.

However, I put the whole thing in the basement next to my heat pump water heater which sucks the heat out of the air and puts it into my water, so I am ameliorating the expense by at least recapturing some of the *waste heat.

Bizarroland , 4 months ago to Selfhosted in Never Again

Since we are talking about cheap ssds, what do you guys think of netac?

Bizarroland , 4 months ago to Technology in How Google is killing independent sites like ours - HouseFresh

Too bad the Mozilla foundation didn't pivot to that instead of whatever the hell they're doing with AI

Bizarroland , 4 months ago to Technology in Audacity adds AI audio editing capabilities thanks to free Intel OpenVINO plugins

And I could see the forest a whole lot better if all these trees weren't in the way.

It's not that one person is doing it it's that everyone is doing it.

The only way to stop everyone from doing it is to stop everyone from doing it.

Bizarroland , 4 months ago to Memes in Relatable

And don't forget how they beat that one police officer to death with a flagpole.

Bizarroland , 4 months ago to Technology in Audacity adds AI audio editing capabilities thanks to free Intel OpenVINO plugins

Some people prefer to not have their every action watched and observed by some anonymous Big brother.

The people who do not get that are the people who profit from the watching, and the people that are, best case, inconsiderate of the desires and feelings of other people.

It is not normal nor is it natural to claim ownership of other people's activity.

It is normal and natural to wish to exist without being observed. Privacy is a fundamental human right and companies are taking advantage of the fact that it is not legally enforced.

Hopefully the laws will catch up and make it so that each and every individual opportunity to directly observe a person must be explicitly approved beforehand with a set time limit on the observation, and that all telemetry must be made publically available and transparent, not only during the original acquisition of data but also in each and every single usage of that data after the fact.

It is only fair after all that should accompany wish to observe you that they must also be equally observed.

Bizarroland , 5 months ago to Selfhosted in When Pi-hole is down?

Proof?

I read 15 different sites about DNS and not a one of them claimed anything like this. They universally all stated that your network attached devices would use the 1st one unless it didn't respond and only use the 2nd one if the 1st one did not.

So once again, I ask "Can you send me some more information on this" and not just claim it without any backup information?

I apologize if I am coming off rude, just my BS meter is getting close to the red zone and I would really appreciate some reliable evidence.

Bizarroland , 5 months ago to Selfhosted in When Pi-hole is down?

Yeah, looks like you don't know what you're talking about.

The second ipv4 DNS address is for redundancy and every network connected system will use the first one as long as it responds.

It's perfectly fine to have a single pihole and use something like quad9 as a failover in the unlikely event that your pihole goes down unexpectedly.

Bizarroland , 5 months ago to Selfhosted in When Pi-hole is down?

Can you send me some more information on this because this is the first I've ever heard that it would not automatically pick the fastest closest and most responsive DNS system available.

No remote DNS server will ever be as fast as one that is local

Bizarroland , 5 months ago to Selfhosted in When Pi-hole is down?

If you're router has a failover DNS option, usually listed as DNS 2, I would set something like quad 9 as your backup DNS. Address is 9.9.9.9.

If you don't want to do that, then having a second instance of pihole running as the secondary DNS is pretty much your only good option

Bizarroland , 5 months ago to Selfhosted in Which OS do you use for your homeserver?

I have 4 home servers. 1 running pfsense, 1 running truenas, 1 running proxmox, and 1 is a cloud key gen2 for unifi that I got for free