SeaJ

SeaJ , 5 days ago to Selfhosted in Have you ever bough an external hardrive only to take the disk out of it?

Not specifically, no. When I did change to building my own NAS, I cracked open my older 4TB backup drive to use as a spare.

SeaJ , 6 days ago to Selfhosted in Would it be a good thing for the average person to self-host their apps? If so, how to get there?

I'm lost with what I'd need to do to access my server from outside my local network, and terrified of doing something wrong and leaving a hole open so any hacker can access my server. I'd like to do it some day, but I'd rather have a safe local network than screw and get my data stolen or deleted.

Setup a VPN via Wireguard or Tailscale. I personally have not done that but I have VPN setup through OpenVPN which I did not find that hard and people say that is significantly harder than Wireguard.

The other (less safe) option would be to setup a DMZ on your network for stuff you want to self host. That is a bit more involved though. I went through it for fun and setup a public Nextcloud instance along with DDNS and a reverse proxy. I was just messing around though and shut it down after testing performance.

SeaJ , 6 days ago to Technology in The Internet Archive is under a DDoS attack

I was wondering why I couldn't get to it yesterday.

SeaJ , 6 days ago to Technology in CEO of Google Says It Has No Solution for Its AI Providing Wildly Incorrect Information

Reminds me of the time Microsoft unleashed their AI Twitter account and it turned into a Nazi after a couple hours. Whatever straight out of business school idiot who thought scraping the comments of the armpit of the internet was a good idea should be banned from any management position. At least it is a step up from scraping 4chan, I guess.

SeaJ , 6 days ago to Technology in CEO of Google Says It Has No Solution for Its AI Providing Wildly Incorrect Information

Jesus. I didn't even think of that. I could totally see that being a big part of why it is giving garbage answers.

SeaJ , 6 days ago to Technology in CEO of Google Says It Has No Solution for Its AI Providing Wildly Incorrect Information

Then how would they compete with the other big search engine pushing AI that nobody wants? /s

SeaJ OP , 16 days ago to Technology in Orange Charger thinks a $750 outlet will solve EV charging for apartment dwellers

I feel like people overestimate how much they actually drive most days and think that a simple level 1 charger could not possibly work for them. The average person drives a little over 30 miles per day. I know there are a myriad of people who will say they totally drive way more than that and their commute is more than that. K. A level 1 charger will charge a car 3-5 miles of range per hour it is plugged in. Overnight that is likely around 30-50 miles of range. That is kind of the idea behind this and the creator even said he made this because he lost a bet (almost certainly a lie but it gets the point across) where he was bet that he could easily go 6 months charging on a level 1 charger without having to visit a fast charge station (ignoring long weekend outings). The vast priory of people would only need to visit a fast charger once in a blue moon.

Sure, if you are the 1% of people having some crazy commute of 50+ miles, invest in a level two charger. And then with the money you are saving by not spending so much on gas, move closer to your work. But damn near everyone will be perfectly fine with simple level 1 charging. No need to spend a couple thousand to get a 240v line run. Plug it into an exterior outlet and call it a day. If you're in an apartment, send your landlord information on this. And in the meantime, charge up at fast charge stations once every few weeks.

SeaJ OP , 16 days ago to Technology in Orange Charger thinks a $750 outlet will solve EV charging for apartment dwellers

Most gas stations do not even really make much money on the gas. They more operate as convenience stores but offer gas too. The need for convenience stores won't change much around freeway exits. You will still need to charge going long distances and stop for a toilet break and snacks. But a good amount will close in cities. Over half the people will not need to be going to a charging station 99.5% of the time. People in apartments will likely still need to do fast charging for a while until apartment complexes are properly incentivized to install chargers.

SeaJ OP , 19 days ago to Technology in Nearly all Nintendo 64 games can now be recompiled into native PC ports to add proper ray tracing, ultrawide, high FPS, and more

It would also be great at something above 20 fps.

SeaJ OP , 20 days ago to Technology in Nearly all Nintendo 64 games can now be recompiled into native PC ports to add proper ray tracing, ultrawide, high FPS, and more

I was actually going to pay for NSO solely to be able to play OoT on the Switch. Then I saw that it was a pile of emulated muddied crap.

SeaJ OP , 20 days ago to Technology in Nearly all Nintendo 64 games can now be recompiled into native PC ports to add proper ray tracing, ultrawide, high FPS, and more

Yes, that was kind of my point. N64 emulation on handhelds often sucks. So being able to have games recompiled to be better optimized on something like the Miyoo Mini would be great. While it is cool for the PC because it can allow for enhancements much more easily, just getting games up and running at a minimum is not an issue for any PC made in the last decade or two.

SeaJ OP , 21 days ago to Technology in Nearly all Nintendo 64 games can now be recompiled into native PC ports to add proper ray tracing, ultrawide, high FPS, and more

I'm wondering how much this will help the handheld scene. N64 emulation is pretty notoriously shitty on many handhelds.

SeaJ , 23 days ago to Technology in Streaming is cable now | Seventeen years after Netflix and Hulu kicked off a streaming revolution, it’s looking more like cable than ever.

If you got it over antenna, it most definitely was not cable.

SeaJ , 25 days ago to Technology in Prime Video subs will soon see ads for Amazon products when they hit pause

Mine ends in July. There are definitely some decent shows on Prime but I'm not going to spend an extra 25% to get the same shit and I'm not going to watch their ads. Products on Amazon are near worthless so there is not much value there.

SeaJ , 26 days ago to Technology in Lilium (LILM) receives firm order from UrbanLink to put 20 eVTOL jets into service in Florida

Cue DeSantis banning this for being woke.