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barsquid ,

Old guy needs a larger pile of cookies and to be setting that guy's house aflame to make more.

barsquid ,

I really wish the government would do their goddamn jobs regarding monopolies. Instead they are just accepting bribes and facilitating the mergers.

Pros and cons of Proxmox in a home lab?

Hi all. I was curious about some of the pros and cons of using Proxmox in a home lab set up. It seems like in most home lab setups it’s overkill. But I feel like there may be something I’m missing. Let’s say I run my home lab on two or three different SBCs. Main server is an x86 i5 machine with 16gigs memory and the others...

barsquid ,

I think I was on a previous account the last time I saw you, glad to see you're still posting. You convinced me to move from Proxmox to Incus a while back. Sure, I had some growing pains, but it's pretty smooth now.

I like that I can switch out my distros underneath Incus instead of being stuck on one weird kernel. IME you were absolutely right about that. I'm getting into atomic distros to manage homelab machines. I would not be able to do that on Proxmox.

I also don't need to edit a giant Javascript file to remove a nag about enterprise software repos, which is nice.

barsquid ,

Yeah, I think it's an unusual case, but I wanted to bring it up to support your point about rejecting their kernel and distro. You can put Incus on a lot of different systems. Don't like systemd? Put it on Void. Want a declarative setup? NixOS. Minimalist? Alpine.

Do I want to maintain a full operating system just to run this one type of software? No, that's absurd. I want to choose the distro I want to work with and then have the software work on top of it.

barsquid ,

We have finally invented the Torment Nexus from popular novel Don't Invent the Torment Nexus.

Props to Alpine and Kali for disabling this bullshit out of the box (lemmy.world)

Context for newbies: Linux refers to network adapters (wifi cards, ethernet cards, etc.) by so called "interfaces". For the longest time, the interface names were assigned based on the type of device and the order in which the system discovered it. So, eth0, eth1, wlan0, and wwan0 are all possible interface names. This, however,...

barsquid ,

If that was made by redditors then where is the delusional far-right propaganda?

barsquid ,

What on Earth.

Tesla is recalling its Cybertruck for the fourth time to fix problems with trim pieces that can come loose and front windshield wipers that can fail | The new recalls each affect over 11,000 trucks (apnews.com)

The company says in the documents that the front windshield wiper motor controller can stop working because it’s getting too much electrical current. A wiper that fails can cut visibility, increasing the risk of a crash. The Austin, Texas, company says it knows of no crashes or injuries caused by the problem....

barsquid ,

What, take ideas from decades of vehicle manufacturing like a filthy pleb? Listening to lower IQ car engineers with decades of experience is just going to slow a genius like Elon down.

barsquid ,

Begging people to subscribe to their own hardware will have increased results when they can show you your OneDrive is full. It probably will get them more money than it loses them. They are utterly thirsty for subscription revenue.

Even Apple finally admits that 8GB RAM isn't enough (www.xda-developers.com)

There were a number of exciting announcements from Apple at WWDC 2024, from macOS Sequoia to Apple Intelligence. However, a subtle addition to Xcode 16 — the development environment for Apple platforms, like iOS and macOS — is a feature called Predictive Code Completion. Unfortunately, if you bought into Apple's claim that...

barsquid ,

Embrace, extend, extinguish is an attitude for more than one company I guess.

barsquid ,

Yes. All the free market economy guys are making assumptions about efficient markets and infinite choices, but none of that is true. But the reality is laborers don't even have the ability to leave a shitty job even with alternatives available, like just interviewing would use up a precious sick day or cost them hours of wage.

barsquid ,

Putting the claim instead of the reality in the headline is journalistic malpractice. 2x for free is still pretty great tho.

barsquid ,

Just finished the article, it's not for free at all. Chips need to be designed to use it. I'm skeptical again. There's no point IMO. Nobody wants to put the R&D into massively parallel CPUs when they can put that effort into GPUs.

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Twitter has always allowed and coddled "standard conservative discussions."

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Report them to the CFPB. They're forced to have an actual human review and respond.

barsquid ,

Oh, gotcha. Yeah they are shitheads. It honestly should be illegal to make an account for someone using an unverified email.

barsquid ,

Docker/Podman or any containerized solution is basically the easiest way to get really nice maintenance properties like: updating one app won't break others, won't take down the whole system, can be moved from machine to machine.

Containers are a learning curve but I think very worth it for home setups. Compared to something like Kubernetes which I would say is less worth it unless you already know or want to learn Kubernetes.

barsquid ,

Do you host your ticketing system? I'd like to try one out. My TODO markings in my notes app don't end up organized enough to be helpful. My experience is with JIRA, which I despise with every fiber of my being.

barsquid ,

We built Vikunja with speed in mind - every interaction takes less than 100ms.

Their heads are certainly in the right place. I'll check this out, thank you!

barsquid ,

Oh neat, I was actually planning to set that up to store scripts and some projects I'm working on, I'll give the tickets a try then.

barsquid ,

Just narcissists lying about shit as usual.

Microsoft Edge nags users with a 3D banner to change Windows 11's default browser (www.windowslatest.com)

Would you use Edge as your default browser on Windows 11 if Microsoft nags you with a 3D banner? Microsoft thinks you would. In a new experiment, which appears to be rolling out to Edge stable on Windows 11, Microsoft has turned on a banner that uses 3D graphics to promote the browser....

barsquid ,

Both Fedora and Debian are excellent choices.

I keep feeling compelled to suggest people try the atomic versions of Fedora. They do upgrades in a way that cannot get stuck halfway, and if the upgrade breaks something you can roll back. I think it's neat.

barsquid ,

Capitalism be like.

barsquid ,

It's not wildly different IMO, but yeah it is different enough that you might not be interested.

Installing system packages means layering a commit on top of your base distro, so they urge most CLI stuff to be done in containers. GUI apps tend to be installed as Flatpaks, that part might be familiar.

If you're mostly working with Rider and can easily set it up to work with dev containers, the learning curve might not be too steep.

barsquid ,

If the market were rational that would have been the end of Tesla. It takes some extreme brainletry to turn a huge market advantage into actively losing ground to new entrants. And he is still at it. Being a dimwitted Nazi on Twitter is his top priority. Tesla sales will continue to spiral down the drain.

(Yes, if the market were rational the end might have come sooner, but certainly giving billions to a brainlet actively sabotaging the company should end it.)

barsquid ,

"Shoot oneself in the foot" is a really charitable description of "inviting all the worst Nazis back on to social media and removing fact checking."

barsquid ,

Imagine being the wealthiest person on the planet and deciding to burn half of it to ensure that Nazis have an audience for their hot takes. Elon could have bought entire parks of grass to touch instead.

barsquid ,

40 hour workweek is excessive. This is based around units containing at least two adults, maybe multigenerational homes with grandparents doing childcare. Now that we expect dual incomes the workweek should be 20 hours at most before overtime kicks in.

What I am getting at is that just giving people time back to exist could happen with changes to the current system. Unfortunately that means smaller yachts for the people on top, so we cannot have it.

barsquid ,

It needs to be a standard connection and work with multiple host OSes before I would consider one, I'm not sure Apple is into that. Having the S version you describe would still be miles better than $3,500 for a non-upgradable smart monitor.

barsquid ,

I put "communists" in scare quotes when they're defending every action from a state capitalist nation that produces hundreds of billionaires.

barsquid ,

I ask myself this every day. Why not just sell some MAGA Jesus trinkets?

When I am feeling more altruistic than greedy, why not toss up a bunch of "PATRIOTS THE COUNTRY NEEDS YOUR HELP TO FIGHT ELECTION FRAUD" and then just donate all the proceeds to campaigns for people against insurrection and fake electors. There's no lie or fraud on that, just exploiting the bias of delusional clowns. I guess "patriots" is a lie, that's about it.

barsquid ,

What is a good usenet server for reading MBs of discussion every day?

barsquid ,

I was hoping they'd get the price down to something sane. It looks like it could be a cool tool for CAD. Of course there won't be any input available from a non-Apple computer so I still wouldn't want one.

barsquid ,

Without a Meta account tho? I've got hard blockers on price or shenanigans (or both) for every headset I know of.

barsquid ,

I tried to install Win 10 in a VM recently and it spend hours updating after installing from the ISO. Also you have to turn off the internet to not create a Microsoft account? What a pain it is now.

barsquid ,

I will never use GitLab after seeing CVE-2023-7028. It should simply not have been possible with any reasonable security posture. I do not want their software running on my machines.

barsquid ,

Efficiency is not even my top concern with their code: https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/05/0-click-gitlab-hijacking-flaw-under-active-exploit-with-thousands-still-unpatched/

barsquid ,

That is usury. That cannot be legal? Oh, no, I just checked, wow, usury laws are weak af.

barsquid ,

What is the advanced stuff you can do if you don't have garbage data?

barsquid ,

Get fucked, Meta.

barsquid ,

They're used to the US system of regulations where they can just pay Congress a few tens of thousands.

barsquid ,

I'd be down to have SoCs with PCIe.

barsquid ,

Subscribe to the sex bot you paid for to activate it, and it's still whispering ads in your ear while you ride it.

Microsoft in damage-control mode, says it will prioritize security over AI (arstechnica.com)

Microsoft is pivoting its company culture to make security a top priority, President Brad Smith testified to Congress on Thursday, promising that security will be "more important even than the company’s work on artificial intelligence."...

barsquid ,

There needs to be a fine far larger than the contract to have any hope of curtailing this behavior.

The people making the decisions should be in jail. I don't know if this is fraud in the legal sense but this is literally fraudulent behavior.

barsquid ,

You had to log your time to the minute? I would quit instantly if my job got down to 5m increments, fuck that shit. Sounds like it is a former job so you made the right decision getting out of there.

barsquid ,

This company is doomed lol. Fucking dimwits.

barsquid ,

Nepo babies understand each other's need to suck money from people who produce the value.

barsquid ,

Well, damn, there goes that idea.

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