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brygphilomena ,

Mine was a monster every two hours on my break. So much sugar and caffeine.

brygphilomena ,

Fucking hell. It's been almost twenty years and I still will sing along and dance with the meme video.

brygphilomena ,

There is a reg key to add that disables bing search.

What I fucking hate, is that I exclusively use the start menu to start apps I've installed, but typing in the name of an app doesn't show the installed app at all, just fucking ads. They literally took away the only functionality of the start menu unless I do a very intuitive method of reverting it.

brygphilomena , (edited )

Perhaps don't do it directly. But have the system assume he is home based on various things. Motion sensors, media playing, lights on or changing states. Things like that.

brygphilomena ,

I wouldn't, you'll lose a lot not having it manage the disks such as using dissimilar disks for the array and having it spin down unused disks. You might be able to pass disks through so the unraid VM can manage them directly, but it might be harder than I'd personally want to deal with.

If you aren't running VMs much. Truenas scale I believe can do docker well. I've seen a lot of people put that in a VM on proxmox with disks passed through to be used as the NAS portion.

brygphilomena ,

Often they don't. If more granular permissions were to be used. Hklm/programdata needing admin to do anything in it for example. Putting permissions on hklm/software/package to write is enough to make a lot of software work without opening up the whole system.

brygphilomena ,

It's a machine designed to destroy hard drives. They use a hydraulic ram to bend it and shatter the platters.

brygphilomena ,

It's a machine specifically to desty hdds.

Something like this https://www.protondata.com/product/pds-75-hard-drive-crusher/

brygphilomena ,

It depends on how many drives you have to destroy. These things can be pretty quick and do hundreds or thousands of drives without much work.

brygphilomena ,

There are inline screw terminal connectors. A quick Google of ch2 and ch3 connector will give you an idea.

brygphilomena ,

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/21720722-d2c5-422b-ac6e-8a125bba4486.png

brygphilomena ,

When I come home after sunset or the garage door opens after sunset, the lights between the garage and the house then on for 15 minutes.

At sunrise, all outdoor lights turn off in case I left any on the night before.

I have a button near my chair in the living room that turns on and off.
all 4 lights in the room.

When I leave the house, the robot vacuum does it's thing.

I have a single button that turns off all lights in the house.

Because only women are worried about becoming step-parents? (This prolly could've been an Ask Lemmy.) (lemmy.world)

I'm looking for some good reading on how to, eventually, best help be a step parent to my partner's children and NEARLY ALL books are geared toward the woman's perspective as though men don't want to be a strong teacher and develop these kids into healthy adults. Ugh!...

brygphilomena ,

I'm going to be falling into a stepfather role this summer when my girlfriend and her daughter moves in. We've already kind of talked about marriage.

I'm nervous as all hell, but the girlfriend says I'm doing great so far. Her daughter loves me and I try to handle her by leading her rather than telling her. If she doesn't want to take a nap, well then I guess it's time for me to take a nap and she'll follow. When she doesn't want to go to bed, then I'll play like I'm going to lay down and sleep in her bed and she'll kick me out because it's hers.

She's a smart cookie, and I'm excited for it all. I'm excited to take her to extracurriculars and chaperone field trips. I'm scared shitless. But excited.

brygphilomena ,

Thanks. I know it'll a challenge. She's five now, and will be six by the time she moves in. I'm super excited that I have a goddaughter who is a year and a half younger than her. I really want to build the relationship so that she has someone her age to grow up with and befriend.

I'm trying to give her every opportunity to experience everything. She recently visited my house for the first time (I'm in the Midwest and she and her mom are from California) and it was the first time she had been to a zoo and a children's museum.

I want to give her every experience and opportunity I can.

brygphilomena ,

They can also compel you to provide a key to the safe, should one exist.

The issue constantly is something you have vs something you know. They also can compel you to provide a document or item from within the safe, if they know that the item exists.

brygphilomena ,

Nope. This isn't part of my threat model.

I don't have sensitive data and stealing a drive would be inconvenient for a thief.

brygphilomena ,

Plex data, pi hole, and home assistant don't contain anything meaningful. No credentials are stored in a form that can be reused.

The most sensitive is immich, which I'm more concerned about backups than I am someone might steal my nudes. Their online anyway.

Email is hosted off-site and I still have physical files for a lot of my documents. If someone stole hdds out of my server, they'd get a lot of Linux isos, pictures of cars, porn, tons of versioned software and games installers, etc.

Maybe my definition of sensitive is different than yours though.

brygphilomena ,

Because techs I work with are used to a gui, so it's either get bad help I can direct or no help. And I don't want to do everything myself.

brygphilomena ,

I just picked up a 4u supermicro chassis that holds 36 3.5" disks and 2 2.5" disks.

Unixsurplus.com has some pre built ones for truenas (I'll be running unraid.) I'm moving from a 12 bay dell with 200tb useable. Once I max out this new chassis, then I'll be adding a jbod shelf. Those can basically double my storage without having to do much.

https://unixsurplus.com/supermicro-6048R-X10DRi-T4

brygphilomena ,

Infrastructure is terrible to use as an example where competition exists.

We can't all have 6 different gas lines run to each building or even to each street to choose who to buy from. The distribution will always be common. So either that has to be installed and maintained by a municipality or a single company which then rents it out.

Competition is also predicated on the concept of low barriers to entry. If it's nearly impossible for small companies to enter the market place, there effectively never will be competition. We also have seen that money talks, that the power inequality of a big company vs small company means the large company can squeeze the small company out by economies of scale and being able to absorb larger losses until either the smaller company quits or sells to the larger company.

We can offset a lot of this by putting in strong regulations, pathways for small businesses to enter the market, create and enforce strong anti-monolopy laws, or take ownership of core infrastructure by municipalities.

You also seem to have the idea that anything state run is inefficient and corrupt, which has just been corporate propaganda. I trust USPS far more than FedEx, UPS, or any other parcel service. They run quickly, efficiently, and against some very harsh regulations which make them fully pre-fund retiree pensions.

brygphilomena ,

The next sentence was about shared infrastructure for the pipes. That multiple gas companies could use to distribute, with the caveat that they still would need to be owned by a single entity whether that's a private company or municipality. I'd argue a municipality is the correct answer here.

If we look at electric as an analogous system, the poles and wires are always owned by a single company and then the supply can be "chosen." Even though it's just routing where your cash goes, since electricity is all pooled. The downside, is no matter how much I may not want to support the company that owns the poles and wires, I have no other option and there is no way for a competitive company to build another product to give the consumer a choice.

It's why I advocate largely for the distribution infrastructure to become public owned, paid for and maintained with taxes. I don't necessarily agree with the production of the gas/electricity/water. If the distribution infrastructure if publicly owned, then so long as a new business creates a product that matches the regulated quality they only need to pay for the permits and means to attach to the distribution network. We can lower the barrier of entry to new competitors.

brygphilomena ,

Outside of a web scraper, how sure are we that this poisons reddits actual data being sold to ai companies? It seems trivial for them to have an original comment field in the database that's invisible to users or just use backed up data. Or even an anonymized copy of all all original comments not linked to any account that is solely for AI training.

brygphilomena ,

So many people didn't read the post and going off how raid isn't backup.

There are a few things to consider. How much data is it? How is it connected? How reliable do you want it to be? Where is it going to be? How are you backing it up? How will you monitor the disk(s) and backup process for failures?

Is it at some place that will be a pain to deal with if a hard drive dies, like a friend's house or something. I'd deal with raid so it wouldn't be an immediate reason to go fix it or go without backups.

Is it small enough amounts of data that you could have a complete third copy if you didn't put the disks in raid? Then I'd probably make multiple copies and not use raid.

Are you dealing with something like veeam doing backup chains? Having an initial copy and then incremental with changes where you can go back to different days? Go with raid because having to reconfigure can be a hassle or having a full and incremental across jbods could cost you all the backups if the disk with the full backup is lost.

Either or is a valid choice and depends on your particular needs.

brygphilomena ,

As a man, when I was still dating, I loved when women made it clear they weren't interested or had a boyfriend. They were some of my best friends. We could go out and have a good time and there wouldn't be any sexual tension. We could talk about other people they liked or I liked. I'd wingman for them and they'd do the same for me.

I had one date where we planned on hanging out at her apartment to watch a movie and pretty much as soon as she invited me in she told me that she wasn't interested in dating or doing anything with me. We were laughing and joking the whole night. We had an absolute blast and for years even after she moved and married her husband we'd still talk.

Google Allows Creditors to Brick Your Phone (lemmy.world)

I installed NetGuard about a month ago and blocked all internet to apps, unless they're on a whitelist. No notifications from this particular system app (that can't be disabled) until recently when it started making internet connection requests to google servers. Does anyone know when this became a thing?...

brygphilomena ,

Did you hit the three dots on the top right and select "show system"? It only shows after that.

brygphilomena ,

I don't think there is a huge market for stolen Thule bars. I never got a lock for mine.

I'd be more concerned with anything on my bars. But I'm not going to leave anything valuable on mine and rely on those locks on my bars to protect it.

brygphilomena ,

"under blind listening conditions as well as sighted listening."

I decided to find this article and it's more wild than I expected. I often listen with my eyes. It very much influences the quality of the audio I listen to.

brygphilomena ,

Since you are talking mismatched disks, I have gone to unraid after running a ceph cluster. I found it easy to keep adding and upgrading disks in unraid where it made more sense than maintaining or adding nodes. While I like the concept of being able to add nodes for very large storage arrays. My current unraid server is 180tb.

It is super simple to add/upgrade the storage one disk at a time.

brygphilomena ,

It has parity disks, which always need to be the largest disks in your array. You can run with either a single one double parity disk.

It seems to work well, as that's how I've had to replace a dozen disks in the last year upgrading from 8tb disks to 18 or 22tb disks.

brygphilomena ,

Isn't this the story of the original Gwen Stacy? Spiderman tries to save her, but does exactly this and the force on her body kills her anyway.

It's been a long, long time since I have read the comics but iirc, it was a defining point in the spiderman canon.

brygphilomena ,

Ah. Oh..

Shit.

My company and several of our clients are in the list.

brygphilomena ,

Regrettably, there is currently no substitute product offered.

I really don't think you regret a God damn thing broadcom.

brygphilomena ,

https://imdb.com/title/tt1637688/

brygphilomena ,

This is a bad take. The public wasn't the one that would need to pay Comcast, they would have charged Netflix.

brygphilomena ,

My buddy just got laid off on Thursday and got 3 months. Makes me wonder where you worked.

brygphilomena ,

It's hilarious that they do it in a way that blatantly goes against the flag code. How disrespectful it is to change the flag, to wear the flag, or use it for advertisements.

I have seriously considered creating and printing pamphlets with the flag code on it to give to these faux patriots. Or maybe even those fake ticket things where I can check off what exactly they did to disrespect it.

I even had a neighbor who painted the floor of their trailer with it. They literally drove vehicles and trampled on the flag daily.

4 U.S. Code § 8 - Respect for flag

(d) The flag should never be used as wearing apparel, bedding, or drapery.

(g) The flag should never have placed upon it, nor on any part of it, nor attached to it any mark, insignia, letter, word, figure, design, picture, or drawing of any nature.

(i) The flag should never be used for advertising purposes in any manner whatsoever. It should not be embroidered on such articles as cushions or handkerchiefs and the like, printed or otherwise impressed on paper napkins or boxes or anything that is designed for temporary use and discard. Advertising signs should not be fastened to a staff or halyard from which the flag is flown.

(k) The flag, when it is in such condition that it is no longer a fitting emblem for display, should be destroyed in a dignified way, preferably by burning.

Help with moving a Linux VMware vm to Optiplex boot drive

I’ve done a little bit of searching but everything that comes up is about moving vm to vm hosts. I am currently running PiHole and Tailscale on a Pi Zero W 1.1 but it’s hammering the CPU (I assume Tailscale). I also have an always-on Windows Optiplex 3070 that’s running HomeAssistant on a VMWare vm. I found a $65 Optiplex...

brygphilomena ,

Why are you wanting to move the VM to a bare metal install?

In my experience, I would think the more efficient method is to install a hypervisor like proxmox and move the VM and there. And then run another VM for pihole, and maybe even a third for tailscale. It lets you have the ability to expand as you need and to better manage backups and services easier.

Otherwise, if you are determined to go from VM to bare metal, you want to find a backup solution that can backup the whole machine and restore it with a recovery disk. I think veeam and Acronis would work. There are tons out there.

brygphilomena ,

As you've found, proxmox isnt an application that runs on windows or Linux. It's an OS that you can install. And yes, you can configure bit to auto start the VMs when the machine boots.

It's designed to run headless, so you'll do all your configurations from a web browser. If you want to go crazy, I'm sure that raspberry pi can be configured as KVM for it (though piKVM is a bit of extra hardware.)

If you have something like tailscale or wireguard to a machine in the house, you can easily reach the web gui from any other machine on the VPN network and reboot the VMs that way.

You can even build monitoring that reboots the pihole VM of it stops responding to DNS queries.

Share your favorite automations

I've been running HA for a while, and it's been working well; I haven't had to change much in a few months. That being said, it's fun to tinker with it, and I'm curious to hear what kind of automations the rest of the community is using. What automations are you most proud of? What are your favorite? What kind of interesting...

brygphilomena ,

I have mostly kasa switches too. I don't like that they don't expose the motion sensor in them to HA.

For fans, I'm considering these to replace the ones I have that just don't work. https://inovelli.com/products/blue-series-fan-switch-zigbee-3-0?variant=42097818992805

The ones I have are complete shit. Their firmware seems to lock up regularly and not even the buttons work. There is no reset button on them, so the only way to restart them is to flip the breaker. And half the time that doesn't even work.

brygphilomena ,

Consider power line adapters instead of wifi.

brygphilomena ,

I thought acme or certbot could handle the DNS entries with an API call to your DNS provider.

It may require another plugin though. Googling some variation of certbot acme automate DNS challenge will give you a dozen tutorials.

brygphilomena ,

Is there a particular reason you are keeping your DNS there?

brygphilomena ,

Fair enough, just throwing that out there as an option to move DNS somewhere that does have API access for certbot to use.

brygphilomena ,

This is how I feel.

I would much rather have a single machine running vms which I can easily snapshot and back up rather than a dozen small machines I have to deal with power supplies and networking.

SBCs have specific use cases, usually where they need to interact with hardware. That's what made the rpi so great with it's GPIO and hats. But that's a rather small use case.

brygphilomena ,

Well, it is a parking brake and not an emergency brake. And while in an automatic you can use park and mostly rely on the parking pawl to keep the car from moving, on inclines it's not good for the transmissions.

A rant about an experience I had with Google maps today.

I am currently studying in college and part of my college course dictates that I most do a work experience placement. I ended being placed in a charity shop. The first couple of days went well. Its a small little shop in a shopping center so there wasn't much for me to do. So they decided that today I'll do some work in the...

brygphilomena ,

As much as I use Google maps, I'm always upset with it. It constantly wants to reroute me to whatever it decides is more "optimal" even when I put in a very specific route. I don't always need the fastest, most fuel efficient, or whatever else Google decides is important route. Sometimes I want to the scenic route and just would like the occasional turn is coming up prompt.

Tech disrupts the school bus — A Silicon Valley start-up promised to modernize school transportation. Instead, it stranded thousands of students (slate.com)

Tech disrupts the school bus — A Silicon Valley start-up promised to modernize school transportation. Instead, it stranded thousands of students::When disruption is just disruptive.

brygphilomena ,

I was curious about the "technology" they used since the article didn't talk about it and I didn't want to listen to a podcast.

Having more drivers and smaller vehicles can get past a lot of the commercial drivers license requirements. Passenger endorsements are for 16 people or more.

It's so strange though. People are forgetting why we have busses in the first place. Economies of scale, more efficient, fewer emissions, less traffic, etc.

brygphilomena ,

I don't have many, I find home assistant is a tool in search of a need.

  • Run the robot vacuum when I leave the house.
  • When I arrive home or open the garage door after sunset, turns on the rear porch lights and then turns it off after 15 minutes. (I have a detached garage.)
  • Turn on select outdoor lights at sunset.
  • Turns off all outdoor lights at sunrise, so if I forget to turn off the lights around my deck they eventually do get turned off.
  • I have a button near where I sit in the living room that controls all four lights in the living room.
  • I have a button on my dashboard that just turns off all the lights in my house.
  • I have a button near my bar that turns on multiple lights and a neon sign. I was intending to add effects and scenes around the bar too so I could press another button and have a show go off.
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