Reddit refuge, escentric engineer and serial hobbyist.
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czardestructo@lemmy.worldto
No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Why do some Americans "feel ashamed" for being American even when it's not their fault?
2·27 days agoI feel similarly and to expand a bit its more the fact that second time around electing this fool proves that that majority of Americans are either horrible people or useful idiots which is incredibly depressing to know with certainty. For me, first time around was a fluke, second time is reality. I’m exploring citizenship elsewhere as a backup plan.
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Unpopular Opinion@lemmy.world•Fat people should have to buy 2 seats on an airplaneEnglish
7·1 month agoFolks should not down vote him, the cost of flights considering inflation have dropped a ton over the years. Its comodetized and made highly efficient with cramped quarters and more efficient technology. If you want more room to fly old school it simply costs more…
https://www.travelandleisure.com/airlines-airports/history-of-flight-costs
"In 1970, a domestic round-trip flight from New York to Los Angeles cost about $150, which is equivalent to over $1,000 today when adjusted for inflation, while today the same flight averages around $300. "
czardestructo@lemmy.worldto
Selfhosted@lemmy.world•Bad experience on selfhosting nextcloudEnglish
41·1 month agoMy install is bare metal, all SSD, redis and php-fpm optimization and I’m extremely happy with the performance. Also use transcoding from an Intel a380 and use Memories for the whole family. Works snappy and flawless. You need to tweak the php settings.
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Selfhosted@lemmy.world•Looking for a selfhostable chat service that people on phone and computers can log ontoEnglish
2·1 month agoI bailed on rocketchat a few years ago for Mattermost and never looked back. Rocketchats update cycle was insane, sometimes two releases in a week but often several a month. A few pdates required full database dumps and manual tweaking. It just wasn’t for me.
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No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Is it insane to run a home server on an old laptop instead of a Raspberry Pi for self-hosting - what do I need to worry about?
2·1 month agoMy previous primary server used to be a 12 year old laptop with an SSD. I deployed a laptop server in rural Greece and its bulletproof, it VPNs back home to the US and works during short power outtages. Only caveat is the CPU fan, if you run the server with a high load the fans are not designed for years of high usage. I got crazy enough with one server where I cut the bottom out and mounted a large aluminum plate to the CPU heatsink and made it passively cooled.
This is exactly how I conduct myself with my maga mother in law. Any bigoted shit in front of my daughter gets publicly squashed and any political topics are quickly dealt with and put in its place. She lives a life of ignorance, dont be mad, feel bad.
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No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•I'd like to control my air-purifier with one of those power-socket-timer-switch thingies – Is there a way to "auto-press" those non-mechanical buttons?
9·2 months agoAttatch a sausage to a soneloid and make a capacitive button pusher!
czardestructo@lemmy.worldto
Selfhosted@lemmy.world•Using rsync for backups, because it's not shiny and newEnglish
12·3 months agoThank you for putting into words what ive subconsciously been thinking for years. Every search result prioritizes videos at the top and I’m still annoyed every time. Or even worst I have to hunt through a 10 minute video for the 30 seconds of info I needed. Stoohhhhpppp internet of new! Make it good again!
Spoken like a true MBA. I call this trash Buzz word salad.
At least she even comments. Mine just waves her hand in disgust. She knows it enables her whole technological life, but couldn’t give a shit.
I thought it was a joke until someone at my company gave a company wide presentation on how to use AI to accelerate coding and st several points flat out ADMITTED he didn’t know what the hell it was doing but you just need to ‘baby sit’ it and you get useful scripts out of it. I’m a hardware engineer and I wanted to scream at him.
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Selfhosted@lemmy.world•Help diagnosing server freeze issueEnglish
2·4 months agoCheck the power supply too. Those mini PCs just use a cheap laptop power brick and sometimes they can’t sustain their full output anymore. I had one server constantly crash and once I swapped the power brick I never had a problem again.
czardestructo@lemmy.worldto
No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•What would be ancient ways to properly store vitamin C?
1·4 months agoCool and dark, he would just toss them in baskets in a dark space that didn’t even stay that cool. He might have picked them before they were ripe but I dont remember.
czardestructo@lemmy.worldto
No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•What would be ancient ways to properly store vitamin C?
1·4 months agoLemons if stored correctly will last 10 months. My grand father would just toss them in a dark storage room in Greece and they lasted until the next harvest.
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Selfhosted@lemmy.world•Nextcloud and Thinkfree Office sign partnership agreement to add more choices for users - NextcloudEnglish
2·5 months agoTheir upgrade scripts for on the rails installs have gotten a lot better recently, especially in the last year. But then last upgrade they fucked it all up and made a series of database commands mandatory for the warnings to go away. Uggghhhh.
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Selfhosted@lemmy.world•"This Is The ONLY Home Server You Should Buy" Or, why older computers may be better for the environment | Hardware HavenEnglish
33·6 months agoI love this community, I used to rant about efficiency all the the time on reddits self hosting community and everyone thought I was insane. If the damn thing is going to run 24/7 for 5+ years then put a little thought into its power usage!
I personally love old Dell optiplex micros on eBay. Cheap, plentiful laptop hardware in a cute little box which allows modest upgrades. My primary server in a full sized case is just a laptop CPU, Ryzen 5600g. It brings me joy that my network has four servers and still is under 75w idle for everything including networking gear.
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Uplifting News@lemmy.world•A dad build an amusement park for his disabled daughter with free admission for people with special needsEnglish
0·6 months agoShould do, yep, but obviously not well if dudes getting PR for doing it privately.
czardestructo@lemmy.worldto
Uplifting News@lemmy.world•A dad build an amusement park for his disabled daughter with free admission for people with special needsEnglish
2·6 months agoI was thinking more along the lines of “oh hey you’re building a water park, cool! By law it must be handicap accessible so please make a section easily accessible and here is a $1mil grant to make that possible, show us your plans before we issue the permit”. This feels fairy reasonable.



Different standards and playbooks because the democrats pander to largely educated voters who want facts and the illusion of accountability where as republicans pander to uneducated reactionary tribalism and any educated folk who allow themselves to be swept up in it. Some folks just need to be told what to think, others need to be convinced. You can call that imbalance if you like.