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JustEnoughDucks

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  • Palmer Luckey says he wants to 'turn warfighters into technomancers' as Anduril takes over production of the US Army's IVAS AR headset from Microsoft

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  • Or you use one GreenPak device and OTP it based on the model and have it cheaper and more reliable, any supporting circuits like drivers, FETs, bulk capacitance, etc.. Would have to be designed per-model anyway on MCU based design.

  • How do you, or do you vet if a software will paywall features or "enshittify"?

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  • Interesting, what is it that makes jellyfin a ton of work? I upgrade sometimes when i remember to and beyond that it just runs without touching it unless i want to mess around with trying new beta features.

  • Backblaze Drive Stats for 2024

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  • From what I remember, Seagate has a rough year most years when it comes to reliability. Especially the 12TBs. But to be fair, most of the Seagate drives are >1 year older than the WD drives. Though when you compare then to the old HGSTs with a 0.08% average failure rate 😅

    Also the 22TB WD drives at 1% after less than 2 years of service. Oof.

  • Selfhosted Trakt.tv alternative?

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  • Trakt also sells your data off to whoever wants it even though they explicitly say that they don't. https://trakt.tv/privacy

    I hadn't had anything on any ad service about harry potter in years. Never searched anything about it or anything. Watched a quarter of one movie via jellyfin on linux completely locally with the trakt plugin. A few hours later I had harry potter advertisements everywhere that I don't have an ad blocker.

  • What is your self-hosting setup for home thermostat?

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  • It really really depends on what you have for heating.

    Floor heating + heat pump? You don't need to mess around with target temp much because the principle behind it is thermal mass buildup and maintaining that. You have to tune thermostatic valves on the room level. Then you can have one central thermostat simply slightly change the target temperature with many hours of delay. That doesn't seem too useful to me to automate.

    Do you have radiators? Then you can get zwave or ZigBee valves and tie them together with whatever thermostat that you want in home assistant. Then you can set per room/zone heat depending on whatever sensors you have.

    Do you have central forced air heating and air conditioning? Then you have pretty much target temp and on/off control unless you want to put in motorized automatic registers or redesign your entire duct system for per-room duct valves.

    Individual heat pumps/airco units with radiator based heating is the most "per room" customizable and probably the most useful to put automations on in Home Assistant.

    Ventilation can be useful by monitoring CO2 levels and humidity. Then you can use either the fan units themselves or socket switches to actuate those and put whatever sensors you want wherever it is useful.

    I am probably missing some stuff here, but there are only a few HVAC setups that actually benefit from automation, in my opinion. Mainly ventilation, infrared, and non centralized forced air heat pumps. Plus heating and cooling is something you want to work 100% flawlessly even if your router dies, your home assistant falls off a cliff, and your ZigBee/zwave controller dies.

  • Trump least popular newly elected president since Second World War – except for himself

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  • True, but that would more likely be affecting military grants involving veteran care like paying for veterens to go to university, job placement programs, etc... They have been itching to do that for a while in between saying "we support the troops"

  • What are some things a conspiracy theorist has told you?

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  • I'm pretty sure nowadays it is 90% high performance cryptography tech. Protecting state secrets, Intel, and surveillance intelligence is like #1 priority for a few different governments since all of the big powers have been hacking each other (or trying to) since the dawn of the internet lol

  • Self-Hosting Gotify with Docker

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  • Different philosophy.

    Ntfy uses pub-sub like MQTT. It publishes messages and anyone (with access) can subscribe to it. Want to connect 250 clients across 50 people to have the same messages delivered? Easy.

    Gotify uses end to end messaging. A user creates an application on their chosen client. Gotify uses a REST api send the notification pulled from the chosen app to the user who made it. Want to do the same as above? You have to set it up 250 times. Gotify was the first to have authentication and some people say it is more robust, but I can't speak on that. Also gotify is easier to set up and makes sense for a single user.

    Someone can correct me if I am wrong, but that is the biggest architectural difference.

  • Now's the time to start talking about Matrix+Fediverse

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  • I saw it just yesterday.

    And a week ago.

    And a month ago.

    And I had it myself 2 months ago, fixed by going to the online element client that just happened to still be "verified" after a while of no use and then I could verify the rest of my clients. I would be SoL if I didn't have one of my original sessions upon making the account years ago still. Interesting system.

    That was in the 1 encrypted chat I am a part of.

    99% of rooms aren't encrypted so are completely and totally insecure anyway. Which I guess is fine for community discussion spaces.

    I like fluffychat but it doesn't have threading. Element is also fine and what I have to use on desktop because neochat fucks up so much, but I can't use it on my phone because it causes an extra 1%/hour drain on my phone battery in the background which is insane. Uninstalled it a year or two ago.

  • Led by RFK Jr., Conservatives Embrace Raw Milk. Regulators Say It’s Dangerous.

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  • Sorry but how the fuck are insurance companies OK with this? They hold extreme amounts of power over the US. They are going to have to do ridiculous amounts of payouts for hospital bills.

    How the fuck are people's life saving surgeries getting denied at pre-approval, but they are not denying people's coverage for fucking drinking raw milk??

  • Trump least popular newly elected president since Second World War – except for himself

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  • It's not even the businessman thing though. That is just a smokescreen for the fact that he is racist. Mark Cuban is objectively a 50x better capitalist businessman than trump ever was. He campaigned for Harris and all of the "strong businessmen best" people completely did a 180.

    It is 100% only hatred and wanting certain people to die and every single other thing they say they care about is a smokescreen as proven by their own actions. Like how now the price of everything suddenly doesn't matter, because the "right" people are getting hurt.

    Just like how DOGE doesn't actually go after inefficiencies like the extremely corrupt and inefficient military contractor sector but instead goes for things that hurt black people more like school lunches for 6 year olds.

  • Trump least popular newly elected president since Second World War – except for himself

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  • Cults of personality don't transfer power well, generally. I think that is why Project 2025 was such a big deal for them since it gave structure even when trump dies.

  • Google says it will change Gulf of Mexico to 'Gulf of America' in Maps after government updates

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  • Holy shit, I never found smoothness in the OSM editor. Does that actually effect routing priority?

    That might be a game changer for making my local area much better on OSM.

  • PixelFed has increased the Fediverse's monthly active users by over 40% in the last few weeks, how do we feel?

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  • Discovery? Interesting thought.

    I tried out pixelfed and the pixelix app for the past couple weeks.

    The "discovery" page on the official app is worse than useless. It shows almost nobody with over 10 followers, highlighting one person with 50-100 followers, then shows "popular on the fediverse" which are thumbnails of posts of the people it just recommended. It always recommends at least 5 of the same people day after day, week after week, even people you already follow.

    The official app can't even show a global feed so it is literally impossible to discover new people unless you know their name and specifically search for them, or they are recommended by luck on the discover page (of which there are multiple repeats per day, so not likely)

    Pixelix at least allows you to view a global feed though. Definitely a better experience, but Lemmy discovery is not any worse than that.

  • Proton Mail Says It’s “Politically Neutral” While Praising Republican Party

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  • Yes but swiss people can still be absolutely piece of shit human beings. They proved that in WWII by helping fund the Nazis directly. Swiss people also aren't immune from rampant US party propaganda. You aren't magical, psychologically different humans than the rest of the world.

    Publicly supporting an openly fascist dictator, whatever "political party" they are on, someone who directly opposes the stated mission and values of the company, means that they are piece of shit humans who cannot be trusted with our data because they will just lie with what they do with it just like how they lied to us about their company values.

  • Google says it will change Gulf of Mexico to 'Gulf of America' in Maps after government updates

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  • Except when it is frustrating and continually tries to send you through tiny "technically paved" service roads so you know anyone unfamiliar to the area would risk car damage because there is no way to mark a road as "low priority" or "only use if you live on that road".

    Street complete is very awesome though! Especially for updating local businesses.

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    What GPUs work as eGPUs?

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    What GPUs work as eGPUs?

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  • eGPUs have all but disappeared. 90% of the models available in 2019 are no longer available with no models to replace them. Even bigger companies like razer and coolermaster seemed to silently discontinue them and simply let the product webpages break down. I think power requirements of the last years of GPUs have also made them less practical and people aren't going to pay 500€ for an enclosure when that is simply approaching the cost of the rest of the PC.

    There are even fewer thunderbolt4 but thunderbolt3 has a bit of latency results in slight performance loss, so finding an old model enclosure with thunderbolt3 might be your best chance of getting it. Different storefronts sometimes still have a few in stock you can buy.

    Edit: Nowhere did I say "no eGPUs have been made" just that there are signifucantly less options than 5 years ago:

    https://egpu.io/best-egpu-buyers-guide/

    Look at the vendor pages for most of these models and see if you can buy them from tge vendor or an manufacturer-listed distributer and then try to find newer, actively produced eGPUs by the manufacturers (including the big names). For the vast majority they have stopped making them.

    To frame it as an example: If you saw that 30 laptop manufacturers making 100+ models in 5 years went to 3 manufacturers making 5 models, you would say that is a very rapid decline.

  • Lemmy, is there a community documenting the collapse of the US?

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  • The decline started in the late 70s. Like 80% of everything wrong in US politics can be traced back to Reagan.