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MuttMutt

@ MuttMutt @lemmy.world

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  • Repurpose old smartphone

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  • One of the things I'm planning to setup on an old pixel 3a is a hotspot with a web page basically containing some YouTube channel videos. I travel and figure someone will be bored when there is no internet access and can watch some SCUBA diving videos maybe I will get some subscribers when they are connected again.

    I also use old phones and tablets as wall mounted HomeAssistant controllers.

    Install something like Fotoo with Syncthing and you have a picture frame that you can have display your favorite memories. Or if you are traveling you can have new pictures upload when charging via Syncthing and someone at home can see the sights while you travel. If you setup a mount and install it on a window with an app that takes pictures on a schedule you can build a time-lapse camera and let it run forever.

    Give it to a younger child as a learning tool with different learning apps. Donate it to a school somewhere with less access to technology. I donated an old laptop to a dive shop in Belize with Linux and Kiwix installed along with a copy of Wikipedia and a bunch of other learning information as well as a Python environment and the manual pages and a Rust environment with is manual pages.

    Install a camera app that basically turns it into an IP camera and integrate it into your security system (great for apartments) or to monitor a pet or loved one. Or steam the video of your view from your home or work window. Add a battery bank, solar panel and waterproof everything and you have a remote camera you can put anywhere wifi works.

  • How do I make the Wordpress media library be somewhere else?

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  • What's a good VR headset these days (and other VR hardware questions) ?

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  • Personally you need to decided what features are important to you. From my understanding anything connected to Meta requires logging into Facebook to use. For me that is a big no not to mention that I'm a linux user.

    https://vr-compare.com/ is a decent place to start looking around and get an idea on what you need to look for.

    I've seen a few things that are interesting but so far nothing has ticked all the boxes to make the purchase happen.

  • When do the grief nightmares stop?

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  • It's truly different for everyone. For me it's never really stopped but the frequency is much less often. My son was born 3 months premature and was gone after nine days, it's been twenty years since. Losing my wife in 2019 didn't help. There are a lot of other reasons behind still having the nightmares but it's just something I've learned to live with.

  • Self hosting piefed

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  • When you are running chown what is the exact command you are running and from what directory? Where are you getting your instructions? What error are you getting exactly? Did you verify that the directory has the correct owner before continuing? What are the directory permissions? What are the directory permissions supposed to be?

    It's impossible to troubleshoot without the information.

  • How many hours do you spend on the computer/in front of a screen?

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  • Thank you. I know exactly the toll that is paid by the survivors and how at peace I feel when diving so I figure sharing it with others can't be a bad thing. I just hope things pick up steam soon.

  • How many hours do you spend on the computer/in front of a screen?

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  • Yeah. It's my favorite place. Love being under water. It's going to be my biggest trip to date with at least 15 days of diving and 3 weeks of total time in Cozumel.

    I wandered into a shop a few months after my wife passed away and was certified a couple weeks later. I went on my first ocean dive a few months after that in Cozumel and then George Town Cayman Islands. A couple months after that I completed an Advanced Open Water Certification in Jamaica where my wife was from. My Rescue Certification was completed about a year after I got started and I want to become an instructor focusing on training teens and young adults who have survived childhood abuse.

    My goal is to use my Youtube channel as a funding source so I can provide the training and basic gear for free after I cover my training to become an instructor and acquire everything I need. I'm also planning to donate my time to organizations that help other people who would also benefit from learning to dive.

    Editing the video is mind numbing and monotonous but I have yet to find someone else who wants to do it. It's a lot more fun getting the footage but it had to be done to make things happen.

  • How many hours do you spend on the computer/in front of a screen?

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  • More than I probably should and a lot less than I will in April. After that it's going to be even more time in front of a screen editing 30 plus hours of underwater video.

  • Good place to find uncensored stuff?

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  • Well if you want uncensored stuff Lemmy is a good place. If it's not suiting your needs a search for "documenting reality" may fill them. You will know it when you find it and let me just say that you can't put the rabbit back into the hat once it's out and running around.

  • What thing at work made you rage quit your job?

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  • I was working for a guy setting to 2.4Ghz WiFi links up to 10 miles from a tower. I was mainly running the office and doing network tech support with the odd pc repair job. He was working for a conglomerate about 5 hours away. He had an installer who would come through every couple weeks so I would have the equipment configured and ready to go for him, he would also grab stuff that was no longer in service and bring it back to the office.

    Anyway the installer quit and I had to drive 2 hours each way to go get the truck. No big deal but now no installer. Had a friend who was smart enough to do the job and learn so started going with him and teaching him what to do and how to set stuff up. We did a couple jobs no problem, our longest connection being 7.5 miles on a mast about 20 feet tall. Get to a site to set things up and could literally see the tower but no connection, owner was no help but he had plotted it all out in software showing we software have a great signal. Ask he could say was just to get more height and get it done. Signal went from barely there to non existent. He had told the woman for months that it wouldn't be an issue and we would get her setup when her landlord agreed to the equipment install.

    Figured out that the issue was that the sector antenna were installed with a 5 degree downward cant. We were slightly above the tower even though it was in line of site we would have needed to be lower down the hillside on another person's piece of property to get a stable signal then have a couple repeaters to make it work. So here I am with a pissed off woman who was told over and over it would work and I can't provide what was promised, give him a call and he stopped answering.

    I apologized to the woman and told her someone would be back, gave her his cell number, and packed up the truck. Went to the office, locked up the truck, and dropped the keys in the office mall slot.

  • What are some non-mainstream foods or drinks from your culture that social media isn't aware of and hasn't ruined?

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  • True loosemeat sandwich. Most people think of Manwhich or something like that. These are not that at all. https://www.langdalefamily.com/tastee.html Just lose the cheese (never got that as a kid since it cost extra) and you will be surprised.

    Not my culture by my late wife's which has a bunch of stuff that is really good. If you ever end up in Jamaica look for a pattie shop, get a beef or chicken pattie (the jerk ones are hot be warned) with a D&G Ginger Beer or Champagne Kola (it's nothing like coke) they will think you've been there before. The Jamaican Easter Buns are nice too, it will look like a fruit cake but the flavor isn't even close. And the Jamaican Chicken soup is amazing, The whole scotch bonnet pepper (similar to habanero but slightly sweet) with all the vegetables is just amazing. https://jamaicanfoodsandrecipes.com/jamaican-chicken-soup-recipe/

  • Those of you who cut off all comms with your parents, what would it take to mend things and reestablish contact?

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  • My father would have to admit he didn't really care and make up for all the bs that happened because of it.

    My mother can rot in hell.

  • Where do you draw the line regarding windows?

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  • I may end up running windows in a VM so I can back up my NAS to BackBlaze for cheap.

    I dumped windows on my desktop about 18 months ago because there was no way I was going to use windows 11. My stepson has been using ChimeraOS for about 2 years without issue. And my server was switched to FreeNAS (now TrueNAS) in 2015.

  • Homelab hardware choices

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  • Honestly, I suggest going onto ebay and buying an old server hardware. My TrueNAS and OpnSense boxes as well as my 10G switch and my 48 port 1G switch were purchased used on ebay. My TrueNAS came from UnixSurplus https://www.ebay.com/str/unixsurpluscom and I have purchased hardware for others from them. They list their TrueNAS ready systems under FreeNAS but it doesn't matter, the HBA's are flashed to IT mode already so all you need to do is add drives and install an OS.

    Yes 10G can be useful if you have a lot of users or transfer large files. I edit video and I store it all on my server.

    Yes 8GB of RAM will be limiting, ZFS needs a minimum of 16GB to function correctly.

    The switches and AP's shouldn't care what the router OS is. I use OpnSense, my 10G switch is a Quanta LB6M, my 1G switch is a Dell Power Connect 5548, I have 2 TP-Link EAP650 AP's with a TP-Link Omada OC200 controller and will be adding another AP when my upstairs is finished.

    For POE I just use an injector with my Power Connect. My AP's, the OC200, and multiple cameras are all POE.

    I've found that if the equipment powers up and works for a week it will continue to do so for a long time, I've used the Quanta LB6M since 2016 or so.

  • What is a cold hard truth people have to accept in life?

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  • No matter what you do you will still die.

  • You can choose any celebrity's facial hair and make it yours. Who do you choose?

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  • Yep... Still envious at 46, mine is thin while the rest of my facial hair grows nice and thick.

  • What motivates social media trolls, or trolls in general?

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  • The idea that the person who has the most upvotes, likes, friends, etc. will win the internet

  • What do you think the internet will be like in a few years? Why?

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  • More and more apps messing things up. Companies want you to use an app so they have more access to data and better ability to control your habits driving more money into their coffers.

    More radicalization and sensationalization of everything. Use the news as an example. It used to be straight reporting of what happened, now it's about ratings and how many descriptive words you can use to make the news more dramatic.

    Advertising will get worse, more ads, larger ads, more annoying ads.

    There will be a bigger divide between the corporate conglomerate internet and the decentralized internet. People who feel marginalized will begin to break away and and the rest of the internet will look at them like they are crazy.

  • How do I prevent someone breaking and entering a house?

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  • Nice. I've always looked at holly bushes or cacti.