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Admiral Patrick

@ ptz @dubvee.org

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I learned to play the guitar growing up as a young rapscallion in Mississippi. But things didn't really take off until I moved to Memphis. There I met the Colonel and the hits just kept coming. Unfortunately, the fame went to my head, I gained a lot of weight, started wearing a white jumpsuit, and ate tranquilizers like they were trail mix. Then, in 1977, I died on the toilet.

Or did I?

I also develop Tesseract UI for Lemmy/Sublinks

  • Say the line Bart!

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  • "Computer! I demand you address me as an adult!"

  • I'm going offline for an indeterminate time:

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  • Definitely take care of yourself and best wishes.

  • Anyone else about ready to give up on tech?

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  • I just keep supporting open source and following the forks as needed. Otherwise, I'm self-hosting what I can and going lo-fi where I can't.

    Also: !oldmanyellsatcloud@dubvee.org for all your "ranting about how modern tech sucks" needs.

  • QWERTY Phones Are Really Trying to Make a Comeback This Year

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  • Yes, please!

    The Titan 2 Elite looks awesome though it appears to be just a render right now. I was looking at the original Titan a while back but it was pretty dated even then. Gonna keep an eye out for the Elite.

    The phone will come powered by the MediaTek Dimensity 7300 processor, have 12GB of RAM, and 512GB of internal storage. There is no word on the display or the battery, but going by the previous release, it should be an AMOLED screen, and the battery should be 5,000mAh. Neither is there any word about the release timeline, pricing, or other features of the device right now. The sole official render of the phone suggests a sleeker-looking body, erringly similar to the Clicks Communicator.

  • I don't think I need to specify which country (yes, I probably should)

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  • 🥂 To coping

  • What are some unique things that sucks about getting old?

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  • Hard to quantify it, so bear with me.

    Not so much a specific genre or distribution medium as much as "the artist/band was born after 9/11". Like, there are some bands that have been around forever and still putting out new stuff and that's mostly fine (though I don't necessarily like all of it) but anything overly electronic is basically a hard pass for me.

  • What are some unique things that sucks about getting old?

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  • Oh yeah, I'm the same. It just gets rarer and rarer each year that I find something I can enjoy. Objectively, it has nothing to do with the quality of modern music (well, maybe a little lol) just the styles changing and my taste not keeping up.

  • Self hosting hardware - what are your experiences with Lenovo ThinkCentre as homelab server?

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  • Yeah, I did Docker swarm on an older cluster of thin clients I had ~10 years ago but even that was overkill. I've avoided Kubernetes for the same reason.

  • Self hosting hardware - what are your experiences with Lenovo ThinkCentre as homelab server?

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  • Government surplus auction. Had to get power supplies and SSDs for them separately but still less expensive than what most used ones go for elsewhere.

  • Self hosting hardware - what are your experiences with Lenovo ThinkCentre as homelab server?

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  • I'm now running 9 of the Dell equivalents to those, and they're doing well. Average 15-20 watts at normal load and usually no more than 30-35 watts running full tilt. 5 of them are unprovisioned but I got a good deal on them for $25/each so I couldn't pass them up :shrug:.

    Attempting to cable-manage the power bricks for more than 1 of these is the worst part of using them. The only life pro tip I can offer is to ditch the power bricks and buy a 65W USB-C power delivery adapter that's in the "wall wart" style and also one of the USB-C to Lenovo power adapter cords. Those make cable management so much better.

  • What are some unique things that sucks about getting old?

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  • I would like to think so.

  • What are some unique things that sucks about getting old?

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  • Most contemporary music sounds like shit. I try to stay current to at least within the last 3 years, but the older I get, the more it just sounds like shit.

    South Park did an episode about it, and they were spot on.

  • Blazin Bev's such a badass, the captain and CMO just do what she says

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  • I'm slow-walking season 3 for maximum enjoyment, so I'm not going to source a screenshot to memeify it, but:

    Blazin' Bev: I'm gonna light this Borg cube up like my first joint this morning.

    Alternatively:

    Me when I'm the only one in the friend group with a working lighter:

  • What's the most recent lie you told?

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  • Good morning. How are you?

    Fine, and you?

    Technically that was two lies because I did not care how they were doing.

  • She's a hunk junk but she's my hunk of junk:

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  • I built my first (and so far only) ebike in 2013. Thing was a death trap (did not upgrade the brakes 🤦‍♂️) but I loved it, and it was crazy fun to ride.

    Lived too far to e-bike to work but would bring it with me to do around-town errands on breaks at work. Every time I had to park it outside to run into a store, I felt exactly like the meme. The battery alone was $700 sitting out in the open.

  • ISO Homelab Power Saving Methods [SOLVED FOR NOW]

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  • I downgraded from used enterprise gear to those ultra small form factor PCs. They sip power well enough on their own that I haven't really bothered tuning anything. I suppose I could cap the frequency with cpufrequtils and set the governor to conservative rather than on-demand (I do this with my battery-powered RasPi projects) but I'm not sure how much difference that'll make for my servers.

    In the past, I had Docker Swarm setup and automation to collapse the swarm down to a single machine (powering the other ones down and back on with WoL) but that was more trouble than it was worth. On average load, the USFF PCs run at about 15 watts and don't usually peak above 30 unless they're rebooting or doing something very heavy. Even transcoding doesn't break 20 watts since I'm using hardware acceleration.

    The biggest power savings I found that was worth the effort was to just get rid of the enterprise gear, switch from VMs to Docker containers where possible, and get rid of stuff I'm not using (or only run it on-demand).

    The only remaining enterprise power suck I have left is my managed switch. It's a 2005-era dinosaur that's loud and power hungry, but it's been a workhorse I'm having a hard time parting with.

  • Can someone tell me about DemiGod Rick?

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  • Looks like they banned you from the lemmy.zip instance only: https://lemmy.zip/modlog?page=1&actionType=ModBan&userId=16510340

    When a federated account is banned from an instance, the backend also bans them from any community on the instance they've interacted with (including if you've just voted in them if I'm not mistaken).

    Also, yes, admins can ban anyone on any community on their instance (but only locally if it's a remote community). Ergo, a lemmy.zip admin can ban you from !asklemmy@lemmy.world on their instance, but you won't be officially banned and other instances will see your content there while users on lemmy.zip will not.

  • Gotcha!

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  • More often than not: "OP deletes account and content, haha suckers"

  • Reverse Proxy: a single point of failure in my lab

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  • Like you're thinking: put HAProxy on your OpenWRT router.

    That's what I do. The HAProxy setup is kind of "dumb" L7 only (rather than HTTP/S) since I wanted all of my logic in the Nginx services. The main thing HAProxy does is, like you're looking for, put the SPOF alongside the other unavoidable SPOF (router) and also wraps the requests in Proxy Protocol so the downstream Nginx services will have the correct client IP.

    Flow is basically:

     
        
LAN/WAN/VPN -> HAProxy -> Two Nginx Instances -> Apps

    With HAProxy in the router, it also lets me set internal DNS records for my apps to my router's LAN IP.

  • TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name @lemmy.world
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    Pop Up Voyager Conspiracy

  • Fediverse @lemmy.world
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    PSA Locked

    Instance Admins: Check Your Instance for Vote Manipulation Accounts

  • TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name @lemmy.world
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    While I'm watching "Cold Fire", who wore it better?

  • TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name @lemmy.world
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    Don't Tell Mom the Caretaker's Dead

  • TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name @lemmy.world
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    Trivia Game

    Trek Connect: Episode 3

  • TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name @lemmy.world
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    Did someone say kung fu fighting? Logic dictates that those cats, were, in fact, fast as lighting.

  • TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name @lemmy.world
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    Trivia Game

    Trek Connect: Episode 2

  • TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name @lemmy.world
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    Trivia Game

    (Only) Trek Connect: Episode 1, Round 2

  • TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name @lemmy.world
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    Trivia Game

    (Only) Trek Connect: Episode 1, Round 1

  • TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name @lemmy.world
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    Solved: Head Canon Satisfied

    How does this even work? (Not a meme, just bugs me)

  • Linux @programming.dev
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    "10 foot UI" for Linux?

  • TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name @lemmy.world
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    I'm a doctor, not a sex symbol! Oh, fine, if you insist.

  • Opensource @programming.dev
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    Favorite FOSS Android Apps for a De-Googled Phone

  • TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name @lemmy.world
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    Thank the Prophets some of my direct deposit goes into savings....

  • TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name @lemmy.world
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    Nailed It!

  • TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name @lemmy.world
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    (Changes the timeline) Eh, close enough.

  • TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name @lemmy.world
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    Odo and Worf are my kind of people. Really looking forward to not hanging out soon.

  • TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name @lemmy.world
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    Do you want ants a Borg queen? Because that's how you get ants a Borg queen.

  • TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name @lemmy.world
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  • Programmer Humor @programming.dev
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    Github Outage

    All I wanted to do was push my changes and log off...