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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

  • Happy new year everybody!

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  • Ooof, this also has terrible implications for 2027:

  • Of course Bones is chatting up Alice

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  • EPUB (encrypted) means you have to use their reader app or maybe Adobe Digital Editions or some other walled-garden horseshit to read it. It seems to be up to either the author or the publisher on whether to offer it DRM-free. I haven't found much rhyme or reason, but it looks like the ones from Simon and Schuster are available without DRM about 5 years after it's been published.

    I only buy DRM-free since I like to read on multiple devices (Kobo, Phone, or CalibreWeb in a browser in a pinch) and get tired of jailbreaking them myself. I'd gladly pay more for DRM free than not be able to read it without asking for permission every time or being locked to specific reader apps.

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    How Wind Nearly Took Down Boulder NTP

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  • Okay, care to elaborate on its shortcomings?

  • [UPDATED] [META] Do we need a rule regarding pictures of text, screenshots of other platforms, etc.? Input needed.

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  • Are screenshots of other platforms like Reddit, X, Bluesky 'off topic'? Or, do they count as memes?

    I'm not a fan of them but they're not something I would report as off-topic. But given the chance to voice an opinion on them, I'd say they're more appropriate for the "people Twitter"-style social-media inception communities.

    1. Does a meme require an attempt at humor?

    I would say yes. I don't subscribe here to be preached at. But there'd be some potentially awkward judgement calls for the purposes of enforcing that.

    1. What about news? (What if a headline is funny?)

    There's !nottheonion@lemmy.world and similar for those and news/politics permeates everything. It's nice to have a place away from that.

    1. Is an image required? Should a picture of text (not from another platform) be removed?

    That's a tough one. I've seen pictures of book text being presented, but that often (but not always) bumps up against #2 (attempt at humor)

  • MRW I decide to set up a home server

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  • 8 PoE ports. Nice. I've got a separate 5 port PoE switch currently and wouldn't be sad about getting rid of that.

  • MRW I decide to set up a home server

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  • Definitely looking into it as my spring project.

  • MRW I decide to set up a home server

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  • I've been wanting to dive into the 10" rack space for a while now. Even saw there were some designs I could mostly 3D print. I recently decommissioned my last 19" rack appliance, so I guess I'm closer than ever now though I'd need to find a 16 port switch that would fit (would prefer that to linking two 8-port switches).

    Haven't really hosted anything on a Pi (except Kiwix on a spare Pi Zero W2) since I have a bunch of thin clients that I got dirt cheap in a bulk drunk eBay purchase. They're more capable (though the Pi 5 is close if not entirely surpassing them now) and a bit easier to shove together.

    How are the Orange Pis? I've not messed with them, but the specs look too good to be true.

  • MRW I decide to set up a home server

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  • Ugh, tell me about it. I downsized from rack servers to a bunch of mini PCs with the laptop-style power bricks and the rats nest went from "ugly but manageable" to "complete fustercluck".

    Recently splurged on some USB-C power-delivery adapters and the appropriate USB-C to laptop-style charger cables and that made things infinitely better. Wasn't cheap (though not super expensive) but well worth it.

  • MRW I decide to set up a home server

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  • True, but the cost of my freedom has gone from $0.09 to $0.21 per KWh over the last 3 years lol.

  • MRW I decide to set up a home server

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  • It starts with one home server. Then you're like "But if I just add another server, I can do this. Oh, well, this other thing really needs its own server, too, so what's one more? Oh, I should separate the traffic from my home network, so I'll need to get a managed switch. But now I need another server so I can do testing and maybe one more for development. And I can't go without backups, so throw in a storage server. Ugh, what if the power goes out? Better get a couple of beefy UPSs to hold me over."

    Before you know it, you have:

    • 12 terabytes of storage
    • 11 servers serving
    • 10 VLANs
    • 9 cron jobs running
    • 8 cables tangled
    • 7 things a beeping
    • 6 dead ports
    • 5 rats nests of coooords
    • 4 UPSs beeping
    • 3 failing drives
    • 2 loud switches
    • And a soaring electric bill

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  • MFW I can only find birthday wrapping paper to wrap the presents today:

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  • that's the spirit!

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  • Why does Lemmy feel ephemeral?

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  • Well, removed yes. Deleted, not always.

  • And The History Channel showed documentaries that weren't about aliens.

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  • I remember both of those going downhill in real time but the one that hit me the hardest was Discovery Channel. One day it was Bill Nye, Mythbusters, Shark Week, and science documentaries and the next it was Pawn Stars, Swamp Loggers, and American Chopper. At least we got a nice meme template out of that last one.

  • "Reroute power to the deflector dish and modify to emit an inverse tachyon pulse"

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  • that's the spirit!

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  • Fuck it, it's Christmas Tuesday.

  • In what way am I the product when using CloudFlare's free tier?

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  • I've been looking into crowdsec for ages now and still haven't gotten around to even a test deployment. One of these days, lol, and I'll get around to it.

  • TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name @lemmy.world
    Admiral Patrick @dubvee.org

    So far, she's broken a vase, a teapot, she's ruined one of my chairs using it as a scratchpost and she has gotten hair-balls all over my carpet.

  • TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name @lemmy.world
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    If /c/ConfidentlyIncorrect was a person...

  • TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name @lemmy.world
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    The perfect "breather" episode doesn't exis...

  • TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name @lemmy.world
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    The Quality of Life

  • Not The Onion @lemmy.world
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  • TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name @lemmy.world
    Admiral Patrick @dubvee.org

    Oh, Bev. We may have fallen into the intellectual deep end here. And if you try to grab on to me, we'll both drown.

  • TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name @lemmy.world
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    Space Tío

  • Technology @lemmy.world
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    FTC study finds 'dark patterns' used by a majority of subscription apps and websites | TechCrunch

    techcrunch.com /2024/07/10/ftc-study-finds-dark-patterns-used-by-a-majority-of-subscription-apps-and-websites/
  • memes @lemmy.world
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    OC

    Office/Houseplant Problems

  • TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name @lemmy.world
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    Watering Day Brings Great Honor

  • Programmer Humor @programming.dev
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    It's not like I just change things for the sake of change

  • TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name @lemmy.world
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    That's what Red Alert means, Doctor.

  • Technology @lemmy.world
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    Intel is trucking a 916,000-pound 'Super Load' across Ohio to its new fab, spawning road closures over nine days

    www.tomshardware.com /pc-components/cpus/intel-is-trucking-a-916000-pound-super-load-across-ohio-to-its-new-fab-spawning-road-closures-over-nine-days
  • TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name @lemmy.world
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    Ok, hear me out. What if, instead of the teachings of Surak, the Vulcans adopted the angry logic of David Mitchell?

  • memes @lemmy.world
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    AI's most notable accomplishment...

  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
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    Do you consider Lemmy/Reddit (and similar platforms) to be social media?

  • TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name @lemmy.world
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    Damn it, Elaine.

  • Programmer Humor @programming.dev
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    Demand ad companies take security seriously first and maybe we'll talk.

  • TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name @lemmy.world
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    Part 1: Would Betazoids get a telepathic contact buzz?

  • TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name @lemmy.world
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    Checkmate Round Earthers