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tomkatt

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  • Looking for recommendation to upgrade my Raspberry Pi-based home server

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  • I use an AMD mini-PC with Ryzen 5700u, 32GB RAM, connected with my home NAS. Similar software stack, the server is hosted via Proxmox, no issues.

  • Logitech will brick its $100 Pop smart home buttons on October 15 - Ars Technica

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  • I have a Zigbee antenna. Will have to double check. I'm pretty sure the lights work with the antenna, but scenes are only possible if you've integrated them (generally via hue through something like Homekit).

  • I'm calling the police.

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  • I'm a terrible cook personally, but my wife is fantastic at this stuff. Just FYI, you want a delicious cheese sauce, all you need is some milk or half & half, butter, and cheese. If you want it thicker, use less milk, or add a bit of cream cheese. Heat at a simmer and keep warm.

    If you let it cool, it will firm up some and makes for a good cracker dip.

  • Logitech will brick its $100 Pop smart home buttons on October 15 - Ars Technica

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  • This is why it’s a great idea to refuse to install everything that’s possible, including smart switches, cameras, lights etc. that rely on the good will of some company to keep running.

    Even then you can get fucked over. I've used Hue smart lights for years, and back when I bought them, you didn't need an account to use them, just an app and network connection. Years later, they forced an online login for the app, requiring you to be online to interface with the bulbs. You can kind of work around it with Home Assistant, but you still need the account now to add the bulbs, and I don't think scenes work without an account either now.

  • Trump classifies “anti-capitalism” as a political pre-crime

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  • New eyewitness photos, surreptitiously captured from inside The White House:

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  • Benefits of living in bumfuck. Though to be real, I’d never buy or build in a HOA. It’s a choice. Renting in HOAs was bad enough in the past.

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  • It essentially all takes care of itself, it’s a whole ecosystem. There’s no standing water for mosquitos thanks to the foliage. There’s also lizards, the occasional frog, birds. The deer eat some of the taller stuff. Even with the deer, there’s at least one mountain lion in the area I’ve seen, which I presume helps keep the population reasonable. I dunno, it doesn’t really need any tending, other than to clear a path where I need.

    Aside from that, my neighbor has pine trees, and occasionally pine cones take root and need their root- balls shoveled out. That’s the only big maintenance because I don’t want the big trees on my property. I wouldn’t mind, but for two things:

    1. They always seem to root down near the road on my driveway path or walk-down.
    2. I have solar panels and can’t have them growing up on the southeast side side of the house, and that’s where they tend to fall.

    Besides that, I have to knock down the occasional wasp nest (paper wasps) on the house, but if they nest away from the house I leave them alone. It’s all minimal maintenance. If you let nature do its thing it tends to find a balance. Humans are the ones usually screwing it up.

  • Should I go back to my old job?

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  • Move forward, not backward. Not sure about the red flags, but could be you were just comfortable in the old job, and the new one is stretching your comfort zone.

    If you want to go back to the old company, grow and apply later in a new role, from a position of strength. If you go back now you’re negotiating from a position of weakness and admitting you will accept less.

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  • I know this is a meme, but shit like this is why I allow wild growth on my property. First year I owned my home the ground got muddy as hell from the new build since the ground was all dug up and tilled.

    From the second year on I’ve only mowed a path for my driveway and the front walkway and the rest grows wild. Sweetgrass and other native plants anywhere from like 1 to 3 feet tall and the area is high desert (Colorado) so the “weeds” suck up any moisture they can get, no flood, no mud. It’s great. I’ll never understand MFers in the rurals curating lawns.

    Plus, it looks nice, and the deer in the area seem to like it as well.

  • Elon Musk cancels Netflix subscription amid backlash to trans-inclusive show

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  • I cancelled Netflix years ago and never looked back when they released Cuties, because I don’t want to see (or support) 11 year olds shaking their asses.

    Some of these fuckers would probably sign up just for that content.

  • I'm 40 now by Kplx

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  • Currently just using a cheap Ostent soft mat with some silicone grip pads on the bottom. It’s not perfect, but works well enough for my exercise and I can do up to 8+ difficulty songs (honestly can’t handle most 8 currently anyway). It’s convenient to be able to fold the mat up to put away when not in use.

    Years back I hard-modded a similar mat, stapling and taping it down to a sheet of 1/4” plyboard and that was fantastic.

    If you’re looking for hard pads today, check out L-Tek, they’re about the only one still in business making them.

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    Edit - oh, I forgot to mention software. There’s two good options today, Project Outfox (available on Steam) and ITGMania. Both are forks of Stepmania 5.1. Song packs are available online, including both new user stuff and DDR original. I use ITGMania with Project XX Starlight theme for DDR and get most of my songs from https://zenius-i-vanisher.com/v5.2/simfiles.php?category=simfiles

  • I'm 40 now by Kplx

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  • 40s here. I only drink pour-over and French press (I make it myself at home). No triathalons, but I did about 40 minutes of Dance Dance Revolution today. No gravel bike either, but I have a BoS Blitz airbike and bought some adjustable kettlebells this year. And my Steam library and book collection are growing in size.

    Eh, close enough.

  • Using rsync for backups, because it's not shiny and new

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  • Rsync is great. I’ve been using it to back up my book library from my local Calibre collection to my NAS for years, it’s absurdly simple and convenient. Plus, -ruv lets me ignore unchanged files and backup recursively, and if I clean up locally and need that replicated, just need to add —delete.

  • Apple has REMOVED the ICEBlock app from the App Store due to “objectionable content.”

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  • Fuckers.

  • For the First Time in 133 Years, Maxwell House Rebrands as “Maxwell Apartment”

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  • designed to save coffee enthusiasts more than $1,000 annually

    Trust, coffee enthusiasts were already not drinking this swill, and a tone deaf advertising campaign isn't going to change that status quo.

  • U.S. solar will pass wind in 2025 and leave coal in the dust soon after

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  • Phrasing.

  • Peter Thiel: strict AI regulation will summon the Antichrist

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  • in the Bible it’s very clear that all that stuff will happen... and that these things are necessary for Christ’s ultimate victory over Death and Evil. So why would you try to prevent the rise of the Antichrist? In the “best case” you’re just kicking the can down the road and delaying the Return of Jesus a little.

    You've put a lot more thought and consideration into it than these folks. That's why they're all "this bad, that bad, oh no Anti-Christ!"

    To be fair, the end times isn't likely to be good for most. God's people for salvation number only a few:

    Revelation 7:4 - Then I heard the number of those who were sealed: 144,000 from all the tribes of Israel.

    That ain't much. There are billions of people on the planet. At the end, the Christian God will only protect a small number from the events of the end times. The rest of us will have to just suck it up and live and suffer through the apocalypse, as it were.

    I'm not a believer so I can only guess. But my guess is, despite being "Christian" (in really big finger quotes), I think deep down, a lot of these folks know they are Hell-bound (according to their own system of belief), or at the very least, hell-on-Earth-bound. They're far from Christ-like in their behavior and existence, and I can't see why they'd be among the chosen few of God's protection in the end days. Especially since many of them aren't Jewish, and actively despise Jews (despite also supporting Israel? I dunno, these people confuse the hell out of me). So postponing the end serves to postpone their own damnation.

  • Amazon is making it impossible to remove the DRM from Kindle Books

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  • It's not necessarily about the devices. Kobo books are very easy to remove DRM from, and don't require owning a physical Kobo device or their app to do so. All it requires is two Calibre plugins. And EPUB is not a proprietary format, unlike AZW3 and KFX.

    Also, I might be wrong, but it seems Kobo has a lot more DRM free books in general, compared to Amazon.

    Kindle has always required either the Kindle app or an actual physical Kindle to de-DRM.

  • Amazon is making it impossible to remove the DRM from Kindle Books

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  • Might be too late. Winterbreak hasn't worked since 5.18.1 and the latest firmware is 5.18.5. If you've been updating your firmware normally, jailbreak has been unviable since around April or May, at least for the 11th and 12th gen devices.