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HamsterRage

@ HamsterRage @lemmy.ca

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  • Weather App of Choice?

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  • That's what I use. You can pick which weather service you use, too. I'm in Canada, but find that Norway meteorology service is good. When the wife and I are comparing forecasts she'll ask, "What do the Norwegians say".

    Or later, "Your Norwegians never predicted this!".

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    Getting worn out with all these docker images and CLI hosted apps

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  • As an example, I was setting up SnapCast on a Debian LXC. It is supposed to stream whatever goes into a named pipe in the /tmp directory. However, recent versions of Debian do NOT allow other processes to write to named pipes in /tmp.

    It took just a little searching to find this out after quite a bit of fussing about changing permissions and sudoing to try to funnel random noise into this named pipe. After that, a bit of time to find the config files and change it to someplace that would work.

    Setting up the RPi clients with a PirateAudio DAC and SnapCast client also took some fiddling. Once I had it figured out on the first one, I could use the history stack to follow the same steps on the second and third clients. None of this stuff was documented anywhere, even though I would think that a top use of an RPi Zero with that DAC would be for SnapCast.

    The point is that it seems like every single service has these little undocumented quirks that you just have to figure out for yourself. I have 35 years of experience as an "IT Guy", although mostly as a programmer. But I remember working HP-UX 9.0 systems, so I've been doing this for a while.

    I really don't know how people without a similar level of experience can even begin to cope.

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  • Why is Bunsen Honeydew running the simulation?

  • What's yours?

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  • I can only imagine playing that with David Mitchell.

  • Homelab hardware choices

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  • I have an HP T740 running Opnsense and it works just fine. You can pick them up for about $100 USD, and they seem to come mostly with 8GB RAM, and a 64GB SSD. That seems to be more than enough for Opnsense, even running VPN's.

    These are just a tad larger than my Lenovo M910Q Tiny servers, but they have a PCI slot, so you can put a second ethernet port (or 2, or 4) of whatever speed you like in it.

  • Office worker backpack EDC

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  • I thought that was part of "some meds".

  • Bell Labs 'Unix' Tape from 1974 Successfully Dumped to a Tarball

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  • Wow. SNOBOL was one of the coolest, Stange languages.

  • my_ex_supervisor_irl

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  • In that a Gollum caganer?

  • Both Ford and Mercedes own a /8 block of public IP addresses, that is 16 million public IPV4 addresses each

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  • I worked for a small insurance company owned by a slightly larger organization. That organization had a class B address space. They gave us 4 class C's from that class B, or about 1000 addresses in the 1990's for a company with 50 employees.

  • I replaced the battery in our analog wall clock today.

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  • Or, perhaps 12 hours and 16 minutes after it gave out?

  • TIL "Mausoleum" is another one of those things that's just named after a guy

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  • Yeah, it's basically a big hole in the ground, with some bits of ancient columns scattered about. The Temple of Artemis is a bit of bog with a couple of columns standing up - they have been restored.

    The wife and I have visited 5 of the 7 Wonders sites. The statue of Zeus is in our future at some point. I'm told that all there is is a replica in the middle of a roundabout.

    The Hanging Gardens of Babylon, sadly, will never be a place we go. For one, nobody knows where it precisely is. For another, it's in Iraq, and we're not going anywhere where you need a flak jacket and a security team just to look for an Ancient Wonder that isn't there any more.

  • Crazy the amount of conserved medieval buildings there are in Ludlow [OC]

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  • Ard the brewery there is top notch, too.

  • The tragic change a single year has made in America

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  • “The United States, just months before its 250th birthday as the world’s leading democracy..."

    Is this an Onion article???

  • TIL about Dunning Kruger Effect - why people with low competence overestimate and people with high competence underestimate themselves.

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  • This is, of course, a perfect example of D-K in action. This dude is writing his own email server, FFS, and he characterizes himself as, "at least somewhat knowledgeable".

    I've read a bunch of the old RFC's for email services years ago, when you needed some of that info in order to do interesting things with sendmail. I figure that might have put me in the top 20% of programmers/admins/techies back in the day. But to actually consider writing an email server - no way. That's a different level of "at least somewhat knowledgeable" .

  • [SOLVED] how to increase the /home partition

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  • The question implies that the OP wants to create one giant filesystem with all of their data on it. This has its own issues, especially if it is in /home. For one, as someone else pointed out, it's fairly difficult to run your system without /home mounted, and that makes it difficult to resize. Sure, you can set up an admin account with it's home in the /root filesystem and then log into that - but that seems to be a lot of work in itself.

    If it was me, I'd set up mount points for file systems that make sense. Maybe /data/Photos, or /data/Music, or data/AppData, or whatever. As much as possible, I'd just point whatever software I was using to those new directories to find the data. If that isn't feasible, for whatever reason, then a symbolic link from /home/Photos to /data/Photos will work seamlessly in most cases.

    As far as I'm concerned, after administering enterprise systems using Unix going as far back as the early 90's, symbolic links are a key tool in managing disk space that you shouldn't just dismiss because it's "an unnecessary layer of complexity". Having smaller, purpose designed, file systems allows you to manage them better. Sticking everything into /home is probably not the right answer for anyone.

  • [SOLVED] how to increase the /home partition

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  • Resizing partitons is often not necessary. Use a symbolic link to relocate a subdirectory to another file system. For 99% of use cases this is indistinguishable from expanding the partition.

  • I am font hunting again

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  • In all truth, I've probably seen more sphinxes than foxes. There are literally hundreds of them in Egypt, although they are quite small compared to the one near the pyramids in Giza. They also find their way into museums around the world.

    I've only seen one or two foxes, in the wild. A few more in zoos, I suppose.

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  • I guess they figure that Linux users already know what they are doing when it comes to security.

  • How did a new War of the Worlds movie get a 0% critical rating?

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  • How did you get that far? The wife and I lasted about 5 minutes.