Freeman

@ freeman @lemmy.pub

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2y ago

I'm locked out of my 6 year old Chipotle account because they now say my email address is invalid when I login. Here is me asking for their help:
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Freeman @lemmy.pub 2y ago
Its quite common on email domains.
I have a .email gTLD and I am frequently told its not a valid domain. Its getting better but apparently many forms only consider .com, .org, .edu etc valid.

2y ago

Starlink loses out on $886 million in rural broadband subsidies

For a lot of people in the world, it would be cheaper for the governmet to buy their rural property, bulldoze it, and then buy them a house in a town with internet service – than it is to run a line to their property.

of course that would be cheaper if the government is paying for it.....That would also be cheaper than just buying comcast for someone even in suburbs of the US...

2y ago

How many of you actually use the headphone jack on your phone?

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Freeman @lemmy.pub 2y ago

I used it in my car on the daily until it was removed from the phone. Then i went, in quite frustrating fashion, through a series of cheap aux/jack bluetooth dongles to maintain handsfree and music in the car.

Finally the radio in my truck started going out. So i replaced it with a wireless carplay/android auto model. And it IS nice.

But there are still times i would prefer a wired set of headphones. I still use them on my laptop from time to time. But will use airpods as well. One of the issues i have with my airpods is that often 1 side will be signifigantly louder than the other.

2y ago

Do you run a private CA? Could you tell me about your certificate setup if you do?

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Freeman @lemmy.pub 2y ago

Copy them to the box. Sign them. Copy the cert file off the box back to the requester.

2y ago

Do you run a private CA? Could you tell me about your certificate setup if you do?

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Freeman @lemmy.pub 2y ago

I run easy-rsa on a linux box. Just manually generate CSR's and sign them via SSH.

And simply trust the CA cert in windows, linux and whatever extra places (normally firefox cert store).

Post the crl.pem to /var/www/html/ and let NGINX use that.

For most things public like plex or whatever i just use letsencrypt. Easy-rsa is really just for internal stuff like my NAS, VPN etc.

3y ago

The Pentagon is moving toward letting AI weapons autonomously decide to kill humans

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Freeman @lemmy.pub 3y ago

These have already seen active combat. They were used in the Armenian/Azerbaijan war in the last couple years.

It’s not a good thing…at all.

3y ago

Restaurant Bill

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Freeman @lemmy.pub 3y ago

If anything it’s less steps. You aren’t doing any math or making any judgement calls with a service charge.

3y ago

Restaurant Bill

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Freeman @lemmy.pub 3y ago

Based on the bottom of the receipt i would have said to the server something like "great, it says right here no need to tip"

3y ago

How do Sonarr / related services work?

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Freeman @lemmy.pub 3y ago

The ARR tools are basically a search engine website you host. The interact with a few other tools you have to have access to/pay for. Namely an indexing service and a (for some) a download service. They can use torrents, so you dont HAVE to pay for downloading, but using something like newsgroups is really nice and add reliability and security.

THe "ARR's" basically then are just a fancy UI and scheduler and just search the indexing service, download the files you want, re-assemble them and copy them to the location you want (often a file share that your media player like Plex or Jellyfin will use).

You can set them to continually look for something too. So for Sonarr, it will auto-download new episodes as soon as they appear in the index. Or if you see a commercial for something upcoming, you can add it and monitor it and as soon as it starts showing up in the indexes it will download.

3y ago

Usenet communities?

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Freeman @lemmy.pub 3y ago

All the aarrrs. Saturates my isp bandwidth, have no issues with finding stuff, no takedown or piracy warnings..

3y ago

So how much "bad" debt are you in?

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Freeman @lemmy.pub 3y ago

Only debt we have a mortgage we owe 226k on. Cars are owned outright and were paid off early. Student loans we paid off early. We generally live below our means. CC's are used for general purchasing and paid off in full each month. They are basically a stop-gap for fraud protection.

3y ago

Is this a good network setup?

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Freeman @lemmy.pub 3y ago

There definately is something. They have a ton of products. I'd have to look through my list as well. The CSS runs switchos lite, but honestly its fine. I can do CLI configs (brocade, cisco, cisco smb etc) but its whatever.

At my parents house i have been using a Mikrotik RB260GSP since about 2016 on their net. It also runs swos and im not doing anything crazy on it (in fact i never bothered with VLAN's there though i probably should setup a guest vlan. But its been fine for years now.

3y ago

Is this a good network setup?

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Freeman @lemmy.pub 3y ago

if the firewall can be updated regularly then sure.

Mikrotik makes perfectly acceptable switches at a reasonable price with a variety of features, vlan compat is pretty common. A MikroTik CSS610-8P-2S+in will give you 2 10 Gb sfp , 8 x 1Gbe with PoE+ and vlans for under 300 bucks.

3y ago

Amazon Prime Video is able to remove a video from your library after purchase.

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Freeman @lemmy.pub 3y ago

I have a mini-pc running a plex vm. And all the TVs are Rokus. So can watch anything, including live broadcast tv. And the roku is so simple kids can operate it, and do.

3y ago

Kevin McCarthy is ousted as House speaker in a historic vote pushed by conservatives

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Freeman @lemmy.pub 3y ago

I’m probably wrong but I think the rules are decided before each house convenes (which is every year or two in January after folks are sworn in. ).

So this year is locked. But after the election cycle it will be time to vote on new rules. They could reverse them then. But the margins are so thin….who knows.

That’s how bullshit like filibuster rules have been degraded from actually having to stand and filibuster to simply saying “well I would do it if I had the energy so it’s a filibuster speech now”.

3y ago

Amazon Prime Video is able to remove a video from your library after purchase.

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Freeman @lemmy.pub 3y ago

The only reason I keep Netflix is kids.

We don’t really watch it otherwise.

Even my in-laws are now pirates using hacked amazon fire sticks that are being hawked around their retirement community.

My mother in law is like “I get every streaming service and channel for 1 dollar a day, isn’t that great”.

I’m all “if it’s simple and works for you yeah, absolutely. “

3y ago

New cars are great...

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Freeman @lemmy.pub 3y ago

Yeah it’s not too bad. Just the dash kit is fairly old and held together by those plastic clip. I always break those things. It’s a juice isn’t worth the squeeze honestly. I actually upgraded my radio a while back to a wireless CarPlay/android auto and mean to ask them to swap em. But forgot.

3y ago

New cars are great...

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Freeman @lemmy.pub 3y ago

If my windscreen starts to steam up mid-jourmey, the last thing I need is to take my attention off the road to change the climate settings in the UI where dials and buttons will do the job much faster without needing to take my attention off the road.

This is why ill never get rid of my 2009 Tacoma. Three knob AC controls are the pinnacle of UI engineering. One knob for fan speed, one for temp and the third for vent/airflow selection. The backlight on one of my knobs has burned out at this point, but i dont need it....Can adjust the AC without taking my eyes off the road.

When it was ubiquitous, this meant i could do this in any car. Borrowed my inlaws FORD F-150 once, had to pull over to figure out how to turn off the goddam heat. It had BOTH a touchscreen and series of dash buttons but there were so many it was hard to figure out what did each thing while driving. I also had to update their dang infotainment, it wouldnt work on some random USB device, i had to go get a USB-A 3.0 device to get it to work at all and even then it was idling in my driveway for an hour and a half. Even tried just doing it via WiFi...nope

3y ago

Do any of you use Raspberry Pi’s ?

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Freeman @lemmy.pub 3y ago

I have 3.

Dakboard above the fridge shows calendar and shared photo album. It also runs bluetooth and serves as a relay for Homeassitant and a few kitchen devices (ie: igrill mini probe for meat).
pikvm for a desktop
pikvm+ kvm for lab rack esxi servers.

the latter two also run tailscale and allow me to SSH proxy if needed as a back VPN/remote access utility.

3y ago

What item did you "buy for life?"

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Freeman @lemmy.pub 3y ago

Frankly my favorite are just generic hospital blankets.

I still use a couple i stole from the hospital (or rather paid for through insurance and seized) when my kids were born 7+ years ago. THey are awesome, and very easy to wash. Hell you can even bleach em.