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  • Finally, a USB standard that can provide the data AND power requirements of a city.

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  • The time travelling aspect is nice, too...

  • Hose Clamp Security Gate Chain...

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  • Is tampering with property+trespassing more of a legal no-no than just trespassing?

  • Never!

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  • Not sure c/vegan would agree...

  • Other than filling with plaster and taking a cast of your bits, what use do you suggest for large glass jars?

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  • Do you have a bulk food store nearby? We have one where you can BYO containers, tare and label them, and then fill them up at the store. Bulk food with no bags or single-use containers, it's great.

  • Apple's rules to allow third-party app stores in the EU are not beneficial for users or developers

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  • Some heroes don't wear capes

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  • Back in the day I was running GLTron on an Athlon 1800+ w/Nvidia GeForce FX 5200 (I think?) and I was running dual monitors. GLTron didn't like using both screens since it presented as a peculiar resolution. So I emailed the GLTron dude and he quickly emailed me a patch that let me run the game across both monitors (bezels not an issue because I was doing multiplayer split screen).

    What a great game.

  • Is YouFibre any good?

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  • Where I am there's a smallish internet provider, Sonic, that advertises almost-too-good-to-be-true service. As a former subscriber...nope, it's pretty much what they say it is. It was gigabit fiber and I could iperf to a university server and get 900Mbps+ (depending on time of day). Fast.com would say 1Gbps.

    My only complaint was that iirc the advertised price was for service, with an extra charge for router. BYO router meant you were charged slightly more for service (this is my recollection, not positive though).

    They are a pretty vocal net neutrality advocate, and from what the tech told me they offer "best effort" service, meaning while ATT fiber may support gigabit, they'll throttle it and upcharge you for the extra speed; Sonic, afaik, didn't do that. They now offer 10Gbps Internet for I think the same price as the gigabit, but I think you need to BYO network gear to take advantage of it.

    Unfortunately our new place doesn't offer them, otherwise I would still be a subscriber.

    Point being...too good to be true usually is just that, but sometimes it's not 🤷

  • Conservatives wanted “mental acuity” to be a top 2024 election issue. It’s blowing up in their face

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  • I think the gist is, both are capable of surrounding themselves with people who share their agenda --- would you be comfortable with Biden's cabinet effectively running the white house? Trump's?

    Not sure I parsed it correctly though...

  • Beeper’s push for iMessage on Android is really over

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  • Behind in specs? Depends on which specs I guess --- but CPU/GPU performance is AFAIK pretty great? https://www.tomsguide.com/features/iphone-15-pro-benchmarks

    Features, yeah, depends on what you're looking for. AFAIK iPhones are the only mainstream phone to offer satellite texting though.

    I have both an iPhone (work) and an android (personal), and they both...kinda just work 🤷

  • So SBCs are shit now? Anything I can do with my collection of Pis and old routers?

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  • I love my orange pi (5+, 16GB, 256GB eMMC, 2TB NVME). New, with case and eMMC (excluding NVME) was about $200.

    Smart switch says it idles at about 2.9W, transcoding 1080p with Jellyfin draws about 5W (at several hundred FPS with HW transcoding --- so it presumably won't draw that much for the entire duration of the media). Not sure how reliable smart switch is at those powers but I'm guessing it's ballpark accurate.

    Works flawlessly for Immich of course.

    The duel 2.5G NICs are underutilized by me but kinda fun to have I guess.

    For me, idle power is important, so the ARM SBC route is pretty appealing. A new x64 NUC at same price might offer comparable performance I suppose, and something used could be beefier at the expense of more power usage. But to each their own!

  • HP CEO: You're 'bad investment' if you don't buy HP supplies

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  • In grad school I picked up a free used HP LaserJet. It had Ethernet, and could use generic/off brand cartridges. Yeah it was big and noisy but it was an awesome workhorse and it Just Worked (with out-of-the-box CUPS/Linux support too, IIRC).

    How the mighty have fallen.

  • Google lays off 100 at YouTube; CEO says more layoffs are coming

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  • When I was in college, working for Google was a dream job for a lot of my friends. I have to think that hiring from that position is awesome --- lots of really smart, motivated, enthusiastic grads, and you get to pick the best. I wonder if all that has changed?

    Old article, and yes, "corporations are not friends" yada yada: https://www.businessinsider.com/tech-companines-that-havent-had-layoffs-job-cuts-yet-2023-1

    If I'm ever in the market for another job and have the luxury of choice, the layoff question will be pretty high up.

  • Haier hits Home Assistant plugin dev with takedown notice

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  • Not a lawyer; would this likely stand up in court? Obviously I wouldn't risk it were I the dev, but just curious.

    It's pathetic that I'll happily recommend my Emporia Vue2 energy monitor to folks running HA --- not because it works out of the box, but because the company is aware of the community integration projects and seems ok with it, even if they don't actually support it. (ESPHome Firmware flash gives you local control --- It's been pretty great!)

  • Haier hits Home Assistant plugin dev with takedown notice

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  • Not a lawyer; would this likely stand up in court? Obviously I wouldn't risk it were I the dev, but just curious.

  • VPN to home network options

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  • As others have said, I'd play with routing/IP forwarding such that being VPN'd to one machine gives you access to everything --- basically I would set it up as a "road warrior" VPN (but possibly split tunnel on the client [yes I know, WireGuard doesn't have servers or clients but you know what I mean]).

    Alternately, I think you could do some reverse proxy magic such that everything goes through the WireGuard box --- a.lan goes to service A, b.lan to service B, etc., but if you have non-http services this may be a little more cumbersome.

  • Raspberry Pi is now manufacturing 70,000 Pi 5s per week, will surge to 90,000 in February

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  • I'm really liking my orange pi 5 Plus. Wasn't able to get the 32GB version, but 16GB is realistically more than I need anyway.

    Main bonus for me over RPi is the RAM and storage --- SD, eMMC, and NVME. The dual NICs and extra efficiency cores are a nice perk, too.

  • It is essential to stop using Chrome. Under the pretense of saving users from third-party spyware, Google is creating an ecosystem in which Chrome itself is the spyware.

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  • Cannot recommend Immich enough as a self-hosted Photos alternative. Obviously not a drop in replacement, and if you don't want to self-host it's not really feasible. But it is just awesome.

  • The most exciting 2024 tech isn't AI

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  • On the other hand, a completely open ecosystem works well too --- ARM for Linux feels exactly like ARM on x86/64 in my experience. Granted this is for headless stuff on an (RPi and Orange Pi, both ARM, both running Debian), but really the only difference is the bootloader situation.

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  • I'm annoyed that the nice bike trainers don't generate power, or at least have the option to. My Wahoo shouldn't be drawing power from the grid, it should be supplying it!

  • Selfhosted @lemmy.world
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    Access control for selfhosted services via VPS?

  • Selfhosted @lemmy.world
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    Force re-upload of broken assets on Immich?

  • Today I Learned (TIL) @lemmy.ca
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    TIL about Alvin, a deep sea sub from the '60s still active today

    slate.com /technology/2023/07/deep-sea-research-alvin-submersible-oceangate-titan-implosion.html
  • Memes @lemmy.ml
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    Me on day 1 of The Challenge