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Cake day: July 29th, 2023

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  • If it were not, it would just be inviting the government take a massive dump all over it.

    Despite the crapshow that is the current US government, you can’t be arrested for standing in front of the Whitehouse shouting your support for whatever idea or group you beleive in (granted you are a Citizen of the USA).

    Compare that to something like the UK where people have been charged and thrown in jail for wearing a t shirt or holding a sign, even outside of a protest because the government can just designate whatever it wants to be “hate speech”.

    Private spaces like social media are not bound by this which is fine, but social media is so ridiculously controlled and filtered as a result, that you’re better off sticking to a non mainstream platform (like lemmy) where your comments won’t get banned and deleted for stepping out of line.



    • Anything that you can shove hardware into (CPU, RAM, HDDs, maybe a PCI slot), so any used workstation is a great start, and don’t bother splurging initially, just follow the quality tool rule and only buy when something becomes inadequate. If you want to jump straight into loud and noisy severs, you can pick up used servers for cheap like R730s which there’s a ton of out there. Just avoid 2.5" drive bays because 3.5" HDDS are way cheaper per Gb.

    • Would recommend podman over docker as its matured to the point where it has a lot of better features like rootless, quadlets, etc that you might want to take advantage of in the future. OS is whatever linux you prefer, but I recommend you stay away from Ubuntu. If you want something RedHat but not as cutting edge as Fedora, I’ve heard OpenSUSE is pretty nice.

    For apps, If you want to do HTTPS via GUI then npmplus is nice option, Otherwise caddy can do the same with text config. Rest is whatever you want to try out :)

    EDIT: If you start making an *arr stack, I would recommend recyclarr to handle the quite expansive content filter settings for sonarr and radarr.


  • I have this really old save file on Mario & Luigi Partners in Time where I basically tried to skip combat as much as possible, and it took me like 5 years to reach the final boss (compared to like two weeks on the other save).

    Its been stuck there on the Shroob finale because it legitimately takes you like 40 minutes to clear the first princess and you have basically no one-ups or a useful amount of bros items, so you have to make every hit and dodge count.

    I’ve seen several good speed runs of the game so it’s definitely doable, but it requires about 2 hours of perfect inputs, so I probably won’t be finishing it soon lol.


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    No we don’t, no one is wasting PCIe lanes for a bunch of external ports, and Motherboard manufacturers already pack it plenty full as much as they can without it.

    We want cheap hardware and more than 16 lanes on affordable CPUs again.

    Feels like the damn 90s with these AI inflated component prices.


  • I hate to break the news but the issue with Bitwarden is that the client sucks total ass, and there are no drop in 3rd party replacements for the browser plugin.

    Been running Vaultwarden for a while now and even though the sync implementation is nice and clean, it’s just not worth the end user experience.

    This is really dumb when compared to literally every other password manager, open source and enterprise which does a much better job of actually being a password manager and not a glorified encrypted text file.

    I’m eventually going to switch back to KeePassXC and just suggest setting a master password with Firefox’s builtin password manager for everyone else who just wants a painless user experience and not have to deal with syncing vaults.



  • NIMBY is usually more to do with perceived loss in value though no?

    People don’t want AI datacenters because they are directly offloading energy costs to neighborhoods via substantially higher power bills. Which is happening because the demand is so high, they can’t compensate by building more power sources in the same time frame.

    That and the poor reception to the AI market, which is wrecking jobs, the economy, etc.

    Otherwise, datacenters were pretty well known for being built with very little resistance before this, especially since lots of providers, like Google, would fund geopower sources to power their datacenters which would add power to the grid with surplus.


  • mlg@lemmy.worldtoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldJust say no
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    Reminds me of some funny old posts on r/sysadmin of greybeards who had essentially automated their entire jobs and life in perl lol.

    Best one was a script that would auto text message his wife he would be coming home late if he still had an active terminal session.

    There was a recent post around here or reddit that was about management trying to gauge performance via AI use, and how they had caught on to the token spending tricks people were using, but honestly it doesn’t seem that hard to fake around it if it ever came up.

    Just throw some agent work at it like codex and watch it burn tokens running grep lol.


  • Conflating Trump’s antics with typical American imperialist behavior is a dangerous game.

    I’m sure the strait would have been open, but there is no future where Kamala or Biden wouldn’t have greenlit Israel’s joint plan to degrade Iran’s nuclear program. People already forgot they were slinging missiles for the past 2+ years.

    Those 168 Iranians could have died just the same because it has already happened so many times before.





  • Switch was what made me realize golden era of gaming was over, but it took about a year to set in because of the disconnect between the NX presentation and the actual product.

    Seriously, go take a look at the original NX Switch presentation and it would almost seem that Nintendo was selling a completely different product.

    All of the Wii era inspired hardware went mostly unused because the Switch couldn’t play Wii games, and Nintendo didn’t bother to even port their own titles outside of recycled Wii U content that didn’t sell well on the original console.

    The software similarly was a joke. I have more functionality on a Nintendo DS than a Switch, and that isn’t even including “unofficial” homebrew. You can’t even voice chat with your friends without using an external app, which is insane considering the DS, DSi, 3DS, Wii, and Wii U that preceded this.

    Major features that gave Nintendo the edge were gone. DS Downlaod Play, Streetpass, included minigames & apps, themes, free online, eshop points, wifi events, etc.

    On top of that, the library was just not interesting enough to warrant paying $60 a pop for single player games, and the multiplayer selection was sparse, despite the main feature of the console being joycon controllers.

    I got bored of it after only a year, and ended up having to change the joycon c-sticks a couple years later because of the drift issues.

    IMO it was a massive success just because of the portable format allowing you to play big name games on the go, but it absolutely fails as a handheld console when compared to the DS line, which did so much more for so much less.

    Now that other handhelds like the Steam Deck, AYN stuff, Legion, etc exist, there’s really no need to buy a Switch (2) for third party titles, which makes it a complete Nintendo only buy in.

    The kicker is that Nintendo made absolute bank which is now why the Switch 2 is going for $450 (soon to be $500) and bumped their game prices to a whopping $70-80 because they know people were fine with it.

    If I had more time on my hands, I would legitimately go make a modern version of Streetpass and download play for modern handhelds because that stuff was so cool and useful.