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by beala 1y ago
I tried setting your domain as my resolver but no luck sadly. alex@thinkpad ~> kdig @muppetz.com +tls news.ycombinator.com ;; WARNING: connection timeout for 116.251.193.218@853(TLS) ;; ERROR: failed to query server muppetz.com@853(TCP)
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by beala 1y ago
Yes I should have specified that this advice is specific to RAID configurations in NAS applications. If you're occasionally copying data to an external USB drive, that's totally fine. That's what they were designed for. The i
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by beala 1y ago
The official TrueNAS docs recommend against using USB drives [1]. My understanding is that between the USB controller, flaky connectors and cables, and usb-to-sata bridges of varying quality, there are just too many unknowns to guarantee a
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by beala 1y ago
I have an HDHomeRun box and use it through Plex. I've never installed the HDHomeRun software. Plex immediately recognized it as soon as I plugged it in. There is a noticeable amount of latency between selecting a channel and starting t
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by beala 1y ago
How's the power consumption? Everytime I look at used server deals on ebay that seem too good to be true, the hidden cost is usually power. It's fairly normal for these systems to consume hundreds of watts idle, and $1/watt&#
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by beala 1y ago
For me, the appeal of i3/sway's model is that by having a desktop per topic (eg, one for browser, one for code, one for slack, etc) I can instantly jump to the topic I need with a single key press. The desktops I assign never chan
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by beala 1y ago
Makes total sense. Please don't take my comment as a defense of Russia. I can understand not wanting any of your money flowing into the Russian economy, especially with Russian violence so close to home.
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by beala 1y ago
It happened this morning at the military gathering: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-preside-over-unusual-... Here's the Kagi article which potentially could have mentioned this: https://kite
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by beala 1y ago
IIUC, the basis for this claim is that Kagi pays Yandex (a Russian search company) for access to Yandex's image search API. Is that the entirety of their link to Russia? If so, it seems like a stretch to accuse them of being a "Ru
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by beala 1y ago
I don’t see what racism has to do with it. Most of my electronic components originate from China one way or another, but there’s a real difference in quality between established brands and the random stuff popping up on amazon in the last f
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by beala 1y ago
I'm also a premium subscriber, and have struggled with the same issues on the iPad app. I try to keep some shows downloaded for my toddler, and the download feature never seems to work on the first try. I finally got so fed up, I bough
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by beala 1y ago
Tough crowd. fwiw, `tar xzf foobar.tgz` = "_x_tract _z_e _f_iles!" has been burned into my brain. It's "extract the files" spoken in a Dr. Strangelove German accent Better still, I recently discovered `dtrx` ( https
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by beala 1y ago
I think the issue is that dnsmasq will happily forward requests that contain characters outside the ASCII subset, but the upstream resolver will silently drop them after correctly determining that they're invalid. So the special charac
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by beala 1y ago
Chromium based browsers treat localhost as a secure context, so HTTPS isn't required to access APIs like the clipboard, web serial, etc.
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by beala 1y ago
I'm not sure what aspect of smart locks you don't trust. If it's reliability, most also accept a physical key as a backup. As far as security, I'm under no impression that the firmware is free of vulnerabilities, but any
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by beala 1y ago
Surely if running a local LLM is a goal, you're going to be disappointed by any small form factor desktop. Even an M4 Max is slow compared to a 5 year old rtx 3090, and the M4's only advantage is that it can run larger models, but
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by beala 1y ago
Geerling benchmarked LLM performance on the Framework Desktop and the results look pretty lackluster to me. First, the software seems really immature. He couldn't get ROCm or the NPU working. When he finally got the iGPU working with V
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by beala 1y ago
Whether or not suitable battery replacements exist in 10 years is probably a function of demand. If there's a large demand for replacements, the market will provide. It's probably worth buying a popular model if you plan on keepin
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by beala 1y ago
Google's "AI Overview" feature is particularly bad. o3 gives the following response: > Short answer: it isn’t. Rum isn’t “healthy” any more than other booze. It goes on to give a bulleted list on why it's not healthy.
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by beala 1y ago
I was just about to shell out $2k on unifi equipment for my home but after reading this discussion it's sounding like a much worse proposition. Sadly, it doesn't seem like there's a solid competitor either. Mikrotik seems lik
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by beala 1y ago
Setting up an international chain of surf schools actually sounds quite ambitious and stressful, though.
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by beala 1y ago
A bit of a tangent, but BT is also great for getting rid of tomato hornworms. The bacteria is harmless to humans, but fatal to the hornworms. A single application saved my tomato plants last year. That said, the more I garden, the more I fi
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by beala 1y ago
DEET is super effective, especially if you go to an outdoors store like REI and get the extremely concentrated 95% DEET they make for backpackers. Will it give me cancer on 20 years? Who knows. But it does work.
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by beala 1y ago
My in-laws use a system like this, maybe the same one. It uses a CO2 tank rather than burning propane. He runs it 24/7 and he needs to refill the CO2 tank every 1-2 weeks iirc so it's definitely more expensive to run than the deat
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by beala 1y ago
It's usually not a single weekend. If you're like me, it starts out with thinking it'd be nice to install Plex on an old gaming PC. A year later, it has organically grown into a rube goldberg machine of proxmox and home autom
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by beala 1y ago
Is the dead man's switch necessary? Unless your homelab contains secrets you don't want revealed until after your death, I'd just put this in a Google doc.
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by beala 1y ago
A pain point you mention is that everyone must run the tailscale client. Have you considered exposing everything on the public internet using something like Cloudflare Tunnels? You can have cloudflare handle auth on their edge network, whic
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by beala 1y ago
This applies to so many other things. Who in your house does the taxes? If it's you, would your SO be able to pick up the slack in the event of your death? Can they access all the accounts? Do they even know what all the accounts are?
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by beala 1y ago
I think a much more likely scenario is an unencrypted drive fails and then what? Do you send it to the landfill unencrypted? Or do you have some process to physically destroy it? Encryption means you can just toss it and feel reasonably con
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by beala 1y ago
I also self host a small app for syncing bookmarks and a miniflux instance. Having the bookmark service publish an RSS feed for miniflux to consume is brilliant. Thanks for sharing.

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