hah

I will never understand the move from forums to discord. when discord is the only way to get assistance, I go find another product.

I had to look this up right away! thought you were messin with me… ;p

yes. luckily my viper ultimate is very old and starting to act weird.

any recommendations for alternatives? I need the mouse to be plug-in and wireless, so I can move between my office and field setup.

using lawnchair at the moment. folders work, work profile… works.

the only feature they don’t natively have that I miss from the stock launcher is frequent apps. I could install the plug-in, but I’m about to switch to graphene for the next phone so I’ll probably start from scratch and see how native graphene works.

I’ve been looking at a new phone myself, and also came to the pixel + graphene solution after doing some research. Best bang for your buck, performance-wise vs any phone capable of alternate OS (even if it is android based).

the part I think is ironic about the infidel patch is that an infidel is someone accused of disbelief in the primary beliefs of a system/religion… the name fits perfectly since these ass hats obviously do not believe spirit of the Constitution.

I used to have one of these but swapped it out for an Orico because the thermaltake did not operate consistently. no issues with the Orico regardless of OS.

just passed 3 years since my best friend died. I don’t think about him everyday, anymore; but I think I miss him more every time I do.

you want to get hit in the feels? checkout Terry Allen covering Guy Clark’s song Old Friends. I, personally, like the cover better than the original.

https://youtu.be/g_uuhaF3Ml4

sorry for your loss, dude.

I use an older pi as a homepage server.

https://gethomepage.dev/

when people start using the “don’t question them; they know what they’re doing” argument…I become even more suspicious. If they knew what they were doing the results would be apparent and spectacular to everyone; no one would question it…

the fact that trickery and forced adoption are required for the technology to succeed is very telling about the competence of the technology itself.

big ol dookie on Canon…💩💩💩

one of the worst technology purchases I ever made.

I bought the laser brother for scan and documents, which is awesome.

but I needed something for photos… found this “highly rated” Canon photo only printer… hot garbage.

bump. my brother multifunction worked flawlessly. scanner, printer…I assume the fax would work if it was hooked up.

Mac is 85-90%

Windows, I just completely uninstall/reinstall for each use because it is more reliable than trying to use it otherwise.

oddly enough, the Canon I got will only work properly from the phone, which pisses me off everyday. that thing is a POS.

I think it would’ve been more impactful if instead of mentioning the lone org that will comply in the text, they made a list like the other one to show how outnumbered they were visually…🤔

does not exactly answer the question, but…

I’ve been buying last gen Intel Macbook Pros off eBay because nobody wants them. you can put a variety of server oses on them.

I followed one of the many guides for installing proxmox on Rpis. 3node, 4gb rpi4s

I use the cluster for lighter services like Trilium, FreshRss, secondary DNS, a jumpbox… and something else I forget. I’m going to try immich and see how it performs.

my recent goto for cheap($200-300) servers are Debian + old Intel Macbook pros. I have two Minecraft bedrock servers on MBPs… one an i5, the other an i7.

I also use a Lenovo laptop to host some industrial control software for work.

my two bare metal servers are the file server and music server. I have other services in a pi cluster.

file server because I can’t think of why I would need to use a container.

the music software is proprietary and requires additional complications to get it to work properly…or at all, in a container. it also does not like sharing resources and is CPU heavy when playing to multiple sources.

if either of these machines die, a temporary replacement can be sourced very easily(e.g. the back of my server closet) and recreated from backups while I purchase new or fix/rebuild the broken one.

IMO the only reliable method for containers is a cluster because if you’re running several containers on a device and it fails you’ve lost several services.

oh, she was. found her several years earlier in a trash pile at an office building I was working at… with the protective plastic still stuck on the screen.

she met her doom against a concrete floor during a studio shuffle… sad day.

i know it’s been a while since the og post but I ran across a very good explanation about the clearance stuff and wanted to pay-it-forward for the civil conversation before.

enjoy! 😜

https://theconversation.com/trumps-criminal-conviction-wont-stop-him-from-getting-security-clearance-as-president-243104

was going through some old pictures and decided I’d post a retro setup. pretty sure I took this picture with my android g1…so 2008ish?

here is a pic of one of my first selfhost setups. I began selfhosting for music and have never stopped. this iteration was stuffed behind a bar that was built in to the basement at my old house

the old fashioned was custom built and was running some flavor of windows server. the one on the floor was the first Linux server I had run to do something useful…torrents and subsonic IIRC. I pieced that server together with random parts, mostly donated from old family PCs. two UPS units were on the bottom rack of that metro shelf to battery back the servers and the tomato router out of frame.