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  • I would like to see a minority of the house representation of elected people from individual regions with term limits, with a majority of the house being regular people randomly selected to serve for a defined amount of time.

  • Rant: I can't believe I miss Shaw
  • You could check at the Canada Post office if you can charge their provided boxes to that account number.

    Unfortunately Rogers is now the largest professional sports holding company in the world now too, with buying out Bell's stake in MLSE. Nothing like promoting competition by allowing megacorps to keep acquiring.

  • Pastas Assembled
  • Oh yes, I'm not saying don't season your water. Just that seasoning the water on its own is not a way to prevent pasta sticking.

  • Pastas Assembled
  • Yep, I really like how he applies the scientific method to cooking. Some of my favourites are how he's found the perfect way to boil an egg, cook steaks and roasts (dry brine, reverse sear), and make chocolate chip cookies (he made over 1500 cookies testing how changing each variable changed the final cookie).

  • Pastas Assembled
  • It's not salting your water, nor the water volume to pasta ratio, nor if the water is boiling or not, nor oil in the water, but stirring early in the cooking process that will prevent sticking.

    From the great Kenji Lopez-Alt:

    Pasta is made up of flour, water, and sometimes eggs. Essentially, it's composed of starch and protein, and not much else. Now starch molecules come aggregated into large granules that resemble little water balloons. As they get heated in a moist environment, they absorb more and more water until they finally burst, releasing the starch molecules into the water. That's why pasta always seems to stick together at the beginning of cooking—it's the starch molecules coming out and acting as a sort of glue, binding the pieces to each other, and to the pot.

    ...

    The problem is that first stage of cooking—the one in which starch molecules first burst and release their starch. With such a high concentration of starch right on the surface of the pasta, sticking is inevitable. However, once the starch gets rinsed away in the water, the problem is completely gone.

    So the key is to stir the pasta a few times during the critical first minute or two. After that, whether the pasta is swimming in a hot tub of water or just barely covered as it is here, absolutely no sticking occurs. I was able to clean this pot with a simple rinse.

  • DeSantis says state investigating abortion ‘petitions on behalf of dead people’
  • Oh but there are "checks" and there are "balances", don't you know! They would never let something like this happen!

  • Research
  • Here's one local to me. Slightly old but quite relevant.

  • The thermodynamics of electric vs. internal combustion cars
  • Occasionally, but I work from home and my wife's commute is fairly short, so we can often time the roughly once a week charging so it's during the day.

  • ‘Right to Repair for Your Body’: The Rise of DIY, Pirated Medicine
  • Oh yes, your pay-to-win government duopoly isn't helping anything, but don't call it impossible. The Affordable Care Act was a start, and I don't doubt the right people could make universal healthcare access a real thing in the US.

  • EVs Take 95.7% Share In Norway — End-Game Emerging
  • I love it. It's a 2023 model, so the new shape. It's the vehicle of choice for nearly all trips we take over a '20 Subaru Outback. Charging is slowly expanding in the province so it's becoming even easier to plan drives. Really the biggest frustration is our biggest city only has 50 kW fast charging.

  • ‘Right to Repair for Your Body’: The Rise of DIY, Pirated Medicine
  • Oh, I agree it won't be easy, particularly when taking profits from rich people.

    I've heard it likened to a house full of asbestos. Knock it all down and there's likely to be collateral damage, but meticulously taking it apart will take a considerable amount of time. I feel it would be easiest for governments to purchase the insurance companies, then slowly amalgamate so it's all one network open to everyone.

    Also it's a bit entertaining when someone opposes it because "it's socialism". It's already socialism, you just have middlemen skimming profit off the top while providing little value.

  • EVs Take 95.7% Share In Norway — End-Game Emerging
  • Anecdotal, but my personal experience with an Ioniq 5 in -28C increased the power consumption by about 50% over summer driving. My test was about 42 km, done with comfortable, driver-only cabin heat on a flat highway with no wind.

    Average highway consumption is about 20 kWh/100km, that test was 29.3 kWh/100km.

    Saying that, an EV is quite practical in Saskatchewan, Canada. Charging is finally getting to a point where that extreme winter range limitation is less of an issue. Having a second ICE vehicle does take the pressure off if one absolutely has to travel when it's that cold out though.

  • The thermodynamics of electric vs. internal combustion cars
  • Your grid is, perhaps. And I happily charge my EV from my installed solar most times when I need to charge.

  • The thermodynamics of electric vs. internal combustion cars
  • Rather than doubling your system generation size, it would be better to store the generated electricity. You can have a massive system, but it still won't generate anything at night.

  • ‘Right to Repair for Your Body’: The Rise of DIY, Pirated Medicine
  • Hey guys, many other countries have figured out that healthcare doesn't have to be a privatized, for-profit nightmare. Perhaps that's an option worth exploring.

  • This Week in Self-Hosted (30 August 2024)
  • The asterism gives me big Splinter Cell vibes and I'm definitely OK with that.

  • Meet the hereditary chief who Amnesty International calls Canada’s first prisoner of conscience
  • I think the context is more that this is first person Amnesty International has named as such, not the first person who could be considered more generally a prisoner of conscience.

    The OP article seems to confuse this. The source article from Amnesty is more clear.

  • Heritage-Series Grandeur - Hyundai Worldwide
  • It looks like this is the same car, they note it's badged as the Grandeur in other markets.

    I'm a fan of the look of newer Hyundai models. The Ioniqs and this definitely move the brand away from the foreign budget brand they've been traditionally known as.

  • Poilievre asks Singh to pull support for Liberal government to prompt fall election
  • Definitely an effective way to make a political ally.

    However, it's possibly intended to be that way. Now he can tell his base that he asked the NDP to join him and they refused.

  • Network loss after 24hrs on Docker LXC

    Fine folks of c/selfhosted, I've got a Docker LXC (Debian) running in Proxmox that loses its local network connection 24 hours after boot. It's remedied with a LXC restart. I am still able to access the console through Proxmox when this happens, but all running services (docker ps still says they're running) are inaccessible on the network. Any recommendations for an inexperienced selfhoster like myself to keep this thing up for more than 24 hours?

    Tried:

    • Pruning everything from Docker in case it was a remnant of an old container or something.
    • Confirming network config on the router wasn't breaking anything.
    • Checked there were no cron tasks doing funky things.

    I did have a Watchtower container running on it recently, but have since removed it. It being a 24 hr thing got me thinking that was the only thing that would really cause an event at the 24 hr post start mark, and it started about that same time I removed Watchtower (intending to do manual updates because immich).

    ...and of course, any fix needs 24 hours to confirm it actually worked.

    A forum post I found asked for the output of ip a and ip r, see below. Notable difference on ip r missing the link to the gateway after disconnecting.

    Update: started going through journalctl and found the below abnormal entries when it loses connection, now investigating to see if I can find out why...

    Apr 16 14:09:16 docker 922abd47b5c5[376]: [msg] Nameserver 1.1.1.1:53 has failed: request timed out. Apr 16 14:09:16 docker 922abd47b5c5[376]: [msg] Nameserver 192.168.1.5:53 has failed: request timed out. Apr 16 14:09:16 docker 922abd47b5c5[376]: [msg] All nameservers have failed

    Update 2: I found using systemctl status networking.service that networking.service was in a failed state (Active: failed (Result: exit-code)). I also compared to a separate stable Docker LXC which showed networking.service was active, so, did some searching to remedy that.

    ``` x networking.service - Raise network interfaces Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/networking.service; enabled; preset: enabled) Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Tue 2024-04-16 17:17:41 CST; 8min ago Docs: man:interfaces(5) Process: 20892 ExecStart=/sbin/ifup -a --read-environment (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE) Process: 21124 ExecStopPost=/usr/bin/touch /run/network/restart-hotplug (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS) Main PID: 20892 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE) CPU: 297ms

    Apr 16 17:17:34 docker dhclient[20901]: DHCPACK of 192.168.1.104 from 192.168.1.1 Apr 16 17:17:34 docker ifup[20901]: DHCPACK of 192.168.1.104 from 192.168.1.1 Apr 16 17:17:34 docker ifup[20910]: RTNETLINK answers: File exists Apr 16 17:17:34 docker dhclient[20901]: bound to 192.168.1.104 -- renewal in 37359 seconds. Apr 16 17:17:34 docker ifup[20901]: bound to 192.168.1.104 -- renewal in 37359 seconds. Apr 16 17:17:41 docker ifup[20966]: Could not get a link-local address Apr 16 17:17:41 docker ifup[20892]: ifup: failed to bring up eth0 Apr 16 17:17:41 docker systemd[1]: networking.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE Apr 16 17:17:41 docker systemd[1]: networking.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'. Apr 16 17:17:41 docker systemd[1]: Failed to start networking.service - Raise network interfaces. ```

    A reinstall of net-tools and ifupdown seems to have brought networking.service back up. apt-get install --reinstall net-tools ifupdown

    Looking at the systemctl status return, I bet everything was fine until dhclient/ifup requested renewal about 24 hours after initial connection (boot), found that networking.service was down, and couldn't renew, killing the network connection.

    We'll see if it's actually fixed in 24 hours or so, but hopefully this little endeavour can help someone else plagued with this issue in the future. I'm still not sure exactly what caused it. I'll confirm tomorrow...

    Update 3 - Looks like that was the culprit. Container is still connected 24+ hrs since reboot, network.service is still active, and dhclient was able to renew.

    Update 4 - All was well and good until I started playing with setting up Traefik. Not sure if this brought it to the surface or if it just happened coincidentally, but networking.service failed again. Tried restarting the service, but it failed. Took a look in /etc/networking/interfaces and found there was an entry for iface eth0 inet6 dhcp and I don't use ipv6. Removed that line and networking.service restarted successfully. Perhaps that was the issue the whole time.

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    Proton Drive Camera Backup has Arrived!
    proton.me How to enable photo backup | Proton

    We explain how you can enable photo backup so that Proton Drive automatically backs up all your photos from your smartphone.

    How to enable photo backup | Proton

    This has been one of the key features I've been waiting for to finally be able to move away from Google Photos and OneDrive for mobile photos backup.

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    Proton Drive Camera Backup has Arrived!
    proton.me How to enable photo backup | Proton

    We explain how you can enable photo backup so that Proton Drive automatically backs up all your photos from your smartphone.

    How to enable photo backup | Proton

    This has been one of the key features I've been waiting for to finally be able to move away from Google Photos and OneDrive.

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    Proton Drive Camera Backup has Arrived!
    proton.me How to enable photo backup | Proton

    We explain how you can enable photo backup so that Proton Drive automatically backs up all your photos from your smartphone.

    How to enable photo backup | Proton

    This has been one of the key features I've been waiting for to finally be able to move away from OneDrive.

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    Old PC Homelab Motherboard Replacement Considerations?

    I'm fairly green at self-hosting, recently upgraded to running Proxmox on an old PC from OMV. A fairly simple setup for Plex, Nextcloud, PiHole, and some docker containers. I have an old Ryzen 5 2600 I'd like to replace the current CPU with (an even older FX-8350), but I'll need a new motherboard with an AM4 socket.

    In sourcing a new mobo, are there any features or other considerations I should keep in mind, given its sole purpose of being a server now, rather than a general purpose PC? Or just try to find something relatively inexpensive that'll get the job done?

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    Another patio sectional, fresh out of the shop.

    Just made this sectional following the plans from Ana White.

    Roughly $900 CAD in materials, $750 of that being the cushions. I used Duvholmen cushions with Jarpon covers from Ikea, accent pillows I found at Home Sense. All 2x4 lumber and I used pocket holes where screws would be visible. Finished with Ready Seal natural cedar.

    Quite happy with it overall. It's really comfortable and will last far longer than (and was cheaper than) those plastic weave ones from big box stores.

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    OminousOrange OminousOrange @lemmy.ca
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