StrawberryPigtails @ StrawberryPigtails @lemmy.sdf.org

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A 3.5 inch floppy disk

Might take a look at the instance I’m on. Lemmy.sdf.org. It’s pretty chill, and SDF has been doing the social media thing since the 80’s without much issue. Started as a dial up BBS devoted to anime back in the day. Leans anime, music/art generally and computers. Supported via donations.

No, that's the responsibility of the NSA or whatever their equivalent in other countries is.

If you have any opinions on what’s decent from the Mini PC side of things, or where you’d trust to ask, I’m all ears as have never really looked into any before.

I couldn't say. I don't have much use for them. You can't cram enough storage in them for my needs. I can say that, until recently, I didn't often see them available used. There could be any number of reasons for that though. I have heard though that the Beelink NUCs are a bit hit or miss and often die from internal heat, but don't know personally.

Might want to ask in !minipcs@sh.itjust.works or !minipcs@lemmy.world . If you can't get a reply there, you could also try the Linux Unplugged or Self Hosted matrix channels here. They are generally pretty active during the (US) day.

You might try searxng, though due to the way federation works, that's not really necessary. All you need to do is search one of the more federated instances like lemmy.world or lemmy.ml or lemmy.sdf.org and you will pull up anything that server has seen related to your search. User blocks aren't really an issue, since you don't need to be logged in. The only time searching multiple instances would be helpful is if you know the post originally might have come from an instance that doesn't widely federate or is heavily blocked from federation.

Also I've seen quite a few folks from lemmy.ca so you might try your instance's own search. It will usually search federated content as well as local content.

The main issue though is like @CameronDev@programming.dev suggested. Lemmy is young, it doesn't have nearly 20 years of back archives that you can search nor the huge user base that Reddit had to create such a rich back archive. It's getting there, but it is a problem only time and usage of Lemmy will solve.

As for the best Lemmy app, You might give Voyager a go. I use it on iOS and have been quite happy with it.

I use SearcXNG. It can use Google on the backend, but in default configuration it uses several different backends. It can also use paid backends if you set it up. Basically if it has a search api, SearXNG can hook into it with the right configuration.

Sounds like a solid plan.

Unless you already have a RPi available for use, I would consider basing around x86 hardware. Nothing wrong with the Raspberry Pi's, it's just if you need to buy hardware, there's much more powerful computers available for similar price points. Won't be as simple or straightforward nor as energy efficient, but if you start adding additional services, you'll be glad for the extra RAM and processor performance that is available.

Might try Trakt. It does a pretty good job of finding things I want to watch.

“I don’t mind sending them some money, but unless they show that they’re gonna change their ways and get back to building dams and stormwater, doing the maintenance with the brush and the trees – everything that everybody else does in the country, and they refuse to do it – they don’t deserve anything, to be honest with you, unless they show us they’re gonna make some changes,” he said.

Sen. Tubby Tantrum is a damned moron, but I actually somewhat agree with him on this one. Seems like every year I hear about ever more destructive wild fires in California. Some of that I can attribute to climate change, sure, but there is almost certainly more than that causing them at this point. Does California not do controlled burns any more?

“Meta has us in a chokehold. They make money off our presence in order to continue to be in business and yet it’s too difficult for people to leave,” Makichen wrote.

Difficult? How? I'm pretty sure I still have an account on Facebook from it's early days, but I haven't logged in to it in more than a decade. Friends and family can reach me in other ways, like email or better yet a phone call.

Thank you!

Thank you! That got me there!

Go to bed early if possible. Coffee if I can't and then try to stay away from other humans till I can be less of an asshole.

If I'm shifting my schedule, I'll try and aim for 9 -10 hours in bed until my body adapts, then it's back to the 6 to 7 I usually get.

My personal website is just a static website, built using Hugo and served using Caddy. Originally it was hosted on a Digital Ocean VPS but now it’s hosted from my home.

My needs were simple enough that even that much is probably overkill though. Honestly I just wanted something that I could understand completely how it works and be able to update it easily as life went on.

Depend on what I'm doing and where I am. At work, I'm usually using my iPad more than anything and note taking is usually work related. For that I use an app called GoodNotes (basically a PDF annotator. Think pen and paper, but digital.). If I'm at home, I usually type the notes into a markdown file using a text editor. Todo lists and shopping lists are usually done in Reminders on my iPhone.

I took apart a broken Ryobi leaf blower (RY40402) to see if it would be cheaper to fix it rather than buy a new one. Easier to disassemble than I was expecting. At least until I got to the actual problem, the burned out motor. The motor was fused to the housing assembly, requiring the replacement of the housing assembly, motor, and blower fan. In the end it would cost the same to replace the leaf blower with a newer, more powerful version as to repair the broken one.

It’s a classified military installation. Those that know for sure don’t talk and those that are talking are probably talking out their ass.

It is known that it has historically been used as a test and research location for highly experimental stealth aircraft. They probably do EM sensitive research and testing there now, but I suspect that the really interesting stuff is happening elsewhere due to how well known and watched it has become. It’s probably more of a decoy than anything else at this point.

Long ago, I remember hearing rumors about a more secretive base a bit west of Groom Lake and south of the Cheyenne Mountain complex. If true, that’s probably where the really secret stuff is happening now. No clue what happens there.

I know your pain. I had the same problem in 2013.

Everyone said it was a horrible time to buy a house, "The rates/prices are too high, wait a bit" but I also couldn't afford to get an apartment that wasn't a roach motel for less than $1k per month, so I bought a house anyways. Now I'm laughing with my $750 USD mortgage while the idiots who kept telling me it was a horrid time to buy a house are bitching about their apartment leases that keep going up each year and paying out 1.5k to 2k per month in rent.

Renting really only makes sense if you know you are going to be moving a good distance frequently over the next several years. If you have a steady job you are planning on staying at for a while, better to buy. You can always rent it out if life changes your plans for you.

Set a time frame by which you want to move in, and a budget roughly 2 times but not more than 4 times your annual gross income and see what you can find for that in that time frame.

When my wife and I bought our house I was making roughly $50k a year, so we were looking at the $100k-$150k price point but wound up finding our home at $90K. Not a palace by any stretch and it needed a new roof, but it's been a great house. Basing our budget off just my income and aiming for the lower side of 2-4x income has allowed us to stay in our home even when me or my wife was out of work for a bit.

Look and see if there are any programs for first time home buyers in your area also. I forget exactly what program we qualified for but we were able to get our mortgage for $0 down at the added expense of mortgage insurance. It cost me more per month (and over all) than it would have if I had had the traditional 20% down but TANSTAFL.

Make sure you get a fixed rate mortgage though and not an adjustable rate one. I've a sneaking suspicion that rates may wind up going back up in a few years and such a roller coaster has cost more than one person I know their home.

I've been diving into Fallout lately. Love the world building. Definitely wouldn't mind a 5th installment. May wait a few years after they release it for them to fix the worst of the bugs before playing it though. Bethesda may make great games, but damn they a buggy mess.

My servers (an old desktop overstuffed with drives and an old dell laptop), networking gear and a 50 gal aquarium all run on the same outlet. As long as the aquarium heater is off, the outlet pulls about 200 watts. The aquarium heater spikes that to 400 watts when it kicks in.