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  • Expensive is digging out foundations to put in weeping tile and a sump.

    I swear, you could have a house on top of the biggest rock in the Atacama Desert, and water would still find a way to get into the basement.

  • Proxmox server monitoring
  • I use the HACS integration in Home Assistant. Then I can build automation based on events to notify, restart VMs, etc.

  • Medical freedom vs. public health: Should fluoride be in our drinking water?
  • Mercury is naturally occurring in water as well. That's not really a guide to go by.

  • Fatherly hazing
  • Never really see those around here anymore. I have a few in old tractors, but most of them have been lost by now and replaced with box end wrenches of single sizes.

  • Venezuela loses its last glacier as it shrinks down to an ice field
  • Most of Venezeula's interior is rainforest, so probably very little.

  • Fallout series was pretty good ngl
  • I just watched the first season of Fallout; I've never played the game but still found the series to be pretty enjoyable. Now that I figured out the first panel is some later Star Wars bullshit, I'll stay ignorant, I've heard nothing good about the prequels.

  • What Calendar and To Do solution do you recommend?
  • The AIO container is pretty effortless to run.

    https://hub.docker.com/r/nextcloud/all-in-one#!

  • Brassica
  • Don't forget canola.

  • Linkedin
  • Thanks for listening to my TedX talk, which I paid to present.

  • Fallout series was pretty good ngl
  • I'm out of the loop; I couldn't begin to figure out who the first set were.

  • Windows is hell, i need to do something
  • Nobara has a lot of fixes in it that are made for video editing and graphics, particularly davinci and blender. It's quite cutting edge on it's packages (despite being based on Fedora 39 it has Plasma 6 for last few weeks). but otherwise quite stable to use. All non-free package repos are enabled. Overall, it's been a low-maintenance, high productivity environment for me.

  • What is your little slice of the internet that you own/maintain?
  • railroad crossing signal enthusiasts

    And I thought some of my interests like amateur radio and telemetry were niche...

  • Proton Mail Discloses User Data Leading to Arrest in Spain
  • "Nobody's going to jail for you" is pretty much the way to think about any cloud privacy service. They may not keep logs unless they're required to, but in the end, they will comply to stay in business.

  • Fatherly hazing
  • Is that an Allan key? I've never seen them marked anything other than a single number, in SAE or metric.

  • The cultured wars: Why lab-grown meat is inspiring bipartisan hate
  • Wow, compelling argument.

  • The cultured wars: Why lab-grown meat is inspiring bipartisan hate
  • The same people losing their minds over GMO crops are embracing labgrown meat. Why would you trust this? It's the ultimate processed food.

  • Another Gluetun appreciation post
  • I'm not sure how well docker-in-docker would work via portainer. Maybe it does, I've not tried it.

    I would just do it from a folder you set up yourself and drop the docker-compose.yml in it, and go. If you want to share your dockercompose I can see if I notice a problem. I remember having to get over a couple issues at the time, but it's been a while and can't remember them offhand.

    I think NC is worth setting up, but YMMV.

  • Blinken blames social media for disrupting Israel’s narrative of war in Gaza
  • More importantly, showing the atrocities.

  • 4000ac solar farm in Texas devastated by hailstorm
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    Looks expensive. The grey ones are the broken ones.

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    Vernor Vinge, 1944-2024
    file770.com Vernor Vinge (1944-2024) - File 770

    Vernor Vinge, author of many influential hard science fiction works, died March 20 at the age of 79. Vinge sold his first science-fiction story in 1964, "Apartness", which appeared in the June 1965 issue of New Worlds. In 1971, he received a PhD (Math) from UCSD, and the next year began teaching at ...

    Thank you for the great work, Vernor. You'll be missed.

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    Do I need a separate HA Cloud subscription for the cabin?

    We have our house and a cabin. While I guess I could make an area for the cabin, it has it's own areas that I'd like to manage separately (and copy automations directly).

    I have purchased a HA Cloud sub but I don't seem to be able to get the cabin to connect to Cloud.

    Do I need a separate sub for the cabin at full price? This seems a little over the top, not to mention clunky to manage with different Nabu Casa logins.

    Or am I just going about this wrong? If anyone else manages two properties and integrates it nicely, I'd love to hear your solutions. I'm mainly subbing to Cloud because of the better TTS and STT response. Maybe I just invest in a skookum whisper/piper box instead?

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    VS Code in Home Assistant: any use for this outside of editing yaml files?

    I don't see that there's any sort of integration for writing code to process information from HA entities like Node Red + Companion. Am I missing something and this is more than just an interface for the config files and maybe a git client for those config files?

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    Anyone seen or built an alternative to the M5Stack Atom Echo for HA voice pipeline?

    These things aren't bad, I've got a few that I use sort of successfully, but the speaker and mic aren't very powerful. I was thinking of building one with an ESP32 and i2S (not i2c, that threw me off too) speaker/mic, but I'm wondering if I'd be reinventing the wheel here if there's a better alternative already out there.

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    Used laptop for gamer kid: suggestions?

    Got a young guy that needs a reasonable used laptop, in the $2-300 range. Looking for smooth but not spectacular graphics, and a 15" screen or better. Preferably with 2 drive slots so he can have an NVME or other SSD for the OS and a large rust drive for installing games. It's going to be plugged in when used, and weight isn't a great concern, it's just for travelling with.

    Any suggestions on what to look for on eBay?

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    Linux 101 stuff. Questions are encouraged, noobs are welcome! @lemmy.world ikidd @lemmy.world
    Need help with `most`.

    If I pipe in something to most that's wider than my terminal width, it'll page it sideways but only single character at a time with an arrow key. I want most to behave like less, which will scroll sideways with an arrow key almost a full page (60 columns I believe), which most will do also if I use Tab/Ctrl-B or ">" and "<" (as gleaned from the man page). But I have no use for single character scrolling, so I'd like arrows to do the same as Tab and <>.

    Is there a way to change the default behaviour of most to the same horizontal scrolling behaviour as less? I would just use less except it displays the first page of a command like docker ps with lines wrapped for some reason (maybe this is some limitation in Dolphin?). If I scroll right the other columns show up right, but for some reason less and more both mess up the first page. No clue why most works correctly. Frankly, if I could fix less I'd be happier since my muscle memory makes me want to pipe to less all the time anyway, and it's installed by default in most distros I use, unlike most.

    Also, trying to search up help on anything with a name like "most" is next to impossible.

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    I'm blown away by Piped. I want to thank the devs for a great job.

    I did send a donation, but I want to make sure the people involved know I appreciates them.

    I set up an instance and have been using it along with a couple friends. It's fast, private and doesn't have a bunch of algo bullshit wasting our time. I have my subs and I watch them, and then I go and touch grass because I'm not sitting there watching trash that is being pushed at me on the feed.

    It's like a breath of fresh air.

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    Science Fiction titles from Banned Books Week Spotlight List: The Handmaids Tale by Margaret Atwood

    cross-posted from: https://literature.cafe/post/2164461

    I have been keeping an eye on this series over in !BannedBooks@literature.cafe and was intending to link the discussions for SF titles that I saw. The Handmaid's Tale is definitely an SF title that has seen it's share of fans and detractors. It has been banned or attempted to be banned in many jurisdictions including Western ones.

    What is the communities thoughts on this book, does it unfairly extend Christian philosophy into questionable territory or does it not go far enough? Is it pornography, and if so, why? Let's hear your thoughts.

    Bonus video: Margaret Atwood using a flamethrower on the unburnable edition of the book.

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    Sci-fi books are rare in school even though they help kids better understand science
    theconversation.com Sci-fi books are rare in school even though they help kids better understand science

    Despite their scarcity, science fiction books are highly sought after by elementary school students.

    Sci-fi books are rare in school even though they help kids better understand science

    I got interested in SF because the librarian in my elementary was a SF lover. There were racks of paperbacks that I gobbled up and it's stuck with me for decades since. It makes me sad to think that kids don't have the same chance I did to get interested at an early age in the most imaginative genre of fiction. We all need to do our part to pass it on.

    What are your suggestions for getting young people interested in science fiction?

    A few I remember from that time:

    Edgar Rice Burroughs Barsoom series

    Heinlein's juveniles like Podkayne of Mars and Have Spacesuit, Will Travel

    McCaffery's Dragonriders of Pern

    Niven's Known Space books

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    When is the ability to server block coming?

    Because having to block 2 fanaticus communities every time a game is finished because there's a post in the winning and losing teams community is rapidly getting old, and I have no idea how many teams of how many different sports exist on that server, but it seems like a hell of a lot.

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    How do I restrict the All feed to my language?

    Having set up a couple of communities, there is a setting for language. Are these items showing up in my feed because the community has not set their language, or is something going on with language filtering on All? It seems like there's way more off-language things coming through on All in the last day or two.

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    Public Freakout @lemmy.world ikidd @lemmy.world
    Trump's coming baaaaaaaaaaack!
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    So why is .ml TLD going back to Mali taking everyone by surprise?

    Was there some sort of assurance that nothing was going to happen when the contract expired, and this expectation was changed? Freenom hasn't been registering domains since Jan 1.

    It's seeming a little odd to me that this is catching people with their pants down.

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    UPS makes 6X as much as tax paid to punt an envelope over the border.

    With the shipping they charge, it's almost 50% extra on the cost of the order. In comparison, I shipped US$9500 of solar batteries across the border last month and paid $170 to a reputable broker that actually had to do some work.

    What unmitigated scumbags.

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    Jim Salter (/u/mercenary_sysadmin) has opened a Discourse server for ZFS
    discourse.practicalzfs.com Practical ZFS

    A home for OpenZFS news, education, and discussion

    Practical ZFS

    There are also other subforums for Proxmox and TrueNAS there.

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    New ZFS meeting spot; if you can't get help here, go where Salter is!
    discourse.practicalzfs.com Practical ZFS

    A home for OpenZFS news, education, and discussion

    Practical ZFS

    There is also a Proxmox subforum since there is quite a lot of overlap between the two.

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    ikidd ikidd @lemmy.world

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