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  • I like to separate them. But that’s mostly for the ability to scale my wifi network. I can place an AP on the main floor and in the basement on opposite ends of the house. Faster speeds 5ghz and 6ghz work better close by. Then later if I want, I can put one in the garage for a better connection so I can watch diy youtube videos walking me step by step through how to fix my car. That bolt might not be coming out and I’m pissed, but at least the video isn’t buffering and fueling the fire.

    But if you go AP, I highly recommend a set that supports one ssid that will auto handoff from one to the other. Some extenders and mesh solutions each have their own ssid and don’t work together. I find them annoying.


  • I have had several firetvs which I really can’t recommend anymore. I don’t mind roku with jellyfin client and an adblocker like pihole except the garbage “daily trivia” options that pop up on the sidebar that you have to hide once a week is annoying. Currently use an Nvidia shield with a custom launcher isn’t a terrible experience, except for the fact that I have to reboot it all the time because it’s glitchy as shit and it was overpriced.

    I’m tempted to next try the NUC with that fancy KDE big picture mode I saw get a facelift recently.

    Oh, and tried one of those virus ridden chineese android boxes. Also do not recommend.


    • Tech company gets acquired by massive company for a ridiculous sum of money
    • Site never really generated much revenue
    • Parent company demands cuts
    • lays off workers, ahem sorry, removes redundant positions
    • re-org
    • gets rid of physical assets by moving to the cloud claiming savings despite it almost always being more expensive and worse than running your own.
    • lay off more employees claiming move to the cloud behind schedule and over budget
    • blame the economy
    • probably something with AI
    • hire a more ‘global workforce’
    • re-org
    • RTO mandate to make the highest paid employees leave after they trained their replacements overseas
    • voluntary severance package
    • another round of layoffs
    • re-org
    • quarterly report showing highest profits in company history
    • worst compensation bumps in company history

  • Not every download client supports blocking filetypes. Here’s how I solved it:

    You can add cleanuperr to your *.arr stack. It will listen to your queues and if something gets stuck, like .arj files, it’ll remove them, blocklist them, and maybe re-search? I’m not sure.

    You can also change your settings in sonarr to not do any rss sync searches with your public indexers. This stops sonarr from seaching those indexers automatically for the next release. I’ve notices most of that garbage pops up before the official release, then gets drowned out by the real stuff after the release. If you leave the auto/interactive search enabled, you can just click the auto search button for the episode the day after it comes out. You likely won’t pick up any garbage this way.

    I wrote a script that spam reports these, and I run it when I’m feeling frustrated with a something, but nothing I’ve spam reported with the script has gotten taken down yet. So, that sucks too.




  • Home Assistant? Maybe a homepage like Heimdall or some other dashboard? Maybe Uptime Kuma to notify you when your services go down? Definately a pihole or adguard home. Biggest quality of life improvement. It’s the biggest thing my wife notices and approves of. She audibly groans in disgust when she leaves the LAN on her cellphone and sees all the ads and garbage that had previously been blocked. My pihole dashboard show 70% of the requests are blocked on my LAN. And everything works great.


  • I love the idea of this, but the article doesn’t mention the airplane slowing down at all. It has very little mass and a lot of drag. As it enters earths atmosphere, I’d think it would slow down as it entered the atmosphere really quickly and avoid getting burned up.

    They just mention the speed of the IIS and put the airplane in a wind tunnel to simulate reentry speeds and effects. I think further math needs to be done. Or to toss a bucketfull out of the IIS.



  • Yes you can cluster devices. I have a NAS in addition to the my laptop proxmox cluster. It lets me use the NAS as storage, so the VMs/lxc’s virtual disks are actually on the NAS. This allows me to make the VM/LXCs Highly Available. So if one laptop crashes it’ll automatically spin up the things running on that laptop on a different one. This can also be done with ceph, but I already had the NAS, so ceph seemed redundant.


  • yaroto98toSelfhosted@lemmy.worldHardware Suggestions For A Beginner?
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    12 days ago

    Either or both will likely work just fine depending on how broken the screen is. The virusy windows would be easiest (sometimes macbooks are harder to get everything working due to drivers, windows ones typically just work). But the virus will be removed when you install proxmox. I currently have 3 laptops in various degrees of old and broken being used as a proxmox cluster.


  • Do you have any old hardware lying around? Old gaming pc, or an old laptop? Doesn’t matter if it has a broken screen or keyboard or trackpad or can’t upgrade to win11. Maybe ask around if someone you knows has something similar.

    I’d start with that. Then save the money for an upgrade to the old hardware like adding some extra RAM and a big refurbed hdds.




  • Bought my house a few years back when pickings were slim. Managed to get one that wasn’t in an HOA and fit the needs of the family, but no fiber internet. I have cable with 1G/40mbps, and that upload speed bothers me. I do a lot of ofsite backups and I work from home. My upload bandwith is almost completely saturated 24/7.

    The local fiber company offers service one street over. I’ve called and begged and pleaded, but they won’t expand. Talked to the city, crickets, talked to competitors, nothing.

    I set up a playwright script that runs every day. It goes to their website, enters my address, gets the message that my address is a part of a future build, clicks on the register button, receives the message that they can’t build here due to reasons. And then texts me to tell me that there has been no change to their website.

    It keeps me from constantly checking and obsessing over something that’ll likely not happen for a good long while. I set up a ssh command to trigger the script in home assistant. So when I’m frustrated I can spam click it half a dozen times.

    I’m waiting to eacalate things. I’m an automation test engineer by trade. I’m proficient in load tests. I’m perfectly capable of breaking their website, but I have a feeling that won’t convince them to expand and finish servicing the neighborhood. I might safely crank up the # of requests, but if they aren’t noticing me now, they probably aren’t going to notice a 10-100x increase.


  • yaroto98toHacker News@lemmy.bestiver.seEverQuest
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    https://github.com/Akkadius/akk-stack

    there’s an easy docker container install on linux.

    Rules I tweaked:

    • 3x level xp
    • 3x skill level up probability
    • 10x health/mana/stamina regen
    • 200x health/mana/stamina regen out of combat (basically instant)
    • each char got max money and the best gear i could find for them in the game for their level

    I never did boxing, bit I’d run dungeons solo+merc. It was a lot of fun. I still died plenty, adds can be killer. But with just me on the entire server I needed all the help I could get.


  • yaroto98toHacker News@lemmy.bestiver.seEverQuest
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    15 days ago

    Did you know it’s still active? There are new expansions still dropping, you can play limited options for free, pay for everything, host your own server or play on others’.

    I’ve set up my own server for personal use and tweaked the server settings for fun.