Luccus

I once got myself a small projector. It ran on Android. I didn't want to connect it to my network. Unfortunately, an unsecured Wi-Fi hotspot would sometimes pop up nearby, which the damn thing would connect to in order to download ads and bother me with nonsense.

The workaround was to give it Wi-Fi, but block the internet connection in the router. The solution was to throw it away. Malicious little fuck.

I can't really fahom any use case where a typical home NAS would benefit from ECC memory. These things come with 1-8 GB of RAM and read and write files. At worst they transcode files.

How do I put this?

The chace that an error (that would otherwise be corrected by simple ECC DIMMs) will irretrievably destroy your files, is super duper low. Especially compared to human error or software bugs. And if your files are really that important, you need a proper backup anyway.

And if you have a proper backup, then even the most unlikely unfortunate chain of of-by-one errors shouldn't matter.

Like, get ECC, if you want. But… "useless"?

Also: I belive the Pi5 features some sort of on-die ECC.

Not really. But from a security perspective, giving software for a video game, done by InfinityWard, EA, Activision, Treyarch and similar, access to the lowest level of your operating systen is kinda insane.

I wouldn't want any personal data on such a device, let alone do online baking on that thing. It's weird how normalized it has become give entertainement-software this kind of power over your devices.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/ng-interactive/2025/aug/21/revealed-israeli-militarys-own-data-indicates-civilian-death-rate-of-83-in-gaza-war

The link for the people who'd like a bit more than just a headline.

Ba-where?

1l of (4°C) water weighs 1kg. 1kg (of anything) is 1000g. 1g of water is 1cm³. Stack 1000 1cm³ blocks to get a 10m high column. This column exerts 100kPa of pressure on its base. 1N would accelerate it by 1m/s every second. And to heat it by 1°C requires 1kcal.

Meanwhile if you convert feet to miles, you get 5,280, for some reason.

But how about a little mettigel?

Maid from ze Mett wizz ze Zwiebeln for spikes and ze little eyes made from ze Pfefferkörner.

Damn Europoors hating their (HR departments') freedoms.

Coffee grounds and similar organics must be decomposed before their nitrogen becomes available to the plants. This process requires an excess of nitrogen and will remove nitrogen from the system while decomposition takes place.

This is a common problem in bioactive systems and is easy to fix.

For now, give them a non-organic, nitrogen-rich fertilizer to fix the problem. And in the future, start the system with worm castings or similar organic fertilizers. Then you can add whatever organics you feel like over time.

Edit: also check your PH, like someone commented.

Thank you for your service 🫡

Weder Bokeh noch eine hübsche Farbpalette sind Garant für ein KI-Bild.

Ich hatte so ein Kommentar auch neulich unter einem Scheißepfosten von mir. Und obwohl es ein Scheißepfosten(!) war hat's mich minimal traurig gemacht, dass so ein Kommentar kam. Vorallem, weil ich beim fotografieren die Kamera vor leisem glucksen kaum still gehalten bekommen hab.