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Honestly, I’m not sure. Part of me wishes I never existed. There have been so many nights I’ve wished to never wake up. Other times, when my anxiety causes chest pains (right side), I wish it were in the left (heart attack). But then there are times when I see my boys working together to solve a video game problem (I grew up abused by my brother because he thought “that’s what brothers did”), or they make a casual comment about how much they want to do something with me (spend my birthday with me and take me to dinner, on their mom’s week), and I couldn’t be happier to be alive, and I wish I could just be happy because they are all I need.

~I’m sorry, I’m just so very tired.~

I currently use a Reyee Whole Home Mesh WiFi System, AX3200, and a 3 TB AirPort Extreme that I use for file sharing (mostly Jellyfin right now).

The router works fine, but it lacks an actual firewall. It lets me block all traffic from any device, but that also includes LAN traffic.

The AirPort Extreme is outdated and only supports SMBv1 file sharing. This means that I am limited to Buster for my RPI if I want to mount my Apple drive.

I will, of course, do my research too, but I am hoping you all can help guide my search and help me answer questions I don’t know to ask.

For a router, I want the following features:

• Multiple WiFi networks (e.g., home network, guest network, and an IOT network)
• Gigabit LAN networking (or higher) as I’m using Cat6 for my hard-wired devices
• List all connected/configured clients, and even be able to rename them (most IOT devices default to some generic common name like AiDot)
• Ability to easily assign static IPs to devices
• WAN Firewall, while allowing LAN traffic (i.e. allow HomeKit enabled devices to work locally, but not call home to some shady server); bonus points if there is port-specific blocking.
• Device traffic logging (optional)
• Supports mesh networking

For my RPI NAS, I want to utilize NVMe m.2 drives, and was looking to use the NVMe Base Duo from Pimoroni. But I’m not sure which NVMe modules would be best. I was considering a small system drive (250GB or less), and one large drive (4TB) for the network storage part. I don’t want the cheapest (i.e. generic) drives, but I’d also like to avoid spending several hundred dollars if possible.

One question I have is if I could still use the microsd card for the system and maybe double up on two large drives for file sharing? Reading the docs does not answer this question for me.

If I can run both the microsd as a system drive, and the NVMe as a secondary drive, I’d probably prefer the singular NVMe Base instead. My main goal is to maximize throughput for file sharing.

Thank you in advance!

Why YSK?

Because a lot of older games require immediate response from the controller (think jumping over pits).

Each TV is different, and may or may not have a game mode. For the longest time, I thought my lag was because of my Raspberry PI (model 4, 4gb). Turns out that turning on the game mode/game optimizer was all I needed. I also added a link to a post that has suggestions for Retroarch changes that can decrease input lag. Relavant content from post:

1. Set max swapchain to as low as possible, I think 1 and 2 run pretty similarly.
2. Turn on hard gpu sync and set it to 0
3. Set frame delay as high as you can go before you get stuttering. On the pi 1, I can go to about 8 with NES core and 4 with SNES. On Pi 3 you can probably go higher, but systems with higher graphics like N64 and PSX won't let you go as high before you run into problems.

And:

(when asked where the settings are) You need to access the retroarch rgui menu while you are in a game. You can do this by pressing X button and select at the same time. Once you get to the rgui menu, you want to click on settings, then video.

Re: https://lemmy.world/post/30867044

John Morales, the actor who played the crime-fighting cartoon character McGruff the Crime Dog, was sentenced to 16 years in prison stemming from a 2011 arrest in which police seized 1,000 marijuana plants, 27 weapons – including a grenade launcher – and 9,000 rounds of ammunition from his home.

While my son played one season of T-ball five years ago, I still consider this his first season playing baseball. In fact, a lot of the players on his team have never played before.

They did manage to make it into the second round (out of three) of the end of season tournament. This is where my son made his first big play. He was playing short stop, and the kid at bat hit a pop fly that my son managed to catch.

He was so thrilled, and shocked, by the catch that he proudly stood there with both hands in the air. Unfortunately there were people on base, and he forgot to throw the ball back infield, but all of the parents agree that it was okay given how awesome the catch was.

I jumped up so fast, and was screaming/cheering so hard, that I literally fainted (i.e. got dizzy and lost the ability to stand). I couldn’t be more proud of him.

For anyone who doesn’t know, a clock movement is the mechanism that causes the hands of an analog clock to move around the clock face. The “with pendulum” part means that it also swings a weight back and forth to act as a fancy second hand:

Now, there exist clock movements that are “smart” and are network enabled to adjust the time automatically. I’m also okay with an atomic movement. The idea is to adjust the clock twice a year for DST. However, I am having a difficult time (no pun intended) finding a smart/atomic movement that also supports a decorative pendulum.

I was hoping to enlist y’all’s help to see if one exists and where I might find it.

Edit: add comments about atomic clock movements.

In older versions of Debian I used to be able to pass sec=ntlm,vers=1.0 as options to mount.cifs (and fstab) and it would allow me to mount my shared disk from my AirPort Extreme.

In Bookworm, due to the bundled kernel version, I am now told ntlm is a bad security option. If I try to use ntlmssp, I am told Unable to select appropriate authentication method!. If I use ntlmv2 or remove the sec option, I get Status code returned 0xc000006d NT_STATUS_LOGON_FAILURE.

Funny thing is, if I use smbclient, I can browse my shared drive just fine.

Using a newer version of Samba protocol is not an option since Apple gave up on their products just like Linux gave up on ntlm.

Aside of throwing everything out the window, what can I do to get this working on Bookworm?

Edit: I gave up. Because the maintainers of the kernel decided to remove ntlm support, the only option I had was to downgrade to buster, as it was the last distro to use a pre-6 kernel. Suffice it to say, I'm very disappointed; both in Apple for abandoning their Airport's to use SMBv1, and the kernel devs for further eroding Airport support by removing ntlm. Yes, I get ntlm "bad" (both from an FOSS and security standpoint), but it's still disappointing to be punished simply because I do not wish to litter the landfill with still useful hardware (nor do I wish to spend more money on something I shouldn't need). Anyway, /rant over.

I’m watching S7E20 right now and the entire scene before the Defiant undocked from DS9 had that cinematic vibe you only get from a bonafide Hollywood movie.

Hi Lemmings!

I have a 3.5 yo Pit Bull Terrier/Mini Pinscher mixed breed that is always anxious and scared of her own shadow.

For the past year she has lived with me in my new home, which unfortunately backs up to a landscaping supply company that operates machinery that makes a lot of noise during the day, and also is on a fairly busy road that sees a lot of traffic (and people with horrible muffler systems that would wake the dead).

When she first came to my new house she would have accidents, which is understandable. She eventually got comfortable enough with going out back to use the bathroom, and would let me know that she needed to go. In fact, if I do t respond within a minute of her sitting at the back door, she will bark so I notice her. I love it. I couldn’t be prouder.

But, during the day especially, when she goes outside she gets scared by the landscaping supplier noises, cars backfiring/diesel trucks, or neighboring dogs barking, and will immediately turn back to come inside. I have to then go out with her and command her to “go potty”. And even then, she will often try to fake like she peed, or she will flee mid poop and run back to the door. During the evenings, she’s not as scared, and is even adventurous with exploring the back yard.

She is even scared of most of the house itself: something about the kitchen terrifies her, which sucks because to get from the living room to the rest of the house she has to go through the kitchen. And the only places she really feels comfortable are in the bedrooms.

Lately she seems to have regressed with the household accidents; mostly if I leave her unattended for any length of time; e.g. grocery shopping, dropping off or picking up my kids from somewhere, etc. if I crate her when I leave, she’s fine. However, she is not comfortable in her crate — she slinks all the way to the back of the crate, and curls up into the tightest ball she can and trembles the entire time.

She is difficult to train. It originally took 2 years to get her house broken, and in that time she’s only learned sit and lie down. I have hired a dog trainer, and have tried PetSmart training for the social aspect. Both instances were lackluster. She is not food motivated like other dogs. Or, at least maybe I just haven’t found the right food to motivate her with.

I am starting to feel overwhelmed by her accidents and inability to focus through her fear; I’ve even lost my temper a few times and yelled at her for it. I understand that does not help her situation, and I do not want to give up on her (or me). At least not if there are still things I can try to help build her confidence.

With all of that said, my question is for any advice that I can use to help build her confidence, break through her ~~fight-or-~~flight reactions, and get her feeling safe in her own home.