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[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 6 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Americans had "unity" after 9/11

Uh, no we didn't. Source: am American, lived through that period.

Yes we had a brief period of unity (and solidarity with NYC) following 9/11, but as soon as the American War Machine woke up, my country was intensely divided.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 11 points 1 day ago

When the son of the deposed King of Nigeria emails you directly asking for help, you help. His father ran the freaking country, okay?

I used Photoprism years ago, so my knowledge is probably pretty outdated.

My experience of Photoprism was that mobile was not tightly integrated. At the time I used Syncthing to sync photos


it worked ok for me, but I wasn't going to set it up on my partner's phone, for example.

Immich Just Works on both mobile and desktop. Multi user is great, sharing is great, and the local ML and face detection work remarkably well.

Whatever works for you is the best of course! Immich fits the bill for me, and it was very much worth it for me to "buy" it.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 3 points 4 days ago

That's how I start my refried beans. After pressure cooker add oil (lots...), salt, and a little vinegar. Sauteed onions, cumin, chili powder also good.

I think it's way better than any vegetarian refried beans that you get in a can. Probably because they have more salt and oil...

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 0 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (4 children)

Flagship Nvidia is around $10k. Easy to spend at least another $5k on the rest of the computer+setup (monitors, peripherasls...).

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 8 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Alt text from memory: #4: Boston

Edit: it's actually Prank #11: Boston. I was close.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 90 points 6 days ago (5 children)

There's a joke about whitespace here somewhere, I just know it.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 4 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

xscreensaver of course! Note that this is not an option on Windows---jwz hates Microsoft, and any xscreensaver port to Windows is against his wishes.

I use yabai and sketchybar for a tiling WM feel. It's nowhere as nice as my preferred i3, but it's ok. Unfortunately it often breaks with major OS updates, so I'm sure to hold back updating my system until yabai is working.

IIRC sshfs will work on macOS but it's more work to install. Worth it if allowed by your IT policies and your work can benefit from it.

Vim, tmux, and the usual *NIX stuff you might want.

The coreutils are not the GNU coreutils you typically find on a Linux system, so you may find a few differences. I believe sed is slightly different, and the flags for ls must be before the filename arguments, but I've found it's mostly silly stuff like that (I used zsh before using macOS, so no problem there).

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 2 points 6 days ago

Regarding DNS servers, what router do you have? Some routers have simple enough DNS capabilities


I have a MikroTik, and have it set up with DNS entries for internal services (including wildcard). Publicly accessible services just use my registrar's DNS (namecheap


no complaints).

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Oracle Free tier, amd64. Only use it because it's free---limited bandwidth, but given I have slow upload at home it's never really been a bottleneck. Hate to admit it given it's Oracle, but I've been completely happy with it.

If I switch to a paid VPS I will probably go with racknerd (suggestions welcome though if you have thoughts).

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

filtered coffee has had much more time to steep in all the caffeine

True, but I think it's more complicated than that. Filtered coffee is typically a coarse grind, espresso is fine---and fine grind has a larger surface area to volume ratio, which helps with extraction.

I have also heard that caffeine leaches out fairly quickly, so it gets to be diminishing returns pretty quickly.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 11 points 1 week ago

Especially after adding in all the power draw of the automation requires...

What exactly is the incremental power draw for automation? My network gear and server (a little nuc) are sunk power costs as I self host other services.

Idling, my home uses around 100W with the fridge off. One 10W light is an additional 10% of my power budget, and I have a lot more than one light in my house. I also pay about $0.40/kWh.

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