./ bind mount everything in your compose file because dockers volume storage is bloody annoying to backup. Then you can just back up the one folder with everything in it.
How many fucking years will we be out of KDE 4 before these yahoos figure that out?
Mom had abandoned it in a field and neighbor had ran a coyote pack off a few times that were going after it and had torn it up a bit. He finally took it home and patched it up. It would hang around the yard but he never really fed it or encouraged it to stay. But it loved people and stayed near.
I know people like to get on their high horse about this, but moose, like reindeer, have been domesticated in the past. And he wasn't even trying to do that, he just saved an animal and it hung around. So, yes, I agree that they don't make great pets, but this moose was going to die that night, and it lived a couple years longer for his efforts.
This guy gets injured in his own ohm and you want him to resist the urge to pun?
I have a newer 23 SEER pump now, and it's pretty terrible at that temperature. The draw is approaching resistive at -20 and beyond that, well, don't even bother. If I compare costs to running my backup furnace past -15 vs the electricity costs to force it to work at that temperature, I turn off the heat pump.
Yes, for about 90% of the work these pumps do, they are efficient and cost effective, as well as cooling in the summer. But this blue-sky thinking that they can replace NG heating in places like the Canadian Prairies is a pipe dream at this time.
Circulate a competing petition that calls for Telus to be broken up and the pieces sold to all the small ISPs. I'll sign that in a heartbeat, especially if there's a caveat that the board of directors also gets sodomized with a rusty I-beam.
The expense for ground source heat pumps, especially in the city, would be ridiculous.
Heat pumps are great, but under -15C, they're really, really inefficient. And Winnipeg is very often much colder than that.
Some people even do without a nanny! Could you imagine?
We had a neighbor that had a pet moose names Baby. They spray painted her sides with big fluorescent X's to let hunters know to not shoot her. That lasted 2 seasons until she disappeared. In hindsight, maybe big X's weren't the best idea.
Which is probably for the best, because if she thought you had marshmallows, she was getting big enough to stomp you to death for them. She frickin' loved marshmallows and was becoming a hazard during campfire nights.
This is exactly what happens. I can pay 100% tariff on solar panels that I can't source locally at all, but we have a tariff to encourage a nonexistent industry to not flourish. And so I buy panels that China routes through SE Asia instead and add 95% extra cost to do that. So panels I sell customers are twice what they need to be and so they buy half as much and make up the difference with coal-fired electricity.
The wonderfulness that is the invisible hand...
I was thinking that, like I could probably lose half a dozen firearms from my safe and I'd never notice. How many could an army lose before someone figured out something was up? Apparently, 31.
Maybe some nice, dense ones, like a rutabaga or a turnip. Or a small anvil. Wait, that's not a vegetable, but I'll allow it.
The Czech Republic thanks you.
PinchFlat: Youtube download manager and library, integrates with Jellyfin and Kodi
Your next YouTube media manager. Contribute to kieraneglin/pinchflat development by creating an account on GitHub.
Seems like a fairly mature and well maintained project. Can be fired up in DevContainer for hacking.
USB to HDMI on desktop: am I dreaming?
I have a desktop with a Asus Prime X670P mainboard. I bought a USB-C to HDMI on a lark, hoping that DP-alt might work since nothing in the specs seemed to say one way or another. It did not, presumably because I don't see many desktop boards that have alt mode enabled on C.
So I'm looking at alternatives, and there's a Starteck USB3 (A-type) to HDMI (USB32HDES) that they specifically say only works in Windows. Now, knowing Linux people, that sounds like a challenge but I haven't had much luck finding the vendorID/chipID for this to see if there's any success at using it in Linux.
Does anyone have one of these working, or able to suggest something else to get me an additional HDMI without having to put in another GPU? It does not need to be blazingly fast, it's just used for an extra reading monitor.
Turnkey docker host with an App Store?
I've seen these pop up before but didn't have a specific use for them, as I do all my own containers on a couple docker host VMs using compose. But for someone getting into it, it would seem like the way to go, maybe as a Docker-within-Docker container, or a full distro.
I know Portainer does a bit of this with it's Stacks, where you can choose some containers to deploy a pre-built app, as does some NAS software like Unraid. I'm looking for something that has a fairly well maintained stockpile of pre-configured containers that it can deploy (maybe after editing) and manage. I'm sure I've seen github projects that do this but I'll be arsed if I seem to be able to find anything right now. Bonus points if it deploys a Traefik proxy for its applications and configures them to it.
I imagine there's a dozen projects like this that the community can point me at.
What keeps dimming my monitors?
I'm not sure if this is related to Night Light (which I don't have enabled) or even just the monitors dimming in power settings, but I constantly have to go and bring my brightness back up from 20% when I sit down at my computer in the AM.
I have disabled Sleep as well, and the only thing left is the regular Energy Saving features of dimming after X minutes and Turn Off Monitors after X minutes, but I've set both of those to short timeouts and when it comes back, it's at 100%.
Edit: For some reason I was on X11. I've switched to Wayland and will see if that changes anything.
Any ideas what's causing this?
OK, so what is up with POE hats?
Why do the vast majority of these seem to either block off the 40pin header or convert it to female header that's incompatible with further hats? And why are they full sized, despite having minimal circuitry on them? I can appreciate the ones that build in a cooling system, but that doesn't need to block off all the pins that aren't being used by the hat.
It seems like all this could be accomplished with a small board that doesn't interfere with everything else one intends to do with a Pi or Pi-clone. In fact, I'm surprised at the lack of built-in POE Pi boards out there.
Good LTE/5G dongle for Linux?
I need a few of these for rpi's around the farm. Tired of dealing with LoRa.
What's changed in the Alexandrite interface?
If I bring up things like mail or a post in a new tab, I have to go into Login/Manage Accounts and choose my account to do anything in that tab.
Building a DIY solar panel mount: how would I calculate the parameters for a linear actuator to tilt the panels between completely horizontal and vertical?
I'm trying to figure out how long to make A and B here if I have linear actuator of length C (extended = 2C) in order to tilt my panels from completely horizontal to vertical so they avoid wind and shed snow respectively when I run up the actuator to the extremes respectively based on sensor input.
Is there a simple formula I can use to plug the length of whatever actuator I settle on to figure A and B out? I know it will have to be a certain minimum and maximum size to work properly and might have to experiment to get an idea of what works in the end, but I'd like a reasonable start point to purchase an appropriate actuator.
I've googled around and decided I'm not smart enough to even come up with the right search criteria, let alone figure this out myself since it's been 35 years since I've used anything except the most basic trig.
This isn't really homework except for the fact that I'm trying to make my home work right.
Edit: seems like if I select A=.75C and solve for B at horizontal, then it always works out. No idea why, but the couple examples I try seem to agree.
Laptop for non-gaming multi-monitor
I'm looking for a lowish priced laptop that I can put at least 2 extra monitors on. I want a second landscape 4k and a portrait 1080. Don't need anything special. One monitor has DP and HDMI, but the other just HDMI. Do I just get a DP hub and use a converter dongle for the second?
What would be a recommended laptop for this scenario? I only want AMD CPU and GPU as I can't be arsed to fight with noVideo and Intel doesn't deserve my business.
Maybe I'm just new, but I just realized you can Ctrl-select or Ctrl-dblclick individual, separate pieces of text and copy them to the clipboard in one operation.
I have no idea how long this has been a thing, and maybe every clipboard works that way, not just Plasma, and I never realized it. It also lets you do things like Rt-click on it and do the regular operations like Search in Firefox. Spaces aren't preserved unless you specifically select them but search engines seem to be able to sort out the words usually.
I post this in case you haven't been part of the 10,000 this day already, like me.
Edit: seems to work in Firefox and LibreOffice, but not Kate or Okular. I'd love to see this as a general feature, it's handy as heck.
A home automation and tech enthusiast stumbled upon the anomaly while troubleshooting issues with his home network.
4000ac solar farm in Texas devastated by hailstorm
Looks expensive. The grey ones are the broken ones.
Vernor Vinge, 1944-2024
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.
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?
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?
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.