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How to properly test my internet speed from ISP?
  • Speed test from who?

    I've got gigabit fiber from AT&T and Netflix's site is the only one that can reliably shove a full gigabit at me. (Or ,rather the 940mbps, which is "gigabit" according to Ma Bell.)

    Maybe try fast.com and see if you get different reported speeds?

    Maybe the router is just too weak? Well, I used iperf3 between two desktops that are both hardwired in and I got ~940 “Mbits/sec”.

    Also this doesn't mean anything: switching is probably handled by an ASIC in the router, and routing is handled by the CPU to keep track of all the NAT table state stuff, so you 100% could have a device that'll pass gigabit on the lan, and only 10mbps on the wan.

  • Alex Battaglia: "Fortnite still sucks as a PC game. I wonder why Epic finds it acceptable that the first play experience on PC is an absolute disaster due to shader compilation"
  • It's not even really that bad: a new patch will force recompiling of the shaders in Fortnite, and by the time you hit the ground from the battle bus it's usually... fine?

    Like, yes, it's a stuttery mess in the lobby and while landing, but who cares? That's not gameplay where it matters in the least what the pixel-peeping frametime stats say.

    This kind of thing is why I've just stopped caring about product reviews. It's either pixel-peeping nonsense that nobody but the reviewer thinks is important, or it's nonsense like 'The new Gaming Blaster X 2000 Mega Pro! For $1499 it's the best thing since the last thing, you should buy it, recommended!' and you look at the benchmarks, and you see that last gen was 148 fps, and this thing is 158 fps on the minimums and like, who gives a shit.

    You won't notice this if you're playing the game and not playing watch-a-stats-graph, and this has kinda become the norm for a few generations of reviews on everything.

  • Suggest me an upgrade for a server and streaming
  • New (7000 and 9000) ryzen CPUs have an iGPU that can transcode via AMF, so the 'equivalent' would just be buy a modern AMD CPU.

    AMF isn't quite as good as Quicksync, but it's probably fine for most use cases for most people, though I can notice the image quality losses when you're doing something like transcoding to 1080p low(ish) bitrate for remote streaming, and so have a very big bias in favor of nvenc or quicksync.

    Also, I'm in the more-ram-is-better camp, so buy as much as you want and/or the platform supports.

  • Germany plans to turn buildings into bomb shelters
  • I don't think they necessarily have any special intel, but they're certainly expecting the US to do something boneheaded, like decide to leave NATO, and thus encourage more militarism on the part of countries not included in NATO.

    Of course, odds are pretty high that's exactly what's going to happen.

  • Old Mini PC with 3.5" HDD
  • Not the OP, but capacity: there aren't 20TB 2.5 drives.

    (Or 18, 16, 14, 12, or 10TB ones, for that matter....)

    Kinda a dead-end product since laptops are all on SSDs, and enterprises have flocked to SSDs as well and that was essentially the entire market for that size of HDD.

  • 'Touch points' in HA
  • Yeah, I'm just using some cheap NFC stickers from Ali Express.

    The thing is that I don't use the dashboard: not every action has a dashboard entry and even if there is one, the amount of time it takes to load the app, open the correct dashboard tab, and then click a button is like, 10x the time of 'tap your phone on the NFC tag, and thing happens'.

    On Android anyway: iOS requires you endlessly tap 'Yes, yes I'm sure I meant to do that it's fine just do it already' for NFC triggered actions, and on Android, it just goes 'boink' and does it.

    TLDR: it's super faster than hitting a button on the dashboard.

  • Therapist Helps Trump-Supporting Mother and Her Queer Child Mend a Love Fractured by Election Conflict
  • Had to stop reading, as it pissed me off pretty quick-like.

    The Mom is completely gone and some talk therapy isn't going to fix what's wrong here.

    "Oh she never talked about it!"

    "Oh Trump wouldn't do that!"

    "Oh there's nobody coming for you!"

    "Oh I didn't know that you were worried about this!"

    Just low-informed plus gaslighting to justify doing what they wanted, regardless of who gets hurt.

  • Confirm or reject my suspicions about the massive default window sizes
  • Honestly, I would have assumed 1080p was an acceptable default assumption.

    Is this just a case of older hardware, or are there still laptops that don't have 1080p panels at this point?

    A quick review of stuff on BestBuy indicates that $150 laptops have 1080p displays now, and anything more than that does as well, so uh, what devices are still using these?

  • 'I have no money': Thousands of Americans see their savings vanish in Synapse fintech crisis
  • The lie was WORSE than that.

    A lot of the fintechs invovled actually told people their money was safe, because it was subject to "passthrough FDIC insurance", because their money was ultimately put in an insured bank, and thus was safe.

    Problem is that's not how it actually worked, so basically everyone was straight up lied to.

    Basically the whole thing is that the bank keeps track of who owns which account and how much money they have, so if they go bust, you just have the FDIC come in and use that data and write checks, basically.

    Except since they're disrupting banking, they also decided to just fucking not bother, and so even if there was going to be a payout, nobody has any fucking clue who has how much and in which bank said money was.

    Absolute clusterfuck, and about what you'd expect from silly-con valley types.

  • 'Touch points' in HA
  • Both!

    The native automation is perfectly cromulent for what I want, usually, but there's a couple of cases where the integrations either don't exist or don't return meaningful data.

    FOR EXAMPLE, the video playback in the living room thing. Sure, the roku integration says "something is playing" but it's shockingly wrong and unreliable. What happens is it falls into 'idle' status between videos, or if you're fast forwarding sometimes and thus the automation was not doing exactly what I wanted.

    The Jellyfin API, though, can look at the living room tv user and is spot on as to what is going on with play/pause/stopped statuses, so I have node red yank that data direct from the API and it works great.

  • Using Windows for business is torture
  • The equivalent of Intune for Linux would be... Intune.

    Though you're still having to do a lot more work on the implementation side for it, and a lot of IT teams isn't going to want to deal with it for the two people that actually want Linux, out of the 10,000 employees they're otherwise managing.

  • Building a new home server
  • big fan of mini PC’s

    Same, but just be careful if you venture outside of the "reputable" vendors.

    I bought one recently from Aliexpress, and while it's perfectly functional, it's using an ethernet chipset that doesn't have in-kernel drivers so I have to keep compiling new drivers for it every time the kernel upgrades.

    Not the end of the world, but an annoyance that I could do without, and not something a slightly more expensive version of what I got would have.

  • 'Touch points' in HA
  • I've gone way too far down the automation path.

    All manner of temperature, humidity, occupancy, motion, and air quality sensors make all sorts of things do appropriate responses.

    For example, I've got a mmwave motion/occupancy sensor in the bathroom, and if there's no motion/occupancy and the humidity is more than 5% higher than the hallway sensor, then turn on the exhaust fan until it's not.

    Or, if the air particulate count in the kitchen is too high, turn on the exhaust fan until it's not.

    Or, if the living room is occupied, and the tv is on and playing media, turn the overhead lights off and turn the RGB accent light on very dimly. And if the media is paused or stopped, increase the brightness of the RGB lighting so you can see where you're walking, and if it stays paused or stopped for more than 10 minutes, turn the main lights back to whatever state they were in before media playback started.

    No dashboards though, since the goal is essentially that you don't have to think about what is going on, because it should Just Work(TM) and never be something you have to deal with.

    ...though, really, I'd say we're at like 80% successful with that.

    For manual interactions I've got a bunch of NFC tags in various places that will trigger the appropriate automation in the case that you either want to do it by hand or it fails to do the needful, plus the app is configured to allow manual control of any device and to trigger specific automations.

  • Community for Free Games

    forum.uncomfortable.business Free Games - Forum.UCB

    Free games from all your favorite (or extremely hated) online stores.

    Free Games - Forum.UCB

    Made this mostly because I've found putting RSS feeds into Lemmy useful since my doom-scrolling has reduced to just Lemmy and figured I'm probably not the only person that'd find this useful.

    It's pulling 6 RSS feeds that provide free games for Steam, Gog, Epic, and Humble.

    Nothing shockingly world-changing, but hey, free games.

    !freegames@forum.uncomfortable.business

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    Laptop for Linux use

    So I'm looking for a laptop, but before you downvote and move on, I've got a twist: I'm looking for a laptop with Linux support that's going to intentionally be console-only and rely on TUIs to make a lower-distraction device.

    I was looking at older Thinkpads with 4:3 screens and the good keyboard before Lenovo went all chicklet with them, but I'm kinda concluding they're both way too expensive AND way too old to be a reasonable choice at this point.

    A X220 or T40-whatever would be great and be the perfect aesthetic, but they're expensive, hard to find parts for, and using enough crusty old shit that this becomes yet another delve into retro computing and not one into practical, useful computing which is the goal here.

    So, anyone have any recommendations of any devices in the last decade that have a reasonable keyboard, screen, use modern enough components that you can source new drives and RAM and batteries and such, and preferably aren't coated in a coating that's going to turn to sticky goo?

    Thin(ner) and light(er) would be nice, but probably not a dealbreaker if the rest of the pieces align. This will be almost entirely used at a table for writing and such.

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    Proper sound balancing

    So not entirely music related, but my don't-use-reddit policy and this looking like the closest not entirely dead community has led me to post sooo...

    I have an audio question about recording levels. I'm doing voice-over stuff for some really bad Youtube videos I'd like to make and it never sounds remotely good.

    I get that the recording volume should be just the green side of clipping, but how do you take a track, and then add it to other tracks and balance the whole thing to not sound like ass?

    It always seems that it's either too loud or too quiet and I'm baffled as to how to tweak the mix correctly so that things sound right.

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    www.theregister.com Appeals court revives TikTok ‘blackout challenge’ death suit

    Want a bot to pick engaging content and immunity from liability? Sorry, no

    Appeals court revives TikTok ‘blackout challenge’ death suit

    Basically, the court said that algorithmically selected content doesn't qualify for Section 230 protections, which could be a massive impact to every social media platform out there that has any sort of algorithm selecting content, which, well, is all of them.

    Definitely something that's going to be interesting watching play out.

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    Endless Microsoft one-time-use code emails.

    I have a question for the hive mind: what is the point of this, exactly?

    I mean, I understand the attempt to gain access, and I understand why 2fa codes can be valuable to attempt to phish but that's like, not the thing here.

    They just spam dozens to hundreds of these (I'm showing over 400 in my inbox right now) but like, even if I WANTED to give these codes to the attacker, I have no damn clue who the dude in China that's doing this is.

    I'm confused as to what they hope to gain by trying over and over and over every couple of hours because it feels like there's no upside to whomever is running this bot, but I probably have missed a memo on some TTP around this, heh.

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    Service availability monitoring/flapping services

    So I've got a home server that's having issues with services flapping and I'm trying to figure out what toolchain would be actually useful for telling me why it's happening, and not just when it happened.

    Using UptimeKuma, and it's happy enough to tell me that it couldn't connect or a 503 happened or whatever, but that's kinda useless because the service is essentially immediately working by the time I get the notice.

    What tooling would be a little more detailed in to the why, so I can determine the fault and fix it?

    I'm not sure if it's the ISP, something in my networking configuration, something on the home server, a bad cable, or whatever because I see nothing in logs related to the application or the underlying host that would indicate anything even happened.

    It's also not EVERY service on the server at once, but rather just one or two while the other pile doesn't alert.

    In sort: it's annoying and I'm not really making headway for something that can do a better job at root-cause-ing what's going on.

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    Anyone else get an email from Portainer?

    Just got an email thanking me for being a 5-node/free user, but Portainer isn't free and I need to stop being a cheap-ass and pay them because blah blah economic times enshittification blah blah blah.

    I've moved off them a while ago, but figured I'd see if they emailed EVERYONE about this?

    A good time to ditch them if you haven't, I suppose.

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    Shelly relays for energy monitoring

    I'm wanting to add a bunch of energy monitoring stuff so I can both track costs, and maybe implement automation to turn stuff on and off based on power costs and timing.

    I'm using some TPlink based plugs right now which are like, fine, but I'm wanting to add something like 6 to 10 more monitoring devices/relays.

    Anyone have experience with a bunch of shelly devices and if there's any weird behavior I should be aware of?

    Assume I have good enough wifi to handle adding another 10 devices to it, but beyond that any gotchas?

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    ArcaOS + DOS BBS stuff

    insecuredisaster.com Arca OS, a MiniPC, and running a BBS

    I've been running a BBS off and on since the mid-90s, and have tried a variety of methods to do so: OS/2 on real hardware, DosBox on Linux, a VM running OS/2, and more modern software that runs fine on modern Windows without the need of dealing with

    Arca OS, a MiniPC, and running a BBS

    Saw an older post asking about ArcaOS and BBS stuff, and since I actually just did a rebuild of mine doing exactly that on newer hardware, figured I'd write about all the stupid shit I had to deal with and how to configure the OS in a blog and post it here if anyone is interested.

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