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AI is a Lie. by cpw in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 25 points 1 month ago

Emily wrote this one and you can tell she was on fire. Really good video.

Steve with GN Considering Linux by cpw in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago

I honestly hope they don't do another dumb Linux challenge. Linus and Luke both have pre-prepared excuses why a conversion to Linux will fail, for them personally. Stuff like "we can't run Photoshop" level shit. Dumb "no shit Sherlock" type nonsense.

That means they won't actually try, they'll just "do it for the content" and give up again after a month or whatever. The videos will be well done but will ultimately conclude that "Linux still isn't ready for us" and they'll leave a bitter taste in any real Linux user's mouth, because their excuses will be pathetic and the efforts put in will be demonstrably minimal.

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Normalization of my homelab? (lemmy.ca)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hi, so I have a very individual homelab. It's a collection of stuff accumulated over nearly 30 years of doing weird stuff.

For the past 9 years it's been running as a bunch of lxc containers (privileged because unprivileged did not exist, back then) but several of those containers are p2v conversions of physical hosts dating back to debian woody and earlier. They're all upgraded to at least buster, most are bookworm. Stuff like asterisk, email, home assistant, nextcloud, matrix synapse run there these days.

The server is a 15 year old HP gen6 thing, and is getting quite long in the tooth. There's also a dedicated cheapy microserver with an i4 running opnsense on bare metal as a firewall.

Trying to run stuff like local voice stuff for home assistant is showing the HP's age quite badly. Also, our area is getting fibre, and the opnsense box is maxed out at gigabit. More speed would be nice.

So, I'm in two minds. The homelab has been a lot of fun over the years, but I'm over 50 now, I want lower maintenance. This latest wave of upgrades is making me rethink the next 20 years of homelab. I don't want to leave something stupidly "only me" if I were to die tomorrow (diabetes is a fickle bastard). My wife might want to try and carry on this thing - it runs some useful stuff around the house (but it should be noted that nothing in this house requires a server or cloud) - and that's not going to happen with the current solution.

I think I might have a path, using proxmox, from where I am now, to something that can be deployed on e.g. a bunch of ms01 class devices. I'm thinking to convert the existing HP server to proxmox, to allow me to redeploy all my existing lxc containers into the proxmox world. As I acquire hardware over the next year, I can look at a k8s migration of the services onto a small, MUCH lower power cluster. One of the keys is that I don't want to have big outages of services for days or weeks while I migrate everything so it's gotta be a rolling upgrade as it were.

I'm here soliciting feedback. Has anyone ever migrated from a deeply legacy homebrew homelab into something like this? Does it reduce the workload long term? What's the practicality of this for someone rather less tech savvy?

Thanks!

Messaging Service ICQ To Shut Down Next Month After Nearly 30 Years by cpw in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago

I met my wife on ICQ in 1998.

The GOP can't leave MAGA — "Americans must electorally mercy-kill the Republican Party" by cpw in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 19 points 4 months ago

Sounds like he's well qualified to be the first king of the USA. He's got everything. A ridiculous family tree, he's loony, he's corrupt, he's bankrupt. All hail king Trump the first!

What's the most recent way you stupidly managed to accidentally hurt yourself? by cpw in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 15 points 5 months ago

Sleeping. Woke up one day to frozen shoulder. Two years of physio and it's still not right. Fucking aging. Being 50+ sucks arse.

The Cybertruck Is a Disappointment Even to Cybertruck Superfans / Looking at the specs alone, the car is delivering 30 percent less range than expected for 30 percent more money by cpw in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 27 points 7 months ago

The mkbhd first impressions were fascinating for what he didn't say. I'm guessing that he didn't want to burn the good times he has with Tesla so he really seemed to be trying to positively spin everything. At least, that's my interpretation. The mirrors were particularly.. https://youtu.be/XxOh12Uhg08?si=jlfuFU70v5cGd8HV

An unbiased comparison of linux distributions' setup by cpw in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 48 points 8 months ago

Debian guy could have just downloaded the nonfree installer that includes some common wifi and other hardware firmwares. There are some pragmatists at Debian.

What happened to the flat earthers who demonstrated that the earth is round in the netfilx documentary ? by cpw in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 28 points 8 months ago

Going to suggest the folding ideas YouTube channel on the same topic.

https://youtu.be/JTfhYyTuT44?si=m2b1gAkCOlDOnCle

Spoiler: his hypothesis, well supported in my opinion, is that a large proportion of those formerly in flat earth are now neck deep in qanon, and since the film was made many are now into other conspiracy stuff. The election was fake etc.

Also, his video of minnewanka lake is just perfect flat earth debunking.

What is your record for number of hours on a single game? by cpw in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 18 points 10 months ago

Minecraft. Probably over 15,000 hours playing servers modpacks, developing mods. It's been 13 years now!?!

Forge has been forked by cpw in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

Heh thanks. I came over during the great Reddit API saga.

Forge has been forked by cpw in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago

Yup, we did the thing. It's sad that it came to this, but the project was unlikely to continue in a recognizable form for too much longer if we didn't. The actual launch didn't really go to plan due to some unfortunate problems with operation security but whatever. It's done now. To clarify, lex owns all the names and stuff, so we had little choice but to fork and rename. We'll be building new art and assets in the coming days. The discord is the best place to discuss because we're all there. Ther will be updates as we cement plans and finalize our message around the lex situation. But #general is already showing receipts.

Also yes, I am that cpw. I posted a link on my mastodon confirming my identity on Lemmy and my GitHub is linked to mastodon, and you can see the first few activities on neoforged here: https://GitHub.com/neoforged/neoforge

TekSavvy puts itself up for sale amid industry turmoil by cpw in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

This is a very sad day.

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Testers wanted for new forge early display, please! (mastodon.social)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hi, so I have posted a link in my mastodon to a new version of forge that includes an early window display. This is much improved from previous versions, and should work well for all modern minecraft scenarios, but I want some testing and validation. As such, please download and test it, and give us your feedback.

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anyone looking forward to 1.20? (lemmy.ca)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I hope to have some fun in 1.20 myself. Been kinda disconnected the last year or so, but I have plans, that'll make steamdeck control input a bit more fun.