64bitUser

joined 1 year ago
[–] 64bitUser@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I have the R1 and I get a kick out of the voice every time. "Battery fulled" is my favorite. When I start recording it says "video recording" and when I stop recording it says "video recording stopped." If I am moving, it's too quiet to understand, but it stops my music while it speaks. I often forget to start recording at the start of my ride, so I press the button to check. I can only tell by how long the pause is while the voice speaks. That's the only prompt I have a problem with, as it's the only one I get when I'm on the move. The others are only when I turn it on. "Welcome to FreeConn product. Battery XX%. Connected." It's certainly not the highest quality product, but it meets my needs comfortably and paying more feels like a waste of money to me. I hope you get a lot out of value out of it.

[–] 64bitUser@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I now understand why Lemmy is called "link aggregator" software

[–] 64bitUser@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've never used object storage before, so I'm not even sure that's the best approach for the use case. It makes sense when you need to access storage provided by a 3rd party in a standardized way, but perhaps it's overkill when everything is self hosted. I wonder if folks have other ways to connect the application to remote storage that's less "heavy." That said, I will certainly dig into Minio, as it seems to be the best of breed. Thanks!

 

I would like to stand up some self hosted applications that need a significant amount of storage behind them. I'm thinking pixelfed/immich and peertube for now. The intention is to provide a place for my family to store and share photos and videos in an easily accessible place. I would also like to load it up with a long history of media we've already accumulated, adding up to about 1TB. I would prefer to host the front end application on a VPS so that I'm not having to rely on my home ISP to serve everything (blocking standard ports and such). However, I want to use the storage I have available at home. Bandwidth is not an issue (500Mbs synchronous). I know these applications can be set up to use object storage from various providers. Has anyone set up self hosted object storage? If so, any recommendations? Another option may be to create an IPSec tunnel or something between the VPN and the home storage to provide file-level access. Perhaps that would perform better? I don't really want to pay a fat monthly fee for storage when I already have everything stored at home, but I don't want to host the applications directly from home either. Thinking others have already solved this. Thanks for your input!

[–] 64bitUser@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago
[–] 64bitUser@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Unpopular opinion here. I bought a pair of cheap-o units from Amazon for my daughter and myself. FreedConn R1 Plus. Includes a built in camera. Honestly couldn't be happier with them. I almost never ride with anyone other than my daughter, so I don't need compatibility with other people in group rides. They were cheap ($120 USD each) and they work. Bluetooth connected to my phone, it plays music just fine. I can hear it just fine through my EarPeace earplugs. Changing songs is a snap with gloves on, and pressing the big button on the side switches to intercom mode so I can speak with my daughter. Another press sends me back to my music. I've had a couple of phone calls through them and while not the best, you can hear each other. Exactly what we need and nothing more. The video is 1080p, but the audio is nothing but wind noise. I only have the camera for insurance purposes, so no problem there. The battery life is about 5 to 6 hours with both bluetooth music playing and camera running. Haven't noticed much drop in battery capacity yet after a year. I will never buy a product that requires a subscription service to use, that's absolutely ridiculous. Anyway, these units have been great value for the money. Whatever you get, have a blast and keep the rubber side down

[–] 64bitUser@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I use HWK gear and find it to be pretty good. Something is better than nothing, and while you get what you pay for, you also get diminishing returns as you move up the cost scale. Plenty of people ride squid (no gear) all the time. Some of them crash, get road rash, heal, and continue to ride squid. It's all about your personal tolerance for risk, your personal financial situation, etc. Just know that every day clothes like denim jeans offer pretty much no protection at all.

[–] 64bitUser@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Welcome to the life

[–] 64bitUser@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thanks for your perspective. You are right that I was indeed acting like a hurt spouse. For a little clarity, one of our children was at work at the time I confronted her. We had to wait about 90 min for him to come home. So, she had that time to think about what she was going to say, it wasn't so immediate as I made it seem.

For added clarity, I don't have mixed feelings, I feel very confident that I did the right thing here. But I recognize that we don't always see everything from our own perspective, so I sought to broaden my view. You helped provide a perspective I couldn't see, so thank you. I was also hoping to provide a good topic for a rich post on Lemmy that would spur some participation and discussion. I'm glad so many are providing their opinions.

[–] 64bitUser@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I agree that r/dataisbeautiful turned out to be very political. What I saw was that the community was rather united in its political stance and if someone made a post that was out of line with the community's ideology they got roasted. The reaction was rarely about how the information could have been portrayed more intuitively, or how the data could have been stronger. Those reactions were for posts that were in line. Others were downright attacked. It certainly wasn't about making data beautiful

[–] 64bitUser@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Thanks for that perspective, appreciate the response

 

Just introducing myself. Got my first bike in 2021, a Kawasaki Z400. The next season, my daughter got her license and picked up a little Z125 Pro. this year, I upgraded to a Z900, and she's now on the Z400. Here they all are lined up.

We're located in the Hudson Valley area of New York state, USA. Ride safe everyone

 

I'm learning about the Fediverse and am confused about how federation is supposed to work. I understand that there can be communities with the same name in different instances, with different content. But I also understand you can subscribe to another instance's community. For example, there are sysadmin commnunities at lemmy.world, lemmy.one, and beehaw.org (among others). If we focus on one specific community, let's say sysadmin@lemmy.world, we can find that community from any of the instances. If I go to each instance and look at sysadmin@lemmy.world from each one, I can see the same pinned post is at the top of each one instance's view ("Calling all /r/sysadmin reddit refugees!" by DarraignTheSane).

Great!

However, if I look at that pinned thread from each of the three instances, the comment stream is different. The post itself is the same, but the comment thread is a mixed bag. Some comments seem to appear in multiple instances while others only in one or two, but never all three

lemmy.world shows 11 comments lemmy.one shows 6 comments beehaw.org shows 4 comments

On lemmy.world, the second newest comment says "Nice! It feels like home." This comment also shows up on lemmy.one however not on beehaw

The newest comment on lemmy.world says "yeeey" but doesn't appear in any other instance's view of sysadmin@lemmy.world

This is just one specific example. Are you not supposed to get the same content, when looking at the same community, regardless of what instance you are logged into when viewing it? Or am I missing something?

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