LazerFX

joined 1 year ago
[–] LazerFX@sh.itjust.works 4 points 5 days ago

As "three dead trolls in a baggie" famously sung... "Every OS Sucks".

As true today as when it was first penned.

[–] LazerFX@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 weeks ago

No worries... It's a pretty obscure math joke anyway :⁠-⁠P

[–] LazerFX@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Maths - sin, tan and cos are all factors of the rotation of a circle, hence pi being on there. I'm not a mathematician, I just watch standup maths and can recommend his book, "love triangle" to explain this sort of stuff.

[–] LazerFX@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month ago

With a PFY ready just outside the room with the improvised mega volt cables incase you get wise and try and bolt. And something happened to the lifts so the doors opened without the lifts being there...

[–] LazerFX@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 month ago

Been there too

[–] LazerFX@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 month ago

people wouldn't have to masquerade as much behind legitimate business.

Yes, that's the point - they'd BE a legitimate business anyway. Sadly, the concept of it being not so, is so ingrained in Western (American and British, at least) culture that even comments in support reveal an unconscious bias that's hard to overcome.

[–] LazerFX@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month ago

ROCK AND STONE, BROTHER!

[–] LazerFX@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago

That is a tasty looking pussy... Thank you for sharing.

[–] LazerFX@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month ago

Mine is sidereal... I always said side real. Then, I learned it was (roughly) Sid air heal.

Though I did use to say Copernicus as copper knickers too.

[–] LazerFX@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 month ago

I haven't watched it...

... But you totally should.

[–] LazerFX@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago

Translation added, roughly done. Tip: modern Android devices let you press and hold the switcher, which takes a screen shot of whatever is on screen. Then, you can press the translate button that appears to translate whatever is on screen. Works with the camera too - easier than firing up Google lens or whatever.

Of course, you need all the Google gubbins to do it, but if you've got that it's really powerful.

 

So I'm looking for a new client, specifically mobile, that's FOSS, easy to use, allows for browsing communities on other instances easily (not just searching for instances, but actually viewing the list of instances, etc).

I'm a dev, so happy to put some legwork into it myself. So my question is - technically, is the UI tied to being run on an instance "directly", or could it be detached, electron- or atom-ified and put into an app?

I can do the work, but before starting I'd like to know :⁠-⁠)

 

I love this concept and think it really has legs as a fantastic RPG idea...

My comment on the original post: It takes the *humanity *out of *alien/foreign/different *races. If done properly, you can easily conceptualise different views of the world. Something like the sort of thing John Scalzi has done with his works - let’s work through how a different viewpoint actually works and then work out where the jagged edges are - all of a sudden, the different races are fighting with each other because they see the world diferently and don’t communicate properly so they assume all of the others think the same way (because they can’t concieve of anythign else without looking that far into it) and boom you’ve got a realistic world with in-built fracture lines…

 

So I'm looking to build my own CM4-based NAS appliance. I figure that I've got the time to build it, and it'll be cheaper, more powerful and more capable than an off-the-shelf appliance (such as a QNAP or Synology device).

I'm looking to use it for self-hosting, probably 2 - 4 SSD's to run it (Happy to spend the money on the drives, as I can spread that out over time)... will likely start with a relatively cheap 2tib 2.5" SSD like the Crucial BX500 and scale up as I go...

I'd like a relatively neat box - something like the Argon EON. I'd like to use the CM4 because it's got the PCI-E so you can use a relatively full-speed ACPI interface to the SATA ports, which rules out the Argon EON (Except, possibly, as a donor case). I don't have a 3D Printer, but I'd be happy to purchase a printed model from a makers group or similar. I'm happy to actually build up a unit (setting up fans, etc.) but I've no soldering experience whatsoever.

Software-wise, I've already got a RPI4 which I've been playing around with... Seems pretty good, and I had pi-hole running on it for a while (until SD card unreliability took it down).

Does anyone have any experience with a build like this? Any advice on what cases to use, what hats for the PCIE-to-SATA work best? Anything at all, really, that you'd advise?

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