scrubbles

scrubbles, 10 months ago

Okay folks let’s start guessing what’s actually going on that OP here is trying to hide. I’ll kick us off, I’ve got

• OP modified their deck in some way that voids the warranty, broke something, tried to change it back like nothing happened, and now wants a replacement
• OP flashed a custom OS on there that’s not supported and they don’t know how to go back, and Steam support obviously doesn’t support it and it’s not a hardware issue so… tough
• OP broke their deck and is trying to come up with flimsy excuses to get a free replacement, like “Well yeah I mean it’s cracked but it wasn’t working anyway so give me a new one”

I worked in computer repair for 5 years so I’m very familiar with all the excuses people give to get me to replace something under warranty, and these lame excuses and refusal to share all of the issues just reek of something else going on

scrubbles, 10 months ago

Or prove that they did something stupid to their deck and valve is following their warranty rules which obviously why OP is being so closed off about it

scrubbles, 10 months ago

So guaranteed these are the remainder of the Sprint folks that were acquired about a year past.

It criticized economists who predicted T-Mobile would have to cut jobs.

I mean, it’s obvious it would, acquisitions of a rival company always mean layoffs, by default. You don’t need two separate teams who handle the same thing, some teams may need to expand, but a huge amount of people are redundant by definition. (For example, customer service may absorb some more roles to cover the new customers, but you aren’t going to keep the director of customer service from sprint, you already have your own)

Also here in WA state 60 days is mandatory severance for layoffs. So don’t get any feelings that TMobile is being kind, they’re just following our laws around layoffs here. They’d pay less if they could.

scrubbles, 10 months ago

So tired of being here in the states where people think you need a car, like it’s required to live. It’s only needed because we allow our infrastructure to be so lacking that we depend on cars. There are places both built up and as rural as the states where they don’t need cars, where driving for 3 hours for a road trip is considered ludicrous.

scrubbles, 10 months ago

I am noticeably more efficient on 4 day weeks, it just doesn’t feel like a grind as much as the 5 day week. 5 day weeks I’ll get bored, stare at the clock, and just want to be over. 4 day weeks I actually feel rejuvenated after the weekend and I’m ready to come back. We really need to rethink that

scrubbles, 10 months ago

We’re in a drought where I am and I still see boomer dudes going out and watering their lawns. So many more eco alternatives but they just think someone will judge them. No dude, we’re judging you on the massive waste of water

scrubbles, 10 months ago

Yup in the same boat, and I’m baffled that you get a downvote for this very mild opinion lol, shows the weird car focused culture we have, that someone telling us how they like living without a car is worth downvoting.

I choose my home on walkability and ease of access. I’m “lucky” that in the states I have a coffee shop and a few restaurants that I can walk to, and a bus stop a block away. We aren’t at the “No cars” yet unfortunately, I’m in Seattle and while it’s easy to go a lot of places without a car, unfortunately the surrounding area is very car centric. But, we are moving towards being a one car household

scrubbles, 10 months ago

Was it the crypto mlm or just regular crypto?

scrubbles, 10 months ago

Honestly good. As much as I like the compatibility with older generations we’re starting to hit the limit, where if we keep forcing devs to support old hardware it’s going to hold the new generation back

scrubbles, 10 months ago

Yup, did mess those two up, thanks for the correction. They really do have the most confusing names. Maybe they were going for a samsung-esque naming convention? But even they did 1, 1S, 2, 2S

scrubbles, 10 months ago

Lame overused joke. The left does not worship Biden, I personally just think he was better than the alternative, which makes these memes cringe as fuck. I would have loved a candidate who was actually progressive or liberal.

scrubbles, 10 months ago

Same here in the states, they only donate because then they don’t have to pay that money to taxes. They don’t give a shit about whoever the cause helps, it’s just a PR move for them

scrubbles, 10 months ago

The ol’ sperm n split

scrubbles, 10 months ago

Pump n Dump

scrubbles, 10 months ago

Shit was I stupid for avoiding the whole thing and instead building a portfolio?

scrubbles, 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago)

I don’t do it to backblaze anymore, but the easiest way to back up is usually the simplest, and in my case that was rclone.

RClone supports so so many backends, and one of them is backblaze.

Set up rclone on unraid (either install it as a plugin or install it directly to the box in the shell), set up backblaze as the remote, and then set up a job to run it (again if you like UI try UserScripts, or if you want to do this bare metal than just add it to crontab)

I have my rclone split up into multiple shares personally because I like the granularity, then I run each one every night. I have a few protections turned on too so it can detect if too much has changed (like a ransomware attack) to kill the job and not run, sending me an error instead.

Bonus points, you can use a -crypt style thing on top of it if you’d like to encrypt your data uploaded to backblaze as well.

For workstation to unraid you have choices on how to set unraid as your backend

• SSH, easiest, probably most secure
• Local, meaning you’ve mounted your unraid as a local mount point/drive in Windows and just want to copy, it’ll use the mount as the connection
• (S)FTP, would be more involved but just another option
• I’m sure there’s a few more, I use SSH and/or local for workstation to unraid.

Or you can use whatever your OS bundles too, if you can mount a share in your OS (Idk what OS you can’t do that) then you could use the built in backup utility). Play around, see what works best for you.

scrubbles, 10 months ago

It’s pretty self run, if you’re a bit nervous, try making a folder locally on your workstation and try syncing with backblaze, just to get a feel for it. We all do a few test runs first anyway. Essentially you’ll need to

1. Install rclone
2. run rclone config, this will guide you step by step through adding a remote, adding credentials, etc, there’s a full guide here
3. Try running a copy job for your test folder. It’ll be something like rclone copy /path/to/local/folder remotenameyoucreated:/

Then go check and see if it showed up in back blaze. Play with some of the flags, like maybe you want -v so it’ll print out everything it does. During testing –dry-run can be a lifesaver.

One big caveat, make sure you read the manual on the difference between rclone copy and rclone sync, make sure you understand both before choosing on one of them.

I’m purposely leaving out my script because I think if you’re getting started in scripting you should start small. There’s no big script that will apply to every system. Just try copying one directory to backblaze first on your workstation, then try another, try adding those to a script and running them as a script. Mine really did start as

<span style="color:#323232;">#! /bin/bash
</span><span style="color:#323232;">rclone copy /mnt/user/myshare myremote:/myshare
</span>

It’ll just grow with time as you add more to it, add caveats, add rules, etc. Our labs are evolving for sure, there’s no silver bullet answer. Good luck, good testing, and ping back here if you have any other questions!

scrubbles, 10 months ago

I’m still working on the amount changed, making sure I’m happy with it before it’s completely automated, but I’m working on parsing the results of summary and –dry-run on a precheck, so if oh, 10% of the files would be changed or more than cancel it, send me a notification, and for that I’d run it manually myself. Still fine tuning and not quite happy with it yet.

My first iteration was to cherry pick a few “key” files that would be randomly around my file system. Things that I will probably never ever change. This has been proven to work for a long time and honestly has saved my ass because I did accidently wipe out a few files once and this verified that my backups wouldn’t run until I fixed it. It’s a bit dumb but it did the trick for me:

<span style="color:#323232;">#!/bin/bash
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;"># check_file takes in a path to a local file and it's "known good hash"
</span><span style="color:#323232;">function check_file {
</span><span style="color:#323232;">  actual=($(md5sum "$1"))
</span><span style="color:#323232;">  if [[ "$actual" != "$2" ]]; then
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    echo "ERROR: $1 did not match it's hash value."
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    echo "$actual != $2"
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    echo "Possible attack.  Exiting"
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    exit 1
</span><span style="color:#323232;">  fi
</span><span style="color:#323232;">  echo "Validated $1 matches the checksum on file"
</span><span style="color:#323232;">}
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">echo Starting Safety Checks
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">check_file /mnt/user/myshare/mything b04b917c1f66e52adf2722d35f9b51b6
</span><span style="color:#323232;"># about 5 random per share
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">rclone copy /mnt/user/myshare myremote:/myshare
</span>

Like I said, don’t judge too much, but for me it’s a “poor man’s ransomware checker”. If any of those have been modified, do not perform a backup, notify me, and shutdown.

scrubbles, 10 months ago

I’ve had numerous accounts of people getting my password through a breach or something and 2fa being the only thing that stopped them from getting into my account. On GitHub that’s my strongest logins, don’t know why anyone would be against securing their code

scrubbles, 10 months ago

Oh shiny new thing!

scrubbles, 10 months ago

Jesus what a bunch of corporate garbage right there. Just shoving words in that make it seem like it’s the right thing to do, I freaking hate when companies think we’re so stupid to not see that they’re just laying people off.

Also “an industry that’s quickly evolving”? Uh, welcome to computing I guess? At what point has gaming not been quickly evolving. So much of this is just corporate vomit.

You know how you “ensure Dragon Age™: Dreadwolf is an outstanding game”? You invest in it. EA needs to invest in these games. If you don’t like how long it takes then invest more in them. It’s been now six years since DA:Dreadwolf was announced. It’s been 10 years since DA:Inquisition came out. EA needs to quite with the wining and penny pinching if they want to see profit out of Bioware.

scrubbles, 10 months ago

Agree, DA:DW is probably the game that EA is saying “Prove you’re worth it” but then in the same meeting they’re setting them up for failure by cutting funding and making unrealistic demands. This all reaks of review by committee, no one making decisions, no one having a clear goal - and worse is that when someone does it sounds like the business makes sure they’re removed from the picture. They want someone to go with the grain, even if that means a boring, bland, corporate garbage game.

Just give the franchise out to some third party who will actually care about it already. It’s clear EA isn’t willing to invest in it, let someone else do that for them.

scrubbles, 10 months ago

As a general rule you should assume everything you put on the internet is accessible. Unless it’s encrypted by a key you provide, and I mean a full rsa key, it’s going to be accessible.

The notion of privacy on the internet is not a thing. Everything you write is going to be collected and aggregated, especially in the world of AI.

What you can do is use an alt account with no info, and if it’s really sensitive use a VPN to hide where it came from. For private messaging do not use anything but an encrypted chat service.

scrubbles, 10 months ago

PlayStation Portal is the ideal device for gamers in households where they may need to share their living room TV or simply want to play PS5 games in another room of the house.

Okay I can see there being a niche there, mom and dad want to watch a movie but Jr wants to play games. I don’t know if that’s a huge market, but okay

According to the description, PlayStation Portal is only a Remote Play device and will not allow access to cloud streaming of games on PlayStation Plus Premium. As a result, in order for the PlayStation Portal to function properly, players must own PS5 hardware.

This however seems like a massive lost opportunity. Like Steam Link I assume you could choose which device to stream from, and with companies being huge on the “reoccurring revenue” train this seems like it could have added a ton of value to the device and at the same time increased their subscriptions. It would have gone from a “at home only toy for a niche market” to “pretty much anyone who has a PS5 at home and/or travels”

scrubbles, 10 months ago

Streaming steam has gotten better, but it really depends on the game. I’d never play a twitch shooter like counter strike on it, but before the Deck I’d stream the Witcher from my home PC to my tiny travel laptop and it was playable. Never as a primary driver though

scrubbles, 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago)

I’m conflicted. I completely agree with you and all of your points, and I don’t want to set a precedent like this.

But she did vote and advocate for the party that wants to keep misgendering her too…

Edit: I know folks, I agree with you all, we shouldn’t encourage this. The schadenfreude is sweet, but Ultimately it’s a bad thing. We should treat even the people who are against us with the respect we ask for

scrubbles, 10 months ago

We think of things like numa numa being everywhere, but can you believe there were people who didn’t see it at the time? Wild.

scrubbles, 10 months ago

Yeah I see op just casually skipping over the largest issue. People can’t afford to host video on Lemmy, and I don’t see a ton of people lining up to donate. Even if they add it, I’d hope it’d be configable to turn off. I don’t need people uploading 4k videos to my instance constantly. Both storage and compute would be off the charts

scrubbles, 10 months ago

Everyone immediately jumps to the comments anyway

scrubbles, 10 months ago

I’ll watch a token episode to test it, give it a fair shot, but yeah about the same. If you’re gonna do a reboot you gotta have everyone on board. Futurama seems to be doing fine, they got everyone. Frasier is missing half the cast.

scrubbles, 10 months ago

Eh I liked Frasier, maybe a bit more than Cheers personally, but I grew up with it. What I don’t like is that Frasier was not just Frasier, it was an ensemble cast. I don’t know how they think they can bring an ensemble cast back when half of them have been replaced. It’s not Frasier anymore.

scrubbles, 10 months ago

Model trains. I don’t bring it up because it’s obscure, but I’ve definitely found there’s a stigma. “Oh he’s the guy who plays with trains”. Screw the haters, I like to relax after work and do a bit of escapism. Eventually I got over it though and talk about it with friends, but it’s not the first thing I bring up either

scrubbles, 10 months ago

Very cool, just be careful not to become that “I am very smart” type guy who just wants to impress their friends. It’s a fine line to walk, nobody likes that guy, but everyone likes the guy who actually genuinely likes their hobbies

scrubbles, 10 months ago

Not quite ready unfortunately, still in the “lots of pink fiberboard and paper mache” phase, but oh I will when we’re done. We’re probably too small for a model trains community, but I’ll probably be hanging out in !trains

scrubbles, 10 months ago

Most hours in a game by far, I think I’m closing in on 2 thousand. I’m slowly trying to kickstart !satisfactorygame again, come and join us!

scrubbles, 10 months ago

It’s definitely a space eater, it’s currently taking up half of my bedroom as I build it. I probably should have waited for a bigger more dedicated space but then I’d be waiting another decade.

scrubbles, 10 months ago

I’ve found the Kato setups to be a bit more friendly on the wallet and have great reliability. I’d recommend that, a small oval with a kato starter set

scrubbles, 10 months ago

Very cool! Sounds pretty much like what I have started on mine, I went the full DCC++ route, have an arduino and rpi running the whole layout, with a few other boards helping along the way. At some point I’d love to do full automation of the setup but that’ll be a while. What camera did you use for the rpi and train? I’m running n scale so I’m assuming yours would be larger

scrubbles, 10 months ago

Is this related to Taylor Swift, or is it just separate Scooter’s being a jerk or something?

scrubbles, 10 months ago

Got it, keeping an eye on it since a couple others are dropping him too… whether it’s nefarious reasons or he’s stepping back no one knows, but I’ll be keeping an ear to the ground

scrubbles, 10 months ago

Huge kudos to them, they saw that they were on top of the PC market and wanted to expand, and they found the market of linux users who wanted to game on their machines too. Wine wasn’t up to par for gaming and they took it and ran with it. Beyond that they open sourced proton too, something most companies wouldn’t have done. Even if they quit now the help they gave to the linux community is immeasurable

scrubbles, 10 months ago

This is probably more accurate, their entire model depended on Windows, and if they wanted to make their own devices they would all be forced to either start new or get Linux up and running. Motives aside they did good for the community

scrubbles, 10 months ago

Agreed. Let us own things

scrubbles, 10 months ago

Man it’s weird, all this smoke, these floods, the regular -30 degree temps. I wonder why they’re happening

Bill, as he steps into his F350 Super Macho Duty to go fill up diesel again today for $4 a gallon before loading it up with groceries

scrubbles, 10 months ago

Okay I’m siding with OP here. Google is dogshit when it comes to compatibility. When I was coding for GCP I counted how many breaking changes they rolled out and it totaled about 2 a month, I spent on average 4 days a month (almost a full working week) just upgrading Google’s bullshit API changes.

Now, I’m all for upgrading stuff and keeping things ready to go, but there’s a cadence to that. Most companies will treat downstream developers well, things like security updates are mandatory but rarely include breaking changes, new features may have breaking changes but they’re optional (for a year or maybe even 2, to give you time to upgrade your app).

Google just throws that all out the window and quite literally sends out messaging like "You need to drop everything you’re working on and upgrade to this <> because <> for <>.

I have successfully prevented 2 companies from going over to GCP based on this. They’re too fickle, they see a shiny new feature and want to cram it in but don’t care about anything that was made over 3 months ago. Avoid developing on Google products.

scrubbles, 10 months ago

Google’s definition of “Old API” though is like, 3 months. I don’t know Apple but as mentioned in my other comment when I did stuff on GCP I remember breaking changes coming every month or 2. It’s honestly terrible. Pub/Sub was the worse, a message broker that had breaking changes so frequently that I just spun up a kafka instance.

I get what you’re saying, you should stay up to date, but Google just gives devs the middle finger. It really does feel like “Lol this isn’t even a feature you use, and it’s not like it’s a security fix or anything, our developers are just bored and rewrote something again so drop everything now and go fix it.”

scrubbles, 10 months ago

Both Florida and Texas asked for FEMA money this year, let’s start with that. Just make sure to let them know that it was thanks to the Republicans