In the US? You’ll probably need access to a car for a lot of things, but let’s assume the political leanings of your town are open to things like collective ownership and bike infrastructure. Let’s also assume we’re talking about a rural town that has a dense, but small downtown surrounded by farmland (fairly common).
Your community could set up a ride share service for the town that is locally and communally owned. They could also run a car loan service. With bike infrastructure, cargo bikes and electric bikes can replace a lot of car trips. Living in a small house or apartment near the center of town will cut out the need for cars for lots of trips, too.
If there is a bus network in your county or state, you could also lobby to get a bus to come to your town to more easily connect you to other areas without a car, but I don’t know how feasible something like that would be.
I’m in the process of designing a home server and am curious how many ethernet ports are required at minimum and how many people recommend. The single board computer (SBC) I plan to use has two built in and has a pcie slot to add four more if necessary. If I don’t need the four extra I’d like to use the pcie slot for a...
Off the top of my head, here are a few scenarios where you would like multiple network ports, none of which you are likely to need to worry about.
You only have gigabit network devices, but you’re running a file server that you expect to often have multiple devices utilizing concurrently, so you connect all those devices to the same switch that the file server is plugged into and you implement bonding to increase the throughput to/from the server.
You are virtualizing a router, so you need a WAN port as well as a LAN port.
You have mostly gigabit devices, but you want a really fast connection between two servers or between your server and a workstation, so you add 10 Gbps or higher network cards to those machines and you connect them directly.
You’re running a high-availability cluster and you want to use a ceph pool, so you use a second network port on each device for the ceph network.
I’ve used sleek as my primary todo.txt UI for a while now, and I’m really happy with it. If you are interested in a simple, but useful way to put together a todo list in plaintext, the todo.txt spec is a great way to handle it, and sleek is by far the nicest GUI I’ve found....
Not any good standalone ones. What I use (and this was to do with my edge use-case, actually) is Obsidian with a todo.txt plugin. It’s not as nice as sleek, so I still use sleek on my desktop, but it’s more than good enough to use on my phone to glance at my todo.txt, check things off, make small edits, or add new items in a pinch. It’s also how I share my todo.txt with my partner.
The thing I needed fixed was that in Obsidian, the plugin requires files with the extension todotxt, for example default.todotxt, and sleek currently doesn’t allow for loading files with arbitrary extensions. The new build the maintainer put together allows that, and it will be in the new version that is currently being worked on.
Just to be clear, it seems you apparently deleted the much downvoted posts you made here and on !foss where you called for forking Lemmy because you claimed the maintainers were acting akin to tyrants. You said they were closing issues and rejecting PRs that users wanted to see because the maintainers themselves didn’t want them. When asked for examples, the only examples you came up with were:
A weirdly annoyed contributor closing his own PR, followed by the maintainers of Lemmy fixing the PR themselves and merging it within days.
An issue open since 2020, where a maintainer commented that he didn’t think it was a priority or a necessity, and when pinged about it again this year, made it very clear that he was open to a PR to add the requested functionality.
Do you still think Lemmy is run by tyrants? I find this post a bit jarring given the context of your previous one.
I don’t think they are tyrant but they are a bunch of hypocrites.
Was this bit meant to illustrate hypocrisy?
The only thing that I’ve seen the developers say in GitHub comments is things like we are busy and don’t have time for that. And that is after saying this:
Before opening an issue, make sure that it hasn’t been reported before. And when writing comments, make sure that they actually contribute to solving the issue at hand. Generally it is better to move discussions to Lemmy if possible. We are very thankful to everyone who contributes by writing code, hosting instances, moderating communities, and answering questions.
There are 217 people who have contributed to LemmyNet/lemmy. The people in charge are the original authors and maintainers, but they are not the only developers by a long shot.
As you seem to be aware of in the rest of your comment, open source projects like lemmy are sustained because when issues are raised, community members contribute to the project to solve those issues. It’s entirely reasonable and often expected that project maintainers are picky about which issues they personally take on. That doesn’t mean they are rejecting the issue, it just means they won’t personally be writing the PR for the fix anytime soon. I see no issue there.
Maybe they could be a bit more explicit, but I don’t see hypocrisy.
Accepting your description of their comments:
I’m busy and don’t have time for this
is roughly equivalent to
I will not be personally taking on this issue, so if someone wants to contribute, this is a reasonable candidate.
which is good information to get from a maintainer.
I will say, however, the times they said something along those lines in the examples you gave in your last post, they also said why they didn’t consider it a high priority, which gives more important context as well.
I imagine it being done similarly to Genndy Tartakovsky’s Primal. I doubt a Hollywood studio would back a feature film done in that way, but I think if it was, it could be faithful to the game, impactful, and beautiful.
Please don’t flame me too bad, I understand that although privacy and libre software are important to many in the Linux community, my opinions may be outside the scope of consideration for some and I respect that....
Hi all, I’m looking for some Discord alternatives. All I really need is the ability to do voice calls and screen shares. It can be either via DM or channels, I only need to it be able to speak with a few friends that’d be open to moving over. I’ve tried Matrix/Element but there doesn’t seem to be a screen share function....
The client is open source, but the server side isn’t. E2E encryption is only available for secret chats and voice chat. Contacts, messages, media, and their decryption keys are all stored on the servers together. And it’s just another big tech product like Whatsapp.
This tab change PR was even more innocuous. The maintainer asked for a style choice to be made so that it matched the rest of the codebase. I disagree with the style choice, but it was an extremely minor thing to be changed and wasn’t a big deal. The person who wrote this comment just closed the PR and complained instead of fixing it.
I’ve had to change the style of PRs I’ve submitted before loads of times, and I’ve had long reviews of PRs on my own repos with lots of style changes I asked to be made. This is standard stuff.
The maintainer said how he felt about the idea once in 2020, and then when it was brought back up recently he said this. Nothing here is getting shut down or blocked. Again, this is a nothingburger. Got another example?
So i want to do a large uograde to my “homelab” but since i dont want to spent 1200€ on an empty synology nas and another 1200€ on hdd, i saw this on amazon (sorry site is dutch) I have a synology ds416play with 40tb and want to use this new one with 80tb hdds and a lenovo m600 i5 attached with some nas software....
I would avoid USB hard drive enclosures. Did you already buy the Lenovo system? If not, you’d be much better off building a pc in a simple tower case and having your drives mounted inside and connected directly via SATA or through an HBA.
EDIT: Additionally, for your OS, I would look into TrueNAS Scale instead of Linux Mint.
The M600 uses soldered-on mobile CPUs and SODIMMs for RAM. You won’t be able to remove the CPU and the RAM is the wrong form factor for 99+% of desktop motherboards. You’re right that you can use the SSD, but I wouldn’t, given how cheap NVMe drives have gotten these days. You can get really great 2TB drives for under 100€.
I think that 404 Media is a great example of a recent independent media organization that has a great user experience and a monetization strategy that doesn’t make me feel gross. A lot of their pull is the excellent journalism and writing, and the fact that the journalists that started it are respected and have a decent following. I don’t know how feasible this type of setup would be without that head start.
I think we have to consider that the principles of the free software movement, revolutionary though they genuinely were, were also set in the same mindset that latterly saw its founder Richard Stallman spectacularly fall from grace. They are principles that deal in software development and licensing in strict isolation, outside...
A lot of great ideas in here for sure! Better insulation is a great way to store energy without the need for large battery systems. This kind of thinking can also translate really well to more traditional housing.
We already do this kind of thing with standard water heaters in the US, and creating better insulated chest freezers and refrigerators should be straightforward. The cooker seems fairly novel, though.
On a larger scale, Passive Haus construction techniques can go a long way to reducing energy needs for climate control, and would make it easier to turn off climate systems when the sun goes down.
The title says it all. Browsed Flathub and saw this fat warning label on the Steam Flatpak. Maybe not the best idea if you want to compete with Canoncial’s Snapstore, but hey, what do I know 🤷
There are a couple of things that will get in your way with this.
Bandwidth
Let’s go with the bare minimum of your high end given what you want:
running both of your displays at 4k 30Hz 8bit only will require 6.66Gbps per display
2.5Gbps networking is self explanatory
assuming you only want USB 2.0 ports, 480Mbps per port
without overhead, that’s ~17Gbps. USB 3.2 Gen 2 can do 10Gbps, and USB 4 can do 20-40Gbps, so it would need to be a USB 4 dock at minimum, which means new and most likely above your budget. Your low end could probably be done on USB3.2 Gen 2, but you’re still going to come close to your budget or blow it.
Multiple displays
Running multiple displays from a single usb-c port is not great. you can do it with thunderbolt docks just fine, but they are all going to blow your budget. With usb-c your options are a single display per port on your machine with displayport-over-usb-c implemented, or multiple displays using multi-stream transport (MST). MST is known to be extremely finicky and generally not worth the hassle in my opinion.
Recommendation
If you need multiple displays (on top of the HDMI 2.1 port on your machine), either dedicate both usb-c ports to it and use two cheaper docks, or go all in and get a thunderbolt dock like the Caldigit TS4.
Today I found out that it’s actually a lot easier to contribute to Open Street Map than I thought. There are some serious gaps in house addresses in my area and I was painstakingly using the built in browser editor in the browser....
No, unfortunately not. Getting traffic data would mean users volunteering to share location data, would need a centralized system to process everything, and would need a critical mass of users sharing said data to be anywhere near useful. The other possibility would be to pay for data from a provider like Google under an enterprise license that doesn’t require sharing data back, but I don’t know if that is even an option.
For now, I use both on my phone. I use OSM when biking or walking, I use Google Maps when driving, and I use my local transit web app when taking transit. I plan to switch my Pixel phone to GrapheneOS and to sandbox Google services that I still need. That being said, the ultimate way around needing traffic information is to try to live in places and in such a way that driving is not very necessary, but I know that is a huge ask for a lot of people.
EDIT: To be clear, MagicEarth does have live traffic as @Schlemmy pointed out and is based on OSM, but is not itself open source.
It’s worth noting that the top picture in the article is of a kid on a $4400 Sur-ron X, which is strictly not road legal and is capable of up to 45mph and can accelerate to 30mph in 3.5 seconds.
I think you and the article have this wrong. 45mph is with the speed governor removed. The article doesn’t make it clear whether the parent misspoke and the reporter didn’t fact check or that the reporter just mistyped, but you can’t get anywhere close to 70 mph with a 6kW peak motor. There are people who have modded the hell out of these and poured thousands more dollars into them to get those kinds of speeds, but that’s not possible with a stock bike.
As mentioned in other comments, the 70mph figure is wrong. My best guess is the parent misspoke and the journalist didn’t fact check, but the real figure is 70km/h or 45 mph.
V1. - 08/23/2023 - Rails to print that allow you to fit a Harbor Freight Storage Parts Case into an Ikea Trofast. 2 different size rails, one for left and one for right. I used ½" pan head screws to screw into the side. Just start stacking them from the bottom. Printed at standard settings on a Bambu X1C. Included Fusion 360...
I remember seeing this project on Reddit a while ago, but I was very confused about why some guy’s wooden cyberdeck got a huge article in The Verge until I got to this sentence:
One of the people who liked the Mythic I was Max Novendstern, who is, among other things, a co-founder of the crypto startup Worldcoin.
I use the Sensi ST55 with the Home Assistant HomeKit integration. I got it from my utility company for $1 as part of an Earth Day promotion, but they sell it for $25 now. You might be able to find it pretty cheap where you are.
I’ve been really wanting to get a steamdeck. I’ve been playing a lot on my modded switch, but there is a lot I want to play that is not available on the switch....
I started tears of the kingdom on an emulator on my desktop PC, and wanted to see how it would work on my steam deck. After setting it up with autosync using NextCloud for saves, not only is it a better experience than the switch because I can sometimes play on my desktop at 4k with frame rates consistently higher than what the switch can do, but playing on the steam deck has comparable performance to the switch albeit at the cost of shorter battery life. I loaned my switch to a friend who doesn’t have one so he could play totk, then I moved across the country and just decided to let him hang on to it until he’s done. The only thing I miss is Tetris 99, but that’s not a big loss.
I finished the game while ago, but the last set of mods from HolographicWings/TOTK-Mods-collection/ that were out before I was done gave me correct button hints, 16:10 aspect ratio, with a pegged 30 fps for most of the game when not loading shaders, with a minimum of 20 fps at lookout landing.
The scientific process does not operate on the order of hours/days, but months/years. It’s very impressive that responses have come out as fast as they have. The fastest I’ve seen a paper come out in my field after results were in was 8 months, and that took 5 people basically dropping everything else they were working on immediately and working full time to get the paper written as fast as possible while keeping the same rigor.
I’m currently running Arch and it’s great, but I’m noticing I’m not staying on the ball in regards to updates. I’ve been reading a bit about Nix and NixOS and thinking of trying it as my daily driver. I’ve got a Lenovo x1 xtreme laptop, I don’t do much gaming (except OSRS), use firefox, jetbrains stuff, bitwarden,...
I’m using it currently. Documentation is really annoying to deal with because it’s changing so quickly. I went with a flake + home manager setup and tried to keep my config as spartan as possible. Most of the configurations I found online use a ton of files an a deep tree of folders and I found that really hard to follow. You can look at my configuration here.
I recently set up my partner’s 2012 MacBook Air with nixOS and it’s been a fantastic machine. I already had a nixOS configuration from my laptop, so it took all of 30 minutes to install and get to virtually the same state as my primary laptop.
My phone is broken and I neeeed to listen to my podcasts while this is resolving. I thought it would be simple enough but I have been banging my head for days now....
I know it’s not what you really want, and I haven’t tried it yet, but I think your best bet is probably podfetch. I don’t know if you’ve looked into it yet, but it’s basically a gpodder server with a web podcast frontend tied to it. It’s the next thing I’m going to try.
LK-99 has been touted as a potential room-temperature superconductor that could revolutionize fields like energy and transportation. However, many experts are skeptical as the initial research papers have not been peer-reviewed and contain inconsistencies and imprecisions. Early attempts to replicate LK-99 have had mixed...
AntennaPod is a podcast manager and player that provides instant access to millions of free and paid podcasts from both independent and major podcasters. Easily add, import and export their feeds using iTunes podcast catalog, OPML files or RSS feed addresses. Downloads, streams online or adds issues to a queue, with adjustable...
It has near feature parity with Pocketcasts. I have a lifetime subscription to Pocketcasts premium, but with all the price increases, I expect that I’ll be switched to monthly sometime soon, so I’ve been looking for alternatives.
I started with Audiobookshelf, but AntennaPod is much better for my use case. There are a few bugs, I’m still testing the automated features, and I have yet to test gpodder sync through NextCloud, but so far I’m liking AntennaPod a lot.
If you can come up with a way to reliably reproduce the bugs you’re noticing, you can make an issue on github. The developers seem to be very responsive and they want to fix things like that.
Kagi Small Web (blog.kagi.com)
How awesome is this!...
fuck cars, rural edition
So suppose we don’t like cars and want to not need them. What are the transportation alternatives for rural areas? Are there viable options?...
Element X preview is now on Android too! (element.io)
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Amount of RJ45 Ports on Home Server?
I’m in the process of designing a home server and am curious how many ethernet ports are required at minimum and how many people recommend. The single board computer (SBC) I plan to use has two built in and has a pcie slot to add four more if necessary. If I don’t need the four extra I’d like to use the pcie slot for a...
sleek for todo.txt and why I love open source software
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/4506191...
sleek for todo.txt and why I love open source software
I’ve used sleek as my primary todo.txt UI for a while now, and I’m really happy with it. If you are interested in a simple, but useful way to put together a todo list in plaintext, the todo.txt spec is a great way to handle it, and sleek is by far the nicest GUI I’ve found....
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Stray movie based on video game, Ice Age director's next film a go at Annapurna (ew.com)
Following the success of its debut feature, Nimona, Annapurna Animation is ready to launch its next phase of movies....
System76 values and ethics (Opinion)
Please don’t flame me too bad, I understand that although privacy and libre software are important to many in the Linux community, my opinions may be outside the scope of consideration for some and I respect that....
Discord Alternatives?
Hi all, I’m looking for some Discord alternatives. All I really need is the ability to do voice calls and screen shares. It can be either via DM or channels, I only need to it be able to speak with a few friends that’d be open to moving over. I’ve tried Matrix/Element but there doesn’t seem to be a screen share function....
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So i want to do a large uograde to my “homelab” but since i dont want to spent 1200€ on an empty synology nas and another 1200€ on hdd, i saw this on amazon (sorry site is dutch) I have a synology ds416play with 40tb and want to use this new one with 80tb hdds and a lenovo m600 i5 attached with some nas software....
What would you be interested in out of a modern games focused journalism outlet?
Hey Fediverse -...
Really interesting thoughts on whether the creators of free software really want their users to be free (werd.io)
I think we have to consider that the principles of the free software movement, revolutionary though they genuinely were, were also set in the same mindset that latterly saw its founder Richard Stallman spectacularly fall from grace. They are principles that deal in software development and licensing in strict isolation, outside...
Direct Solar Power: Off-Grid Without Batteries (solar.lowtechmagazine.com)
Good luck, Flathub, with convincing companies to sell their software in your planned store 🤡. (feddit.de)
The title says it all. Browsed Flathub and saw this fat warning label on the Steam Flatpak. Maybe not the best idea if you want to compete with Canoncial’s Snapstore, but hey, what do I know 🤷
USB-C Dock Reccomendations
Does anyone have USB-C dock recommends?...
You can and you should contribute - Open Street Map
Today I found out that it’s actually a lot easier to contribute to Open Street Map than I thought. There are some serious gaps in house addresses in my area and I was painstakingly using the built in browser editor in the browser....
As Teens Take to E-Bikes, Parents Ask: Is This Freedom or Danger? (www.nytimes.com)
NYT gift article expires in 30 days....
Thoughts on free and open source music?
cross-posted from: slrpnk.net/post/1785739...
IKEA Harbor Freight Parts Case Rail Adapters (www.printables.com)
V1. - 08/23/2023 - Rails to print that allow you to fit a Harbor Freight Storage Parts Case into an Ikea Trofast. 2 different size rails, one for left and one for right. I used ½" pan head screws to screw into the side. Just start stacking them from the bottom. Printed at standard settings on a Bambu X1C. Included Fusion 360...
Mythic Computer is trying to change the PC world one wood computer at a time. // Thought this was pretty interesting and not solely about the keyboard, but thock is mentioned. (www.theverge.com)
Would you buy a computer made of wood for the price of a used car? Maybe not. But you should be glad they exist.
Good local-only/local-first wifi thermostat?
I want to be able to control my thermostat from my phone, so I’m looking for recommendations for one that meets the following:...
Is there any reason to have a Switch and a Steamdeck,
I’ve been really wanting to get a steamdeck. I’ve been playing a lot on my modded switch, but there is a lot I want to play that is not available on the switch....
Cart Narcs is exposing carbrains (lazy bones) (www.youtube.com)
Is anyone using NixOS as their daily driver?
I’m currently running Arch and it’s great, but I’m noticing I’m not staying on the ball in regards to updates. I’ve been reading a bit about Nix and NixOS and thinking of trying it as my daily driver. I’ve got a Lenovo x1 xtreme laptop, I don’t do much gaming (except OSRS), use firefox, jetbrains stuff, bitwarden,...
how to listen to podcasts on computer?
My phone is broken and I neeeed to listen to my podcasts while this is resolving. I thought it would be simple enough but I have been banging my head for days now....
The LK-99 “superconductor” went viral — here’s what the experts think (www.theverge.com)
LK-99 has been touted as a potential room-temperature superconductor that could revolutionize fields like energy and transportation. However, many experts are skeptical as the initial research papers have not been peer-reviewed and contain inconsistencies and imprecisions. Early attempts to replicate LK-99 have had mixed...
AntennaPod (lm.ilyamikcoder.com)
AntennaPod is a podcast manager and player that provides instant access to millions of free and paid podcasts from both independent and major podcasters. Easily add, import and export their feeds using iTunes podcast catalog, OPML files or RSS feed addresses. Downloads, streams online or adds issues to a queue, with adjustable...