Yesterday I got to complete a childhood dream and actually do an entire track walk of a coaster. In Feb there was an ACE event and they had a charity auction which Knoebels put up a maintenance tour and fortunately I had just completely a major project at work and had the funds to compete, lol. Yesterday morning I woke up at...
As a compliment to the thread about near death experiences I’d really like hearing people’s experiences of losing consciousness under general anesthesia and what’s it like coming back....
I was a kid when I last had it. Really uneventful. “Count backwards from 10” and you’re out by 6.
My wife had it a few months ago to fix a deviated septum. Her native language is Turkish. When she came to she was only speaking English. The doctors couldn’t understand her “but she seems fine.” I told her she was speaking Chinese just to fuck with her a bit. “Oh no! We need to get a dictionary!” It was really strange… She understood Turkish perfectly fine but was completely unable to speak it.
Other than some funny after effects, it was mostly a non-issue for her as well. She was fine after a couple hours.
Never used syncthing so I’m not sure. Resilio is running a modified bittorrent protocol. It’s always been fast and easy for me so I’ve never had the motivation to look into anything else.
There are a lot of news articles about “back to the office”, but they recirculate the same bad ideas. Let’s provide some new ideas for the media to circulate. It may also have the effect of making the office less terrible....
I’m a conservative. I don’t mind the liberal stuff here. It’s good to learn the other side, but I don’t want a liberal echo chamber. I’d like to be more politically balanced in the fediverse. Is there any way I can do that?
One could argue that decentralized, bottom up organization is essentially the structure of the modern evangelical movement… It’s also kinda the playbook for modern terrorism though… ISIS, Timothy McVeigh, etc…
It would be nice to have moderate conservative voices in the mix but unfortunately that world just seems to be filled with mostly batshit crazy ideas that do more harm than good.
Check the neighborhood maps on nomadlist. Check out where there are supposed to be cool stuff/people. Usually I just search Google maps for things/streets in those neighborhoods for things that might be interesting… Cafés, restaurants, bars, shops, etc…
You MUST get used to meeting locals when you’re traveling a lot. Meetup.com, couchsurfing, internations, dating apps, or even the hostel where you are staying.
For context, I traveled full time, nonstop for 4ish years before covid. This is how I did the majority of my travel. Things like attractions or museums or historical places get really old really fast. If I never set foot in an art museum for the rest of my life, I will not be upset in the slightest. People, food, shopping, culture… This is the only thing I feel is worth seeing anymore.
I always rolled my own Debian servers on microitx boards. I found a cheap synology a few years ago though and gave it a shot… I’m a convert for sure. They fully live up to the hype and are absolutely worth the price.
After the invasion of Ukraine, thousands of Russians fled to Tbilisi. But the graffiti that has sprung up across the city suggests not everyone is pleased to see them.
It’s extremely common here. There it feels like every other block in Tbilisi says “Fuck Putin” or “Russia is a terrorist state” or something along those lines… “No Russian is welcome, good or bad” was the most impactful for me.
I was having drinks with my neighbors and they were toasting for all the nationalities there. “For the Georgians! For the Turks! For the Ukrainians! For the Americans!”
I said, “But not the Russians.”
He got dead serious and looked me right in the eyes… “NO! FUCK the Russians!”
The Georgians are generally very friendly. I love it here.
Hey all. I’m looking for a bulk episode renaming application for Linux, preferably GUI. Before switching, I used Rename My TV Series 2 on Winblow. But I can’t seem to get it to work on my Pop_os 22.04. Any good alternatives would be appreciated. Thanks!...
Ages ago I did this with some cli tool that found episode/movie metadata stored in themoviedb or somewhere and just built a shell script around it. I don’t remember the name unfortunately. Now I just let Plex manage it and I don’t bother.
Sara Lane had a download of the day about the Synergy network kvm thing. “It works for both windows and linux.”
That’s how I ended up installing Linux for the first time… I didn’t know anything about it other that I hated windows and that was something different. 20+ years later I basically haven’t been without a Linux box ever since.
I’m shocked the auto zoom function isn’t mentioned. I am zoomed into the area where I am. I search for something. The app zooms out to show me results from places literal hours away… Sometimes on different continents. I’m annoyed, I zoom back in to where I was, click on a result, and it zooms out AGAIN. WTF?
The difference between the two security features is that Safe Browsing will compare a visited site to a locally stored list of domains, compared to Enhanced Safe Browser, which will check if a site is malicious in real-time against Google’s cloud services....
I still get nagged constantly to add a birthday to my Google account to make sure I am older than 13 or something… To satisfy some dumb law I think. The email account is like 15 years old though. How could I be under 13 if it’s that old?
EVERY American needs an escape plan if they get sick/injured.
My mom needed dental work done. She didn’t have the cash and asked if I could help pay for it. I started googling and a few days later we ended up in Budapest. We were there for a week. The flight, Airbnb, dental work, and some touristy stuff combined was less than 1/3rd of the cost of she had just went to the guy around the corner from her house.
If it’s non-life threatening or chronic… GTFO of the States.
He bought it in 1999. Adjusting for inflation, it costs about $490k in current dollars.
EDIT: Also the point isn’t really about how much it cost as it does who financed it and how the payments were made (or not). If someone who made a fortune in healthcare loaned a scotus judge money for a luxury home/vehicle Thomas would have a conflict of interest on cases involving healthcare.
I can fall asleep almost anywhere. I routinely fall asleep in the break room at work. Once, I was helping a friend fix his car, and I fell asleep on his garage floor when he went inside to get water....
I honestly have never had a problem sleeping on planes. If I’m tired before I get to the airport, I can often sleep through takeoff. On short flights I’ve only woken up after the plane lands.
For long haul flights I typically look to see what the local time of my destination will be when I arrive. If it’s at night, I stay awake for the whole flight so I can crash as soon as I get where I’m going. If morning, I’ll sleep the whole way so I can start the day fresh-ish. It really cuts down on jetlag.
For context, I got a remote job in 2016 and went full digital nomad basically until covid hit. I was living out of a single suitcase and flying once a month on average. I genuinely love flying. Pretty over the whole fascination with travel though… In some ways it kinda ruins you. Now I’ll only go somewhere if there are things I know I can only buy in the destination or if I’m going to visit friends or family. I have zero interest left for any tourist destinations, historical sites, museums, etc…
I was digging through some stuff and stumbled on this. To think it’s been 15 years. Crazy what you used to be able to get a free CD of back in the day.
Kerning Cultures should be on the list of everyone who likes 99PI and This American Life. It’s like those two shows had a baby and it grew up in the Arab world.
US mortgage rates jumped this week, climbing closer to 7%. The move follows last week’s rate hike from the Federal Reserve, and the downgrade this week by Fitch Ratings agency of US sovereign debt, and of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae.
From the CEO: “Our competitors won’t accept these jobs. They result in too many workman’s comp claims. We’ll take them.”
It’s a gig economy company… They are willing to take them because the workers are considered independent contractors and not employees. They offload liability onto the workers themselves.
Good lord do I wish I was recording that when it happened…
I have used YouTube, Reddit and Mastodon for news related to certain topics. Now I want to be more independent in finding my own news sources. However, there are so many sources on the internet I wouldn’t know where to begin to find them by myself.
I use feedly pretty much every day. The Times for reasonable news. Bloomberg because it’s the closest thing to right-wing news that isn’t batshit crazy. Lots of international sources for other perspectives… BBC, Al Jazeera, Japan Times, etc… Then lots of tech industry news just because that’s my field.
The subscriptions are going to seem high when you first look but this is the reality of the current news landscape… If you want legitimate news it’s going to cost money. If you want legitimate news that isn’t completely dependent on advertising, it’s going to cost more money.
To be fair, with a proper autoscaling scheme in place these services should scale down significantly when not in use.
That being said, a big reason for using AWS/GCP is all the additional services that are available on the platform… If the workload being run isn’t that complicated, the hyperscalers are probably overkill. Even DO or Linode would be a better option under those circumstances.
Yep. And if you want to really save some cash and don’t mind getting a little crazy, use an EKS node orchestrator that supports spot instances. I’m starting to do a serious dive into Harness at the moment actually.
Google recently released a white paper on cost saving in kubernetes as well.
I think I really only use GUIs if I am learning something new and trying to understand the process/concepts or if I’m doing something I know is too small to automate. Generally once I understand a problem/tool at a deeper level, GUIs start to feel restrictive.
Notable exceptions are mostly focused around observability (Grafana, new relic, DataDog, etc) or just in github. I’ve used gh-dash before but the web ui is just more practical for day to day use.
For context, I’m in SRE. I feel like +90% of my day is spent in kubernetes, terraform, or ci/cd pipelines. My coworkers tend to use Lens but I’m almost exclusively in kubectl or the occasional k9s.
I feel like I wrote this post from time to time on Reddit and I think I’ll start this tradition here. I’m. a Honor Harrington fan. I’ve read several other space operas and they always fall short. The three that came close were Lt. Leary, Kris Longknife and Vorkosigan saga. Lt. Leary was nice, but it failed on World...
The Helliconia trilogy might be worth looking into. It’s pretty unique in the genre… It’s not deeply political though if that’s what you’re looking for. The main character is essentially the planet itself and how the global society of people living on that planet changes over centuries. The seasons on the planet last hundreds of years too so it’s adds some interesting evolutionary survival ideas in there.
Real talk? I genuinely don’t care. I have actual work that needs to get done. I’m going to use whatever I can to make that faster/easier. Of all the decisions I need to make in a day, this is a pretty inconsequential one.
I have soon finshed all of The Expanse (which I have enjoyed immensely) and last month I finished Peter F Hilton’s Pandoras Star. While I enjoyed the second half of Pandoras Star, they (it’s a trilogy) are such heavy books with rather slow pace. One of my favorite reads last year was Recursion by Blake Crouch - it’s fast...
The Hyperion series is the best scifi I have ever read to be honest… It has the adventure of something like Ringworld or maybe Ender’s Game, politics like Foundation or Dune, philosophy like Childhood’s End or The Left Hand Of Darkness. The first book is structured like The Canterbury Tales too… Like a loosely connected group of short stories instead of the modern style 600 page slog… It makes it really easy to get in and out of.
I honestly can’t imagine anyone not liking that book. There are so many layers it’s super easy to find something to love.
I think the idea with soft serve us that you use hooks and use a dedicated ci/cd tool. I use adnanh/webhook for lightweight ci/cd on personal projects.
Hello together. I try to use a systemd path unit, to monitor a directory structure. But as of now, I was only successful for the top level directory. The unit should be triggered, if a new file is written to either the top level of the monitored directory and also, if there is a new file in any of its subdirectories. I don’t...
Are you sure this is the most efficient way to accomplish the goal?
Resilio Sync will just sync files to different locations automatically… You don’t need to worry about firewall rules or DNS/IP addresses doing this either…
I cannot connect via VNC or see the folders from other devices.
Troubleshooting literally anything with computers requires logs, error messages, description of current behavior (ideally with expected behavior), and a background of what other devices/systems/OSes/etc are involved.
Posts like this that basically say “it doesn’t work” with no additional context will NEVER get you any help because no one knows what problem you are seeing.
“I’m running X os, version Y. I’m trying to do Z. The error message i am seeing in the logs for $SERVICE is ‘FATAL: Unable to do $TASK’. I tried to do this but I’m still not seeing the expected behavior.”
is there a way to make subscriptions the feed?
I like everything else about the app, but it’s frustrating not to be able to set my subscriptions as the default feed.
Twister Track Walk (Knoebels) (postimg.cc)
Yesterday I got to complete a childhood dream and actually do an entire track walk of a coaster. In Feb there was an ACE event and they had a charity auction which Knoebels put up a maintenance tour and fortunately I had just completely a major project at work and had the funds to compete, lol. Yesterday morning I woke up at...
diagnoses (lemmy.world)
Have you ever been under general anesthesia? What was it like? Did anything strange happen?
As a compliment to the thread about near death experiences I’d really like hearing people’s experiences of losing consciousness under general anesthesia and what’s it like coming back....
Why does Linux run so well on ARM
I’ve seen people talking about it and experienced it myself with a server, but why does Linux run so well on ARM (especially compared to Windows)?
its even more outdated (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
Songs to save the world (and also cure ur depression) (i.imgur.com)
soundcloud.app.goo.gl/1mgjPVLufFnhvjvz8
What are the coolest (privacy respecting) apps you have?
Title says it all. I’ll go first:...
What would get you "back to the office"?
There are a lot of news articles about “back to the office”, but they recirculate the same bad ideas. Let’s provide some new ideas for the media to circulate. It may also have the effect of making the office less terrible....
Is there a more politically conservative part of the fediverse?
I’m a conservative. I don’t mind the liberal stuff here. It’s good to learn the other side, but I don’t want a liberal echo chamber. I’d like to be more politically balanced in the fediverse. Is there any way I can do that?
Cadillac reveals the 2025 Escalade IQ - Electric version of the Escalade (arstechnica.com)
How do you explore a new city as a tourist?
Hello everyone!...
Any recommended products for Network Attached Storage?
Hoping to set up a general location to throw files....
‘Ruzzki not welcome’: the Russian exiles getting a hostile reception in Georgia (www.theguardian.com)
After the invasion of Ukraine, thousands of Russians fled to Tbilisi. But the graffiti that has sprung up across the city suggests not everyone is pleased to see them.
Looking for a bulk episode renaming application for Linux
Hey all. I’m looking for a bulk episode renaming application for Linux, preferably GUI. Before switching, I used Rename My TV Series 2 on Winblow. But I can’t seem to get it to work on my Pop_os 22.04. Any good alternatives would be appreciated. Thanks!...
What is an iconic catchphrase from your grandparents?
2023 Fiat Topolino Dolcevita rule (statics.quattroruote.it)
DISCLAIMER: this is not an ad. I just want to share cute car designs. Fuck cars.
How many of you were using Digg during its prime?
Google Maps has become an eyesore. 5 examples of how the app has lost its way (www.fastcompany.com)
Google Gmail continuously nagging to enable Enhanced Safe Browsing (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
The difference between the two security features is that Safe Browsing will compare a visited site to a locally stored list of domains, compared to Enhanced Safe Browser, which will check if a site is malicious in real-time against Google’s cloud services....
Richest country in the world! (reddthat.com)
Clarence Thomas’s $267,230 R.V. and the Friend Who Financed It (www.nytimes.com)
The vehicle is a key part of the justice’s just-folks persona. It’s also a luxury motor coach that was funded by someone else’s money....
Why did you choose your username? (lemmy.world)
Oregon lifts ban on self-serve gas, leaving N.J. as the only state prohibiting it (www.nbcnews.com)
For the first time in more than seven decades, drivers in Oregon are allowed to pump their own gas.
How do people sleep on planes?
I can fall asleep almost anywhere. I routinely fall asleep in the break room at work. Once, I was helping a friend fix his car, and I fell asleep on his garage floor when he went inside to get water....
Remember when they'd send you these for free? (sh.itjust.works)
I was digging through some stuff and stumbled on this. To think it’s been 15 years. Crazy what you used to be able to get a free CD of back in the day.
What's a good podcast you like?
My personal favourite is Beautiful/Anonymous. Tell me yours.
where do you guys register and manage www domains?
I have to do it for work and I’ve got no idea, there seem to be so many scammy looking sites
Mortgage rates climb toward 7% after America's credit rating was downgraded (www.cnn.com)
US mortgage rates jumped this week, climbing closer to 7%. The move follows last week’s rate hike from the Federal Reserve, and the downgrade this week by Fitch Ratings agency of US sovereign debt, and of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae.
Exemployees of a company, what was your "fuck this shit I'm out moment"?
How do I find news without using Social Media?
I have used YouTube, Reddit and Mastodon for news related to certain topics. Now I want to be more independent in finding my own news sources. However, there are so many sources on the internet I wouldn’t know where to begin to find them by myself.
The rule of growth (i.imgur.com)
I’d like to thank the admins for being so open and direct about the issues that they’re facing.
Until there's a community for Enterprise Networking you have to suffer my meme. (lemmy.world)
What is the most cathartic movie?
What movie puts the protagonist through the absolute ringer for it to all pay off in the end?
Sound Off: How many 10+ year redditors have left the site?
I was just browsing a thread on c/nfl looking for new mods. There were multiple 12+ year Redditors there offering to help....
It's the gold rush over?
It’s been a while since I last seen anyone posting graphs showing user base growth. Are we past the initial rush and bleeding numbers now?
Does anyone remember a logo that looked like this? None of us can place it but we all think we remember. (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
Book suggestion: LONG Space Opera (or sci-fi or cyberpunk) packed with action and cool characters
I feel like I wrote this post from time to time on Reddit and I think I’ll start this tradition here. I’m. a Honor Harrington fan. I’ve read several other space operas and they always fall short. The three that came close were Lt. Leary, Kris Longknife and Vorkosigan saga. Lt. Leary was nice, but it failed on World...
Appimages, snaps and flatpaks
Appimages, snaps and flatpaks, which one do you prefer and why?
What are your underrated science fiction movies? (www.yardbarker.com)
You've seen the famous aliens, planets and scientists, but now it's time to venture even farther into the depths of space.
Thank you, Stormy Daniels (i.imgur.com)
Your strap-on work with Donny’s bottom will allow him to focus on his campaign even when he’s being gang-spanked by his cell mates.
What sci-fi would you recommend next?
I have soon finshed all of The Expanse (which I have enjoyed immensely) and last month I finished Peter F Hilton’s Pandoras Star. While I enjoyed the second half of Pandoras Star, they (it’s a trilogy) are such heavy books with rather slow pace. One of my favorite reads last year was Recursion by Blake Crouch - it’s fast...
Git repository storage/forge recommendations?
Looking into possibly replacing my GitLab instance, as I find it bloated and heavy on both hardware and maintenance compared to alternatives....
systemd path unit questions
Hello together. I try to use a systemd path unit, to monitor a directory structure. But as of now, I was only successful for the top level directory. The unit should be triggered, if a new file is written to either the top level of the monitored directory and also, if there is a new file in any of its subdirectories. I don’t...
Ubuntu on Nuc Network Access
Hi all, first post here having moved from Red…...