ascendings

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[–] ascendings@fedia.io 7 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I wouldn't call myself a "picky" eater per se, but my peanut/tree nut allergy makes me apprehensive to try new food. Especially if there aren't clear labels for things like peanut oil and cross contamination.

[–] ascendings@fedia.io 1 points 2 weeks ago

I have around 100GB of various Linux and BSD ISOs from over the years that I haven't cleaned out yet. Most of the ones I use today I just download as I need it and delete it after. Unless it's for my VMs, I'll keep those around so I can quickly get a new one built.

[–] ascendings@fedia.io 19 points 2 weeks ago

I'd say GIMP for photo editing would be a good one to learn. It's come in handy in a pinch both at home and at work when I've needed something done up real quick.

[–] ascendings@fedia.io 2 points 2 weeks ago

Not much for me atm, though in a day or two I'm (finally) fixing a major problem with my VM storage array - I'm replacing the crappy Crucial BX500's in my VM storage mirror with a couple refurbished 2TB Intel D3-S4510 SSDs I got from Server Part Deals. I'm very excited for this saga to be over, since I've been fighting horrible VM performance for over a year, and it was bad enough to where simply pushing changes to git repos or syncing a modest amount of data to my Nextcloud would hang the VMs for a few minutes!

Otherwise I'm just looking at maybe replacing my Puppet infra with SaltStack, and getting some new Packer images built for FreeBSD 15.1 and Almalinux 10 :)

[–] ascendings@fedia.io 3 points 2 weeks ago

+1 on the Fractal Define series. My Fractal Define 7 was a breeze to work in, even if it is a little expensive.

[–] ascendings@fedia.io 11 points 2 weeks ago

I want to believe this is a sign AI investment is drying up, but I know that's just me being hopeful 🙃

[–] ascendings@fedia.io 4 points 2 weeks ago

I went to dinner at a fancy restaurant with my wife and our friends, and I got an $85 steak. Definitely worth it!

[–] ascendings@fedia.io 3 points 3 weeks ago

That's insane it's buried so deep in the settings. I get why, but that's terrible

[–] ascendings@fedia.io 7 points 3 weeks ago

I mean to be fair I hate Android too, I just also hate iOS :)

[–] ascendings@fedia.io 4 points 4 weeks ago

I've been running MoCA in my home for the last ~5 years and it seems to be doing just fine. Even in my last house with older coax run I was able to get ~1Gbps to my endpoints. The latency difference hasn't been a problem for me, even with 3-4 adapters in use.

It's not quite as nice as having cat6 run everywhere, but unless you're trying to like edit 4K video off a NAS or something that needs a ton of bandwidth it should do just fine.

FWIW, I use these adapters from GoCoax, but there are other good ones out there too: https://www.amazon.com/goCoax-Adapter-Ethernet-Bandwidth-existing/dp/B09RB1QYR9

[–] ascendings@fedia.io 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I tend to stick Elegoo PLA/PLA+ and that usually works well for me - their dark blue looks fantastic IMO. Overture's PLA seems to print well too, so did the roll of eSun I got.

Just avoid Creality Ender PLA at all costs. That stuff was awful!

[–] ascendings@fedia.io 3 points 7 months ago

Not at all! I was able to graduate at 22, but I knew plenty of people that graduated much older for various reasons (changing majors multiple times, taking a year or two to work and/or help the family, etc).

If anything, it's more "embarrassing" to not graduate once you've started, but as long as you're able to (at least try to) get a job and contribute to society, who cares?

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