skip0110

joined 10 months ago
[–] skip0110@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 week ago

I also run this way. NFS4 mount for the media Dir. Cache Dir on the local SSD. No problems streaming 2-3 devices. NAS is happy to serve other files at the same time.

Docker host is nothing special, old Mac mini running Ubuntu.

[–] skip0110@lemmy.zip 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Oh boy…I also have a perfectly working bathroom fan motor. In storage for around 15 years now, and rescued from my parent’s renovation. Good to know it may indeed be useful :)

[–] skip0110@lemmy.zip 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I had a flame sensor go out last year. The tech could get it going by just cleaning the sensor, but did come back and replace it when the part came in.

Sadly, I gave up my own troubleshooting when I saw the computer control was flashing an error. Would have saved me a couple hundred bucks.

[–] skip0110@lemmy.zip 12 points 1 month ago

I have consistently been trying to use AI for the actual tasks I need to complete for work over the last year or so (we are gently encouraged to try it, but thankfully not forced). I have found it to be “successful” at maybe 1 in 10 tasks I give it. Even when successful, the code quality is so low I edit heavily before it’s pushed and attributed to me.

I think the problem I have is I rarely work on boilerplate stuff.

[–] skip0110@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 month ago

Sad as that is, I think you’re correct

[–] skip0110@lemmy.zip 10 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Yes! I hope they don’t roll over (again). They need to fight on every front. Respond to flooding the zone with a torrent of their own.

[–] skip0110@lemmy.zip 52 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Not only do the rich not pay enough taxes, they are the greatest beneficiaries of taxpayer funded programs like SNAP since it allows them to underpay their employees. So we basically subsidize their gains.

https://www.sanders.senate.gov/press-releases/taxpayers-subsidize-poverty-wages-at-walmart-mcdonalds-other-large-corporations-gao-finds/

[–] skip0110@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 month ago

But….if someone sold a manually operated plastic extruder, that’s fine?

And if someone separately sold CAM software that’s fine too?

Just sayin’

[–] skip0110@lemmy.zip 147 points 1 month ago (26 children)

Why are utilities privatized?

Our energy provider increased our rates, then reported record breaking profits the next year. :(

(US)

[–] skip0110@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This is a good tip, thanks. I have been approaching it with a "I'll build up a ton, then sand it back to what I need" which is probably one of the many ways I mess it up :)

[–] skip0110@lemmy.zip 18 points 1 month ago

Now I can code in peace while simulated AI usage quietly empties a lake somewhere...

[–] skip0110@lemmy.zip 26 points 1 month ago (11 children)

I can do all sorts of DIY things around the house.

Drywall/plaster, I am terrible at. Much respect for those skilled in the trade. Their work on a ladder above their head beats what I can do at eye level over 2 days.

(The other thing I don’t touch is plumbing. Jeez, that water really wants to be outside of the pipes. Unlike drywall, the impact of bad plumbing is much more than an eyesore.)

 

I spent the long weekend setting up a home dashboard and thought I would share with this community.

I checked out a few options for this and settled on using Glance which takes a YAML as input, transforms it into a dashboard, and serves it. Its nice because it's a single executable. I have this set to run on startup on an old RPi 2, which also runs a fullscreen Chrome session pointed to localhost for display on an old monitor I had sitting around. The RPi 2 is able to run glance comfortably, it's a little slow to run Chrome but that's OK, this is not interactive. The monitor is on a remote so I can flick it on/off from my desk. I also made a "homescreen webapp" on my phone so I can jump to the same dashboard and click into any news that is interesting.

A few things I learned

  • with the HEAD property you can set the page to auto-refresh. Each widget caches internally so this can be set to the quickest refresh rate needed, and only some feeds will re-populate
  • you can combine multiple Lemmy community post streams into a single time-sorted "feed" using the RSS widget and the RSS link from each Lemmy community. You can also mix in other non-social news sources by adding their RSS (this worked better than the standard Lemmy community widget) So in the end I can have a nice mix of sources and there are enough of them to even populate when Lemmy isn't so active.
  • to supplement the weather widget, I added live satellite and radar loops. You can get them here: satellite (look for the *.gif under GEOCOLOR for each location) and radar (click the "image loop" link to get a radar loop after picking your local radar station). Applies to US only for radar. The US runs other satellites which cover the whole world, but GOES-19 is the US east coast, pictured roughly every 20 min.
  • my router (Microtik) provides nice graphs I could include so the dashboard includes a network bytes TX/RX graph for my home (this is below what is visible in the screenshot)

Here's my config

I hope this is helpful to someone!

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