Creat

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[–] Creat@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 2 days ago

You can't put the kind of memory used in servers (registered ECC dimm) into normal/personal computers. It's not just that the ECC won't work, they don't work at all.

That's different with unregistered ECC dimms, those will work (at normal spec speeds), but the ECC part will just be unused. These are in the minority though for servers, in practice they are more used in workstations.

[–] Creat@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 3 days ago

First my context: I'm also running multiple Proxmox hosts (personal and professional), and havea paperless-ngx instance (personal/family). I tried Firefly, but the effort required to get it to a point where it would be if use to me was too high, so I dropped it. Haven't used n8n.

For the setup I'd just use the Proxmox community scripts, if you haven't heard of them. Makes updates trivial and lowers the bar to just trying something to basically zero.

Paperless-ngx I actually use, cause it means I can find something when i need it. It's all automatically ocr'd and all you have to do is categorize them. With time, it'll learn and do this for you. You can (manually) setup your scanner to just directly upload files to the "consume" folder and it just works. PC/server power is near irrelevant, it just means OCR takes slightly longer, otherwise it's a web server. You can run this just fine on a raspberry pi.

I don't have any real automation setup, so I can't really comment on that. My advice is to just install it, see what it does and how it feels. Try to anticipate if and how much automation you need. Many aspects of all this are of the "setup once" variety, where once it's working, you don't have to touch it again. Try to gauge if the one time effort is worth it for you, then go from there. As I said, it was fine for paperless for me, but not for Firefly (but I might need to revisit this).

[–] Creat@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

You asked a very loaded question, implying seeing no use for the file system and/or no point to these optimizations as a result.

If you genuinely didn't know what exFAT is used for, or what is a common use of it is, you could've asked just that. Like "what is exFAT used for" or "I've never heard of this, an I using this and just don't know it?".

[–] Creat@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I mean there's isn't anything to fix. Could just be an unlucky month in selecting people for the survey. As the other person said, it does seem to be a statistical anomaly or actual error. But that is still a pretty massive dip for either of those two options. In and of itself also kinda statistically unlikely, hence my question.

[–] Creat@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

The heck happened in March?

[–] Creat@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 3 weeks ago

Yup, that's a great summary.

I just wanted to add that the reason it's good, specifically better than bash, is that daring to create something that drops compatibility after I don't know how many decades allows to actually apply the lessons from an this time. The lack of portability is basically the reason it can be better, but also obviously a bummer.

[–] Creat@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Isn't that already allocated to Greenland? So 52nd it is!

[–] Creat@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 month ago

Many people look at the game graphics and think it's a joke, but the gameplay is actually great, even by today standards. If you're even a little into transportation games, just give it a go. It'll also run on a toaster.

[–] Creat@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 month ago

You can set that on any android. Pin is just the default, but it's up to you to use a full password, then you need the full password for first unlock after boot.

[–] Creat@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 1 month ago (4 children)

I got the 64gb intentionally to just put in a 512gb myself. Was no problem to do, and saved quite a bit on the price difference. I'm extremely happy with the device, but don't use it nearly enough.

[–] Creat@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 month ago

First you state I'm "absolutely incorrect" then you repeat and confirm what I said:

I can run them on higher settings usually

This seems awfully close to the "at least on high" in my comment, so what is the problem with my statement?

I also purposely kept it relative and vague, because personal preferences differ wildly on what is meant by "I can run xxx", which you've basically doubled down on. I specifically do NOT expect 100fps in a triple-A on maxed out settings with ray tracing, and I thought that much was clear. But I can get to 100fps, with somewhat reduced settings, if that's a game where I'd need that. To be specific this time: my general target is usually around 60fps for more visual titles, but it can dip a bit below in busy/dense/hectic areas. It also shouldn't leave the 50s for significant amounts of time though.

That all being said, I also only rarely actually play AAA games. But I do play some indie games that are more on the demanding side, but then there's most games I play that should run in a toaster... Which is another reason I never upgraded. It's all still good enough.

[–] Creat@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 month ago

The main idea is that the state of your computer/desktop is known to home assistant and you can react to it. Media starts playing on PC, so mute the tv. A meeting starts (camera in use), so dim room lights and turn on the ring light.

PC turned off: wait 30s, then turn off the whole outlet to act as a master/slave power strip and save power on monitors and otherpc associated standby devices. Or just turn off desk lights.

Finally you can have scripts on the PC that do whatever you want, and you can trigger them from home assistant. Movement detected in the garden, so open the camera preview on the corner of 3rd monitor. Backup server just came online (or was woken up by wake-on-lan from ha), so run a backup if the PC is on.

 

I've noticed for a while that when playing a linked video directly in the app, it doesn't respect the global auto-rotate setting of the screen. Only today did I notice that there's a "lock rotation" button at the top of the player, but unless I'm misunderstanding something, it seems to do the opposite of that it's showing: when I see the little lock it's unlocked, and then it's just the rotation icon it's actually locked. For context, my phone's rotation is always locked, but the video always rotates on me.

In general my suggestion for the behavior for playing video would be to rotate and lock it to the "correct" orientation for it's aspect ratio. It makes no sense to play a portrait video in landscape, neither does the other way around. Rotating the phone should probably still be able to flip it 180°.

 

The linked post essentially performed a benchmark of lemmy apps and if they properly display the formating options available. Sync got 3rd last place, position 18 out of 20 apps, with a score of 6.9 out of 10. There's a comment that essentially contains the test set. I hope we get some fixes, cause some of the problems have been around for a while.

In my personal experience the issues with spoiler tags, and some of the embedded images and their sizes is rather annoying. For example this comment shows perfectly fine on desktop, but becomes a garbled mess on sync (as you can tell by my comment, blaming the bot). Also note that while sync technically gets 3/3 for the images, the last image should be text-sized between the "arrows". It isn't, it's just huge (and consequently a pixelated mess).

Edit: fixed link to example comment for spoiler.

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