Smokeydope

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[–] Smokeydope@lemmy.world 6 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (2 children)

The clay pot is put over top of the propane burner and serves a few purposes.

It captures and redistributes/radiates the heat at the lower room near floor where cold air is. Without the clay pot the heat would quickly rise at the ceiling and rush out through vent holes.

The terracotta thermal mass acts as a heat sink and its large surface area effectively exchanges/radiates heat into the air.

If I want to cycle propane on and off to conserve propane the pot stays warm a while and acts as thermal battery.

Also the pot covers up the flame so its not exposed which is good for safety. Heavyness helps stabilize stove and table too.

[–] Smokeydope@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago

Yes, typo! Also good info to know about Thai peppers.

[–] Smokeydope@lemmy.world 3 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (2 children)

Those are ornamental (decorative) peppers. They're grown for looks not consumption that's as big as they get. Next growing season you need regular sized cayane, bannana peppers, habenero.

 

My old 7000 btu single burner stove gave out. Decided to upgrade to a Coleman triton 2 burner 22000 btu.

So far it starts up nice. Need to see how it fares with some daily use in long term. Need to be mindful of extra fuel consumption too

[–] Smokeydope@lemmy.world 6 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

I highly doubt i would be recognized by anyone in any meaningful capacity. To draw attention and get internet clout you need to be a hyperactive poster, a mod for an active community, or engage in a little politics/drama otherwise nobody notices nobody cares. Im just some guy who says things and post whatever.

 

Please help me understand what went wrong and how I can fix it?

[–] Smokeydope@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I enjoy the concepts and structures of mathematics. Fractal geometry, holomorphic dynamics, computational theory, uncertainty principles and all that are fascinating as hell. Discrete systems dancing with continuous integrals at process limits.

I DO NOT ENJOY working with math. Specifically I cant read complex equations. I don't have an attention disorder but I swear the moment I try reading anything that looks like this I get overloaded and nope out. If it aint highschool algebra with PEMDAS I cant do it. If you put a bullet to my head and pinned my survival on properly solving a quadratic equation I'd just tell you to shoot me.

The concepts are cool once you can get past the notation to understand the ontology of whats trying to be conveyed. The actual expanded out notations and trying to do work with them is a fuckin nightmare.

Also since im ranting can I just say, across STEM the biggest problem is the naming convention. Math and science would be at least 60% more accessable if we went back and renamed all theorems, hypothesis, proofs, to be what they are about instead of just shouting out the guy who discovered it. "eulers identity" doesnt mean a fucking thing. Neither does scrodingers equations or the riemann hypothesis or turing machines. THESE ARE NOT ACCESSABLE NAMES THEY CONVEY NOTHING INTRINSICALLY BESIDES SOME DEAD GUYS LAST NAME. GET SOME PROGRAMMERS WHO KNOW HOW TO ACTUALLY DECLARE HUMAN READABLE STRINGS FOR YOUR FUCKING ABSTRACTION OBJECTS.

[–] Smokeydope@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I guess it depends on what you qualify as a real mass extinction, for me its like not really. Dont get me wrong the Holocene extinction is real but we hype up our own destructive capability and we only care about our own mass extinction and the species we directly affect. From an objective perspective comparing to the other extinction events what weve done Its like a minor extinction event over a long timeframe.

I don't consider us potentiallyoffing ourselves and only like 10k species over the lifetime of the Holocene as a mass extinction.

If you wanted an actual for realsies mass extinction level event where more than 90% of all species everywhere die in that kind small timeframe you need nothing short of an apolocyptic sized meteor or a series of eruptions from super massive volcanos.

Were not talking about the survival of taking monkeys and all the creatures were familiar with, were talking about every biome every ecosystem everywhere all at once (in a geologically short time frame) from the top of mount everest to the bottom of Marianas.

Compared to something like that tens of thousands of species we personally had a hand in wiping out since the industrial revolution or start of epocene is child's play compared to a for-real cataclysmic natural disaster. To even try to equate what we've done with the holocene extintion to the Cambrian extinction or Triassic extinction is a category error, completely different levels of devistation and timeframes. Humans bad and all that sure, but its night and day. We havent blocked out the sun for like 100 years straight, covered the entire earth in ash, or raised sea level by like 5 miles.

Compared to that we've checks notes damaged the ozone layer (which we fixed), polluted plastic everywhere (whose processing in the food chain is probably gonna be a big part of the evolution of Organisms in the long term) and ruined our own fresh water drinking supply. Unless we decide to go thermonuclear winter thats like a minor inconvinence to the biosphere in the greater picture.

[–] Smokeydope@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

IMO 4k resolution is overkill its way past the optimal between file storage and visual fidelity. Nobody has ever complained about the visual quality of my 720p or 1080p sourced stuff much in the same way most sane people wont notice the difference between FLAC and mp3 on average listening. Bhack in my day we were lucky to get 480p on a square box tv.

[–] Smokeydope@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Less danger than OPsec nerds hype up but enough of a concern you want at least a reverse proxy. The new FOSS replacement for cloudflare on the block is Anubis https://github.com/TecharoHQ/anubis, while Im not the biggest fan of seeing chibi anime funkopop girl thing wag its finger at me for a second or two as it test connection, I cannot deny the results seem effective enough that all the cool kids on the FOSS circle all are switching to it over cloudflare.

I just learned how to get my first website and domain and stuff setup locally this summer so theres some network admin stuff im still figuring out. I don't have any complex scripting or php or whatever so all the bots that try scanning for admin pages are never going to hit anything it just pollutes the logs. People are all nuts about scraping bots in current year but when I was a kid allowing your sites to be indexed and crawled was what let people discover it through engines, I don't care if botnets scan through my permissively licensed public writing.

[–] Smokeydope@lemmy.world 12 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

When I was a teen some of the girls I knew had such big lady boners for the main cast of supernatural ad sherlock Holmes. I never understood why.

Going by the Venn diagram, ive now come to the conclusion that theres something about homoerotic baiting between two grizzled depressed dad archetypes that really fires the neurons and gets the hormones going for some ladies.

[–] Smokeydope@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

have to remember that expression

Playing Dwarf Fortress will help with that!

[–] Smokeydope@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Similar story here! A couple years ago learning about Gemini/gopher/smallnet from mentaloutlaw videos. So I joined a public access Unix server (first SDF later tilde.team) and learned how to write my own capsule site for a few years. Learned some basic .CGI bin and awk processing to create a gemtext to epub converter that made small ebooks of daily post in atom feed. It was like training wheels really helped prepare me for the transition to full self hosting capsule and website

 

This is a simple toolchain that allows you to focus on writing your website instead of getting distracted with HTML formatting.

It works by taking in a gemtext file and converting it into an HTML file.

Gemtext:

HTML:

Code can be found here on the public Git:

https://codeberg.org/TomCon/gem2web/src/branch/master

 

I've never seen the hype so real that it instantly crashes steams purchace processing servers.

You can get it on GOG and Humble Bundle still

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Linus Posting (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by Smokeydope@lemmy.world to c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world
 

Bonus Meme:

 

I think i've discovered something important in the field I dabble in as a advanced hobbyist. Like this was a breakthrough and perspective shift enough for me to stay awake all night into the morning until I had to go to sleep testing it works and boilerplating the abstract paper. I constructed a theoretical framework, practical implementation, and statistically analyzed experimental results across numerous test cases. I then put my findings into as good a technical paper as I could write up. I did as much research as I could to make sure nobody else had written about this before.

At this point though I don't really know how to proceed. Im an outsider systems engineer not an academic, and arXiv requires you be endorsed/recognized as a member of the scientific community with like a college email or written recommendation by someone already known. Then whenever I look at the papers on arxiv they always look a very specific way I cant get with libreoffice writer. Theres apparently a whole bunch of rules on formatting and font and style and this and that. Its overwhelming and kind of scary.

So. What do i do here? I have something I think is important enough to get off my ass and get in touch with a local college to maybe get a recommendation. I'd like to have my name in the community and contribute.

 

I think i've discovered something important in the field I dabble in as a advanced hobbyist. Like this was a breakthrough and perspective shift enough for me to stay awake all night into the morning until I had to go to sleep testing it works and boilerplating the abstract paper. I constructed a theoretical framework, practical implementation, and statistically analyzed experimental results across numerous test cases. I then put my findings into as good a technical paper as I could write up. I did as much research as I could to make sure nobody else had written about this before.

At this point though I don't really know how to proceed. Im an outsider systems engineer not an academic, and arXiv requires you be endorsed/recognized as a member of the scientific community with like a college email or written recommendation by someone already known. Then whenever I look at the papers on arxiv they always look a very specific way I cant get with libreoffice writer. Theres apparently a whole bunch of rules on formatting and font and style and this and that. Its overwhelming and kind of scary.

So. What do i do here? I have something I think is important enough to get off my ass and get in touch with a local college to maybe get a recommendation. I'd like to have my name in the community and contribute.

 

Please help! I'm trying to remove this metal plate to get to my GPU for cleaning. From what I saw it had one star pattern bolt at the end of a slope connecting to the chassis, removing it loosened it a little but I don't know how to proceed. Dont want to damage anything.

Edit: I got it figured out! Had to pull a metal tab on the back as I jostled/slid the plate. Thank you!

 
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Homelab upgrade WIP (lemmy.world)
submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by Smokeydope@lemmy.world to c/buildapc@lemmy.world
 

Theres a lot more to this stuff than I thought there would be when starting out. I spent the day familiarizing with how to take apart my pc and swap gpus .Trying to piece everything together.

Apparently in order for PC to startup right it needs a graphical driver. I thought the existance of a HDMI port on the motherboard implied the existance of onboard graphics but apparently only special CPUs have that capability. My ryzen 5 2600 doesnt. The p100 Tesla does not have graphical display capabilities. So ive hit a snag where the PC isnt starting up due to not finding a graphical interface output.

I'm going to try to run multiple GPU cards together on pcie. Hope I can mix amd Rx 580 and nvidia tesla on same board fingers crossed please work.

My motherboard thankfully supports 4x4x4x4 pcie x16 bifurcation which isa very lucky break I didnt know going into this 🙏

Strangely other configs for splitting 16x lanes like 8x8 or 8x4x4 arent in my bios for some reason? So I'm planning to get a 4x bifurcstion board and plug both cards in and hope that the amd one is recognized!

According to one source The performance loss for using 4x lanes for GPUs doing the compute i m doing is 10-15 % surprisingly tolerable actually.

I never really had to think about how pcie lanes work or how to allocate them properly before.

For now I'm using two power supplies one built into the desktop and the new 850e corsair psu. I choose this one as it should work with 2-3 GPUs while being in my price range.

Also the new 12v-2x6 port supports like 600w enough for the tesla and comes with a dual pcie split which was required for the power cable adapter for Tesla. so it all worked out nicely for a clean wire solution.

Sadly I fucked up a little. The pcie release press plastic thing on the motherboard was brittle and I fat thumbed it too hard while having problems removing the GPU initially so it snapped off. I dont know if that's something fixable. It doesnt seem to affect the security of the connection too bad fortunately. I intend to grt a pcie riser extensions cable so there won't be much force on the now slightly loosened pcieconnection. Ill have the gpu and bifurcation board layed out nicely on the homelab table while testing, get them mounted somewhere nicely once I get it all working.

I need to figure out a external GPU mount system. I see people use server racks or nut and bolt meta chassis. I could get a thin plate of copper the size of the desktops glass window as a base/heatsink?

 

I now do some work with computers that involves making graphics cards do computational work on a headless server. The computational work it does has nothing to do with graphics.

The name is more for consumers based off the most common use for graphics cards and why they were first made in the 90s but now they're used for all sorts of computational workloads. So what are some more fitting names for the part?

I now think of them as 'computation engines' analagous to a old car engine. Its where the computational horsepower is really generated. But how would ram make sense in this analogy?

 

Setting up a personal site on local hardware has been on my bucket list for along time. I finally bit he bullet and got a basic website running with apache on a Ubuntu based linux distro. I bought a domain name, linked it up to my l ip got SSL via lets encrypt for https and added some header rules until security headers and Mozilla observatory gave it a perfect score.

Am I basically in the clear? What more do I need to do to protect my site and local network? I'm so scared of hackers and shit I do not want to be an easy target.

I would like to make a page about the hardware its running on since I intend to have it be entirely ran off solar power like solar.lowtechmagazine and wanted to share technical specifics. But I heard somewhere that revealing the internal state of your server is a bad idea since it can make exploits easier to find. Am I being stupid for wanting to share details like computer model and software running it?

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