blackstrat

joined 2 years ago
[–] blackstrat@lemmy.fwgx.uk 3 points 3 weeks ago

So what your saying is we need to give people more weapons to even up the fight.

[–] blackstrat@lemmy.fwgx.uk 4 points 4 weeks ago

Electric screwdriver. Have used mine so much over the years it was well worth the £35 I paid. It won't do what an impact driver does, but the same can be said the other way around too.

You could also get some running shoes, shorts an T and become a runner.

[–] blackstrat@lemmy.fwgx.uk 18 points 1 month ago

Clothes who's primary purpose seems to be to let others know what brand it is. As if I'm supposed to be impressed you bought a Jack Jones t shirt. Couldn't you just have bought a nice T-shirt without the branding? No because it's all about being a brand whore - trashy.

[–] blackstrat@lemmy.fwgx.uk 2 points 1 month ago

Not for learning by ear, but Guitar Pro is really good for slowing down and looping. Songsterr is also good.

[–] blackstrat@lemmy.fwgx.uk 1 points 1 month ago

She helpfully also saved your back a little

[–] blackstrat@lemmy.fwgx.uk 1 points 1 month ago

You know you can get a lot of protein from non-meat sources, right?

[–] blackstrat@lemmy.fwgx.uk 4 points 1 month ago

I have a teeny tiny screwgate carabina from about 1997 that I use as a key ring.

[–] blackstrat@lemmy.fwgx.uk 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

On my app I can't see it. It maybe you made someone else's day.

[–] blackstrat@lemmy.fwgx.uk 2 points 1 month ago

Especially if its a few years down the line when you're already a few grand in to their system

[–] blackstrat@lemmy.fwgx.uk -1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

How many internet connected devices do you think there are in a typical 2 adult 2 kid household, excluding phones? Here are TVs, tablets, Chromebooks, laptops, game consoles etc etc. Kids don't jus have phones - mine don't and there's still a raw internet connection to almost all these devices.

And out of all of that only one has good controls for parents and believe me when I say this, setting it up was torture.

If you want to block YouTube to specific devices and not others its a really difficult thing to do. Especially when Big Tech is working against you - block the YouTube URLs on a Pihole and you'll find that the play store also doesn't work. There are plenty of dark patterns in all these things. Because these companies do not want to help by blocking access to the marketing bucks of kids.

There is no simple solution to all of it unless you either live in the past or you parent so 1984ly that it'll exhaust you and alienate your kids from you.

[–] blackstrat@lemmy.fwgx.uk -1 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Your notion of the modern world is terribly quaint

[–] blackstrat@lemmy.fwgx.uk 5 points 1 month ago

I'm trying to do stuff that's quick that I can do every day. I do pushups before my morning shower and some squats whilst I brush my teeth. Do it every day, I feel better for it and it only takes like 3 minutes. You can do extra sets around the house if you have a spare 30-60 seconds too.

 

There's 3 things that really stand out for me that I would say made a massive difference to my life:

  1. Cordless screw driver. Bought the day after building a flat pack bed with a crappy screw.driver that just shredded my hand. Thought it was frivolous at the time, but I've used it so much since. It's light, small enough to fit in my pocket and good for 90% of DIY tasks.

  2. Tassimo coffee machine. Bought it 9 years ago, use it every day. Nice quick easy coffee. What's not to like.

  3. My first DSLR camera. It was a Nikon D50 back in 2005/6 and it sparked my interest in photography to this day. It gave me a hobby I can take lots of places and do it alone or with others. I never loved the D50 camera itself, but I did get some really nice shots with it

 

Seems like a shame to throw away and must have a use.

 

I thought I'd never see the day.

For King Tovalds and Country of FOSS OS's

 

Wear Arch, but I run EndeavourOS. If EndeavourOS launched a line of shoes I'd probably wear them.

 

This was a very nerve racking experience as I'd never gone through a major version Proxmox update before and I had spent a lot of time getting everything just so with lots of config around disk and VLANs. The instructions were also a big long page, which never fills me with confidence as it normally means there's a lot of holes to fall in to.

My initial issue was that it says to perform the upgrade with no VM's running, but it requires an internet connection and my router is Opnsense in a VM. Thankfully apt dist-upgrade --download-only, shutdown the Opnsense VM and then apt dist-upgrade did the trick.

A few config files changed and I always hate this part of Debian upgrades, but nothing major or of importance was impacted.

A nervous reboot and everything was back up running the new Proxmox with the new kernel. Surprisingly smooth overall and the most time consuming part by far was backing up my VM's just in case. The upgrade itself including reboot was probably 15 mins, the backups and making sure I was prepared and mentally ready was about an hour.

Compared to upgrading ESXi on old hardware like I was doing last year, it was a breeze.

Highly recommended, would upgrade again.

 

I set up friendica as my first foray on to the fediverse. It worked well, but as it turns out doesn't work that well with Lemmy, which was my main usecase. Well whilst trying to fix DNS issues setting up a Lemmy instance instead, I noticed my DNS logs were rather full. My Unbound DNS was getting 40k requests every 10 mins to *.activitypub-troll.cf. I don't know who or what that is, but blocking it didn't reduce the activity. At first I thought it was something to do with Lemmy as I'd forgotten I still had Friendica running. Thankfully stopping the Friendica service reduced the DNS request back to normal.

So if you've set something up recently, you might want to check if there have been any consequences in your service logs

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