walden

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[–] walden@sub.wetshaving.social 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

What's Netflix? That thing I cancelled years ago?

[–] walden@sub.wetshaving.social 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Grocery delivery service sounds expensive... but I don't know where you live.

[–] walden@sub.wetshaving.social 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I was going to recommend never keeping a balance in Venmo or the like, but understand sometimes waiting a few days for it to transfer to your bank can make things difficult.

[–] walden@sub.wetshaving.social 3 points 2 weeks ago

It's on YouTube as well.

[–] walden@sub.wetshaving.social 7 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

Not trying to lay blame, but doesn't Venmo ask where you want the money to come from every time you send money? They don't know your bank balance...

Overdraft fees are evil. Some banks will even clear transactions to result in the most overdrafts without regard to which order the transactions took place. For example if there are two transactions, one for $100 and one for $5, and account balance of $50, they'll purposely clear the $100 transaction first so both transactions trigger overdraft fees. They could clear the $5 first so only the $100 transaction triggers a fee, but nope.

Also, if this is your first overdraft you might have luck calling the bank and asking for forgiveness. I did that once in college and they refunded the overdraft fees.

[–] walden@sub.wetshaving.social 17 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Thanks for sharing.

With "Beginners Guide to Linux" in the title, I don't think the video is suitable for anyone who hasn't already tried Linux.

There's not even a mention of what a "distro" is, and if I had never used Linux before and watched this video, I'd run away as fast as I could. It's way too complex, and mentions way too many things that I've probably never heard of before.

That being said, I don't know who his demographic is. I'm always glad to see some effort into helping people discover Linux, but I fear this might have the opposite effect.

[–] walden@sub.wetshaving.social 6 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

I have Frigate running with a reverse proxy, a coral, etc. I just use the internal Intel GPU on my CPU and it works with a 1080p and a not-quite-4k stream (4MP maybe?). It's no sweat for the hardware.

GPU is only used to detect motion, and you can even configure a lower resolution sub-stream from your cameras to reduce that load, but I don't think you'll need to.

Once motion is detected, Frigate fires up the coral to determine what is there. A car, dog, person, etc.

I have everything get recorded with no processing to a single WD Purple, the biggest I could afford. It holds months of video before rewriting over old stuff.

I have Amcrest cameras which are rebranded Dahua I think. I'm relatively happy with them, but I've always dreamed of owning Axis cameras, though they are a bit pricey. My cameras are on a VLAN that can't access the internet.

Hope that helps.

[–] walden@sub.wetshaving.social 20 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

I like the OnlyOffice software. It's almost too good, like I feel like I should be wary of it. It has connections to Russia, but apparently it's open source and all that jazz so from what I I understand it's just good software.

Please correct me if I'm wrong.

[–] walden@sub.wetshaving.social 2 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Mine is on a smart plug, too. It helps a ton except for those times where I go "an espresso would be nice right now".

[–] walden@sub.wetshaving.social 3 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I'm in a hard spot with a heat exchanger machine. On one hand I love it because the build quality is top notch, parts availability is excellent, and on and on, but on the other hand it takes about 15-20 minutes minimum for the E61 group head to warm up.

Measuring beans, grinding, and puck prep is pretty quick. 2 or 3 minutes.

[–] walden@sub.wetshaving.social 15 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I'm not an expert, but I think we need more information.

[–] walden@sub.wetshaving.social 0 points 1 month ago

Sounds good to me.

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