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- Comment on What is behind the current Lemmy meme about 4 being a private key? 6 hours ago:
- Comment on i use debian btw 1 week ago:
there is still time, become the debian user you wish to see in the world :)
- Comment on i use debian btw 1 week ago:
just trixie, almost every single device in my house runs it :3
- Comment on i use debian btw 1 week ago:
okay to be clear i did pay for the hard drives, a bit below market price but i didn’t just find 16 identical 14 TB drives lying around somewhere :P
the trick is not only to re-check e-waste bins at a bunch of different companies/institutions regularly (i normally make the rounds once a week at different points in the week), but also to befriend the IT guys if possible :) sometimes the big stuff (like servers and racks) doesn’t get chucked in the regular ewaste, but if you become enough of a familiar face (be “that person” who’s always rummaging around back) you can start asking if they have other things or even get first dibs on some stuff - the IT department at my local high school now texts me whenever they’re about to throw out something big lol. of course this is predicated on the assumption that the IT guys are friendly, which isn’t always the case.
as for nix: i just did ye olde
sudo apt install nixand then for any project i’m working on with dependencies not in the debian repos, i set up a nix config with the necessary libraries and headers and just do all my dev work inside a correspondingnix-shell. can recommend learning how nix works, it’s pretty cool :) - Comment on i use debian btw 1 week ago:
yup! it’s called DisplayPort MST (Multi-Stream Transport), it’s the reason DP hubs exist and the same tech used in high-end DP monitors which support daisy-chaining
- Comment on i use debian btw 1 week ago:
btrfs is pretty fun :) definitely a steep learning curve and there are a lot more little performance quirks than something like ZFS, but if you use it right it’s fantastic!
the rack (and most of the stuff on it) is basically refurbished ewaste - i do a LOT of dumpster diving. pretty much the only things i’ve paid for are hard drives and RAM (which is all DDR3 and remains dirt-cheap, i’ve got both T620s up to 768GB now >:D). can recommend looking around at any schools/universities/large company offices near you to see if you can get your hands on some free shit
yeah the shipping thing can be a pain (this is the reason i still don’t have a drive shelf), but there are still a few good deals which work out. i’m in switzerland (also not EU), so it isn’t any easier for me :P
- Comment on i use debian btw 1 week ago:
my main pool (in the R520) is 8x16TB drives in btrfs RAID1, and then i have a few smaller btrfs arrays for backups and simply offloading large datasets i’m not actively using from the main server (i don’t have enough SAS bays to have them all connected at once so i plug them into the lower T620 as necessary - drive shelves are all either too long for my rack or too damn expensive). that’s what all the drives piled up on top are, although to be fair they’re normally put away more nicely (have spent the last week or so clearing a whole bunch of old hardware out of my closet and had to get the drives out of the way).
i can advise stalking r/homelabsales for a few months, you can occasionally find some fantastic deals there for refurbed drives, often with practically no use :)
- Comment on i use debian btw 1 week ago:
i use nix on debian for reproducable dev environments :3
- Submitted 1 week ago to unixsocks@lemmy.blahaj.zone | 17 comments
- Comment on Just vibin' 1 week ago:
no we didn’t light it but we’re gonna die in it
- Comment on They all look like this 1 week ago:
i know quite a few folks (myself included) who could probably stand to pack on a bit around the waist, but sure okay
- Comment on wednesdude 3 weeks ago:
he has binged his last har
- Comment on Bottom gear 3 weeks ago:
it’s not nsfw just a shitpost
- Submitted 3 weeks ago to [deleted] | 1 comment
- Comment on Never forget 5 weeks ago:
fair enough, last time i saw this one making the rounds everyone was calling it ai and that’s what i remembered… mob mentality is a hell of a drug smh
don’t pretend like you’ve got some great wisdom for knowing how to use photoshop though, it’s not some mythical lost art from the 90s
- Comment on I stand with Spider-Woman 🏳️⚧️ 1 month ago:
who’s the other spider-person in the foreground
- Comment on Anon has seen it all before 1 month ago:
The money can’t be any real earth currency
no, now that you’ve said this i want to see a sci-fi movie where all trade is based on the Vietnamese Đồng
- Submitted 1 month ago to videos@lemmy.world | 4 comments
- Comment on Anon is a ghost buster 1 month ago:
fake: ghosts aren’t real
gay: anon touched a dick - Comment on Anon gets called to the blackboard 1 month ago:
wait, really? where? what kind of budget do your schools have?!? i’m smack-dab in the middle of gen z, in one of the wealthiest parts of switzerland, and there’s always been at least one big-ass blackboard in every classroom i’ve ever been in, from 1st grade in primary school to every single lecture and seminar hall at university. most of my teachers until high school stuck to writing in pen on an overhead projector, and on the rare occasion that they needed to show something on the computer they’d just lower the blackboard and project onto the wall.
- Comment on Anon is Japanese 1 month ago:
fake: anon has a wife
gay: anon is punished by his boss and likes it, which is clearly a euphemism for the forbidden but very kinky relationship between anon and his boss - Comment on anon discovers the magic of pizza (and yaoi) 1 month ago:
depends on whether you’re using the MOGAI definition of bisexual as “attracted to exactly two genders” or the LGBT definition as “attracted to more than one gender”
in practice there really isn’t much distinction, i don’t know a single person who identifies as bisexual and wouldn’t consider fucking a non-binary person, and the main distinguishing factor between people who label themselves bisexual and those that label themselves pansexual seems to be “was this person active on tumblr or other online communities with a similar vibe at any point between 2014-ish and now”.
- Comment on Hell yeah. 2 months ago:
- Comment on There’s a Class 100 semiconductor cleanroom inside this backyard shed. 7 months ago:
There are other YouTubers who have managed to make meaningful chips (on the order of 1000 transistors) out of basically a garage setup with salvaged and/or improvised equipment. I would be shocked if this guy can’t do better than that with his much more sophisticated setup.
- Comment on me btw 7 months ago:
i have never seen this tool before and now i am forever in your debt
- Submitted 10 months ago to [deleted] | 3 comments
- Comment on To all fellow guys struggling these days 10 months ago:
“rib bone”
- Comment on You can do anything at Zombocom 11 months ago:
This reminds me of The Etherkiller
- Comment on Steam Hardware [new Steam Controller, Steam Machine, and VR headset Steam Frame, coming in 2026] 11 months ago:
I’m sure you can also stream to it over a conventional wifi connection as well, the point of the dongle is so that they can guarantee a direct connection with lower latency and on a dedicated radio frequency to avoid interference, which is especially for non-techies who don’t know what they’re doing and just expect stuff to work out-of-the-box. The headset is just running SteamOS and has a regular wifi antenna, so I see no reason why you couldn’t stream to it using plain old Steam Link or whatever if you already know your connection can handle it.
- Comment on Steam Hardware [new Steam Controller, Steam Machine, and VR headset Steam Frame, coming in 2026] 11 months ago:
It not being available to purchase directly from Steam means you have to get it from a 3rd party reseller, or order it to an address in an officially supported country and forward it from there yourself, both of which are generally more expensive than what steam is offering. The cheapest price I can find for a Steam Deck OLED in my country is a solid 20% more expensive than the price Steam lists on their website.
