PeriodicallyPedantic @ PeriodicallyPedantic @lemmy.ca

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want to be liberated or something

Want something to be liberated from*
\ TIFTFY

I've definitely had some rural evenings that would have been better with the ability to shoot some cans.

I don't think that's the kind of "better" you were talking about

Nope

• green hay
• codplay
• lady maga
• Beeg Gees
• Sink
• Mhania Twain
• Eric crapton
• The Poors
• meat load
• Dem leopard
• Stevie wander
• the beach toys

I'm ashamed at how bad some of these are.
\ Especially Mhania train (Shania Twain / I'm on your train).

Yeah, you clearly don't even know what a convention is, and what are math conventions and math "rules" as you put it.

You're wrong, and even a 2 minute Google search would show you that and explain why. I'm done being Google for you when you're not willing to Google it yourself.

Isn't that where minions are from?

Pyjamas are for wearing wherever tf you want

This isn't how I remember Terminator ending

Middle aged, as in millennials?

This seems like some boomer shit

You can still have that, but base the start of the day on dawn(ish).

I do like metric time in principle, but also base 12 is better than base 10 so I'm torn

It's nice because people intuit and talk about days as a contiguous daylight period followed by a contiguous nighttime period, when they aren't having discussions about timekeeping. It'd be nice if we picked an arbitrary delineation that aligned to that.

Wrt doing math, realistically you could just pick an arbitrary day of the year as your reference and every day begins at a multiple of 24 hours from that. No math is needed.
\ I'm not looking for perfect alignment with local dawn in every location on the planet, I'm aiming for a calendar day that aligns with our intuition of the day/night cycle.
\ But more than that, I'm having a silly discussion about timekeeping.

I'm aware, but that is a modern problem only. And for that, we could have modern solutions that approximate dawn.

The goal isn't for it to be perfect day start at sunrise, it's for it to be conceptually satisfying and more closely match how we talk and intuit about days.

I don't understand what you mean here, why would "before dawn of the 3rd" become 00:00-08:00 of the 2nd?

I'm saying to shift what 00:00 is, to align with dawn(ish), so that a calendar day is comprised of a contiguous day followed by a contiguous night, which is how we typically intuit about days anyways when we aren't talking about time.

I know there are practical modern issues with this, but this is a silly post about how unsatisfying it is for the day to start at midnight

I've been going through a similar journey, and I'll tell you want I did:

I ended up just getting a low-end 2 bay Synology NAS, because it is cheap, and easy to set up shares and backups, and 12tb mirrored is all I needed. I was too intimidated by the prospect of configuring trueNAS correctly, and Synology walked back their requirement of using their own branded drives.

If you want open source NAS software, then TrueNAS and OpenMediaVault are the main options. Truenas has the better pedigree afaict, but it has pretty significant requirements that mean you'll need expensive hardware. In the end, I decided it was way more than what I needed, I wanted my NAS to be purely a NAS, and I'd do my server/cluster on different hardware.
\ I almost got a HexOS NAS (fork of trueNAS SCALE with a front-end written by a bunch of ex-unraid folks to be much easier to configure and admin), but it's still beta and I didn't wanna wait a few months for GA, and also it has the same requirements as trueNAS, so it'd be expensive and you also have to pay for a license.

If you go with a traditional OTS NAS, then you probably want raid 1 for a 2 bay or raid 5 if you have 4+ bays.
\ If you get something like truenas that uses ZFS then you want raidz1 (which is like raid5 with one parity disk). Current there are limitations with raiz if you wanna expand it later, but HexOS folks are sponsoring a ZFS feature called Any RAID, to make expanding raidz more flexible, which will presumably make it's way to all ZFS NASes when it is finished.

I'm pretty early in my self-hosting journey, but so far I have a 2 bay Synology with cloud backup and a couple of shared volumes, a rasppi 5 running home assistant, a beelink ser5 running Ubuntu server for portainer, and a cheap VPS for pangolin.

It kinda depends on what kinds of daily activity they can learn and what the nature of the support is.

Like, reading the description, I'm thinking of elderly dementia patients, and I wouldn't call them "pretty much vegetables", even if they need very intensive assistance.

But I suppose "pretty much" can cover a very wide range for different people.

I'd argue that calling the second after midnight to get "early morning" is confusing. But this is all silly to begin with.

And don't even get me started on months and seasons.
\ Or time.

Naw, the start of the day should be at the start of the day. within a margin of error.

When you say "I don't think it happens at the same time" that's only because you're counting arbitrarily from midnight. If you counted from dawn, then midnight wouldn't happen at the same time every day.

There are reasons why actually using dawn is bad.
\ But the thrust I'm making is that it's unsatisfying because we intuit that a "day" is a contiguous day followed by a contiguous night, but that's not what it really is.

Rap Battles of History said they liked my idea and used it as an example of a good idea to some other people.

I said "Neil Armstrong vs Jacques Cousteau: pioneers of the final frontiers" or something to that effect.

In the end they did Jacques vs someone else.

People don't typically call immedi after midnight "early morning".

But also this is a silly post.
\ maybe I should have said "unsatisfying" instead of "sucks". The way the calendar works doesn't match how we typically intuit a day.