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He's not really gonna get rid of the ACA right?
  • What do you do for the remaining 4-1/2 minutes?

  • Bernie Would Have Won
  • Would it be worse? They called a centrist prosecutor a commie bitch, maybe at least the progressives would get out and vote because they believe it might actually be true.

  • I don't get why people think Gnome is like MacOS
  • Windows, macos and gnome all piss me off within 30 seconds of using them so I say they're all exactly alike.

  • Sen. Bernie Sanders says he does not support urging Justice Sonia Sotomayor to step down
  • The window has closed. She'll resign and Congress will delay it until its Trump's appointment. This would be unutterably stupid to do now with 2 months left.

  • She voted for Trump. Now she fears losing the Obamacare plan that saved her life
  • I predict this will be the most active community on Lemmy over the next 4 years.

  • Is Reddit going to remain the primary space for this community?
  • I wish Lemmy would get rid of comment voting entirely. It's not used for anything since downvoted comments still appear (at least in default Alexandria interface, which I've used since it was available), and if a comment is downvoted because of prevailing groupthink, it emboldens every clueless troll to make some snarky troll comment in reply for the thrill of seeing upvotes on their snark.

    This would improve Lemmy tenfold.

  • The US has lost faith in the American dream. Is this the end of the country as we know it?
  • The Republican war on the middle class is what's killed the American Dream. Doing everything possible to reduce the buying power of white and blue-collar workers has gutted class mobility. The Democrats have played along to keep shifting the Overton Window towards the right to help make it happen. Donors happy all around as they move production offshore for low labor cost.

    System working as intended.

  • Help with docker setup
  • I found dozzle a bit rudimentary as it only does logs, but I liked that there was an android app to interface it.

    Lazydocker is more like Portainer on running stacks in that you can see logs, configs, stats and do operations on the stacks and components all from an SSH TUI.

  • US judge tosses Illinois' ban on semiautomatic weapons, governor pledges swift appeal
  • If I supply a postal box address, can someone ship me my RPG?

  • AI Has Come for Sweet, Innocent Notepad
  • Why, yes, I believe I will gladly pay for your AI Notepad bullshit, Microsoft! Sign me right the fuck up.

  • Help with docker setup
  • Well, that's a new development. That used to be the go-to method they pushed. Thanks for pointing that out.

    As for Docker Desktop being the top option, it would only be used for a "development environment" because why would you install that on a headless docker host for production? And after the horror stories I've heard of Windows and Mac versions of Docker Desktop, there isn't a chance in hell I'd use it anyway.

    So yes, going forward it looks like adding the repos and apt-get install are the way to go. Except, the convenience script was so... convenient.

  • iHeartRadio hallway March 2020
  • I listened to a couple IHR podcasts, got supremely sick of the ads and deleted both of them. Now I watch to see the source of new subs and don't bother if it's IHeart.

  • Pelosi blames Harris' loss on Biden's late exit and no open Democratic primary
  • Now Nancy wants open primaries at the DNC? Unlike the last 20 years when she was one of the kingmakers in the party?

    This fucking party needs to push these fuckers into their graves and get on with preparing for the nightmare they will be contending with over the next 4+ years.

    Nancy can fuck right off until she can't fuck off anymore. She got hers.

  • This Week in Self-Hosted (8 November 2024)
  • That Community-scripts seems to come off as some sort of Proxmox association, but I can't see anything official. Maybe Tteck is endorsing it, but it's not clear either.

    Keep in mind that running scripts, especially curl-bash pipes, has a huge security risk as anything can be substituted in the scripts or the dependencies they call. No clue who MickLesk is and not saying they're good, bad or indifferent. But there is no reputation there and caution should be exercised.

  • Help with docker setup
  • I don't need what Ubuntu offers to run server applications, and Debian is rock solid and predictable. Might as well go to the source since it's Debian all the way down anyway, just with added cruft.

  • Elon Musk joined Trump call with Ukraine’s Zelensky after US election
  • Impeaching him might be on the docket, if the Republicans really want Vance in the puppet seat. I think they'd rather manipulate him than whatever fucking impending shit-splosion Trump will become about 3 minutes in.

    I think Vance might at least be convinced to do logical things. We know that isn't happening with Donny.

  • Turnkey docker host with an App Store?

    I've seen these pop up before but didn't have a specific use for them, as I do all my own containers on a couple docker host VMs using compose. But for someone getting into it, it would seem like the way to go, maybe as a Docker-within-Docker container, or a full distro.

    I know Portainer does a bit of this with it's Stacks, where you can choose some containers to deploy a pre-built app, as does some NAS software like Unraid. I'm looking for something that has a fairly well maintained stockpile of pre-configured containers that it can deploy (maybe after editing) and manage. I'm sure I've seen github projects that do this but I'll be arsed if I seem to be able to find anything right now. Bonus points if it deploys a Traefik proxy for its applications and configures them to it.

    I imagine there's a dozen projects like this that the community can point me at.

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    What keeps dimming my monitors?

    I'm not sure if this is related to Night Light (which I don't have enabled) or even just the monitors dimming in power settings, but I constantly have to go and bring my brightness back up from 20% when I sit down at my computer in the AM.

    I have disabled Sleep as well, and the only thing left is the regular Energy Saving features of dimming after X minutes and Turn Off Monitors after X minutes, but I've set both of those to short timeouts and when it comes back, it's at 100%.

    Edit: For some reason I was on X11. I've switched to Wayland and will see if that changes anything.

    Any ideas what's causing this?

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    Good LTE/5G dongle for Linux?

    I need a few of these for rpi's around the farm. Tired of dealing with LoRa.

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    What's changed in the Alexandrite interface?

    If I bring up things like mail or a post in a new tab, I have to go into Login/Manage Accounts and choose my account to do anything in that tab.

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    Building a DIY solar panel mount: how would I calculate the parameters for a linear actuator to tilt the panels between completely horizontal and vertical?

    Terrible diagram 1

    I'm trying to figure out how long to make A and B here if I have linear actuator of length C (extended = 2C) in order to tilt my panels from completely horizontal to vertical so they avoid wind and shed snow respectively when I run up the actuator to the extremes respectively based on sensor input.

    Is there a simple formula I can use to plug the length of whatever actuator I settle on to figure A and B out? I know it will have to be a certain minimum and maximum size to work properly and might have to experiment to get an idea of what works in the end, but I'd like a reasonable start point to purchase an appropriate actuator.

    I've googled around and decided I'm not smart enough to even come up with the right search criteria, let alone figure this out myself since it's been 35 years since I've used anything except the most basic trig.

    This isn't really homework except for the fact that I'm trying to make my home work right.

    Edit: seems like if I select A=.75C and solve for B at horizontal, then it always works out. No idea why, but the couple examples I try seem to agree.

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    Laptop for non-gaming multi-monitor

    I'm looking for a lowish priced laptop that I can put at least 2 extra monitors on. I want a second landscape 4k and a portrait 1080. Don't need anything special. One monitor has DP and HDMI, but the other just HDMI. Do I just get a DP hub and use a converter dongle for the second?

    What would be a recommended laptop for this scenario? I only want AMD CPU and GPU as I can't be arsed to fight with noVideo and Intel doesn't deserve my business.

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    Maybe I'm just new, but I just realized you can Ctrl-select or Ctrl-dblclick individual, separate pieces of text and copy them to the clipboard in one operation.

    I have no idea how long this has been a thing, and maybe every clipboard works that way, not just Plasma, and I never realized it. It also lets you do things like Rt-click on it and do the regular operations like Search in Firefox. Spaces aren't preserved unless you specifically select them but search engines seem to be able to sort out the words usually.

    I post this in case you haven't been part of the 10,000 this day already, like me.

    Edit: seems to work in Firefox and LibreOffice, but not Kate or Okular. I'd love to see this as a general feature, it's handy as heck.

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    www.newsweek.com Homeowner baffled after washing machine uses 3.6GB of internet data a day

    A home automation and tech enthusiast stumbled upon the anomaly while troubleshooting issues with his home network.

    Homeowner baffled after washing machine uses 3.6GB of internet data a day
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    4000ac solar farm in Texas devastated by hailstorm
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    Looks expensive. The grey ones are the broken ones.

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    Vernor Vinge, 1944-2024

    Thank you for the great work, Vernor. You'll be missed.

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    Do I need a separate HA Cloud subscription for the cabin?

    We have our house and a cabin. While I guess I could make an area for the cabin, it has it's own areas that I'd like to manage separately (and copy automations directly).

    I have purchased a HA Cloud sub but I don't seem to be able to get the cabin to connect to Cloud.

    Do I need a separate sub for the cabin at full price? This seems a little over the top, not to mention clunky to manage with different Nabu Casa logins.

    Or am I just going about this wrong? If anyone else manages two properties and integrates it nicely, I'd love to hear your solutions. I'm mainly subbing to Cloud because of the better TTS and STT response. Maybe I just invest in a skookum whisper/piper box instead?

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    VS Code in Home Assistant: any use for this outside of editing yaml files?

    I don't see that there's any sort of integration for writing code to process information from HA entities like Node Red + Companion. Am I missing something and this is more than just an interface for the config files and maybe a git client for those config files?

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    Anyone seen or built an alternative to the M5Stack Atom Echo for HA voice pipeline?

    These things aren't bad, I've got a few that I use sort of successfully, but the speaker and mic aren't very powerful. I was thinking of building one with an ESP32 and i2S (not i2c, that threw me off too) speaker/mic, but I'm wondering if I'd be reinventing the wheel here if there's a better alternative already out there.

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    Used laptop for gamer kid: suggestions?

    Got a young guy that needs a reasonable used laptop, in the $2-300 range. Looking for smooth but not spectacular graphics, and a 15" screen or better. Preferably with 2 drive slots so he can have an NVME or other SSD for the OS and a large rust drive for installing games. It's going to be plugged in when used, and weight isn't a great concern, it's just for travelling with.

    Any suggestions on what to look for on eBay?

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    Linux 101 stuff. Questions are encouraged, noobs are welcome! @lemmy.world ikidd @lemmy.world
    Need help with `most`.

    If I pipe in something to most that's wider than my terminal width, it'll page it sideways but only single character at a time with an arrow key. I want most to behave like less, which will scroll sideways with an arrow key almost a full page (60 columns I believe), which most will do also if I use Tab/Ctrl-B or ">" and "<" (as gleaned from the man page). But I have no use for single character scrolling, so I'd like arrows to do the same as Tab and <>.

    Is there a way to change the default behaviour of most to the same horizontal scrolling behaviour as less? I would just use less except it displays the first page of a command like docker ps with lines wrapped for some reason (maybe this is some limitation in Dolphin?). If I scroll right the other columns show up right, but for some reason less and more both mess up the first page. No clue why most works correctly. Frankly, if I could fix less I'd be happier since my muscle memory makes me want to pipe to less all the time anyway, and it's installed by default in most distros I use, unlike most.

    Also, trying to search up help on anything with a name like "most" is next to impossible.

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    I'm blown away by Piped. I want to thank the devs for a great job.

    I did send a donation, but I want to make sure the people involved know I appreciates them.

    I set up an instance and have been using it along with a couple friends. It's fast, private and doesn't have a bunch of algo bullshit wasting our time. I have my subs and I watch them, and then I go and touch grass because I'm not sitting there watching trash that is being pushed at me on the feed.

    It's like a breath of fresh air.

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    Science Fiction titles from Banned Books Week Spotlight List: The Handmaids Tale by Margaret Atwood

    cross-posted from: https://literature.cafe/post/2164461

    I have been keeping an eye on this series over in !BannedBooks@literature.cafe and was intending to link the discussions for SF titles that I saw. The Handmaid's Tale is definitely an SF title that has seen it's share of fans and detractors. It has been banned or attempted to be banned in many jurisdictions including Western ones.

    What is the communities thoughts on this book, does it unfairly extend Christian philosophy into questionable territory or does it not go far enough? Is it pornography, and if so, why? Let's hear your thoughts.

    Bonus video: Margaret Atwood using a flamethrower on the unburnable edition of the book.

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    theconversation.com Sci-fi books are rare in school even though they help kids better understand science

    Despite their scarcity, science fiction books are highly sought after by elementary school students.

    Sci-fi books are rare in school even though they help kids better understand science

    I got interested in SF because the librarian in my elementary was a SF lover. There were racks of paperbacks that I gobbled up and it's stuck with me for decades since. It makes me sad to think that kids don't have the same chance I did to get interested at an early age in the most imaginative genre of fiction. We all need to do our part to pass it on.

    What are your suggestions for getting young people interested in science fiction?

    A few I remember from that time:

    Edgar Rice Burroughs Barsoom series

    Heinlein's juveniles like Podkayne of Mars and Have Spacesuit, Will Travel

    McCaffery's Dragonriders of Pern

    Niven's Known Space books

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    When is the ability to server block coming?

    Because having to block 2 fanaticus communities every time a game is finished because there's a post in the winning and losing teams community is rapidly getting old, and I have no idea how many teams of how many different sports exist on that server, but it seems like a hell of a lot.

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    How do I restrict the All feed to my language?

    Having set up a couple of communities, there is a setting for language. Are these items showing up in my feed because the community has not set their language, or is something going on with language filtering on All? It seems like there's way more off-language things coming through on All in the last day or two.

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