BombOmOm @ BombOmOm @lemmy.world

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Yes, iOS app approval is a pain in the ass (this is one of the reasons there is so much fuss about app store policies and anti-competitive practices). They do test the app and if it has to connect to a server, they will ask you to provide such for them to test against.

Setup a virtual host that you only turn on when they need to approve a new version. Give it some royalty free music to serve.

Any place which believes it can legitimize itself by becoming an American military base is fake and objectively worse.

What are you talking about? Somaliland doesn't have any US military bases. Somalia certainly does though at Baledogle Airfield.

Should we recognize Somaliland and not Somalia since Somalia has a US military base, unlike Somaliland?

Somalia failed due to a number of factors: Starting with a coup that created the socialist Somali Democratic Republic which then launched a failed invasion of Ethiopia. Ethiopian resistance, mass migration caused by the invasion, poorly distributed food aid, and harsh government crackdowns led to a civil war the country has yet to recover from. UN and US interventions in the civil war unfortunately didn't solve the problem either.

Eventually, out of this civil war emerged two countries: Somaliland and Somalia. One of these is half-way functioning democracy today and is an obvious choice to recognize and stabilize the region. The alternative is to force Somaliland to fail and have that region fall back into civil war too.

I’ll take Somaliland over Somalia any day. At least one of those governments is halfway functional.

It's also pretty common to type Win + NameOfProgram + Enter, which necessarily opens the start menu and spikes the darn CPU. This has been a very common way to interact with the OS since Vista, and, as with so many other things in Microsoft land, has gotten worse.

WindowsKey -> "fire" -> Enter ==> Firefox is now open!

Nothing is as permanent as a temporary fix!

I've glanced over a project or two before. It's usually less an audit, and more of a 'what is going on in there?' curiosity.

Though it does have the side-effect of being a low-intensity audit as well. :)

It looks like a combination humidifier/dehumidifier as well as an outside air exchanger.

The air exchangers are nice as you can run them when the air outside is very cold or very hot, as they will retain a large portion of the interior air temperature, despite swapping your interior air for outdoor air. That specific feature seems like a sometimes thing, when you wouldn't normally have windows open for awhile, but you do want fresh air that day.

We need other ways to discover shit on the internet.

https://duckduckgo.com/

Yeah, grease is a big deal. After things like bacon, drain the fat into the trash (or into a bowl and later the trash), then wash in the sink. This minimizes how much grease is entering your pipes and thus vastly reducing the need to unclog your pipes.

It's also fairly cheap to buy 32+ GB of RAM, lots of choices for under $80. Meanwhile, I'm not even sure how you find a video card with 32GB of VRAM (not that you really need this much, 12GB and 16GB are pretty solid for a video card nowadays).

Crap, you are right, units should be in Wh not W/h and as a result I put the conversion to hours backwards. Well, that turns the whole thing from an impressive amount of energy to basically none!

Edit 2: Eheran pointed out I screwed up the math. Correct total energy output is 13μWh. A very, very, very small amount of energy.

(2x10¹⁵ W) * (25s/1x10¹⁸) * (1 h/ 3600 s) = 13μWh

Previous bad math:

It's a very old 1080p Sharp TV. I know it does have WiFi which I have not setup, but that certainly doesn't mean the WiFi is off.

I'll have to see if there is some way to disable the WiFi completely and re-measure it.

The UPS should have a USB plug in the back. Plug that into your computer and it will read the battery status as if it was a laptop. Then in your OS, set the standard shutdown options when low on battery.

especially if you wanted to play Halo on PC

I still giggle that after years and years of Halo 3+ being a console exclusive, and Halo 2 sucking on Windows for years*, the entire Halo collection now has a Gold rating on Linux. I have very specific memories of being annoyed for years that the most prestigious Microsoft game doesn't work on a Microsoft gaming platform (Windows).

*God damn does Games for Windows Live suck

A note on the fans specifically, you can buy quiet fans. In general, the larger the fan, the lower the speed you can run it and the quieter it is. You can also setup fan curves so they are only doing anything of note when the computer is pumping out heat (given your statements, that would be basically never).

The electricity usage is a pretty notable thing. Though, if you take the graphics card out of a desktop (use integrated graphics, a dedicated graphics card in a server is just wasted electricity) and set the OS to power saver (this mostly means it won't boost the CPU to higher clocks), it really won't use much power. Compared to buying dedicated NAS hardware, you may never recoup the energy costs between the hardware you have and the lower-power hardware you need to buy.

If you don't already own one, a Kill-A-Watt is a great tool to have. Tells you how much energy a device is using. Biggest thing I found was my TV had a vampire draw of 15W. Literally draws 15W while off. This got the TV put on a power strip I turn off when I'm not using it.

Now, with all that said, sometimes you just want what you want. And there is nothing wrong with that. My goal here is to make sure you don't feel you have to pick one option over the other.

If you have a desktop, throw a hard drive or two in it and you have a NAS. Software (like you mentioned Plex or Jellyfin) does the rest. Even if you only have a laptop, a hard drive in a standard USB enclosure will perform this role just fine.

Works perfectly fine on my machine I bought over two decades after the game came out, looks significantly better than when the game came out too. Not sure how much more upgradability you could possibly want.

Yeah, and as long as these things never touch the internet, there really isn't an issue.