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  • I am fighting this with people at work.

    No, it is not "one more password to remember"

    You have 2 passwords: your laptop and your Bitwarden. Forget everything else. Don't care. Use a passphrase if you have troubles with passwords.

    I even generated a sample password from bitwarden and drew them a picture of how to remember it lol

    Still about 10% of people forgot their password in the first 2 months.

  • What national ID is it? I hope it isn't the Belgian ItsMe app because I want to try putting lineage on my xperia 5 ii since it has a flaky fingerprint scanner now (software problem it seems)

  • Honestly, go for a Ryzen 5 and use the extra money you save to buy a new gen AMD GPU. You won't notice a difference between the 7700 and the 7600X. Gaming never utilizes the 6 cores even when having videos and stuff up in the background.

    Always overspend on the GPU instead of the CPU for gaming.

  • How many years of software support? Still only 2? Lowest in the business?

  • He tried to pass a bill banning corporations from buying or owning single family homes.

    I think the right wing shot it down but what an absolute gigachad.

  • Opensuse!

    Yast is one of the most fully featured package managers and tumbleweed is damn good and they lean fully into KDE.

    I even run opensuse Kalpa (KDE immutable) and it is pretty rock solid outside of steam flatpak.

  • That sounds like some northern Minnesota things lol

  • Hey, I developed some of these for a different use case at my job.

    Generally they use BLE servers to query and update every BLE device one after the other.

    I would venture to guess that these tags have a ublox BMD-3xx variant controlling them and you can connect via Bluetooth low energy every X hours.

    If you just want the displays they use, here are some kits:

    https://www.tinytronics.nl/nl/displays/e-ink

  • I do love how many autocratic regimes had "X years of peace" only because fighting the wars conquering additional land and wars with less powerful or small nations/tribes during that time don't seem to count

  • You want a prebuilt NUC. That is pretty much it. A Pi generally doesn't cut it, plus by the time you get all the accessories to make it usable as a server, you are at the price of a much more powerful small PC.

    I run a ryzen 3600 with 32GB RAM in a Node 304 and it is very quiet with 12TB red pro helium drives. 4 HDD capable with a GPU and 6 without. However, it still draws 20-30W idle or 50W with an Arc A380 installed.

  • There is one neat trick: don't expose SSH.

    There is still not a reason anyone has been able to give for 99% of self-hosters to expose SSH.

    If you need to access your machine via ssh while on the go. Wireguard to your local network, use SSH. Done. Unless you are running an always-up public facing site, the amount of times you have to access your machine that can't wait until after work is very low anyway.

    Bots will scan all ports. That is just how it works. Less than 22, but you will still get spammed. Why force your computer to go through the fail2ban loop and take up resources when it is simply not needed at all and you can block it on another machine?

  • I was a signal integrity engineer so emag theory was my job for a while.

    Honestly, magic is quite right. At the base level, how these fields are created and how electrons moving around results in these rules is just the magic of how our universe works.

    You can discover the rules to live by, but why it works that way gets smaller and smaller until it's magic.

  • UI/UX is getting a serious overhaul also I guess

  • Outside of a select couple instances where even mentioning an opposing view without disgust and insults results in furious down voting, reporting, and a ban lol.

  • Privatevpn allows it over openvpn, but not Wireguard (also independent and not a part of the big corporate vpn net)

  • Platformio maybe?

    That thing just sometimes won't work on some PCBs unless you explicitly specify a build option (I had it once that I had to specify a build option that was already specified in that board configuration)

    Installing pycom stuff too. All of their software is crap (hardware isn't amazing either) so their released version simply didn't work by default on a fresh installation and the fix was to roll back to the previous version manually.

  • I have an orangepi zero 3 with pihole

    Then an ITX PC with

    • mealie (meal planner, recipe parser, grocery list maker with a bunch of features and tools)
    • immich for self hosting a google photos alternative
    • *arr stack for torrenting Linux ISOs
    • Jellyfin for LAN media playing
    • home assistant for my VW car, our main hanging renovation lights, smoke and CO monitors, and in the future, all of the KNX smart systems in our house
    • Syncthing for syncing photo backup and music library with phone
    • Bookstack for a wiki, todos, journal, etc... (Because I didn't want to install better services for journals when I don't use it much)
    • paperless-ngx for documents
    • leantime for managing my personal projects, tasks, and timing
    • Valheim game server
    • Calibre-web for my eBook library backup
    • I had nextcloud but it completely broke on an update and I can't even see the login fields anymore, it just loads forever until it takes down my network and server, so I ditched it since I never used it anyway
    • crowdsec for much better (preemptive) security than fail2ban
    • traefik for reverse proxy
  • Solid works does the same thing though. Not crashing but even opening a simple model takes ages in solid works and the vast majority of things are single threaded there.

    Whenever we screen share a part in solidworks, it is literally 5-10 minutes of the meeting taken up by waiting for it to complete visual operations, load things in, and assembly constrainy computing.

    And you pay a shit ton of money for solidworks. Freecad also has these problems, but it is surprisingly not extremely worse than some professional cad software outside of crashing. Topo naming problem, UI, and crashing was definitely the worst thing about it. Apparently 2 of those 3 are getting fixed now.