MangoCats @ MangoCats @feddit.it

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Saying it's bad is a step better than saying nothing, which is a step better than parroting the speeches provided by Great Leader's party promoters.

It's not about Nazi or any such thing, it's about abilities. They didn't draft the whole German army, just the ones they thought would make them stronger.

On the Internet nobody knows if you're a Frog, or not.

Sounds like those guys were good at their jobs - jobs which demand following orders.

When you're putting together a military force, do you want to train every level of it to think for themselves and only follow the "good" orders?

I'm surprised they're publicly announcing this one.

I have mixed feelings - Gaza clearly shows a "worse way" to do warfare, but that doesn't move the needle on how bad it is to say: "Welp, there's a 90% chance that somewhere in this building is somebody associated with a group that we don't like, so take it down tonight while everyone is home sleeping."

Security cameras will do it, and the Pi5 doesn't have hardware decode for h.264 the way the Pi4 does, so that becomes a big drain, particularly if you don't drop the frame rates. I run a separate Pi (5, unfortunately) with a HAILO 8 hat (fortunately) for 5 video streams on Frigate - it needs some airflow to stay cool, but is only running about 30% CPU utilization for my streams.

Yeah, I'm running home assistant with 43 Zigbee devices, 20 Wifi connected devices including about 150 channels of medium-high (once a minute) data logging (temperature, humidity, signal strength, sensor positions, radar occupancy info, etc.), and a Music Assistant instance, and while it's streaming net-radio I've only got 98% idle on my Pi's CPU, feeling the squeeze already /s.

Your Zigbee hub will run out of capacity long before the Pi. Solution: run multiple Zigbee hubs when you get to that point.

Not just ad blocker, but tracking blockers too. Also, if you've got a simple little device like a WiFi controlled outlet switch, and through PiHole you notice it "phoning home" frequently even though you're not using it.... that's a clue that you might not want to be keeping such things inside the same network where you check on your 401(k) account...

PiHole is a pretty light load, as are Home Assistant and Music Assistant. Frigate starts to make some heat, so don't expect to get a full blown video classification / recording system.

Nah, the good ol' days were when websites provided value to their users. The only competitively sustainable business model is the reverse: where users provide value to the website owners.

You know what you didn't mention? Security. Privacy. Authenticity.

a clean and functional site

But the specs no longer call for a clean, functional site. Today's "professional" web development specs call for user tracking, customized content per user per platform per locality the page is being served to. Then there's the backend dashboard services showing the overlords user behavior patterns and how they change based on tweaks made to their ui, I wouldn't be surprised if the algorithms auto-tune presentation to optimize behavior.

I did OS-X for my MacBookPro daily driver 2006-2008 (said premium laptop dying because of mis-applied thermal paste by the factory) - and started using a bit of Debian and RedHat at the time... my observation was, and still is: they all suck, but in different ways. If you value stability and control, there's no comparison to the open source model. Windows used to have the edge for hardware support, but that has eroded to the point that we had selected a WiFi card for our Linux system this year, but we're having to change now that we're moving to Win11 - no Windows drivers for that M.2 WiFi/BT card.

At the HVAC control level it would be a Pico - for the development / maintenance time efficiency: I know how the tools work, I know the community support is there, the hardware is easy to find and available relatively reliably, although ESPHome on the ESP micro-controllers is pretty good too.

It's impressive what a gentle breeze will do - if you can get a fan on your cabinet it will help a lot.

I filter my air and positive pressure the cabinet so the dust doesn't build up (as fast).

Xfce on Debian is my preferred flavor these days.

I got my modem working in Slackware in 1997 - but the PPP driver (equivalent of WinSock - which worked in Windows quite well at the time) would only work during the first boot of the system. After a reboot, PPP would never return, and the best I got out of the internet about it at the time (mostly using my Windows PC) was "real men connect to the internet through ethernet."

Between that an the useless (unless you enjoy frustration) sound drivers, I declared Linux "not ready for prime time," and left it to others until starting back in via Cygwin in 2003, then Gentoo (for 64 bit access you couldn't get any other way) in 2005.

I will say this: we had a big lightning strike a few years back and it conducted into the house via the internet cable, then spread via the ethernet cables taking out everything that was wired (over $7K in damage) - devices connected only by power and WiFi were mostly spared.

Don't like the expensive version? Get a Zero 2 W which outspecs the original by a wide margin.