Onomatopoeia @ Onomatopoeia @lemmy.cafe

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I don't use voice anyway - everything I do is through an app.

Check out jmp.chat - they route everything, your voice calls and SMS, through XMPP. So voice calls are VOIP. I don't even have conventional voice service with them.

There's also the insurance angle.

Heaven forbid you have a fire or flood from a water line break. Insurance companies aren't your friend and will shaft you if they can - I've seen it happen with friends.

So now I have an inventory (and pictures). I have about 4x the stuff in my place than the average person in a house this size, so the defaults from insurance would make me lose lots of money. Once they see an exported spreadsheet with counts and dates (plus the pictures), they'll cut a check and not argue.

Plus the inventory helps me keep track of what I have so I don't buy it again.

I have 800+ items in my home inventory list. Lots of different tools, household stuff, seasonal, and cooking stuff.

I used to be able to keep track just by having a few containers, but then I started forgetting what container something was in.

Now containers are labelled with a container name and list of what's in it, my inventory app (just a shopping list app) indicates the container name.

Edit: You'd be surprised how much stuff you actually have until you start inventorying it. It's a tedious task.

Wrong community.

Try Unpopular Opinions, or Shit Takes

AutoIt. Just have it play a Windows ding sound every 4min, but also set the volume to zero first.

Have the script launch at login/startup.

AutoIt doesn't require an install, you can simply copy the script engine to a folder with your script. Been a while, but you may be able to compile your script with the engine too, so you have a stand-alone script.

Or make a silent, 1/4 second long wav/mp3, and use that to ensure you don't hear anything.

Umm, gonna answer as an American, for clarity: many schools across the US have language classes of all sorts. Every niece/nephew I know across multiple states could study French, Spanish, Latin, Chinese, Italian, etc, etc. Chinese is one of many (typically Mandarin).

It's very common in US public schools, and has increased significantly over the last 50 years.

Chinese wasn't available in my school decades ago, but was in nearby schools.

Why? Because I can't, like I said.

No one has to justify themselves. You asked, I said no. The end.

I don't care if I'm rude to someone who's trying to scam me, or in this case started being inconsiderate themselves.

Stephen Covey discusses this in Seven Habits of Highly Successful People. He's asked if it's OK to lie to someone. He answers by posing a scenario where being honest gets you killed, but using a harmless lie you aren't.

I highly recommend reading the book.

I take your point, and in general agree with it. We should try to help.

Hoever, someone approaches like that and my radar is going off. Sorry, my safety comes first, so I'm just going to say "No thanks", every time, because we all know this person is trying to scam someone. (And I literally mean "No thanks" - It's oddly disarming by reversing the roles, if only for a moment).

Someone once told me "don't let them use your principles against you", which is exactly what this scammer is doing.

There's a world of difference between helping a stranger and allowing yourself to be pulled into a potentially risky situation.

This is the same reason I never pick up hitch hikers (I have in certain areas/circumstances).

Though I have no problem helping someone on the side of the road. I've helped random people carry stuff out of the store to their car - by offering to help them.

These are different situations which you can assess in the moment.

Just verifying, after enabling subnet routing, did you create the routes (it's in the docs for subnet router).

I have the same problem you do - for some reason TS will "steal" the route, even when correctly configured.

Lol, "Post removed by mods"... Pretty damn transparent aren't they?

Not that anyone should be surprised. Never think for one minute that any story is wholly the truth - there's always some element someone is trying to hide, by getting us to focus on something else.

(This isn't a criticism of you, OP, just a general observation about how power brokers have been using the "news" to manipulate perception since Hurst in the 1800's when he used his paper to influence opinion about a labor strike or something, I forget exactly what.)

An interesting article on the history of this issue.

Historian Chilton wrote "the progressive movement during this time promoted the idea that the media’s purpose was to shape the beliefs of voters, since the public was too irrational to make the right choice based singularly on fact."

“The presentation of facts simply as facts, editors and writers reasoned, cannot accomplish the exalted goal of saving civilization,” Chilton wrote. “To do that, facts needed to be presented according to those rhetorical patterns of thought we call opinions, patterns pointed in some particular direction of convincing an imagined jury.”

In other words, progressives at the time believed the public was too stupid to make the right choice, so they had to tell them which choice to make, even lying if needed.

Meet the new boss, same as the old boss

Drives only consume power on reads and writes, if your NAS spins them down as it should (and apparently QNAP *doesn't, which I didn't know).

As per my other comment - 8 drives or 1 drive, same idle power for desktop hardware. My actual NAS uses about 1/8 the power at idle for 5 drives.

Power isn't from drives, if your OS spins them down (as any NAS solution should).

See my other comment.

Wow, QNAPS don't spin down disks? Geez, what a crappy design choice. Thanks for that tidbit, I was considering one for my next NAS.

In my experience using a PC as a NAS, the power draw isn't necessarily the drives as they spin down when idle.

I have an old desktop setup as NAS - with 2 drives or eight drives, idle power draw is virtually the same, about 100w, regardless of the OS (Windows, Linux, UnRAID, Proxmox).

I also have an old consumer NAS, with five 4TB drives, and it idles under 20w (I think last I checked it was ~15w... I need to check it again and write that down).

Two very similar systems, one designed to be a NAS, the other a desktop. It really comes down to the motherboard design and capabilities.

I also have a Dell SFF that idles at about 15w, regardless of drive count - one drive or four (and to get four I added a SATA expansion card and rigged some power splitters, really pushing the power supply). That box idling the same, even when pushed well past design, is pretty telling.

And don't think that SSD drives would do better - spinning disk drives generally have far better idle power than SSD does, and usually much better write power consumption.

So it really depends, and mostly on the motherboard itself. Yes, you'll get more power usage with more drives, but that's at write and read time. My SFF idles at 12w, peaks at 80w when converting videos, the read/write power is negligible, same with the NAS (I transfer hundreds of gigs between them every few days).

Take home project? My rate is $250/hr with a minimum of 4 hours.

Say it with a straight face. This is business.

FYI, Tailscale has the Funnel feature, so you can access your TS network without a client. Check it out.

If you're self hosting, why use anything Google?

I don't use Google apps, my calendar apps aren't even on Play, and don't use any Google processes.

If they did, I never once saw it...

That chasing happiness is a fool's errand.

Emotions come and go, wax and wane. One cannot be happy all the time.

Look for meaning - the great thinkers througout time have repeatedly observed that meaning is what matters.