TheInsane42 @ TheInsane42 @lemmy.world

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Hating kids. Never liked them when I was their age (it was mutual) and still don't like them. It took ages to find a partner that feels the same. She kinda likes them, for a short time, but doesn't want to have them, so that's close enough.

Also, not caring about clothes. Yeah, you need to wear something, way to cold not to, but what... don't care to much. Jump in store, get jeans (current favorite is a local farmers store brand, cheapest), next store, shirt and sweater, done. Record shopping time for a set that fitted was 15 min for 3 stores and 2 complete sets. Waste of money to have more then 1 set to wear, 1 in the laundry and one drying. (And 1 spare for emergencies, like missing your mouth with coffee when not awake yet)

What do you need?

I run 2 vps'es via Hetzner, 1 for dns (primary), mail and webhosting and 1 for dns (secondary). No javascript needed for those hosts. The web interface to the provider requires scripting to be able to order them and pay the monthly bill, but my sites run script free on Linux. The sites on there are plain text sites. (files edited with vi and uploaded to the dorresponding shell account)

BTW the vps'es are for a minute hosting company, works perfectly.

Then I'd go that route. Here all is on RPies, alas not the NAS, but those disks are almost always in sleep mode.

Small tip on the storage, go for a cheap SSD external (alie has a few for next to nothing), get at least 2-4, as reliability issues exists, but will show themselves within days or not. Only use rhe sd card to boot from, mount / from the ssd.

1 RPi and an ssd can runa while on a small UPS. (Need to get me one as well)

I'm curious about the next gen chromecast as well. I heard/read that it could manage h265 content as well as it having google tv which you can use for IPtv.

lived through the 80s.

And survived. Congratulations. (I managed to get out in one piece as well)

clothing styles were shit.

Never noticed, jeans, shirt, sweater when cold, done. (Still same here ;) )

computers were shit.

PCs were shit, the rest was pretty neat. (I'm still surprised that PCs and Apples got out and the rest, which was better by miles, didn't)

telecommunications were shit.

That was great. When out of the building, you were free, no trackers, nobody calling when you didn't want to be available... great. I still leave the phone at home when I'm going out and not off to work.

entertainment was shit.

Battlestar Galactica (or was that the 70s) and ST-TNG, The young ones... OK, the rest was terrible.

socializing wasnt bad but ultimately it was shit.

Check, but no change there.

food choices were shit.

Not much improvement, just more.

music was largely shit.

I liked the music.

overall the 80s were shit.

Not more the other decades I survived. This one is terrible due to climate issues though.

No kids here, but running Linux since '95 (Debian since '96). My wife runs Linux as well, since the previous laptop was bought in '11. (As long as it runs LibreOffice and firefox, she is ok with anything) That laptop got replaced in '22 as the hardware became unstable. (Again running Debian)

On a side note, my small laptop still has the windows 10 that came with it in a quiet corner... from time to time, it's still needed to rescue Samsung phones from the junk Samsungs dumps on it. (Although, there seems to be an Odin for Linux...) Oh, and to de-drm my ebooks. (I don't care what the sellers of those books think, I bought the ebook, I read it on the reader I prefer)

Had ipv6 stable with tunnels for years. Even the 1st provider offering ipv6 was using tunnels. All was well, until we needed to switch to SLAAC over pppoe. With creative source based routing, as I didn't want to sacrifice my tunnels before it was stable, I never could get it to work.

Years later, new provider, same technique, same ipv6 tunnels as main ipv6 option, I just gave up, SLAAC proved to unstable/unreliable in my setup. (Probably my doing, but I just can't get that route to reliably recover after a pppoe reset)

I still wish I could virtualize OS/2 in kvm... good old days of warp 3 and 4.0. Very stable for a BBS, with a Linux networked server next to it. (In '95)

Here it's just rf433 for now. No need for more (apart from messing around with new stuff). As far as I understand Zigbee doesn't use wifi, but it can be in the 2.4 GHz band.

Nobody in their right mind would be awake at those times... when the body would cooperate.

My wife goes to the attic to do the laundry when she can't sleep. However, I sleep trough anything (even when they blown up an ATM on the parking lot behind the house) so I'm fine with that.

That your wife found you cleaning after she woke to go to the toilet, I see no problem. Having back issues keeping you awake isn't normal and on the pther hand, when you look around at what is 'normal', would you want to be like that?

Maybe next time skip the powertools, but enjoy your tea when you can't enjoy your sleep.

Depends, some have adjustable rpm. Still they usually aren't to quiet, but when the partner doesn't wake up by the sound, I see no problem.

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I'm perfect, it's impossible for me to be wrong. ;) I can get additional facts and have a need to change my point of view, which is called learning.

At least at my house I got told loads of times that nature gave me a brain, so I should use it. So I'm always right... with the knowledge I have at that time. I'm never proven wrong, just that I lack knowledge. ;) (And from time to time I learn loads)

I just had the Dutch system Klik aan klik uit (kaku), both the old and the new units. Those 2 versions are incompatible and this way I can use both. I used just the new system, but with adding the old units as well I can now make nicer scenes. (turn lights on in a natural 'entering the room' order and turn them off the other way around, mimicking leaving the same room.

I'm just messing about as well and I don't want to use wifi, that's why I'm half looking at zugbee. (And Ikea uses that system, so I guess it'll be available for a while)

I meant here and not the minor stuff like huge fires and floodings, but total climate colapse. I'm afraid we're on the road to an extinction event, when we don't already have triggered one by now.

In my case I'm pretty sure it's a safe car in that respect. No remote communication module in the car and the dealer has no access to the software as well. I do my own maintenance and have been doing it for 5 years. The only camera that's in it is the dashcam I fitted. No drivers assist that requires camera's, no adaptive cruise control, not even a reverse camera for parking, just sensors. I've got no clue how it is with the next generation though.

Weirdest thing on this point is that my employer doesn't want camera's on the terrain around the buildings, but loads of contractors with Teslas can just park where they want...

I'm messing with domoticz, but looking to home automation as well. I got an RF link from a colleague and I'm now managing light via the socket units of 3 mutual incompatible systems and it works great. I'm thinking of combining it with zigbee and see if I can do more nice things, as range is my biggest issue now.

Ah, ok, then I'm good with my '03 Volvo. It's a GM remote diagnostic software bundle. No remote and no GM... That's useful.

To be honest, I'll be glad when all major missery won't happen within the next 50 years. I doubt I'll be here after that. No kids that will have to clean the mess.

Can't think of anything positive, apart from nature surviving.

Yeah, so? Every woman is a female, not every female is a woman. Same as that every woman is human, but not evey human is a woman and that every human is a mamal, but not every mamal is a human.

If people are offended by the truth, they should go to truth, as no truths are to be found there. Snowflakes can't stand the heat. ;)