[-] TerryMathews@lemmy.world 0 points 10 months ago

rm -rf /home/*

You need the directory for the mount point.

[-] TerryMathews@lemmy.world 23 points 11 months ago

If you punch someone on the nose, you can't expect sympathy when they punch back. This isn't going to produce the result Hamas was going for.

[-] TerryMathews@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

https://xpenology.com/forum/topic/61634-dsm-7x-loaders-and-platforms/

There really is nothing close to Google Photos outside of Synology. And it's not 100% in terms of search but it's getting there.

You can run the Synology software via a loader on commodity hardware or on a hosting platform provided the platform supports VMWare ESXi or the like.

[-] TerryMathews@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

This is definitely hitting the nail on the head. Until the technology trickles down into the lower-end models, it's not anywhere near as much a cost savings when you have to buy way up in trim level to get electric as an option.

It's also worth noting that electric economy is notably worse in cold climates - your internal combustion car generates heat for ~free, the electric heater in your Tesla does draw a fair bit of current.

[-] TerryMathews@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago

You got downvoted to hell, but you're absolutely right. The fact that FDIC exists should be evidence enough to anyone with a functional brain that depositors in a bank are creditors and do not retain ownership of their literal deposit.

[-] TerryMathews@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

It seems like you made this comment in jest, but I wouldn't say it's outside the realm of possibility. We can't fly off the handle and lob accusations absent any sort of proof, but it would hardly be the first example of a corporation targeting an up-and-coming disruptive service run by amateurs.

[-] TerryMathews@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

MOSFETs are less efficient outside their thermal envelope. At the micro-scale you're talking about, you could be chasing loss of efficiency due to heat.

[-] TerryMathews@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

OP, couple things:

The trigger for that fan on signal is going to be heat, not wattage. Granted those things usually go hand in hand but there are a handful of reasons that could be responsible for the behavior you're seeing:

  • Your PC is exhibiting an unusually high draw on one depreciated rail and pushing that part of the PSU near it's limit. Legacy components can be good for this, -12V is a great example of a depreciated power supply voltage.

  • You're seeing heat from something else soaking into the PSU. GPU is a good internal example. If you're an audiophile, headphone amp is a good external one especially if it's sitting on the tower.

  • PSUs are designed to allow other case ventilation to pass through them for cooling. You've probably got another non-PSU cooling issue - clogged filter, dead or dying fan, negative pressure.

Lastly, it's hard for us to say whether that power draw is appropriate without knowing more about your PC. In general, for a desktop with a dedicated GPU it's in the ballpark but again hard to nail down specifics. It's a big ballpark. Things like what idle states are supported and enabled can easily account for 5W.

[-] TerryMathews@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Real talk: those lenses aren't worth basing your whole buying decision on.

To answer the question you asked, the smallest camera Canon ever made in EF mount is the Rebel SL series. It's a little pricey for its features even second hand. The EOS 800D (Rebel T7i) is only slightly bigger, has a much better low light AF system and is generally available for less.

My recommendation though would be to sell those lenses and get something more in line with your photography goals. Do you really want interchangeable lenses? Because you can get prosumer point and clicks with better quality integrated lenses, and ditching the whole mounting system saves a ton of weight and space.

If you want interchangeable lenses, look at something mirrorless. Canon, Sony, Panasonic. Find a good lens or three and base your body purchase around that. If your lens inventory value isn't 5-10x the value of your body, you probably would have been better off with a point and shoot.

On that side, look at the Sony DSC-RX100 series. And pay attention to the lens. At some point in the series, Sony switched from a 24-70 to a 28-200; if you're looking at an old enough model that it's got the 24-70, Sony makes a brand new "budget" model called the ZV-1 that's basically an updated older RX100.

[-] TerryMathews@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

I actually took the other side of this argument when Lemmy was ramping up, that the concept of Federation needed to change to make the system more accessible to non-technical users. And I was told that my idea (federating the communities) was counter to the freedom that Lemmy was designed around.

It can't be both ways. It's a cathedral, or it's a bazaar. But if it's a bazaar then we have to deal with the reality that sometimes people beat us to the places we want and have different ideas for what they should be.

Nothing is stopping you from starting worldpolitics, globalpolitics, politics2 or politics on another instance.

[-] TerryMathews@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

I was more meaning wanting the admins to fuck around with the communities a la /u/spez.

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Hey all, so I've been trying to embrace the fediverse life. My background - I've been on the internet since pre-WWW, so I've seen it all.

I think there's a structural issue in the design of Lemmy, that's still correctable now but won't be if it gets much bigger. In short, I think we're federating the wrong data.

For those of you who used USENET back in the early days, when your ISP maintained a local copy of it, I think you'll pick up where I'm going with this fairly quickly. But I know there aren't a ton of us graybeards so I'll try to explain in detail.

As it's currently implemented, the Fediverse allows for multiple identically named communities to exist. I believe this is a mistake. The fediverse should have one uniquely named community instance, and part of the atomic data exchanged through the federation should include the instance that "owns" the community and a list of moderators. Each member server of the Fediverse should maintain an identical list of communities, based on server federation. Just like USENET of yore.

This could also be the gateway into instance transference. If the instances are more in-sync, it will be easier to transfer either a user account or a community.

This would eliminate the largest pain point/learning curve that Lemmy has vs Reddit.

Open to thought. And I'll admit this isn't fully fleshed out, it was just something I was thinking about as I was driving home from work tonight

Lemmy is good, but it could be great.

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I'm trying to stand up a Lemmy instance, and for some reason I'm just not getting it. I've got a fair bit of experience in Linux and Docker. NPM is new to me, but doesn't seem difficult.

I've looked over several walkthroughs but it seems like they all don't quite work right. Does someone have a clear step-by-step that works, or could take the time to remote in and help me get this up?

I'm running on VMWare ESXi, and I've tried both Debian and Ubuntu to get the server up. Closest I got, the Docker containers would start but seem to be throwing errors internally and don't connect to one another.

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