Wrench Wizard

Where is this set up at? I’d like to see

With everyone self hosting huge servers like this, my question is… how can I access some large ones like this? Kodi, Plex?

One account to rule them all

I’d forgotten about that guy! Loved him and can honestly say he’s one genuine thing about that place that I miss.

That’s actually great for the price, i7 12, 32Gb ram, 1Tb M2, etc? Not bad at all! Would even be a great little gaming setup

Awesome idea! Signed up immediately but am curious about the payment options, I’m seeing options to sign up for an instance of mastodon, or 10 accounts, or one account with the single account being $9 yearly?

My question is, will I have to pay every single month for every account that I own?

For example, if I have an account on mastodon, lemmy.world, lemmy.ml, lemmy.nsfw, beehaw etc. Would I have to pay for all of them individually?

I’m probably missing something! It’s just that while $9 a year for a single mastodon account is cheap @ less than $1 a month, I’d like to have every possible instance available for this one account which under my understanding would cost me hundreds every year?

It’s a great idea, don’t think I’m shitting on it in any way! Just asking questions bc I’d like to use it just not sure I want to pay for every individual instance I join

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Well shit, now the links don’t work for me :(

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This is stupid

Yess… teach me about the federation… my Lord

Hmm… but what if I’m on the federated instance in theory? Assuming I’d see it then sorry I’m still figuring this place out

I miss back in the day. Used to be able to store all my stuff on CD-R’s, hell before that it was floppy’s. File sizes have grown exponentially, programs/apps all have huge sizes. Pictures and videos is my biggest issue, but I’d also like to backup games that I’ve downloaded so I don’t have to download again. I can backup old games no problem, but modern games? Many are 100+ GB now, and in time they all will be and 200GB will be the standard, then a terabyte and more.

Anyway, until I can afford and find a 20 tb sad I’m just using DVDs for everything but games and large programs. Quick to write, solid, tangeable etc. If I could afford a bunch of flash drives I’d probably do that instead.

If you can afford it and it’s important data I’d ofc recommend backing up to a large SSD, THEN to a cloud (or more) as a failsafe… then also using flash drives/DVD’s etc. For an additional failsafe for the super important stuff.

I mean, if it’s important backup all you can.

I’ve got priceless memories in my Google photos library but ofc Google removed being able to view them on my native photos app and download easily… so instead I either have to backup and save ALL of it in Google drive or download specific albums… idk so I wouldn’t personally recommend google as a true backup as you never know, personally I’d just use DVDs and flash drives for that stuff

https://lemmy.world/c/mechanicadvice

It’s still getting it’s bearings but should be g2g in a little bit

There’s a mechanic advice community that’s not memey…

Hey I have a question because this actually interests me and contrary to popular opinionn on this sub I think this idea would work!

Since migrating I’ve found myself wanting to search Reddit dozens of times for content I needed but was too damned pissed to provide them with any traffic.

My input is: it seems that the main beef of most people here is the lack of engagement, making Lemmy seem like a ghost town. Would we be able to comment on the mirrored posts (on Lemmy) thus solving the engagement problem? I’m no techspert but feel like allowing comments underneath mirrored posts for Lemmy, not Reddit would be possible I guess? Or at least some equivalent?

I’m also interested in this because I have my own little feed I’m setting up, and it would be cool to be able to add more content very easily. I don’t really want it to be from Reddit but, just anything different I could do would be nice, and hey if there is something important I’d like to add from there or even just to take notes that’d be nice so I for one would use it.

A bridge that allows us access to reddits content, driving up their traffic (and server costs) - the whole reason for the API changes WHILE refusing them any engagement? Sounds like a win-win to me.

I feel like providing an email is a much better alternative to having your account blanket banned due to creating it at a certain time.

If not emails maybe just being stricter when checking to see if the one creating an account is human?

Yeah that worries me. Was definitely just a lurker at first while I got used to the place. They didn’t ban me so I’m still here. Never had issues making or keeping accounts before but here lately it’s been such a hassle. Instagram has taken to banning me immediately, I had to make 10 accounts in a row before they didn’t immediately ban one.

Worst part is they don’t tell you why and you can’t fight it. I feel like it’s bc I use a VPN then lurk but idk. never another account there, not worth it. Facebook did the same thing a few times until something finally clicked in their system and they quit deleting them.

Tiktok has apparently done the same damn thing as I went to use my account the other day just to be informed it was deleted or banned I don’t remember.

Think it said to check my email, which I frequently do and there was no mail saying my account was going to be deleted much less why.

It’s ridiculous and rather than making a new account I just exit the site now.

So deleting them all? I don’t really agree (though I hope they were indeed bots!)

I think what would make more sense is to be more strict when users actually create the accounts in the first place. I feel like those “select all the images with bikes” are ridiculous, I’m human and half the time Google or wherever says I didn’t get it right but there HAS to be a simpler, better way.

I get hit with those all of the time, I think everyone with a VPN does so a few additional steps wouldn’t be such a big deal and imo would be far less annoying than logging in and realizing your account was blanket banned without explanation just bc you happened to create it while bot accounts were being made.

Would help even more if users had a string bot report feature where it was taken seriously. It could be pretty simple. See a bot? Report it.

The reviewer of the report, instead of just blanket banning should maybe contact the user first to check and see if they’re human. As far as user retention it’s better than just banning every bot we think we have.

Dumbasses

Downvoted but right. Average people did play a part of this though. The part we played was supporting the big businesses that were fucking us over. Oh, a new sports car even though my old one works fine? COOL. Give me that, I’ll pay whatever you ask.

Excess. We live a life of excess. They provide it, we accept.

Unfortunately people are greedy and material oriented. Even the good people have so much excess. They don’t think twice to see anything wrong with it. Everyone driving brand new cars to keep up with the “Joneses” played a big part. This never should have been a thing. Vehicles should’ve been for transport and nothing else, vanity should have never been a factor but… people.

Same with fashion. Never should’ve been a thing. Clothes are for covering your body. Never should’ve mattered so much how we look. Again, vanity.

Makeup. Same story. People want to look a certain way so resources are obtained, money is spent, excess is gained. Vanity satiated.

Sports stadiums? Malls filled with bs no one needs?

Wants vs needs. People don’t know how to separate the two anymore.

Even those that claim to. Often especially not those people.

Excess. So much excess.

My area used to be filled with farms. All you’d see is trees and farms.

They sustained themselves. Grew their own food, mowed their own grass, usually had a creek for water etc. Self sustainable and produced an abundance of food.

Now the entire fucking area is just… businesses to provide the excess. No need to rely on ourselves anymore. The corporations got our back right? Bought up all the land and replaced farms that could feed hundreds with… A smoke shop. Grocery stores everywhere. People aren’t growing their food anymore, they’ve got corporations to do that for them as long as they work for the corporations enough to earn the funds.

It’s so fucked up. I miss the trees, miss nature. It amazes me that people aren’t outraged and protesting this. They’re turning my entire region into a massive strip mall and the people are…

Okay with it because it provides the excess.

Okay with it because they lost touch with nature long ago and can’t fathom the value of it.

We’ve traded self sufficiency for reliance on corporations.

We’ve traded strength for dependency.

We’ve traded church for Twitter.

Clean water for fluoride laced tap water.

Roaming buffalo for cars.

It’s fucked up. Everything is fucked up.

We just don’t know it yet because our needs are met and then some

Personally I think we should redirect to individual energy.

I’m all for nuclear power and do believe more plants would obviously be better than continuing to use FF.

But I also don’t see why we don’t just use solar panels/turbines etc. On every home. They sustain my home just fine, just some solar panels and a few batteries. Expensive initial investment but people are paying out the ass for electric in my area anyway.

Knowing that if the power grid fails I’ve nothing to worry about feels great.

I just can’t see why our governments don’t band together and mass produce solar panels. Yes, it’s going to be expensive but the way we’ve been obtaining power has been much more costly. The second the tech for solar panels became available the gov should’ve began attempting to mass produce and distribute them. Why they haven’t? My guess is that it’s because big corporations require more power than average people. Also, power itself is a big corporation. None of our power companies wanted to go out of business, they wanted to leech our $ instead even though it was a detriment to our future.

Yep. I’m a mechanic, no expert of course but what I know from experience? Metals aren’t eternal. They rust, they corrode, they oxidize (lol) they break in strenuous (or light) application and just in general aren’t guaranteed. Nothing is. Wiring constantly fails. Batteries go dead. To top it off, we don’t make things to last anymore. Everything seems to be made to last just until the warranty expires. Personally I consider every single product that isn’t built to last as long as possible an utter waste of resources. I think it should be illegal to manufacture items that will only last a short time. Companies use up resources like we have an infinite supply so they can profit. Making vehicles that can hit 160-200 mph that will only ever travel on roads with a speed limit of 70-80 tops should be illegal. Hell, racing in general just shouldn’t be legal, wasting all of these previous finite resources to go fast? All that time, all that technology for something useless? It’s all so ridiculous.

I work on vehicles/equipment that are 30-50 years old that are much more reliable than the vehicles of the past 20 years. Simpler to work on too. If we ever do truly see Armageddon and lose the world as we know it, people are going to experience hell trying to get vehicles to run. Even the best mechanics I know can’t fix many of the issues the new vehicles present without vehicle specific programs that the manufacturers won’t release to the public. They’re making vehicles/equipment that people won’t be able to even use much less repair if society collapsed.

Yet an old truck from the 70’s? Almost anyone can learn to work on them and you don’t need any fancy tools to get them running. Can do damn near anything you need to with some vice grips, a flathead, a christen wrench and maybe a hammer.

It’s getting bad. We would have had enough resources to sustain us for many, many years to come. Silver, gold, platinum? We mined and used most of it for what, jewelry?

Steel, iron etc? Building skyscrapers for millionaires to live in at overly expensive rates?

People are homeless, people are starving, people are living in poverty

And we had all the resources needed for a utopian civilization but traded it all so a small percentage of the population could live like Kings.

Oh god I’d never thought about it that way, we really fucked up