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Cake day: August 16th, 2024
  • TVA@thebrainbin.orgtoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.world•It's probably not reasonable to expect this to improve in 2026.
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    19 hours ago

    Right?! I love the people giving ‘help’ on how to launch the terminal in other ways, lol, but, this was the worst of them.

    This isn’t OOP saying “OMG! For terminal specifically, Windows is making it so difficult for me! Please, someone, show me another way to get to the terminal! Bonus points if you can be a jerk while doing so!” It’s them saying “Windows start menu search is fucking broke as hell and here is an example”

    Saying that people are ‘cringe’ for expecting the search to work isn’t helpful at all (people giving tips on other ways to get to programs though, yeah, that can be helpful to try and help others work around MS breaking basic functionality). This is functionality that has been in Windows since Windows 7 and has been in every OS with a GUI that I’ve used for a really long time … expecting it to work isn’t absurd in the least.

    Can’t we all just join together in our disappointment/hatred of the Start Menu Search functionality and the enshittification of the OS in general rather than having to try and make it into a “I’m so much better than you because I do this in a power user way”? Especially when that power user way isn’t even useful for a lot of applications!

  • TVA@thebrainbin.orgtoPrivacy@lemmy.ml•I bought a handheld computer, now Google says I'm not allowed to do whatever the hell I want to it
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    19 hours ago

    It’s like on my old Nvidia SHIELD, an update rolled in and all of a sudden there are ads on the homepage. Some people were ok with TV/movie ads being on a TV/movie device, but, why the hell would I want ads for content only available on services that I don’t have? If they’d at least only given me ads for the services it knew I was subscribed to, I would have at least been less pissed off since it could have been useful.

    Reached out to Nvidia and they say there isn’t anything they can do, it’s built that way by Google. By no means do I just blindly accept that that was accurate, but, it’s still bullshit that with a basic update all of a sudden the nature of my device was completely changed (imo) and I’m expected to just suck it up or work around it with 3rd party launchers that weren’t as polished.

    Dunno if it’s gotten better/worse in the last couple years, mine died and I elected to not replace it with another Android device.

  • TVA@thebrainbin.orgtoTelevision@piefed.social•Anyone used to watch Stargate? There's a new show coming out
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    1 month ago

    Love the “as long as they don’t make it woke” comment in the link, as if the smartest human on the show (Yeah, I said it, Rodney) wasn’t a woman and one of the most iconic characters wasn’t a black man. If this cast launched today they’d call it woke nonsense.

    The article didn’t say if this is a reboot or if it’s set in the same universe as the originals. For myself, I’m very interested in a continuation, but almost completely uninterested in a reboot.

  • TVA@thebrainbin.orgtoSelfhosted@lemmy.world•Using Fail2ban to protect exposed services
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    2 months ago

    Yeah, I had a overall bad experience with everything being buggy and then even devices that weren’t connected to tailscale would start trying to ping the tailnet address instead of the local (wasn’t using their funky bridge subnets feature or whatever it’s called, so I don’t know why it would happen).

    Their magicDNS is cool in theory but caused me nothing but problems. Once I turned off their DNS and set up my own DNS server for it though, it’s gotten to basically be as seamless as they claim it’s supposed to be from the start. I’m no longer having any issues with it at all.

  • TVA@thebrainbin.orgtoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•What are some things for a new home owner to consider getting early on?
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    4 months ago

    A couple people have suggested power tools … I’ll add that whatever battery platform you wind up going with (I went with Ryobi … good enough for my purposes), also pick up an adapter that’ll use the battery and give you AC power as well. Having an adapter that’ll power anything up to 150W has been a godsend.

    I’ve also got a bunch of flashlights/lanterns that use the same batteries … super convenient if we lose power and it’s great when we go camping too.

    I’ve got a “battery charging station” that’s just a plastic shelf, when you come in from the garage and it’s got the Ryobi batteries charging, but also our USB charging packs, rechargable AA/AAA/etc… batteries, and it’s also where we keep a lot of the tools so it makes it easy to find things in an emergency.

    -=-=-=- If your house has a sump pump but no battery backup (and I’d actually recommend the ones that are FULL replacements … so, you’ll basically have two pumps in the sump, one of which is connected to the battery system), I’d definitely recommend you getting one before you need it.

    -=-=-=- For myself, my AC unit has two capacitors. One burned up the first weekend we were in the house and one burned out a couple of years later.

    The first one, I didn’t know anything at the time and it cost a bit more than $600 (we thought we were getting screwed [and we were], but, it was 110deg F with fans running, so, we weren’t in a position to argue and the tech knew it). It’s a $20 part if you just buy it online and many times it will physically deform when it breaks, so even with no knowledge you might even have a physical indication that it’s broken. Go to your AC unit, give it a thorough cleaning (youtube the process) and then look up what capacitors your unit uses and buy a spare set and watch a quick video on how to replace them … super easy. It’s likely you’ll pay < $40 for however many you need and you won’t have to deal with a massive bill for a $20 part that you’ve just got to match up the ports and then move the blade terminals from one to the other AND you won’t have to deal with a hot house while you wait for a replacement since you’ll already have one and you’ll just have to buy a replacement for your spare, but, even if that takes a month to ship, it won’t be a worry.

    -=-=-=- A GOOD tape measurer. I’ve got a great Milwaukee one that has a magnet on the tip and it also holds without bending for a decent distance and it’s been glorious … always sucks when you’re trying to measure something and the tape is just flopping around not able to hold its shape.

    -=-=-=- There are a lot of studfinders out there, but I’ve found the ones that work the best basically just have a magnet that finds the nails/screws that are holding the drywall on. Once you’ve found a nail, you’ve found the stud.

  • TVA@thebrainbin.orgtoSelfhosted@lemmy.world•Selfhosting Sunday - What's up to date, selfhosters?
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    5 months ago

    I just followed their instructions and on 2 of the nodes in my cluster, I migrated all VMs/LXCs off and then did the upgrade and they went through without a hitch. For the last one, I just YOLO’d it and powered off the VMs/LXCs and upgraded it and it also went through without a hitch.

    One thing I did find interesting was the systemd-boot packages needed to be removed and were on 2/3 of the machines. I basically intentionally keep their config as close to identical as possible, so I have no clue why it was only needed on 2 of them.