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[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 5 points 3 days ago

I've been really impressed with Immich, can't recommend it enough.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 8 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I'd put substitute first, but yours sounds better :)

(I'm a big Immich fan, and I'm taking and sharing photos more than ever before, in part because Immich is awesome, self hosted, and open source [the other part is that I have kids now so I'm taking way more photos that grandparents want to see].)

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 10 points 6 days ago

That only appears to apply to hard drives though.

If you want to use M.2 SSDs for your storage pool and cache, then you still need to use a Synology-certified SSD (which doesn’t necessarily mean that it needs to be Synology branded, just tested and certified).

From https://liliputing.com/synology-backtracks-and-adds-3rd-party-hard-drive-support-to-its-2025-nas-lineup-network-attached-storage/

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Scaramouche, by Rafael Sabatini

But will he do the Fandango?

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I know right? Almost like it should be called Spaceballs II: The Search for More Money.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 3 points 1 week ago

On low end CPUs you can max out the CPU before maxing out network---if you want to get fancy, you can use rsync over an unencrypted remote shell like rsh, but I would only do this if the computers were directly connected to each other by one Ethernet cable.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 30 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I have one, it's been great.

That said, "exactly what the problem is" isn't always the same as telling you the solution. I had a "misfire on cyl #3" error or something like that, which can be a number of things. Replacing all the coils and plugs myself was probably still cheaper than taking it to the shop though!

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 27 points 1 week ago

Not sure I agree.

First, stocks tend to be highly correlated with "the market" (see financial "β"/"beta coefficient"). For example, look at, say, The Home Depot or Ford Motors. From January 2000 to January 2003 (spanning the dot com bubble) they each lost about a third of their value, yet these are not "dot com"-centric companies.

Second, the promise of AI is that it will help every company that has desk jobs. So every company has this expectation now priced into their stock, and if the bottom falls out, well...

Not an analyst/I don't pick stocks, but just my 2¢.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 18 points 1 week ago (1 children)

If you're running it via docker compose it's trivial to upgrade, and there are no breaking changes. Pull, down, up, you're done.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 7 points 1 week ago

In grad school I bought a blue (405nm) laser pointer. It was supposed to be <5mW, but I measured it at over 70mW.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

I think "boring" (making a hole with a revolving but) in the title is a pun on this...

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 4 points 2 weeks ago

Prescriptive vs. descriptive is different in colloquial language than in science.

If my data logger captures 1kB/km, how many bytes/meter is that? In every other quantitative unit I can think of, the k should cancel out; but if you want computers to be special, that's your preference.

Metric sucks. Powers of ten are arbitrary, a fluke of biology. Powers of two are the only sensible way to make a system of measurements.

Then why are you trying to shoehorn binary into decimal? As in: why are you using decimal prefixes in the first place? Answer is probably that most people have intuition behind powers of ten. You can easily express in log2-bytes instead (a GiB is 30, a TiB is 33...etc.). Be the change you want to see!

I'm born and raised in the USA, and while imperial units can be handy for a few every day tasks, there's a reason why the sciences in the US tend to use metric.

Regarding cooking, I'll stick to metric, measured by weight. I can double, halve, or multiply my recipe by pi, and all I have to do is look for a different number on my scale.

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