Haha yea. I’m very tempted to just be lazy and replace my thermostat with one that can control the humidifier too. I just might need to run new thermostat wire and I don’t think mine will pull easily.

I’ve the same humidifier. I’m seriously considering doing the same upgrade.

It’s why I live so much commercial stuff and things like bacnet.

Everything basically is just basic I/O with either analog or digital signal wires. Well documented. But it typically requires lots of actual wires running back to a controller.

I hate how consumer stuff is all different connections in so many different ways and they don’t care if they deprecate a feature or something. What works today can be fucked up because they have unilateral control to change how their shit works in “updates.”

Ah yes. A bias tracker from the same people who posted on every official site “the radical left democrats shut down the government.”

These people are ridiculous

I still think it’s better than discord. And alliance auth tied in super easy.

Besides, I think it’s better that it’s usually hosted on an individual corp/alliance level.

Shut should do one thing. And do it well.

Totally fair.

I do admit the phones look cool and have some very nice features. But they’ve been on my “never buy” list for a long time for all their products, phones included.

I think not being able to uninstall Facebook was one of the breaking points when I last trialed their phone.

It’s been a while since I used Samsung. My work phone is a Samsung flip of some sort that gets powered on once a month.

However, it’s not just their phones that have me turned off. Their TVs built in OS is shit and they just had a whole lot of bad press for their fridges that will start showing ads. Not to mention how their appliances tend to have the shortest lifespan of comparably prices appliances.

Good hardware, but consistently anti consumer software.

Samsung is on my shit list. Their spammy, ad riddled UI is infuriating.

I don’t trust them. They lock their phones down and don’t let you remove their bloatware or block their ads/notifications.

Fuck them. Never buy Samsung.

I saw this before I saw anything from the accounts.

Block list for new propaganda accounts: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:3acafo7uekudfz27te5nd3h7/lists/3m3ggmb4wm62s

Block list for most US Gov accounts: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:qruaxn2eewkli7hsvzxo5hwf/lists/3m3gbju7lio2e

No. We weren’t. This discussion was about phones and the software we are being allowed to install on them.

The law does nothing to restrict us in that capacity. The restrictions are imposed by the manufacturer of the phone.

You made the fallacious false equivalency of comparing that with guns and laws.

That sounds like just changing who is verifying the developer. Whether it’s the EFF (because they aren’t going to put their name and reputation at risk for unreviewed source code) or google, the issue is the same.

Someone has to be the middle man in deciding what is allowed to be installed.

Except we aren’t talking about the law. We are talking about corporations that sell you something and then retain control over it.

You have no say in the process, you have no representation. These are not rules that we as a society have determined to be in the best interests of all of us. These are unilateral decisions placed upon us. You have no recourse if you disagree other than don’t use the thing.

Guns don’t prevent you from doing anything. You still have the capability to do whatever you want with the thing. However, if you use it in a manner than harms someone else, in a way that we as a society have proposed, voted, and created laws prohibiting, then you deal with the consequences. But that is very different from having something in the gun that prevents it from taking ammo from another manufacturer. Or making it unable to shoot unless you pay a monthly fee.

Unraid has a table of the docker containers.

I don’t need metrics or stats. I wouldn’t look at, or care about them anyway. Dashboards feel like tech enthusiast crap. Tech and resources for the sake of having tech. My services are to solve a problem, not look at metrics of.

At this point, I’d say build your own if you are wanting anything more than basic file sharing.

Lots of resources out there and even NAS style cases to make it basically the same as any off the shelf NAS.

Xenology has been mentioned here, but I haven’t used it

FreeNAS is good, but I haven’t used it in years.

OpenMediaVault is supposed to be good, but again I haven’t used it.

Unraid is good and has super easy support for docker. I primarily use this because of its ability to use different disk sizes for the array and does what is the equivalent of software RAID. It’s not the fastest thing on the market, but for my use case (primarily Plex/Jellyfin) I don’t need the fastest reads or writes. It supports hardware passthrough for VMs or to docker containers so they can take advantage of hardware for acceleration. It also runs off a flash stick, so I don’t waste any disks on the OS.

Mine is primarily a 4u server, in a rack. That’s screwed to the wall (for added stability).

They’d need a couple guys to unrack it. It’s in the garage I rarely ever lock, behind the cars which are more valuable and easier to steal. Behind the much more valuable tools.

Garage does get warm in the summer and cold enough in the winter the fans do funny things.

Anything important gets replicated to another location as well as backed up to a cloud bucket. So if it got stolen it would suck, but not the end of the world.

https://duplicacy.com/

I just have my data folder and database being copied to backblaze. It’s relatively cheap. Most hosting providers don’t necessarily do backup unless you configure that on your own anyway.

That’s been my experience too. I had heard so much good about it, but it feels so janky.

I really wish there was a normal minipc option with a good remote controlled UI. But they all have such terrible interfaces or if it’s running Linux, weird limitations by streaming vendors who lock Linux to 1080p because they are afraid of piracy, as if that actually prevents anything at all.

I can’t stand how normalized these invasive ads have become. I have a child at home and she is too young to know how intrusive ads are. I don’t want my 7 year old being shown ads for content that they aren’t mature enough for.

That’s… Still terrible, you see that, right? Disabling a feature that I’ve paid for for any reason, at all, is unacceptable.

The parenting behavior of big tech companies is insulting.

Privacy is something that I think needs to be actively encouraged. It is a right, and thinks like location tracking are creeping their way into daily life and eroding that right.

No one should have the ability to violate that. And we shouldn’t be making it easier to.