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[–] xtremeownage@lemmyonline.com 27 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I cannot confirm, nor deny.

But, I will say, once upon a time, before the days of netflix, if you wanted to watch things, you needed to spend a fuckload of money, to watch it on cable, with commercials every 10 minutes.... or, you drove to a blockbuster. So, you either did that, or you obtained the movie/tv/etc, via a torrent.

Then, netflix came along, gave you a ton of content, at a reasonable price. And- then, there wasn't really much of an advantage to obtaining media via other alternative means. So, netflix took over by storm, and piracy went way down.

Then, everyone wanted a piece of the action. So, then Hulu, Netflix, Amazon Prime, Disney Plus, HBO+, ESPN+, (And insert 50 other network-specific streaming services) jumped into the fray. Then, they all made exclusive streaming contracts. So, if you watch a handful of things, you would need a handful of streaming service subscriptions.

And- again, the alternative option of piracy, became the better option, as you can watch whatever the f- you want, WHENever you want, without having to pay for 50 different subscriptions every month, just to watch a TV series, which they decide to cancel after the 2nd season.

Do you justify?

If the fucking scumbags didn't get greedy in the first place, we wouldn't be in this situation. But, no, everyone wanted an extremely generous piece of the pie, and now everything has went to shit again. Fuck those guys. Isn't like the actual actors/writers staring in movies gets any of the money anyways.

[–] xtremeownage@lemmyonline.com 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

7zip is the way.

Unless, I am working in linux. Then tar+gzip.

Unless, I am doing backups or ZFS. Then, LZO typically, due to speed and minimal overhead.

Funny note- the way we actually get things to near absolute zero, is by shooting it with lasers.

Yup, vanity plates are pretty commonplace. Most cars still have a dealer's vanity plate on the front because they never removed it, or put something else there.

Front plates are only required in a few states.

flashing tail lights instead of any indicators (we call them blinkers, the orange lights on the corners of cars) was surprising

We don't require dedicated turning signals in the rear of the vehicle. As long as you have a flashing red or amber indicator at the REAR, and amber at the FRONT, that meets the requirements.

Basically- as long as the car behind you can easily, visually determine that you intend to turn.

All of them weren’t registered

All cars MUST have a displayed license plate at the rear of the vehicle. The only exceptions to this- are temporary dealer plates (which are only good for a month), while you get your permanent plates.

Failure to properly display the license plate is a ticketable offence. Not, serious enough to send you to jail, but, you will pay a fine over it. And- enough tickets, and you lose your license.

[–] xtremeownage@lemmyonline.com 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

OP just needs to visit their local tag office. Will take around 5-10 minutes depending on the line, and everything will/can be solved.

Nothing more is needed.

won’t that make it a criminal travelling interstate to commit a crime, and that be a federal matter?

Unless they are committing federal crimes, motor-vehicle related infractions are regulated by the individual states.

You yanks tend to have a lot less regulation than us, whether it is lack of necessary indicators

All vehicles are required by law to have functional front, and rear turning indicators. (And, a horn. And lights. And seat belts.)

or lack of a need to put number plates at each end of your car.

All vehicles are required to have a rear-mounted license plate. Some states, also requires a front-mounted license plate.

Actually, does not sound like a bad thing.

Why?

  1. Lots of opportunities to interrupt the supply chain. There is a LONG distance between NK, and Ukraine. Be a shame if a train full of explosives were to blow up in the middle of nowhere, russia.... disrupting the supply lines between Russia and China/NK.
  2. North korea selling/giving away ammo, doesn't sound like a bad thing either.
  3. Most of Russia's stuff, is defunct due to age/lack of maintenance. NK's stuff, is far worse.
[–] xtremeownage@lemmyonline.com 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

First of all, before anyone gets excited, I get coffee from starbucks extremely rarely. A couple times a year tops.

That being said, I am not a supporter of starbucks.

Ok, now, my main point- For everyone in here just saying the coffee tastes like shit, Try to be more productive towards the conversation. The coffee tastes bad, is an obvious fallacy, as nearly 40 MILLION people drink their coffee. If the coffee tastes like shit, then don't order a oat milk vanilla pumpkin spice chai latte.

The conversation is around starbucks trying to bust up unions.

Saying- the coffee tastes like shit (when 40 million people drinks it), is not productive towards the conversation, and does nothing to assist with the conversation of starbucks being anti-human, anti-union, and treating their workers like slaves.

[–] xtremeownage@lemmyonline.com 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Bring it to your local tag office.

They can run all of the details, and most of the time get you sorted out.

Well, nice knowing you unity....

[–] xtremeownage@lemmyonline.com 26 points 1 year ago

They are going to feel pretty damn stupid when nobody can buy/rent/watch/listen to their content and products...

Because, ya know... any product which can play any form of media, has the potential to infringe on IP....

I say, give them EXACTLY what they want. Give them, a week or two with zero profits, and see how quickly they change their tune.

I approve of this message, and welcome our new overlords.

 

My apologies for the past day or so of downtime.

I had a work conference all of last week. On the last morning around 4am, before I headed back to my timezone, "something" inside of my kubernetes cluster took a dump.

While- I can remotely reboot nodes, and even access them... the scope of what went wrong was far above what I can accomplish remotely via my phone.

After returning home yesterday evening, I started plugging away a bit, and quickly realized.... something was seriously wrong with the cluster. As such, from previous experience, I found it was quicker to just tear it down, rebuild it, and restore from backups. So- I started that process.

However, since, I had not seen my wife in a week, I felt spending some time with her was slightly more important at the time. But- I was able to finish getting everything restored today.

Due, to the issues before, I will be rebuilding some areas of my infrastructure to be slightly more redundant.

Whereas before- I had bare-metal machines running ubuntu, going forward, I will be leveraging proxmox for compute clustering and HA, along with ceph for storage HA.

That being said, sometime soon, I will have ansible playbooks setup to get everything pushed out and running.

Again- My apologies for the downtime. It was completely unexpected, and came out of the blue. I honestly still have no idea what happened.

The best suspicion I have, is disk failure.... and after rebooting the machine, it came back to life?

Regardless, Will work to improve this moving forward. Also- I don't plan on being out of town soon... so, that will help too.

There may be some slight downtime later on as I am working on and moving things around. If- that is the case, it will be short. But- for now- the goal is just restoring my other services and getting back up and running.

Update 2023-07-23 CST

There are still a few kinks being worked out. I have noticed occasionally things are disconnecting still.

Working on ironing out the issues still. Please bear with me.

(This issue appears to be due to a single realtek nic in the cluster... realtek = bad)

Update 9:30pm CST

Well, it has been a "fun" evening. I have been finding issues left and right.

  1. A piece of bad fiber cable.
  2. The aforementioned server with a realtek NIC which was bringing down the entire cluster.
  3. STP/RSTP issues, likely caused by the above two issues.

Still, working and improving...

Update 2023-07-24

Update 9am CST

Working out a few minor kinks still. Finish line is in sight.

Update 5pm CST

Happened to find a SFP+ module which was in the process of dying. Swapped it out with a new one, and... magically, many of the spotty network issues went away.

Have new fiber ordered, will install later this week.

Update 9pm CST

  1. Broken/Intermittent SFP+ Module replaced.
  2. Server with crappy realtek nic removed. Re-added server with 10G SFP+ connectivity.
  3. Clustered servers moved to dedicated switch.
  4. New fiber stuff ordered to replace longer-distance (50ft) 10G copper runs.

I am aware of current performance issues. These will start going away as I expand out the cluster. Still focusing on rebuilding everything to a working state.

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmyonline.com/post/53654

I dug through the prime deals and picked out the relevant devices, for which I have personal experience using, and would recommend to others.

Every device linked, will work with home assistant, more or less natively. The majority of them, are flashable to esphome or tasmota. And ALL of them will work 100% locally.

 

https://old.lemmyonline.com/

Just, an alternative front-end... if you pretty.... a different front-end.

 

Apologies for the short outage today, My core switch decided to reboot for unknown reasons.

This thing has been up for close to a year, with no recent changes, or explanations behind the reboot.

 

Seemed pretty cool.

Do note, I don't control mlym.org, so, wouldn't recommend putting your credentials into it!

 

Friendly FYI-

Just updated to 0.18.1 rc9 for both UI and FE.

There have been a lot of bugs fixed, and hopefully this should improve the performance quite a bit too.

 

I picked it up a few days ago, and can honestly say- its quite a bit of fun.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/799600/Cosmoteer_Starship_Architect__Commander/

 
 
 
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Today, is the final day. (lemmyonline.com)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by xtremeownage@lemmyonline.com to c/snoocalypse@lemmy.ml
 

Today, is the final day for all of our wonderful 3rd party apps to work on reddit.

As such, today will be the last day many of us look at reddit.

Enjoy it.

For me- Reddit is Fun. Will forever be missed.

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Github is down! (lemmyonline.com)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by xtremeownage@lemmyonline.com to c/technology
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