ramblechat

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[–] ramblechat 1 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I had a 10 year old Macbook Pro that was really slow, I put in an SSD and it was transformed. Not expensive and plenty of YouTube videos on how to do it.

[–] ramblechat 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I read they knew about steam power for a long time but couldn't make the engines / containers / doohickies strong enough to contain the pressure.

[–] ramblechat 31 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Actually the floon goes inside the zargnix. Duh.

[–] ramblechat 2 points 1 year ago

My main worry is that if I lose my phone or it's stolen, especially if I'm overseas,I won't be able to access a lot of sites due to the 2 factor authentication. A lot of sites don't have alternative 2fa methods, only SMS or through the app. I've been trying to think of a way to access these sites if overseas and my phone gets lost or stolen, the only thing I can think of is to take my sim out and hide it, and buy a local sim when in a new country. If I need 2FA I put in my old sim, but for day to day stuff use the local sim. If the phone gets stolen / lost, I've not lost the 2FA capability.

[–] ramblechat 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I think we all assume that any actor with a decent recurring role in a hit TV show is earning thousands an episode. I often look up actors on IMDB while I'm watching something where I know I've seen them before, and it's amazing how many times you see they have gone years without being in anything. Some may be doing theatre, but a lot of familiar faces are often only in 1 thing a year, or go a couple of years without being in anything then have 2-3 episodes. I really feel it's not a viable career for most. Yet the execs make millions. This actor - https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2895488/?ref_=tt_cl_t_12 - Susan Park, for example. She was in the first Fargo TV series in 2014, 5 episodes, which is where I remember her from. Then between 2014 and 2020 she was in a total of 29 TV episodes. Let's be generous and say she earned $10000 per episode. That's only $48333 a year on average. And 11 of those were 2016-2017, so between 2017 and 2020 she was in 6 episodes. She then was cast in Snowpiercer in 2020 and has been in other stuff since (High Desert most recently). She also did some minor film roles, I doubt the pay was much for those. So this is an actor I recognise who has been in some major TV shows, yet is out of work a lot.

[–] ramblechat 3 points 1 year ago

I posted the same movie before seeing this. I wish they would make a TV series of these books instead of Foundation. I thought the movie was a good robot movie, but was very disappointed that it didn't follow the books.

[–] ramblechat 26 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I, Robot - extremely disappointed that it didn't follow the books, but I've watched it several times and if you pretend it came out under a different title it's a good robot movie.

[–] ramblechat 2 points 1 year ago

When I went to see this in the theatre, I was the only one there. Only time it's ever happened.

[–] ramblechat 3 points 1 year ago

I just bought a used Lenovo ThinkCentre M710Q Mini Tiny Desktop PC Computer i5 6400T 1TB SSD Win 10 Pro from Ebay for $289 AUD and plugged in some oldish external SSDs and HDDs and now have 10TB of storage. I'm really pleased with it, it took about half an hour to install Proxmox and I've now got 5 VMs up and running.

[–] ramblechat 2 points 1 year ago

I wouldn't recommend a WD My Cloud Home - it's not a NAS as such, it's a bit limited; I'd go for a Synology. or One Drive as you suggest - a 1TB plan is quite reasonable with regards to cost.

[–] ramblechat 2 points 1 year ago

I had a 2010 Macbook Pro that I was about to throw away a couple of years ago because it was unusable - beach ball of death constantly. I bought a 500GB SSD for around $70 AUD, went on YouTube and about an hour later booted up; it was like a new laptop. I eventually chucked it earlier this year because the battery had it and I didn't want to spend any more on it.

[–] ramblechat 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My wife ran her own business, and a lot of her time was spent chasing up people like this and it was so frustrating. A lot of small business owners do everything themselves, so having to re-issue invoices and chase them up if they weren't paid was a real pain. She didn't mess about though, of they didn't pay and didn't communicate she would engage a debt-collection company. She also knew some of her clients were also small businesses and would work out a payment plan or extra time if they needed it. But some deliberately strung her along till the last minute.

 

I've added 2 external USBs of 2TB each to my Proxmox server and created a Resource Pool called USB_HDD containing both. I created an Ubuntu VM, but I can't allocate all 4TB to it in one go - it only allows me to add each one as a separate SCSI device. When I start to install the OS it only allows the install onto one of the 2TB devices. I though the point of pools was to make the actual disks transparent, and present the pool to the VM so it sees it as one lot of space. Am I doing something wrong, or do I have to have it as 2x2TB disks?

 

I'm beginning to think to stop using Pis and instead get an old PC - I don't use the GPIO pins at all, and I can get one of these for $289 AUD - https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/255608574938

That's 32GB RAM and a 1TB disk.
An 8GB Pi is selling for $279.

 

I have Plex, Radarr, Sonarr, Overseerr etc running in Docker containers, but have never found a good guide on how to access these (safely) from outside. I resort to connecting to a server running VNC. I've tried nginx but didn't understand it, also tried Cloudflare (ditto). Is there a good, easy to understand guide on how to do this?

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Where is everybody? (self.raspberrypi)
 

Only 45 subscribers to a Raspberry Pi community? Is there another one with more people in it?

 

I'm surprised no-one has commissioned a TV series of "I, Robot"; it seems tailor-made for it. A set of stand-alone stories, with the same characters throughout, and the stories are brilliant.

 

When I go to the top-level domain (https://lemmy.world/) and select "All" posts, I can be scrolling down when suddenly the page will update / refresh and i lose my place, and I'll see a bulk-update from one community. For example, I saw 20 posts from Torrent Trackers all appear at once. I'm sorting by Active. Is this normal behaviour? I'd like it to refresh when I say, not randomly.

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Show case roundup (www.polygon.com)
submitted 1 year ago by ramblechat to c/xbox
 

Getting No Man's Sky vibes from Starfield, if I was a cynic I'd say they copied a lot of elements but improved the graphics. Hyped for it though, looks really good.

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