northernscrub

u/northernscrub@lemmy.world
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four heatwaves
crop failures
unprecedented aggression from west to east
public services struggling

ah yes, lets ignore everything and watch some old, inefficient jets fly about sucking up fuel and shitting out fumes doing precisly fuck all except get very close to one another very quickly.

Unfortunately, the US is taking advantage of this axiom. Their unfettered drive of "influential" content amounts to, essentially, an undeclared cultural invasion.

Sadly, just one lemmy instance doing this won't change much. The US has been invested in destroying my country since the 1970's.

I can't say that Russia or China are any better, before anyone asks.

It almost certainly is designed to run indefinitely, this exact same coffee maker has been in production since the nineties or so. the only addition is the timer circuit, which is very clearly a much later addition, as the supporting structure is markedly different tk the rest of the device.

Anyway, a 240v switch is in order, I think. Fortunately we still have Farnell here in the UK, I shouldn't like to pay international shipping fees for a single switch from china.

The fire hazard is no greater for removing the timer, there's a bimetallic strip in there that will detach from circuit if the thing gets over 90ish degrees. It'll just keep cycling like that. Microwaving coffee tastes, in my opinion, worse.

clipboard...

This just sounds bothersome. A clipboard should really be machine-wide, that's the purpose of it. Although I can understand the reticence there, what with password managers. I would argue that, to achieve that sort of security, there should be a separate, "secure" clipboard that only enrolled applications can access - and enrollment should be left up to the user, not the application developer.

RDP

How do you approach RDP? Do you have multiple monitors at all? Is your approach scriptable? The reason I ask is because I can easily access my machines like so:

exec xfreerdp3 /u:<user> /p:<pass> /v:<address> +f +clipboard /drive:/home/<user>>,Z: /drive:/,Y: -grab-keyboard /monitors:0,1 /multimon

This can be added to a script that also checks the state of the target machine, and boots it via my IPMI console if necessary, waiting until the machine is ready to login. And, as you'll note, I can specify which monitors I would like to provide for the connection. grab-keyboard allows me to set a keyboard shortcut that minimises the remote session, and you'll note the mapped drives also. This is pretty much the lowest level of functionality I'm after. If that can be replicated on Wayland, that's at least one hurdle down.

fedibuzz alleges that you can follow a single specific instance with their relay, and I see nothing to suggest that I can't use it better federate with mastodonapp.

I did note, though, that both my instance and mastodonapp are connected to relay.intahnet.co.uk - and whilst it has a few issues in the logs, it has none since i reset the instance again after attempting limited federation mode.

on Do I need a NAS ? · c/selfhosted · 2 pts · 293d

You don't need something huge. Remove the DVD drive and the old mechanical drive from a USFF machine, stick a pair of 4TB drives in it, and put a basic debian image on it. Configure SMB with a shared folder or two, and voila: you now have a comfortable NAS for maybe £20 plus drives. Add in a sata pcie card if you can find a decent low-profile one, and that's an extra four or even six drives. It won't give you the cream of top performance, but it will be perfectly serviceable for a homelab.