surfrock66

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on *Permanently Deleted* · c/news · 31 pts · 62d

Helion is my bet to first acheive commercial fusion, as the plasma containment is not as dependent on rare materials as the heat exchange medium for high energy neutrons. That being said...the image is a tokamak, like Commonwealth fusion uses. The fusion nerd in me is mad at this article.

Can you expand on that, I've been considering making a "portable network in a briefcase" situation, with a small router and a kodi box with just HDMI, Power, and Network coming out (for when the family travels; the kids connect to the same SSID and are on the home network by default). I hadn't started researching yet, but I am wondering if these support using Wifi as the WAN link, even with openWRT firmware? For example, if we're in a hotel, can I join this to hotel wifi with a captive portal, have it tunnel home, then the kids join it like a hotspot? I prefer openWRT and not vendor firmware because I trust patching the firmware more than I trust a vendor to upkeep their maintenance.

I'm looking at this: https://www.amazon.com/GL-iNet-GL-MT3600BE-Portable-Wireless-Computer/dp/B0GF1J99S4

I appreciate you saying that; he really got dragged through the mud with his and Hasan's beef, but even before October 7th he's been a vocal critic of Bibi, including when living in Israel and having actual stakes in voting against him. You can take or leave his show and his style, but the broad brush painting of him as a zionist/bad parent/pedophile has been insane to see as someone that has watched him for a while. He's got a nuanced take on Israel that is anti the government, anti the war in Palestine, Anti the IDF, Pro the Palestinian people, anti Israeli settlers...but also has impulse control problems (actual tourette's) and says inflammatory shit that is easy to quote and add to the short-form pile on.

Going back to talk radio, I really find comfort in the ensemble cast of people going over current events, ribbing each other and disagreeing with each other, and generally just making inside jokes and having mini storylines. H3 is my current outlet for that, it's been Stern in the past, and when I lived in the south a radio show called Lex and Terry. The difference for me over this and the relationship a lot of people have with streamers is...I'll disagree with the "host" a lot, but that's not enough to stop listening, it helps me contextualize bad takes and craft my own opinions when they are challenged. Like I'm a big fan, but I for sure don't agree with everything he says, and I like when Dan and the crew push back.

You should watch the news, it is interesting, the Republicans have figured out how to wield law enforcement to defy procedure and take over the judiciary to give themselves blank checks for power. Falling back on legislative procedure is a cool safety net if you want to have the blood of vulnerable people on your hands.

I get it, I wish the Democrats were way more progressive, but this tantrum of taking out frustration on the Democrats instead of the Republicans is privilege, and we are literally at the point of trying saving throws against actual authoritarians and fascists. The worst Democrat is better than the best Republican and I can not stand by and repeat 2024, when a year of trashing a centrist pushed progressives to get stuck in the rut of "my side vs. theirs" and stay home on voting day. If it's Becerra, I proudly say "I wish he were more progressive and vibrant but I will take him over a Republican any day." Articles painting him as a huge mistake are gifts to the far right.

You can criticize the Democrats, but you have to be strategic or you get 2 R's in the general. Democrats are always stupid about strategy. An imperfect Democrat is better than a Republican, there are still people out there happily paying $7 in gas while Palestinians, Lebanese, Ukrainians, and Iranians die so they can keep telling themselves Kamala was still not a better choice.

For a lot of privileged people, voting is a luxury. Look at all the candidates, and make a moral or philosophical choice, even if it means a statement vote for a candidate with no chance.

In reality, only 2 people advance, and with the absurd candidate field, strategy has to be taken into account. If the Democrats spread the vote too thin, you could get a runoff of 2 Republicans. That possibility cannot be ignored.

If you want to compare Becerra to other Democrats, be my guest. If you want to look at him and how he could be stronger as a less corporate Democrat, go ahead. If you want to attack his charisma, go for it.

But compare him against the current breed of Republicans. I'd take Becerra any day, and as such, a strategic vote for him is not a loss. Pretending corporate Democrats are just as bad as Republicans spits in the face of the children locked in cages, in the faces of the Palestinians that Trump and Bibi gleefully pal around after stomping on, in the faces of the people dumped off in random countries, of the people whose benefits have been cut, of the people whose voting rights have been taken away.

If Becerra and Steyer are the top 2 Democrats, I think it's time to commit to one of them. This isn't a game and we know what Republicans will do with power. The Democrats will disappoint and not do enough...that's a much better world than active nosedives toward corporate authoritarianism.

And children wouldn't be locked in cages, and random people wouldn't be sent to random countries, and probably the transfer of wealth to billionaires would have been slowed to the point it would have been possible to stop it. Epstein would have probably been investigated, and the child victims would have had an opportunity for justice. The people of Cuba's life would probably be improved and we would probably be making strides on international climate pacts. We wouldn't have accepted a foreign airbase in the Midwest, and the people of Ukraine would have had enough support to actually be doing more pushback against Russia.

Less bad is better than perfect and it is a position of privilege to be able to minimize how much better Harris would have been.

We watched a bunch of youtube videos, and that's pretty much what we did. We took the chain off and with the cable disconnected, it's aligned with the smallest cog, and I can push it to the biggest cog but no further. Then we put the chain on and confirmed that. Then we cabled it, and we run into the 1-6 or 3-8 issue.

on *Permanently Deleted* · c/selfhosted · 7 pts · 126d

I also try to participate in some of the farms, running zimit and mwoffliner to help make more archives. Feels like I'm helping.

His policy on this sucks, but if he's the nominee, the effort is better spent trying to move his positions than poisoning him so we dive straight into a losing strategy in a 2-party system. I hate the game, but that doesn't mean backing a third party and convincing apathetic voters to stay home if he is the nominee would benefit vulnerable people. Rallying against Harris because she wasn't strong enough on Gaza explicitly harmed the people of Gaza. We need to learn from the lesson soaked in their blood.

on *Permanently Deleted* · c/selfhosted · 31 pts · 127d

Yes, and I actually use it to train a local llm so I'm not hammering the internet. I have a ton of storage, and like to keep my kids in the sandbox, so we have wikipedia, project gutenberg, kahn academy, and a bunch of others all hosted behind an apache reverse proxy which is using mellon so there's LDAP auth.

That makes sense, and we definitely jumped in headfirst with not enough research. Given what we're learning, I am going to have to replace the shifters, or the casette + derailleun, and the latter is probably better as a different derailleur will be more compatible with 3 gears in the front.

This is where my research is failing, is there a reasonably priced recommended casette/derailleur I should look for? I don't know brands at all.

Hmm ok, the idea here is this is a "forever" project so I'm less worried about its utility for a kid and more want it to be something he is proud of as he grows up, and we own 10 acres up in the mountains where a mountain bike that can go the full range will get used. If we keep the casette and derailleur, how big of an issue do you think it will be if we don't swap the front gear? It seems the we are potentially talking a new derailleur and casette if we want it to stay 3x8.

It seems the better option is to swap the derailleur, or would that mean I need to swap the casette too?

I definitely thought a lot of this was more universal, but that is ok as it is a learning journey. Is this what you mean with a Shimano mountain bike derailleur? I don't see a pull ratio listed but google said 1.7 is their standard https://www.amazon.com/Shimano-ACERA-DERAIL-8-SPEED-Black/dp/B0BGFBSYQ3?sbo=RZvfv%2F%2FHxDF%2BO5021pAnSA%3D%3D