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user224 , 2 days ago

Also worth noting, you should create file named .ventoyignore in the directories with other files. Otherwise Ventoy searches everything which slows it down.

user224 , 3 days ago

Or Navidrome. It is FOSS and subsonic-compatible.

user224 , 3 days ago

I had a small bag of them for a year. I'll just dispose of it at this point. They're discharged so they likely lost quite a bit of capacity.

My dad used to use those. Better yet, from Wish.

And anyway, I have a similar bag of old 18650s to take care of. I should check their voltages now that I remembered it. I know their capacities used to be OK, but similar story. Haven't touched them for a while.

user224 , 3 days ago

Absolutely. Perhaps not in this case, but often there aren't even viable alternatives. You can't stop buying everything.

And good luck only buying stuff not made with child labor and slavery.

user224 OP , 3 days ago

There doesn't need to be a separate access panel. It can just be in a normal battery holder like so:
https://i.imgur.com/FFWxsa6.jpeg Replaceable CR1225 in Cisco 1802

Considering it's something that generally runs 24/7 for years, it may still be a good idea to clean out dust from the device when possible. That's also an opportunity to replace the RTC battery, assuming it's replaceable.
Oh, hey, it seems Cisco even used to provide some Li batteries until 2017.

Also, not all businesses need the networks up 24/7. There may be plenty of time for down time for maintenance.

user224 OP , 3 days ago

Sorry to disappoint you, but I did not have to deal with them yet.

My idea is something like this:
https://cdn-shop.adafruit.com/970x728/4856-07.jpg
Or probably just as you said.

user224 , 4 days ago

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user224 , 4 days ago

If I want to quickly share something from my phone, I use NGINX in Termux with autoindex enabled.

No need for anything else than browser on client-side.
Actually, on Play store there's also a simple GUI app called "Simple HTTP server", but NGINX feels fancier.

Just a tip if you want to try this:
By default, error logs are kept. One source of errors is interface suddenly disappearing (i.e. your phone got disconnected from network). This error will be logged as quickly as it can be.
What happened (when this occurred)? I found my phone stuck in bootloop. The error log filled internal storage to the last byte causing Android system to crash and unable to reboot, which it tried again, again, again,... Bootloop. I just found my pocket suddenly feeling unreasonably hot.
In my case, forcing it into recovery, turning it off from there and retrying boot up freed 17MB from somewhere, allowing the phone to boot up.
Alternative to that would be a hard reset.

Sounds crazy, but any app could fill the internal storage like that.

user224 , 5 days ago

How is it different from raising them for food?

user224 , 5 days ago

WRONG!!!

Hard braking may increase your insurance costs: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/11/technology/carmakers-driver-tracking-insurance.html

TL;DR: General Motors was selling customer driving data to LexisNexis which provided them to insurance companies. Hard braking also contributed to a higher risk factor.

user224 , 6 days ago

It is 2 paragraphs.

You can see that if you click on "View source".
OP just didn't add 2 spaces before newline to fix the formatting here.

user224 , 6 days ago

Clearly a superior design.

user224 , 6 days ago

What about this one?:
https://i.imgur.com/q34uA53.png

user224 , 6 days ago

I believe that's a stop sign.

user224 , 6 days ago

I can't believe there's no 💀

user224 , 7 days ago

Operation: Verdant Terror - A Beginner's Guide

Warning: Grass is a complex and potentially hostile ecosystem. Approach with extreme caution. This guide is for informational purposes only and does not guarantee your safety.

Pre-Mission Preparations:

Psychological Evaluation: Undergo mandatory psych evaluation to assess your mental fortitude for grass contact.
Gear Up: Don a heavy-duty biosuit with maximum puncture resistance. Grass blades are surprisingly sharp and harbor unknown microscopic horrors.
Assemble Emergency Kit: Pack antihistamines, tweezers, and a portable decontamination spray in case of allergic reactions or parasitic infestation.

Mission: First Contact

Location: Locate a designated "Grass Touch Zone" (public parks, backyards) during daylight hours. Nighttime grass is even more unpredictable.
Establish Perimeter: Scan the area for potential threats. Beware of territorial pigeons, playful (and potentially rabid) dogs, and unattended blades (rusty and tetanus-inducing).
Approach: Move slowly and deliberately, maintaining eye contact with the grass at all times. Sudden movements might trigger an aggressive response.

The Touch (Perform at your own risk):

Deployment: From a safe distance, extend a single, gloved finger towards a solitary blade. Do not touch in clumps! They may swarm and overpower you.
Observation: If contact is made, withdraw your finger immediately. Observe any changes in grass behavior (twitching, pulsating).
Escape: If the grass seems unreactive, retreat slowly and cautiously. Remember, even a seemingly docile patch may be plotting a surprise attack.

Post-Mission:

Decontamination: Upon reaching a safe zone, thoroughly disinfect yourself and your equipment following the provided protocol.
Medical Attention: Seek immediate medical attention for any unusual symptoms (itching, hallucinations, uncontrollable urge to roll in the grass).
Debriefing: Report your experience to the designated authorities. Your knowledge could be crucial in understanding the true nature of the Verdant Terror.
Remember: Grass is not your friend. Approach it with respect and fear. This guide is just the first step. Only the most courageous explorers venture beyond basic touch. Good luck.

user224 , 7 days ago

I am totally fucked up, so here's one:

"Are you interested in any mutual sexual activities (not limited to regular sex)?"

The problem is that I am hoping for a "no"...

Not quite something I'd want. Quite the opposite I'd say. As I said, I am fucked up. But nope, nope... I don't like that idea.
I don't know what to do about it.

Either way, valid for all questions by me, I'd like to include a note that not all (if any) questions need an answer. I am terrible at wording stuff, and something cannot be easily answered either.
(I am assuming this is done on paper or electronically. Otherwise it's most likely I'd just chicken out right away.)

user224 , 7 days ago (edited 7 days ago)

Maximum, that is.

Thanks for stating that first. My dumb ass was thinking how you'd enforce that as minimum...

user224 , 7 days ago

I've been taking the same route twice a day for the past 3 years.

No less interesting so far.

Actually, I am so weird I have the whole route recorded on my phone (from the window) like 4 times, and yes, I did watch it at home numerous times, in real time without skipping. Just like a movie.

No, it does not get boring.

user224 , 7 days ago

It’s not really something you get to do nor appreciate if you’re driving yourself.

I mean, you do, but it may decrease your and someone else's lifespan..

user224 , 7 days ago

I want to get a bodycam, but I am not sure how people would respond to that. Should be pretty legal in public spaces, but still...

user224 , 7 days ago

spare your free time

But it's not free time if you're not free to waste it ¯⁠\⁠⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠⁠/⁠¯

user224 , 7 days ago

Definitely KDE Plasma.

user224 , 8 days ago

Learning.

I am a lazy piece of shit.
I'd like to learn some programming, morse code, perhaps another language as well.
But I quickly loose any motivation. At least for the past 2 years. I do get some occasional bursts of motivation, but usually I often don't feel like doing anything at all anymore. I wouldn't even breathe if it wasn't automatic.
Preferably I'd be dead. I'd have 0 issues, create 0 issues, have no regrets. It would be better for everyone, myself included.

user224 , 8 days ago

You still didn't answer the most important question of Lemmy, though. ^(joke)^

Do you use GNU+Linux?

user224 , 8 days ago

Technically, every generation up until now contributed to modern tech.

But anyway, even if we consider just those who did directly, I am pretty sure you should still also include boomers and even the silent generation.
Check out the computer chronicles: https://archive.org/details/computerchronicles?sort=date

Seems modern enough already.

user224 , 9 days ago

39 buried, 0 found.

user224 , 9 days ago

If we're speaking of the technology, depends on implementation. "VPN" is a fairly broad term.

user224 , 9 days ago

Unless you want to install older apps on modern Android. Then you need ADB.

adb install --bypass-low-target-sdk-block app_filename.apk

user224 , 9 days ago

I felt that.

I actually like MIUI, I just wish I didn't need to memorize many bugs and ways to get around them.

user224 , 9 days ago

have fun adding repos

Have fun searching web for exe and msi files.

user224 , 8 days ago

Yes, but it could have been solved with a warning.

Instead I believe it just says that the app is "Incompatible".

user224 , 9 days ago

I am afraid not.
It's with you like race. You can't change it.
If you're part of any minority you'll always attract these dumbasses.

Sorry, I'd like to tell you something better.

Oh, and the "Say something in Polish" may very well be meant well, even if it's annoying. Nobody but you knows how often you hear it.

user224 , 9 days ago

Why? Looks, voice.

If it's not intentional, it doesn't matter.

Like, take this picture of the friend for example, what gender comes to your mind looking at that

JPEG. A cooked JPEG. That JPEG isn't well done, it's congratulations.
(Can't tell)

user224 , 9 days ago

inch

Ew.

user224 , 9 days ago

Not sure what specifically you mean by "died". Does it have many bad sectors, does it fail to spin up, does it keep clicking,...

Anyway, preferably you'd remove it either way, at least to save power.

You can also take it as opportunity to remove dust and replace thermal paste.

user224 , 9 days ago (edited 9 days ago)

I don't think I ever managed to do that.

TL;DR: Occupy myself with something

At best I can just have a fake conversation in my head. Sometimes I also listen to taxi drivers with SDR. I can only pick up 2 companies, unfortunately. Fortunately though, they are just 0.15MHz apart, so I can listen on to both at once.
One of them even routes phone calls over their radios, so I can hear those as well.

But it's usually boring. Just on new year 2022/2023 one of the 3 companies' drivers were greeting each other. That was nice. Yes, 3, there used to be 3 of them I could listen to.
Actually, even before I had SDR I could listen to one on VHF because they were overlapping with FM Broadcast band. But that wasn't the most pleasant experience. With regular radio I had no squelch option and picking NFM with WFM receiver I had to have volume fairly high. The result of that was faint voice followed by absolutely loud static.

Of course, it would be better to listen to hams. That would be far more interesting. But so far I only managed to pick up the end of 2 contacts on 2m. I don't have much luck. HF is basically unusable where I am due to RFI.
The only stuff I can pick up is chinese AM radio stations, CW (but I've been too lazy to learn morse...), FT8, and the Russian-Ukrainian pirates around 7055kHz.

I don't know how to monitor the 2m band automatically. If I know the specific frequency, in SDR++ I can just set up squelch and turn on recording with "Ignore silence". But obviously that will also not allow me to listen to a real-time conversation because all silence is cut out.

Yeah, sorry, I got off-topic.

I can also play with random stuff in Termux on my phone. Right now I need to update nginx which will require also re-compiling the fancyindex dynamic module. I also want to try setting up Jellyfin and NextCloud in proot at some point.
I also want to download the 110GB Wikipedia ZIM archive and serve that with kiwix-serve after I free up enough storage, currently occupied by DVD ISO files and satellite signal baseband recordings. (Yes, on my phone.)
Of course this isn't always without larger issues.
During one math class I took out my phone from the pocket, because it was starting to get too hot, only to find it stuck in bootloop. I forced it off and tried to boot it up. Thankfully, that worked this time. I found the internal storage nearly full. It seems when I forced it into recovery to turn it off, magically 17MB were freed which allowed it to boot up. Otherwise I'd need to fully reset it, most likely. I can't access the data from recovery, and that's good from security perspective.

What happened? NGINX error log filled up the storage. I am too dumb to properly manage that, so...

error_log /dev/null;

user224 , 9 days ago

Some different expensive mineral waters
Freeze-dried fruit
Beef jerky
Nuts in wasabi dough
Pizza

user224 , 9 days ago

Stop downplaying it, call it by it's most descriptive name:
Hydric acid

user224 , 1 day ago

Better yet, this was done by sending e-mails to schools.

But I guess this wasn't a student. Compiling that e-mail list must have taken ages. Too much effort.

user224 , 10 days ago

Perhaps some filter to make it seem like it's on a wooden desk instead of something else, perhaps a bed.

user224 , 9 days ago

NileRed? Is that you?

user224 , 11 days ago

I currently use Samsung, but I've had great luck with SanDisk. I think they even gave me better random access which is clear when e.g. loading photo thumbnails.

user224 , 11 days ago

I just got ghosted by the girl I was talking to

I am sorry, but are you sure it isn't accidental?

I might have accidentally done something like that in the past myself to someone. I have 0 social skills and I am terrible at understanding relationships between people and picking up social cues correctly.
I feel like I just completely misunderstood the situation so I entirely stopped talking with that person (if that's what "ghosting" refers to).

user224 , 11 days ago

It's also possible she's going through something bad and doesn't want to pull OP into that.

There's no way to tell with a lack of any communication, and assuming stuff is inaccurate.

user224 , 11 days ago

No consequences? I won't even know I did anything. It won't even show.
Just carry on as usual.

Now, if you meant no bad consequences...

I don't know how I'd do it. Perhaps I'd steal money from some rich fuck, whatever.
But the idea is:
Find a train driver and bribe him with loads of money. Tell him to say that I've kidnapped him. I could even get a gun.
Perhaps bribe some more people similarly as well, not many would care about a single worker.
Threaten to kill them if things don't go my way.

Ask to get some specific rail sections freed.
Tell the train driver to do initial checks and start the train, then show me the basics on how to drive it.
The best part starts now: I'll drive the train.

Perhaps I'd take 3-4 hours with that. Then get to some side rail and stop there.
In the remaining time, ask the train driver to explain me as much as possible from this field.

5 minutes before the end thank my "hostages" for cooperating and leave the scene, hopefully leaving with loads of extra knowledge on a field different from mine.

user224 , 11 days ago

More like, below the lake.