CoopaLoopa

joined 2 years ago
[–] CoopaLoopa@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 years ago

The Oracle Cloud VPS only has SSH key authentication enabled by default. You can also set it to only allow SSH from your home IP in the virtual firewall before the machine is ever spun up.

Their current free ARM offering is 1 machine with 4-cores and 24gb RAM for life. You can also add another 2 AMD machines with 1-core and 1gb RAM and still be in their free-tier.

If you're going to set it up and take advantage of the ARM machine, make sure you pick a home location for your account that has multiple availability zones. San Fran right now only has 1 zone, so if the shared ARM instances are all used up, you'll have to wait a few days and try again. Phoenix I think has 3, so you can try with another zone right away.

[–] CoopaLoopa@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Edge/IE run some underlying services for built-in windows features, so uninstalling them can cause issues with completely different parts of the OS.

Ran into an issue with a client still running Office 2016 where uninstalling IE11 prevented them from opening any links within those apps. Office was harcoded to look at IE for link handling and didn't respect the setting for your default browser.

[–] CoopaLoopa@lemmy.dbzer0.com 35 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

M1 and M2 Macs have some of the worst pre-boot and recovery options I have ever seen.

If a BIOS update fails on them, they don't have any redundancy to fail back to a working BIOS. This has been standard on every business machine for at least 5 years. On any Dell or Lenovo machine, if your BIOS becomes borked, it either auto-recovers from a previous BIOS that is stored on your HDD/SSD, or it allows you to insert a USB drive with the BIOS on it and recovers from there.

The Mac BIOS can update during a standard OS update without indicating that you'll brick the machine if it powers off for any reason.

I had someone with a failed update on an M2 Mac that left the machine without a BIOS entirely. To recover, you need another Mac machine with USBC so you can plug them into each other and run Apple Configurator 2 to start a complete redownload of the OS to recover from.

It's at least an hour long process for something that should take 5 minutes to fix. Also, it requires another Mac, you can't run the recovery from any other OS.

Absolute baloney from Apple.

[–] CoopaLoopa@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 2 years ago

Where I'm at, a Costco membership pays for itself in 2 months with the savings on gasoline alone. Costco gas is nearly a full dollar cheaper per gallon than any other gas station around.

Also, try shopping in Costco without a cart. You'll only be able to carry 2-3 things and it helps stop me from overbuying a bunch of stuff.

Costco is a religion and I'm all for it.

[–] CoopaLoopa@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 2 years ago

Your second wish already exists. It's made by a company called nexdock. I think you can plug your phone in or run it over bluetooth/WiFi.

https://nexdock.com/

[–] CoopaLoopa@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Somehow you hit an unpopular opinion landmine with the greybeard devs.

For the greybeard devs: Try asking ChatGPT to write you some Arduino code to do a specific task. Even if you don't know how to write code for an Arduino, ChatGPT will get you 95% of the way there with the proper libraries and syntax.

No way in hell I'm digging through forums and code repos for hours to blink an led and send out a notification through a web hook when a sensor gets triggered if AI can do it for me in 30 seconds. AI obviously can't do everything for you if you've never coded anything before, but it can do a damn good job of translating your knowledge of one programming language into every other programming language available.

[–] CoopaLoopa@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 2 years ago

I almost forgot this isn't the Tarkov subreddit where even mentioning SP Tarkov will get you a ban.

I was scared there for a moment.

[–] CoopaLoopa@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 years ago

Playing gorilla tag with a bunch of 12 year olds who enthusiastically want to help you get better at the game seems pretty wholesome to me.

Gaming's toxicity is entirely correlated to the actual game you're playing. Team based competitive PvP is typically going to be more toxic than any sort of PvE or PvPvE game.

[–] CoopaLoopa@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 2 years ago

This is definitely a temporary install to pass a vehicle inspection. Tires aren't allowed to extend past the fenders, so the kiddie pool fenders get them past that rule.

Lifted trucks here with super wide tire will either have a second set of stock tires/rims that they will install before they go and get a safety check, or they attach cheapo "fenders" that get pulled off immediately after the check.

I haven't ever seen kiddie pool fenders before, I usually see plastic landscape edging instead.

[–] CoopaLoopa@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

400 hours in and I'm not even really at endgame content. 10/10 would recommend the space ninja game.

[–] CoopaLoopa@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 years ago

Using a Pi3b to run AdGuard Home and a TailScale subnet router.

I've got another Pi3b running Octoprint/Klipper for a 3d printer, but I'm currently migrating that to Mainsail running on an old SFF PC so I can run multiple printers with Klipper off the same PC.

The rest of my stack is on an actual server running UnRaid with like 50tb raw storage.

I will say that TailScale has been annoying asf with their subnet router setup not actually forcing the correct DNS for AdGuard Home so I can have ad-blocking while away from home. I had to move back to a pure Wireguard setup directly on my router for DNS to work properly.

[–] CoopaLoopa@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Middle schoolers (age 11-14) just rip around on 2-stroke dirt bikes where I'm at. Even a 100cc dirt bike will hit 50mph at WOT.

At least e-bikes aren't noisy like the awful buzz of a 2-stroke a half-mile away.

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