octobob

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[–] octobob@lemmy.ml 15 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Soulseek my friend

[–] octobob@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Yes I would love it if all their tax dollars went to baby vaporizers in the middle east

[–] octobob@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

If you are torrenting anything, you're seeding that data, period. So therefore you're uploading. It's just the nature of the beast. It's why you may end up with a letter from your ISP if you raw dog it with no VPN. This may differ depending on what country you reside in.

That being said, best thing I ever did was set up a NAS a couple years ago. I seed all day long and build ratio on private trackers. I watch whatever I want in the quality I want via Plex.

[–] octobob@lemmy.ml 29 points 2 years ago (5 children)

We have a very expensive engraver at our shop, probably to the tune of idk, $20-30 thousand. It's a pretty large, heavy machine. We use it all day long for identification tags on cabinet doors, push button tags, serial ID tags. Absolutely critical to our business and the company that made it went out of business so if the windows 7 laptop that has the software ever dies, it becomes useless.

[–] octobob@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

There's an APC daemon that tells me a "Time Left" value in my unRAID server. There may be something similar in whatever you have it plugged into via USB (windows, Linux, etc). I'd also look at the different options for the onscreen display. Check your manual.

[–] octobob@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 years ago

Yes. Specifically industrial control and automation, which is apples to oranges to commercial and industrial building power distribution for example.

I worked for GE as a grunt first building inverters for solar fields and power plants. Then I did field service for them in the American southwest when they shut down the factory and sent all the work to GE Germany and Japan.

Then when all of the re-work we were doing was done, I passed on traveling indefinitely and came back home to Pittsburgh. I got hired opening a new factory for a company that makes machinery used for plastics recycling and worked there for close to a decade as their only electrical technician. That shop holds a deep place in my heart for the connections and friendships I made there. But I saw us getting slow as fuck and everyone quitting and decided to switch jobs this year for a better paycheck and closer commute. Now I work solely in testing and do a bit of design work and drafting.

[–] octobob@lemmy.ml 10 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Trades are always hiring. My phone says I walk like 5 miles a day just working in our factory. I use my brain, body, problem-solving skills, and have real conversations with my coworkers daily about how to go about the work and solve problems, or just pass the time when we're not as busy. I learn new things constantly and enjoy working with my hands and making my work look beautiful, which can be surprisingly deep in the field of industrial electrical work.

Just know that if anyone's interested in this kinda thing, make sure you have some thick skin and maybe leave a terminally online brain at home

[–] octobob@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I actually just answered this question on another post in this forum. I've been using a KVM to use my living room TV as another screen that I can play games / stream video / generally use my PC which is in my bedroom.

It works great in a max resolution of 4K/60hz and zero latency as far as I can tell on the USB ports for gaming controllers and mouse & keyboard. I use KDE big screen to easily navigate & open programs, emulators, steam, whatever with a controller so I don't have to try to read tiny 4K text from the couch. I generally find disabling my monitors and enabling my TV works best.

Basically how it works is:

PC (HDMI & USB) -> transmitter -> Ethernet (CAT 6 or better) -> receiver -> TV (HDMI & USB)

The Ethernet wire only connects from the transmitter to the receiver. It does not connect to your network at all.

This is the particular one I got:

Basicolor HDMI KVM USB Extender 4K@60Hz KVM Extender Over Cat5e/Cat6 Up to 60m (196Ft), 4 Ports USB,Lossless or Zero Latency, Plug&Play(Point to Point KVM Extender) https://a.co/d/8Ki2lzw

Other option, if everything is in the same room you could just run some long HDMI or displayport and USB cables.

[–] octobob@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

No, this only really serves one purpose which is utilizing your TV or other distant monitor as another screen for your laptop or desktop.

The Ethernet wire does not connect to the rest of your network. It only goes from the transmitter to the receiver.

What you're describing is possible however, via some self-hosted services on a server for instance.

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