I am curious, what is the advantage to you foe doing this?

To me it just seems like a hassle, I have a Lemmy account, a Mastodon account and a Pixelfed account.

They all seem to have their own uses, and I guess I just don’t see the point of navigating Lemmy through a Mastodon interface…

But I am probably missing something here…

I would like one, but I have no space to store it, I live in a two room apartment and the bike storage is only really designed for a normal bike.

I used my normal bike with a bike basket on the parcel holder for shopping, it was brilliant!

No need for a bag, just pack the basket when you have paid, and hook it on the parcel holder.

Sadly I lost my bike during a year when I missed that the bike room was being cleared out and didn’t tag it, so it was thrown out as anandoned, this happened as I had messed up my knee, had double flat feet and double heel spurs.

I now drive my car to the shops bur it’s only one kilometer so it feels a bit dumb, meh I drive on electricity so it could be worse.

Once my situation with my general life stabalize a bit more I’ll looks for a bike.

My Hue system is probably one of the best things I ever bought.

I live alone, in a suburb north of Stockholm, so during winters it get really damned depressing to leave the office after sunset, and then get home and open the front door to a dark hole.

Being able to turn some lights on before I open the door has made wonders for my mental health, it makes it feel as if there is someone at home taking care of it and waiting for you to come home.

Then in the mornings, using the lights in my bedroom as an alarmclock in combination with my phone makes me get up far quicker.

And when I have guests over I can set the mood and make my apartment look cool.

If you are still using X, get Fluxbox, very lightweight, requires some config, but that is fairly easy.

Yep, LVM is basically a software raid 0, I used it when setting up Linux server VMs for years at my last job, as far as I know they are still running fine.

The VM system backed up all VMs regularly, so I used LVMs as it made increasing the storage on a server easier for me.

Since it is just a raid 0 that can span several disks and one disk failiure can bring it down I don’t want any irriplacable data on it, so games from Steam seems like an excellwnt idea.

That also means that being able to just have a volume spanning several disks would be an easy and simple way to increase storage when space is running tight.

I am an avid hobby photographer and I would never trust an LVM without some kind of added protection, I am looking to get a Synology NAS with minimum of four drives raided in raid 5.

I have a very old Intel NAS with used drives that I used for many years, but I don’t trust it anymore, I keep it powered off as a cold backup.

I have not read that book, but seeing as the right is on the rise also here in Europe, it might be worth checking it out.

It is soo easy to forget about just how much identifying metadata you leave on the internet just by reading stuff.

You know the cookie banners you see? Those that claim to let you opt out from being tracked by advertisers?

Yeah, those are just the overt tracking mechanism, tracking pixels are far far more insidious.

Lets backtrack a bit, back when Facebook started getting big, companies started embedded Like buttons on their webpages, cool right? You could just click the Like button and it would help you post a link to your Facebook feed to the page you were visiting.

Seems fine, right? What’s the issue?

It would be fine if the image of the Like button was stored on the local web server hosting the rest of the site.

But it isn’t.

It is stored on Facebook’s servers, it is stored in a way that every single Like button has their own ID, so every time you load up your favourite website about abandoned radiation experiment sites it makes your browser send a request to Facebook’s servers as well and depending on how the request is sent they can at minimum log that your IP address loaded the Like button with the ID number X, the ID number X is tied to the specific webpage you visited.

Then you go and do some research on impotense and how to cure it, the pages you read all have Like buttons as above, but with their own ID numbers, Facebook now knows at a minimum that you are a man who is interested in science, technology, society and modern history, you may also suffer from impotense.

Well, you keep browsing the web and read local news, well the Like button is also there, and with the ID number Facebook can add an area of interest to your profile.

It keeps going like this, but with one huge important change, people are starting getting warey of the Like buttons and Facebook in general, so they simply remove the button, while introducing the tracking pixel, a 1px*1px transparent picture, it works like how the Like button loads, and keeps generating data for Facebook.

Facebook is not alone in this, I just used them as an example.

You can read more here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spy_pixel

This is also not even getting into browser fingerprinting.

IT tech here, yes, yes it can.

Network infrastructure is both increadibly smart while also being dumb in other ways.

To do an ELI5 answer:

Imagine you have a container of pearls that you need to sort, red, green and blue pearls all need to be dropped into a red, green or blue hole.

The container is being refilled, but slow enough that it only gets a new pearl once you have sorted the previous.

The holes are connected to pipes going to separate buckets.

Everything is fine, but then some adds a new hole that is muticolored and tells you that all pearls should go there.

You tell your friends that you have a faster way to deal with the perls and to send you their pearls.

The new hole also has a pipe, but that is connected to the container that recieves pearls, so every time you drop a pearl into the new hole, it appears in the container again.

So now you have a situation where you not only get your normal ammount of pearls, but everyone else’s pearls and you also get every pearl you send back again.

You are smart and quickly realize that something is wrong and call for your teacher for help, networking gear don’t have that capabillity to understand that it is wrong, it just looks at each pearl and not the big picture.

If we go back to the real world, we have developed tools to deal with this situation, we have protocols line spanning tree which can have switches speak with eachother and figure out if there is a physical loop before sending traffic through it.

There are other tools as well, but they all need to be configured and to be honest, it is easily forgotten or made a low priority since it happens rarely.

It is something that is often implemented after a big outage.

That depends on your usecase.

I have setup servers where I mounted extra drives on /srv/nfs

When/If I switch to Linux I will probably mount my secondary drives to folders like

/home/stoy/videos

/home/stoy/music

/home/stoy/photos

/home/stoy/documents

/home/stoy/games

The ~/games will probably be an LVM since it contains little critical data and may absolutely need to be expanded to span several drives, though I would also be able to reduce the size of it and remove a drive from the LVM if needed.

I’d make a simple conky config to keep track of the drive space used

I’d just keep using the default automount spot for automounting drives.

As someone who has lived alone for eight years using only public transport in an area with excellent public transport, I can tell you that you are both right and wrong.

You are right in that if there is just one bus line, then it would only serve a small subset of people in this photo.

But if you only make one bus line then the public transport system is doomed to fail.

A good public transport system will have multiple lines converging to the same interchange, and in the opposite direction it will have multiple lines departing the same interchange, following the same route and branching off when needed, this way you have added capacity and redundancy at the start of the line, and it gets reduced as the need is reduced.

Then add lines that are circles in higher density areas, this means that no matter the direction all passengers can get on all departures, you csn also quickly add capacity by adding busses that goes in alternating directions.

All of this means that travellers can define their own route along different bus, train, tram, metro and ferry lines.

Public transport is not ment to be point to point, it builds a framework where people decide what parts the want to use.

The one thing that still remains unclear with regards to science and god is the big bang.

The way I have heard it explained is that before the big bang there was nothing.

Which to my mind becomes:

First there was nothing, which exploded

This does not make sense to me, how can nothing explode?

So there are three categories of answer to this question:

A. There was something before the big bang which exploded, though this offeres not explanation of how the thing that exploded came into existance, I have heard theories about how the universe is cyclical and how it will eventually collapse into a new big bang, but that doesn’t answer the queation about the first big bang.

B. God exists and triggered the big bang, that means that the god entity exists outside of our universe.

C. We are just a highly advanced simulator, the big bang was the the program starting our simulation.

As someone who is mostly agnostic, those who belive that absence of evidence equals evidence of absence belong in psychotherapy.

There is zero evidence either way, the best we can say is that we don’t know.

We never really had this issue, but I would try putting the folded towels in a cupboard with a door. As for furniture you could tey and fit some hard plastic over the favourite scratching area so she won’t get a grip with her claws.

We had our cat when we were doing a remodel (still going on at my parents, I still remember when the front porch was ripped out and the big job was starting back in 2000, but even before then the house was being remoddeled.

She loved to scrach against wodden posts so much so that over the years she had scratched away about a third of the equivalent of a twobyfour post.

We let her do that since the post would hold little weight, and it is relatively easy to swap if needed.

But did you lock the garage?

Glad to hear that, you take care!

Fantastic! I hope you have a great day!

Excellent, have a lovely day!

Good!

I don’t have a hairdryer. With 6mm hair that is not needed

When cats sharpen their claws on wood it keeps them at the right length.

The only time we needed to clip our cat’s claws was when she was getting old and couldn’t sharpen them herself.

We noticed it when she was getting more and more passive, and on a whim we looked ar her claws, they had grown into her pads on her paws, we started cliping them regularly, but only slightly, and she was soon feeling much better.

This happened after and accident when she was out and we thought she got lost, but after a few days she was back in our garden, she was clearly in pain so we took her to the vet and one of her rear legs had been dislocated, it took weeks to get it to heal, and after that event she started having trouble with her claws.

I an not even American and even I am pissed at that dumb ruling.

And what is even more annoying is that I read that what is considered an official act is not clear, so a court will need to decide if an act was official or not, and that court will be the SCOTUS.

So they could easily decide that acts Biden performed was not official, but the same acts performed by Trump was official, and invent some crap about context being different in som complex way, so with this ruling they have moved the power from the POTUS to the SCOTUS while POTUS stays the fall guy.