I do this. Random ebay junk is both better and cheaper than a raspberry pi. When I first started doing home server stuff, I had the option between an Athlon XP and a raspberry pi and the Athlon XP delivered better performance (I tried both).

This. When YouTube finally succeeds in making it impossible for anyone to use their website without watching ads, they probably still won’t succeed in preventing people from downloading for offline viewing. When this happens I’m going to invest in making scripts that autodownload stuff ahead of time and I’ll only watch whatever videos are in my home network.

Im not watching their brainwash bullshit ass propaganda. I’ll find other stuff to do for entertainment before I give in to ads.

Fuck smart tvs. I only use tvs by plugging in my laptop via hdmi. It’s only a matter of time before smart tvs start reporting people for stuff like watching pirated content or voiding TOS’s with adblockers.

Not sure what distro you’re using but try the liquirox kernel. I did that one time on a really stubborn laptop and managed to get both the HDMI and the suspend feature working.

Using mainline or something to ensure I’m up to date on the latest kernel has never solved a single issue in my entire history of trying but using liquirox worked one time.

I always get screwed pretty hard with Debian drivers. Just the other day I updated my Debian server to Debian 12 and then it refused to allow my atheros 9k PCI wifi card to work unless I rebooted after a cold boot. After an entire afternoon, I got to where it wouldn’t work after a cold boot or after a reboot. I literally had to choose between buying a new wifi card or reinstalling Debian/a different distro.

I used to only use Debian for non-laptops but from now on I don’t think I’ll install any new Debian installations on anything.

Cilantro tastes like soap to me. I like it. I can eat as much of soap flavored plant as I want without shitting out bubbles.

Dang I thought proton was older than that. I remember playing No Man’s Sky on Linux around the time it was released on pc. I don’t remember running a pirated copy of NMS just so I could make it run on wine but maybe I was. (you used to have to do that whether you owned the game or not if you wanted to play on Linux).

One time I got downvoted to oblivion and then followed and harassed for saying that employers shouldn’t be allowed to drug test for thc… In r/lsd of all places. I still don’t know what that was about. Did I accidently trigger the “everyone dogpile this guy” bot algorithm, maybe in a different comment? Do lsd users just think they’re better than everyone else just because past use of lsd can’t really be drug tested for? This happened like a year ago and I’m still dumbfounded.

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Cinnamon is like classic Gnome but modernized and better. Out of the box, it’s more usable than Gnome 3 even with a lot of extensions.

Usually, I do the simplest thing: all the stuff goes on one big ext4 partition. I don’t make a separate partition for /home. I’ll make a swap partition if I can remember but I’ve forgotten to do that before and nothing bad happened. The bootloader goes on a fat32 /boot/efi on the same drive as whatever the Linux install is on. This way I can swap around the drive to different pcs if I have to or easily change/upgrade drives without having to reinstall all my stuff.

This strategy works for dual booting Windows also. I’ll put the windows install all on its own separate drive so it won’t try to erase grub during a disk check or something. That happened one time. Also, by putting Windows and Linux on separate drives you can use the bios to boot between Windows or Linux if you mess up one of the bootloaders.

I’m poor and I hate stupid bullshit. The only way to personalize ads for me is to make them go away.

Is there a guide on how to do this? I have a rooted phone with custom rom and unlocked bootloader.

Night vision. You can remove the ir filter and then buy or make an infared lightbar and get good night vision that way.

They won’t overheat if you don’t put them in an enclosure or case but this makes them more suseptible to damage. I bet a small pc fan blowing through a custom made 3d printed or wood box would be enough to offset it.

I’ve tried to use esp 32 cameras before. First issue, there are no esp32 cameras that either don’t have ir filters or have ir filters that can be removed. I finally found an Amazon seller that doesn’t glue the camera lenses together very thoroughly and once you break them open, the ir filter is in a place that can be removed if you’re patient enough with an exacto knife.

The other major issue is that esp 32s generate so much heat they eventually melt everything I put them in. You can’t leave them naked because even if it doesn’t rain, they still stop working after only a few days of being outside.

I really hope someone else has figured out a better way to use esp 32 cameras for home security because the only other choices are a) those chinese ones that don’t give you control over the rtsp stream (you can only use their spyware infested smartphone app) or b) those absurdly overpriced ones that don’t even come with night vision most of the time.

Computer parts are expensive. My pc specs are more of a downward graph. ddr3 ftw. Am4 b550 stuff isn’t good enough to warrant an upgrade and b650 motherboards with their stupid overpriced ddr5 ram are too expensive to be worth it.

I already have ddr4 ram from my “old” but newer motherboard that stopped working (before someone points out ram prices and is like uhm ACKTUALLY)

The more people that try to avoid these kinds of jobs, the sooner someone in power will change the rules.

It does cause chafing if you do a lot of walking around within the first few days, although for me all the chafing only ever happens in my crotch under my balls (I might as well shave everything since shaving the asshole is 99% of the work). Powder solves it but also if your job doesn’t require you to do miles and miles of waking a day, it’s a non issue.

Imho, the advantages of shaving my ass outweigh the negatives. Wasting toilet paper is bad. Streaks smell. The problem with bidets is you’ll only ever get to use one if you install one in your home. People always tend to refute every claim that it’s more hygienic, and while I’m not here to argue that, there are situations where not having all that crotch hair results in less body stench since it can be wiped easily. For further b/o control you can apply deodorant to your balls and that patch of skin above your dick and it’s really effective as long as you aren’t planning on getting your dick sucked.

Everyone is free to do whatever they want with their ass hair but every comment section about ass shaving is full of people that think it’s bad. It’s important people are aware of both sides of the story.

I kept my ass shaved during the pandemic. Only had to use like 2 squares of single ply toilet paper per shit. Ass hair is a conspiracy by toilet paper companies to sell more toilet paper.

The Lemmy.world server runs on a 16mhz 386dx and has 16mb of ram. It just does that sometimes.