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Cake day: July 1st, 2023

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  • breaker to my room likes to trip if I am gaming and someone in the house decides to microwave something

    … Why the hell is your pc on the same breaker as the kitchen??

    The kitchen plugs should have their own dedicated breaker in most modern electrical codes (at least in North America). The voltage drop your pc experiences everytime a high-load item like a microwave or kettle is turned on, on the same circuit, is really rough on your PSU.

    At least you have a UPS which presumably performs some power conditioning, but still. Not great.



  • Darkassassin07@lemmy.catoSelfhosted@lemmy.worldHow do you keep up?
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    OS updates I only bother with every 6-12mo, though I also use debian which doesn’t push major updates all that regularly.

    As far as software goes; pretty much everything is in a docker container with watchtower automatically pulling new updates to those nightly at 4am. It sends me email notifications, so It’ll tell me if an update fails; combined with uptime-kuma notifying me if any of my services is unavailable for whatever reason.

    The rest I’ll usually do with the OS updates. Just because an update was released, doesn’t mean you’ve gotta drop everything and install it right this moment.


  • Supposedly docker volumes are faster than plain bind mounts; but I’ve not really noticed a difference.

    They also allow you to use docker commands to backup and restore volumes.

    Finally you can specify storage drivers, which let you do things like mount a network share (ssh, samba, nfs, etc) or a cloud storage solution directly to the container.

    Personally I just use bind mounts for pretty much every bit of persistent data. I prefer to keep my compose files alongside the container data organized to my standards in an easy to find folder. I also like being able to navigate those files without having to use docker commands, and regularly back them up with borg.


  • Ordered merch from Bioware mid-November for an xmas present. It arrived Jan 4th; they shipped the wrong product.

    Contacted them 3 seprate times through their ‘contact us’ page and got ignored for 3 weeks. It wasn’t until I filed a chargeback with my cc that they finally emailed me (4 days after submission).

    I had asked for my money back in my various emails; but they didn’t respond to that at all and just shipped me a new package.

    Still haven’t gotten that, so no idea if they actually shipped the right item this time. It’s not listed on their site anymore; so they likely don’t have inventory to ship.

    We’ll see what’s in the box whenever it gets here.

    I’ll never spend another dime with EA/BioWare.










  • I did this with a regular rpi, one of it’s io pins and a single npn transistor a while back.

    Multimeter to check which power button pin on the mobo is + vs -. - to the rpi gnd, + to the transistor collector, gate to the io pin, drain to rpi gnd.

    Whenever the io pin goes high (positive), the transistor shorts the mobo pins ‘pressing’ the power button.

    Script pings the servers ip to check if its not responding; then pulls the pin high for 6 sec to ensure the mobo is fully off, then low for 2 sec, high for 2 sec, then low again.

    This was for a system that kept locking up while I was away, so I needed a way to remotely hard-restart it.