Hyacin (He/Him)

I’ve got the robot vacuum of Theseus here… early, 2nd or 3rd gen Roomba I guess it is, I’ve probably had since 2009 or so I think. I’ve replaced damn near all of it, and I’m ALWAYS shocked when something new breaks, I check online, and I can get a part and replace it! And often times the replacement ends up being an upgrade too. I think it must have come from the Twilight Zone or something, I don’t know.

Lengthy convo about it in response to another comment, that may have some helpful tips!

https://lemmy.ml/post/39901569/22602665

This. I know ‘nicotine’ is already here, but it’s not the same.

Confused the hell out of me when I was trying to switch to vaping that I’d keep going back to cigarettes - “I’M GETTING THE NICOTINE, WHAT THE HELL?!”, and it wasn’t just habit, it was overwhelming need to smoke.

I finally figured some of those other 2999 or whatever chemicals in there must be addictive too, or something, I don’t know.

I’ve quit drinking, when I was a daily drinker at risk of a seizure because my body had grown so chemically dependent on it. I’ve quit countless other ‘behavioral’ addictions.

NOTHING, was as hard as trying to quit smoking. Until, thank the powers that be, I met vaping, and after a couple months of back and forth, was able to transition to it entirely. Haven’t had a cigarette since, and it’s been at least 10-11 years.

Eventually lowered my nicotine to 0 mg, then gave up the vaping. Haven’t done either since. That was, probably 8-9 years ago now.

I still get the odd craving to vape. Zero cravings to smoke up until last year, first trip in my life to Vegas (and two more since). The casino environment with everyone smoking, I don’t know what it is. Got me looking at it with the rose coloured glasses occasionally while there - but then I quickly remember how hard it was to shake, and how happy I am without it.

I did it my whole life (~mid forties now).

I met and was talking to a guy about 10-15 years ago, and it came up - he said “oh yeah, I used to do that, I just stopped.”

Now, consider that, we’re both addicts and met at a 12-step meeting.

I’m like “You can’t just stop guy, lawl, wtf?”

But he insisted - “No, really, I just stopped.”

So I tried … and was absolutely, completely fucking stunned - it worked - I just stopped.

You’ve got to taper. I’ve had hangovers after multi-week benders that didn’t hurt as bad as trying to drop caffeine cold turkey. I know tapering is counter intuitive and counter productive for a lot of addictions, but for caffeine it’s a must.

Similar to the above, I started with this guide that got me going (in case it adds anything additional!)

That’s a 0 according to the scale provided if I’m not mistaken.

Asked too many questions.

pulls out pen and paper

Oh, wait, this isn’t shitty ask lemmy …

quietly backs out of the room

OpenBSD

ducks

yep, this, cold turkey ragequit. Have since had to go back for the odd super niche technical question/subject/area, but now I’m thinking I’ll keep that readonly and delete my account (after trashing everything on it, ofc, which I did a week ago after a Reddit-typical terrible interaction with a terrible human.)

Currently messing around with Talos Linux in a VM.

Yes!! Now LOVE Talos, after, drumroll, trying it out in my lab on my Proxmox boxes!! Figured it out ‘good enough’, and then rolled a live cluster with it - also on the same Proxmox hardware!! Labs, production services, loaner ‘lab boxes’ for people doing certs - with hardware to spare! LOVE Proxmox so much!!!

Proxmox.

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Anything else you want to run, you can run in Proxmox. If it’s too much hardware for what you’re doing, all the more reason to run Proxmox. You can build an Arch VM, and NixOS VM, and whatever else you want in it!

If you go with just one of them right on the hardware, that’s all you can do with it, you’re done, you’re stuck.

When you have Proxmox on it, you can try every OS! And then some! It is a superpower for learning.

All of them if you’re on enough LSD!

3rd. <3 <3 <3 that port forwarding.

There used to be. They weren’t profitable enough so they were put down.

RIP Cardboard. RIP Daydream (though that was a pricy piece of plastic.)

Made by Meta - hell no.

Made by someone else - possibly.

My main interests are navigation guidance on a HUD, real-time translation, and to a lesser degree teleprompting for speeches or presentations.

Wouldn’t even really care if they had a camera or not - though what I’ve seen from the ones that do, being able to look at something that is in another language and ask it to translate it for you is pretty seriously cool. Can’t imagine I’d use cameras for much else - but honestly with how uncomfortable they’d make everyone around me, I’d be quite willing to just forego them and pull out my phone to snap a pic and translate something that is text.

I was looking at the Even G1 pretty hard but then read some reviews that say the real-time translation is TERRIBLE, and to make it slightly less terrible you have to pay subscription fees, so I unsubscribed from their mailing list pretty quick.

Saw one on a Kickstarter recently that also piqued my interest, but they have cameras and were pretty bulky … I may wait a generation or three for them to shrink down a bit more.

Hardware Acceleration for Jellyfin: On the EliteDesk, I’d like to enable hardware acceleration for a VM running Jellyfin (in Docker) using the i7-9700’s UHD 630 iGPU. Can anyone recommend a clear guide specific to this CPU? The Proxmox documentation isn’t very detailed for Intel GPUs.

I feel like I’ve done this, but it was a VERY long time ago. It certainly wasn’t from a guide specific for this, but from adapting other instructions. Whole idea with a home lab - learn stuff, break stuff, figure stuff out! :-)

Wish I could be more helpful! But iirc, once you understand the gist of passing the hardware through, blocking kernel models on the host, and installing the required drivers in the guest, it’s applicable to basically everything.

As for Backblaze for ‘home lab’ backups, that sounds expensive? I run PBS on a container on my NAS for my backups - keeps it all local and effectively ‘free’. Only the things I REALLY care about - like my git server with all the code I’ve written for the lab, and even some of the more complex/outside the box configurations get backed up to the public cloud. Simple ‘cattle’ VMs do not justify additional expenses for me.

It’s fun as hell! I’ve been running Proxmox for many years now and still enjoy it VERY much. I’ve recently added 3x 12GB bus-powered A2000s to my Dell workstations. Having oodles of fun running things like piper, whisper, ollama and frigate models on them in a new k8s cluster I spun up just for ML workloads.

sigh

I literally just bought a 3050 for my NAS for AV1 support.

/wrists

Typically volume of a track is chosen by the producer/person mixing. You could theoretically get an average volume and scale the tracks gain. This could have the effect of compressing or chopping parts of the song that are purposefully loud while the rest of the song is purposefully quiet.

This is exactly it. Well, this and I’d say the fact that modern digital volume controls evolved from previous analog volume controls where you were literally just adjusting how much the input signal was amplified.

But, back to the “this” - they have similar automatic compression options built in to a lot of AVRs too, often called something to the effect of ‘night mode’ or ‘midnight mode’, but they completely destroy the directors intention … take for example, a ‘scary’ movie with jump scares - the people are supposed to be whispering and somewhat hard to hear, making you strain to hear them, to increase the impact of the loud jump scare - if you compressed that enough (extreme example), you could probably take all the ‘scare’ right out of it. Varying volume within a single track/album/movie/show/etc., is intentional, and more often that not you would not want to compress that.

Track to track and source to source variations are I suppose largely because of a lack of any standards.