KDE ikidd • 1 month ago • 100%

I'm not sure if this is related to Night Light (which I don't have enabled) or even just the monitors dimming in power settings, but I constantly have to go and bring my brightness back up from 20% when I sit down at my computer in the AM. I have disabled Sleep as well, and the only thing left is the regular Energy Saving features of dimming after X minutes and Turn Off Monitors after X minutes, but I've set both of those to short timeouts and when it comes back, it's at 100%. Edit: For some reason I was on X11. I've switched to Wayland and will see if that changes anything. Any ideas what's causing this?

Raspberry Pi ikidd • 1 month ago • 100%

Why do the vast majority of these seem to either block off the 40pin header or convert it to female header that's incompatible with further hats? And why are they full sized, despite having minimal circuitry on them? I can appreciate the ones that build in a cooling system, but that doesn't need to block off all the pins that aren't being used by the hat. It seems like all this could be accomplished with a small board that doesn't interfere with everything else one intends to do with a Pi or Pi-clone. In fact, I'm surprised at the lack of built-in POE Pi boards out there.

Linux ikidd • 3 months ago • 100%

I need a few of these for rpi's around the farm. Tired of dealing with LoRa.

Lemmy.world Support ikidd • 3 months ago • 100%

If I bring up things like mail or a post in a new tab, I have to go into Login/Manage Accounts and choose my account to do anything in that tab.

Engineering ikidd • 3 months ago • 100%

[Terrible diagram 1](https://i.imgur.com/bnTMhMp.png) I'm trying to figure out how long to make A and B here if I have linear actuator of length C (extended = 2C) in order to tilt my panels from completely horizontal to vertical so they avoid wind and shed snow respectively when I run up the actuator to the extremes respectively based on sensor input. Is there a simple formula I can use to plug the length of whatever actuator I settle on to figure A and B out? I know it will have to be a certain minimum and maximum size to work properly and might have to experiment to get an idea of what works in the end, but I'd like a reasonable start point to purchase an appropriate actuator. I've googled around and decided I'm not smart enough to even come up with the right search criteria, let alone figure this out myself since it's been 35 years since I've used anything except the most basic trig. This isn't really homework except for the fact that I'm trying to make my home work right. Edit: seems like if I select A=.75C and solve for B at horizontal, then it always works out. No idea why, but the couple examples I try seem to agree.

Linux Questions ikidd • 4 months ago • 100%

I'm looking for a lowish priced laptop that I can put at least 2 extra monitors on. I want a second landscape 4k and a portrait 1080. Don't need anything special. One monitor has DP and HDMI, but the other just HDMI. Do I just get a DP hub and use a converter dongle for the second? What would be a recommended laptop for this scenario? I only want AMD CPU and GPU as I can't be arsed to fight with noVideo and Intel doesn't deserve my business.

KDE ikidd • 4 months ago • 100%

I have no idea how long this has been a thing, and maybe every clipboard works that way, not just Plasma, and I never realized it. It also lets you do things like Rt-click on it and do the regular operations like Search in Firefox. Spaces aren't preserved unless you specifically select them but search engines seem to be able to sort out the words usually. I post this in case you haven't been part of the 10,000 this day already, like me. Edit: seems to work in Firefox and LibreOffice, but not Kate or Okular. I'd love to see this as a general feature, it's handy as heck.

Technology ikidd • 6 months ago • 94%

Looks expensive. The grey ones are the broken ones.

Science Fiction ikidd • 6 months ago • 98%

Thank you for the great work, Vernor. You'll be missed.

homeassistant ikidd • 8 months ago • 86%

We have our house and a cabin. While I guess I could make an area for the cabin, it has it's own areas that I'd like to manage separately (and copy automations directly). I have purchased a HA Cloud sub but I don't seem to be able to get the cabin to connect to Cloud. Do I need a separate sub for the cabin at full price? This seems a little over the top, not to mention clunky to manage with different Nabu Casa logins. Or am I just going about this wrong? If anyone else manages two properties and integrates it nicely, I'd love to hear your solutions. I'm mainly subbing to Cloud because of the better TTS and STT response. Maybe I just invest in a skookum whisper/piper box instead?

homeassistant ikidd • 8 months ago • 93%

I don't see that there's any sort of integration for writing code to process information from HA entities like Node Red + Companion. Am I missing something and this is more than just an interface for the config files and maybe a git client for those config files?

homeassistant ikidd • 9 months ago • 100%

These things aren't bad, I've got a few that I use sort of successfully, but the speaker and mic aren't very powerful. I was thinking of building one with an ESP32 and i2S (not i2c, that threw me off too) speaker/mic, but I'm wondering if I'd be reinventing the wheel here if there's a better alternative already out there.

Buildapc ikidd • 10 months ago • 100%

Got a young guy that needs a reasonable used laptop, in the $2-300 range. Looking for smooth but not spectacular graphics, and a 15" screen or better. Preferably with 2 drive slots so he can have an NVME or other SSD for the OS and a large rust drive for installing games. It's going to be plugged in when used, and weight isn't a great concern, it's just for travelling with. Any suggestions on what to look for on eBay?

If I pipe in something to `most` that's wider than my terminal width, it'll page it sideways but only single character at a time with an arrow key. I want `most` to behave like `less`, which will scroll sideways with an arrow key almost a full page (60 columns I believe), which `most` will do also if I use Tab/Ctrl-B or ">" and "<" (as gleaned from the man page). But I have no use for single character scrolling, so I'd like arrows to do the same as Tab and <>. Is there a way to change the default behaviour of `most` to the same horizontal scrolling behaviour as `less`? I would just use `less` except it displays the first page of a command like `docker ps` with lines wrapped for some reason (maybe this is some limitation in Dolphin?). If I scroll right the other columns show up right, but for some reason `less` and `more` both mess up the first page. No clue why `most` works correctly. Frankly, if I could fix `less` I'd be happier since my muscle memory makes me want to pipe to `less` all the time anyway, and it's installed by default in most distros I use, unlike `most`. Also, trying to search up help on anything with a name like "most" is next to impossible.

Piped ikidd • 11 months ago • 96%

I did send a donation, but I want to make sure the people involved know I appreciates them. I set up an instance and have been using it along with a couple friends. It's fast, private and doesn't have a bunch of algo bullshit wasting our time. I have my subs and I watch them, and then I go and touch grass because I'm not sitting there watching trash that is being pushed at me on the feed. It's like a breath of fresh air.

Science Fiction ikidd • 12 months ago • 95%

cross-posted from: https://literature.cafe/post/2164461 I have been keeping an eye on this series over in !BannedBooks@literature.cafe and was intending to link the discussions for SF titles that I saw. The Handmaid's Tale is definitely an SF title that has seen it's share of fans and detractors. It has been banned or attempted to be banned in many jurisdictions including Western ones. What is the communities thoughts on this book, does it unfairly extend Christian philosophy into questionable territory or does it not go far enough? Is it pornography, and if so, why? Let's hear your thoughts. Bonus video: [Margaret Atwood using a flamethrower on the unburnable edition of the book.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpsMsAMY4eM)

Science Fiction ikidd • 12 months ago • 98%

theconversation.com

I got interested in SF because the librarian in my elementary was a SF lover. There were racks of paperbacks that I gobbled up and it's stuck with me for decades since. It makes me sad to think that kids don't have the same chance I did to get interested at an early age in the most imaginative genre of fiction. We all need to do our part to pass it on. What are your suggestions for getting young people interested in science fiction? A few I remember from that time: Edgar Rice Burroughs Barsoom series Heinlein's juveniles like Podkayne of Mars and Have Spacesuit, Will Travel McCaffery's Dragonriders of Pern Niven's Known Space books

Ask Lemmy ikidd • 12 months ago • 93%

Because having to block 2 fanaticus communities every time a game is finished because there's a post in the winning and losing teams community is rapidly getting old, and I have no idea how many teams of how many different sports exist on that server, but it seems like a hell of a lot.

techsupport ikidd • 1 year ago • 93%

Having set up a couple of communities, there is a setting for language. Are these items showing up in my feed because the community has not set their language, or is something going on with language filtering on All? It seems like there's way more off-language things coming through on All in the last day or two.

Fediverse ikidd • 1 year ago • 97%

Was there some sort of assurance that nothing was going to happen when the contract expired, and this expectation was changed? Freenom hasn't been registering domains since Jan 1. It's seeming a little odd to me that this is catching people with their pants down.

Canada ikidd • 1 year ago • 97%

With the shipping they charge, it's almost 50% extra on the cost of the order. In comparison, I shipped US$9500 of solar batteries across the border last month and paid $170 to a reputable broker that actually had to do some work. What unmitigated scumbags.

Everything ZFS ikidd • 1 year ago • 100%

discourse.practicalzfs.com

There are also other subforums for Proxmox and TrueNAS there.

Everything ZFS ikidd • 1 year ago • 100%

discourse.practicalzfs.com

There is also a Proxmox subforum since there is quite a lot of overlap between the two.

Everything ZFS ikidd • 1 year ago • 94%

I wanted to share with y’all a new file system project I’ve been working on: speZFS speZFS is based on the principle that your data doesn’t actually belong to you—and you should learn to like it that way. At every possible turn, speZFS goes out of its way to show contempt for the user, including such features as: Data reliability: With speZFS, “integrity” is a dirty word, so we use the term “reliability” instead. What that actually means is that your data is likely to be silently edited on disk, with no notice given to the user that this has occurred. Should this reliability feature be noticed by the user, speZFS responds by raising EXCEPTION_OOPSSORRYLOL and continuing as if nothing ever happened. Advanced file permissions: No longer are files exclusively available to the “landed gentry” just because they happened to create them. Any user who refuses to allow global access to their files will find their access revoked, and new file owners instated. Introspection protection: This cutting-edge feature actively prevents users from finding out what the hell is actually going on, by providing misleading information to debugging tools, filesystem analyzers, decompilers, and so on. In essence, any attempt to “ask” speZFS what it’s doing or why will be met with useless stock answers, insults, and/or outright threats. Dedicated suite of file access tools: speZFS comes with a set of tools designed specifically use with it. These include spezfs-ls (injects advertisements into the file listing), spezfs-rm (only allows you to remove a single file at a time, which is subject to being arbitrarily restored later), spezfs-cp (claims ownership of your copied files, and sells access to them for use in AI training models), and spezfs-find (does nothing). Want to use your own tools? No problem! Access to so-called “third-party” filesystem tools will be allowed free for one month after installation, and thereafter at the bargain price of $0.24 per 10,000 file accesses. My hope is that you find speZFS to be a useful, well-designed, and overall great filesystem… and if not, who the hell cares what you think anyway? Credit: https://www.reddit.com/r/zfs/comments/14gh8ud/announcing_a_new_file_system_spezfs/

Proxmox ikidd • 1 year ago • 90%

forum.proxmox.com

Here is a selection of the highlights of the Proxmox VE 8.0 final version - Debian 12, but using a newer Linux kernel 6.2 - QEMU 8.0.2, LXC 5.0.2, ZFS 2.1.12 - Ceph Server: Ceph Quincy 17.2 is the default and comes with continued support. There is now an enterprise repository for Ceph which can be accessed via any Proxmox VE subscription, providing the best stability for production systems. - Additional text-based user interface (TUI) for the installer ISO. - Integrate host network bridge and VNet access when configuring virtual guests into the ACL system of Proxmox VE. - Add access realm sync jobs to conveniently synchronize users and groups from an LDAP/AD server automatically at regular intervals. - New default CPU type for VMs: x86-64-v2-AES - Resource mappings: between PCI(e) or USB devices, and nodes in a Proxmox VE cluster. - Countless GUI and API improvements.