This is the dumbest shit. I’m doing home reno stuff constantly and we live in a world where everyone looks up info online constantly. Sometimes I need to reference an old reddit thread or whatever. It’s usually better than whatever garbage Google AI spits out at you by default.

Sure just guide people to doing stuff wrong. I’m so glad a few decades ago we invented this amazing source of knowledge and information and communication that is easily accessible for the first time in human history and yeah let’s just purposefully fuck it up.

Seriously, it is a huge pain in the ass exploring a niche subject and you get some scrambled comment because “reddit bad”.

I have 8k albums in my personal collection, but I’ve been building it for years, most everything is pirated or shared between friends or purchased on bandcamp. I stream it while via plexamp when I’m working or not at home, it’s very nice.

I can also connect to my friends Plex servers. My one friend has 35k albums.

in case someone doesn’t believe me haha

Edit: damn he’s up to 39k

I did something that you might find viable as an option but there was a lot of work involved to do it, including running wires through my walls and automating some things and writing scripts. But I have a button in my living room that turns on my gaming PC and I can play all my games over LAN via KVM

So basically when I press the button, I have a custom launch screen I built that times down from 30 seconds. This means if I turn my PC on at my desk I can still just choose desktop and use it as normal. If I choose “big mode” or let it time out then it runs a script and turns off PC monitors, sets my video to the TV, sets my audio sink to the TV’s HDMI port (pulseaudio is a motherfucker, why do I have dozens of dynamic audio sinks??), and launches emulationstation. Which is a very nice UI that launches all emulators from NES era up to PS3 and Nintendo Switch. It also launches all my steam games. I use the USB ports on the KVM for controllers.

I fine tuned all my emulators quite a bit. Upscaled graphics to 4K, a couple scripts to make sure controllers don’t get stuck to only controlling emulationstation after launching a game, my original wavebird GameCube controller was pretty bad about this haha. I think it had something to do with the adapter. Most of them work great though, esp if it’s just wired straight to USB

The KVM I got is great. It does 4K @ 60hz with no latency that I can tell. Here is a link. $160 was a small price to pay to be able to play all my games in the living room with a banging sound system, etc. https://a.co/d/07NeJ4NH

I did have to run a dedicated Ethernet wire just for this. It goes from the transmitter to the receiver through my basement. I’m considering running a long USB from the receiver back through my basement to plug in controllers next to the couch, but that’s down the line a bit once I start running speaker cables for surround sound.

Yea exactly I mean for the outer case prob needs its own intake

I think even just installing an intake would do wonders for this setup. A hole cut with a filter would be good, an additional fan directing air at the bottom would be even better. I’m assuming this PC case has some kind of intake / exhaust. Right now it’s prob just recirculating its own air. That single fan on the prob isn’t doing that much.

Damn you could just have a lot of beers and liquor as well, sounds gimmicky

Isn’t a beer bar just a bar?

My roommate is rebuilding his Volkswagen 2012 Golf R’s engine right now. We were watching on YouTube, you can get a whole engine on Alibaba for like $500. Seems like it’s 50/50 of it working and being like a brand new car, or just a huge clusterfuck that won’t run and turns into a shitshow disaster

I’m an electrician and would do it myself if I wasn’t covered by trees with a house facing north in one of the least sunny parts of the country lol

You can on Instagram. Click the big logo on top of the page and click “following”.

It’s the only way I interact with a feed. The default one shows me a bunch of stuff that I’m not following, which still feels foreign to me on any website. Maybe I’m just too old. I only want to keep up with friends / family on social media

Lol I just found my burned CD-ROM of windows 10. I seem to remember asking on reddit how I can get a disk copy when they were offering a free upgrade from windows 7 to windows 10. Everyone clowned on me and downvoted and saying I was ridiculous for asking such a thing. Looks like I figured it out somehow.

Is asking for a physical copy such a ridiculous request lol? It gives me peace of mind that I can reinstall whenever.

Whatever, I’ve since moved onto Linux only for the last 5 years or so. The days of dual booting are long behind me. Funny enough in that pile of CD-ROMs was Ubuntu 10.04, the first distro I ever used. I remember doing a bunch of convoluted bullshit to get Oblivion to run on WINE haha.

Oh idk. It’s rare I don’t have service. I meant 4G I guess

The only subs that kept me around for years was r/electricians and r/askelectricians, which admittedly does usually have pretty accurate answers and info, and sometimes I just like to riff about work. Wrong answers get downvoted and removed at an almost scary speed.

But finally after like years of the same exact questions from homeowners that are just like “how do I wire a smart switch? What’s a switch loop / what do you mean my white wire is not a neutral? I took apart this mess of wires and didn’t take before pics how do I put it back together?? Do I need grounds???” I could go on lol. But I just realized how much a huge waste of time it all was. I wouldn’t call any of the troubleshooting or commenting “fun” it was just a way to pass time. I guess it’s better people get real answers than trust AI because a lot of time they try that first and post some of the answers these chat bots gave them and wheeeewwww boy are they some schizo hallucinated bullshit haha

I’ve been off all social media other than Lemmy for a while now. Since it’s not as active here it’s been better for me personally. It’s easy to refresh reddit and get a new thread every few minutes. On here I notice I’m seeing the same articles a couple times in a row and that’s my cue to hop off and read manga or play chess online instead or something.

Also yeah caps can go bad lol. We had these giant 18" tall ones on the solar industrial sites I worked at. This was 10 years ago so I forget the value I just know we had dozens of them each on 6 AWG wire. Part of our maintenance was to check for leaky ones. Because they’d leak then they’d eventually fail and then without the proper filtering for the system, usually the cabinet would catch on fire.

I went to the doctor’s yesterday and I always have really bad service there, I can barely get 3G. When I was there was when the total nationwide outage happened. I just assumed I lost service but I drove all the way home and was like hm my phone just can’t reconnect for some reason.

I troubleshooted it for like over an hour before I realized it was down for everyone haha. I had no data and couldn’t call/text.

I have mint mobile which uses T-Mobile towers. I literally live like within 100 feet of a cell tower which is why I was so perplexed

It was mostly a quip about replacing the convenience of something that fits in your pocket and is handheld. I like the idea, it could work for some people. Definitely not me, I’m not in front of a screen / PC for almost all of my day. I do stay in touch with people via texts / calls throughout the day however.

“Therefore, you can now throw away your mobile phone and use a laptop only!”

Lmao

All good! You sound like you’re on the right path. I have like 3 or 4 flatpaks installed hahaha

All that a flatpak is is a distro-agnostic release of a package. They contain all the binaries and libraries to run on any distro. They’re also sandboxed from the rest of your OS unless you give them permission to interact with it. Being that they contain everything for all of Linux means slightly larger file size, but that’s not so much of a problem as it was in the old days.

I install flatpaks via terminal, same as I do for official repos stuff and the AUR. I was never a fan of GUIs for really anything on Linux other than my file browser, but especially not for updating or installing packages. There’s too many prompts and dependencies.

I’ve been doing a lot of reading online tonight about this whole ordeal. Someone mentioned CachyOS “makes it easy to install apps” or something in that vein as in it utilizes one click solutions for installing, so to speak. If these point to the AUR without checks and balances then yeah I could see that being quite a disaster.

I’m not sure I follow what you mean about better flatpak integration. Arch and flatpak play pretty nicely together as it is. It’s just my experience that a lot of the more random and niche software I want is only available via the AUR and not flatpak.

Ultimately though, the AUR is the arch user repository. As in, it’s maintained and contributed to by users, not the Arch Linux team that develops the distro. They provide plenty of warnings about using it at your own risk, and while it’s certainly a big part of the appeal for the distro, it’s no surprise that something that’s basically the wild West will get a little unruly at times.

Yeah I’ve ran a few, including that one. Also manually checked all my AUR packages against the list and there are a few that are close, but not explicitly called out. Like filebot47 is an orphaned package and was called out as malicious, but I have regular filebot which is (I hope) ok. It seems the attackers were taking over orphaned packages and claiming themselves as a maintainer, which they were automatically granted after 2 weeks. I understand the idea of being able to contribute and work together in the Linux development world but this can be a recipe for disaster if left unchecked. It sucks people will take opportunities like this to inflict some real harm.

The only AUR packages I have are some of the more popular ones, and it’s only because that’s the only place I saw them available. I might look and see what I can install via flatpak if not in the official repos from now on.