PeterPoopshit

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Let's make a shitty unit trade. We'll change all watt hour units to joules in exchange for completely banning bits per second as a unit of bandwidth speed. Converting megabit per second to the actually usable unit of megabytes per second in my head is far more infuriating than any amount of joule shenanigans. Any takers?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Interesting. I think joules are dumb and hate seeing them in games like factorio. I'm sure joules are better in applications that don't concern the average person but I'm a random idiot not a scientist at nasa. Just show me kilowatt hours so I don't have to do math in my head. 1 joule is 1 watt second already there's no point in making things more complicated.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (13 children)

Visual studio code. There's nothing else that's anywhere near as good that doesn't cost money. Those annoying terminal text editors just don't do it for me. I need code autocomplete and do not understand how there exist people who have the patience to get by without it. I do not have the time to be switching tabs 20 times a second because I can't remember function parameter overloads. That intellisense autocomplete is just too good.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Nice try, fbi

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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)

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