Kushan

Yeah I’m…not disagreeing with any of that?

The “turning thing on and off Uses more energy than just leaving it on” thing is largely a myth based on a complete misunderstanding of how most electronics work and a lack of understanding of thermodynamics.

Most electronics (even light bulbs) do have an energy spike at power on but the spike is measured in milliseconds (if that).

It was the perfect game for us during the pandemic when we couldn’t easily see each other. I think some of its allure was lost after that.

Try morphe, it’s the current modern version of revanced.

The problem is that your stance is needlessly binary. Just because they were intended to “save the auto industry” doesn’t mean that they’re not also better for the environment.

The narrative that the manufacturing of EV’s is just as bad as the pollution from ICE vehicles has long been debunked and even if you’re charging from home via the grid, that doesn’t mean it’s environmentally bad, the push towards renewable energy production is ongoing.

The US is vastly behind the times but that’s not the fault of EVs. Take the UK for example, which is producing more and more green energy. It stopped burning coal years ago and regularly runs almost entirely on pure renewables. That means EV’s charging there are regularly being charged from renewables, even when pulling from the grid.

It’s self hosting by the literal definition that you host the server yourself.

That it’s closed source and sends all kinds of data to another server is an entirely separate (and valid) concern.

As much as I agree with the concerns around Plex, I would rather we didn’t start gatekeeping the self hosting community with arbitrary requirements and grey lines around what is and isn’t “true self hosting” or whatever. I would far rather we inform people and let them make their own choices about what they want to host on their private devices and networks.

Bungie played an absolute blinder by signing up with Activision all those years ago as all the shitty monetisation they pulled got blamed on Bobby K.

Nope, turns out Bungie was just that shitty the whole time.

If that’s the case, then it should be trivial to prove and the EFF can force them to open source it.

Let’s not make baseless accusations, let’s get proof and hold them to it.

That’s not strictly accurate.

The slicer is Open Source yes, but not the printer firmware or software. That’s closed source and proprietary to Bambu.

Now there’s some contention there because a lot of the features and ideas that make modern 3D printing as reliable and great were developed in the open, under open source licenses and Bambu has definitely implemented many of them in their printer firmware, but they don’t infringe any licenses in the printer software itself (as far as anyone is aware).

This whole debacle centres around the slicing software, which is separate from the printer itself (though is necessary to actually use the printer) and it’s AGPL.

Same, I am used to being the punch line in various jokes but I’ve never heard it referred to as “Irish Logic”.

Plus people knew the increase was coming so I imagine there was a spike in sales just before hand.

We have faster charging speeds with lithium today, 800v cars that can charge at 300KW+ have been on the market for half a decade, BYD has launched cars that can charge at 2-3x that speed. The charging infrastructure is the bottleneck there, even if all new cars could charge at those speeds it wouldn’t mean much because hardly any chargers can support it.

Besides it’s almost moot, most EV owners aren’t charging via fast chargers like you would fill up an ICE car, they’re charging at home at much cheaper rates and only using fast chargers for particularly long trips.

Sodium batteries are real though. You can buy them today, their big promise was that they would be cheaper than lithium batteries because sodium is abundant and readily available whereas lithium is a rare mineral. Then lithium prices fell through the floor and the value proposition failed, at least for now. They’re also not as energy dense, which is probably what will hold then back from EV use for a while yet, but the claim around being safer holds up.

You’ve done the hard work building the compose file. Push that file to a private GitHub repository, set up renovate bot and it’ll create PR’s to update those containers on whatever cadence and rules you want (such as auto updating bug fixes from certain registries).

Then you just need to set up SSH access to your VM running the containers and a simple GitHub action to push the updated compose file and run docker compose up. That’s what I do and it means updates are just a case of merging in a PR when it suits me.

Also I would suggest ditching the VM and just running the docker commands directly on the TrueNAS host - far less overheads, one less OS to maintain and makes shares resources (like a GPU) easier to manage.

You should look at restic or Kopia for backups, they are super efficient and encrypted. All my docker data is backed up hourly and thanks to the way out handles snapshots, I have backups going back literally years that don’t actually take up much space.

I’m not entirely sure what the “maintenance burden” even is on a tech that hasn’t changed in decades.

Only because of current RAM prices and artificial scarcity keeping those prices high.

300GB of RAM shouldn’t be that expensive. I have 1/3 of that in my server (bought years ago). If it wasn’t for the AI bullshit, 300GB would be fairly reasonable to buy in a couple of years time.

To be fair, not to defend the CEO at all but when this story first broke it was so wild that you knew someone had to be making up some serious bullshit but it was just so out there, it could have been either side.

Why anyone decided to pick sides is beyond me, this is why courts exist.

Fuck, I love ntfy, it’s one of the best self hosted push notification systems I’ve used. It has been flawless so far.

Don’t like this.

It was a couple of weeks ago for me but I managed to get my docker compose script for all my infrastructure cleaned up and all versions of containers are now pinned.

I have renovate set up to open PR’s when a new version is available so I can handle updates by just accepting the PR and it’s automatically deployed to my server.

Nice and easy to keep apps up to date without them randomly breaking because I didn’t know if a breaking change when blindly pulling from latest.

Absolutely! Here’s my CI pipeline, it’s actually super basic: https://gist.github.com/neoKushan/bd92031bb9c8db3320e8c19d5dae3194

Happy to answer questions if you like.

I just added my compose files to the repo, that CI file and set up renovate https://github.com/renovatebot/renovate to create my PR’s for me.