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What are the best fictional books you’ve ever read? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

"The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism" is a hell of read, as well as "The Navidson Record".

But "The Necronomicon" is my favorite fictional book, I think.

Does setting/reserving a static IP via router prevent its allocation to other devices in its network? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

Only reserve IPs that are outside of the DHCP range you've configured.

If you could design your own body and hit a button and have it immediately implemented, would you keep your natural self or would you make changes? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

I'm honestly fine just being a brain in a jar. Give me access to books and film and video games and I don't think I need a body. Is there a name for what's wrong with me?

Stop use docker in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago (7 children)

If you're doing it right, containers are less like VMs and more like cgroups. If orchestrated correctly it uses less system resources to run lots of services on a single system/node.

That said, I'm a devops/infrastructure/network professional and not a developer, so maybe I'm missing something from the dev experience.... But I love containers.

Docker does kinda suck now, though. Use podman or another interface instead if you can help it.

Help with music library setup in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Airsonic Advanced and DSUB on Android are pretty good options since DSUB has advanced local caching options.

I aquire my music then run it through Picard for tagging which places it into my NAS where it is mounted to airsonic and jellyfin containers for consumption.

The jellyfin apps have gotten a lot better and I find myself using feishin and finamp more often lately.

What is that movie you saw at too young an age that still haunts you to this day? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

Nah, it's Zelda. That creepy bitch haunted me for years.

"raaaaaaaachellllllll..."

Fuck that.

I have unlimited cellular data on my phone but not if I use it as a hotspot. in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

This is only possible if you get your phone from the carrier, right? They wouldn't be able to differentiate if you were using an unlocked phone you got from Google or Amazon?

What software you consider so bad it made you happy when you left your job? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 33 points 7 months ago (8 children)

Microsoft Windows. I used to be a sysadmin. New job is 100% Linux. Now I never touch Windows unless it's to play a game.

What's the most recent way you stupidly managed to accidentally hurt yourself? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago

Trying to longboard again as an aging millennial.

What's some amazing technology they have in Japan that's very normal to them but would blow our minds here in the US and western world? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 48 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Useable transit

Leak: Elon Musk said he wants X to be a dating app, too, in an all-hands meeting on the anniversary of his Twitter takeover in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 19 points 11 months ago

Stop giving this asshole headlines, please.

Gen Z, please talk to me: what management works and what does not? in c/[email protected]

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

There's a lot of garbage responses here, but this one is legit.