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[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Then yes, learning Ansible is a good way to have base OS settings for your systems. I love that it's agentless - works over SSH.

The ugly part is that they keep updating it in a backwards incompatible way. In one version the paramerer is called "file" and in another it's "dest", they pull shit like this and don't provide a tool to update playbooks automatically.

But updating is rather optional.

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

It's crazy, given that all these devices have something powerful like an esp32, isn't it?

I've done some of my home stuff this way, but I had to program it myself. Tasmota has some features which can be used without a server, but that's just for simple stuff like switches. For whatever reason (simplicity for non tech people?), out of the box products don't work this way.

If you don't have days of spare time, you buy ready made products and set them up in minutes in Home Assistant

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

Additionally, libraries for XMPP exist in most languages, there is a varying degree of completeness, but they all do a good job of hiding XML from the programmer

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Thos, exactly this. Whenever I ask the question OP asked, it's always some people who used some ancient client in 2008 and never bothered to try again. And then Matrix came to existence with their marketing and they happily started using it, even though it didn't have any better features

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

They do, I really hear you. I don't bother going to a doctor for the exhausting fatigue.

But with eyes not seeing well after 8 years of looking at a screen, you're not an odd case, you're the same as half of the society. It's either short sightedness, far sightedness or astigmatism.

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

Thank you! I've used anonchatgpt before but this is better, no captcha and two models to choose from

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (3 children)

What is the link? It doesn't appear on main ddg page for me

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

This prompted me to open Tempo I have installed from F-Droid but haven't used in a while, and the app crashed on startup. Logcat had the most unusual message:

03-27 18:40:31.304 W/GooglePlayServicesUtil(6188): com.cappielloantonio.tempo requires the Google Play Store, but it is missing.
[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Two pitfalls I had that you can avoid:

  • look at efficiency. It's not always neglible, was like 40% of my energy usage because I oversized the UPS. The efficiency is calculated from top power the UPS can supply. 96% efficient 3kW UPS eats 4% of 3kW, 120 watts, even if the load you connected is much smaller than 3kW
  • look at noise level. Mine was loud almost like a rack server, because of all the fans.

I replaced that noisy, power hungry beast with a small quiet 900W APC and I couldn't be happier

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

No no, that's how i'm working around the problem now, but i'm sure sni sniffing will sooner or later make my domain well known

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I second the complaint about subpaths. I have all my services on a single domain, except for HA. It's for security by obscurity, when you issue a certificate for a subdomain you start getting malicious traffic probing for vulnerabilities almost immediately. I don't have this problems for services with non-obvious subpaths.

I can't understand the stubbornness of developers to accept patches for fixing this problem.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago

Woah. What a great explanation. I legitimately never understood the deal with iMessage too and you made a logical explanation that clicks. Thank you.

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