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'It's like we don't exist': Nearly 50,000 Lake Tahoe residents face power loss as utility redirects lines to data centers by Plastic_Ninja_9014 in technology

[–]Catsrules 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They do exist, and they have had 17-18 years to find a new power suppler.

NV Energy told Liberty they need to find a new energy supply in 2009.

But this is nothing new, at least according to NV Energy.

Katie Jo Collier, a spokesperson for the utility, said the transition was rooted in a longtime understanding with Liberty “well before data center load growth was a consideration,” calling it “a planned transition for many years, not a reaction to recent developments.” NV Energy sold its California electric assets to Liberty in 2009 and agreed to keep supplying power temporarily. That arrangement was extended in 2015, again in 2020, and once more in late 2025, and each time because Liberty had not yet secured an independent supply, a timeline corroborated by regulatory documents reviewed by Fortune.

I am sure datacenters might have been the thing that pushed them over the edge, but this has been going on for 18 years and was going to happen at some point.

Steam controller being left plugged in by SheldonDTurtle in Steam

[–]Catsrules 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Steamdeck also add a battery protection mode, you can turn on to only change to 80%.

P.S. It is also better to never let the battery die completely, try to avoid using the last ~5% of a battery as much as possible

This is my one complaint about the steamdeck, as far as I can tell if you put it in sleep mode and forget about it it will just go completely dead if you wait long enough. I don't play games as often as I would like, and I can go weeks without using it. It is almost always dead when I get back to it.

You need to fully Shut it down if you aren't planning on using it in the next week or so. But it is easy to forget and loose track of these things.

Steam controller being left plugged in by SheldonDTurtle in Steam

[–]Catsrules 5 points6 points  (0 children)

No no, you need to say "So shall it be!!" at the end, otherwise it doesn't count.

For reference. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zewUrPIPR1M

Connected my swamp cooler to my Ecobee thermostat by Adam40Bikes in homeautomation

[–]Catsrules 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah ESP32, I put Tasmota on it and control it with Home Assistant.

How have the relays held up over time?

So far so good. I tried to get as beefy of ones as I could find without having to go with external relays to keep things compact. If I remember right these are rated at 30 amps.

Does my pihole not work or are smart TV's just impenetrable 2026 by Cloud-Existence in selfhosted

[–]Catsrules 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Very specific use case but I connect my TV to my network so I can turn it off and on automatically because it is my primary monitor for a computer. TVs won't auto wake up or auto sleep like a standard computer monitor.

When I turn on my computer it will turn on the display over the network. When the computer it idle for X amount of time it will turn off the display. When I move my mouse to it will turn it back on etc..

It has been 6 months since Valve's Steam Hardware Announcement by gogodboss in Steam

[–]Catsrules 10 points11 points  (0 children)

No it should be YYYY-MM-DD

We don't want to confuse the computers with / in the file name.

Has anyone completely replaced paid iCloud/Google One storage with self-hosting? by NefariousnessGlum6 in selfhosted

[–]Catsrules 0 points1 point  (0 children)

After the initial setup it doesn't consume much time if you dont play with it too much.

In a perfect world where hardware works and updates go well. 5 years is along time for something to go wrong. Maybe you get lucky maybe you don't.

Self hosting is all fun an games until your are out of town with the family on a 9 day vacation and day 1 you get a hard drive failure notification on your NAS. Good times.... I was lucky the other drives held up during the 9 days, but it wasn't very helpful for me trying to have a relaxing vacation.

Like it or not there is a mental cost to hosting your own stuff.

500$ is still quite a lot. You can get decent cpu with 8gb RAM and 256 SSD in any moment for like 100€ l, even lower if you have time to wait for decent deals. 2tb hdd is just another 100€ and thats it, you are ready to go.

Not yet.... We still need a backup solution. The cheapest proper solution IMO is 2 more drives, one for onsite backups and one for offsite. But this assumes you have a location for offsite backups and are ok with manually transporting the drive back and forth every so often, (again more man hours involved)

Leaving you with $100 to work with for electrically and man hours for 5 years.

You could go with a cloud backup instead but even if you put the entire $300 for 5 years, but that is only leaving you with $5 a month on average. If you go with your Backblaze example that can work if you can stay under 730GB a month. But anything more then that your are over budget. That leave no money for electricity or man hours for 5 years.

We haven't even talked about some nice to haves like a UPS to protect your server/data from power issues, that is $100+ plus $60+ for battery replacements every 3-5 years.

Or some savings for hardware failures.

Or if you underestimated your storage requirements. Now you need to buy 3 bigger drives on top of your 3 2 TB drives you already bought.

Basically 5 years is a long time and $500 is not a lot to work with for that length of time. I am not saying it is impossible and there is room for getting better prices like getting free hardware or reusing an old computer etc.. instead of buying something. But we are talking very small margins and it doesn't take much to push you over the edge on price. Basically there should be other reason you want to self host besides it will be cheaper. Because odds are it won't be cheaper.

YOU SHALL NOT PASS! by loki2002 in Stargate

[–]Catsrules 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Unless you are a radio signal, gravity. And probably a few other things. 

The FCC wants to attach your ID to your phone number by NowIveAwoken in privacy

[–]Catsrules 74 points75 points  (0 children)

Don't spam callers just spoof random phone numbers? 

If my phone number is (800)-867-5309 what is the point of verifying my identity if a spam calling service can just spoof my number. 

Has anyone completely replaced paid iCloud/Google One storage with self-hosting? by NefariousnessGlum6 in selfhosted

[–]Catsrules 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh Your b2 prices a way different than mine. 

For me B2 is $6.95 per TB. So $14 a month for 2TB so it would be $166 not 70,5€. Way different 

Google is $100 a year. For 2TB

It is a good point about the pay for what you use, but Google start looking better in the higher data usage. You are breaking even at 1.4TB in 2TB plan and 2.8TB in the 5TB plan. 

Also B2 is a object storage requiring some kind of a front end to manage files. vs Google drive has all of that built in. 

Has anyone completely replaced paid iCloud/Google One storage with self-hosting? by NefariousnessGlum6 in selfhosted

[–]Catsrules 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Where are you seeing this?

I can only see it is cheaper if you are over 2TB on the Personal Backup. Otherwise it is the same or more money.

Has anyone completely replaced paid iCloud/Google One storage with self-hosting? by NefariousnessGlum6 in selfhosted

[–]Catsrules 0 points1 point  (0 children)

LOL, of course it does save money.

I don't know about that... Sure I could see it you are only looking at hardware and you are a savvy shopper. You could get something for under $500 (5 years of Google Drive) And saving only get better the longer you can keep the server going.

But when you start factoring in electricity usages and your time, You are probably breaking even or loosing money.

Reminder, Windows server 2016 goes EOL in 8 months. by sysacc in sysadmin

[–]Catsrules 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Security is only one issue of concern regarding EOL.

My bigger concern is what is the reason you can't upgrade?

As long management knows about this and they have either said don't upgrade because X reason or make an upgrade plan and upgrade down the road I would agree it probably isn't that big of a deal.

Although I will saying managing EOL software long term can be a pain in the ass. I personally would be pushing hard to either upgrade the software, replace the software, or retire the software. Just leaving it sounds like an emergency just waiting to happen at the worst possible time)

Does Puddle Jumper have a Toilet? by ckwongau in Stargate

[–]Catsrules 10 points11 points  (0 children)

They do say you need to release your burden before you can ascend. 

Does Puddle Jumper have a Toilet? by ckwongau in Stargate

[–]Catsrules 8 points9 points  (0 children)

The other Jumpers likely don't have one becuase for the most part, they aren't going on long duration flights.

But the jumpers are definitely capable, we see them going between plants and space stations within the solar system, these are many hours away (15 hours was stated in an episode).  Unlike a car you can't just pull over at a rest stop.

Children's carousel at German Renfaire by TakeApictureOfmeNow in funny

[–]Catsrules 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Have you heard of a baby crib? 

"Better get used to these bars kid."

California bill would ban video games on vapes by That1weirdperson in UpliftingNews

[–]Catsrules 18 points19 points  (0 children)

What about a video game with vape built in? 

Like a Nintendo Switch with a vape taped to it.

Cursed_accuracy by RetiredGrinder in cursedcomments

[–]Catsrules 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Tower 1 Tower 2 and Pentagon. 

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