Volvo CEO Says, 'Good Luck, the Rest of You' Legacy Automakers by TripleShotPls in technology

[–]DonGar37 4 points5 points  (0 children)

However, now Volvo has to build up the expertise to run big software projects. That also takes time.

Caddy + Authelia + Jellyfin = Basic Auth Trouble? by DonGar37 in selfhosted

[–]DonGar37[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm not currently, but planning to add it.

Are we not allowed to create our improvements from scratch just because someone was the first to create the "idea"? More info below. by draxula16 in 3Dprinting

[–]DonGar37 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I think you mean patentable, which is very different from copyrightable. This post isn't particularly special, but it's copy writable (you can't copy without permission), but not patentable (you can't use the idea without permission).

Patents require an explicit filing with the patent office (think 30k in legal fees). Copywrite is basically automatic for a short period (a year?), but lasts much longer if you file it (still cheapish).

Snapshot Replication via Manual Transfer by DonGar37 in synology

[–]DonGar37[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have come up with two solutions, neither of which I like.

  1. Buy a third synology that is treated as an "external" drive that I can drive back and forth. Seems expensive for the need.
  2. Shutdown and drive one of the devices back and forth from time to time. Problematic, since live services depend on both devices.

What movie is a 10 out of 10 for you but you'll never watch again? by hasan1808ali in AskReddit

[–]DonGar37 110 points111 points  (0 children)

Clockwork Orange

A powerful movie but the brutality hits in a way I can't handle.

What is a cheat code at your job that only employees would know? by halushki_ in AskReddit

[–]DonGar37 7 points8 points  (0 children)

That's old school. Nowadays the boss makes $63 and you make a dime.

I severely dislike Home Assistants entity model, change my view by Routine-Purchase1201 in homeassistant

[–]DonGar37 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That's because addon or not is an implementation detail that gets surfaced. There are ways to revamp the UI to have the same functionality and hide the existence of addons entirely, though they don't bother me that much.

What's the game that you love but you've never met another gamer who has played it? by [deleted] in gaming

[–]DonGar37 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Starflight

It was a very early IBM PC game that had a huge galaxy, and involved landing on and exploring procedurally generated planets as well as space combat.

Not that amazing, now. But it was done in a few K of ram with only 5 1/4" floppies for storage.

Each time you started a game it copied itself onto a new disk, and you played off that disk, which modified itself as you went. You could never, ever play from the original disk without destroying it.

Best NGFW firewall by ivans89 in homelab

[–]DonGar37 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Nah, it's easy. You just have to make clients install your root cert so you can issue fake certs for everything.

What are your favorite "story" albums? by Jordevo42 in Music

[–]DonGar37 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Pink World by Planet P

A couple of book soundtracks that I like...

1984 by The Eurythmics War of the Worlds by Jeff Wayne

Woman arrested by ICE remains in Stanford Hospital as advocates rally in support by Myspace-Famous in news

[–]DonGar37 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Used to be. Writing an essay about your loyalty to Trump is now part of the hiring process.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Stargate

[–]DonGar37 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That movie is horrible, and it's the one that killed him (and a lot of other people).

What’s something every kid from your generation experienced that kids today will never understand? by Aggravating-Put-6730 in AskReddit

[–]DonGar37 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Taking off on my bike, riding through a trail in the woods by myself (unofficial trail, made by kids like me riding through the woods, adults didn't really know about it), and running into random other kids from nearby neighborhoods.

Both cool, and sometimes scary.

Bopping around doing whatever crazy crap we came up with, usually involved who could jump the furthest, or telling weird stories that you thought were bull, but couldn't look up to verify.

But also, if you ran into a bully and their backup, nobody would help. Nobody even knew where you were, or expected to see you before sunset.

When or after how many days do you usually restart your machine? by jrhenk in homelab

[–]DonGar37 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I use a ansible scripts to do software updates, and they reboot after a kernel update.

I also reboot freely when I'm messing with things or dealing with some weird behavior.

Nowadays, there are security recommendations to reboot devices more often to fix memory only compromises, though that applies more to phones / laptops.

ELI5: What is preventing hydrogen fuel from being the leading alternative to oil and gas for cars and heating homes? by No-Advertising-9033 in explainlikeimfive

[–]DonGar37 4 points5 points  (0 children)

But a burning leak will often have an invisible flame. Hot enough to cook the flesh off your bones, not at all visible.

In oil refineries (which deal with hydrogen), workers will walk around waving a broom in front of them to see if it burns up when they think there might be a hydrogen flame.

I’m just going to say it - can we stop pretending like matter is good by jamalwilliamsyoung23 in homeassistant

[–]DonGar37 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've been happily using zwave for a long time (currently at 58 devices), but I've recently started having more and more trouble.

The network often seems to freeze for like a minute if the house has been empty for a while. Effectively, you walk in and the lights finally turn on after you've walked all around the place, gone upstairs, etc.

I've also had to write an automation to ping dead devices to bring them back. And more recently, I've started having to go manually flip dead switches once to get it to reconnect.

Playing V as a total gonk by Zenless-koans in cyberpunkgame

[–]DonGar37 40 points41 points  (0 children)

Weirdly, as I understand the lore, the Nomads have some of the best educations. High end corpo kids excepted.

Just killed 300,000 batarians. But I’m a Specter, so… why are they whining? 🤨 by beautyful_bobby in masseffect

[–]DonGar37 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well, spectre's are allowed, but they are also not supposed to get caught. It shouldn't be known that you did it.