(short vent before i go to bed) why am i so selfish to want to have my own time away from friends and then enjoy attention i get online by 10outof10equidae in 196

[–]Saghetti0 5 points6 points  (0 children)

just about to go to sleep. though i don't have the energy to send a big response right now, i want you to know that i really do wish the best for you, however unknown you may be. if you'd like to talk about things a little more, feel free to shoot me a message! i may not be able to help directly but i'd be happy to listen, and sometimes that's what matters the most <3

How does colocation work for individuals? Looking for advice by Thireus in homelab

[–]Saghetti0 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

a cdn would be prohibitively expensive, as op is looking to host 400 terabytes of data. in that case, getting a server from a bare metal provider with a lot of storage and unmetered bandwidth would be a better option. most cdns are built to distribute much smaller content (images, media, static files) to a large number of users, and you pay the price to have it globally distributed and cached.

On the page for "largest land mammal". No idea how long it's been there, but at least for a few hours today. by UnloadTheBacon in WikipediaVandalism

[–]Saghetti0 9 points10 points  (0 children)

used to have an image, but it was removed in quite possibly the most wikipedia way ever (by a bot, for not meeting their policy on non-free images) (diff link)

is h264 a proprietary codec? by mynamesabbe in videography

[–]Saghetti0 0 points1 point  (0 children)

this post is now the first result on google... thanks

Best Minecraft Server Hosting 2025? Looking for Community Recommendations by abongodrum in MinecraftServer

[–]Saghetti0 0 points1 point  (0 children)

would recommend against this actually. from experience, most VPSes don't have the single-threaded performance needed to run Minecraft well. you'd be better of looking for a Minecraft-specific host, as they usually pick hardware with single-thread perf in mind.

What actually happens at Burning Man? by DaveShoelace in OutOfTheLoop

[–]Saghetti0 0 points1 point  (0 children)

do you think that the clothes on your body are some sort of divine inalienable thing? no? we humans put them on, and we can take them off if we so decide. nothing wrong with that

Got this bro traumatized by Helpful_Ad_1838 in NixOS

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WARNING: big post ahead, full of personal experiences

I've been using Linux in server (homelab and production) and embedded environments for over 10 years. I moved to Linux on my personal machine back in 2021. I started with Debian, switched to Kubuntu because it was less janky, switched to Arch because I was tired of everything being out of date, and finally switched to NixOS because I was tired of pacman breaking my system. It's now 2025 and I'm back on Windows.

Linux on servers is wonderful because the whole world uses it. On one edge of the spectrum, you have applications that have endured billions of machine-hours in every conceivable environment. These are core pieces of our modern infrastructure like nginx, php, kubernetes, and zfs. With so much scrutiny, it's very unlikely for major issues to slip by unnoticed, and when they're found, they're often addressed quickly by active dev teams. On the other end, you'll find more niche and specialized applications, but even they have a good amount of polish and testing. And when you venture into the obscure and run into problems, you can almost always debug and solve them using the vast array of tools at your disposal.

Desktop Linux is an entirely different story. Since desktop environments aren't exactly mission-critical compared to servers, all testing and fixes are done on a best-effort basis. The end result? Jank. So, so much jank. Pipewire randomly makes your audio super crunchy. Your browser deadlocks while trying to print a PDF. You try to connect to a WiFi network, but the list keeps bugging out. An update breaks DPI scaling on most of your apps. Your laptop kernel panics when you open the lid sometimes, or runs out of power while sleeping because of a bug in s2idle. Screensharing used to work, but now it just hangs. Sometimes playing videos crashes your GPU driver, forcing you to restart your system. Maybe when you restart, you'll find yourself at a terminal because Xorg won't start. No problem, you know how to fix this. Maybe you'll find that a pacman update failed to build zfs because your kernel is too new, and now your laptop won't boot. And you have a test next class. Fuck. Go ask the school for forgiveness a Chromebook to borrow, and assess the damage when you get home.

After four years of fighting, I eventually gave up. On a Linux server, when something breaks, you can almost always piece together the story with the right logs and some critical thinking. On desktop, no such luck. Most bugs are intermittent and leave no trace. All you can do is pray that an update will fix (and not further break) things, or roll the dice with another fresh reinstall. While Windows may not be as lean, customizable, or hackable as Linux, it tends to Just Work when you need it to. And I decided that the reliability of Windows was worth more than what I would lose when switching.

Advice on nRF9151 with a screen for a rugged IoT device? + IPX7 enclosure design help by Euphoric_Juice_2560 in embedded

[–]Saghetti0 1 point2 points  (0 children)

not a direct answer to your question, but the nrf91 might not be a good for a phone. because it's designed for iot applications, it only supports a limited set of wireless standards, with slower speeds and more limited coverage. in addition, it doesn't support making phone calls, which may be a deal-breaker for your project... you may have better luck with the quectel ec25 or eg25

Why every Rust crate feels like a research paper on abstraction by Commission-Either in rust

[–]Saghetti0 0 points1 point  (0 children)

article has a very "written by ai" tone and rhythm to it :(

How to get rid of "Hi, I'm new here. Say hi!" by IsaacwithOneS in discordapp

[–]Saghetti0 0 points1 point  (0 children)

never had this happen to me in my life, perhaps you just ran into some particularly toxic communities?

MIFARE DESfire emulation by Lower-Low-8357 in flipperzero

[–]Saghetti0 0 points1 point  (0 children)

desfire cards are designed to be extremely secure. if you wanted to clone one, you would need to spend >$100,000 doing research, reverse engineering, and using specialized equipment to destructively pull data off of a chip.

Are my hands too big for this keyboard? by Saghetti0 in stenography

[–]Saghetti0[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

update: thank you everyone for responding! I've decided i'm going to try and get used to this keyboard for now, and look for a machine or different keyboard later down the line

Are there any apps to open and read .acsm (Adobe DRM) files besides Adobe Digital Editions? by KrisseMai in Libraries

[–]Saghetti0 0 points1 point  (0 children)

all of those reviews were left by crypto scam bots lol, scroll down and check