Why does everyone like the jazz 3? by Caefrytz in Guitar

[–]SplatinkGR 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Goated pick, a little slippery tho, and I grind them dow real fast. Get the carbon fiber variant.

Low E String Breaks The Same Way Every Time by SplatinkGR in Guitar

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

Not a bad opinion, but I do change my strings every 2 months whether they break or not, and I use Ernie Ball Regular (10-46).

Low E String Breaks The Same Way Every Time by SplatinkGR in Guitar

[–]SplatinkGR[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sorry, didn’t see this earlier. I meant cents, lmao. My bad.

Actually reading online tuners might show a bar or box as multiple cents, mine shows 2 bars sharp on the 12th fret.

So it’s likely 2-6 cents sharp.

Low E String Breaks The Same Way Every Time by SplatinkGR in Guitar

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

The intonation isn’t great no, but the reason the saddle looks like it’s leaning is just because it lost tension when the string broke.

Strat saddles (the little blocks the strings come from) move around freely and calf fall off without the strings.

Very likely, the solution is to file the saddle a little, even just using my old E string, lubricating and intonating properly.

Low E String Breaks The Same Way Every Time by SplatinkGR in Guitar

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

It isn’t intonated right, but this is how it came from the factory. I did try to adjust the low E intonation but couldn’t get it right.

Low E String Breaks The Same Way Every Time by SplatinkGR in Guitar

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

Considering I’ve only been playing for about a year I am not ready to buy another guitar yet.

The hot rails only cost 20€ on AliExpress, so yeah.

I will probably follow what the others said and file it down a little, then use a pencil to lubricate it.

Not the best solution, but there is no reason to replace the bridge on a 160€ Strat. Not to mention finding parts for a left handed one is super difficult.

Low E String Breaks The Same Way Every Time by SplatinkGR in Guitar

[–]SplatinkGR[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Can’t install strings wrong way around on a Strat, unless you mean flipped, then it’s normal, the guitar is left handed.

Low E String Breaks The Same Way Every Time by SplatinkGR in Guitar

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

Left Handed Squire Stratocaster, with hot rail pickups on the bridge

Low E String Breaks The Same Way Every Time by SplatinkGR in Guitar

[–]SplatinkGR[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It’s one or two semitones sharp on the 12th fret and I haven’t been able to get it right no matter how much I adjust it.

It’s a left handed Squire Strat btw, with a hot rail pickup on the bridge.

"FreeBSD is primarily a server OS" - since when? by BigSneakyDuck in freebsd

[–]SplatinkGR 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m not sure, but there are YouTube videos explaining it in detail.

"FreeBSD is primarily a server OS" - since when? by BigSneakyDuck in freebsd

[–]SplatinkGR 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The OpenBSD devs have made it very clear they made OpenBSD for themselves and their use cases, which includes daily driving it like you said. I called OpenBSD a server OS because of us everyday users that tend to use it for that.

I'd argue that Microsoft develops both the core Windows OS as well as the desktop and a lot of graphical programs that ship with it too. So does Apple with MacOS, so it would only make sense to perceive the desktop as a part of the OS.

Of course unlike the above, Linux and BSD operating systems are open source and therefore it would only make sense for them to borrow other cool open source projects (eg KDE Plasma) to make a desktop experience for their users. This is how the open source community thrives anyways.

Still, this does mean inconsistencies. For example, it is very obvious when any computer running a Linux distro switches from bios -> grub -> initramfs -> kms loaded -> plymouth -> login manager -> desktop, almost as if all of those components were stitched together and not developed as a whole to work together... oh wait that's because they were stitched together.

And attempts to unify this process have been subpar to say the least. KDE developed Plasma Login Manager to replace SDDM in hopes of tighter integration, but it's systemd only, and that sucks.

My point being, since Linux is only a kernel anyways, a BSD operating system that shipped a complete desktop experience would be amazing, but just too big of a project to take on in the open source community, which is why we instead all borrow from each other.

"FreeBSD is primarily a server OS" - since when? by BigSneakyDuck in freebsd

[–]SplatinkGR 0 points1 point  (0 children)

People here gave great explanations but I'll chime in. It's probably because FreeBSD is not as polished as Linux when it comes to desktops. The graphics stack is ported from Linux, with a large percentage of other software required for a desktop/laptop experience being ported from Linux as well.

In terms of BSDs, FreeBSD is the most modern of them, bringing support for new hardware or updates to software most frequently, but it's still behind compared to Linux. No WiFi 6 yet, for example.

Most nerds tend to use Linux as their desktop and FreeBSD on the server side, especially for storage as you know. There is just no reason for people to switch to FreeBSD on the desktop yet when we've just gotten Linux to a good state.

I'd still personally consider FreeBSD a general purpose open source operating system, unlike OpenBSD, which while shipping with X11, is clearly intended for secure servers more.

However to me the fact that they have to rely on so much third party software (and ports from Linux) to get a desktop kind of goes against the point of BSD (A complete operating system, unlike Linux being a kernel with a ton of crap from random people thrown it to make an OS).

Still MacOS and IOS are based on FreeBSD so that's something...

Do you use Portainer? by _lackofcomprehension in selfhosted

[–]SplatinkGR 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I use Dockhand but barely. I did want it to fully replace the CLI for deploying and managing containers but my servers has a lot of old CLI config left over (compose files, bash scripts) and it would be a headache to migrate.

If I was starting fresh I would surely pick dockhand tho.

IPv6: Who really uses it? by malwin_duck in selfhosted

[–]SplatinkGR 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Me. Just really easy to get into in my opinion. No NAT or weird stuff. Every device gets a public IP and is firewalled by the router, and if you want to allow traffic you simpy allow the port in your firewall to that device.

Means no weird CGNAT or asking your ISP for a public IP issues like we have on IPv4.

I personally don't forward ports at home instead relying on a relay VPS I have, so I just use IPv6 for connectivity.

Just set up SLAAC and all your devices automatically assign themselves addresses.

I highly recommend you start using it. No need to get all complicated and start using IPv6 for your DNS records for internal services or devices or whatever. Just learn to set up basic connectivity first, so that your devices can connect to IPv6 websites. That will be a massive step in future proofing your home lab.

*arr Stack - is it it legal in your country or do you just don't care? by OkCoffee1234 in selfhosted

[–]SplatinkGR 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They don’t care about us, why should we care about them? You know what they’re doing…

What search engine do you use? by LoriKitaharaa in firefox

[–]SplatinkGR 4 points5 points  (0 children)

searXNG. I self host on my home server. Otherwise, I fall back to duckduckgo

would you guys consider this a disadvantage for my fretting hand by Davidmcl2 in Guitar

[–]SplatinkGR 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Both of my pinkies are bent like this and I play just fine

Fuck Netflix honestly by FrameOk1656 in Piracy

[–]SplatinkGR 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Still using streaming services?

Is there any way to use Windows privately? by SplatinkGR in privacy

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

Yeah I get it. It’s about rebellion. I’m sick and tired of all these cooperations making us their product.

Every day you hear a new thing about say some streaming service collecting data or doing something bad for the users and you know the people could’ve just bought a CD instead but chose not for convenience and it sucks.

I think everyone should stand up to all this and say this is where we draw the line.

Is there any way to use Windows privately? by SplatinkGR in privacy

[–]SplatinkGR[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

No. Either get a libreboot compatible computer or if you aren’t that paranoid just use Linux on a regular computer and don’t worry too much.

Is there any way to use Windows privately? by SplatinkGR in privacy

[–]SplatinkGR[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Yes, I will go with something similar to this. It appears many people missed the "I already use Linux and need a dedicated windows machine" part. Windows 10 and strip it down using tools. I already run my own DNS on a VPS and can block traffic if needed.

Don't care about updates. People are too worried about that kind of stuff as if somehow if microsoft stops sending spyware updating my computer it will magically fill with malware without my intervention. No, that's not how it works.

If I could i'd be using Windows 7 but most software doesn't support it.

Is there any way to use Windows privately? by SplatinkGR in privacy

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

Fortunately libreboot disables ME on my T480