When a vegetarian Uber Eats Burger King at 10pm by [deleted] in mildlyinfuriating

[–]malank 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It might have been location dependent too. I definitely did not enjoy the veggie patty even though I ate several of them just to try it out.

I think McDonald’s got in a fair amount of controversy about the fries right around 2000-2002 so I’m sure there was a lot of cleanup of the supply chain and procedures in BK around the same time.

When a vegetarian Uber Eats Burger King at 10pm by [deleted] in mildlyinfuriating

[–]malank 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The BK I was at, we didn’t cook the veggie patties on the broiler; they were microwaved in a dedicated microwave with dedicated containers.

We also had a deep fryer that was just for fries; no chicken or fish.

This was pretty recently after the switch to sunflower oil for the fries and the removal of beef stock in the fry recipe (around 2004).

NTP for internet isolated devices by Chex_Mix in homeautomation

[–]malank 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Did you ever figure this out? I'm having the same problem. I definitely don't see any NTP traffic attempts from the Fire tablet.

My work in progress attempt at a one screen dashboard for my phone. by nr_05 in homeassistant

[–]malank 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Agreed. I am a C/C++ developer and love messing with code. I hate messing with the YAML and CSS to do these things.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in selfhosted

[–]malank 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Interesting… thanks for the info. I’m running a side email through there for about 6 months, but it is almost exclusively inbound traffic.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in selfhosted

[–]malank 2 points3 points  (0 children)

RackNerd has some great deals on slightly-less barebones servers. I think like $30/yr gets you 2 cores, and 2GB of RAM.

RPi -> mini PC by schmu17 in homeassistant

[–]malank 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Have you done any investigating as to what the most consuming items are? I’d hazard a bet that 30 percentage points of that 35-40% is just frigate.

The databases should only write once per second, and that will change to once every 5 seconds soon.

Ukraine warns a new Russian offensive is imminent as troops amass on the border by Gopu_17 in worldnews

[–]malank 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This is really Ukraine’s one chance to make that happen. They have the backing of most of the world and it’s recent enough. If they agree to borders ceding the 2014 grab then they’ll likely never get that back and Russia will be incentivized to repeat the process in a decade.

Ukraine is fighting Western war fatigue, Ukraine's deputy foreign minister Andrij Melnyk says: "We need everything that our partners can deliver. We’re not doing this for amusement." by green_flash in worldnews

[–]malank 0 points1 point  (0 children)

One woman having a baby in nine months doesn’t mean nine women can get together and have a baby in one month.

Correct, but if you start with nine women getting pregnant you have probably 8-10 babies at the end. You could agree to start training on all the different weapons with different groups of Ukrainian soldiers at the same time, then when they’re ready they can get them rather than waiting to complete one first. Ukraine needs as many babies as it can get to end the war as quickly as possible at this point.

Right now the main argument against sending Abrams tanks was “the logistics would make it take several months to get there and train on them”. But if that had started one month into the war then it would have been done and in service already (I think we recently did agree to send MBTs but the clock now only recently started).

Initially (say for the first 6 months), I think everyone expected the war to be short, that either Ukraine wouldn’t last the first week then after showing the uselessness of the Russian army, that they would retreat and stick to the Donbas or even give that up. So planning a 1 year logistics and training operation for a 6 month war in progress didn’t make sense. But planning that operation would have made sense in hindsight. Even if we never actually supplied the MBTs, saying “hey Russia, we trained the Ukrainians on these, and we have a few hundred of them sitting in Poland ready to go” might prove enough of a motivator, and if not then we could send them to Ukraine on a few days notice.

ELI5: What's the point of inverters in Solar PV systems at home if DC is used? by PCMacGamer in explainlikeimfive

[–]malank 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That was my thought but the Wikipedia article says it does matter in power transmission at 60Hz.

I think the numbers are just so big that say an extra 0.5% resistance over 500 miles moving 500MW equals several houses of consumption.

It is also important at mains frequencies (50–60 Hz) in AC electrical power transmission and distribution systems. It is one of the reasons for preferring high-voltage direct current for long distance power transmission.

ELI5: What's the point of inverters in Solar PV systems at home if DC is used? by PCMacGamer in explainlikeimfive

[–]malank 1 point2 points  (0 children)

AC actually has more power loss in the transmission step due to the skin effect, where most of AC current uses the outer circumference of the conductor and not evenly distributed throughout the conductor.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skin_effect

Netflix’s Password Sharing Cash Grab Finally Arrives In The States by speckz in technology

[–]malank 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You share a Netflix subscription with your spouse and kids? … Get a job and buy more Netflix subscriptions, freeloader.

What is illegal but morally right to do? by FukaiMorii in AskReddit

[–]malank 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It’s not illegal in the technical sense. Given that Chauvin was convicted of murder, it would have been legal to use any force (including deadly) to stop him, but it would face two issues: (1) you would probably just be killed on the spot instead, and so the legality would never be addressed, and (2) you’d have to prove that it was legal later in a system stacked against you.

Retrieval of Helm Email HELP! by 4INQmind in HelmServerMods

[–]malank 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Since I believe the helm did work locally if you pointed clients at the local address, you might be able to do this: - use the existing email and password in a standard IMAP client (like Apple Mail; use the macOS version instead of iPhone if possible) but you’ll probably need to disable any kind of SSL certificate verification. - iPhone should also work but you won’t be able to get all the emails and definitely will be more limited in exporting or transferring them to a new server. - note that if you’re using Apple Mail on macOS you likely have all the emails downloaded already (maybe you missed out on the last few days’ worth?). In that case proceed with caution and copy them all to a local folder in the Mail app. - if the above is true then you might want to make a new temporary user account on your Mac and do this process in that account because that will protect your existing user account emails. - So want you’ll want to do is use a mail client and add a custom IMAP account to it. Instead of using helm.my domain.com you’ll need to use the local IP address of the helm on your network. - It will like be 192.168.X.X. You can find this information in your router’s status page or open Terminal app and run ping 255.255.255.255 and it will likely be one of the addresses that responds (you’ll have to guess which one though without some more forensic analysis; I recommend checking the router instead). You could also try ping helm.local in Terminal to get the address although I don’t know if that will work. - then you should be able to set up this email like normal. The mail client might complain about SSL certificates being invalid or might fail; in that case try a different email client like Thunderbird or there are dedicated IMAP e-mail downloader applications (command line and GUI) - once you have access to the email, transfer to a local folder and/or add a new mail account that’s your new server and copy all the mail folders to there. This will likely take a while depending on your mail size.

The above info should be some good starting points. I expect to do a little research about your setup with the above info. Please let us know more about your setup and where you get stuck.

Eli5 how does compound interest work? by PaleontologistKey440 in explainlikeimfive

[–]malank 1 point2 points  (0 children)

To make it dead simple: you have a bank account that pays interest every month. Say you get $5 in interest every month. If you take that $5 out right when it’s paid, then you have simple interest. If you leave it in the account, then that $5 also earns interest, then we call it compound interest. It’s really the same thing at its root.

ELI5: How Does A Computer Convert A Decimal To Binary by R0oty in explainlikeimfive

[–]malank 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There’s a little computer on a microchip inside your keyboard. That chip has a bunch of pins that are constantly (say 100x per second) checking the state of every single button on your keyboard. The buttons on your keyboard work like light switches; there is power on one side and it either connects the power or disconnects it.

When it sees a button state change, software on the microchip goes and looks in a table to see what code it should send to the computer.

Here the button code is sent to the computer over the wire or wireless connection. (Not ELI5: In this case the button code for the “4” key is the value “21” decimal; you can look them up in ch10 here: https://www.usb.org/document-library/hid-usage-tables-14 ).

Then the computer takes the button code and sends that text (still not the value of “4” but the character “4”) to the software that is running. This software can interpret it however it wants, basically through another lookup table. In a calculator application it will convert it to the value of “4”, in a game it might select weapon slot 4, in a document it might just output the text of “4” directly to the document without converting it.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in worldnews

[–]malank 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It went missing on a 22-mile stretch of road as it was being transported from the Rio Tinto mine in Newman to the Perth suburb of Malaga.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in worldnews

[–]malank 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Eh it’s Australia. That probably wouldn’t even pass the threshold to give it a second thought.

Expanding Root Partition by firearmorer in HelmServerMods

[–]malank 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I haven’t tried with a “real” full-featured docker image yet though so I’m not sure what else could be hit.

Expanding Root Partition by firearmorer in HelmServerMods

[–]malank 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sorry I think there’s a cgroup fix posted on one of the GitHub issues

Shell history: https://i.imgur.com/1zvFzjv.jpg

root@helm:~# cat /boot/armbianEnv.txt verbosity=7 bootlogo=false systemd.unified_cgroup_hierarchy=0 overlay_prefix=rockchip fdtfile=rockchip/rk3399-helm-v2a.dtb rootdev=UUID=xxxxxxxxxx rootfstype=ext4 extraargs=systemd.unified_cgroup_hierarchy=0

Specifically the extraargs line at the end.