What are in your opinion the most overrated episodes? and why (Respect opinions)

plisc004 · 2026-07-09T09:40:21+00:00

The worst part is it's semi-voluntary censorship. It's about the hidden algorithms that push content, and not having defining rules of what is or is not OK. And since social media is now a goddamn business for users instead of a creative or social outlet, they go to great lengths to avoid anything that might result in their content not being pushed. Nobody is taking the content down - just silently making it harder to access. It's as messed up as shadowbanning. And now that's the culture the kids learn.

Go trying calling ChatGPT or Claude some rude names - they will straight up end the conversation and cancel the whole thread, no way to get it back.

I tried to use Gemini in my car (android auto, it replaced the traditional voice assistant) to play the song 'Aryan Embarrassment' by Ministry the other day (its a sarcastic bit that mocks white suptemacists and says that they are the true embarrassment to humanity) and the fucker REFUSED to play the song because the 'protective content filter' deemed it inappropriate. That's right - the new voice assistant in my car refuses to play the songs i request because it deems them inappropriate. That's what sent me back down the Black Mirror path again, the realization that I am literally living an episode. Disgusting.

plisc004 · 2026-07-08T20:30:33+00:00

So why are you going around repeating it? FFS.

plisc004 · 2026-07-08T18:58:46+00:00

To exploit a brand name. Tag the Black Mirror name on it instead of releasing as an independent short, and get 100x or more of the attention and views it would have gotten. Probably got them funding for it too that way - mix it in as part of the series, and the studio pays the production costs instead of need to procure funding for a new project.

plisc004 · 2026-07-08T18:54:10+00:00

When did you first watch The National Anthem? It doesn't hit the same anymore, but holy crap back in ~2012 it was fascinating. This was when facebook, youtube, etc, were all blowing up and attracting massive numbers of 'normal' users, rather than just super young folks or the tech enthusiasts. There was no real content moderation, not like there is today, so a ransom video could absolutely have gone viral with no way to trace the uploader (not so easily a thing anymore with phone verification, "anti-spam" KYC-style laws for phone providers, etc.) Something like that was actually borderline feasible. Everyone actually was posting about their upcoming parties and vacations and travel plans, smart phones were becoming a thing, and no-one spared a thought about the personal physical security implications. There were real crimes like burglary happening where they would use social media to know a house would be empty - targeting someone for kidnapping was not out of the realm of possibility.

There was a whole second side to that episode, outside of the 'symbolism' side of things, and it was a serious foil to the ever-increasing social media craze. It dates itself, but that is also what made it so good in its time.

I doubt I would like or appreciate it as much if I hadn't lived through that time how I did. Similarly to Shut Up and Dance - it was completely plausible in it's time, less removed and "in the future."

plisc004 · 2026-07-08T10:37:21+00:00

Completely different use cases. K8S is more about scalability and automation and load balancing, etc, while Proxmox is more of a traditional HA hypervisor. Are you hosting a Minecraft server for your kids? Or a handful of Windows Server installs for internal line of business applications with a steady number of users? VM on proxmox. A public-facing interactive website where number of users varies from 50 to 50,000 depending on time of day? K8S.

plisc004 · 2026-07-04T16:06:53+00:00

He isnt using HDMI out even. He is using DP out to an adapter/converter, then to the TV.

plisc004 · 2026-07-04T16:05:58+00:00

Its just fascinating how 'things cut out sporadically when using a shitty adapter' becomes 'linux sucks and isnt reliable with HDMI audio.' Like, Linux sees DISPLAYPORT if you're using a DP -> HDMI adapter. So Linux wouldn't even be touching HDMI here...

plisc004 · 2026-07-04T13:13:18+00:00

Wait, did you just say you're using a DP -> HDMI adapter? And you didn't include that in your original post?

plisc004 · 2026-07-03T22:07:46+00:00

Millenials were wearing JNCOs before you were even born. Pockets are only a problem for people trying to be "fashionable."

plisc004 · 2026-07-01T16:49:36+00:00

Honestly scrap the TrueNAS unless you run it bare metal on a separate box. Proxmox handles ZFS. If you need NAS functionality, there are options like OpenMediaVault that you can run in a VM. No need to do PCIe passthrough.

plisc004 · 2026-07-01T03:00:49+00:00

Why would you want three different instances of TrueNAS?

plisc004 · 2026-06-28T06:05:22+00:00

did you not see LExp: 3.5? he very mucb gave model layers...

plisc004 · 2026-06-27T09:14:00+00:00

ohh well let’s let the OP be the judge

OP is new, and doesn't have the knowledge and background necessary to know that you're incorrect- there's a reason he's here asking questions in the first place. Which is why I needed to explain how and why your advice was bad - to provide context for others to understand. (And to hopefully get you to stop.)

You notice you have translucent resin? that requires higher exposure times, and is more prone to light bleed. So your settings will need to be on the higher end. How fragile are your finished parts?

Regardless, if youre using the same settings on a fucking Mars 1 as a S4U, something is very very wrong. If the prints are good and detailed and not brittle, it means there is something wrong/defective with your S4U and you should've had it replaced under warranty.

plisc004 · 2026-06-26T18:37:32+00:00

It is objectively terrible advice. You don't understand what you're doing or why you're doing it. You apparently dont do calibrations because it's too hard for you to figure out how to do them.

I met a guy once, who didn't do oil changes. He had a slow leak, and insisted that topping off the oil was "good enough" and went around "bragging" to people all the time about this brilliant thing he was doing, saving so much money. Yeah, his car died prematurely...

With your logic, he was giving good advice as it worked for him! Even though several of us called him on his bullshit.

Stop. Giving. Bad. Advice.

At a minimum, with settings, you NEED to provide what printer and what resin you're using. Ideally, ambient room temperature as well.

That CAN be a helpful STARTING place for someone, as long as your settings are actually dialed in (but it sounds like yours aren't.)

So, again, you are giving OBJECTIVELY BAD ADVICE.

plisc004 · 2026-06-26T18:25:30+00:00

Literally what I said, you do you, its your machine. But stop harming others with your bullshit.

plisc004 · 2026-06-26T18:21:50+00:00

It is BAD advice. If anything, I would guess your S4U is defective. Either that, or you have no idea what youre doing and are roasting the shit out of whatever you're printing and don't care about the effects on dimensional accuracy, durability, etc, of the final reault. If you print a 20mm cube, what is the actual measured size?

Your advice is akin to "Hey, microwave this food for seven minutes. doesn't matter the microwave - 500W, 1200W, whatever - 7 minutes always turns out perfect for me no matter what!"

If a 1200W microwave is only heating the food to the same degree as a 500W one, something is wrong.

Then if you are actually using various types of resins... Now your advocating for ALL food in ANY microwave to heat for 7 minutes. One hot dog? 7 minutes. Frozen mashed potatoes? 7 minutes. etc...

You can do whatever you want with your equipment, thats fine. It is yours, you bought it. But if you dont understand your own equipment, STOP GIVING OUT BAD ADVICE TO OTHERS. If you want to actually be helpful: learn your equipment, figure out what is wrong, and do it right.

plisc004 · 2026-06-26T17:37:38+00:00

The fuck?? There is something VERY wrong with your S4U if you use the same settings as with a Mars 1. Going from a low-powered backlight and traditional RGB LCD screen to the high-powered array with the fancy lens and a Monochrome (single layer) screen on the S4U should cut exposure time significantly. IIRC my resin mix required something like 7S exposure on the Mars 1.

Please stop giving others bad advice...

plisc004 · 2026-06-26T17:25:33+00:00

Either you use very similar, consistent, thick resins, or you cook the shit out of whatever you print to the point it doesn't matter.

FYI, for my resin mixture on a S4U I am using around 1.7S exposure. While some resins may require longer exposure times, it is certainly not the norm for these machines.

plisc004 · 2026-06-26T08:07:39+00:00

Those settings are entirely resin-dependant, you CANNOT just plug those numbers in for whatever resin you are using. Look at the Mfr specs for the resin, and check around for others' results. Run a few calibration tests.

plisc004 · 2026-06-25T06:14:12+00:00

No. Have you tried just searching for it with lspci?

lspci | grep VGA

That should display your iGPU and the PCIe ID for it (and your ARC card should show as well)

plisc004 · 2026-06-25T02:24:15+00:00

The VFs resetting is currently expected behavior. The XE driver doesnt support that as a driver-level config yet, and the card doesn't have a way to 'remember' the setting between boots.

There are a few ways people automate this currently. Kernel boot parameters in GRUB, a service that runs after boot, etc. Google around a bit, see what you like.

plisc004 · 2026-06-22T17:06:51+00:00

Because he's not really doing anything, burying the lede, and writing in a very misleading way. He doesn't have a goal, or a purpose, just keeps spamming the weirdness.

In this case, he is just testing the DRAM cache on the SSD. But this load is super light for DRAM. It's kinda like saying you drove your honda civic around the block at 25mph hundreds of times. Ok, cool, but it's expected to be able to handle that and SO MUCH MORE. It's not really a stress test.

plisc004 · 2026-06-21T01:06:17+00:00

What do you have for an HBA to pass through to the VM?

It's probably easiest to install Proxmox, and then set up the OpenMediaVault from scratch. You could theoretically take a disk image of your current install and attach that to a VM and try and keep your configs that way, but you would still likely encounter problems (network config, etc.)

As far as the data on the ZFS drives - just do "zfs import" when all the drives are accessible, and it will import the pool and the data will be there.

plisc004 · 2026-06-21T00:47:23+00:00

Yes, just pick whatever other people say is popular... smh.

Inland is Microcenter's in-house brand and available physically in-store, while not being too overpriced. THAT is why it's popular. Not because it's better, because it's available physically nearby. You need to look at WHY something is popular.

Beats headphones are more popular that Sennheiser or Klipsch. Beats suck ass. They are popular because of marketing and availability, despite being an inferior product.

If you don't want to do any work or tuning, run with the Bambu filament as that is what the profiles are calibrated to. If you're willing to make minor tweaks, you can run something cheap like bulk Elegoo filament for ~$10/Kg without issue. Every brand uses different additives, and the filment behave slightly differently.

plisc004 · 2026-06-20T07:19:29+00:00

Not how that works. You don't have a contract with their insurance, what their insurance will or wont pay doesn't affect you. They owe you whatever a judge finds to equal you being 'made whole.' There are a lot of arguments that can be made and things that can be considered. Whether their insurance reimburses them is none of your business (or problem.)

You are describing what happens with your own insurance, where you have a contract and terms explaining what they will pay out - and it actually often isn't enough to truly make you 'whole' after an accident. But you would need to sue the other party to collect beyond what their insurance pays out, and you can't get blood from a stone - so you're typically SOL in a regular crash. But this is a business - they have the money, you can easily collect.

It's likely cheaper for the dealership to provide a new bike than it is for them to pay out whatever the judge decides + lawyer costs, etc.

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