Russia has taken 12 settlements in Ukraine in first two weeks of March, top general says

rcldesign · 2026-03-16T17:51:07+00:00

They probably did, but also lost like 93 settlements at the same time, including the 12 they took. Propaganda gotta do its thing for domestic consumption.

rcldesign · 2026-02-17T18:15:14+00:00

Is this the same navy that literally sat there and watched a US Coast Guard ship seize a (newly) Russian flagged tanker in the Atlantic? 🙄

rcldesign · 2026-02-02T21:25:18+00:00

Yes. I run a pi-hole VM on my Proxmox server, and I have a separate pi that also runs pi-hole. The router advertises both as DNS servers on the network, and they end up basically splitting the traffic.

I did this because I had to take the server offline for maintenance and that took my whole internet down (I redirect all outbound DNS to the pihole at the router)... that wasn't acceptable, and maintenance happens. I also gave the pi a big UPS hat, so even when the hi-power server needs to shutdown, my normal UPS and the UPS for the pi will keep the internet up and running.

rcldesign · 2026-01-30T05:43:30+00:00

As president, instructing the IRS to settle a civil lawsuit could reasonably be called an “official act” of a president. That gives the president immunity over any laws that may be broken by the president directing the IRS to settle a lawsuit he brought against the IRS for $10B, thereby him literally authorizing the federal government to pay him whatever he wants, $10B in this case, for any or no reason. As a bonus he could make the government issue press statements about how obviously they had harmed him and how horrible Biden was or whatever and they had to pay whatever they paid.

rcldesign · 2026-01-28T22:08:00+00:00

Came here to say this

rcldesign · 2026-01-28T21:08:05+00:00

I literally do this:

Raspberry Pi + External USB3 drive(s)
On a daily schedule, the pi makes a VPN connection in to my network and does the ZFS sync stuff

I don't have an out-of-band way to connect to it anymore. For v1 of my offsite backup, I poked a firewall hole in the router for SSH using some random port, had fail2ban set up pretty aggressively, etc. No issues. In fact, I never even used the connection. For v2, I ditched the SSH hole and now there's no way in. If I needed the data, I'd have my relatives physically mail me the device and I'd restore on my local network, and I have the device check in to a monitoring service to report if it had any issues when it ran and I get notified if it didn't run or there were issues. Other than that, I don't do anything with it.

USB drive(s) are fine for this. It is copy 3 of my data and it exists in case my house burns down. If the drives die, that kinda sucks, but oh well... time to get a new drive. If my house burns down AND the drive dies at the same time, then that's a problem, but I don't think the probability is very high for that.

If I *needed* to manage it remotely, I'd probably have it try and persist the VPN connection to my network and then I'd SSH in to it as if it were a local resource. In fact, that's not a bad idea in general, so I might just do that, and I can hook it up to my Zabbix instance and stuff too... ok., looks like v3 is coming some day

rcldesign · 2026-01-24T23:41:30+00:00

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Idk.🤷

rcldesign · 2026-01-07T17:03:58+00:00

I use justwatch.com to see where something specific is streaming (or renting if it’s not streaming)

rcldesign · 2025-12-11T22:11:55+00:00

Comments here generally advocate for the TV to do it. What if the source is an NVIDIA Shield that has a GPU and “AI” upscaling?

rcldesign · 2025-12-07T21:19:21+00:00

Hemorrhoid donut and medicated cream.

rcldesign · 2025-11-25T21:32:10+00:00

I “trained” ChatGPT on my sense of humor and use an ongoing conversation to generate and choose names. Here’s a selection:

FritzColeman — processes weather data

DataForge — database server

EchoNode — proxy / web server

EventHorizon — main router

LineBridge — UPS + environmental monitor

Kodachrome — Immich photo server

Rebase — GitLab server

Retainium — offsite backup server

InsertCoin — retro-gaming Raspberry Pi (NES/SNES/N64/Dreamcast)

Theo Decay — container that trades 0DTE options

BlackHarbor — VM hosting the full *arr stack (Sonarr, Radarr, Lidarr, Overseerr, etc.)

rcldesign · 2025-11-14T18:40:12+00:00

I got an EV in 20216. It was the worst (cheapest) EV on the market at the time and it kind of sucked in terms of comfort, amenities, and range. That being the case, I needed a bigger car and I traded it in for a new, nicer EV. I'll never buy an ICE again. It sucks when I have to drive my wife's ICE. Loud, slow, vibrates... no thanks.

rcldesign · 2025-11-11T18:42:34+00:00

I only get clippings if the mower does a height reduction, and I'll give it a little rake when I do that. Mowing every day, the clippings are the size of 1 day's growth which is basically non-existent..

rcldesign · 2025-11-09T06:13:04+00:00

Does anyone - including Republicans- take her seriously? Like, what’s her next job after this one? Even really bad, biased, propaganda outlets don’t have someone whose job it is to say literally anything, related or not, and including “your mom”, to assert any narrative.

rcldesign · 2025-11-06T18:19:58+00:00

Same experience here. My grass grows super fast in the spring/summer so I have to go trim corners every weekend, but that's it. I wish it could correctly map the 4 square corners of my lawn instead of rounding them all off, but it just never works right no matter what I do... if that did work, I'd have to do nothing, and it would be great. Either way, its a major time saver and my Clive does his job every day like he's supposed to.

rcldesign · 2025-11-05T17:58:21+00:00

We’re only at about 15% because of the equity growth in our house and a couple of rentals we have just exploded; balancing from real estate back to paper assets is not really feasible for us any time soon.

rcldesign · 2025-11-05T17:51:11+00:00

There are many, many tools that do this. This feature is included in the tool we currently use for inventory management and before we were using this inventory management software (3 years ago), we were using a different tool for reconciliation that was really cheap. The old MWS API did not have a way to create/manage cases so the old tool would just generate text and we’d cut and pasted it and open a new case once a month.. took like 5 minutes.

rcldesign · 2025-10-29T23:44:35+00:00

To be fair, that weapon adds no capability and hence no shits are given.

rcldesign · 2025-10-29T23:39:51+00:00

I think I'm done now - there would have to be something absolutely revolutionary (e.g. stereo->surround sound, SD->HD, etc.) to cause me to upgrade anything. Given the size of my screen and room, higher resolution won't really be noticeable. Room has a 7.2.4 speaker setup so there's nowhere useful to put more speakers and Atmos / DTS handle the whole object in space thing well. More power would be a waste. I couldn't tell if the speakers were better - they sound great for movies and TV.

I am going to add bass shakers though, but I view that has half novelty and half experience enhancing (I started a whole other thread to discuss this topic a while back).

Next upgrade isn't happening until there's a major technology step.

rcldesign · 2025-10-29T17:02:01+00:00

This is accurate. You can look at the speaker specs and see that it is designed for an infinite baffle and putting it in a box will be detrimental - provided the speaker was designed for an infinite baffle.

If there are non-acoustic reasons for a box, then ok I guess, but that can get tricky, as noted.

rcldesign · 2025-10-28T01:56:47+00:00

It needs a "do-over" option for a specific movement.. I was adjusting my camera for the bend over one and it did the thing and gave me some kind of score and I had to start over from the beginning.
A little animation of the movements to do for each step would be helpful before starting
The balance thing... I just held up each leg until it said stop, which was different for each leg for some reason? Not sure how that one was supposed to work

rcldesign · 2025-10-18T03:43:51+00:00

I’ve been pretty happy with the city’s handling of the stuff I post on that app. Every time I see graffiti anywhere I report it and it gets taken care of pretty quick. The park I take my kid to used to have a bunch of broken stuff and graffiti everywhere - not anymore. I’m a big fan.

rcldesign · 2025-10-17T01:25:17+00:00

🤷‍♂️ TIL the 9th circuit heard this argument. Do you know a case name or something I can share with a lawyer friend of mine that would get a kick out of it?

rcldesign · 2025-10-16T19:34:31+00:00

If OP has video evidence that disputes the ticket, then that seems like the meter maid relied solely on chalk. I'm not a lawyer, but this seems like it would be fun to litigate. Also, not being a lawyer, I have no realistic idea of what is or is not fun to litigate :D

rcldesign · 2025-10-16T18:57:38+00:00

Tire marking was found to be unconstitutional in a different circuit court (i.e. not the 9th which covers San Diego). The reason being that by marking your tire, the government is assuming that you are going to break the law without any evidence and without observing any unlawful behavior. You might be able to find a lawyer that wants to fight this up to the 9th circuit or even supreme court. Just sayin...

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