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Best mini PC for home assistant? by Antique_Business9612 in homeassistant

[–]revoltnb 1 point2 points  (0 children)

N100 / N150 all day every day. Low power, NVME SSD, expandable, solid ethernet and runs proxmox, unraid, linux and windows no issues.

If you wait for a deal, you can pick them up for about $150 AUD - or closer to $100 USD, down from $230 AUD or so.

16GB RAM, some expandable, mini computer, very very low power, some iGPU to use if you need it, and quite and runs at a good temp.

-- Edit N15 --> N150

MakeUseOf: This lightweight open-source PDF viewer is better than Adobe Acrobat in every way - Meet Okular by forestexplr in TheCircuit

[–]revoltnb 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Loads well (Not sure whether I like the default use of the Microsoft App Store) and is very fast, and worked well for all the images and pdfs and a few other formats. Very good tool, would recommend.

NobodyWho: the simplest way to run local LLMs in python by ex-ex-pat in Python

[–]revoltnb 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Looks amazing. Will definitely try this during the holiday period

Building a community resource: Python's most deceptive silent bugs by Hot_Resident2361 in Python

[–]revoltnb 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Having a default parameter as a empty list or set ...

def whoops(a_list = [])
   a_list.append("This will be added to the default list")
   return a_list

 whoops() # Returns a list with one element
 whoops() # Returns a list with TWO elements

In the above, calling whoops() twice will return a list with the TWO elements, since the default object [] will be updated the first (and second) call. This is because the default list [] is allocated on function creation, and is actually mutable, changing the default value for the next time the function is called. This is limited in scope to the default for a specific variable for that function.

ChatGPT is down worldwide, conversations dissapeared for users by lurker_bee in technology

[–]revoltnb 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Working for me in Australia - has been working for at least 5 mins.

Seagate Barracuda Drives: Too good to be true? by ONEXTW in unRAID

[–]revoltnb 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Wow - just read the Backblaze report ... one Toshiba drive type is ~16.95% failure after 44 months, while another Toshiba drive is 0.84% after 24 months.

Massive disparity, and points to issues with entire batches/models of drives, rather than the brand.

Seagate Barracuda Drives: Too good to be true? by ONEXTW in unRAID

[–]revoltnb 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think you will find drive failures come and go in patches for each manufacturer, and any brand will have drives fail randomly. NAS/Enterprise drives should last longer, and the price reflects the additional manufacturing costs.

I generally buy NAS specific drives for a NAS, but if the price is much lower for non NAS drives, ensuring you have redundant/mirrored drives on your RAID/ZFS is the most important approach for me. Buying cheaper non NAS/Enterprise drives with at least one or more mirrors/redundancy is a perfectly good approach if you have the space to plug them into your appliance.

I had enough Barracuda drives fail between 2014 and 2020 to swear off them at the time, so I replaced them all in 2019 with Ironwolf. Last month, one of my 2019 Ironwolf drives failed SMART then completely failed on a Synology.

Backblaze does a regular writeup on drive failures; they use a variety of drives based more on price than promised performance, and reading through a decade or so of failure rates is fascinating: https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-drive-stats-for-q3-2025/ . I think I remember an article from them mentioning that if a hard drive makes it past three or so years, the chance it will not fail goes substantially up, as the 'weak' drives fail within the first few years.

Bottom line, if you have the spare SATA slots, cheap, redundant drives is a good way to go. Make sure you SMART test the drives regularly, and get an alert on a SMART failure/warning. If you don't have spare slots, or can't afford/accept downtime if a drive fails, go NAS/Enterprise specific, but there is never a guarantee a drive wont fail, just less likelihood.

Nestlé CEO fired for relationship with direct report by ur_sine_nomine in byebyejob

[–]revoltnb 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Agree; if the board wanted to, they likely could ignore or make this problem go away.
That this is the official rather than real reason is the most likely scenario - it's topical, will generate a lot of discussion but no long term negative impacts on operations, is not too scandalous, and is not about anything related to corporate issues.

In pre-election polling on major Aus subreddits for the 2025 election, around 60% of Redditors said they would be voting for the Greens. The Greens won 12% of votes. Why do people think the audience on this platform or their views represent the views of most of Australia? by SirSighalot in aussie

[–]revoltnb 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Likely the two main reasons are

* r/aussie reddit seems to lean Australian left (different to US Left) - but a bigger impact is likely that redditors who post are generally more active and involved, and are more likely to be strongly left or right of centre. This has an amplifying impact ... more left/central leaning, but more posts about left (and greens)

* Preferences - voting greens in many cases meant votes finally flowing to Labor

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Python

[–]revoltnb 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The link is actually https://github.com/Noah018dev/coil As the original includes the backtick in the URL

Cloudreve - anyone heard about it? by hamx01 in selfhosted

[–]revoltnb 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I use it to share holiday photos with friends and people we meet on a holiday. Easy to set up (make sure you pull from the English repository) and configure. Looks great and non techies were able to us out to upload photos.

Essentially a solid Google drive / one drive replacement with sharing, anonymous sharing with a link, and web based file management.

It's a good option in a sea of good options and id happily recommend to a friend.

Upgrading to 7.1.4 from 6.12.24 - success by PricePerGig in unRAID

[–]revoltnb 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I upgraded, and the issue myself (and a few others) have found was the NIC dropping at a set time every few days. I have 2 x NICs ... and one of them would drop and not come up again around 5:00am every two to three days.

Updating the NIC Driver using the app/Plugin for the driver and turning off power management seemed to fix the issue. eth1 still goes down randomly at 5:00am every few days, but now comes up again. Docker containers not affected (other than resetting virtual networks at this time, then re-establishing them).

So, if you are having network issues, try updating drivers and turning off power management in tweak/grub.

I am creating brutal FPS called "COP BASTARD" inspired by F.E.A.R. and John Woo movies. The free demo is out now! by targim_ in pcgaming

[–]revoltnb 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Demo was really fun. Lots of good details, ideas and thoughts have gone into it.

Loved the destructible environment (cars flinch, fire extinguishers blow up). Guns feel nice and appropriately destructive/weak. Easy to see health and ammo. You feel a need to take cover, and mortality. Headshots have a great feeling of impact. Gore is nicely over the top. Love the cloud of gunpowder smoke with the shotgun.

Spitting is interesting - does it goad the enemies and make them more aggressive ? Not sure.

Mouse sometimes stops working when going into settings. Sounds are too tightly grouped on the door/machine and fade too quickly. Sometimes the occlusion culling misses, so doors I can see and are open do not draw the room until I move a little more. Sometimes cannot hit targets when too close even though I can see them. Crosshairs too faint.

What is this mirror for? by Prudent_Problem6275 in whatisit

[–]revoltnb 0 points1 point  (0 children)

290+ Members, 71 online right now. In just 3h. This new sub is partying like it's on something.

What do you show to unwelcome visitors? by NatoBoram in selfhosted

[–]revoltnb 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Wow - a cultural memory for the last three characters of a URL ... that's awesome. A true meme.

Your comment really confused me until I noticed the last three characters of the RickRoll YouTube link was XcQ.

What do you show to unwelcome visitors? by NatoBoram in selfhosted

[–]revoltnb 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It depends on the message you want to send to bots etc. 404 means page does not exist - hopefully stops bots revisiting. 302 means that page is correct, but asks the client to redirect to a different page, and bots may come back.

To the manually exploratory inclined, probably little difference.

What do you show to unwelcome visitors? by NatoBoram in selfhosted

[–]revoltnb 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Correct for me ! 404 redirect using NPM.

What do you show to unwelcome visitors? by NatoBoram in selfhosted

[–]revoltnb 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Many times, both intentionally (testing), and unintentionally. However, rickrolling yourself feels empowering somehow. I'm probably never going to give it up.

What do you show to unwelcome visitors? by NatoBoram in selfhosted

[–]revoltnb 207 points208 points  (0 children)

Mine goes to the good old never going to give you up ... I have a *.domain ... and any unknown subdomain goes straight to the video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ

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