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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • Who fucking cares at this point? Trump has done so much worse things by now. He can’t legally be president for a third term, so it’s not like it’s gonna impact his re-election. Most of the world already hates the man and think he is vile and disgusting. What is one pee tape going to change.

    The pee tape could release today and be barely in the current news cycle. One camp will say “This just confirmed what we already knew”, the other camp will say “Fake news”. And tomorrow it will be forgotten.

    No, it has to be something way worse than a simple pee video.


  • Not true actually, there are many hotels with excellent food. There is a hotel not far from me where a lot of people go to their restaurant even if they aren’t staying at the hotel, it’s just a really good restaurant in it’s own right.

    I’ve also been on holiday where we had excellent breakfast options in the hotel, even the ones included were very good. You just need to check for those when selecting a hotel. I’ve definitely had worse meal in some restaurants than I’ve had in some hotels, there’s plenty of overlap there.


  • In trouble shooting it always important to answer at least these questions when asking for help:

    • What are you trying to achieve, eg what is the end result you are hoping for.
    • What is the expected behavior, or how do you think it should work?
    • What is the experience behavior, so what actually happens and how does that differ from what you expected.
    • What steps have you taken in trouble shooting. Are there things you’ve checked or ruled out? How so? What did you try?
    • Any background you think is relevant, so which software, hardware, versions, urls etc.

    This will help other people help you quickly and efficiently. This will greatly improve your chance of other people being able to help you, or you being able to help yourself.




  • In regional versions of Sesame Street Big Bird has an actual name (although usually it isn’t the exact same character, but another kind of large bird). I think mostly because in those languages it wouldn’t be an alliteration. But I like to think it’s just because Americans are rude and never bothered to learn their name, calling them Big Bird because of how they look.



  • Thorry84@feddit.nltoSelfhosted@lemmy.worldMy First Homelab
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    25 days ago

    Just so you know, operating spinning drives this way is a bad idea. If the platters are spinning and the drive tips over, the rotation of the drives resists the movement. This gyroscopic force is enough for the platters to touch the heads which are flying a tiny distance above the platter. Obviously this is a bad thing and will damage the drives.

    A quick fix is to just lay them flat or fix both of them together so they have a more stable base to stand on. Putting it in an enclosure is even better.




  • My brother used Google Home/Nest speakers with Google Assistant to automate his entire home. Everything from turning on lights, setting the heat/ac, turning on the TV, listening to music, controlling curtains and blinds etc. It was all based on voice commands. He also used it to make simple shopping lists.

    Since it got turned into the LLM based one he’s been complaining non stop. It’s super slow and doesn’t understand what to do half of the time. Very simple voice commands will not be understood. Or it would understand perfectly, but instead of executing the command it would search on Google or something dumb like that.

    The latest update has made it much much worse it seems, with the thing becoming even slower and basically unusable. The dream of a Star Trek like setup where you can talk to the computer is dead at the moment.