The maple tree just outside of the large window in our home office is bright red and orange, casting a kaleidoscope of colors on the white walls and the wood floor. The wind is gently changing the colors, shapes, and outlines on the reflections, almost like a gentle rain shower of color and leaves. It’s absolutely gorgeous, and I took a few minutes to soak it all in.

I’m an instance owner and mod. I’ll describe what we see.

Like anyone else, I can check a post or comment and see the upvote and downvote counts. If I click on a specific menu item by a post or comment I can also see who voted which way.

I check it often and to date have only banned two users, out of thousands, who were consistently downvoting posts. These bot accounts were literally voting within seconds of the post going federated.

It’s a useful feature on my end and I think others should be able to see it.

I’m in the same situation - started with the same printer, put money and parts into it to get it to be reliable, and now I can just login to Octoprint and send something with 99% of prints just working. I wipe the build plate down, blast it with a few squeezes of canned air, and it just works.

But now these kids and their Bambus and multi-color print abilities…get off my lawn. Seriously, kids, you’re in my light and I’m trying to get this hotend adjusted…

When it’s someone else’s dumb thing it’s better for sure

Backblaze is a great backup solution. They publish drive stats and even show you the hardware they use.

https://www.backblaze.com/cloud-storage/resources/hard-drive-test-data

https://www.backblaze.com/cloud-storage/resources/storage-pod

Did your computer lose its bios settings lately? Check to see if it’s set to ahci and not raid if using a single, non-raid disk.

You can try some of the suggestions at https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-newbie-8/how-can-we-fix-this-no-irq-handler-for-vector-4175692269/, too.

Good luck

The simulation keeps on churning…

That’s the advice that I was looking for! Buying now.

Baldurs Gate III is mighty tempting…

FYI: There’s currently an open issue with crossposting on instances using the 0.19.4 lemmy ui.

In a nutshell, the post submission page reloads after it retrieves the community to crosspost to, so everything but the selected community is wiped out.

It’s a bug in 0.19.4. I opened a GitHub issue for this in the lemmy-ui repo.

Try using 1.1.1.1 or 8.8.8.8 as the external DNS in your router for testing. Does it work then?

Also, you may have DNS cached somewhere. You can flush your Windows DNS cache by typing ipconfig /flushdns in a command prompt.

spawn(newTimer, 1000)

From what I researched, the average lifespan of HDs and SSDs is no more than 10 years.

Is this running or not running though? I think a bunch of flash chips, properly stored, would last quite a while

You can host overseas and use a proxy for hosting. I mostly don’t worry about it though because I don’t do anything illegal.

OP here - The post is meant to be humorous, but every non-personified detail is true. If we weren’t locked in for many more years I would ask to buy out our lease, but the penalty is more than if we continued to use the bloody device.

Why didn’t we go with a web-based mailing solution? I wish I knew - our volume is light (thankfully) but I guess someone wanted a physical machine to do the posting and metering.

Use encryption if you are concerned.

I’ve used Hyper-V and in fact moved away from ESXi long ago. VMWare had amazing features but we could not justify the ever-increasing costs. Hyper-V can do just about anything VMWare can do if you know Powershell.

MDT works well for Windows environments. Otherwise dd or Clonezilla for Linux.

Not really cybersecurity-related but I have spent the better part of the week trying to get MS Config Manager working properly.