AliasAKA

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[–] AliasAKA@lemmy.world 2 points 20 hours ago

I think it’s okay, I made a comment about the license first! It’s good discussion. I certainly like everything being copyleft, but I also get why people who make a contribution (an extension or otherwise) might want to license it differently. Ultimately whoever does the work gets to decide on the license — closed source I’ll never touch, extension or otherwise, but I’m lenient on open source.

[–] AliasAKA@lemmy.world 2 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

Oh I’m fine with copyleft, even preferred. I just see any open source license, even MIT, and am pleased. Perhaps my bar is too low, but at this point anyone posting anything with open source protection to the creation is cool to me.

[–] AliasAKA@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Hey some folks responded here which is great! For me, I think wiki and tracker are perfect like someone else mentioned, because a lot of folks without accounts can still access the knowledge created. The hard part is moderating of course. I’m not sure there is a perfect solution.

Ultimately, you’re producing something cool for the community and you get to set the terms for that; if discord is easy and sustainable, I prefer that to you doing anything else that isn’t sustainable to see the project through as long and vibrantly as you can. So in that sense just choose what makes sense.

So in short: do what makes sense for you and if one of the alternatives listed (maybe wiki it seems? That would be cool with me) works then that’s great!

I guess I’ll also plug forgejo or codeberg at this time haha

Edit: I’ll also say, more folks here for discussion is cool too, and good to have you posting and hope to see more discussion around it in the future here!

[–] AliasAKA@lemmy.world 37 points 1 day ago (20 children)

MIT license, cool! I’ll check this out. Any chance to migrate from discord to a more open platform for community engagement?

[–] AliasAKA@lemmy.world 57 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Servo is a web browser rendering engine written in Rust, with WebGL and WebGPU support, and adaptable to desktop, mobile, and embedded applications.

Essentially it is an alternative to chromium based web browser engines. The other (major) web browser engines are WebKit for iOS and Gecko for Firefox. You can see a list at Wikipedia.

[–] AliasAKA@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Their percent margin might drop, but there is no way they just eat say a 100 dollar extra tariff charge. They would charge 100 dollars more on the item(s). They make the same profit, consumer pays more. The only time this isn’t true, is if the consumer will not or cannot pay the extra 100 dollars for the product and the sale is lost. In such a case they may try to pay part of the tariff and not raise their costs to account for margin.

In practice I think many companies will actually charge more than the tariff to maintain percent margin.

So definitely affects US consumers and companies, but may not affect foreign companies really at all.

[–] AliasAKA@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

When a cell senses the damage, one of the substances it produces is a protein called c-GAS. That plays several roles, but what was of interest to these scientists is that in humans, it interferes with and hampers the process by which DNA is knitted back together.

Scientists think that this interference could promote cancer and shorten our lifespan.

In naked mole rats though, the researchers found that the exact same protein does the opposite. It helps the body mend strands of DNA and keeps the genetic code in each cell intact.

They don’t know why or how yet for the mole rat using the same pathway in a different way.

[–] AliasAKA@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Yeah this is mostly fud. People read how folks on farms have fewer infections and have better health outcomes and take things way too far.

People on farms have greater and more diverse gut microflora (commensals as they’re called sometimes). This is in part because of exposure to animals and nature, and also possibly in part due to lower levels of pro inflammatory things you might find in cities (think, air pollution, microplastics [they of course have them too now]).

Good bacteria is good for you. Bad bacteria is bad for you. Viruses will mess you up and the best protection is not infection but vaccines. People truly believe that infections make their immune system stronger. That’s almost surely not true. The only thing that really makes you stronger are vaccines and getting a huge amount and diversity of good microflora.

If we can solve the probiotic space really well (which is difficult, really fecal transfer seems to be the only reliable method at this point), then really there is zero concern about over sanitation. Even as it is. There shouldn’t be that much concern about it.

[–] AliasAKA@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

I’m not sure. Either they’re unable to completely remove all noise (meaning the rest wasn’t done in absolute 0 photon space, only that when we pulse a photon a person can detect that there was a photon in an otherwise very low photon environment; that is, there may be some 10s of photons, but when the researchers release their control photon from the crystal, it is perceptible above that background), or perhaps they’re talking about neurological noise in the biological circuits that fire. My guess is the former.

[–] AliasAKA@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

I did the same. I just wish I could move my money to international bank accounts held in Euro or something.

[–] AliasAKA@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

What is the best way for US residents to divest?

[–] AliasAKA@lemmy.world 16 points 3 weeks ago

Blue states should direct companies doing business within their borders to withhold federal taxes on any economic activity within their state and block outgoing transfers to the IRS at the bank level.

 

Hi all, I’ve recently got a proxmox server up and running, and cutting my teeth on it setting up some services (thanks to everyone who responded to my earlier post!). One thing I’m struggling with currently, and it’s admittedly not straightforward, is getting a graphical session up and running.

What I have working so far is an arch based lxc container, with gpu pass through. nvidia-smi on the lxc reports as usual, and so that seems to be working fine.

Upon installing a graphical session, say cinnamon, with lightdm, however, I can’t seem to open any display. I can have a virtual terminal available via the proxmox ui, and though I haven’t tried, I’m sure I could ssh in just fine as well. For what it’s worth, I have a display connected to the host system; the host does not have any graphical sessions. I’d like for the time being to use this host display, and have passed through /dev/fb0.

What I haven’t tried is running a pure x11 based session. I’d really prefer to use a Wayland session with cinnamon, but if necessary I can try to get an x11 session running. I additionally have not installed any vnc servers.

The errors I tend to get when trying to start cinnamon center on not being able to get a session ID, not being able to connect or open a display, and not being able to connect or find a dbus session.

Lightdm says it is running as a service on systemctl status lightdm.

Anyone have any ideas for how to get a session going graphically? I’m not sure how to even pass a tty to the connected monitor from the lxc.

Thanks for any help or guidance — if I do figure this all out, I plan to make a guide for future folks.

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submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by AliasAKA@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
 

Hi everyone, I am trying to repurpose a Ryzen 1700 system for a home server, but not exactly sure what the best solution for my needs is, and how to find additional resources.

More context, I have 4 8th hdds (wd blue drives; would’ve preferred reds but, alas). I intended to run these in raid10, but open to other ideas also. These are connected via sata directly to Mobo. I’d like to selfhost a nice NAS stack, to include: my own office 365 / google docs thing, file storage, and storage and playback of music and video files. I’d like to run jellyfin and a myriad of ‘arr things. Please send any and all suggestions. Should all of these run on a single virtual machine?

Alongside this, probably in a separate virtual machine, I’d like to run a home assistant instance with some mild transcoding (I think) going on in regards to some cameras I have around the house.

I also think I’d run tail scale to vpn back in?

What I’ve researched so far is proxmox and casaos (lightly). Casaos is alluring mostly because it seems like an easy on ramp, with lots of visual configuration. I enjoy CLI config, but visual configs are easier to discover settings and options that might not occur to me. I’d ideally favor stability here, as I like to tinker, but don’t have a huge amount of time for it.

Am I on the right track with all this? Any pitfalls? Any must have self hosted software I should be sure to include? Should I set up the storage pool in proxmox first as raid10? Any general advice? Words of encouragement? I’ll take it all.

Apologies if this is the wrong forum — if so, please feel free to delete (and direct me hopefully to a more appropriate locale).

Edit: forgot to mention, system also has a slower ssd boot drive, and a 1070 I plan to pass thru as needed.

 

TLDR: is the buzzing in linked video normal / okay / expected? If not, is there a way to fix it?

I’ve just been putting my Creality K1 through it’s paces, and after using up all the hyper PLA that came with the unit, started printing some inland black basic PLA. Since then, I’ve noticed some buzzing sounds on either pure x axis or pure y axis moves. Video attached showcasing it. It doesn’t seem to create any buzzing on infill moves or perimeters that have a radius. Any straight lines though seem to cause the buzzing. Prints seem okay (though inout shaper seems off for sure looking at corners). I don’t remember it happening with the hyper PLA which I printed at the same speed (I am printing the black inland at higher temp to compensate for reduced flow).

Thanks for any help or feedback! Enjoying the community on Lemmy here so far :)

 

My Creality K1 bed is actually in pretty good shape (max deviation of 0.7mm left to right, 0.1mm back to front), but I recognize that many folks might have beds that are off as much as 1.5 or more mm. The K1 has 3 lead screws, but not proper 3 point leveling (maybe someone will create a daughter board and a 3 point conversion kit in the future, after Creality open sources their firmware for the K1 series -- anyone out there that does this, I'd probably throw some small amount of money at you).

As far as I understand it, there are currently two methods to properly tram your bed:

  1. Follow the creality way, which is essentially immobilize the bed with shipping screws and retension the belt that synchronizes the 3 Z screws. To do this, you must turn the printer on it's side, remove the bottom panel, and fight the tensioner. Reports are mixed luck doing this.

  2. Skip teeth. You still have to do the bottom removal, but instead of completely removing the belt and detensioning, you slip the teeth on the belt drive (I think this is something like 0.4mm for each slipped tooth). There is less information about this, but there's a video in Chinese showing someone doing it. Perhaps a more helpful guide would democratize this more, and it might have more success than 1?

My question is: there are grub screws on the 3 lead screws, on the top side, accessible from the printer cabinet -- would it be possible to loosen the grub screws, so the z rod in that position spins freely, turn that z rod just slightly, then reseat the grub screw? That would seem a lot easier to relevel the bed, than doing either of the above procedures. Am I missing something?

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