IcedRaktajino

joined 3 months ago
[–] IcedRaktajino@startrek.website 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I felt that. It took me 3 overnight sessions to download the "Throw a pie at Bill Gates" screensaver over 14.4 dial-up back in the day.

[–] IcedRaktajino@startrek.website 19 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Spoiler: The GIF doesn't. Will spare you the time I wasted waiting for it lol.

If I could get that in a thinner profile, I would totally and proudly hang that on my wall as art.

"Rock Me, Dr. Zaius" has lived rent-free in my head for decades. It's also occasionally my ringtone.

[–] IcedRaktajino@startrek.website 9 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Can you, like, just post the YouTube link so my browser extension can re-write it to the Invidious instance running in my basement instead of one that's slow, overloaded, and halfway across the world?

Anyone who cares is already re-writing Youtube links, and posting links to random Invidious instance is just inconveniencing us.

And the same goes to anyone else posting Invidious links and thinking they're "sticking it to the man". You're not. Most people don't care, and you're only sticking it to the people who do care by forcing us to use a non-preferred instance.

Just 👏 post 👏 the 👏 Youtube 👏 link.

[–] IcedRaktajino@startrek.website 80 points 4 days ago (2 children)

This allows for seamless communication with biological cells

Smartphones in 2040:

Whatever. As long as I can run LineageOS or Debian on it.

On October 21, look up?

Such a good show. It deserved better.

No super powers, just a smart woman doing her thing.

[–] IcedRaktajino@startrek.website 29 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (42 children)

Constantly. Usually it takes the form of reducing topics to binary choices and/or purity tests.

  • "You're either with me or against me / You're either part of the solution or part of the problem"
    • Where "part of the solution" means doing exactly, and only exactly what they think you should be doing.
  • "If you don't satisfy all of my impossible requirements, you're ~~as bad as~~ a nazi"
  • "We only agree on 99 out of 100 things, so clearly you're not to be trusted"
  • etc
[–] IcedRaktajino@startrek.website 3 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

AFAIK, PiZero like you said.

If your router has a USB port and can recognize USB ethernet devices, then you can get one of those USB adapter boards and connect the Zero directly to the router and configure the Pi to be an ethernet gadget (power and network both over USB). If the router has a USB port but can't handle USB ethernet devices, you could still power the Pi over that USB port and connect the two over wifi.

Once you add an ethernet port and its supporting components to just about any board, it almost immediately becomes as large as or larger than a Pi Zero.

can be powered from the same Ethernet cable that connects to the router

Ethernet doesn't carry power on its own unless you're running PoE. You can get a PoE hat for the Pi, but it adds quite a bit of bulk.

My router is an x86 box running OpenWRT, so I just run Docker on it which runs PiHole and a couple other small services.

 

I hate winter for lots of reasons, but I guess this is the one reason I hate autumn. Sun's low but the leaves haven't dropped yet, so I get lots of shading.

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submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by IcedRaktajino@startrek.website to c/tenforward@lemmy.world
 
 

Considering today is Thursday, I'm firmly #8.

 

From "Star Trek Picard: Firewall"

Still on TrekLit and out of my re-watch schedule, so trying to make some jokes from that.

Edit: Added alt text.

 
 
 

The whole first half of the movie is just pure scenery porn. Even without the magic, rainbow bubbles, Ego (the planet) is 100% landscaping goals for me.

This scene depicts the reaction I get when I make references to shows that were popular in the 80s/90s.

 
 

I realize this is Raspberry Pi community, but considering the overlap, I hope Pi-adjacent is acceptable.

Looking at the Orange Pi Zero W2 for a project since it's available with a lot more RAM than the Pi ZeroW2 (1-4 GB vs 512 MB). I'm not doing anything complex with it (no GPIO, USB gadget, etc), and it'll basically just be a tiny server running Kiwix and possibly some light groupware and/or file share. Maybe even CodeServer if I go with the 4 GB model.

Essentially my requirements for it are:

  • Wifi AP support so devices can connect to it. Preferably AP+STA so it can also provide internet and PiHole services.
  • Runs a supported distro (e.g. not the one-and-done version from the manufacturer that's never updated)
  • Fairly stable
  • Supports 256 to 512 GB SD card

According to what I've read, Armbian seems to be the go-to distro for these boards. It also seems to be supported by DietPi.

I've got a handful of Pi Zero's (both 1 and 2) and they work well, but even with zram enabled, I'm limited by the 512 MB of memory, so these "fruit clone" ones are tempting. Anyone have hands-on experience with them? Is there a better distro besides Armbian? Should I just stick with Raspberry Pi and manage with the limited RAM?

 
 

As a general rule, I will never click a link unless it clearly states where it's taking me. Except I needed to see what the error meant, so I clicked open on it. Yay interstitial ads! 😠

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