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by Ourgon 4y ago
I've self-hosted more or less everything from the get-go back when I was working at a telco which provided me with a 4 Mb/s fixed line back in 1996. One of the first things I did was change to a self-hosted mail server with my own
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by Ourgon 4y ago
Depends on which one you're using, mine contains a Radeon HD 4670. There is a lot of NVIDIA on the PCI bus but this does not seem to be an obstacle to the thing running flawlessly: 00:00.0 Host bridge: NVIDIA Corporation MCP79 Hos
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by Ourgon 4y ago
If ever you get tired of Google - and for those who get tired of Apple or Amazon or whomever they have entrusted their digital photo archiving needs to... Any of the personal cloud things - Nexcloud, Owncloud, Seafile, Syncthing and others
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by Ourgon 4y ago
Who gets to define the group and who gets to define what is good or bad for the group? Who gets to decide who is in the group and who needs to be cast out? Who gets to speak for the group? Have a look at the history of politics and pay spec
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by Ourgon 4y ago
While I agree to most of the glued/soldered/planned obsolescence criticisms related to applethings I do feel the need to point out those "obsolete" macthings tend to run Linux just fine. I should know, writing this on a
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by Ourgon 4y ago
> I wish more linux laptops had the build quality and support of macbooks I'm glad my "Linux laptops" are very much not like those macbooks with their glue and solder and "no user-serviceable parts inside (and we real
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by Ourgon 4y ago
Drop Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Youtube, Tiktok, NYT, WaPo, Fox and all those other creators of permanent anxiety. Take up farming, buy a plot of land and build your own house, create something. Realise that: - the climate has always bee
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by Ourgon 4y ago
Eventually we will but it will take a shake-up of the market by an outsider who does not have an existing business based around cars priced at current levels. Electric cars are far less complex than ICE-based vehicles so there is no real re
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by Ourgon 4y ago
That is the theory, now look at the practice of proprietary software/services and see if the theory holds. It clearly does not, one of the bigger problems with proprietary IT is the lock-in caused by undocumented data formats, services
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by Ourgon 4y ago
Proprietary vs. open is like renting vs. owning without the legal protection offered to renters. If your data is locked in some proprietary format you're beholden to the proprietor who can - and often does - abuse his power by raising
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by Ourgon 4y ago
Selling that excess power is possible, as is buying some extra panels - there is enough space for at least 36 more on just that single roof. For now I choose to add panels - and batteries in the not too distant future, once the market is fl
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by Ourgon 4y ago
There is a big difference between "introspection" and "revisionism". The '1619 Project' clearly falls in the latter category and as such deserves to be denounced for the fraud it is, as does its author. As to i
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by Ourgon 4y ago
Pull the thing out of the house and let it burn outside. It is a relatively small battery so outside it won't do much harm, this in contrast to what it seems to do in that room. Tossing it in the pool is also possible but given the sma
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by Ourgon 4y ago
After the stack has taken what it needs there are 35 solar panels left on the barn roof. Excess heat is used to heat the upper floor, given that it is well-insulated it needs no additional heating. Problem, solved.
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by Ourgon 4y ago
I made a rack out of some dumpster-dived supermarket shelves, lumber, a couple of truck air filters and a forced draft fan. The thing doubles as drying cabinet for produce (mint, mushrooms, fruit etc.) by having the equipment in the top hal
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by Ourgon 4y ago
You mean the '1619' project NYT, peddling a fake history of your country by a faux historian as The Truth™ , making the author the de-facto editor in chief of what used to be one of the cornerstones of solid journalism? The gray
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by Ourgon 4y ago
Well, Sketchup itself fits the bill and can be used for free more or less indefinitely. I have used it to design an extension to our house, a 22x12 meter barn, a lean-to for my wife's horses, an octagonal chicken coop and much more. Th
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by Ourgon 4y ago
> in schools, many boys might benefit from some good male role models in these systems Very much so, the female domination of the educational system is a disaster not in the making but one we're reaping the bitter fruits from. It is
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by Ourgon 4y ago
It is nonsense, e.g. veterinary sciences are heavily female-dominated. Academia is female-dominated except for the STEM fields but even those disciplines are starting to become so. Here in Sweden middle and higher local government is female
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by Ourgon 4y ago
Using your own terms of 'marginalised groups' you should actually be fighting for men's rights, not against them as you seem to be doing. Given that the discrimination is especially rampant in female-dominated professions
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by Ourgon 4y ago
No, I suspect the algorithm takes into account both the sender as well as the content of the message in deciding which comments to push to the front. Reliably 'progressive' senders - especially those which create more 'progre
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by Ourgon 4y ago
How it works is interesting in itself but it is not the reason why these 'algorithmic feeds' have gained the nefarious reputation they have. The real problem with this type of technology is the way it allows the proprietor of the
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by Ourgon 4y ago
You're implying that Fox is special in producing wall-to-wall alternate-reality stuff that turns out to be false or deliberately misrepresented . The reality is that CNN is going down because they have been producing, to use your te
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by Ourgon 4y ago
The real question is what they thought would happen. Launching a for-pay venue hosting the same people hosting the same type of content which has driven their viewership into the ground on cable - or, to be more precise, on airports all ove
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by Ourgon 4y ago
Host your own mail server, it takes less than a day of work per year to keep things running smoothly and you always know where your data is hosted. Use a smart server for outgoing mail - your IAP most likely mandates this by blocking port 2
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by Ourgon 4y ago
The "Free World" has become markedly less free since the fall of the Berlin wall. Part of this is just the result of the fact that was deemed no longer necessary by those in power to portray the image of being "The Free World
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by Ourgon 4y ago
Same here, both with Firefox as well as when using wget . The downloaded data is not recognised by the file command as anything other that data .
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by Ourgon 4y ago
Before I started using Linux I used OS/2. The system had many idiosyncrasies and was quite ramshackle in a lot of ways but it did multitask quite a bit better than Windows. Its main problem was the dearth of good software, a problem wh
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by Ourgon 4y ago
I notice that you did not answer my questions, instead going for an ad-hominem. This is not a sign of the strength of your ideological position, it is the type of reaction which can be expected when confronting religious dogma. Instead of c
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by Ourgon 4y ago
OK, so if it is that easy, show us where Heller is wrong instead of mentioning someone else who wrote a book. Heller's videos offer many individual facts which could - or could not, depending on who is right - be refuted by pointing at

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