[-] BartyDeCanter 4 points 1 day ago

As a point of reference, I built a 32TB Synology last year. I took me an afternoon to get it done, plus set up Plex media server, all the arrs and friends, a backup server and a couple other things. Since then maintenance has consisted of remembering to hit the “update containers” button once a month or so. I should probably automate that part but just haven’t bothered yet.

[-] BartyDeCanter 5 points 1 day ago

A lot of NAS are capable of hosting containerized services. The Synology DS series, for example, can run everything you’ve mentioned and so much more. For a relatively gentle into check out https://mariushosting.com/

[-] BartyDeCanter 3 points 1 day ago

I’m going to try getting back into RDR2, and start on Undertale and Prey. Maybe Shadowrun: Hong Kong and Fallout 4?

[-] BartyDeCanter 13 points 2 days ago

That’s my first guess. Why bother changing the whole design when you can just edit the text?

[-] BartyDeCanter 5 points 5 days ago

Broken clocks and all that.

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XBox Controller Help (self.linux_gaming)
submitted 1 week ago by BartyDeCanter to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.world

I have an XBox Wireless Controller, model #1914, and am running Ubuntu 24.04. I can get the controller to connect over bluetooth but it doesn't show up as a joystick in jstest, evtest or steam. It doesn't show up at all as a usb device in lsusb when plugged in. I've tired installing xpadneo but that didn't seem to do anything. Any ideas?

[-] BartyDeCanter 176 points 2 months ago

Pull through parking. You know, where there are two spaces so you drive through one into the next so you can pull out of the one you park in without having to back up? I got told that was for “girls and gays”.

[-] BartyDeCanter 143 points 5 months ago

And… they’re basically all correct. Linux does run on all sort of machines, even really ancient ones. It has a solid command line environment, or rather lots of them. And it’s astounding powerful. Windows does still blue screen, is currently the best place for gaming, and wow is MS fucking you with Win11. Macs can have a cool setup, are really simplified for most users and expensive.

[-] BartyDeCanter 138 points 8 months ago

There is no C++ allowed in the Linux kernel and Linus has gone on several major rants about how terrible a language it is.

[-] BartyDeCanter 127 points 10 months ago

A write off is a colloquialism that refers to reducing your effective taxed income. A more realistic example would be, let’s say you make $250k, but you’re self employed and spent $50k on business expenses like a car and office space. Then you can write off that $50k and only pay taxes like you made $200k.

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GLPs are the new Prozac (self.glp_weight_loss)
submitted 11 months ago by BartyDeCanter to c/glp_weight_loss

I don't mean that literally, of course, but metaphorically. Back when Prozac first hit national consciousness here in the US in the early 90s there was a huge backlash against it, much like the one we're seeing against the GLP/GIPs.

Every magazine had a special issue with a bottle of pills lit by scary, dramatic lighting for a cover. There was a constant discourse of hysteria and pearl clutching like: "you'll have to be on it forever!", "it doesn't really fix anything!", "it's so expensive!", "what if they give it to children?!?", "oh no the side effects!". Every self appointed expert had a reason you shouldn't take it: "you don't need it, you just need God", "you just need to get tough", "it's a cop out for the weak", etc, etc. Even many therapists and psychiatrists spoke against it, often more afraid for their jobs than anything else, "what if we fix everything with a pill, what does that mean for psychiatry?"

And now, 30 years later we have a much better understanding of anti-depressants. They are a common prescription and much of society accepts them the same way we accept people being on statins, insulin or ibuprofen. They didn't destroy psychiatry, make everyone become mindless drones or create a bunch of psychopaths. And they became a whole lot more affordable.

On the other hand, Prozac itself would be an odd prescription today as there are much better, more targeted medications with fewer side effects.

I strongly believe the same thing will happen with semaglutide and tirzepatide, but probably much faster due to the much larger number of potential patients. In ten years the new family of weight loss drugs will be commonly used and accepted by society, but they probably won't be semaglutide or tirzepatide but rather some new, more targeted meds that are cheap and have far fewer side effects.

But that doesn't mean I'm going to wait a decade to lose this weight.

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submitted 11 months ago by BartyDeCanter to c/softwaregore@lemmy.world

Do you want your glue traditional or bacon flavored?

[-] BartyDeCanter 126 points 11 months ago

Christ do I feel old now. CDs and DVDs are read only, so you won’t do anything to them by ripping them. It’s just a copy of the data onto your drive and then probably a compression step of some sort. Nowadays it probably takes less than five minutes for the whole thing. I remember taking at least half an hour on a 2x drive, and then mp3 compression taking another hour or so.

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GLP Wieght Loss is a new community for people who currently are or are interested in starting losing weight using the new GLP1-RA and related medications, such as semaglutide and tirzepatide, AKA Wegovy, Zepbound and other brand names. !glp_weight_loss@lemmy.sdf.org

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submitted 1 year ago by BartyDeCanter to c/glp_weight_loss

40s M, 5'11, SW 255, GW 200?

I've been overwieght almost my entire life. One summer in elementary school my weight shot way up and it's been high ever since. I've been on every diet, have always done sports, hit the gym regularly, and am generally active, but I've never been able to keep it off long, or even make it down to a "normal" BMI, generally floating somewhere between overweight and obese. Over the last two years, my weight has started climbing at a pound or two a month and I haven't been able to stop it.

I took my first dose of semaglutide tonight, after trying to get a hold of it for the last six months. My insurance denied me said I had to join Weight Watchers for six months. Then, two months ago I was laid off. But, a couple of my friends have had success with one of the compounding pharms, so I though I'd give them a try. My partner also did the same thing, and took their first dose last week. Here's hoping that this is the change I've needed!

[-] BartyDeCanter 191 points 1 year ago

Medicine. The house brands and generics are the exact same, tested the same, made the same.

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submitted 1 year ago by BartyDeCanter to c/motorcycles@lemmy.world

I’ve started having an odd problem with downshifting on my Street Twin. If I pull the clutch quickly, most of the time the downshifting won’t catch and I’m stuck in the same gear until I tap down like a madman a dozen or so times. But if I pull slowly it’s just fine. If I let out the clutch after a quick pull, rev the engine and then pull slowly it sometimes fixes it, but not always. Up shifts are just fine.

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submitted 1 year ago by BartyDeCanter to c/3dprinting@lemmy.world

I printed a complete set of gridfinity bins for my desk drawer. It’s so much better than the drawer of chaos.

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submitted 1 year ago by BartyDeCanter to c/esperanto@sopuli.xyz

Mi esperas ke vi havas bonegan tagon.

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