[-] zipkag@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

My father went to high school with someone whose last name was Butts. His parents named him Harold and called him, and thus his friends called him, Harry. I always kind of thought it was a tall tale until my father showed me his high school yearbook one day And there was a picture of Harry Butts.

I always kind of wanted to meet this man and his wife and ask her if he lived up to his name.

[-] zipkag@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

It doesn't have it by default. Many people drink it without, often with a bit of milk to thin it out a little.

[-] zipkag@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago

I tried so many, eventually landed on trilium. It's not perfect by any means, but it ticks the most boxes for my needs

[-] zipkag@lemmy.world 13 points 8 months ago

This is probably not true. The concept of this phrase but referring to family is probably a modern confusion. There is no clear evidence it means it was really referencing ties to friends. Although I wish it did. Here's some further reading from others also looking for a clearer reference.

https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/147902/is-the-alleged-original-meaning-of-the-phrase-blood-is-thicker-than-water-real

[-] zipkag@lemmy.world 23 points 8 months ago

You are correct. -itis just means inflammation or infection, encephalon just means brain. You can have encephalitis caused by multiple things, viruses, bacteria, fungal, auto immune diseases and so forth

[-] zipkag@lemmy.world 15 points 10 months ago

Kissless handholdless (I've seen some say hopeless} virgin

[-] zipkag@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I use backblaze B2. I use duplicity to create a local encrypted backup of daily and then monthly incremental backups that are stored on a separate hard drive as a local backup. I then sync that with backblaze every night. It's worked like a treat. Gives me my primary data, a local backup on a separate drive and then an off-site backup. And actually my primary data and my local backups are both on ZFS raidz2 drives, so I can even have drives fail and be okay.

I used to use glacier, but the backblaze interface and uploading scripts were just so much easier to use, and the price was comparable if not maybe just slightly cheaper, I can't remember exact. I think duplicity also has a front end, duplicati that some people use, but I've never used it.

[-] zipkag@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

Can you elaborate? Or tell me where I can read more, I did not know this

[-] zipkag@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Perfect, I'll try it out. Sounds like no reason to get a steam link, and that what I have should work well enough

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submitted 10 months ago by zipkag@lemmy.world to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.ml

I have steam up and running on my main daily driver ( currently endeavour OS, but I also have a dual boot to a Windows with steam also working if needed, but just about everything I'm playing lately is working great on Linux).

I have a TV connected to a older HP PC that acts as my media center. It runs Kodi on Linux mint. Both computers are wired ethernet connected. Is there a way I can stream/play games from my daily driver to my computer that's connected to the TV? Is there a Kodi add-on I could use? Do I just need to install steam on my Linux mint? I don't have a steam link device. I did some brief reading on steam remote play and it looks like that's more designed to share with others not just stream from my own account to another computer.

Currently My daily driver is actually close enough to my TV that I could even have a keyboard/controller connected to the daily driver and just stream the video if that was better. But in the future I may want to rearrange rooms, so ideally I guess it would be best to have the controller through my HTPC as well.

Any advice on how to best approach this?

[-] zipkag@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

Out of curiosity, how are you connecting your phone to home when you're out? Are you exposing HA, vpn? What sensors do you have enabled in the companion app? Do you have high accuracy enabled? How's your battery drain?

[-] zipkag@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

I use duplicity to do incremental backups that are encrypted with GPG keys. I then back everything up onto a second hard drive. And then I make a second copy that gets uploaded to backblaze B2. In theory it's all encrypted and safe there. I then have a copy of my encryption keys on a CD, thumb drive, as well as a printed out copy that is stored in a safety deposit box.

I have my own script that I want for duplicity, but I've heard duplicati is it GUI that's easy to use, but I have not used it.

[-] zipkag@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I'll have to check him out. And yeah I've been worried it might be a bottle neck, but I guess the question I've been wondering is if I should just get something higher end now for an eventual upgrade of CPU / MB, or just get a cheaper GPU now and then upgrade everything in a year or two

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new GPU advice (lemmy.world)
submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by zipkag@lemmy.world to c/buildapc@lemmy.world

Sadly, my 980 TI just blew up. I took it apart and I think it's one of the VRAM has totally burned out, there's a big old black mark and burning smells. So unfortunately I need a new GPU.

I've always had NVIDIA in the past, but I'm willing to do AMD. I principally run Linux, but do dual boot for some Windows gaming. I do need VR support for my index. I've never done ray tracing, think it might be fun to try but not necessary.

It's been a long time since I bought a GPU, so I'm not super up to date on everything right now, so I'm hoping for some advice. I was hoping to wait another year or two before upgrading, but I guess I need something now. I have a 6700k processor on Asus Maximus hero viii.

Honestly I probably just want to replace something roughly compatible to what I had, but maybe it is time to just upgrade to something much better. Usually I try to buy a decent GPU so it can last for many years instead of frequently upgrading. So I'm torn if I should just get something old and uses that would work for a year or two, or if I should now just bite the bullet and buy a upper mid to lower top tier GPU now. If I had to I could stretch a budget into the 1500 usd range, but it really bothers me that cards have been getting getting that expensive so I would prefer to keep it down more in 200-800 range. I have 1440p monitor, but I'm also ok with 1080 gaming.

I'd appreciate any thoughts, or advice from those more up-to-date on recent GPUs. Thanks

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