AmbiguousProps

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[–] AmbiguousProps 2 points 2 weeks ago

I love getting eaten by pineapple, personally.

[–] AmbiguousProps 9 points 2 weeks ago

Anything but climate change.

[–] AmbiguousProps 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I hope you're right.

[–] AmbiguousProps 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Seagate is not reliable in my real world experience, as someone with dozens of disks. I'll stick with HC530 over any Seagate drive, personally. A warranty cannot bring your data back.

[–] AmbiguousProps 2 points 2 weeks ago

I can't put my finger on it, but I don't trust System76 anymore. It could be because of their development halt of Pop while they worked on Cosmic leaving a bad taste in my mouth, but nonetheless, I don't think I'd buy hardware from them, especially at this price.

[–] AmbiguousProps 4 points 2 weeks ago

The (wildcard) certs are the same, as it's what caddy is pulling via API. You can either build the cloudflare module into caddy via docker build, or use a prebuilt version. It doesn't create two separate certs for local and remote.

It works really well for me, and is actually the most straight forward way to get valid certs for internal services I've found. Since they're wildcard, my internal domains don't get exposed through certificate authorities.

[–] AmbiguousProps 1 points 2 weeks ago

It would probably take days to rebuild the array.

It's important to also note that RAID (or alternatives such as unRAID) are not backup systems and should not be relied on as such. If you have a severe brownout that fries more than two or three drives at once, for example, you will lose data if you're not backing up.

[–] AmbiguousProps 8 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

Nah, as a fellow data hoarder you're 100% correct. I have a couple of dozen disks, and I've had failures from both Seagate and WD, but the Seagates have failed much more often. For the past couple of years, I've only purchased WD for this reason. I'm down to two Seagate drives now.

I feel like many people with a distaste for WD got burned by the consumer drives (especially the WD Greens). WD's DC line is so good though, especially HC530.

[–] AmbiguousProps 0 points 2 weeks ago

Efficiency still matters very much when self hosting. You need to consider power usage (do you have enough amps in your service to power a single GPU? probably. what about 10? probably not) and heat (it's going to make you need to run more A/C in the summer, do you have enough in your service to power an A/C and your massive amount of GPUs? not likely).

Homes are not designed for huge amounts of hardware. I think a lot of self hosters (including my past self) can forget that in their excitement of their hobby. Personally, I'm just fine not running huge models at home. I can get by with models that can run on a single GPU, and even if I had more GPUs in my server, I don't think the results (which would still contain many hallucinations) would be worth the power cost, strain on my A/C, and possible electrical overload.

[–] AmbiguousProps 6 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

You can use caddy to get internal https via cloudflare API, and no traffic needs to go through a cloudflare tunnel for that.

[–] AmbiguousProps 19 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

Under the proposed measure, a person registering for the first time must complete the voter registration form as well as have one of the required documents. For existing voters, county auditors, by July 1, 2027 must work with the state Department of Licensing to see which ones have an enhanced driver’s license or identicard. Those that do remain registered automatically.

Those who do not will get a notice to go to their county auditor’s office and present one of the approved documents to show they are a citizen. Reminder notices must be sent. A voter has up until 14 days before the November 2027 election to produce documents.

So those that don't have enhanced IDs will have their right to vote stripped and will be confused when they don't receive a ballot. By the time they give in to investigate, it'll be too late to vote.

It's a voter suppression initiative, shocker.

[–] AmbiguousProps 1 points 2 weeks ago

I don't think it's very relevant to the discussion of drug dealers using Graphene.

 

Protesters gathered at Tesla dealerships throughout Washington and dozens of other locations across the U.S. on Saturday in a coordinated protest against CEO Elon Musk’s involvement in the federal government. At the Tesla showroom in University Village, hundreds of people were chanting shortly after 10 a.m. Police had blocked vehicle traffic near the showroom, which is in the popular outdoor shopping mall.

Archive link: https://archive.is/8bY9k

 

A cascade of actions from the Trump administration represents a “grave threat” to health care, social, educational and other critical services in Indian Country, including for Native American communities in the Northwest, tribal leaders say.

In early March, the Trump administration announced the cancellation of leases for at least 12 Indian Health Service facilities and 25 Bureau of Indian Affairs offices, representing nearly 30% of all agency locations, including one each in Toppenish, Washington, and Lapwai, Idaho, as part of an effort to decrease federal office space.

Additionally, IHS employees were included in a buyout offer from the Trump administration, alarming tribal officials and Indigenous community leaders who fear that any employees leaving the understaffed, underfunded agency will force the shutdown of critical health services.

Archive link: https://archive.is/NQF4j

 

A cascade of actions from the Trump administration represents a “grave threat” to health care, social, educational and other critical services in Indian Country, including for Native American communities in the Northwest, tribal leaders say.

In early March, the Trump administration announced the cancellation of leases for at least 12 Indian Health Service facilities and 25 Bureau of Indian Affairs offices, representing nearly 30% of all agency locations, including one each in Toppenish, Washington, and Lapwai, Idaho, as part of an effort to decrease federal office space.

Additionally, IHS employees were included in a buyout offer from the Trump administration, alarming tribal officials and Indigenous community leaders who fear that any employees leaving the understaffed, underfunded agency will force the shutdown of critical health services.

Archive link: https://archive.is/NQF4j

 

A cascade of actions from the Trump administration represents a “grave threat” to health care, social, educational and other critical services in Indian Country, including for Native American communities in the Northwest, tribal leaders say.

In early March, the Trump administration announced the cancellation of leases for at least 12 Indian Health Service facilities and 25 Bureau of Indian Affairs offices, representing nearly 30% of all agency locations, including one each in Toppenish, Washington, and Lapwai, Idaho, as part of an effort to decrease federal office space.

Additionally, IHS employees were included in a buyout offer from the Trump administration, alarming tribal officials and Indigenous community leaders who fear that any employees leaving the understaffed, underfunded agency will force the shutdown of critical health services.

Archive link: https://archive.is/NQF4j

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submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by AmbiguousProps to c/homeimprovement@lemmy.world
 

First off, if you aren't currently treating for termites with a soil treatment and/or bait system, start now. It will save you thousands in the long run, and you won't have constant fears of termites like I now do.

Anyway, about two years ago, I was sitting with my partner, watching TV in our basement. My partner got up to do something, and noticed that at the bottom of our basement bathroom door frame, there was what looked like dirt. A closer inspection revealed that it wasn't dirt, much worse. This was termite frass, further confirmed by the termites visible in the frass.

I quickly did research and bought termidor foam (It should be noted that Termidor foam only lasts 6ish weeks, and is meant to be applied directly to areas with active termite activity), dominon, and boracare off of domyown.com.

I applied the foam, dug trenches around the house to treat soil with dominion, and waited about three months before fully demoing the bathroom. Inside of the wall closest to where my partner noticed the frass, there was a huge mud tube that seemed to have multiple chambers inside of it. This tube chamber was probably about 4 inches by 5 inches. This tube stopped about 4 and a half feet up the wall, and did not appear to go into the upstairs area. The sheetrock's paper between the paint and gypsum had been eaten away into tunnels as well.

(Slight side note, at this point, I was confused as to what type of termite I was dealing with. I knew that usually, subterranean termites don't create frass as they use that to build their tubes. I now know that they can actually create frass piles when they accidentally break through the wood. This can cause the frass to spill out. If this hadn't happened, we probably wouldn't have figured out that we had termites until it was too late.)

I could not identify any damage to the studs, and they seemed very sturdy. Boracare was applied. We sheetrocked and fixed up the bathroom over the next little while. I'm unsure about their entry point. During the repairs, I found a relatively large crack in the slab, right underneath the wall for the bathroom. I'm guessing this is how they got in, but can't be sure. I pumped it full of concrete silicone, used at least 3 tubes worth.

Maybe about a month later, I found more evidence of termite damage, this time behind my furnace which is in the center of my basement, maybe about 10 feet away from where I found the original tube. There was frass along parts of the very old, 1940's baseboard. I have no idea how they got there, and still am not sure how long they had been there. Nonetheless, once I noticed the frass, I immediately got my extra can of termidor foam and filled the void between the wall and the baseboard. Since doing that, there has been no new visible frass, and we haven't found any swarmers. I'm honestly too scared to cut a hole into the wall to assess the damage, and might ultimately have an inspector come out and check it for us.

I'm increasingly paranoid about them. I constantly think that every squeak in the floorboards upstairs is caused by termites. Any dip in the flooring, no matter how slight, sends me into another bout of paranoid reading about how termites are eating away at my home. Maybe about an hour ago, after another one of these spirals, I bought a pack of 10 bait & monitor systems which I plan on putting around the soil outside.

I guess, to sum up, you should be treating your soil for termites, even if you have never seen signs of an infestation. If you live in an area with a lot of subterranean termites, buy baiting systems so you can monitor if your property is having any termite activity, on top of the soil treatment. If you're not comfortable doing it yourself, hire a pro. It's worth it to treat for termites as if an attack is inevitable.

I hope that one day, I feel confident that I got them. Unfortunately, without tearing out all of my walls and floors, I can never be sure at this point. It's a horrible feeling, and don't want anyone else to experience it. I've lost countless hours of sleep.

 

If so, which model, and do you like it?

 

The top court in the battleground state of Georgia ruled on Monday that Cobb County cannot extend the deadline for counting about 3,000 absentee ballots that were sent out shortly before Election Day, handing a victory to the Republican National Committee and presidential candidate Donald Trump.

Archive link: https://archive.ph/W4Kws

 

The Republican-led state of Missouri asked a judge on Monday to block the U.S. Justice Department from sending lawyers to St. Louis on Election Day to monitor for compliance with federal voting rights laws, even after the city's election board agreed to permit it.

Archive link: https://archive.ph/SWbKO

 

Even as the former independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has endorsed Donald J. Trump and campaigned for him, his message to voters is clear: Vote Trump to get me.

Archive link: https://archive.ph/J4JVQ

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