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BrightCandle

@ BrightCandle @lemmy.world

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  • Self-Hosting on Gamers Nexus | what computer is that?

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  • On the one hand they were talking selfhosting and then they pull out multiple $10s thousands rack servers. People don't need a data centre at home to sync some files, pictures, email and play some media!

  • Disk has read errors but SMART says PASSED

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  • The primary smart parameters are passing but its a bit concerning that such a young drive is showing read error count, that isn't a good sign even if its within the makers tolerance. What failed was just the long test you requested.

    Its not uncommon for drives to fail in weird ways and the smart shows as fine. When you come across problems like a long test failing or occasional checksum problems on your raid array or a read error its a better indicator that something is wrong. Presumably something made you think you better run a long test, and then it failed. I would say Contact reseller for warranty replacement you have enough to go on showing there is something going wrong on the drive, long tests should not be failing on a healthy device.

  • What's the best chat to self host?

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  • Every one always says XMPP and there were a lot of recommendations for ejabberd. I tried this recently and it was a total disaster, I do not have a working chat server. If I followed the docker instructions the server would just crash with no details of what went wrong. Where it should have been creating a default server config file it was instead creating a directory with the wrong permissions then promptly crashing. I tried following their documentation but after about 6 hours of messing about and adding more and more I still couldn't get a client to login to it. I have no idea how to make this work.

    So whatever the solution ultimately is I can't recommend Ejabberd.

  • UK Power Networks to install a mini data centre in people's homes to help with heating

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  • They aren't giving much information about these mini data centres. Basically it sounds like "Bitcoin farms" aka as AI training installed into peoples homes and they are using the heat from it to heat their homes. Its probably a better deal than most heating systems, they pay for their electricity use and connectivity and I get a low flat rate charge for heating.

  • TP-Link confirms successful Wi-Fi 8 trials — next-gen wireless standard to usher in advances in reliability and latency

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  • Given Wifi 8 doesn't intend to bring any speed upgrades of note I suspect those wanting speed will skip it. Wifi 5 users will move to wifi 7 once the prices come down. The skip a generation that happened with wifi 6 will happen again with wifi 8.

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  • They are a major source of the rhetoric that is fuelling far right aggression. They aren't going to stop now they seem to think its popular.

  • TIL: Employers in the USA Have Stolen Over $50 Trillion From Workers Since 1975

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  • Most of the public has been voting for this the entire time, giving the rich all the money seems to be an immensely popular policy. They are under enormous amounts of daily propaganda but its been obvious the entire time.

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    I thought I was growing up in a racially tolerant Britain. I now realise I was wrong

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  • For a period in the 2000s government made racism unacceptable and the racists went into hiding. It didn't change views it just hid them, now they are promoting bigotry in many forms and those views are coming out. At no point was the people of the UK tolerant, there is about the same number of racists its just whether politicians have emboldened those views or not.

  • Japanese officials apologize at grave of wrongfully detained man denied timely cancer treatment

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  • A crime against humanity and a breach of his human right to life is not adequately met by an appology, its more adequately dealt with by a trial for those responsible for the death under human rights legislation. We need to stop letting those in power off for their crimes.

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  • Someone was reviewing some footage and decided to hide the deletion in amongst lots of other benign videos. They seem to always loose the critical videos showing police brutality don't they!?

  • EU age verification app to ban any Android system not licensed by Google

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  • Its not the populace, our politicians just like in the US have gone rogue. People are voting for the nutters due to anti immigration propaganda and so increasingly getting far right. Its happening across the entire western world and its bad news for everyone.

  • Ukraine: Zelensky backtracks on law over anti-corruption bodies, reinstates their independence after protests

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  • I feel like democracy shouldn't be constantly protesting against the things as politicians continue to take power away from the people, it should be the people bringing great analysis and ideas to governments to implement. The entire system is backwards, we spend all our time fighting the politicians who are constantly becoming more corrupt trying to take more power and more money for businesses they profit from. We deserve the politicians we get because we just don't see what it could become better with less awful people in charge.

  • Linux has over 6% of the desktop market? Yes, you read that right - here's how

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  • Most technology adoption follows an S curve, it can often take a long time to start to get going. Linux has gradually and steadily been improving especially for games and other desktop uses while at the same time Microsoft has been making Windows worse. I feel more that this is Microsoft's fault, they have abandoned the development of desktop Windows and the advancement of support for modern processor designs and gaming hardware. This has for the first time has let Linux catch up and in many cases exceed Windows capabilities on especially gaming which has always been a stubborn issue. Its still a problem especially in hardware support for VR and other peripherals but its the sort of thing that might sort itself out once the user base grows and companies start producing software for Linux instead.

    It might not be enough, but the switching off Windows 10 is causing a change which Microsoft might really regret in a few years.

  • Very large amounts of gaming gpus vs AI gpus

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  • Initially a lot of the AI was getting trained on lower class GPUs and none of these AI special cards/blades existed. The problem is that the problems are quite large and hence require a lot of VRAM to work on or you split it and pay enormous latency penalties going across the network. Putting it all into one giant package costs a lot more but it also performs a lot better, because AI is not an embarrassingly parallel problem that can be easily split across many GPUs without penalty. So the goal is often to reduce the number of GPUs you need to get a result quickly enough and it brings its own set of problems of power density in server racks.

  • Why is sleep so hard for laptops?

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  • In my case its because Sony messed up the bios in more ways than one and refuses to correct the problems. They work around it with their own drivers witin Windows and leave it like that, but it also breaks Linux functionality as a result.

  • Scientists make game-changing breakthrough that could slash costs of solar panels: 'Has the potential to contribute to the energy transition'

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  • Grid forming will just mean the keep running the house when the power goes off, it's not safe for them to be pushing power when it's disappeared, that has been set by regulation in many countries.

  • Photos: The Scale of China’s Solar-Power Projects

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  • Maybe one day fusion will finally deliver and we might have cheap and clean energy with no consequences to the environment other than a few big reactors in a country. But until that day arrives and we work that out we have to transfer and Wind, Solar and batteries are winning because they are cheaper than gas, coal and nuclear.

  • England’s reservoirs at lowest level for a decade as experts call for hosepipe bans

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  • All of the sales of public assets have resulted in drastic reductions in services and increasing costs. The water, electricity, post, gas and more it's all just worse. The key infrastructure can't just fail making them a very bad idea to be in private hands without very strict service requirements. We badly need to elect a government that will fix what is clearly broken.

  • “It’s over”: David Suzuki says it’s too late to stop climate change now and the damage is already done

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  • Civilisation is ending, probably the whole of humanity and we will likely take much of the other animals with us. Humanity is an extinction event. Its all over but for dying now, just carry on living your life and just know this is it, we failed the great filter. We could have done something about this once we understood the problem from any point from the 19th century onwards but the failure of Kyoto agreement in the 1990s marked the point where we were always going to fail, it was the last moment where correction could save us. The last tipping point will happen in the next year or two and then a whole bunch more of unknown events will occur that we didn't even predict. The temperature growth will continue to accelerate.