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TedZanzibar

@ TedZanzibar @feddit.uk

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  • Decisions, decisions

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  • Came here to ask if it was worth watching as someone who considers Next Gen and DS9 (and Voyager to a lesser extent) to be peak Trek. I think you've answered my question!

  • What happened to all the corporate pride logos?

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  • Start of September

  • Intel Confidential CPU?

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  • I used to work at a games studio that would get these delivered fairly regularly, usually paired with a particular motherboard and presumably a custom BIOS.

    I think we were technically supposed to return them but the manufacturers never enforced it, so once the chip was actually released to the public - and assuming the sample was stable enough for general use - the PC would rotate into normal stock and eventually get sold for cheap to staff or end up in the spare parts bin.

    While it was cool at first to get pre-production chips before anyone else, it became pretty mundane and I'm not at all surprised to see them out in the wild decades later. Interesting piece of history though!

  • Microsoft dives into the handheld gaming PC wars with the Asus ROG Xbox Ally

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  • I tried so hard to make that combo work for me, but ended up back with the sticks. Maybe I need to try something other than Half-Life 2.

  • Microsoft dives into the handheld gaming PC wars with the Asus ROG Xbox Ally

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  • Conversely I bought a Steam Deck specifically because of the trackpads but I find I only ever use them on the rare occasion that I need to go to desktop mode. I love my Deck but I've discovered that could easily live without the trackpads if they weren't there.

  • PSA: Don't take 4 packets of paracetamol in one day

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  • Off the shelf in the UK, they're sold in packs of either 8 or 16 tablets, and shops are legally only allowed to sell you two packs at once. Pharmacies can of course supply larger quantities with a prescription.

    The recommended dose is one or two 500mg tablets every 4 hours with a maximum of 8 tablets per day.

  • I got a free HP DL380 G5, so I blogged about it !

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  • My workplace ran off DL360s (the 1U variant of this) of various generations for 20 or 30 years. I remember getting the first G5 in and being really impressed by the way the components all slotted in so easily and pretty much everything was hot-swappable. And the no-nut rail system was a revalation.

    They were great systems for their time but that power consumption is crazy by today's standards!

    As for feedback, you have a very confusing sentence about 2.5" and 3.5" drives being the same size. Took me far too long to realise you meant capacity and not physical dimensions!

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  • This is RoboCop 2 right? Or did he play a psychotic kid in something else that I missed?

  • Vaultwarden selfhosting, or bitwarden service?

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  • Just a PSA for anybody reading the thread, though it doesn't really help with the question at hand... On the very slim chance that your workplace uses Bitwarden Enterprise it's worth knowing that every licensed user gets a free family plan that can be tied to an existing personal account, provided it's hosted in the same region.

    We do use it but very few of our own users are even aware of the perk so I like to spread it around when I get the chance!

  • No restrictions!

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  • Ha, I've only ever watched one episode of Always Sunny and it just happened to be this one. How convenient for me!

  • Update policy?

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  • I skim read the changelogs for breaking changes but mostly just YOLO it whenever I'm in the mood to update or a new monthly release drops.

    That said, the VM that runs HAOS and the Z2M addon is snapshotted every night with two week's worth of retention, and I let HA do its own scheduled backups in case a snapshot restore doesn't work for whatever reason. So far I've never had a need for either but I rest easy knowing the options are there.

  • Synology could bring “certified drive” requirements to more NAS devices

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  • It's an 8 bay unit with six drives that are a mix of WD Red and Seagate Ironwolf, all NAS grade drives, basically. The other two slots have SSDs for hosting the aforementioned containers and VMs.

    The largest drives I have are 4TB though, so maybe the larger capacity ones are louder? I also ran the fan profile in whatever the quietest setting is.

  • Synology could bring “certified drive” requirements to more NAS devices

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  • I am a tech oriented person, I work in IT, and a Syno ticks the boxes in many respects.

    • Low power draw. Power efficiency is very important to me, especially for something that runs 24/7. I don't know how efficient self-build options are these days, but 10 years ago I couldn't get close to the efficiency of a good NAS.
    • Set and forget. I maintain enough systems at work so I don't really want to spend all of my free time maintaining my own. A Syno "just works", it can run for months or years without a reboot (and when it does need one, it does it by itself overnight), and I can easily upgrade or swap a dead drive in a couple of minutes. When the entire NAS dies I can stick the drives in a new one and be up and running almost instantly.
    • Size and noise. I don't have a massive house, so I need something that can sit on a shelf and be unobtrusive. In our last house it was literally sat in the living room, spinning drives constantly, and nobody was bothered by it.

    The Syno I have is plenty good enough to run a bunch of Docker containers and a few VMs for all of my self hosted stuff, and it just does the job efficiently, quietly, and without complaining or needing constant maintenance.

    I don't like this creep towards requiring branded drives and memory, though I'm pretty sure it's not legal in the EU. Regardless there are ways around it.

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  • I have that Beelink and while I don't run Home Assistant on it (I run that from a VM on my NAS) , it does run a whole bunch of stuff, including Plex, and it's more than capable.

    I think you have a couple of options here:

    1. Run HAOS on the bare metal and use Home Assistant addons to add the other functionality you want. Addons are HA managed Docker containers and there's lots of them out there, including Plex. What I don't know is whether you can access hardware acceleration this way, which you can do via regular Docker (see below).
    2. Install something like Unraid, Proxmox or whatever flavour of Linux you prefer - literally anything that supports full blown VMs and Docker at the same time. Install HAOS in a VM and use Docker for everything else. Passthrough /dev/dri to any Docker containers that use hardware acceleration (Plex) and you're golden.

    It's a great little box. Enjoy!

  • It's impossible to tell?

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  • Right? The next first time we see this it better have those eyes!

  • How do I use HTTPS on a private LAN without self-signed certs?

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  • If you own a domain, which you do, you can get wildcard certs from Let's Encrypt using a DNS challenge. Most (all?) popular reverse proxies can do this either natively or via an addon/module, you just need to use a supported DNS provider.

  • Home Assistant 2025.4 Time to continue the dashboards!

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  • Everybody ITT talking about dashboards when the real killer feature is global variables within automations.

  • Rocky rock rocking

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  • Had to scroll way too far to find this. For Karl!

  • Good time to switch to a European mail provider Tuta with their 62% discount.

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  • Yes? It's not uncommon to see discounts stick for the life of the sub. It locks people in because they don't want to lose that sweet deal, sometimes even if there's a cheaper/more appropriate package elsewhere.