elucubra

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What are the "AK-47" of items? (cheap, durable, just works) in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
[–] elucubra@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I use a Merkur shaver, and Feather blades. Feathers are possibly the sharpest, but they only stay super sharp like three shaves. It coasts me like 0,03€ a shave, and it's the best shaving experience. Also, wet shave. Cream or soap nad a brush until thick. A neat trick. Turn the blade upside down every shave. Your skin kind of acts like a strop.

Not all blades are for everyone. Some find Feathers too sharp. When starting get a multibrand pack, with Astra, shark, etc. Youll discover which work best for you.

As sources say Trump could deport undocumented Chinese first, Asian American groups rush to prep in c/news@lemmy.world
[–] elucubra@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Rabbits were put in ovens

Solar modules now selling for less than €0.06/W in Europe in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] elucubra@sopuli.xyz 12 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I'm not a rabid anti-nuclear, but there are somethings that are often left out of the pricing. One is the exorbitant price of storage of spent fuel although I seem to remember that there is some nuclear tech that can use nuclear waste as at least part of it's fuel (Molten salt? Pebble? maybe an expert can chime in). There is also the human greed factor. Fukushima happened because they built the walls to the highest recorded tsunami in the area, to save on concrete. A lot of civil engineering projects have a 150% overprovision over the worst case calculations. Fukushima? just for the worst case recorded, moronic corporate greed. The human factor tends to be the biggest danger here.

[Snazzy Labs] The $600 Mac Mini is a Steal—Until It’s a Scam in c/apple_enthusiast@lemmy.world
[–] elucubra@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

You can buy a Ryzen 9 32Gb 2 Tb mini pc that seems to have a similar form factor. It's capable of running 3 4K diaplays, not too shabby. at Amazon in Europe for 446€. Or, if you'd prefer, a Ryzen 5 pro 16 Gb 512 SSD for 289 Link so half the money and you get 2x storage... Link sure, no thunderbolt, but considering the specs, I know what I'd buy.

RFK Jr wants to promote raw milk as HHS secretary – experts say it’s dangerous in c/news@lemmy.world
[–] elucubra@sopuli.xyz 0 points 3 days ago

Evolution in action.

Tom Homan's plan for increased workplace raids under Trump administration in c/news@lemmy.world
[–] elucubra@sopuli.xyz 2 points 3 days ago

That’s Inhoman!

Elon Musk's new 'department' seeks 'super high-IQ' staff for unpaid jobs in c/news@lemmy.world
[–] elucubra@sopuli.xyz 19 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

I'm a guy with a high "test IQ", and my sister, who is in the normal range is way more succesful that me in most aspects of life. You don't want high "test IQ", you want "smart people" not the same, and far more difficult to measure. High IQ basically means you are good at solving certain types of puzzles

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Is there a way to watch YouTube without ads in iPad OS like in Android (sopuli.xyz)
 

I’m usually an Android/Linux user, but also use an iPad. In both Android and Linux I manage to have a mostly ad free experience, with Piped, for example, or with a plugin combo in Firefox. Is there a way to have this on the iPad? The whole no plugin thing in iPad Firefox is quite maddening.

Spanish police arrest ex-fraud chief after €20m found in walls of his house in c/world@quokk.au
[–] elucubra@sopuli.xyz 2 points 5 days ago

So eating containerfuls of bananas a crime or something suspicious now?

What are the "AK-47" of items? (cheap, durable, just works) in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
What are the "AK-47" of items? (cheap, durable, just works) in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
[–] elucubra@sopuli.xyz 2 points 6 days ago

If you store them with moth repellent.

What are the "AK-47" of items? (cheap, durable, just works) in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
[–] elucubra@sopuli.xyz 5 points 6 days ago

Any seiko really

Rustdesk alternative? in c/linux@lemmy.ml
[–] elucubra@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 week ago

As I mentioned, I use remotes occasionally, so I'm trying a low fuss solution. If my bread and butter were remote support, I'd probably invest time in a more customized set-up

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Rustdesk alternative? (sopuli.xyz)
 

I've been using rustdesk for while, and it works very well for me. The news of it being somewhat opaque, and developed from China, makes me a bit nervous.

Is there a FOSS equivalent that won't make me jump through hoops, and be easily installed by someone else remotely?

I would like to be able to have it run at startup in Linux and windows, have a fairly complete feature set, like file transfer, copy paste, etc.

Also it'd be great if it could be easily installed by someone else remotely. I do SMB support, usually onsite, which is why it's not cost effective to pay for a Teamviewer or Anydesk license.

I'm taking a look through flathub, but recommendations would be greatly appreciated.

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Goldilocks distro? (sopuli.xyz)
submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by elucubra@sopuli.xyz to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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What do you consider to be the "Goldilocks" distro? the one that balances ease of install and use, up-to-date, stability, speed, etc... You get the idea.

I'm not a newb, these last few years I've lived in the Debian and derivatives side of things, but I've used RH, Slackware, Puppy :), and older stuff, like mandrake/mandriva and others. Never tried Suse or Arch, and while Nix looks appealing, I need something to put in production rapidly. I have tried Kinoite in a VM, but I couldn't install something (which I can't remember), and that turned me off.

Oh I'm on Mint right now, because lazy, but it's acting up with a couple of VMs, which I need, I really don't have the time or desire to maybe spend two days troubleshooting, and I'm a bit fed up with out of date pkgs.

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Is Stremio a honeypot? (sopuli.xyz)
 

Does anybody have the impression that Stremio may be a honeypot of some sort?

Thay are allegedly a legal service where some nefarious actors provide torrenting plugins etc. I tried to find out how they were financed, and found northing but a site purportedly selling "Web3" advertising, and filled with technobabble nonsense. No address, no way to purchase their services no GDPR notice or anything...

All I can find regarding their safety are "It's legit, nothing has happened to me so far" comments in reddit and other boards.

They have your email, they host the service, they can track all you do...

Seems kind of fishy.

Ive tried it, ironically, to watch stuff that I pay for, I have Netflix, prime video, Disney... But Stremio gives me much higher resolutions.

Even though I live in a country where sailing the high seas is not persecuted, as long as you are the end-user and you derive no profit, I'm going to delete my account (made with an email address I have for bullshit stuff ), make a new one with a truly disposable email and get a VPN.

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Why is folder sharing between host and guest in KVM so hard? (sopuli.xyz)
 

I'm having the hardest tine setting up a shared folder between a Linux host and Win11guest. I want to get rid of dual boot, but there are a few programs that I use which are Win only. I have set up a VB VM, but I want a fine tuned KVM VM. On VB sharing is trivial, but I can't get it to work in KVM. I have the host sharing the folder with Samba, and can see it from another Linux VM, but not from windows. Any clues?

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whare are saved posts? (sopuli.xyz)
 

I have looked everywhere (so it's probably in front of my face). Where are saved posts? Are they in my instance, in lemmy? How can I find them?

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