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kitnaht ,

I used to use MythTV back in the analog TV days. It's much easier to use when you have proper cable channels. I couldn't be bothered to pay >$140/mo for Cable TV any longer.

So now I just pay $60 for internet, and pirate everything I wanna watch with Sonarr/Radarr/Jellyfin/Jackett/Qbittorrent and a $2/mo VPN from Windscribe.

Honestly, with YouTube experimenting with 'inline' commercials, I think MythTV is going to make a comeback; because the big thing MythTV had going for it, was detecting commercials and removing them from the recordings.

kitnaht ,

Because the biggest enemy of someone on the left, is another person on the left with slightly different viewpoints than their own.

Pros and cons of Proxmox in a home lab?

Hi all. I was curious about some of the pros and cons of using Proxmox in a home lab set up. It seems like in most home lab setups it’s overkill. But I feel like there may be something I’m missing. Let’s say I run my home lab on two or three different SBCs. Main server is an x86 i5 machine with 16gigs memory and the others...

kitnaht ,

Does Incus support things like Kernel Samepage Merging? How does it handle Windows VMs? Does the WebUI give a nice and easy novnc window that just works?

kitnaht ,

I run a business repairing consumer-grade 3D printers.

kitnaht ,

Hah! Did you paint that yourself? That's pretty cool.

kitnaht ,

Really wish they transitioned to a "Not-for-profit" structure, rather than non-profit. Non-profits can still be profit driven, sadly.

kitnaht ,

They made a good example - BlueZ software stack sucks; if Fluoride can be put under a compatible open source license, I'd much rather us use better subsystems in 100% userspace. That's a win for everyone.

kitnaht ,

I used to run the 3D printing community on G+ at around 500k strong, (about 10k weekly active users according to Google's stats) and I ended up actually pissing off a lot of my European users because of this. My viewpoint on it, was as an engineering exercise -- it's an amazing thing. It's not advocating for guns, and guns aren't only used to kill other people. So I stood up for the guys posting about their engineering challenges, and their work making 3D printed parts for a machine with high impact loads and loads of cycling issues.

Unfortunately, it lost me some friends, like Gina Haubage and Tomas Sanladerer -- as they disagreed highly; and wanted to ban anyone posting firearms related 3D printing content.

kitnaht ,

Projectiles are a part of human nature. We've always thrown spears, rocks, etc -- firearms are just an extension of our better understanding of the world. I know of barely anything else that uses explosive charges that is as widely applicable to the general public. Roofing nail guns? But that's such a niche subject, it's not something people are really worried about trying to make with 3D printing. Believe me, if I had a better engineering challenge for 3D printing, I'd be suggesting it. But nothing quite hits like containing an explosive charge, and utilizing the energy in a way that performs work without destroying itself.

kitnaht ,

Did you miss the qualifier "that uses explosive charges"? The engineering challenge is in the explosive part.

kitnaht ,

The phrase father specifically denotes a man. A transgender woman should be referring to herself as a mother; shouldn't they? So she is no longer a father to her children, but rather a mother, right?

kitnaht ,

No, because for others to understand it, it must follow some sort of logic.

If people all have different rules for what offends them, then those willing to learn, can never hope to ever achieve understanding. If you can never allow others to achieve understanding, then you're always going to be a victim and acceptance will never be achieved.

If you can't deadname a transgender woman their male name, then it goes to follow that they wouldn't consider themselves a "father" and doing so would cause the same offense.

kitnaht ,

I don't need to understand individuals to respect them, but I do feel the need to understand people as a whole.

kitnaht , (edited )

I do the same thing, but always have some raging troll up my ass who claims I'm trying to bait them with edits...

Like...fucking dude, why do you check your replies every 15 seconds?!

kitnaht ,

And those furnace filters can be found in ALLLL sorts of sizes, you don't just gotta go with a square one.

kitnaht ,

I'm a "I listen to everything except Country and Ska" friend.

kitnaht ,

I'm the opposite. I can stand some of the modern pop country, but I can't stand whiny old country.

kitnaht ,

Legit, I am still waiting for the country song where the girl runs off with his cybertruck...

kitnaht ,

Touche!

kitnaht ,

I mean, even for a country song that was just kinda...I dunno. It feels like with some changes it could be good, but there's this weird part where the wording feels like it skips a beat because he couldn't get the beat to synchronize with the cadence of the words. I'll listen to a lot of country, but there's still gonna just be bad songs.

kitnaht ,

Around 1:03, he completely breaks cadence and the whole rhythm of the song breaks. I don't know how this could be considered good. Regardless of it being country or not.

kitnaht , (edited )

Reminds me of listening to my non-buffering CD player on the bus ride to school.

I'd argue that nobody could call this music in the way that normal people understand what music is. It feels like an experiment in sound more than anything.

A common definition I just looked up on "Music" is:

vocal, instrumental, or mechanical sounds having rhythm, melody, or harmony

There is none of those in what you've linked. No rhythm, no melody, and nothing harmonious.

So no, it doesn't fit the definition of Music; therefore, I probably wouldn't listen to it. I did sample other of the artists tracks like Wat Dong Moon Lek, Himalaya, Ahirya, and all of his pieces are like this. They aren't really music.

kitnaht , (edited )

A melody (from Greek μελῳδία (melōidía) 'singing, chanting'),[1] also tune, voice or line, is a linear succession of musical tones that the listener perceives as a single entity.

The problem here is with the compositions absolute randomness of nature. It sounds exactly like what was being produced by computers, before some of the more advanced audio models came about. It doesn't sound like any kind of single entity, and it would be nearly impossible for anyone to distinguish it from random sounds.

In a cacophony of random elements, I couldn't hear this song. But I could hear most others without issue. It doesn't meet the sniff test.

The melodies existing in most European music written before the 20th century, and popular music throughout the 20th century, featured "fixed and easily discernible frequency patterns", recurring "events, often periodic, at all structural levels" and "recurrence of durations and patterns of durations".

All of which this lacks. It simply doesn't meet the definition of music. Though I bet it's a great source of inspiration for those experimenting with music themselves. Honestly, I had to load it up in YouTube to make sure the web-based music player wasn't glitching out or something; it was bad enough as "music" that I thought something was wrong with the computer.

But I'll just kindly agree to disagree - if you enjoy it, great. I just wouldn't even consider this music and would immediately ask for music to be put on.

kitnaht ,

I love death metal tbh.

kitnaht , (edited )

It's perfectly fine to handle. Carbon fiber in FDM 3D printing is largely a lie. It's not that there isn't carbon fiber in there, it's just that it's chopped up so finely that it's practically pointless by the time it's printed. At best, all it does is destroy any printer not set up to handle it. It's basically like printing sandpaper. Honestly, I'd avoid it entirely; same goes for glow-in-the-dark. Only reputable supplier I know for GITD is Das Filament, which ball-grinds their glow powder before inclusion into the stock.

If you're interested in real carbon fiber in FDM prints, the only people to really see are Markforged.

kitnaht ,

Sadly, no. I haven't bought any in a long time. I think CNCKitchen did a video on it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODQoQd-0ky8

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