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There is a reason that gambling is regulated (in some countries). Why not do the same for addictive mechanisms in social media? You wouldn’t need to ban social media for children then. 🙄

Fusion isn’t as bad as fission or fossil fuel. To date, terrestrial fusion has been a net-negative energy system. That’s strictly worse than fission or fossil.

My mistake. I did not specify in what regard. I had the waste in mind. Fusion waste is radioactive for a few decades. Fuel wise, there is an abundance of Deuterium, like a gram of it in every bucket of ocean water give or take. Tritium? That’s the harder part.

You are right. It doesn’t work yet. And it will be too late to solve the current energy crisis. If they get it working at all. But I see no harm in trying.

Your remaining statements: I did not intend to say that solar and wind power are bad, but they are not flawless (again: sustainability and sourcing).

It doesn’t.

Fusion isn’t as bad as fission or fossil fuel. If they can get it to work. The reactor needs to run continuously (for days) and the energy output needs to be positive. Then it would have a huge impact.

Every energy source as its drawbacks. I.e. Solar panels and wind have the recycling of compound materials issue - it’s all glued together. And the environmental impact of source materials production, i.e. neodymium. Mining, refining,…

Some are worse than others. But none is or will be impact free in terms of sustainability or environmental destruction.

https://hub.docker.com/r/mailserver/docker-mailserver/

It just works. Once you got it working.

How much is that in metric units?

I can’t contribute much. Futo Keyboard is nice for android. Speech Note is a tool for linux that I use from time to time… It is a bit slow without GPU acceleration and the resulting text are about 95% correct.

Have you read this comparison? https://openwhispr.com/blog/best-dictation-tools-linux-2026… It smells a bit like advertising for openwhispr but contains some pointers.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5d_jGOGRSMc&t=16m55s. After a while of talking he mentions KDE connect remote input which could be used with futo keyboard dictation, I guess?

I like the article but I dislike the headline. :)

Oh. King of the North is not a good title. If GOT told me anything.

I get what you say. There is this communication barrier. And when only one side has to constantly lean over that fence - figuratively speaking - it is unfair.

I was diagnosed with ASD late in my life. So many traits in my personality were previously attributed to other reasons. Yes I was and I’m still shy and had a low self esteem, but as a result not as the root cause. Which was/ is that the communication with my peers simply didn’t work. And that I did not get any confirmation but rejection, because we simply didn’t get what the other one had to said and was feeling. That and me being constantly overwhelmed and retreating to solo hobbies. Still do it. Has its pros and cons.

Over time I learnt that there is a communication barrier. Often times I didn’t get that I wasn’t understood. People don’t tell you that, they just feel awkward and walk away. What I wanted to say, is that nowadays I’ve gotten better. But it still happens.

About what you said about communication effort spent by just one party: I don’t have that. If it feels too exhausting I just give up. I don’t have the urge to make it work whatever the cost - it’s not my loss if the other one doesn’t get it. After what you said it feels like this approach - which I didn’t chose, it is just me being me - has its perks.

Empathy… If I’m overwhelmed I don’t have the capacity to empathize. I just don’t see it sometimes. If the conversation partner doesn’t know that, it comes across as being emotionally numb. Which isn’t wrong at the time.

In every day working life, time and again, I am surprised by how what I intend to say differs from what the other person understands. And, conversely, by how I misunderstand what is said to me. Both factually and and emotionally.

Mirror neurons are a myth if you ask me. ;) Side note: even if they were a thing, I strongly assume that the brain regions used for my own feelings are re-used for that. Nature doesn’t do energy costly redundance.

Make it maintainable.

Documentation. Or implicit documentation with ansible or the like (opentofu).

Separate things with LXCs or VMs or OSI containers. Maybe firewalls (ufw) and VLANs to separate them. Incus is nice. As someone already said: Leave the host system mostly vanilla. Services go in the virtual boxes and containers.

Btw: Nix looks promising, too. But I have not opened that can of worms, yet.

Backups…

Automation. unattended-upgrades, watchtower(unmaintained) or the like. So you don’t have to do it yourself and then forget about it. Claude is looming on the horizon. It will bring many bugs to light and code the exploit for it in no time if someone asks for it nicely.

Ist ne Idee. Nicht überkomplizieren. Nummerieren. Scannen. Wichtiges abheften. Anderes chronologisch in eine Kiste.

You are right. Backup and storage of scans should be not a big deal.

But the paper documents:

Some things like birth and education certificates need to be kept indefinitely. Some documents like receipts need to be kept for a while. Some documents can be discarded after scan and some are PDFs entirely.

I. E. How can I tell from the scan if there is a paper document and where is it stored?

Or How do I age out paper which is not needed any more?

The decision is yours to make. You didn’t say if power consumption is important - if you keep the server on 24/7 it could be relevant. It’s hard to say if you can modify the server, to make it quieter. Or if you can salvage parts. Or if you need all the CPU performance of a server CPU.

If you want to keep it or salvage parts: In my experience the fans are the noisy part of a server. I don’t know the form factor of the main board or the case. I really can’t say which parts you can keep and which need replacing.

120mm fans with pwm are better than 40mm fans at full speed. Bigger heat sinks, too.

If not: You can always try to sell the server and get a low power single board computer with enough (32GB+) RAM instead (hardkernel h4 or a cheap chinese alternative). IMO a celeron N is fast enough to run multiple VMs (or better: containers). The limiting parts are RAM and storage. Things like transcoding videos will take more time than on a server CPU… But immich and an *arr stack will work flawlessly for a one or two user instance.

Asked myself which documents I have to keep for how long. I found this German Verbraucherzentrale article (Google translated) about document retention times.

But that information doesn’t give me a workflow. What are your workflows for new documents to scan(tags, correspondent, unique number). How do you keep track of out-aged paper which can be disposed? What’s your pdf backup strategy?

This is George, I think.

Technitium DNS Server v15.1.0 has been released… with support for OIDC! Now you can use your preferred identity provider to log in to Technitium accounts, and manage your DHCP/DNS deployments with approriately granular permissions controls.

I didn’t understand the conection between DHCP/DNS server and login with an IDP. Had to look it up: That server has a web UI and you can use an identity provider to authenticate users, instead of local user management I guess.

Technitium DNS is advertised as a Pihole alternative.

Technitium? Indian company. One guy? Has a blog with some interesting entries. Products: a p2p messenger and a DNS resolver.

Achilles did it first.

I like the app. Thanks for sharing.

trying to reduce the explicit drinking water target based on what you ate

I think this is/ was my plan, yes.

This is not a feature request. I was just wondering where the water intake is tracked. As part of a recipe or food would’ve felt natural to me. Hence the question. I missed the water sub tab in the diary tab’s top right corner.

My feedback:
Cooked noodles, soft drinks, a cup of coffee with sugar, a glass of water with lemon juice, protein shakes would be examples for “watery” food.

Right now one can keep track of the nutrients + fibre + x in food in one calculation. And then there is a second tracking just for water.

Two lists feel more complicated than one list. To add a cup of coffee I need to add the nutrients part (sugar, coffein, fat) as a food entry in the diary tab + a cup of water in the water sub tab.

Currently no, there’s no per-food water field in NutriTrace, and food water doesn’t count toward your daily water goal.

Thanks. Fine by me. :)
I could add a custom nutrient “water” to my foods and recipes to achieve what I planned. Or I just ignore water intake tracking.