ShepherdPie

@ShepherdPie@midwest.social

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ShepherdPie ,

Much like my witnessing PETA protestors screaming in the face of little children with a bullhorn because they happened to be waiting in line for the circus. I can support removing elephants from a life of circus performing, but I absolutely cannot stand PETA (for this and other reasons like euthanizing people's pets).

ShepherdPie ,

Yeah this is totally selfish and just brings attention to them while harming their supposed cause.

ShepherdPie ,

I don't know if the euthanasia stories are true, but I witnessed the screaming into bullhorns personally as I was also waiting in the line with my kid.

ShepherdPie ,

Right because that can all be excused away with "policy issues" that leave nobody actually accountable and spits in the face of common sense. "I didn't try to take down the shooter because I didn't have anyone to tell me that's why we were there in the first place"

ShepherdPie ,

If you go to canyouseeme.org and test your Plex port does it show as open?

Your new ISP might have CG-NAT meaning you don't get your own IPv4 address and can't be connected to directly.

Also stream a movie from your phone while connected to cellular data and then check that stream on the Plex admin screen to see what it says. IIRC the Plex Relay is fixed at 1mbps

ShepherdPie ,

I recently began rewatching Parks & Rec and this guy is totally Marshall Langman

ShepherdPie ,

The actual ad is hilarious as he does look exactly the same in both photos except in the "after photo," his skin is more flushed looking.

ShepherdPie ,

It looks like broccoli and potatoes but it's probably cilantro and... potatoes?

ShepherdPie ,

I was going to comment the same excitement to someone else who used it above but couldn't think of a good way to phrase it without sounding mildly bigoted.

ShepherdPie ,

Black Friday is definitely a good option. I'll also point out that WD and Seagate are working on 20TB-30TB drives that should be coming out in the next couple of years which should, in theory, drive the prices down further for smaller capacity drives.

ShepherdPie ,

Also clothes, houses, and the internet aren't natural either but it doesn't stop these same people from using them.

ShepherdPie ,

Maybe they have 14 kids. Tickets are around $200 per person per day now though IIRC.

ShepherdPie ,

A Gameboy and Stanley cup are both items other kids would see you with. Going on a vacation away from all your peers seems like a weird way for kids to peer pressure each other.

ShepherdPie ,

"We have a hole in the side of the ship, but I, your elected leader, have liberally sprayed a can of flex seal on the hole."

Newbie printer suggestions.

Would be so kind as to suggest a printer for me? I have no experience at all with 3D printers or 3D modeling. But I am super interested and have electronics and coding knowledge. I would like to print things like brackets, enclosures for custom circuit boards, organizers, keyboard plates, etc. Ideally I would like to spend...

ShepherdPie ,

Most will work right out of the box (after assembly) but the cheaper printers like the Ender will require periodic tinkering and upgrades to keep it working and make it perform better. I just retired my Artillery Sidewinder X2 (which is similar to the Ender CR10) for the Bambu X1C and don't regret it one bit. Prints just work all the time now and I haven't had to tinker with anything. My X2 has been upgraded quite a bit and yet still frequently gave me (solvable) issues that would be so frustrating when I just wanted to get something printed out.

I would also recommend the A1 mini if you're not looking to tinker and can deal with the bed size. Bambu Labs has done a great job on their lineup, MakerWorld, and by offering filament as well. They've really simplified the whole process.

ShepherdPie ,

The P1S/P1P would definitely be worth it over the A1 mini as the CoreXY construction is a complete game changer. I don't think I'll ever buy another bed slinger printer. The whole design just doesn't make sense outside of being economical, which was fantastic 5+ years ago in order to get everyone into the hobby, but is really limiting now.

Bambu has really changed the landscape and elevated the hobby as a whole, which will be awesome for everyone once some competitors start trying to copy what they've done.

ShepherdPie ,

It isn't 1970 anymore. Those three manufacturers are barely a blip on the radar in the US.

ShepherdPie ,

Perhaps "barely a blip" wasn't the most accurate phrasing but they're not exactly crushing the competition. GM is at 16.5% while Toyota is #2 (14.4%), Ford #3 and Hyundai is #4. Stellantis isn't even a US company so I don't know why people still think of Dodge/Chrysler/Jeep as American brands. The whole market is pretty mixed and these tariffs on Chinese vehicles are protecting the market not US companies.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/teslas-us-market-share-now-tops-volkswagen-subaru-and-bmw-161055575.html

The bailouts were given to save US manufacturing jobs and all these companies besides Ford have fully paid back those loans.

ShepherdPie ,

He probably thinks it refers to Mitt Romney.

ShepherdPie ,

AFAIK this is only required if you apply for financial aid for college.

ShepherdPie ,

This is just like Apple and Samsung removing the charger from the cellphone box and claiming it's for the environment when in reality it's because now they can charge you $30+ more to buy one separately that comes in a second box.

Stellantis consistently builds some of the worst cars in the world and have been ignoring electrification for too long. They have a dim future once the Charger/Challenger are gone and this is just a cheap trick to attempt to revise their image.

ShepherdPie ,

Stainless doesn't really rust out as most of the iron is gone.

ShepherdPie ,

SCHP said the truck was coming off the Nash Street beach access onto the beach when the truck hit the woman.

When the truck hit her or when the cop driving it hit her? I hate this bullshit language is always used to protect the police in articles like this.

ShepherdPie ,

That happened a few hours south in Oregon too. A DEA agent allegedly working with a team doing surveillance fell behind the group so he decided to speed and run stop signs through a residential area in an undercover vehicle. He ran over a woman riding her bike and killed her.

The local police department bent over backwards to stall and cover everything up until word got out. The DEA agent was given qualified immunity by the courts and cannot be held responsible for the crime.

ShepherdPie ,

They'd never do that to an incumbent candidate.

ShepherdPie ,

Yes these are the same people that tell you that Biden hasn't gotten anything impactful done because the president really doesn't have that much power while following that up with claims that Trump would completely end democracy the minute he gets elected. This is a variation of an argument first coined by fascists who claim that their enemy is both weak and all powerful.

ShepherdPie ,

Whose pushing the top dems to be more progressive? If anything it's thenexact opposite. We essentially have two right wing parties now.

ShepherdPie ,

Or they'll just hide it like they did with Reagan. Someone at this level isn't just going to give up that office.

ShepherdPie ,

Imagine being in that line of work and having to tell people you're a "snake oil salesman."

ShepherdPie ,

Yes, burying their heads in the sand and downvoting any legitimate criticism of our out-of-touch politicians is sure to make the problem go away.

ShepherdPie ,

Well that'll never happen... because they have a 6-3 majority so it'll be a 6-3 ruling.

BREAKING NEWS: EU Commission announces preliminary tariffs up to 38% on Chinese EVs ( www.euractiv.com )

The EU will impose additional tariffs of 17.4% to 38.1% on electric cars produced in China, the European Commission announced on Wednesday (12 June), as preliminary results from its anti-subsidy investigation confirmed prices are being distorted by Chinese state support....

ShepherdPie ,

They're comparing against the price of an ICE engine and the fact that they don't contain one to offset the cost.

ShepherdPie ,

A motor basically consists of copper wire and magnets neither of which are expensive materials.

ShepherdPie ,

Yes with hundreds or thousands of parts that all need to be cast or machined to tolerances as tight as a few thousandths of an inch. Electric motors just need copper wire wrapped around in circles and a shaft with magnets attached to it. It's very basic. I get that you want to be right but you're not going to win the argument that electric motors are more expensive or costly to produce than an internal combustion engine.

ShepherdPie ,

How about their usage here which is:

alleged "assault"

ShepherdPie ,

You don't need to expose radarr/sonarr to the internet. Only your torrent client needs external access which would be routed through a VPN that offers port forwarding like AirVPN.

For hardware, I'm a big proponent of DIY. A NAS is very expensive and limiting since it has a fixed amount of bays. It's much more econonomial to buy a case that can hold a ton of drives like the Fractal Design Define series and then run your own hardware. I'd suggest 32GB of RAM, a modern i5 CPU with QuickSync (for Jellyfin), and a motherboard that has as many SATA ports as you can get. Check PCPartPicker to compare features and prices.

To run everything, you might look into using Proxmox and then running all your stuff off that in VMs or containers.

I'd probably keep PiHole separate since you only need a RPi3 and you don't want your whole network to go down if you restart the server. The rest can be run off the server.

ShepherdPie ,

Jake from State Farm?

ShepherdPie ,

Maybe it's best if I just hook up some USB drives to my Pi and get my hands dirty with that. If the performance is not too bad (like you said).

Just do this and grow as you learn. If you buy WD Easystore/Elements/MyBook external drives, they can be very easily removed from their enclosures later and installed internally.

The only caveat here is that a Pi is going to be terrible for Jellyfin unless you only download media that is 100% compatible with the devices you're watching it on. If any transcoding is needed, the Pi won't keep up. A NUC or Optiplex Micro might work better here as they both have full-fledged PC hardware and aren't too much more than a Pi.

ShepherdPie ,

The Define series of cases from Fractal are also an excellent option. I have 9 HDD and a 5.25" optical drive in mine (Define R6) with room to spare and the whole thing is silent.

ShepherdPie ,

I'm not sure as I've always stuck to WD drives. You should be able to Google the model + "shuck" and see if anyone else has done it. I know certain models either solder the controller to the drive or add it internally so that there's no standard SATA port.

The larger clients should work the same as the micro sized ones, but don't expect to get much more use out of them than maybe being able to store a drive internally as they're typically full of proprietary connectors and stripped down motherboards. I'd only bother with one if you can buy it cheaper than one of the micro sized options like the Optiplex 3050

ShepherdPie ,

As you should be as this is part of the reason why Ttump got elected in the first place.

Is Craigslist Dying?

I went to Craigslist in my local area for the first time in awhile. I used to like “best of” Craigslist because some of them were great, there still are some, but its just not the same. A community I used to visit had about half the number of posts as I remember, and of jobs and things for sale, I would say roughly half the...

ShepherdPie ,

Craigslist died in my area the minute Marketplace opened up. It's a shame too because Marketplace is hot garbage for browsing cars. You can select what color you want but not engine or drivetrain for example.

ShepherdPie ,

This isn't aimed at just American manufacturers (Tesla, GM, Ford) but all vehicles sold in the US. People always seem to resort to "American protectionism" and other falsehoods when discussing stuff like this or the proposed ban on Chinese EVs, but either miss or purposely ignore the rest of the market in the US. Nearly every company that sells here has at least one EV and many others have excellent fleet MPG like Toyota with all their hybrid options.

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    ShepherdPie ,

    These seems more like a tactic you'd use at a big corporation since everyone has a boss above them. At a small clinic like this, it's probably fruitless as the stubborn owner isn't going to stop being stubborn over an email and documentation.

    ShepherdPie ,

    Also $109 million for "cop city."

    ShepherdPie ,

    too dumb to see how their actions promote the end goals that they pretend to fight against.

    GeNoCiDe JoE

    The irony here is palpable.

    ShepherdPie ,

    It's quite funny how the rhetoric has devolved to the point where comments like yours are almost indistinguishable from MAGA supporters who talk about people being "paid by Soros" all because I don't support funding and arming people in their pursuit of genocide.

    ShepherdPie ,

    "Quit tryin' to church it up, Dirt."

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