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dan

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Aussie living in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Coding since 1998.
.NET Foundation member. C# fan
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dan , to Selfhosted in Why You Should Self-Host Everything
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I self-host mine using Mailcow, but I use an outbound SMTP relay for sending email so I don't have to deal with IP reputation. L

dan , to Selfhosted in Why You Should Self-Host Everything
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I solved this by installing solar panels. They produce more electricity than I need (enough to cover charging an EV in when I get one in the future), and I should break even (in terms of cost) within 5-6 years of installation. Had them installed last year under NEM 2.0.

I know PG&E want to introduce a fixed monthly fee at some point, which throws off my break-even calculations a bit.

Some VPS providers have good deals and you can often find systems with 16GB RAM and NVMe drives for around $70-100/year during LowEndTalk Black Friday sales, so it's definitely worth considering if your use cases can be better handled by a VPS. I have both - a home server for things like photos and music, and VPSes for things that need to be reliable and up 100% of the time (websites, email, etc)

dan , to Selfhosted in Why You Should Self-Host Everything
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I think it's so people here can give themselves a pat on the pack for self hosting lol.

Like how the Linux Lemmy community has so many "Windows is bad, Linux is good" posts. Practically everyone in there already knows that Linux is good.

dan , to News in Donald Trump faces travel ban to 37 countries
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I'm amused at the fact that Australia doesn't allow convicted felons to enter.

Also doesn't Trump say that USA is #1? Why would he ever want to leave?

dan , to Programmer Humor in Lemmy today
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What is a "top" story on Lemmy, given everyone subscribes to different communities? Is it the most popular across all communities?

dan , to retrocomputing in Microsoft open-sources GW-BASIC – OSnews
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This post comes a bit late - Microsoft announced this four years ago. https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/microsoft-open-sources-gw-basic/

dan , (edited ) to Asklemmy in Are there any EV cars without any "technology"?
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specifically it has physical buttons below the screens to control the entire car with physical buttons. That was a hard requirement of mine.

I'd love to get an EV with physical buttons too. My current car is a 2012 Mazda 3, but I want to get a EV to take advantage of my solar panels.

The Kona looks nice. Do you know if it supports Qi wireless charging, and wireless Android Auto?

dan , to Asklemmy in Are there any EV cars without any "technology"?
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all seem to be "smart", and cloud connected, and effectively hardware as a service to spy on you, and prevent repairs, and have software lockouts of

This is happening with gas cars too. I was driving an Infiniti rental car and every time I started it, the infotainment system showed a disclaimer about Infiniti collecting and using data. There was a way of opting out of just some of the data collection, but no way of opting out of all of it.

dan , to RetroGaming in List of unofficial console PC Ports with Tutorial (Re-/Decompilations)
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I love this! Thanks for the link.

dan , to Asklemmy in What is YOUR top 10 list of all time best video games?
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In no particular order:

  • Super Mario 64
  • Sonic 3 and Knuckles
  • Cyberpunk 2077
  • Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
  • Watch Dogs
  • Watch Dogs 2
  • Doom (original shareware version)
  • Super Mario Galaxy 2
  • Half Life
  • Half Life 2
dan , to News in Michigan man who had seizure on Royal Caribbean cruise forced to pay $2500 bill before evacuating
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land-based health insurance plans.

How do I get a sea-based health insurance plan?

dan , to Technology in Samsung Requires Independent Repair Shops to Share Customer Data, Snitch on People Who Use Aftermarket Parts, Leaked Contract Shows
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Samsung have gotten better with updates. In 2021, they promised all new models would receive four years of updates (which helped the industry because other brands started matching them), and they bumped it to seven years with this year's S24 series.

Samsung and LG appliances are interesting things. Some are horrible like their fridges (which are some of the worst available today), but some are fantastic like LG's washing machines (which rank #2 in reliability behind Speed Queen).

dan , to Technology in Samsung Requires Independent Repair Shops to Share Customer Data, Snitch on People Who Use Aftermarket Parts, Leaked Contract Shows
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They're copying Apple, which has similar clauses. They're all going to copy Apple, unfortunately. Say that they support independent repair stores, but in reality place so many restrictions and requirements on them.

dan , to Asklemmy in Using Google whilst Duck Duck Go is down. How long has Google been this bad?
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dropped their "don't be evil" principle.

It's still there. See the final paragraph: https://abc.xyz/investor/google-code-of-conduct/

dan , to Asklemmy in Using Google whilst Duck Duck Go is down. How long has Google been this bad?
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Nowadays a lot of people go straight to where they wanted to find info - Wikipedia, StackOverflow, IMDB, etc. - and search from there.

Didn't people always do this, though? If I want to find something on Wikipedia, why wouldn't I search on Wikipedia for it? I have Firefox configured so that it searches Wikipedia when I type "wiki" then a space then the search query.

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