I never really understood the purpose of the XPS line anyway. I

IMHO

Software development and Media work that can benefit from normal consumer video acceleration. They are a lot cheaper than the Precision line and for non-cad/AI tasks and generally outpreform them. The XPS cases are more durable than the latitude and they come with better options for processors and video cards.

From a business standpoint, they were the best option if you needed a normal video accelerator.

A friend of mine was raised Republican; he’d say, fiscal Republican. He was certain that people without healthcare could just get treated for free for whatever they needed and that POC brought it all on themselves. Generally, he thought that people were nice and good and would take care of each other as long as the people in need weren’t miscreants.

Then he met a nice black girl, got married, and had some kids.

Now he’s seeing how they’re treated differently when they’re not together, and how he’s treated differently when he’s with her.

How family is now all at odds as the grandparents are still in the old camp and aren’t sympathetic to his findings and struggles.

The propaganda is hard to work around. They want to believe that there’s good and evil in the world and good prevails. It’s what their churches tell them. It’s not until each one of them individually experiences hardship that they realize that something is off, and they still remain confused as to what’s real and what’s now.

It was burning a few gigs a day. Which wouldn’t have been noticed except I wasn’t using it to stream anything. I originally put it on the time out vlan, But my wife wanted to make changes to art mode, and of course that requires cloud connection. I should probably go back and isolate what it talks to and see if I can get art mode to continue working without letting it do whatever high bandwidth application it was trying to do before.

Best of luck with it, logging’s always a severe pain in the ass.

Good point!

We’re mostly wfh, If we still had sufficient physical meetings, It wouldn’t break the bank to stuff a few bricks in every room.

The battery life is also significantly better if you’re doing normal meeting stuff.

No I get what you’re asking for I’m just mentioning that sometimes it’s easier to use an application that can read multiple formats than it is to try to finagle everything back into one format.

Right now I’m using uptimekuma, It writes to a private telegram group I set up just for alarms.

I also have set up some user scripts that do curl calls to write to telegram on certain system conditions, like when I add a file to IPFS.

I’m not sure about your exact ask, I’d probably head towards setting up logstash and elasticsearch. It might be overkill for your needs though.

I’ve caught the front door and garage door left open several times (kids)

I found out my garage under my bedroom is primarily why my room is hard to heat and likely has poor insulation in the ceiling.

I found out my Samsung TV was sending a LOT of data home.

I know every time my Roomba gets stuck so I can go and locate it before the battery dies.

I know when my unraid Dockers fail to update and accidentally delete the old containers, so that I can go and re-add them.

One of my children were doing remote learning and I would get an alarm if he didn’t get up in the morning and start using his Chromebook.

We’ve been flirting with Lenovo legion. In my business we need strong video cards. Shipping white boxes and monitors to people is a real issue with work from home.

We were solely running XPS for years.

The legion aren’t bad, The worst of it is the power brick is a barrel connector. No running off of USB power delivery.

One of the units had a failed fan. I tore it apart and found the part number, I was actually pretty pissed off because you couldn’t buy just the fan you had to buy the whole heat distribution block with both fans and the heat pipes and everything. But then I found the part was only about 50 bucks. Dell wouldn’t even sell me parts without me being certified. So I bought the Lenovo heat block and it showed up with pre-compounded processor, GPU, and VRM pads. It was super impressive and for 50 bucks honestly it was a steal.

yup, fairly normal. I had to jump through some hoops for my old haproxies

If you’re shooting for crazy, dangerous and cheating, you can probably find that with just about any career path. GL out there and stay safe!

One of my exes made decent money, would bring me flowers to work occasionally, really sweet girl. She would go way out of her way to try to find common things between us like down to the point of eating the same condiments on food even if she didn’t like them.

As she approached her twenties, She started getting riskier and riskier in her extracurricular behaviors. Hanging out with people that were getting her blackout drunk, possibly having their way with her (per her own admission) still want to do hang out with them.

I poked around some years later to see where she landed, at some point she was dating an IT guy and decided to throw an IT party for him. The whole thing just burbled with sweet, and cringe. Which was pretty on target.

Glad I moved on and I’m glad it looks like she landed somewhere comfortable for her.

If you’re using let’s encrypt, it’s worth automating the cert renewals. Even for systems where the automation is difficult and not supported.

It’s also worth running some kind of monitoring system. You can check certificates with OpenSSL really easily. Fire off a message to NTFY.

For every 50 sensitive men out there, there’s a sociopath using a sensitive man persona to try to gain an advantage with women. Believe that men are sensitive, but verify, look for red flags.

We’re REALLY hoping for a strong leopard season, and much likethe Right, the Left is hoping that the administration hurts the other side more than us, or at the very least both of us enough to make them change their minds. NGL, chances aren’t looking good.

Not going to go as far as to advocate Schadenfreude, but when they take a big hit, I do get a little more hopeful.

and they won’t tell you the price before you get in.

1. Won’t tell you the price
2. Once you get to the hospital, every individual you work with bills you separately
3. The hospital make an effort to bill you before you leave, but that’s often not the whole price.
4. Some of them don’t even bill you until you’ve already paid the initial amount and left. Weeks later you can still get bills for hundreds for stupid crap like someone brought you a regular painkiller in a cup but couldn’t be bothered to charge you before you left.

Yeah, you’re not allowed to say anything positive about Brave on Lemmy. Instant downvote. Then downvotes for talking about it being down voted.

It’s like you said something neutral about AI, if you don’t shit on it, they brigade you down.

Yes it’s very good at eliminating cookies, it tracks and sells your data, but not as widely as the big guys.

It’s very good at fingerprint resistance too.

Firefox with UO, privacy badger is very close to it’s level of perf.

You can install stuff to block your telemetry in just about any browser, knock out a lot of your tracking but still get tracked by your browser maker, your OS, your ISP…

But talk about brave, they just get pissy.

Yup, Unifi 8 port POE. I put them in an isolated VLAN where they can’t see other things or get to the web on their own. I download updates for them log into their web interface and push the updates to them when I need it.

Home assistant with door sensors. Doors open and closing after normal hours send alerts to telegram. Likewise for any doors that are left open or sensor batteries that are running low. It also lets me know if any of my camera video feeds go offline.

Eufy doorbell. I don’t love the company but it’s cheap and stores my video encrypted locally. No monthly fees. It’s AI is very good at letting me know that someone came up to my door without pressing the doorbell.

Reolink cameras. I don’t love the company, The cameras are vaguely compatible with what I’m doing, put oh my god are they cheap, video quality is good and the night vision is really good.

Blue Iris for camera server running on an old laptop with an Nvidia card. I’m going to be swapping this out for frigate sometime the next year.

I probably have 300 hours into setting up Blue Iris. I have tweaked it and tweaked it and tweaked it. When any significant changes happen in zones that I’ve hand drawn for more than 4 seconds, Blue Iris will send a telegram message with a copy of the image with a orange rectangle around the change. My main street camera records 24x7, only saving frames that change in between, I’m in a rather dense community and people come to me for footage not infrequently. The rest of my cameras only record significant events.

Right now, my biggest problem is false alarms. What I really want is to be notified if someone is in my driveway even briefly. Likewise on my back porch or my basement steps. But I don’t want to be notified if it’s my dog or a piece of trash or the beams of some headlights.

I’m planning on moving to Frigate with a coral tpu and probably having it notify me with NTFY, has telegram’s pretty bad at actually sending thumbnails to my watch.