IcedRaktajino

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[–] IcedRaktajino@startrek.website 53 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (9 children)

I've been rocking a Minimal Phone for about 6 or 7 months now, and man am I excited to have options for QWERTY phones again.

just plain boredom with glass slabs

This. So much this. They're all boring, too tall, and too skinny with about as much personality as a used up dryer sheet. It's like they're designed solely for scrolling an endless feed of mind-numbing slop. I remember being able to actually do things on my older smartphones (RDP, SSH, editing documents/spreadsheets, etc). You can still do those things now, but you basically have to break out a bluetooth keyboard to do anything more than the most basic things and it feels like trying to look at a panorama through a keyhole.

[–] IcedRaktajino@startrek.website 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Probably Nico Borie

Edit: Oh, goddamnit. My dyslexic ass read that as Michael Langdon. I'm gonna leave this up for a laugh at my expense but disregard.

[–] IcedRaktajino@startrek.website 164 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

the segment has been shared widely on social media

Not widely enough.

https://files.catbox.moe/4kv1gt.mp4

Watch it Right Here in the Comment

See Also:

Even if they do eventually air it, it would be enlightening to play "spot the difference" between what they didn't want to air and what they finally do. My guess would be CBS doing something like sed s/Trump/Biden/g to the script.

[–] IcedRaktajino@startrek.website 22 points 1 month ago (4 children)

https://github.com/marytts/marytts

I've used MaryTTS semi-recently. It's older but works well enough for my cases. I have it running on a server (locally) and my endpoints make a call to it and playback the returned audio file.

On Android, I use SherpaTTS which has good voices, but I'm not aware of a desktop/Linux option. It mentions using voices from Coqui which you linked, so I would guess that would be the way to go for desktop.

[–] IcedRaktajino@startrek.website 5 points 2 months ago

Not sure if ADHD specific or a symptom of being "on the spectrum" or a bit of both (have never been diagnosed either way but show all the signs), but I have a very low capacity "social battery" and am very sensitive to noise. The end result is I crave (relative) solitude and quiet or else I'm useless at getting anything done.

[–] IcedRaktajino@startrek.website 60 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

An unmanaged switch is just a single plane where all ports are equal. All ports share OSI layers 1 and 2. Anything you plug into port 24 can always reach anything you have plugged into port 3.

Managed switches (also sometimes known as "smart" switches) provide additional features on top of that. The most useful is VLANs (virtual LANs) which let you segregate traffic. Two ports on different VLANs share the same physical layer (layer 1) but are separated at the data link layer (layer 2). This lets you create up to 4096 different networks on the same switch; each network is isolated from the other. If port 24 and port 3 are on different VLANs, then they will not be able to communicate unless they can reach a common router at layer 3.

Additionally, managed switches let you do things like disable/enable ports (for security, power savings, etc), enable port mirroring, and combine multiple ports into an aggregation group (e.g. bond four 1 Gb links into one 4 Gb link).

The available features on a managed/smart switch vary by manufacturer and, often, by the license level (sadly common in enterprise gear). VLANs, port control, mirroring, and LAGs are usually common "baseline" features, though.

[–] IcedRaktajino@startrek.website 57 points 2 months ago (11 children)

Which begs the question why not magnets at the top of the building to help pull the electricity up?

[–] IcedRaktajino@startrek.website 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Guess it depends on the height, but yeah. Otherwise, we manage to pump a town's worth of water to the top of a tower well enough. From there, gravity can do the rest.

But there's probably a point where cost for that vs height becomes prohibitive.

[–] IcedRaktajino@startrek.website 2 points 2 months ago

If the costs of engineering a tower is more than just buying more land, then why build taller?

Figured it'd be something like that. Explains why they get built out in the middle of nowhere since land is cheap.

[–] IcedRaktajino@startrek.website 13 points 2 months ago

Tall data centers do exist in cities where land is expensive.

Probably a bit of "hiding in plain sight" that way, too. There are a few big datacenters relatively near me, and they're massive compounds in the middle of even more massive corn fields. Kind of stick out like a sore thumb when you're driving by.

[–] IcedRaktajino@startrek.website 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It's almost to "PTSD" since I twitch every time I see a sparkle emoji.

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