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remotelove, (edited ) to lemmyshitpost in How the rest of the world sees the US and Royal Navy
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That explains my confusion. Something looked really off and and my brain couldn’t compute what I was seeing, TBH. The elevators looked right, but I still wasn’t sure.

Edit: There more. Is that whole group British? The last two fixed wing aircraft that fly by aren’t 'murican either. I see a Black Hawk-type helicopter, I think. We use SH/HH-60s in our Navy that have their rear strut moved way forward. The British and Americans both use LCACs as well. The leading helicopter might actually be a Merlin followed by some Wildcats. Alas, all I can make are stupid guesses now.

remotelove, (edited ) to selfhosted in Should I use a dedicated DHCP/DNS server hardware
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DHCP is a really stupid* service for the most part. Unless you are working with multiple subnets or have some very specific settings you need to pass to your clients, it’s probably not worth it to manage it yourself. I don’t want to discourage you though! Assigning static IP addresses by MAC can be extremely useful and is not always an option on routers. If you want static names and dynamic addresses, that is really where you need to manage both DNS and DHCP. It really depends on how and where you want names to be resolved and what you are trying to accomplish. (*stupid as in, it’s a really simple service. You want it simple because when DHCP breaks, you have other serious issues going on.)

Setting up your own DNS is worth its weight in gold. You can put it just about anywhere on your network (before your gateway, after, in China, whatever.) and your network won’t even know the difference if setup correctly. You can point BIND at the root servers and bypass your ISP completely if you want. ISP DNS services suck ass, so regardless of you resolve yourself, or forward all name queries to your anon DNS server of choice you have a really decent level of control on your network. It is the service to learn if you want to keep an eye on where your network wants to talk.

Your Unifi USG must play nice with your own server, by the laws of DNS. There may be some nuances when it comes to internal protocols like WINS, but other than that, it should be just fine.

I would setup a simple VM somewhere first, to answer your actual question. It’s good practice to keep core services isolated on their own, dedicated instances. This is to speed up recovery time and minimize down time. Even on your home network, DNS and DHCP are services you do not want going down. It’s always a pain when they do go down.

remotelove, to historyporn in An M22 Locust light tank and a T28 Super heavy tank
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Nah. That is just where they found it sleeping that day.

remotelove, to memes in The die is cast
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It thought about that, actually. If I was in a gladiator pit, I would absolutely want my own vote to count, and it does.

However, after thinking about the dynamics of social media updooting, the first vote, in my opinion, is actually the starting point for the scale, not 0/0. It’s not that OPs vote doesn’t count, it’s just that the scale is shifted by one and starts at 1/0 by default. OP can then choose to keep the upvote, remove the upvote or downvote. (Basically, it’s not OPs choice to get the 1/0 vote. Changing the default vote, or keeping it, is where OP has a choice.)

There is an argument to be had that all posts start at 0/0, regardless of defaults. My own opinion is that they actually all start at 1/0. Supporters of either could argue they are correct.

I am fully aware that I am making a really stupid argument here, but it’s supposed to be in fun.

remotelove, to memes in Encouraging Lemmy growth like
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And you get some beans!

remotelove, to science_memes in Hmmm... pungent, weakly aromatic!
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I have never seen french fries that look so much like crudités.

remotelove, (edited ) to memes in I won’t download your stupid app
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Same. However, I have rarely been able to solve a technical problem with Reddit posts or comments. It’s a better source for random experiences about something.

For random technical problems with new software or hardware, Reddit quality is not as good as it used to be, IMHO.

For somewhat niche hobbies, like my mushroom growing, subjective experiences may be helpful to take into account. Reading dozens of different opinions about a problem in a hobby that has hundreds of different variables has its uses. (For example, if you want to test something specific, you can get an idea about the range of conditions to test.)

remotelove, to memes in Possums are cool though.
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I smoke weed and get paranoid. Meh. No big loss. The paranoia isn’t that big of an issue if I smoke a lot, but that takes work and stuff.

However, I can handle psychedelics like nobody’s business. My brain is just wired differently, I suppose.

remotelove, to risa in Just picking up some self-sealing stem bolts. Maybe a couple bags of milk.
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Cool. I can only pay in pure gold though.

remotelove, to askelectronics in Housing for resistor?
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I tried finding the video, but I cannot.

It’s the same concept as potting PCBs with black epoxy. Of course, it helps to be aware of heat sensitive components but China never cares about that.

Google for Epoxyseal 9000, if you want something proper.

remotelove, to askelectronics in Housing for resistor?
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Adding on to this line of thinking, maybe a thin plastic tube and epoxy to encase it with the solder joints. (Bonus points for using thermal epoxy, since it is a resistor after all.)

I have seen Bigclive on YouTube encase resistors and a diode rectifier in standard epoxy for use in lighting, so heat probably won’t be an issue now that I think of it.

remotelove, (edited ) to lemmyconnect in Post images always square and stretched
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I just dug a little into the Flutter API and saw what might be going on. Scaling is done properly on a regular browser, but there might be a built-in function for it somewhere. It may take a few more steps with Flutter.

(Just rambling a bit for those who care about details and theory crafting.)

Calling BoxFit in Flutter is significantly less expensive for thumbnails, I would speculate. It appears that it would take a few operations to scale an image properly and could impact slower devices.

An option to enable or disable image scaling would be nice. It’s just annoying that its probably not a one line code change. (Unless it is. That would be great.)

remotelove, to lemmyconnect in Post images always square and stretched
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Wait. I thought you were taking about thumbnails for some reason. Sorry.

It’s for images that you open?

remotelove, to lemmyconnect in [Bug] Unremovable account
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Connect instance switching will be buggy sometimes, especially when there is a Lemmy update that modifies auth tokens in some way.

The only way I know how to resolve account list bugs like that is to purge your app cache and app data. It’s not ideal, but it has worked for me in the past.

remotelove, to lemmyconnect in Post images always square and stretched
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Settings -> Post Customization -> [Full Width]

That takes up much more screen real estate, but some people like it.

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