[-] balsoft@lemmy.ml 1 points 6 days ago
  1. Try ping mediacenter.local to see if your system DNS resolver can resolve the address
  2. Try curl -v mediacenter.local to see if the web server actually responds with HTTP data on port 80
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submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by balsoft@lemmy.ml to c/offroad@lemmy.ml

@a_gee_dizzle@lemmy.ca, I've heard your call. Here is my 1996 Mitsubishi Delica, I bought it for just $4000 (best purchase of my life) a few years ago. It's not exactly sexy, but it does have a 3.0 V6, a locking transfer case with a low gear, a rear LSD, ~3cm lift kit, AT tires and a "can-do" attitude. It can seat 8 (9 if you're adventurous), and the two rear seat rows fold flat into a bed.

My gf and I spent like half of last year living in it, including 3 months continuously, and the rest of the time it was hauling my friends to mountain hike trailheads. We used it to travel all over Georgia, with a lot of offroad stuff - it hung out pretty well with a stock FJ80 once! Unfortunately, we had to move from Georgia and so we have to sell it now. Oh how much I will miss it! Hope the new owners have their fun in it too

More pics

This is the time we accidentally spilled an entire 10 L bottle of water into the mattress and had to dry it out. Thankfully the 1000m climb up to the lake made the engine quite hot!

This was a new years trip, we slept in the car on a nearby lake when it was -20℃ out. It was really fucking cold but thanks to good sleeping bags and blankets we made it through OK

This was from our 3-months-long trip. Both pictures have been taken in Svaneti.

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Just Bezos Things (thelemmy.club)
submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by balsoft@lemmy.ml to c/ManufacturingConsent@lemmy.ml

Yeah sure, this movie with 1.3 rating and 5 (out of 100) metascore, with only 50k ratings, is the #1 movie this week. The algorithm is really transparent and trustworthy, clearly there's no manipulation going on.

(for those who don't know, IMDb is owned and operated by Amazon)

[-] balsoft@lemmy.ml 94 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I think all the information is pretty well-known in this community, but here's a summary:

  • Renewables (specifically solar + batteries) are an inevitable future of energy production due to technological advancements and economies of scale improvements; you should not oppose them but welcome them
    • We are at a tipping point where solar + batteries is now the cheapest energy source available
    • Land use for solar farms is not a big issue, they are much more energy efficient per unit area than the ethanol corn that currently plagues the US
    • Replacing all ethanol corn fields with solar farms would make almost twice as much energy as the US grid is currently producing
  • Renewables are better than fossil fuels because they do not require continuous extraction; when a solar panel or battery has been "used up" and is degraded, it can be recycled, whereas fossil fuels can only be burned once after extraction
    • The end goal is an almost-closed-loop system for all energy production, similar to what we have with lead-acid batteries already
    • Recycling solar panels is relatively easy because they are mostly glass and aluminum, which we know how to recycle well, and we could probably figure out silicon too
    • Recycling batteries is a harder problem but possible too if we put some effort in; currently the recycling capacity is lacking because there's not enough batteries being recycled, since most of them are still working fine in EVs sold since the start of EV boom
    • Worst-case, we can literally just grind up batteries into battery mush and refine it, same as we do with ores from which the raw materials come in the first place, but likely something better is possible
  • Alec describes his personal politics, how he values labor and working-class people, and how he thinks immigrants are hard-working people who need to be welcomed and cared for
    • Trump and Republicans as a whole are fascists and lie constantly, which needs to be called out and stopped
    • ICE must be abolished and its thugs tried for their crimes
    • Democrats are not doing enough, and in fact are pretty bad on some points, but it's still better to vote for them
    • People need to organize with their neighbors, care for each other first and foremost, and defend themselves against the government

Alec's personal views are a relief, I think it's a shame he didn't go deeper into them before (IIRC he had a video where he called out right-wing misinfo but stopped short of any direct calls for action). I suppose the contrast between his usual "tech presenter/science explainer" and this clearly righteous political call for action might get through to some people better.

[-] balsoft@lemmy.ml 122 points 4 months ago

This is DISGUSTING

Yeah, I agree, Gestapo arresting people is DISGUSTING.

[-] balsoft@lemmy.ml 84 points 6 months ago

I'm sure you are already aware, but just in case, there's a lot of prior work in getting a truly Linux mobile phone.

There are ready-made devices like PinePhone (the PinePhone Pro looks the most promising one of the bunch), Librem 5, and Liberux Nexx. I think at least some of those companies publish schematics for their boards, you should probably check those out if you want to design your own.

There is also another direction, taken by postmarketOS and the like, to install Linux on a phone that shipped with Android out of the box.

It should be easy enough to install postmarketOS on your device, since it seems to have support for raspberry pi. The benefit of postmarketOS here is that it makes it really easy to install mobile Linux UI shells, like phosh, gnome-mobile, plasma-mobile, or sxmo. This will let you try all of them out and maybe pick one as a starting point for your software stack.

[-] balsoft@lemmy.ml 80 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

How the fuck did they have the gall to write this

If forced to transfer funds to Snap to make full November allotments, there is no means for the government to recoup those expenditures – which is quintessential irreparable harm

I'm very much not a lawyer, I'm not even from the US, but even I know that irreparable harm is harm which may not be cured by monetary compensation. THIS IS LITERALLY JUST MONEY GIVEN TO THE STATES. IF THE DECISION IS LATER OVERTURNED THE STATES CAN JUST GIVE THE MONEY BACK FROM THEIR BUDGETS. This is the dumbest fucking shit I've read for a while.

You know what is quintessential irreparable harm? Medical complications or death from starvation. Which I sincerely wish upon the fucking monsters who signed this decision, which is illegal even by the already crooked pro-capitalist amerikkkan laws.

Y'all will need to relieve those injustices of their duties by force at some point. It doesn't seem like there's any other way.

[-] balsoft@lemmy.ml 119 points 6 months ago

This aint a shitpost, this is just a fact

[-] balsoft@lemmy.ml 103 points 7 months ago

You gotta admit though, Haskell is crazy good for parsing and marshaling data

[-] balsoft@lemmy.ml 121 points 7 months ago

Sounds like you got a deal. Geometrically speaking, you got a way higher ratio of carrot to carrot skin.

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submitted 9 months ago by balsoft@lemmy.ml to c/thinkpad@lemmy.ml

This is my daily driver at the moment - X201s modded with a 51nb motherboard with i7-10710u (a.k.a X2100). A lot of geo nerd cred to whomever can guess the location by the mountains :)

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[OC] Desert Sunrise (thelemmy.club)
submitted 10 months ago by balsoft@lemmy.ml to c/trailviews@piefed.social

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/33203710

Sunrise in Wadi Rum desert. Taken from my phone with OpenCamera's stacked HDR.

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submitted 10 months ago by balsoft@lemmy.ml to c/pics@lemmy.world

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/33203710

Sunrise in Wadi Rum desert. Taken from my phone with OpenCamera's stacked HDR.

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submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by balsoft@lemmy.ml to c/photography@lemmy.ml

Sunrise in Wadi Rum desert. Taken from my phone with OpenCamera's stacked HDR.

[-] balsoft@lemmy.ml 252 points 11 months ago

Man, I'm getting old. I don't understand why all jokes have to be fake twitter screenshots now.

[-] balsoft@lemmy.ml 85 points 11 months ago

The really offensive part is having >2 liters of milk, per person, in a work fridge. What the fuck do you need so much for? I bet that fridge smells like a mix of spoiled milk and utter distrust for other human beings.

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submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by balsoft@lemmy.ml to c/pics@lemmy.world

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/32177363

Moon rising during sunset. Taken from Gombori mountain. Nikon D700, 85mm, cropped.

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submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by balsoft@lemmy.ml to c/photography@lemmy.ml

Moon rising during sunset. Taken from Gombori mountain. Nikon D700, 85mm, cropped.

[-] balsoft@lemmy.ml 76 points 11 months ago

There's no such thing as "fully mapped out". Just open StreetComplete. If there are no tasks left, go ahead and map all the individual trees, or benches, or yield/stop signs, or all the buildings so that they appear good-looking on a 3d render.

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submitted 11 months ago by balsoft@lemmy.ml to c/pics@lemmy.world

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/31830215

I liked posting a picture here so I think I will try to do it weekly :)

This is what the dawn of January 1st 2025 looked like for me. We've slept in my van through the night to get this view. The temperature was about -20℃ but it was worth it in the end.

The flats in the picture is the frozen Lake Paravani and the mountains are the Samsari ridge.

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submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by balsoft@lemmy.ml to c/photography@lemmy.ml

I liked posting a picture here so I think I will try to do it weekly :)

This is what the dawn of January 1st 2025 looked like for me. We've slept in my van through the night to get this view. The temperature was about -20℃ but it was worth it in the end.

The flats in the picture is the frozen Lake Paravani and the mountains are the Samsari ridge.

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submitted 11 months ago by balsoft@lemmy.ml to c/pics@lemmy.world

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/31459711

Since today is my first cake day, I've decided it's time to post instead of commenting. This is a picture I took last month on my phone through binoculars. Taken from Gomismta, the mountains you see are the Main Caucasian Ridge.

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submitted 11 months ago by balsoft@lemmy.ml to c/photography@lemmy.ml

Since today is my first cake day, I've decided it's time to post instead of commenting. This is a picture I took last month on my phone through binoculars. Taken from Gomismta, the mountains you see are the Main Caucasian Ridge.

[-] balsoft@lemmy.ml 111 points 2 years ago
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