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Wandered over from Twitter (@nzipsi / @athorburn4); Stay a while and listen.

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Edent, to random
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Blokes in the UK - where do you buy your shirts?

I basically haven't purchased any shirts since pre-pandamic and have discovered most of my vaguely smart clothes are falling to pieces.

What's your go-to shop for quality schmutter?

(No, I can't repair them. Yes I know how to use a search engine. No, I don't want to learn how to make my own. Yes, I do wear something other than t-shirts. No, I don't want a jokey answer. Yes, I am grumpy this morning.)

ipsi,
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@Edent Not in the UK, but I've been happy with "Son of a Tailor". EU-based, and while I've only purchased their t-shirts and polo shirts, they do offer button-up shirts as well.

ipsi, to random
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I've been playing around with setting up OpenSearch because I'm not really happy with how annoying it is to actually search my logs with Loki (fundamentally, I just want a Datadog- or OS-style dashboard), and… it's rough.

Setting up OpenSearch is difficult as the docs are definitely aimed at large clusters with minimal support for standing up a simple instance. But then we get to Data Prepper and… yeesh. It works, but it feels very, very rough.

ipsi,
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Docs look comprehensive but aren't, like the date module - some docs on the docs site, but much better docs can only be found deep in GitHub; Config is very repetitive; Pipelines are pull-based and only poll every 3s by default, so a complex pipeline setup will massively delay your logs.

I'm not sure whether I want to persevere with OS, see if ElasticSearch (/LogStash/etc) goes better, or abandon the whole thing and go back to Loki, which is also painful, but maybe less so.

ipsi,
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@alpha The whole “logging” arena feels incredibly over-complicated, with the choices basically being “tail a log file” or “enterprise multi-node cluster designed for search (and metrics and and and…) that just happens to be good at log dashboards”. I feel like there's something missing in the middle for small-medium sized deployments.

Part of the problem is self-hosting a bunch of services, none of which have the same log-file format, none of which can be easily changed.

ipsi,
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@ratkins @alpha I've quite liked Datadog, at least so far. It does require putting in a fair bit of effort to learn, though, plus configuring the agent everywhere to get full value out of it.

ipsi, to random
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Very happy to see that this has now, effectively, passed: https://www.thelocal.de/20240119/breaking-german-parliament-passes-landmark-dual-citizenship-reform There are some remaining steps but it sounds like they’re mostly formalities.

ipsi,
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@ratkins Well yeah, welcome to Berlin 😂 I'm in Brandenburg now, so I think I can hope for it to go a bit more quickly. 2.5 years, maybe? 🤣

ratkins, to random
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Is anyone aware of a German mobile carrier which fully supports Apple Watch?

(Congstar don’t, and I can’t work out if it’s a technical limitation and they can’t do it at all or if it’s for market segmentation reasons—they only offer support for on-contract customers.)

ipsi,
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@ratkins Can confirm that Telekom definitely do, and I think Vodafone did as well?

ratkins, to random
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Fucking hell Tado, show me a god damned photo of the ports on the “bridge”, you know I can’t possibly trust what “connects to your router” actually means.

ipsi,
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@ratkins I want to install Smart Home stuff for my heating system but also not keen on everything depending on the cloud and having everything using different apps from different vendors and... ugh.

I've picked up a Zigbee USB stick and I'm going to be playing with Home Assistant over the next few days, see how it works for me, then might look at adding in Ubisys devices for my underfloor heating (expensive AF, but also Made in Germany so much better odds of being compatible).

ipsi,
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@alpha @ratkins Yeah, that's my plan as well, though with some quirks (e.g., apparently German light sockets are generally quite shallow, so the cheaper Zigbee repeaters won't fit) - more so that guests can use the system "as normal" without having to yell at Siri or try and fiddle with an app. Not too far into it just yet, but working on it.

ipsi,
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@alpha @ratkins Ahhh, interesting. I think that only controls power to the light, though, right? I've already got a bunch of Hue lights, so I suspect that wouldn't be as as useful as something like https://www.ubisys.de/en/products/light-and-consumers/power-switch-s1/, which I'd put behind an existing switch, and which can (I believe) be bound directly to the associated smart bulbs so they'll turn on pretty much instantly (and since it's powered, it also acts as a Zigbee repeater).

alpha, to random
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Huh.

Of course, the typical person turns up to an interview and wings it, especially as a fresh graduate. I hired a professional interview coach for two hours at the recommendation of a family member, and I have absolutely dominated the competition in every interview I’ve sat since then, at least on the behavioral components. It was weird, but it worked. Hell, here’s the coach, buy this for your kids when they graduate. Nothing revolutionary to an industry veteran, but this prevents young people from wasting their first few valuable interview opportunities.

This stuff feels weird. I felt like a weirdo sending those cold contacts out into the world - couldn’t I just send CVs comfortably into the void? It felt even weirder spending like $300 for an hour of interview practice, even though it was super obvious. At an Australian engineer’s salary, the interview would only have to save me one day of job searching to be a net positive. Is there any universe where a graduate wouldn’t benefit from even mediocre interview preparation?

https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/performing-technical-responsibility/

ipsi,
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@ratkins @alpha @ivory I think it's an Ivory issue as it renders the blockquote fine for me in Mastodon.socials Web UI.

ipsi, to opnsense
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Here''s something that I've been having a bit of trouble googling an answer for:

My Firewall is protected with HTTPS & a self-signed certificate (or maybe LE). Viewing it on my phone, it shows a page saying it's not trusted and giving me the option to continue anyway, as usual and all is good. On my , on the other hand, the page title is "This connection is not private" but the page is completely blank...

Any ideas, Fediverse?

Edent, to plex
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Hey, home AV geeks - help a lad out, eh?

Currently, my media server has an NFS share which exposes the directories containing my music and DVD rips.

What does using something like or get me that this setup doesn't?

ipsi,
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@Edent It depends a bit on who's using it all. Just for you, or people who are technical enough to use your setup? Probably not adding a great deal.

They're really, really handy if you want to let other people (whose eyes glaze over when they hear "Just install VLC, install this NFS driver for Windows then connect to this remote share") have easy access to your collection, for example.

Or watching a show with a friend remotely and both getting full quality instead of having to screen-share.

ipsi, to random
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All this GPU power and I'm unlikely to ever play a game on an iPhone. Maybe if I could natively install games from my existing Steam Library 🤔 It's definitely got the potential to compete with the Steam Deck (for example), but Apple just aren't interested.

ipsi, to random
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While the Mother Nature skit is amusing (a bit cringe, but I certainly can’t see any other tech company doing better), it went on long enough that it feels like they just don’t have enough new stuff to talk about, so they’ve had to pad it. That’s not a huge surprise, and it’s not a bad thing, but it’s interesting to see how they’re handling it.

fasterthanlime, to random
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It’s a good sign when your doctor says “well I can’t remember the last time I saw someone with this” right

Right?

ipsi,
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@fasterthanlime That’s super-rough. I had bacterial pneumonia a few years ago, and just remember looking at the X-Ray of my lungs and going “pretty sure that shouldn’t be 80% white…” I was relatively lucky and it was solved after a 6-day hospital stay and intravenous antibiotics.

ipsi, to random
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I'm getting really tired of the dumb limitations on streaming movies & TV shows. e.g., want to watch Brooklyn Nine-Nine. Cool, it's on Netflix. English audio, great! Oh, but only German subtitles. Great. I'd also like to switch my iTunes account over to Germany so I stop using my UK credit card, but I have no idea what purchased content I'll lose by doing so.

It's enough that I think it's time to ship back out to the high seas, with maybe a dash of buying DVDs/Blu-Rays to rip.

ipsi,
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@ratkins They do! Not for everything, but they do exist. Actually the only way to get the best-quality 4K HDR movies, as far as I know, at least for major titles. I’m having a poke at seedboxes, and might just go whole-hog home media server with Plex/etc. I’ve got a NAS and an Intel Mac Mini that could be put to good use there 🤔

ipsi,
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@ratkins Oh, I definitely appreciate that part! Usenet is also apparently quite a good source of things too, and doesn't have the "handing out my IP to all and sundry" issue that BT does.

Edent, to random
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Odd questions for iPhone users:

  • Does the native email app support landscape?
  • Does it come with a build in file manager which lets you see / manipulate the file system?
  • How easy is it to add a word to predictive text?
  • Do you still need to use iTunes on a computer to carrier-unlock your phone?

Told you they were odd!

ipsi,
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@Edent

  1. Yes - maybe not amazingly well, but can be used in landscape
  2. Not really. There is a "files" app that provides access something like a file system, but you can't manipulate the actual FS.
  3. Not sure, never felt the need to
  4. No idea, never purchased a carrier-locked iPhone. I'd be surprised if you did, though.
ipsi, to random
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Need to travel out to my new house next week to verify the tiles are correct. It's 75 minutes there, 75 minutes back (minimum), and 20-30 minutes for the actual appointment. Hooray!

ipsi,
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@ratkins If by "in the sticks" you mean "just barely across the Brandenburg border," then yes 😅

Edent, to random
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Any of my friends know where I can watch with English subtitles?

Looks like Netflix only has DE subs, and it's not clear if the BluRay/DVD versions have any.

I'm really enjoying the English remake (The Cleaner with Greg Davies) and thought I'd check out the original.

ipsi,
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@Edent Tricky - your best bet is to search for "Crime Scene Cleaner", and make sure it's starring Bjarne Mädel. You can stream it (possibly need a VPN) via Amazon US and MHz Networks. It looks like the DVD version with English subs was only released in the US, though, so might be tricky to find locally.

ratkins, to random
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Is there any way to tell Reddit to only send me notifications on replies to my posts or comments and not for random posts to a sub I happened to interact with recently? Can’t find it in settings.

ipsi,
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@ratkins I think "User Settings -> Recommendations -> deactivate everything." Might have to be done on a desktop, in the new UI. You might still get notifications about subreddits you're subscribed to, in which you'll have to go into "Community Alerts" and turn them all off, one by one. If you've done all that and are still getting notifications, then I have no idea 😕

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