DeltaTangoLima

DeltaTangoLima, 5 months ago

Yep, and Australia. Been a thing for a long time.

And we have plain packaging laws too. No branding at all.

DeltaTangoLima, 1 month ago

It should be climate action. Not saying it will be - just that it should be.

DeltaTangoLima, 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago)

This is a tough one, that takes practice and mental discipline.

You’ve already acknowledged that you can’t change how things ended with this individual. Right now, you’re in a very natural place for humans to be: you’re feeling powerless, like someone has done something to you, and you want to blame that other person for how you’re feeling.

The bit that takes practice and discipline is that you CAN change how you choose to react to things like this. You can take accountability for your reactions and emotions.

Why is this irritating you so much? What is it about the exchange that annoyed you, and makes you wish you could reply? If you had the chance to reply, would you want to do the same thing - reply and block - or continue arguing? To what end? What outcome is it that you want?

Accepting reality starts with acknowledging there are things you can’t change. You’ve already said that, so you know this is the right path to continue going down.

The bit you need to try and take accountability for is understanding why you’re feeling the way you are. This isn’t about the person “robbing you” of the chance to reply. It’s about why you feel so strongly that you need to reply.

Until you know why this pissed you off so much, you can’t take meaningful steps to getting yourself into a better emotional state.

Edit: I feel bad that your OP is getting downvoted. You’ve asked a legitimate question about mental health, and some people are clearly writing you off as you having a whinge.

DeltaTangoLima, 5 months ago

Also, if you’re concerned, don’t be afraid to perform CPR on a female. Their modesty is worth a lot less than their life.

DeltaTangoLima, 3 months ago

As a lot of people have already said, breaking water down into hydrogen and O2 requires more energy than that produced by running a car on hydrogen.

Luckily, there’s some promising research underway, on solar panels that converts water vapour in the air into hydrogen. Last I read, they’re approaching kilowatt scale, but it takes a big system to produce just 500 grams of hydrogen in a day. Which will only produce around 2kW of output power.

Assuming they can somehow make all of that much smaller, and produce much, much more hydrogen from that smaller system, there’s the secondary problem of storing and pressurizing the hydrogen produced, for use in a vehicle. That will take more energy again.

DeltaTangoLima, 13 days ago

That’s a really sad, yet probably entirely accurate, assessment.

DeltaTangoLima, 15 days ago

It’s a fucking travesty what’s happening to him. He shone a light on some pretty sordid shit, shit that was definitely in the public interest to be reported, and he’s been made into the villain.

Our government should be fucking ashamed of themselves.

DeltaTangoLima, 15 days ago

I just wish Smarttube would support Piped instances - that would 100% complete the puzzle for me. Being able to use Piped on my streaming stick.

DeltaTangoLima, 4 days ago (edited 4 days ago)

The problem there, as we’re already seeing, is arsehole councils taking action against people on private properties, where the people either own the property, or have the property owner’s permission, and live in tents or caravans there.

Examples:

• Pensioner living in bus on private land because he can’t afford to buy or rent facing council legal action
• Campers in central Victoria face eviction from own land by Mount Alexander Shire Council, despite rent crisis

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Every layer of government has their fair share of blame to wear for this, from the snouts at the trough in the local city councils, to the fat wankers in suits in Canberra. Not one single government has done anything remotely positive to improve the future of housing in this country in the past 20 or so years.

Instead, they’ve encouraged and rewarded foreign ownership and rich landlords that own dozens of properties. Our monetary policy is tied to a broken measure of financial health, where the snake eats its own tail: higher rent contributes to higher inflation, which contributes to higher interest rates, which contributes to higher rent.

All our governments have done is create the perfect conditions for a massively bloated housing market that’s almost impossible for anyone to get into without already being in the middle-to-upper earning brackets.

Councils have to start thinking along humanitarian grounds, and enable people to live self-sufficiently, rather than punishing them for it. It’s not hard to see a future where a pensioner dies on a park bench in the middle of winter, because they couldn’t afford to rent or pay their mortgage, got permission to live in a van on someone’s rural block, and some cunt of a councilor decided a bullshit zoning law was more important than human dignity.

Something has to give.

DeltaTangoLima, 6 days ago

Actually, Nintendo Switch, mainly because I can take it anywhere. I just don’t find myself with heaps of time to sit down for proper gaming sessions any more.

The tyranny of getting older, and having family responsibilities.

DeltaTangoLima, 7 days ago

Xbox Series X. I have a Day 1 release, and recently cancelled my XBL Gold + Game Pass due to lack of use.

DeltaTangoLima, 1 day ago

When I caught myself planning exactly how I’d scale that building wall, AC style.

DeltaTangoLima, 13 days ago

Yay for the Streisand Effect! Imma post this monthly now… https://reddrefuge.com/pictrs/image/3428de7b-7acb-4a20-b01d-ea9835cb4c31.png

DeltaTangoLima, 13 days ago

this isn’t reddit.

Correct, hence downvoting here is meaningless.

DeltaTangoLima, 3 days ago

sigh Chester… Him and Chris Cornell. There’s always gonna be a hole in my music-loving heart when I hear either of these guys sing.

DeltaTangoLima, 3 months ago

Not necessarily, and I tend to find VLC is still the better media player.

I was sharing more for the interest of those that were using the original Simple Mobile variant, and were waiting for the forked version to be released.

DeltaTangoLima, 1 month ago

Yep. I didn’t feel this way for a long time, then realised it was because I was married to the wrong woman. She was heavily influencing the sort of man I was outwardly portraying, and it always felt like I was wearing a badly-made suit.

After the end of that marriage, I met my soul mate, and now have two wonderful stepkids and an incredible daughter. We’ve now been together for a little over 11 years, and I’m still amazed at how lucky I am. My family gives me purpose and meaning, every day.

After that, nothing else matters.

DeltaTangoLima, 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago)

As many others have said, AWS have a pricing calculator that lets you determine your likely costs.

As a rough calc in the tool for us-east-2 (Ohio), if you PUT (a paid action) 1,000 objects per month of 1024MB each (1TB), and lifecycle transitioned all 1,000 objects each month into Glacier Deep Archive (another paid action), you’ll pay around $1.11USD per month. You pay nothing to transfer the data IN from the internet.

Glacier Deep Archive is what I use for my backups. I have a 2N+C backup strategy, so I only ever intend to need to restore from these backups should both of my two local copies of my data are unavailable (eg. house fire). In that instance, I will pay a price for retrieval, as well as endure a waiting period.

DeltaTangoLima, 13 days ago

The first time or the second time?

The first time was because I was sick of paying the “Australia tax” for new releases that took longer to reach us than most of the rest of the world. The second time was due to subscription fee hikes with associated reduction in quality & range of content.

DeltaTangoLima, 2 days ago

Yep - they introduced paid subscription tiers and put multi-user support into those: www.photoprism.app/editions#compare

DeltaTangoLima, 4 days ago

This may take us down a bit of a rabbit hole but, generally speaking, it comes down to how you route traffic.

My firewall has an always-on VPN connected to Mullvad. When certain servers (that I specify) connect to the outside, I use routing rules to ensure those connections go via the VPN tunnel. Those routes are only for connectivity to outside (non-LAN) addresses.

At the same time, I host a server inside that accepts incoming Wireguard client VPN connections. Once I’m connected (with my phone) to that server, my phone appears as an internal client. So the routing rules for Mullvad don’t apply - the servers are simply responding back to a LAN address.

I hope that explains it a bit better - I’m not aware of your level of networking knowledge, so I’m trying not to over-complicate just yet.

DeltaTangoLima, 4 days ago

Mullvad is great for outbound VPN, but inbound is a PITA without port forwarding (as you’ve said). I just host a Wireguard container for inbound connectivity now, and it works flawlessly.

DeltaTangoLima, 3 days ago

You do need to be able to reach your public IP to be able to VPN back in. I have a static IP, so no real concerns there. But, even if I didn’t, I have a Python script that updates a Route53 DNS record for me in my own domain - a self-hosted dynamic DNS really.

You certainly can run Wireguard server in a docker container - the good folks over at Linuxserver have just the repo for you.

DeltaTangoLima, 4 days ago

Yeah, this is why I jumped ship to Immich last year. I was donating to PP, with the understanding that donating users would get access to multi-user features when they happened.

Then they put them behind a paid recurring subscription. For self-hosted users. That move broke all the trust with me.