Thanks! BentoPDF is fantastic, I never knew something like this existed.

I have a todo list where I keep track of services I might be interested in one day, I read your post a few hours ago and added Bento to my list, thinking I might get around to it in a few days/weeks/months. Then out of nowhere 15 minutes ago I randomly needed to crop and split a PDF and realized I didn’t have anything to do it. I fired Bento up and was done in under a minute.

Samsung doesn’t actually make dimms as far as I know

They do both. This is what I have in my server, for example:

https://semiconductor.samsung.com/dram/module/rdimm/m321r8ga0eb2-ccp/

Disagree. Their priorities are backwards.

Company A releases a product, it runs closed-source proprietary firmware on-board, and it can’t be updated by the user even if bugs or compatibility issues are found later on in the product’s life cycle.

Company B releases a product, it runs closed-source proprietary firmware on-board, but it can be updated by the user if bugs or compatibility issues are found later on in the product’s life cycle.

According to the FSF, product A gets the stamp of approval, product B doesn’t. That makes no sense.

It has nothing to do with LLM poisoning, they just want attention

I use node_exporter + VictoriaMetrics + Grafana for network-wide system monitoring. node_exporter also has provisions to include text files placed in a directory you specify, as long as they’re written out in the right format. I use that capability on my systems to include some custom metrics, including CPU and memory usage of the top 5 processes on the system, for exactly this reason.

The resulting file looks like:

# HELP cpu_usage CPU usage for top processes in %
# TYPE cpu_usage gauge
cpu_usage{process="/usr/bin/dockerd",pid="187613"} 1.8
cpu_usage{process="/usr/local/bin/python3",pid="190047"} 1.4
cpu_usage{process="/usr/bin/cadvisor",pid="188999"} 1.0
cpu_usage{process="/opt/mealie/bin/python3",pid="190114"} 0.9
cpu_usage{process="/opt/java/openjdk/bin/java",pid="190080"} 0.9

# HELP mem_usage Memory usage for top processes in %
# TYPE mem_usage gauge
mem_usage{process="/usr/local/bin/python3",pid="190047"} 3.0
mem_usage{process="/usr/bin/Xvfb",pid="196573"} 2.4
mem_usage{process="/usr/bin/Xvfb",pid="193606"} 2.4
mem_usage{process="next-server",pid="194634"} 1.2
mem_usage{process="/opt/mealie/bin/python3",pid="190114"} 1.2

And it gets scraped every 15 seconds for all of my systems. The result looks like this for CPU and memory. Pretty boring most of the time, but it can be very valuable to see what was going on with the active processes in the moments leading up to a problem.

Snip snap snip snap

I think so. I’ve been using it for over a year, as another poster said Kagi feels like Google did 15 years ago, before it destroyed itself.

Every time I use a search on another machine, my first reaction is “oh my god what is all of this shit everywhere? ads, spam, AI slop, shopping garbage, etc”, then I quickly realize it’s not my computer and that’s just what Google looks like now.

dealing with incoming spam is just way more work than paying to have it hosted.

The right way to deal with spam is not to use filters in the first place. It’s not like Gmail or Proton or <insert your favorite email provider here>'s spam filters are perfect either, far from it, they still let a ton of shit through. The right way to deal with spam is to use unique aliases for each account that you can shut down if they leak.

Every single smart TV I’ve ever owned, from every manufacturer, with every OS, has been complete ass. Slow, clunky UI, poor updates, apps disappearing, etc. Don’t bother. Buy a TV for the picture quality and ignore the UI entirely, then plug an external box into it. I use Apple TV personally. The TV never gets connected to the internet at all.

Old Trek covered social justice issues by putting people who were being marginalized in our society in powerful roles, then having them do their fucking jobs, and do them well.

New Trek covers social justice issues by having bridge crew members sitting around crying about childhood issues from 20 years ago while the universe is actively being destroyed, and instead of being kicked off of the bridge so they can get their shit together, the rest of the bridge crew sits around and comforts them while some no-name ensign silently saves the day in the background. Or some member of the bridge crew, completely unfocused and not paying attention to the problem at all, accidents their way into saving humanity.

These are not the same.

Most of that rant is about Discovery. I hate Discovery. SNW is much better when it comes to this.

In my opinion, Proxmox is worth it for two reasons:

1. Easy high-availability setup and control

2. Proxmox Backup Server

Those two are what drove me to switch from KVM, and I don’t regret it at all. PBS truly is a fantastic piece of software.

They explicitly said that the goal of buying it was to turn it into a rightwing propaganda machine

It’s a scam because the prices they’re charging right now don’t reflect the actual costs. AI companies are trying to get people and companies hooked on it so that once they crank the prices up by 10x to start turning a profit, they’ll be able to maintain some semblance of a customer base. If they were charging the real prices a year ago, the AI bubble would have never reached the levels it has, and these companies wouldn’t be worth what they are now. It’s all propped up on a lie.

Every couple of days. I don’t auto-update, but I’ve streamlined the process to the point that I can just open a single web page and see the number of pending updates for every system on my network, docker containers included, each one with a button. Clicking the button applies the update and reboots if necessary. So it takes about 15 seconds of effort to update everything, which is why I don’t mind doing it so often.

The reason you see simple messaging from the right and not the left, is because lies are simple. If you’re just making shit up, you can make it as simple and meme-worthy as you want, it doesn’t matter. The truth is always more complicated, so if you want to tell the truth, you have to explain in something other than memes and simplistic pictures like this one. You need articles, or at least a paragraph or two of explaining, which means reading.

I don’t have any problems with building beautiful things like cathedrals or making art in the name of God

What about Catholics praying to little figurines and statues of saints? Because that’s been going on for a long time

*Raises hand*

I’ve experienced far fewer bugs on KDE 6 than Mint or Cinnamon, and I refuse to use GNOME. What else are you comparing against?

1/3 of the population thinks this is acceptable behavior for a leader. And another 1/3 can’t make up their mind either way. This is why we’re doomed as a country.

I am more surprised by how popular Proxmox seems to be here, which is really just adding a lot of unnecessary complexity

I switched to Proxmox for one reason: PBS. As far as I know there is no match with plain KVM. Proxmox also makes setting up and maintaining a high-availability setup very easy, which is a nice bonus.