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Cake day: June 15th, 2023

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  • More than a dozen states that legalized marijuana have seen a spike in illegal marijuana grow operations that utilize massive amounts of electricity.

    I don’t know what a grow operation looks like, I’m betting charging my Electric Vehicle at home consumes more electricity than plant lights. That EV charging can pull 40 amps for upwards of 6 hours if the battery is dead flat when returning from a long trip. Seems like an easy way to mask a grow operation would be just to lower your EV charge (say to 20A or so) rate to stretch out the duration, then run the grow lights at the same schedule as the EV charging. There’s no way to know from the electrical meter what is consuming the electricity.





  • You could accomplish what you’re trying by putting the GPU in a second computer. Further, most UPSes have a data interface, so that you could have the GPU computer plugged into the UPS too, but receive the signal when power is out, so it can save its work and shutdown quickly preserving power in the UPS batteries. The only concern there would be the max current output of the UPS in the event of a power outage being able to power both computers for a short time.



  • Well, my mother has asked me to digitize her collection too and have me host it. Originally, fine, you give your movies to me, I host them, same thing.

    Did your mom buy your computer and hard drives? I doubt it. You spent your own money, right? So she’s giving you a whole bunch of stuff which is consuming your space. Quote out the cost of buying components for a separate server for her with her own drives. When she buys the parts, build her her own server and put her stuff on it.










  • Maybe its just me, but there is one very common thing that happen to me through any firefox (desktop or mobile) and irrespective of any specific lemmy server, and irrespective if I’m authenticated or browsing as public/anonymous.

    Lets say I’m looking at the front page of lemmy.world. I’ve reached the bottom of the page (lets call that page #0) and hit the “NEXT” button. The next page loads successfully displaying the next page of items (so now we’re on page #1). I click/tap into an article or comments of one. This loads successfully. When I finish reading, I click/tap the BACK button in the browser. Since I was on Page #1 I would expect to go back to Page #1. Instead I GO BACK TO PAGE #0! So I have to scroll to the bottom of Page #0, hit NEXT again, Page #1 loads successfully. If I were to click/tap into different article or comments, read, and hit BACK in the browser, I would have to repeat the same page #0, scroll to the bottom, hit NEXT to return to Page #1 again.

    Any ideas? Is there a different button somewhere in the body of the page I should be clicked a back function instead of using the browser built in BACK button?


  • So you’re recognizing that a bad command execution can exist in CDN or cloud provider, but where is your recognition of the tens of millions off bad command executions that happen in small IT shops every month?

    I looks like you’re ignoring the practical realities that companies rarely ever:

    • hire enough support staff
    • hire enough skilled staff
    • invest in enough redundant infrastructure to survive hardware or connectivity failures
    • design applications with resiliency
    • have high enough rigor for audit, safe change control, rollback
    • shield the operations stupid decisions leads impose because business goals are more important that IT safety

    All of these things lead to system impacts and downtime that can only come from running your own datacenters.

    The cloud isn’t perfect, but for lots and lots of companies its a much better and cheaper option than “rolling your own”.