merthyr1831

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“Piracy is piracy”: Disney and Universal sue AI image generator Midjourney in a Hollywood first in c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
[–] merthyr1831@lemmy.ml 5 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Big tech about to erupt into a civil war over whether or not they got into the AI slop bubble early.

Upcoming MMO 'BitCraft Online' will be open source in c/linux_gaming@lemmy.ml
[–] merthyr1831@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

i play the coop/ai games for this reason lmao

Upcoming MMO 'BitCraft Online' will be open source in c/linux_gaming@lemmy.ml
[–] merthyr1831@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I hope we see a blossoming of high quality open source games. Beyond all Reason is looking towards a Steam release within the year or so and it's really impressive how much love can be put into a game that is run almost entirely by donations!

*Permanently Deleted* in c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
[–] merthyr1831@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago

It looks like a very basic screening tool to block suspicious file extensions from being uploaded/downloaded. I wouldn't read (pun intended) into it too much, but it does mean you might have to work around it via sending epubs as zips or something. I doubt they bother scanning the contents of archives.

Google Wins Copyright Claim Dismissal in Publishers' Textbook Piracy Lawsuit in c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
[–] merthyr1831@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 month ago

in terms of the fight against AI slop this is terrible news. in the fight to access information media freely forever this is almost... good news?

NAS Power Consumption in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
[–] merthyr1831@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'm probably in a similar boat thanks to 4x NAS drives (in 2x mirror vdevs so essentially half as power efficient too). I wonder if using an SSD or two for things like caches would help with power draw since you could defer disk usage for longer by relying on a more efficient cache.

SnapRAID is also an option. One benefit is that multiple disks don't need to be spinning at once to access data. Downside is that your parity isn't calculated in real time so less data redundancy.

Made a big(?) mistake with `mv /*/*/* ./` in c/linux@lemmy.ml
[–] merthyr1831@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I'd probably do a clean install (eventually) even if it looked like stuff works for now.

I know the pain, though. did rm -rf in the wrong directory and wiped half my drive in seconds. Good times.

ISPs seem designed to funnel people to capitalist cloud services in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
[–] merthyr1831@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 month ago

It's a pain but also it's no surprise that DNS and ipv6 are premium when ipv4 and dynamic IP works so well for 99% of us. Even if you wanna host something publicly there are totally free services and software tools to cover most if not all caveats of not using ipv6 (for now).

I have selfhosted for years and only paid for a domain name recently.

Is that bad? in c/programmerhumor@lemmy.ml
[–] merthyr1831@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago

no fucking way

HDDs: How loud is *too* loud? in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
[–] merthyr1831@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 month ago

metronome for the other components to practice playing songs at the right bpm

Splitgate 2 finally playable on regular desktop Linux PC (May 26, 2025 Update) in c/linux_gaming@lemmy.ml
[–] merthyr1831@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 month ago

Never play R&C but this is more like Portal deathmatch I think?

how to set up a remote managed node for mom in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
[–] merthyr1831@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 month ago

Yeah even if you're someone who is super concerned about Jellyfin's API safety, it'll likely be less maintenance setting them up on tailscale than duplicating the streaming hardware. But that's assuming OP's family are as tech illiterate as mine

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I spent a week debugging a build issue (lemmy.ml)
 

Yeah, it was the cached dependencies, how did you guess?

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If I'm using *arr apps with qbittorrent, are active torrents duplicating data? (lemmy.ml)
 

I ask this because whilst *arr apps supposedly import downloaded torrents to their respective media folders, my downloads folder for qbittorrent is over 200GB in size when I've got zero incomplete downloads.

Have I set something up wrong? Or is it setting some kind of hard link between the downloads and media folder?

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Minecraft server hardware benchmarks (lemmy.ml)
 

Is there anyhwhere that has any kind of benchmark for different hardware when hosting minecraft servers? I'm considering migrating to my homelab from a sparkedhost instance but I dont know if it'll be worth potentially worse performance (Ryzen 7000-series x3 vCPUs versus my i5 9500 running concurrent services)

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Email provider for home server alerts (lemmy.ml)
 

Nextcloud, Qbittorrent, Truenas and loads of other svcs take optional email credentials for sending alerts and other features (eg. password recovery for nextcloud).

What email providers do people usually use to make this process simple to set up? For example, Microsoft doesn't allow basic auth anymore so it's supposedly not possible to use via most of these setups, and some other services seem like they have a low inbox size (does this matter?)

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Any OMV + SnapRAID/MergerFS users here? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by merthyr1831@lemmy.ml to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
9 comments fedilink
 

How is the drive management in OMV? I'm looking for something similar to UnRaid pools so i can add one drive at a time (ZFS makes you add vdevs of the same no. of drives).

I'm not too concerned with parity (ive got automated remote backups for sensitive info that I cant replace) but it would be good to know if I could swap drives out if I need to expand or replace anything too.

EDIT: with ZFS 2.3.0 supporting raid expansion, it might be worth me holding out for a year for that to become more stable, and migrate after. I only have 1 drive for now so it shouldnt be too bad if i made a new pool and moved stuff over to a 2nd drive

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Anyone tried assetto Corsa EVO today? Is proton looking good? (lemmy.ml)
 

I have high hopes for it but it's only just come out so could be rough around the edges.

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UK workers, do you have experience with organising remotely? (lemmy.ml)
 

I'm looking at my options for a potential union at my workplace. I'm aware of two (UTAW/CWU and Prospect), but are there any others?

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Anyone got the Asus Strix G15 Advantage? How is it with Linux? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by merthyr1831@lemmy.ml to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.world
11 comments fedilink
 

EDIT: Works out of the box. For best experience you'll want Fedora or Arch or SUSE which provide the asusctl package for modifying things usually only available on the ROG Control Centre for Windows. Dual graphics output from HDMI/DP also worked after an initial update and some reboots.

I'm looking at a pretty solid deal for the QHD model right now and I'm wondering if anyone has the same model already. How's the dual GPU setup?

I'm sorta hoping the 6800M can drive both display outputs without much hassle because I used to have to reboot when I had a 1650 mobile system in order to use the HDMI ports (they wouldn't output unless the desktop was running exclusively on the dGPU).

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England friends, just got off phone with adhd360 regarding right to choose (lemmy.ml)
 

good news; they've actually got my referral!

But info that might be relevant for people here; they're currently processing referrals made in July 2024, which from my last call seems to mean they're working them down at a little less than one month, per month.

Otherwise they're supposedly one of the faster RTC providers so still consider them if you're in England!

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Laptop charging ports aren't working anymore. Any way to fix at home? (lemmy.ml)
 

I've got a fairly new Lenovo Ideapad (14aph8) which up until yesterday charged just fine. Now the ports don't accept any charger at all, even their official one.

I've tried holding down the power button to dump static charge from the battery but at best I get maybe 2-3 seconds of it recognising the official charger before it goes dead again.

Is there a home fix or should I just reach out for warranty?

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"sub" meshes vs one monolithic mesh - Which technique should I use? (lemmy.ml)
 

So I've done 3D modelling in 3DS Max and I'm currently learning blender, and I'm beginning to look at creating more detailed models and learning about stuff such as managing topology.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEj1uHSu1Bw

I've noticed in videos such as this, instead of merging the meshes together and managing the topology of each detail/element, the modeller just creates a new mesh. Is this right? Or is there some benefit to combining these details into one "monolithic" mesh and then fixing any topology issues.

Is there much performance or other downside to creating multiple separate meshes like in the video? Am I overthinking this?

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