a_fancy_kiwi

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Fantastic Four cast officially announced in c/marvelstudios@lemmy.world
[–] a_fancy_kiwi@lemmy.world 33 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

They should have cast Randall Park as Mr. Fantastic. Lean real hard into the multiverse

Sonequa Martin-Green felt 'kaleidoscope of emotions' over 'Discovery' ending in c/startrek@startrek.website
Sonequa Martin-Green felt 'kaleidoscope of emotions' over 'Discovery' ending in c/startrek@startrek.website
Papirus Icon Pack Update Adds 50+ New Icons in c/linux@lemmy.ml
What would you change about your favorite Linux distribution? in c/linux@lemmy.ml
Vision Pro - Community Question Thread in c/apple_enthusiast@lemmy.world
[–] a_fancy_kiwi@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

I don’t mean this to sound insulting but for regular people, the VR headsets of the last 10 years have been toys. You couldn’t really do work on them due to the low res screens. It wasn’t until recently that the screens have gotten decent enough to actually use for work. (Vision Pro, Bigscreen VR, others I’m not aware of)

Yes, you can still socialize with people irl but it’s not the same. It’s not the same as being able to sit down next to someone you care about, watch a show they were already watching, and share an experience with them. It’s very much a 1 experience per person per headset sort of thing. I’m not saying this is bad, more of just an observation/opinion

So from what I can tell, the Vision Pro is like strapping an iPad to your face. Yes you can still do work on it but it can’t replace a Mac (yet) and it only allows you to make one virtual screen per paired Mac. If it could Mac more virtual screens, I could accept the Vision Pro more than I do now. At the moment, a Mac or PC and 2 or 3 monitors seems like the better buy

I don’t have a problem with VR gaming, but this is Apple, almost none of the games people want to play support Apple hardware. So I see the Vision Pro as being way too expensive if you just intend to play games on it.

I don’t really have an issue with anything ND you said regarding children and VR. I understand why kids want VR because, with current tech, it still seems like a toy. I want to know what adults are doing with these things. More specifically, I want to know what adults whom are similar to me, are doing with these headsets.

I think you focused a little too much on when I said “healthy adult”. I didn’t mean to say VR is unhealthy, I just meant that I understand why people with disabilities would have more use for these than healthy people.

My opinion on the Vision Pro is that, in its current form, it’s really limiting for $3500. The tech is really cool, don’t get me wrong, I can see some uses for it, but atm, it still seems like an expensive experience you can’t share with others irl. Long term, I’m bullish on AR/VR, but for now, the compromises are off putting

Vision Pro - Community Question Thread in c/apple_enthusiast@lemmy.world
[–] a_fancy_kiwi@lemmy.world 9 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (7 children)
  1. How long can you comfortably wear it?

To be honest though, I’m more interested in the type of person who wants one. I’m not judging, I just don’t understand why a healthy* adult would want one in it’s current state.

  1. What are you going to be doing with it? Work? Consuming content? Etc.
  2. This might be too personal but, are you single? do you have a partner? Kids? If you live with literally anyone else, how do you feel the dynamics will change, if at all, when you throw a Vision Pro into the mix?

*if someone has a disability, yeah, VR and AR might really help them out in their day to day activities, especially with the eye tracking tech it has. Even being able to see environments that they might not normally get to experience in real life would probably be pretty novel

Distro hoppers, what's always on your install list when you've finished setup and logged in for the first time? in c/linux@lemmy.ml
[–] a_fancy_kiwi@lemmy.world 15 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)
  • fish
  • tmux
  • sshfs
  • htop
  • nmap
  • distrobox (haven’t tried this yet but looks amazing)
  • zfs (and any utilities that go with that)
  • sanoid
  • syncoid
  • tailscale
  • snapper (if using btrfs)

As far as config files go, I haven’t gotten around to automating those so I usually search my nas for old ones and copy/paste what I need

Apple will avoid ban by selling latest Apple Watches without blood oxygen feature in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] a_fancy_kiwi@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

What’s your use case? The majority of people will be fine without it so I was just curious if you were doing something interesting with it

RaspberryPi becoming unresponsive at random intervals in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
[–] a_fancy_kiwi@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

I upgraded to the Pi4 but I use this case. It has a daughter board that lets me use an m.2 SATA SSD over USB. But any USB to SATA adapter should work fine

RaspberryPi becoming unresponsive at random intervals in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
[–] a_fancy_kiwi@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago (5 children)

I’d bet $1 it’s the SD card. My 3B+ used to have the same problem. Been running pis off some sort of SSD ever since, no issues.

[DWM] oMg ItS My FiRst PoSt!!! in c/unixporn@lemmy.ml
[–] a_fancy_kiwi@lemmy.world 7 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Why choose OpenBSD over FreeBSD? Any noticeable differences? I know it’s supposed to be a more security focused BSD but I hear it has fewer maintainers? The idea of a BSD appeals to me but the hardware compatibility holds me back. Just curious what your experience is like

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Help with understanding throughput of pcie and hard drives (lemmy.world)
submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by a_fancy_kiwi@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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I've been interested in building a DIY NAS out of an SBC for a while now. Not as my main NAS but as a backup I can store offsite at a friend or relative's house. I know any old x86 box will probably do better, this project is just for the fun of it.

The Orange Pi 5 looks pretty decent with its RK3588 chip and M.2 PCIe 3.0 x4 connector. I've seen some adapters that can turn that M.2 slot into a few SATA ports or even a full x16 slot which might let me use an HBA.

Anyway, my question is, assuming the CPU isn't a bottle neck, how do I figure out what kind of throughput this setup could theoretically give me?

After a few google searches:

  • PCIe Gen 3 x4 should give me 4 GB/s throughput
  • that M.2 to SATA adapter claims 6 ~~GB/s~~ Gb/s throughput
  • a single 7200rpm hard drive should give about 80-160MB/s throughput

My guess is that ultimately, I'm limited by that 4GB/s throughput on the PCIe Gen 3 x4 slot but since I'm using hard drives, I'd never get close to saturating that bandwidth. Even if I was using 4 hard drives in a RAID 0 config (which I wouldn't do), I still wouldn't come close. Am I understanding that correctly; is it really that simple?

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Cracking/tinny sound on Apple TV 4k after TvOS 17 update (lemmy.world)
 

PSA

After updating to TvOS 17, my Sonos Beam sound bar started making weird crackling sounds and music sounded tinny. Turns out, I had to change the audio format in the Apple TV settings from Stereo to Dolby Digital 5.1 for the issue to be fixed.

Not sure what I had that setting set to before but I’m leaning toward the idea that the update reset the audio format back to default settings. If you are having sound issues after updating, that might be the issue.

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Setting up a Home Assistant as a KVM - resize qcow2 and set up network bridge device [Guide] (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by a_fancy_kiwi@lemmy.world to c/homeassistant@lemmy.world
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I occasionally find myself reinstalling home assistant and every time I do, I get stuck on two steps because I forgot the commands and didn't write them down from the last time. I'm writing them below mainly for myself but also for anyone else who may get stuck. For future reference, I'm using Ubuntu 23.04 with Virt-Manager.

Before you begin the installation of the provided qcow2 image, you might want to resize that image from 32G to whatever size you want. ex:

qemu-img resize haos_ova-10.3.qcow2 +68G

Next, you might want to make a network bridge device. Navigate to your netplan folder and backup the yaml file that's in there (your file may be named differently)

cd /etc/netplan

cp ./01-network-manager-all.yaml ./01-network-manager-all.yaml.old

Edit the yaml config.

nano ./01-network-manager-all.yaml

Change the renderer to networkd and add the bridge device (br0). Your ethernet device may not be named enp12s0, make sure to use your ethernet device name. If you are on wifi, look up a netplan wifi config and make adjustments as needed.

network:
  renderer: networkd
  ethernets:
    enp12s0:
      dhcp4: true
  version: 2
  bridges:
    br0:
      dhcp4: yes
      interfaces:
        - enp12s0
      parameters:
        stp: true

save the file. generate and apply the new netplan. WARNING - If you are hosting this on your own network, it's possible the Ubuntu host IP could change. If you were doing these steps over SSH, you might need to find the new IP and reconnect. Static IPs can be set in the netplan config but I usually just do it from my router settings afterwards which is probably why the IP changed.

netplan generate

netplan apply

Now just go through the installation process and when you select your network device, make sure you select "Bridge Device" and the device name is "br0"

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