vettnerk

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[–] vettnerk@lemmy.ml 63 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (7 children)

Because a well designed game does not include drudgery. "Work-simulators" focus on results and progress and gloss over many of the hours of outright boredom or physical exertion to get there.

For example, truck driving simulator does not include the pain in the ass and boring part of loading or unloading the truck. Farming simulator does not include the painstaking process of removing rocks from the field.

While I grew up on a farm, my first proper career was something called OBC seismic. What it is isn't as important as the fact that it involved placing a 6km long sensor cable on the seabed with a winch and position it properly. To do this right requires practice, and as the principle is farly easy I wrote a small simulator that our trainees could try out. At first they found it interesting, and even the seniors from other departments enjoyed toying with it. The biggest lack of realism was that it didn't involve doing it for 12 hours straight, only stopping to unscrew 25 meter sections and replacing them. Barring drudgery and repetitive boredom could've probably made it an interesting game similar to other work simulators.

[–] vettnerk@lemmy.ml 7 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Or the superior .bmp

Hey, it's lossless!

[–] vettnerk@lemmy.ml 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Depends on the currency, though...

[–] vettnerk@lemmy.ml 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I found mine here, I'm sure you'll recognize yours: https://m.gsmarena.com/sony_ericsson-phones-19.php

[–] vettnerk@lemmy.ml 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

Sony Ericsson W810i. Got it in 2007, I think. When it started to die on me in late 2009 i replaced it with an iPhone 3G, which was my first apple phone. It was also my last apple phone as I hated how locked down everything was.

EDIT: I just remembered I had a secondary dumbphone around 2012 or thereabouts. It was a dual SIM nokia of some sort that I used mainly as a backup phone in case my main ran out of battery while I was on the move.

[–] vettnerk@lemmy.ml 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

In 1999 when the entire town was on dialup, I set up this relatively small PC with FreeBSD 3.3 and eggdrop, and hid it in the school library. That way I had an IRC bot that worked while I was offline. After a while I also set it up to automatically grab files from FTP servers for me, but getting these out from the "server" offline was tricky due to 1.44MB floppies were the only removable storage I had available.

[–] vettnerk@lemmy.ml 2 points 10 months ago (2 children)

You can test it in the phone and see if it has any juice in it, then. If I were in your shoes I'd feel safe in testing it that way.

[–] vettnerk@lemmy.ml 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Presumably provided that they're with the correct team. I'm sure lgbtq fans and members of the opposing team is hated just as much as the cis/straight equivalent, which I guess is equality.

[–] vettnerk@lemmy.ml 20 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (4 children)

It's probably fine. The batteries don't care about moisture, as long as the pins don't get shorted or corroded.

If they were wet enough to short, the symptoms are usually a completely dead battery or it seeming puffy, a.k.a. spicy pillow.

You can measure the voltage with a voltmeter if you want to check. It should read around 3.5 to 4V, depending on charge.

Source: I handle a lot of LiPo batteries at work.

[–] vettnerk@lemmy.ml 4 points 10 months ago

My "salads" are technically that due to having cucumber in them. But other than that it's mostly just cheese which I don't like with olives.

[–] vettnerk@lemmy.ml 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I may have, I don't know enough about olives to tell. I usually just buy the biggest jar of castrated green olives that I can find here in scandinavialand.

 

Specifications:

  • Full size (80ish+ size with a reduced numpad will also work)
  • ISO key layout (as in, a proper Return key. ANSI can burn)
  • Numpad
  • Wireless (if possible)
  • Don't need any RGB
  • I don't care about keycaps, so any leftovers will do. They don't even have to be representative of the actual key, random letters and symbols will be fine, even duplicates

When I wasbinto RC Helicopters i liked flying, but didn't get much entertainment feom building. This other guy liked building but didn't care that much about flying. I was hoping to run into someone similar here.

EDIT: The helicopter sory as I posted it elsewhere, in case anyone cares. https://lemmy.ml/comment/2517850

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by vettnerk@lemmy.ml to c/noncredibledefense@sh.itjust.works
 

Hairy Mary armored train with hemp rope armor from the Boer War.

 

Simply put, what the title says.

The network is based on a centralized location and a bunch of satellite locations around the world. These satellite locations connect to the centralized location via IPSec VPN so we can service the production systems.

In the past these have been based on Fortigate 101 (D for the older ones, E for the newer ones), as well as Aruba 2930m switches, and for the most part this worked well. The only issue is that this was hard to manage on a large scale.

To make it more manageable we moved over to a setup around Cisco Meraki. MX85 as routers and MS225 as switches. This mane the management a lot easier, but with some significant drawbacks:

  • ONLY cloud managed
  • On our satellite locations the bandwith is often low or completely gone. Meraki don't like this at all.
  • Our satellite locations are mostly onboard ships, and Meraki s8mply doesn't handle the harsh operating environment as well as Fortigate+Aruba
  • Meraki doesn't provide a whole lot of info as to why when it is unable to connect to its cloud platform. It's pretty adaptive and tries a lot of configurations before it gives up, but in some cases it'd be nice to be able to set it up according to the wan connection available. Some sort of local diagnostics would be nice.

So, any recommendations for hardware that is:

  • Cloud managed
  • Allows local configuration when cloud is unreachable
  • Durable
  • Preferably with load balancing between up to four Wans
 

So, as any self-respecting datahoarder and selfhoster, I have my server rack populated with a few machines, churning along as they tend to my hobby-related projects. Now that I've started using Lemmy I'm toying with the idea of selfhosting an instance, as I have both the hardware, bandwidth, and skillset for it.

So my question is: Are there any advantages to it? And other than time and resources, what are the downsides?

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