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[–] [email protected] 1 points 37 minutes ago (1 children)

Russia was bombing civilian targets from the start.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

Social security is not identification though. We can't call it that because its a crap ID. Closer would be RealID, but that's still reliant on the state.

So I'd disagree saying SS is a national ID, its a number not identification.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 9 hours ago (5 children)

We don't have a national ID, which is part of the issue. As a result, regular identification is by state depts (motor vehicles).

It also means for passports, you need to either fill out the form and mail it in, or visit a State Dept office for some expedited options (requires specific reasons to do so, requires an appointment).

In recent years, the Postmaster General has royally screwed the post office (that's a whole separate thing, so I won't go into that here. Short answer, Trump). So it runs pretty inefficiently, and that's the main way that people are getting passports.

So... Several reasons why.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 hours ago

Guys that do stupid shit like this aren't thinking

Eh, or they are and this is the emotion they want to feel, the power over others. Which makes them the wrong choice to be a cop, but the "right" choice when it comes to how most departments actually are right now.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

Yeah, I just glanced at the top few drives I've pulled from my three NAS (bigger drive in there now) - two 500gb and a 4tb.

I've also got a ps3 sitting around, so maybe some weekend fun since I haven't touched it in years.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Yeah all of my servers are on usff PC's, so I get it.

If you do a hypervisor like proxmox, then throw your NVR in a VM, you can just create a couple of virtual NICs (though you'll be back at that FW issue I'm sure).

USB NICs are pretty well supported these days though, and cheap to boot. Just need to be certain you've got usb3 if you want to make use of that gig though!

I've got a few pi-a-likes that I'm doing similar camera fun with, though using some webcams in there and a 3d printed case. At least that way they match my diy temp sensors with esp32s!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Dual nic NVR then? You could even just throw a simple switch with no uplink (but preferably managed so you can tag the traffic) and for extra safety just allow only the LAN traffic you want on the NIC/Port connected to your regular LAN from the NVR.

Nothing wrong with a DIY can though! As long as it works of course

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Reolink, amcrest. Amcrest dont get anything starting with ASH in the model name.

If you want ONVIF, be sure to check the specs, many cheaper models drop support, but not all.

Some YI cameras have easily replaced firmware and can do rtsp too, but you have to do your homework on those models to be sure you're getting one that can be modded.

You'll still want to (IMO) toss any of them in a vlan without internet access, and rather than provide that vlan access to an NVR on another vlan, I'd lean toward your NVR having a second connection to that vlan. I'm a huge fan of segmentation though, so YMMV.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 2 days ago

It just implies it.

The records of what she does, and the performative activism, which takes place entirely and exclusively during presidential election years - that's what shows she isn't putting in the work.

After repeatedly losing in Mass, the only time she runs for anything is for presidential elections. This also demonstrates she isn't putting in the work, or she would have more involvement in more local elections.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

That is about the most generic statement possible, with nearly zero knowledge of what I'm doing on yours.

So... What problem? Feel free to enlighten me.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

Yeah, there have definitely been, we'll call them "prominent posters" here who fit the bill.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Eh, I'd say mostly.

I have one right now that looks at data and says "Hey, this is weird, here are related things that are different when this weird thing happened. Seems like that may be the cause."

Which is pretty well within what they are good at, especially if you are doing the training yourself.

 

TL;DR: Got any of them "banned" book recommendations for kids? We have a 2 1/2yr old and a 6 yr old who love book time


So a recent popular post in politics was about a book that stirred up controversy - My Shadow is Purple, which is the second book in a series (Here's the first).

Local library doesn't have them unfortunately, so I'll be putting in a request (then checking out a local store).

It made me wonder about some other great books out there that more conservative areas might not have. My township is pretty progressive (, but not large, so the school library is only OK. The county library is literally a few blocks away, so no town library. And while amazing as a library, the in-county magas have made the library slow down on some kinds of books. Its ridiculous, but one problem at a time.

So I'm hoping to get some kids books they might not otherwise see, like the My Shadow is Pink/Purple books mentioned, but I don't know what's out there.

Anyone have some favorites to share for the young kids? Looking forward to any ideas!

 

I got my hands on a Lenovo ThinkSmart Hub 500 - you may have seen these in conference rooms, its a small Teams Room or Zoom Room device, based off their Tiny lineup, with a built-in touch display thats about 11" in diagonal.

https://psref.lenovo.com/syspool/Sys/PDF/ThinkSmart/ThinkSmart_Hub_500/ThinkSmart_Hub_500_Spec.pdf

I left the 128gb nvme in there for now, and threw Debian 12 on it. Touch worked throughout the installation process, all I did was attach a keyboard, power, and network (along with the thumb drive with netinstall), now installed with KDE.

Considering the specs, the only part I'm surprised works well is the touchscreen, its otherwise just a generic lenovo tiny (which I have several of already, 6th-9th gen, as part of my tiny/mini/micro server stack). I could have chosen a different flavor, but I'm a long, long, loooonngggg time Debain user so its my go-to.

In terms of touch, tap, drag, and long press are all working. Video looks good with the UI set at 125% scaling, and to be candid its rather snappy and responsive.

I did this 100% for my own personal entertainment, so now for some thoughts for the community - what would be fun to use it for? A few of my thoughts....

  • I could use it as a HomeAssistant kiosk. Neat, but.... overkill compared to the tablets doing the same job.
  • Make it an emulation station, attach my steam controller and maybe my usb adapters for N64/GC/Sega/PS/etc.
  • Use it to test a series of distributions to see how well they handle touch drivers for this silly thing (EndeavorOS is probably going to happen, I may be a long time Debian guy but I should spend more regular time in other things, and not just my arch VMs).
  • I don't know, gcompris for my kids? They already have it though on an android tablet and an old mac mini (like, 2011ish) hooked up to the TV in the living room.
  • Make it another proxmox endpoint for the cluster, install a DE anyway, and then let it be an always-visible display for grafana?
  • Install OBS, let the hdmi capture have some purpose?

What about you folks, what would you find fun to do with this box?

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eBook Library Structure (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

TL;DR: How do you sort your books for your book server?


I'm thinking of reworking my eBook/comic/etc library, and I'm curious how other people structure things.

I don't want to separate fiction out by genre or anything since some can fit multiple genres, so I'm leaning towards Dewey decimal system categories personally.

I'm also planning a bit ahead since my daughter is now starting to read more than sight words books, so I'm thinking of separating kids fiction and adult fiction.

I also currently have a section for comics, manga, and LNs. Those are separated mostly for who goes to what, and what they do/don't want to read. So my library right now (plus the kids section) will look like:

  • Kids Fiction
  • Adult Fiction
  • Comics
  • Manga
  • Light/Web Novels
  • Non-Fiction

Simple for navigation, and searchable, but maybe not the best for browsing. So I was thinking maybe the Dewey categories:

  • Computer Science, Knowledge, and Systems
  • Philosophy & Psychology
  • Social Sciences
  • Language
  • Science
  • Technology
  • Arts
  • Adult Fiction
  • Kids Fiction
  • History/Geography

Nicely browsable, but some of those sections will be really light on books.

What method of sorting do you use? Any librarians out there with thoughts on better approaches than the Dewey decimal system?

EDIT: I really like what @[email protected] mentioned, which I've currently adapted to:

  • Instructional (How-to, manuals, gardening, etc)
  • Tech (Electronics reference materials, programming reference books, etc).
  • Equine (all my wife's horse stuff)
  • Kids Fiction
  • Kids Non-Fiction (I've got some geography books and such my daughter likes, I'm sure it will expand over time)
  • Adult Fiction
  • Adult Non-Fiction
  • Comics
  • Manga
  • LN/WN

I can easily allow the kids accounts to have access to the Kids section, not include the comics/manga/tech my wife has no interest in, etc.

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