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People older than 35: do you remember the first time you used a GPS device to get somewhere?
  • Yup, was a Garmin. Part of me has been a little worried cause i can't find my way anywhere without GPS anymore, and Google has been getting shittier every day.

    Hell, I remember the first time I used maps on a computer to plan and print a route, and the first time I could do it online with MapQuest.

    Those were moments that the Internet really felt like the future.

  • Have you ever tasted your pet's food?
  • lol what a weird take. all the problems of overconsumption and ecosystem collapse aside, theres not much inherently worse about seafood than landfood.

    cats arent more picky than us. they gladly eat all kinds of trash and raw dead meat. they're picky about what we feed them. The respective tolerance for "toxins" between us and cats is, again, relative to the environment we put them in and the specific set of toxins.

  • Have you ever tasted your pet's food?
  • wondered why your pet might not like particular foods?

    No. It's the same reason that you don't like particular perfectly good foods. They're attuned to different factors, but it's the same process to appeal to them.

  • Have you ever tasted your pet's food?
  • i worked at an animal hospital for a few years in my 20s (late 90s). I was also broke af punk kid living in a filthy punk rock house, barely able to afford my part of rent. So i'd bring home the pet food sometimes. It wasn't really inventoried, and it's nutrition. Do not recommend though, its a great way to get a bacterial gut infection since pet food regulations are very minimal.

    it ranges. some cat food is indistinguishable from canned tuna. the science diet I/D canine prescription tastes exactly like canned corned beef hash. the cheap stuff (kibbles&bits, fancy feast, etc) tastes exactly like you'd expect: bone meal, corn starch, and ash slag. cause thats the filler trash the cheap stuff is made of.

    generally though, most kibble just tastes like if you soaked grape nuts cereal in beef broth, and most wet food tastes about the same as canned horse. which is unpleasant.

  • How to avoid "things going wrong"? (Immutable distros?)
  • The answer to your overarching question is not "common maintenance procedures", but "change management processes"

    When things change, things can break. Immutable OSes and declarative configuration notwithstanding.

    OS and Configuration drift only actually matter if you've got a documented baseline. That's what your declaratives can solve. However they don't help when you're tinkering in a home server and drifting your declaratives.

    I’m pretty certain every service I want to run has a docker image already, so does it matter?

    This right here is the attitude that's going to undermine everything you're asking. There's nothing about containers that is inherently "safer" than running native OS packages or even building your own. Containerization is about scalability and repeatability, not availability or reliability. It's still up to you to monitor changelogs and determine exactly what is going to break when you pull the latest docker image. That's no different than a native package.

  • Light switch advice
  • Depends on the specific Zigbee switch, but generally yes.

    The magic is in the fact that you can decouple the relay, and use the switch as a sensor that triggers things that may or may not be related to the physical switch position.

    The other reason I like it better than a typical "smart switch" is that I can use the shellys with whatever switch I want, so I can have it match my dumb switches and use different colors.

  • Light switch advice
  • shelly relays will do exactly what you want. just wire them as disconnected switches. i do this to simulate 3-way switches, but it'll work just as well to swap circuit behavior.

    you can use a homeassistant action if you’re already using HA, or you can have the shellys call each others web api when it senses the switch.

  • Confused about Podman
  • Just cause you've never seen them doesn't make it not true.

    Try using quadlet and a .container file on current Debian stable. It doesn't work. Architecture changed, quadlet is now recommended.

    Try setting device permissions in the container after updating to Debian testing. Also doesn't work the same way. Architecture changed.

    Redhat hasn't ruined it yet, but Ansible should provide a pretty good idea of the potential trajectory.

  • Confused about Podman
  • It isn't. It's architecture changes pretty significantly with each version, which is annoying when you need it to be stable. It's also dominated by Redhat, which is a legit concern since they'll likely start paywalling capabilities eventually.

  • Confused about Podman
  • Every complaint here is PEBKAC.

    It's a legit argument that Docker has a stable architecture while podman is still evolving, but that's how software do. I haven't seen anything that isn't backward compatible, or very strongly deprecated with notice.

    Complaining about selinux in 2024? Setenforce 0, audit2allow, and get on with it.

    Docker doing that while selinux is enforcing is an actual bad thing that you don't want.

  • Stuck between an XSR900 or a z900rs
  • I owned a 2019 z900rs. My buddy owns an xsr900. The xsr feels like a modern street bike. The z900rs feels like a classic Kawasaki Z, with a shitload more power and traction control.

    Both feel sleepy once the retro novelty wears off. I traded the Z for a street triple.

  • Sunglasses?
  • Gatorz are tough as hell, and have some of the best polarized optics I've ever worn.

    They'll do lens replacements, and can make prescriptions as well.

    Careful leaving them on a car dashboard though. They're aluminum frames and I burned my temples once.

  • Anyone know of self-hostable security cameras?

    Edit: ideally wifi cameras that I can solar power.

    Looking to replace my Arlo cameras with something self-hostable. Arlo lets you store on a USB stick, but there's no way to get out from under their cloud, which gets more expensive all the time.

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    scuba @lemmy.world nottelling @lemmy.world

    Deep breathing vs. buoyancy question

    Pretty new diver here, about 40 dives, and looking for advice.

    Just finished up a week of dives in Grenada, and made a point of paying attention to air consumption. Based on Internet advice, I focused on breathing deeply and exhaling completely, counting 4 seconds in, 6 seconds out. Doing this, my computer reported average SAC has dropped from about 0.8 to 0.5, and I'm not the one calling dives for gas anymore. This seems like a great improvement.

    However, my buoyancy goes to shit when I'm doing this. Breathing more "normally", I can maintain a neutral depth with good trim. But with this more efficient breath control, I go up and down several feet with every breath. This actually makes it pretty easy to control when I ascend and descend, but obviously isn't great for most of the dive.

    If I try to breathe normally-but-slow, I feel like I'm hyperventilating.

    So what's the trick here? How do you both breathe efficiently and control your buoyancy?

    I think I'm pretty well weighted, since I have no problem maintaining my safety stop with the shallower breaths.

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