overview for lka1988

The FBI spied on a Signal group chat of immigration activists, records reveal in c/news@lemmy.world

[–] lka1988@sh.itjust.works 7 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

glorious implementation of fully gay space communisms.

I'm not gay, but this seems like a worthy cause. I'm in!

Epstein Emails in c/world@lemmy.world

[–] lka1988@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 week ago

Totally bogus

Got my robot vacuum running Valetudo the other night... in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

[–] lka1988@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago

I'm honestly not entirely sure. I've been eyeballing Valetudo for a few years now, but the price of the supported robots was out of my budget until I happened onto the $20 Wyze from eBay. Took a chance and won big. I'm into it a whopping $65. And a bit of labor to swap the motherboard (mine refused to run ADB at all). But that's the fun part for me.

Utah Judge Kills GOP Power Grab Plot in c/news@lemmy.world

[–] lka1988@sh.itjust.works 15 points 1 week ago

GOP: cheats

Judge: "That's illegal, these maps are more fair"

GOP: "tHaT'S cHeATiNg!!!!111!1"

Rest is a legacy feature I had deprecated in c/linkedinlunatics@sh.itjust.works

[–] lka1988@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago

I'm this way now. I genuinely enjoy my job, but when I'm off the clock, I'm OFF. My work phone and work laptop both stay in the work backpack until my next shift.

Rest is a legacy feature I had deprecated in c/linkedinlunatics@sh.itjust.works

[–] lka1988@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 week ago

Fuck Linkedin and the brown-noser assclowns that post this shit.

Glad I deleted my account there.

Justice Department has lost thousands of staff, is asking former lawyers to return in c/news@lemmy.world

[–] lka1988@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 week ago

"You got some shit on your nose!"

what would you do with an old dell server? in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

[–] lka1988@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 week ago

So, uh, exactly how "old" is that server? Because, if I understood it correctly, it should be based on 8th gen Intel, which makes this a solid piece of equipment in any homelab (provided you can deal with the noise and power draw).

AI models may be developing their own ‘survival drive’, researchers say in c/news@lemmy.world

[–] lka1988@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Not like it's gonna physically hold you back from cutting power to the servers. I think these AI dipshits need to be reminded that their golden child is one breaker away from not existing.

Some restaurant chains are sounding the alarm about consumers in c/news@lemmy.world

[–] lka1988@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago

That's just code for "the ~~sheep~~ customers will pay this price eventually"

Walmart could lose $2B if SNAP goes dark in c/news@lemmy.world

[–] lka1988@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

"Our profits are in the RED, pls give money daddy govt 🥺🥺" but also somehow still makes record-breaking profits.

Remember kids, when a company says their profits are in the red, that does not mean they are losing money - THEY STILL MADE A PROFIT. Just not as much profit as last year.

Online porn showing choking to be made illegal, government says in c/world@lemmy.world

[–] lka1988@sh.itjust.works 17 points 2 weeks ago

I already don't like that kind of shit, it's an immediate turn-off for me.

But - I also know there's a whole kink around it, and as long as it's consensual.....who tf cares?

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Got myself some energy monitoring Zigbee plugs and made an interesting discovery (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by lka1988@sh.itjust.works to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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I'm in the process of getting my Home Assistant environment up and running, and decided to run a test: it turns out that my gaming PC (custom 5800X3D/7900XTX build) uses more power just sitting idle, than both of my storage freezers combined.

Background: In addition to some other things, I bought two "Eightree" brand Zigbee-compatible plugs to see how they fare. One is monitoring the power usage of both freezers on a power strip (don't worry, it's a heavy duty strip meant for this), and the other is measuring the usage of my entire desktop setup (including monitors and the HA server itself, a Lenovo M710q).

After monitoring these for a couple days, I decided that I will shut off my PC unless I'm actively using it. It's not a server, but it does have WOL capability, so if I absolutely need to get into it remotely, it won't be an issue.

Pretty fascinating stuff, and now my wife is completely on board as well; she wants to put a plug on her iMac to see what it draws, as she uses it to hold her cross-stitch files and other things.

7 months later update:

I've expanded HA quite a bit and have a decent grasp on where my electricity is being used. Suspending my desktop has saved a shitload of power: under Linux, when suspended, it draws ~10W of power at any given time vs ~100W when idle. Also, I put smart plugs on the server cluster; the total usage of the entire cluster - 4 mini PCs, 1 SFF, and 5x HDDs (NAS) - over the last 7 months so far is currently at a whopping 465 kWh. That's ~66 kWh a month. Barely 5% of my monthly electrical usage.