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Microsoft will kill Remote Desktop soon, insists you'll love replacement in c/technology@lemmy.world

[–] lka1988@sh.itjust.works 17 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Can we ban editorialized headlines? Please? This is incredibly clickbaity.

Android Self hosting in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

[–] lka1988@sh.itjust.works 2 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

There are root apps that can limit battery charge level. If you have an older phone that's rootable, I would look into that.

Android Self hosting in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

[–] lka1988@sh.itjust.works 2 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (2 children)

The VM eats through the battery, that's the only hangup I have with this. Otherwise that's a fantastic idea.

[Resolved] How to update Immich now that I am way behind? in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

[–] lka1988@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That first part is why I still maintain my Google Photos account. I have most of it on Immich at this point, but given that's still in active development, I like having options.

Self-hosting minecraft in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

[–] lka1988@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 days ago

That's a solid 3rd party use case. I'm setting it up on my cluster right now.

Self-hosting minecraft in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

[–] lka1988@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

No, PC isn't Java only. PC is the only platform that can play Java, while literally everything else - PC included - can play Bedrock.

Bedrock has been the norm now for longer than Java was; sorry.

Self-hosting minecraft in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

[–] lka1988@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 days ago

If both are Bedrock, then no problem.

What host names do you use? in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

[–] lka1988@sh.itjust.works 7 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Physical machines (except my gaming PC) get Ratchet & Clank character names, and matching labels to go with it. My trusty sidekick Thinkpad T14 G1 is named "Clank". It runs LMDE.

VMs and LXCs get actually-descriptive names, since those are what run my services.

Gaming PC is called "Dagny"; it's a Scandinavian name for "a new day", since that PC was a gift to myself after my divorce. It's currently the only Windows machine in my house now.

Self-hosting minecraft in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

[–] lka1988@sh.itjust.works -1 points 5 days ago (5 children)

Maybe 5 years ago. Vanilla runs fine these days.

Self-hosting minecraft in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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

I run 7th gen Intel hardware for my server cluster. Minecraft VMs run totally fine.

Self-hosting minecraft in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

[–] lka1988@sh.itjust.works 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I've had zero issues running vanilla in a basic VM.

Self-hosting minecraft in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

[–] lka1988@sh.itjust.works 14 points 5 days ago (15 children)

Why is everyone suggesting random third party shit?

Straight from Mojang/Microsoft:

Bedrock: https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/download/server/bedrock

Java: https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/download/server

Follow the instructions and go.

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

submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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.