klangcola

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What is tool / technology has come closest to becoming your "Digital Aristotle" ? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
[โ€“] klangcola@reddthat.com 1 points 3 days ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khan_Academy

Flip the classroom: Each student watches the lecture at home at their own pace (with individual pause and rewind). Assignment are done as during interactive classroom sessions, not as homework

Do you still use compact discs? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
[โ€“] klangcola@reddthat.com 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I still have a couple DVD drives. They're both disconnected because the PCs they're in both got new motherboards at some point in time without an IDE plug ๐Ÿ˜…

What AI do you pay for, if any? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
[โ€“] klangcola@reddthat.com 18 points 5 days ago

All of them. Not directly, but RAM and SSD price explosions hurt. Also buying electricity for my home heater from the same market as billion dollar data centers hurt too

Which is better, Unity or Godot? in c/programming@programming.dev
[โ€“] klangcola@reddthat.com 9 points 6 days ago

That was 3 years ago already?! Shit I'm getting old

Can/should I put Modding projects for closed-source games on Codeberg? in c/opensource@lemmy.ml
[โ€“] klangcola@reddthat.com 10 points 6 days ago

Tldr: don't let Perfect be the enemy of good

I don't know about Codebergs policy on the matter, but morally I think there's nothing wrong with putting open-source mods for closed-source games on Codeberg.
I always use FOSS software whenever possible, even if they're lacking in some aspects compared to closed-source alternatives, but have no problems with closed source games. Games are entertainment, not utility. Games have a short lifecycle compared to utility software. Games are often a one-time experience, and when you've finished a game it's done. (Nobody ever "finished" their use of Notepad). Meanwhile developers gotta eat.

There's also some precedence for open-source projects that can only be fully accessed with closed source software, like open-hardware using Eagle for PCB and schematic design (before KiCAD truly took off), or Fusion360 for CAD ( FreeCAD development is accelerating though)

Which is better, Unity or Godot? in c/programming@programming.dev
[โ€“] klangcola@reddthat.com 76 points 6 days ago (3 children)

Building on top of Unity is a massive risk as made evident by last year's rug pull incident. And there's nothing stopping them from trying again

Anyone have some good electric cars? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
[โ€“] klangcola@reddthat.com 1 points 6 days ago

The 2024+ Long Range Single motor (rear wheel drive) is rated for 655km which is pretty decent. Compared to the 2021 first gen dual motor (long range) which was rated at 390km

Anyone have some good electric cars? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
[โ€“] klangcola@reddthat.com 2 points 6 days ago

BMW i5 Touring and Porsche Taycan Cross Turismo are the only electric stationwagons I know of. I share your dispair at the lack of "medium" size electric cars. For a decade there was only one sedan, the Tesla S. And later a second sedan, the Tesla 3. At least these days there's greater selection of sedans, though still not many wagons. Although to be fair there's hardly even fossil wagons for sale these days.

The prevelance of tiny or massive EVs kinda make sense. Small city cars are usually used for shorter journeys so they can get away with a smaller lighter batteries. Big SUVs are heavy to begin with, so the heavy battery doesn't make that a massive difference. Fossil sedans and estates can be relatively light but are still often used for long journeys, but a longrange sedan EV will be very heavy.

Trump Admits Americans Will Likely Die in New War Nobody Wants in c/nottheonion@lemmy.world
[โ€“] klangcola@reddthat.com 42 points 6 days ago (1 children)

There's strong Farquaad vibes here..

Some of you may die, but that's a sacrifice I'm willing to make

Anyone have some good electric cars? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
[โ€“] klangcola@reddthat.com 25 points 6 days ago (5 children)

The Polestar 2 is great at being a (fun) car first and a electric car second, if that makes sense. The door handles are just regular door handles, the instrument cluster has an extremely clean and minimal design without visual noise, there's physical buttons for the radio and defroster and the gear (direction) selector! Range isn't as amazing as Tesla 3, but as a daily car I think it's nicer. Also the optional tow hitch is rated for a 1t trailer load which is a bit more than the Tesla 3.

Skoda Enyaq is another good alternative, though slightly bigger, more of an SUV. The Honda E was really fun to drive, but a bit expensive given size and range. For smaller cars the Renault Zoรซ is a a top contender, and quite popular here Kia has a whole range of great EVs, as does VW.

If I was in the market for a new car, I'd be seriously looking at the new Mazda 6e right now. It looks slick as hell, and it's one of the very few non-SUV non-5-door-hatchback EVs on the market. Another alternative is BMW i4 and i5. The i5 is even available as a stationwagon / estate , which as far as I know is a first for EVs.

The Lucid looks slick as well, for those with deeper pockets :D

You didn't mention where you live or what size and budget you're looking at, some of these models may not be available in all markets, and as you can tell wary greatly in size and cost

Must know/use sites for newcomers to the fediverse? in c/fediverse@lemmy.world
[โ€“] klangcola@reddthat.com 2 points 1 week ago

You can subscribe to a peertube channel with a Mastodon account if you want

Norway (population: 5.7m) beats US (342m) to top Winter Olympics medal table in c/europe@feddit.org
[โ€“] klangcola@reddthat.com 6 points 1 week ago

Huge, but full of rocks and mountains and fjords. "Arrable land" is at a premium. Norwegian farmers look at danish and Dutch fields with much envy

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Why use Named volume vs Anonymous volume in Docker? (reddthat.com)
 

What are the pros and cons of using Named vs Anonymous volumes in Docker for self-hosting?

I've always used "regular" Anonymous volumes, and that's what is usually in official docker-compose.yml examples for various apps:

volumes:
  - ./myAppDataFolder:/data

where myAppDataFolder/ is in the same folder as the docker-compose.yml file.

As a self-hoster I find this neat and tidy; my docker folder has a subfolder for each app. Each app folder has a docker-compose.yml, .env and one or more data-folders. I version-control the compose files, and back up the data folders.

However some apps have docker-compose.yml examples using named volumes:

services:
  mealie:
    volumes:
      - mealie-data:/app/data/
volumes:
  mealie-data:

I had to google documentation https://docs.docker.com/engine/storage/volumes/ to find that the volume is actually called mealie_mealie-data

$ docker volume ls
DRIVER    VOLUME NAME
...
local     mealie_mealie-data

and it is stored in /var/lib/docker/volumes/mealie_mealie-data/_data

$ docker volume inspect mealie_mealie-data
...
  "Mountpoint": "/var/lib/docker/volumes/mealie_mealie-data/_data",
...

I tried googling the why of named volumes, but most answers were talking about things that sounded very enterprise'y, docker swarms, and how all state information should be stored in "the database" so you shouldnt need to ever touch the actual files backing the volume for any container.

So to summarize: Named volumes, why? Or why not? What are your preferences? Given the context that we are self-hosting, and not running huge enterprise clusters.

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YouTuber Smii7y discovers the way of Rock and Stone (youtube.com)
 

The joys of discovering DRG for the first time and gleefully learning all the mechanics. Extra props for the careful and methodical test to verify if the game has Friendly Fire

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r/kde will go dark on 12/06 until further notice (www.reddit.com)
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Downvoting disabled, federated voting (reddthat.com)
 

Some instances disable downvoting. Is this intended to be for communities on that instance or users on that instance, or both?

I noticed while reading Memes@lemmy.ml ( https://reddthat.com/post/2053 ) that some commenters were talking about being downvoted, but I have no downvote button. Because downvoting is disabled on my instance?

How does it work the opposite way? Are users from lemmy.ml allowed to downvote on posts for example beehaw (who also has disabled downvoting)

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How does "language" selection work in Lemmy? (reddthat.com)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by klangcola@reddthat.com to c/lemmy_support@lemmy.ml
5 comments fedilink
 

Many instances say to keep language settings as "undetermined" otherwise you won't see most posts Example: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/59161 Example: https://reddthat.com/settings

Yet when I try to post a comment it will fail with language_not_allowed because initially there is no language selected. So I need to click on the "Select language" drop-down and choose English (the only option)

Actually in the Lemmy web interface (at least on my instance reddthat.com) the Post button will spin endlessly with no indication of what's wrong. Using the Jerboa Android app there's is the very brief error message language_not_allowed, and the comment disappears so I have to type it out again! On the Jerboa app there's also no option to select the language for the comment, so I can't use it to comment at all.

I experienced this language_not_allowed error while commentating on gaming@beehaw.org and lemmy_support@lemmy.ml , both English language communities

So how is this language setting supposed to work?

Is the language selected for posting comments the same setting as the profile setting, which the links recommend to keep as "undetermined" to be able to see (English language) posts?

Have i encountered a bug? Specific to my instance or Lemmy in general?

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