Trainguyrom

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[–] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Okay, y'know how vanilla is very mid? Go buy a pint of vanilla yogurt, a bowl and a spoon and have it for breakfast or brunch. Or as a late night snack. My wife had a pregnancy craving for vanilla yogurt one evening and we've just kept a pint in the fridge ever since

[–] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 2 points 1 day ago

I enjoyed Andor but I think that has more to do with it seemed to focus far more on telling a good story than relying heavily on all of the tropes that make Star Wars content Star Wars

[–] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 2 points 1 day ago

My suspicion with Forrest Gump is more that it appeals to the people who saw live the news clips it parodies and lived through some of the times and experiences it depicts, since it depicts past events in a nostalgic tone, without ever trying to change how one might feel about any specific political policy that influenced the events, and it never tries to change anyone's mind about anything. It's just a story that never really challenges you

[–] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You can also see this when watching films from the 50s and 60s as they were really designed to cover a variety of genres at once. Has a little romance sub-plot for mom, action sequences for little Tommy and some cool cars/gadgets for dad. Y'know because everything had to be stereotyped to hell and back. But it is jarring seeing how much of variety films old movies really were

[–] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'm currently reading the LOTR books because I've never actually consumed any LOTR content and holy crap it's very long-winded. Entire conversations that could be just a couple of sentences go on for pages. I appreciate the incredible scope, the sense of scale and the creativity that goes into it but reading these books I can only think how perfect they are for adaptation into film or any other format really. Or if authors "covering" another's works like musicians do ever becomes a thing LOTR would be a fantastic candidate, because Tolkien's writing style is such a slog to read through

[–] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 1 points 1 day ago

It feels like it should've been 2 films. The last quarter or so of the film just felt a bit rushed and overly-convenient. I absolutely loved the world building and general lore to the movie though

[–] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 4 points 1 day ago

My wife addores early Adam Sandler films, and I've really never seen any of them. She had me sit down and watch one Adam Sandler film one evening and while I could not stand his character in Billy Madison and turned it off within a few minutes, Happy Gilmore was quite enjoyable and a fun subversion of golf tropes.

[–] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 2 points 1 day ago

I enjoyed Don't Look Up for the comedic pacing mostly. Where every time you seem to get a feel for the mood and direction it has something subversive to throw you off. Definitely could've been less on the nose with the allegory but some people just need some things shouted into their face for a chance at getting it

[–] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 3 points 1 day ago

I enjoyed Interstellar, but I also went into it expecting so-so sci-fi and instead got an interesting story with really cool world building. I guess my expectations for anything space in media are low enough to not be disappointed by most films

[–] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 1 points 1 day ago

Makes me wonder about a guy I knew about a decade ago who would dab like its a nervous tick. Learned from a friend who went on a date with him that he did so even more often after a few drinks

[–] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 4 points 1 day ago

The cursed Will Smith eating spaghetti wasn't the best video AI model available at the time, just what was available for consumers to run on their own hardware at the time. So while the rate of improvement in AI image/video generation is incredible, it's not quite as incredible as that viral video would suggest

[–] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 1 points 1 day ago

I can read! Honest!

 

cross-posted from: https://reddthat.com/post/39467662

A recent storm damaged the siding of my house so I'll have to have it replaced. The thought occurred to me to run some network cabling behind the new siding (and likely new insulation) while its all pulled off. Should I run standard riser cabling or outdoor-rated cabling if I do so?

Obviously the most ideal solution is standard in-wall but I don't have the appetite for such a project given half the house was built in the 19th century and I know such an undertaking would involve quite a few surprises that I almost definitely lack the know-how to handle, and I'll probably be moving in a couple of years so I don't want to invest too much time or money into the endeavor.

Alternatively is there a good type of conduit I could run instead?

 
 

I placed a low bid on an auction for 25 Elitedesk 800 G1s on a government auction and unexpectedly won (ultimately paying less than $20 per computer)

In the long run I plan on selling 15 or so of them to friends and family for cheap, and I'll probably have 4 with Proxmox, 3 for a lab cluster and 1 for the always-on home server and keep a few for spares and random desktops around the house where I could use one.

But while I have all 25 of them what crazy clustering software/configurations should I run? Any fun benchmarks I should know about that I could run for the lolz?

Edit to add:

Specs based on the auction listing and looking computer models:

  • 4th gen i5s (probably i5-4560s or similar)
  • 8GB of DDR3 RAM
  • 256GB SSDs
  • Windows 10 Pro (no mention of licenses, so that remains to be seen)
  • Looks like 3 PCIe Slots (2 1x and 2 16x physically, presumably half-height)

Possible projects I plan on doing:

  • Proxmox cluster
  • Baremetal Kubernetes cluster
  • Harvester HCI cluster (which has the benefit of also being a Rancher cluster)
  • Automated Windows Image creation, deployment and testing
  • Pentesting lab
  • Multi-site enterprise network setup and maintenance
  • Linpack benchmark then compare to previous TOP500 lists
 

I'm currently decluttering and reducing to get a handle on my home, and I've come to a conundrum of how many plates/bowls/cups/etc do I actually need? I have 2 young kids that we'd prefer not to have to run to the store at 8pm to buy more plates because someone ruined a plate, but very limited cupboard space (small 120-something year old house with a kitchen that was built in the 50s)

 
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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by Trainguyrom@reddthat.com to c/homelab@lemmy.ml
 

I'm just going to be vulnerable for a minute here. I met the first person in real life who had similar server-y linux-y obsessions to me and we'd send eBay links of systems to drool over to eachother. They ended up being a terrible person but hid it from me pretty well until they couldn't anymore and now I no longer have someone to chat with about those things.

So um, I guess I'm open for applications for the position of "nerdy friend who I nerd too hard with about network infrastructure and Linux packages" now

Edit: Autocorrect errors manually corrected

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