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[–] mbirth@lemmy.ml 19 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Same here. It's probably easier to print out the QR code(s) for your home wifi network(s) on a piece of paper and hand that to guests when they come over...

[–] mbirth@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago

It was exactly this and people were furiously pointing it out in the comments.

[–] mbirth@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Masters of Deception: The Gang That Ruled Cyberspace

I loved that book!

[–] mbirth@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 month ago (2 children)

No, the LIDAR is an infrared laser. Invisible and harmless to the human eye, but a phone's camera can pick it up. And due to the intensity, if going too close, it'll burn out the pixels of the camera sensor leaving permanent damage.

Here's a great demonstration: https://x.com/niccruzpatane/status/1924485047580586294

[–] mbirth@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You mean cyclists?

[–] mbirth@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Why do you prefer Discord? What do I miss?

I’ve had a discussion with someone about this. Apparently, there are people that enjoy the social contact. Some seem to like sitting in a Discord chat all day long and answering the same questions over and over again. Others like to “just ask” someone instead of looking for a solution themselves.

That there’s no clear structure of all the solutions provided via Discord and thus people have to ask the same things, nor a proper way of backing everything up in case Discord goes rogue seems to be blissfully ignored.

It’s probably part of the same phenomenon that, nowadays, people seem unable to write or read a few lines of documentation and instead create/watch 20 minutes on YouTube.

[–] mbirth@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Which Pi did you try? Since the Pi4/CM4 (can even work with SAS drives) and especially with the Pi5 you can build some nicely performing NASes.

[–] mbirth@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago

Not sure whether Cmacked still works…

[–] mbirth@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 month ago (3 children)

There are some passively cooled (i.e. no spinning fan) SFF Desktops (HP, DELL, etc.) or you could get a Raspberry Pi 5 and stick it into a Geekworm case. Power consumption with these devices should hover around 5W, maybe slightly higher under load. The Desktops most probably support WoL. The Raspberry Pi doesn’t.

[–] mbirth@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 month ago

Same with audiobooks. The “classic” way is to have several MP3 files - 1 for each chapter. This allows them to be played even on dumb MP3 players.

However, the M4B format allows for more modern AAC and HE-AAC encoding and adds metadata such as chapters directly into the file. This results in the whole audiobook being contained in just one single file and with much better compression than MP3. But you’ll need a compatible player to listen to them.

(I’ve transcoded most of my audiobooks to M4B as a collection of 320kbps Stereo MP3s doesn’t make sense for just spoken content.)

[–] mbirth@lemmy.ml 14 points 1 month ago (2 children)

To add to that: The “sharing” part is what’s prohibited in German law. (Remember: when torrenting you also upload chunks of the data to others.) The pure download is kind of a grey area and won’t be prosecuted.

[–] mbirth@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The version I had played around with about 10 years ago could.

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