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I decided to give it an honest try after somebody mentioned it on lemmy a few weeks ago.

… I really like it.

I still pop open Theia if I’m just doing some research that has me hopping all around, or sometimes on a separate monitor for a referenced project/library associated with my work, but I do the actual work in Helix.

Good for you Nvidia. I just switched from Nvidia to AMD during that minor price dip. Been wanting to for years but couldn’t afford it.

… Not going back : D

This is my favorite reason

Not an engineer but I took calculus 1, 2, 3, discrete math, linear algebra, statics, dynamics, and probably others I’m forgetting.

Since school, I needed one trig function for calculating distance between lat/long coordinates that I looked up on Wikipedia and plugged in to a program.

… Statics was fucking cool though.

behavior that doesn’t align with the C standard … but was introduced by MS

Yep, that tracks. I’m still pissed off about microsoft’s non-standard implementation of HTTP 1.1 from however long ago it was that I had to conditionally work around it on the server side. They believe standards don’t apply to them and it seems like they’re right.

I’m with you…

Cut the lock shackle, remove lock from brake and ring… Nothing happens??

Or if you’re paranoid, cut the grenade ring first, then cut the lock.

You’re awesome. Keep up the good work.

It makes me really happy that people can say “500gb … not too much of an ask” these days.

Yeah, I feel the same in that it’s assuredly doable, but how hard is it?

If you’re able to dig into and make some progress, please tag me because I’m interested but don’t have much time these days.

You’ll definitely beat me to it : D

Do me a favor and tag me when you post your how to?

What other services are you running?

@fmstrat@lemmy.world asked what else I was running in a sibling comment to yours and I didn’t have an answer because I’m not… yet : )

That’s a good question (and good idea) that I hadn’t really thought about past a collection of ZIMs. The one I built advertises it’s own AP SSID that anyone can connect to and then access the ZIMs that are served via kiwix-serve on HTTP/80. That is, I wanted a single, low power, headless device that multiple people could use simultaneously via wifi and browser rather than a personal device.

I hadn’t really thought about other helpful services past that. I mean, we’ve got a (wee) server so why not use it? I like the idea of OSM and their website is open source but has a lot of dependencies :

openstreetmap-website is a Ruby on Rails application that uses PostgreSQL as its database, and has a large number of dependencies for installation

A fully-functional openstreetmap-website installation depends on other services, including map tile servers and geocoding services, that are provided by other software. The default installation uses publicly-available services to help with development and testing.

I wonder how hard it would be to host everything it needs locally/offline… and what that would do to power consumption : )

Thanks for the idea - something to look into, for sure.

Last time I updated it was closer to 120GB but if you’re not sweating 100 GB then an extra 20 isn’t going to bother anyone these days.

Also, thanks for reminding me that I need to check my dates and update.

EDIT: you can also easily configure a SBC like a Raspberry Pi (or any of the clones) that will boot, set the Wi-Fi to access point mode, and serve kiwix as a website that anyone (on the local AP wifi network) can connect to and query… And it’ll run off a USB battery pack. I have one kicking around the house somewhere

I just set up a new home lab server and my first instinct was the latest Debian.

… Seemed fine to me.

In my head too. We can share though.

This post is very timely because I was just introducing some new people to Mongo earlier this week and led off with “Now you might still hear people say ‘mongo is trash, it’s not even ACID compliant!’ but those people are dumb… it’s had that for years and years and is just another DBMS at this point (but not relational)”

… the last part also answers the other reply to this post. Yes.

If by AC you mean air conditioner, I just replaced mine with a 50+5uF dual cap @ 370/440 VAC

This is awesome. Thank you