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Venezuela’s interim leader defies Trump and calls Maduro the ‘only president’ in c/world@lemmy.world

[–] lka1988@sh.itjust.works 5 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

That's what you got from this?

The Epstein files were heavily redacted. in c/whitepeopletwitter@sh.itjust.works

[–] lka1988@sh.itjust.works 2 points 9 hours ago

You, me, and 80 other people.

U.S. Has Captured Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro in c/world@lemmy.world

[–] lka1988@sh.itjust.works 4 points 9 hours ago

People who didn’t vote for Harris didn’t choose Trump, they just rejected Harris.

This is part of why the 2-party system we're currently stuck with is so problematic.

U.S. Has Captured Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro in c/world@lemmy.world

[–] lka1988@sh.itjust.works 1 points 9 hours ago

Again - that is a claim. Bring a source next time.

U.S. Has Captured Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro in c/world@lemmy.world

[–] lka1988@sh.itjust.works 15 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (6 children)

We're in a thread talking about the only other choice we had for president vs Trump, because of what Trump is doing as president, and you're going "well aCkShYuALLy" about it.

When faced with two choices (which itself is a problem that needs to be addressed), the American people picked the fascist pedophile over "woman who laughs weird" (something the GOP actually tried to use against her during their campaign).

she was also an american imperialist she made that clear.

If you've got any proof of that claim, lay it out for us. As someone who does not pledge allegiance to any politician in any way, shape, or form whatsoever, I would be very interested to see what you've got.

U.S. Has Captured Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro in c/world@lemmy.world

[–] lka1988@sh.itjust.works 19 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (9 children)

Yes, the fascist orange Nazi pedophile with dementia was a much better choice.

hmm in c/funny@sh.itjust.works

[–] lka1988@sh.itjust.works 3 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

Pretty hilarious to sell something like this when hShop exists. Nintendo shut down services for the DS family a couple years ago, so others created a third party "shop" with the entire library of DS/3DS software available to download entirely for free.

New York teachers stunned to learn some students can’t read time on old clocks after phone ban comes into play in c/news@lemmy.world

[–] lka1988@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 day ago

Chances are they were taught but never kept up on it because clocks all over these days are digital.

Israel accuses Mamdani of antisemitism on first day as New York mayor in c/news@lemmy.world

[–] lka1988@sh.itjust.works 27 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

but why are our news outlets amplifying their messages. They shouldn’t be

Because "our" "news" outlets are owned by the same people who funded the opposition to Mamdani in the first place.

Israel accuses Mamdani of antisemitism on first day as New York mayor in c/news@lemmy.world

[–] lka1988@sh.itjust.works 37 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

That's what fascists do. Take terms that are commonly understood to mean something serious and use it against every person/group they don't like until it loses all meaning. Then when the fascists are inevitably found to be acting exactly like that term originally described, they can discredit whoever is accusing them because "everyone uses that word for everything, you just don't like us" despite being the cause of that problem in the first place.

Elon Musk is giving legal help to an activist who posted a photo of a trans woman in a bathroom - LGBTQ Nation in c/news@lemmy.world

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

And here come the "bUt wHaT aBoUt [insert specific situation not remotely related to the issue at hand]????????"

Nuance, guys. We all know there are certain specific situations that necessitate a photo in the restroom. Those situations are not at all relevant here.

NAS decision paralysis in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

[–] lka1988@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

They walked it back for now. It's gonna come back. They've already shown they were willing to cross the line, and they will do it again.

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

submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 3 months 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.

7 months later update:

I've expanded HA quite a bit and have a decent grasp on where my electricity is being used. Suspending my desktop has saved a shitload of power: under Linux, when suspended, it draws ~10W of power at any given time vs ~100W when idle. Also, I put smart plugs on the server cluster; the total usage of the entire cluster - 4 mini PCs, 1 SFF, and 5x HDDs (NAS) - over the last 7 months so far is currently at a whopping 465 kWh. That's ~66 kWh a month. Barely 5% of my monthly electrical usage.