It’s not about education at this point, it’s about regulation. Without mandates and penalties there is zero incentive to change for the large corporate polluters.

Do you know if the new Messages “check-in” feature works with Android users? Or is it an iMessage feature only for other iPhone users?

I was briefly a moderator of a sub with a few thousand subscribers, the amount of spam alone made me give it up. It’s relentless and never stops. The only thing that made it tolerable was the mod features in Apollo. I can’t imagine what it’s like with some of these really active communities with millions of subscribers. People just don’t realize how prevalent the spam/harassment truly is online, and Reddit screwing over the volunteers who clean up that shit is enough to keep me off for good.

I’ve only been running a few services like AdGuard Home so I can’t speak to very heavy loads. I’ve had no issues with it. I probably wouldn’t run my Plex server on it but any regular network services should be fine.

I have mine sitting on a wire metal shelf so it gets plenty of air flow. I did misconfigure the Unbound DNS server to recursively query itself and CPU load was at 100% for several hours. I noticed it was warmer physically but it was not hot enough to give me any concerns. Still well within what’s safe to run.

It depends on your goals and what you mean by HA. Do you have multiple Internet connections at your home to utilize?

If you just want to make sure you can use the Internet if one of your ISPs go down, then yeah it sounds like the gateway group + failover is the way to go. Just know that existing connections are going to break because they're associated with a different WAN IP.

The magic of these specific SDWAN products like Speedify is they're essentially a VPN client that can (or claim to) multiplex over your multiple Internet connections, terminating at their servers. So in theory they can boost bandwidth, though I'd question how well it works in reality. Then when a link goes down, your clients continue on like nothing happened, because all their Internet connections are tunneled + NAT'd through their VPN servers.

You could get a similar result by combining the gateway failover + a Wireguard tunnel to your own Digital Ocean or Linode VPS, where you can then control things like your IP ranges, port forwarding, etc etc.

I haven't set this up exactly, although I have setup the Wireguard VPN side of it so that all the devices on a specific VLAN would appear in another location so I could stream a blacked out baseball game :). I think you could use WAN load balancing + a Wireguard tunnel if you wanted to achieve a similar multiplexing setup that Speedify would provide, but I haven't played with that since I only have a single ISP.

I personally use a Qotom PC. Not sure if it fits your exact requirements since you can’t get a PCI card into it, but it does have 4x1Gb ports. Works really well with opnsense.

I probably need to go back and replay to make a more objective opinion, but I remember the feeling of Gen 2 with the day/night cycle, breeding and baby Pokémon, and then when Pokémon Crystal came out with animated sprites during battle. Definitely my favorite.

I’m curious to see how they’ve made the gameplay. I’ve briefly played the first one on 3DS and it really didn’t appeal to me. Felt like it was targeted to someone much younger, but this sequel with all the coffee references and references to the movie feels more like a nod to the movie which did really well with old timer fans.

The only things I can think of are

• You are misremembering something. Maybe it was a different Pokémon you saw, or you battled someone with it (although I looked and didn’t see any trainer in Leaf Green with a Murkrow...) Or you played someone’s Fire Red and conflated the two.
• Non-genuine cart with a hacked ROM has exclusives from Fire Red added.
• An unknown/undocumented glitch caused you to encounter it.

The latter two seem unlikely and the first one seems most plausible to me. I don’t mean any offense and I’m not trying to call you out. Just feels like the most likely explanation.

The games don’t forget which version they are so that can’t be it. It’s not a single ROM that gets marked as red or green, each game is compiled and built to be what it is on the cart.

Other than that I really can’t think of what it could be. I agree, searching around online I haven’t found anyone or any glitches to explain that happening. Weird!

They did this with the the Spyro trilogy remake. The cart contains only the first game and you have to download the others. Kind of defeats the purpose of buying physical.

I’ve been with them for 12 years, so far so good. I was a little bummed out they discontinued their annual discount. They’ve been rebranding as Akamai Cloud in more and more places but I haven’t noticed any service impacts.

You can prevent this by adding a credit card to your account. It “upgrades” your status, and then as long as you stay in the free tier allocations you won’t be charged.

I currently use a custom filter/rewrite in AdGuard Home (similar to pihole).

An alternative to running a central dns server is to use mDNS. You can install a daemon on each server that you want to access via hostname, and then clients know that ServerName.local domains should be resolved using mdns. They send out a dns query to a local multicast IP, the daemon on the servers receives the query and the appropriate one responds. By design it’s local only.

I read somewhere that Lemmy.ml has basically maxed out its VPS with its provider, so they’re stuck for the time being, whereas Lemmy.world actually just upgraded its server hardware. Hoping they’ll migrate to a beefier server soon.

Pokémon Scarlet. I’ve got a bunch of the ominous stakes to find still, I was really trying to not use a guide but it’s been a few weeks now. Even with the performance issues I still really enjoy the story.

I also still need to get back to grinding for all the master trainer titles in Pokémon Let’s Go. We’ll see, as I get older it’s harder and harder to finish games at all.

The majority of Reddit's 57m users do not use 3rd party apps. In fact I'd argue most don't (or didn't) even know you could use a 3rd party app or understand why you'd want to. To them Reddit is just the app. So yeah, of course they're not participating in the protest.

I don't expect Reddit to go away or to be adversely impacted by this movement. But I'm not going to worry about what goes on there, similar to how I don't have a FB account and I don't worry about what the 1B other users are doing. I left Reddit for myself, if other people continue to use it then so be it.

How does that work with stop lights? I'd say most stop lights are longer than 1 minute, so does everybody turn their car off while waiting? Does that cause a noticeable delay when the light changes?

I was with you until the end there. Really uncalled for to call someone disgusting and wish harm upon them because they have a different opinion than yours.

If you read the article, it’s not about rich people seeing homeless folks, it’s about vandalism and open drug use on the sidewalks. You don’t have to be rich or white to feel uneasy while stepping over bodies sprawled out on the sidewalk or walking by human waste and needles in the bushes the next morning.

Perhaps there’s a middle ground like keeping the Wi-Fi on but requiring login with a (free) library card.

It is a pretty massive map. I used an online guide for determining the order of which gyms/star bases I would battle, and just explored from there.

I hope lemmy.ml can upgrade at some point. A lot of the slowness I'm running into is trying to browse/discovery communities that happen to live on that instance.