Are there more up to date, and not entirely useless acrobat reader admx files than the ones from 2015 I could find? Like, what use is “Disable JavaScript” when users can just open the pdf, and klick “enable all features”? That shit even works from unsafe locations…

Ideas for the best backup HD & software for my elderly parents?
*& for me, I'm too old to do tech support!!
#LazyWeb

Dumb E-bike question: what do I look for to pull kids in a trailer?

Was nimmt heutzutage, wenn man mal eben ein 50+MiB File jemandem zur Verfügung stellen will und keinen auf adminhassle hat?

Dear #LazyWeb #FediHerd,

with different disasters - both natural and otherwise - on the rise, I am looking for recommendations on a radio receiver that would be well suited (also) for in such occasions.

What I imagine - but if you thought it through better, do let me know - one would need:
- AM, FM, DAB (I imagine internet radio is most fragile)
- battery - either easy replaceable or rechargeable
- also work without batteries
- good quality and sturdy
- portable
- world coverage would be cool

Dear #lazyWeb & #lazyFedi,

I've built a small model in @OpenSCAD and I'm looking to get it 3D printed. Does anyone have any recommendations for 3D printing services?

I'd like it printed with a decent bit of mechanical performance. It will get wet, it will probably get oily and grimy. Part of it will be under "reasonable" compression load.

Are PCBWay or JLC any good? What about Treatstock? UK or EU preferred.

Personal experiences desired! I know how to Google/DDG.

#LazyWeb: At some point 15-20 years ago, I was reading some Austin’s Group rationale for deprecating ucontext_t and friends, which said it was the only safe way of jumping out of a signal handler but was problematic because people were using it to implement userspace threading and it was not safe to do so because this required synchronising state that was not always visible in userspace. I can no longer find this and it appears not to be in the rationale section for any #POSIX spec I’ve checked. Does anyone have the reference to hand?

Dear #LazyWeb / #lazyfedi,

I'm new to #k8s and am wondering how to handle templating large amounts of config files. I couldn't find anything super useful in my search so I have an #Ansible sidecar I run to generate the kustomizations and config files. My most recent Ansible change was 30 lines, it resulted in changing 5,000 lines of YAML which will further be fed to Kustomize.

There has to be a better way?

I've heard about Helm, Yoke, KRO, and using an operator pattern. My understanding of those options is:

* Helm - My Org recommends avoiding (I don't know why)
* KRO - Not stable, but FFS neither is Kustomize
* Yoke - Almost kinda operator pattern
* Operator Pattern - This feels like reinventing a fucking config manager (ala #Ansible, #Puppet, #Chef, #Saltstack) for every fucking project. What new hell this is.

I'm hoping I'm missing something because the only workable flow for this workload is:
1) Create ansible roles/playbook to generate the kustomization.yaml and resources
2) Generate those kustomizations, check them into git
3) Use Kustomize via GitOps to expand the YAML even more
4) Push a metric fuckton of YAML to production

I'm losing my mind over here.

Dear #lazyweb #homeassistant experts. Any idea why custom cards might have broken with a recent update? I can see the resources are loading in my browsers DOM explorer but the YAML editors all claim the cards no longer exist.

#LazyWeb looking for some suggestions for *good* use cases for #LLM tech.

I know I know, I'm not a fan either. But I'm required to build *something* using the tech for work as a demo. Hoping to get some good ideas for some use case where it's a benefit that it's just a statistical model, and not a fact based correctness machine.

#lazyweb #indieweb looking for #recommendations on #podcasts

Anything #science #technology #health #history #weirdnews #movies related. Hell, recommend anything.

Also, are #indiepodcasts a thing? If so, they get bumped to the head of the line.

Dear #lazyweb Is there a way how to use IRC without a server and screen/tmux? Using a Gnome client on a laptop is so unpleasant I switched to irssi inside tmux inside Hetzner VM. Yet can't say this is my most favorite setup as I lost all the desktop integration that way.

perhaps another #lazyweb post but without starting a holy war: what's the state of things with #perl and #rakulang these days?

hey, #lazyweb #followerpower : For an event, I want to allow people to easily (scan-a-QR-code easy) join a groupchat to swap text and image messages from their phones.

The scan will be under controlled circumstances (ie: Me showing the QR code to specific persons only), but for obvious reasons I still want to be able to moderate the chat (ie: kickban dickpic-posters and such)

Any suggestions?

Dear #Lazyweb : if you had a small device (25x30mm) that was designed to run off 5v or 3v3, and you learned far too late that one user wants to run it off 12v, what would you do? ( I’ve shoehorned in an AMS1112 in similar circumstances before and that works but is not kind to the environment) Smallest 12->5 reg reasonably efficient and good for 300mA? #IoT #AskFedi #DontSay7805 #OhGodIts7805IsntIt

Is there a #FOSS remote desktop thing where I can connect from my Mac to a Windows PC and can do file transfers and clipboards? Some version of VNC? #LazyWeb

Folks who run their own DNS these days: What is your preferred DNS server? #LazyWeb #OpenSource #DNS

Dear SSH lazyweb ,
I'm trying to add a second device to be able to log in to my server by SSH using a key.

I've already generated the key on my new device but obviously that device can't log in yet because it's key isn't known.

So when I log in to SSH on my usual device, what command would I use to add the key from the second device so it can log in with that, too?

Thank you!

ESIM recommendations please!
Parents are here in NZ for a few weeks and I want to get their phones working here. I've heard good things about Esims but I'm going cross-eyed reading uninformative reviews. Has anyone used any of these services in NZ and do they rate them?