Unsure about our piefed side, but default blocks are definitely in for the Lemmy end. See this post:
To help new users settle in to Lemmy, we’ve added some of what we call “Default Blocks” to your account. These are instances where the content is quite graphic (NSFW) or very political in nature.
Dotzip does have default blocks on new accounts iirc, you should check this if it’s of importance to you.
I’ve not had scary yet, but heat does come up a lot for me in autogenerated subs when it can’t figure out wtf is going on.
Gentle backing music:
Subtitles: Heat
Basically this, yes haha
Honestly, the first rebirth as a run-of-the-mill article aggregator was better. A lot of it I’d have already seen elsewhere, but occasionally it’d have something interesting that I missed.
Whatever they do, they’ll still be riding the name of a very dead horse.
Love this part of my work. Benefits of small business that’s 90% B2B I suppose.
The phone tree is one level deep by design. You dial, listen to options and then pick one. There’s no bullshit ‘use the website’ or ‘have you considered our other shit?’ The hold music doesn’t suck and it’s only interrupted by an actual person that can help you.
No script when you are put through. Just me, the user, and whatever I can cobble together and cajole into a solution.
And there’s no fucking AI.
Ademco Vista 6139 keypad.
As suggested by others, this will be wired back to a bigger box somewhere in the building. Any monitoring devices like door contacts will also be wired back there. Look for any references to the installer - it may still be under a monitoring & maintenance contract.
If no contract or out of contract, look up some manuals for this series and try getting into engineer mode. I think the default with these is 4110 800 iirc. If you can get engineer, you can put in new user codes for… using your system. It’s likely the engineer code has been changed though.
So break in. Most boxes are equipped with a tamper switch, so it is likely to scream if you remove the cover. If you decide to do so, switch off the mains supply first. Then remove the cover and immediately disconnect the battery to kill it.
From here, ID the unit and find the installer or engineer manual. The user manual is useless at this stage. Familiarise yourself with it.
When you are ready to play, pop the battery back on, restore power and then go immediately back to the keypad to press * and # together. This should reset the engineer code to the above, but retain the rest of the current programming.
These are old systems and a lot of this is from memory, so YMMV.
Alternatively, get the codes off the previous owner or replace it with something new. This one could be over 20 years old; vistas started in the 90s.
Best take.
Hard lessons taught for the kid - mum is a dumbass, and stay away from rotary tools.
We’re using Emby set up on a container with GPU passthrough. Used to be on a Synology, but that absolutely sucked for transcoding and now just hosts the library.
Does the job and does it well with a little extra setup for subtitles (extensions, API keys etc). Subs are a must as I can barely hear shit.
Apps work well, as does the web interface. Sometimes struggles with the highest quality files (hardware limitations rather than software), but 1080p is fine for our use.
Haven’t needed to look into anything else, no dealbreakers yet.
evs.ee at least offers ISO standards at a not extortionate price:
The pdfs do have some DRM on them and they will come watermarked with the buyer details though. The former is easy to get around - I used foxit reader and a pdf ‘printer’ to make a copy that opens nicely in anything.
Why pick shit out of your cereal, when you can just get the other brand that doesn’t have shit in it?
At least they’ve zapped the acceptable ads out of it :)
Ironfox is my current pref for mobile, backed by uBO & a VPN to a box running pfsense.
ABP hasn’t been relevant for years, because they started on “acceptable ads” back in 2011.
Anyone with sense has long since moved on.
Odd one. Accessible using an app, not on browser though.
Will need an alternative if you need to port forward, but for general use you can’t fault them
UK is implementing law for age verification on nsfw content, that’s the jist of it.
Some services are choosing to simply not serve the UK rather than deal with the faff and/or the privacy concerns. lemmy.zip where I am from is one of them.
Blame lies squarely with the UK gov & Online Safety Act. It’s a shit law made to pander to the ‘think of the children’ types that are incapable of parenting, also coming with the bonus of grift and doxxing concerns by companies that move in to provide the service.
I don’t blame any site operator that chooses to simply not play. VPN goes on, normal service resumes.
There’s a world of difference between day 1 and the current build as well. Definitely take another look if you haven’t recently. Devs finally waking up haha.
Favourite part so far has been the lighting system & ragdolls. If you whip a car fast enough in reverse and hit a sweet spot on the swing around, you can send Z flying like baseballs.
B42 multiplayer can’t come quick enough…
Have you tried unstable in SP yet?
Use a different service, or encrypt your data before upload & share password separately. For anything remotely private, should be doing that already.
For chaotic good, upload LLM poison to fuck with the training data.
Rick and the gang do look after us well, and always pop in monthly with server stats & news etc.
I feel like we’ve got the balance right by leaving some training wheels on for the more contentious topics, with the user choosing to remove the blocks if it pleases them to do so.