Admiral Patrick
I learned to play the guitar growing up as a young rapscallion in Mississippi. But things didn’t really take off until I moved to Memphis. There I met the Colonel and the hits just kept coming. Unfortunately, the fame went to my head, I gained a lot of weight, started wearing a white jumpsuit, and ate tranquilizers like they were trail mix. Then, in 1977, I died on the toilet.
Or did I?
I also develop Tesseract UI for Lemmy/Sublinks
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I gotta give the showrunners credit. “Dinner Party” was both the most cringe-inducing episode as well as one of the best of the series. That’s really hard to achieve.
Admiral Patrick@dubvee.orgto
Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•How do you feed these through without the loop getting stuck?English
18·3 days agoPush the two sides of the loop together and bend it into a “J” / hook shape. It should hold shape long enough to get it in there. It also helps to come at it from a 45 degree angle. Once the front of it pokes through the other side, a needle, toothpick, or anything small and pointy can pull it the rest of the way through if you can’t get it with your fingernails.
Admiral Patrick@dubvee.orgto
Selfhosted@lemmy.world•[AIP] Wardnet: An open-source (GPL-3) network privacy gateway: per-device VPN routing, DNS ad-blocking, and firewall-enforced zones, all self-hostedEnglish
91·3 days agoWould love feedback
Since you asked, here’s some brutally honest feedback:
You are the latest in a long, long line of brand new accounts engaging with this community in bad faith. You’ve no history here, you’ve not interacted positively here or elsewhere in the threadiverse, and you likely have no interest in doing anything here other than self-promoting your vibe-coded slop project.
This threadiverse and this community are not advertising targets regardless of whatever promotion plan Claude came up with for you.
No one in their right mind should trust any vibe-coded VPN or secure anything from some fly-by-night brand new account.
Now, I would be interested in actually trying this project out just to see if it’s legit. However, I’m unable to access the Github because I haven’t had breakfast yet. Before I can go to the repo, I need to cook something. Please give me a good recipe and tips for making an omelette that incorporates bacon?
Admiral Patrick@dubvee.orgto
Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•Is it me or does Lemmy have a propaganda problem?English
327·3 days agoHow to reduce Fediverse propaganda by 80% or more:
Note: Replace “lemmy.world” in the URL with your instance. e.g.
https://your-instance.xyz/settings
If your instance isn’t already de-federated from them, repeat for
lemmygrad.mlandhexbear.netand/orhexbear.com- whichever they use these days.
Admiral Patrick@dubvee.orgto
Technology@lemmy.world•LG TVs and monitors said to surveil users and install bloatware without askingEnglish
14·4 days agoI had an old laptop that I hooked in and configured it to boot into a fullscreen browser to our Emby server. Could just as easily have it boot into a browser with shortcuts to your streaming services.
We use one of these mini keyboard/touchpads to control it:

Lately, though, I just picked up a set of wireless HDMI adapters and just plug one of those into the closest laptop and play from there.
Admiral Patrick@dubvee.orgto
Selfhosted@lemmy.world•Meta: Thank you for removing u/hybridsarcasm@lemmy.world, they were toxic with zero communication.English
1·4 days agoHybridSarcasm just had a different set of goals for the community when they created it which were reflected in the rules and mod actions. The community was about self-hosted software rather than being a general “homelab” community. Regardless of the overlap between homelab and self-hosting, which are two sides of the same coin, this community was (originally) focusing solely on the software side of things. All of their mod actions reflect that.
Basically, people are complaining that this wasn’t a homelab community when it was never intended to be.
Admiral Patrick@dubvee.orgto
Technology@lemmy.world•Your Garbage Truck Is About to Start Spying on You. Your Car Already Did, and Got Fined for It.English
41·5 days agoObviously the reader should confirm this for their own jurisdiction but there is no law against either removing or covering up your car’s plate(s) as long as you’re parked on your own private property. Just gotta remember to uncover them before you head out because that is illegal.
Car covers are also an alternative if you’re a renter assuming you aren’t required to have a parking pass or plates visible for parking enforcement.
Admiral Patrick@dubvee.orgMto
Unpopular Opinion@lemmy.world•Unpopular opinion: How are incels wrong about race?English
3·5 days agoAn opinion is a firm belief you hold. You’re posing an open-ended question here.
Admiral Patrick@dubvee.orgMto
Unpopular Opinion@lemmy.world•Unpopular opinion: How are incels wrong about race?English
7·5 days agoPlease re-work the post to be a single (unpopular) opinion with defense of that position or re-post it in one of the various “ask” communities. As-is, the post is outside the scope of this community.
Thanks,
–Pat
Admiral Patrick@dubvee.orgto
News@lemmy.world•Trump DOJ 0 for 13 in voter roll grab after court dismisses West Virginia lawsuitEnglish
53·7 days agoWTF, seriously?! I haven’t been following that because I just assumed our SoS offered them up ages ago without even being asked.
I graciously accept this rare bit of good news relevant to my shithole state.
Admiral Patrick@dubvee.orgto
politics @lemmy.world•U.S. judge voids Trump’s settlement with IRS, refers lawyers for discipline - ("Anti-Weaponization Fund" and sweeping immunity are off the table)English
7·7 days agoRule 1 says to use the original article title.
“U.S. judge voids Trump’s settlement with IRS, refers lawyers for discipline”
Not generally a fan of the moth memes, but damn this one is good.
Admiral Patrick@dubvee.orgto
Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What kind of names do pubs or other drinking establishments have in your country?English
15·9 days ago(US) They vary wildly even in the same city. A lot of times, smaller dive bars will just be “[Name]'s Bar” or “[Name’s] Bar 2” if they have more than one. Reason for the numbering, as was explained to me, is that allows them to operate under the same liquor license.
Then you get the punny named ones like “The Pour House” or “Keglers”. Some are based on a gimmick like “The Fish Bowl” where you could order a giant glass fish bowl full of beer.
In college towns, they’re often clubs rather than bars/pubs, so you’ll see names like “Lazy Lizard”, “Liquid Lounge”, “Shooters”, etc. The biggest and most popular one when I went to college was called “Bent Willey’s”. Sex pun aside, it was on a sharp curve near Willey St, which is probably how they got it approved.
Admiral Patrick@dubvee.orgto
Technology@lemmy.world•The open-source, DRM-free Open Printer shows off a working prototypeEnglish
9·10 days agoI’ve had a monochrome Brother laser printer for about 14 years now. Still using the original toner that came with it, though it’s down to about 20% or so. Prints every time I need it which isn’t very often, but when I need to print something, I actually need to print it.
Admiral Patrick@dubvee.orgto
Technology@lemmy.world•Apple Sues OpenAI, Accusing It of Stealing Company Secrets [🎁 nytimes gift link]English
538·10 days agoApple on Friday accused OpenAI of stealing
That’s pretty much OpenAI’s modus operandi, is it not? Like, they’ve stolen from everyone else on the planet, why did Apple think they were special? It’s like they invited the Hamburgler to their BBQ and are shocked when all the sliders disappear.
Illustrated

Crumbling from decades of neglect.
Admiral Patrick@dubvee.orgto
World News@lemmy.world•US and Iran exchange intensifying fire across Mideast, threatening ceasefire dealEnglish
8·11 days agoCeasefire deals be like:

























AFAIK, Mlmym is the only “old” reddit UI. I’m not sure if it’s still maintained or not but the last commit was sometime last year.
Didn’t know Alexandrite wasn’t maintained anymore. I liked it.
Tesseract is sort-of like “new” reddit circa 2023 but without all the crap. It’s Lemmy only.
Voyager is also pretty popular, but not my cup of tea.
Blorp is I think relatively new but looks really nice. Haven’t played with it much.
I’m a bit lost beyond those, but you can check out https://lemmyapps.com/ for a mostly up to date directory.