#homelab #diy #electronics #renewableenergy #powersave #powerelectronics #techhelp #askfedi #askanengineer #askmastodon #askfediverse
Does someone have a suggestion for a way to read out the power consumption of an entire PC?
Just asking the PSU isn't possible 😮‍💨
I have a german type f power outlet and i want to track the system power consumption on the system (linux) itself.
Ideas?

#homelab #diy #electronics #renewableenergy #powersave #powerelectronics #techhelp
Does someone have a suggestion for a way to read out the power consumption of an entire PC?
Just asking the PSU isn't possible 😮‍💨
I have a german type f power outlet and i want to track the system power consumption on the system (linux) itself.
Ideas?

Need to move a domain off Gandi, they're now the most expensive renewal I've seen for this tld (double)

narrowed it down to alwaysdata (alwaysdata.com) and ovh (ovhcloud.com)

anyone have experiences, opinions, endorsements or warnings for either of these companies?

(boosts welcome :blobcatpizza: )

#TechHelp #AskMasto #DomainRegistrar #Domain #TLD #Recommendation

Friends of #BSDCafe and the #Fediverse, I have a client who's relocating and moving to a different office. I need to set up a simple internal network for them, and the WAN will be a 200Mbit/sec connection. They could repurpose a PCEngines APU (where I'd install OpenBSD or FreeBSD), or I could deploy a small Mikrotik that does everything, including acting as an access point. There won't be any incoming connections since the datacenter is at another location, and I'll connect via Wireguard. I'm leaning towards the first option, but the second is more straightforward and easily replaceable in case of issues. Any advice?

#Networking #OpenBSD #FreeBSD #Mikrotik #Wireguard #techhelp

#askFedi #techHelp I have a charger that makes my cellphone touch display misbehave: when the phone is charging through this charger, screen touches and swipes start becoming unreliable, doubling or failing to register at all or discontinuously. How is this possible?
(FWIW the charger is a multi-adapter that allows me to plug nearly any plug in nearly any socket, and that also has USB out.)

Help! #PixelFed #PixelfedAdmin #Debian #Linux #NGinx #php

I've got all the processes running for pixelfed *except*, when I try to connect to the website I am getting a socket error:

connect() to unix:/var/run/php/php8.1-fpm.sock

The socket should be, according to my settings in /etc/php/8.2/fpm/pool.d/pixelfed.conf :
/run/php/pixelfed.sock

But it doesn't seem to be honouring it and I can’t figure out where that incorrect socket setting is coming from.

Anyone out there have any ideas?
#techhelp #LinuxHelp

Hey so I'm trying to play digital 360 games I own on Series X, and this keeps happening. Does anyone know how to fix this? I can play Xbox One and Series X games just fine, but 360 games are doing this...
#Xbox #TechHelp #RetroGaming

#techhelp

Does anyone here know if I could fix this? I was using it as usual, the last thing showing was "no signal" and it was showing less and less until it looked like this. Ambient light and sounds work normally, but any kind of input from the remote control doesn't work. After turning off and on after a while it was the same picture but a lot darker, and on the edges was a dark blue.
It's only 2 years old and I don't really wanna buy a new TV now...

It's a Philips 58PUS8505 btw

#techhelp

Does anyone here know if I could fix this? I was using it as usual, the last thing showing was "no signal" and it was showing less and less until it looked like this. Ambient light and sounds work normally, but any kind of input from the remote control doesn't work. After turning off and on after a while it was the same picture but a lot darker, and on the edges was a dark blue.
It's only 2 years old and I don't really wanna buy a new TV now...

It's a Philips 58PUS8505 btw

What's a reputable laptop battery seller?

My laptop has been unable to power on (even when plugged in) and when it does power on after cycling through on and off (never see the screen turn on tho) it might randomly shut down or, in one instance, plugging in an external mouse caused it to go black in the screen.

So first, I assume battery since I used this for around 4 or 5 years now without replacing a battery, but is this what others would conclude? Second what seller to buy from who isn't amazon?

#technology #TechHelp #askmastodon #LaptopHelp

So, I can blacklist a tag that I don't want to see, but if the same post has a tag that I follow, I see it anyway? that doesn't seem like a good design to me

#Mastodon #Tech #Technical #Help #TechSupport #TechHelp #Fediverse

Okay.... Waterfox is... not playing videos on Mastodon anymore, yet Firefox is working fine...

Also, Youtube videos are fine as well. It's seemingly any traditional MP4 video playback that just isn't working since the last update.

Thoughts?

#techhelp

#Tech #TechSupport #FediTechSupport #SeekingAdvice #TechHelp #Computer

I think, everything is lost...#help #techhelp

Help with tech issue please!

My son’s brand-new school Windows laptop’s battery is not lasting as long as it needs to: he uses it for one 40-minute WebEx system, which uses up 50% of the battery, and then one independent study session and one in-class session, both of which are just web-based research and/or ebook reading, and typing in Word.

We’ve turned on every battery-saving option we can find, including turning off auto load/background refreshes, turning down the screen brightness and turning the video streaming off HD. This last made the WebEx session use 40% rather than 50%, but overall he’s just left on 5% now instead of completely dead. If he has a day needing more video, or if more classes require a laptop, it’s not adequate.

It was advertised as lasting 14 hours. I know that doesn’t translate to real-world use, but 2.5 hours seems extremely poor. Is the battery a dud, is this just what WebEx/modern apps do, or is there some other setting we can play with?

#laptop #ITHelp #TechHelp #BatteryLife

anyone know anything about #data #deduplication. i have 1 hard drive where I've gathered everything all my #backups, music, docs, emails etc etc etc. but i have a few copies of everything. want a program that simply scans the #drive, deletes all #duplicates, and keeps a copy of only 1 of everything. does the damn thing exist as i cant find anything simple enough? #techHelp #ComputerHelp #software #tech #techie

I have a question and I am hoping someone out there has an answer … If my current server does not block Meta and I redirect my account to a server that does block meta … will my account be protected from meta???

#Admin
#BlockMeta
#TechHelp
#Mastodon
#INeedAnAdult

Anyone know if there’s a way to show AVAILABLE all other times on an outlook calendar when I don’t have an event there?
Because I really don’t want to have to manually input every single day, every single hour I’m available. #Outlook #TechHelp #Help #AskFediverse #AskFedi

upgraded my printer (for printing my original art in various formats) and of course it is a nightmare to get everything correctly set up. printer thinks colors are vastly different from previous (same brand) printer, also from macbook screen (which at least agrees with ipad screen). this type of combination of tech objects seems impossible to resolve except by costly experimentation and an amount of patience I can't gather all at once

#printer #art #techHelp

I have a dumb question I hope someone can answer.
A friend created a site in wordpress for me a few years ago. I already had a very basic site and a domain which she then uploaded the shiny new site to.
I used to edit my very basic site directly with my very very basic knowledge of html and upload via ftp.
I need to edit the shiny new site but I don’t know how. My friend is indisposed and I don’t want to bug her as it’s been years and it was a favour. Help? #AskFediverse #TechHelp