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Cake day: June 9th, 2023

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  • I’ve been trying to get into Searx for about a month now, but I just cannot make it work the way I want it to.
    The auto-detect is constantly in the wrong country, sometimes throwing me to a random one if I search for a product e.g.
    If I lock it to one country it works better, but then it excludes so much potentially useful data.

    Any advice on how to set it up a bit to make it work better?






  • The misinformation is that they don’t work well in the cold. Truth be told, they are fantastic in the cold. I’d argue better than ICE. That’s a different topic for a different day though.

    You are, rightfully so, claiming batteries don’t like cold temperatures. What you fail to add are the mitigations companies make to solve these issues. That feels disingenous, unless you just didn’t know.

    If your phone had the capacity and function to heat itself up during outdoor use, it would also work brilliantly.

    So while I’m sure the scientific papers are great, without having read them, I’d guess they don’t include the whole picture either as if they would, we’d be in agreement.

    I tried finding where I called you any names and failed, but if you felt attacked then I appoligize for that. I have nothing against you or think you deserve that. We are just disagreeing on this one topic.

    Have a good night!


  • Which is why they are heated before being charged, either by the on-board heater if it’s been parked, or naturally by just driving the damn thing.

    You said EVs don’t work well in the cold. That is a demonstrably false statement by the fact that Norway has over 500 000 of them rolling around all year. You can post as many misinformed links supporting it as you wish. If it had any merit, we would not be at 90%+ adoption rating.

    Either you are the biggest genious in the world and we are half a million morons, or you are just wrong.
    The fact that I drive mine in weather spanning from -30 C to +25 C makes me suspect the latter.

    Have a good one, mate.






  • I’d probably go for a small N100 mini-PC.
    Should be plenty powerful for what you need, very low wattage and relatively trivial to get GPU pass through in Proxmox. Alternatively one of the more powerful versions.

    This depends on how many cameras, resolution and frequency of course, but you should be able to see if others with similar setups have it running smoothly. You’d be limited on storage, but can set up NFS to your NAS or existing server.


  • I plan to use Surveillance Station in my Synology NAS.
    Two PoE cameras on their own physical network. Everything is laying in the closet still as life just gets in the way, but hopefully it will be done this winter or spring.

    I also have a Eufy 2k Doorbell camera with a hub for local storage.

    None of it is for actual protection though, as burglaries are rare here. It’s only because I love tech and to capture interesting moments. I also plan on making time lapses because they are cool.




  • I agree.

    It’s easy to forget how much time and dedication running a custom setup can cost, and that quickly drains whatever wife-acceptance-factor you had left.

    Think of paying for a pre-built NAS less as just overpriced HW, but more as great software features that work out of the box and a dev team improving functionality for you every day.
    It can host a plethora of containers with ease on the side anyways, and if you need something specific that requires more juice: build that on the side and tinker with it.

    N100 mini-PC for instance can host anything but heavy game servers for <15W.