Dran_Arcana

@Dran_Arcana@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨RAM Prices Got You Down? Try DDR3. Seriously!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  There are server chips like the E7-8891 v3 which lived in a weird middle ground of supporting both ddr3 and ddr4. On paper, it’s about on par with a ryzen 5 5500 and they’re about $20 on US eBay. I’ve been toying with the idea of buying an aftermarket/used server board to see if it holds up the way it appears to on paper. $20 for a CPU (could even slot 2), $80 for a board, $40 for 32gb of ddr3 in quad chanel. ~$160 for a set of core components doesn’t seem that bad in modern times.

  I think finding a cooler and a case would be the hardest part

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nova Launcher gets a new owner and... ads⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  +1 for Niagra. It takes a few days to get used to but it’s the launcher every power user didn’t know they wanted. Lifetime purchase options and a very responsive/passionate dev

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Judge orders Anna’s Archive to delete scraped data; no one thinks it will comply⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markov_chain

  Before the advent of AI, I wrote a slack bot called slackbutt that made Markov chains of random lengths between 2 and 4 out of the chat history of the channel. It was surprisingly coherent. Making an “llm” like that would be trivial.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Half-Life 3 Reportedly Delayed Due to Steam Machine Price, Leak Claims⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Not the same chips, but ddr5, gddr7, and hbm2 are made off the same wafers in the same plants. The issue is allocation in wafer and production time skewing towards the higher-margin items. DDR5 additionally is being made more into the server ecc variant, which companies are buying in droves for cost-efficient MOE inference.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam winter sale is now live⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Have you played Baulder’s gate 3 and expedition 33 yet?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What DDNS providers you guys recommend?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  CGNAT does have a designated range by spec. 100.64.0.0/10, which covers addresses from 100.64.0.0 to 100.127.255.255. Technically they could be using any other private address space but it would be very uncommon in a modern ISP.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  No offence: but the problem is an app forces me to trust you; a website does not. I have toghter and easier control over a web request than I do over an app, and even if an app doesn’t have these permissions today, an update or an update after a sale could trivially and silently introduce them.

  A website is obvious if the deal changes-- you put up a login wall to harvest data; I stop using the site. You put trackers and ads into the UI; I block it at the DNS level.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  First instinct: being an app gives me over-permissive data collection scam vibes. I will not be installing it even though I might otherwise find a website of similar capability useful.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve: HDMI Forum Continues to Block HDMI 2.1 for Linux⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Unfortunately it not only has to be companies, but unless you are a producer of products that are HDMI certified already your membership will be denied. It would take a lot of fuckery to make that many corporations and not have all of their membership applications be denied. Also I’m not sure that it’s even a voting democracy in the traditional sense even if you could.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How often do you update software on your servers?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Unattended-upgrade does security-only patching once every 4 hours (in rough sync with my local mirror)

  Full upgrades are done weekly, accompanied by a reboot

  I find that the split between security patching and feature/bug patching maintains a healthy balance knowing when something is likely to break but never being behind on the latest cve.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why did Thanos, with the power of all the infinity stones, never think to try doubling the amount of resources in the world?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Semantics aside, I believe the correct answer is “ribbed for death’s pleasure”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They say word-of-mouth marketing is the most effective form of marketing. What games did you (not) enjoy that came well-recommended by friends to you, and why did they recommend it to you?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It was recommended to me not as a game, but like an interactive movie. As more art than game. Going into it with those expectations is probably why I loved it so much. I can definitely see how someone might get a very different experience with very different expectations.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discord customer service data breach leaks user info and scanned photo IDs⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Back in the day when our community was switching from xmpp to discord, our solution was to write a bot on either end that relayed messages from one to the other. The xmpp bot got more and more naggy over time until eventually we put the xmpp side in read-only for everyone except the relay bot. It did a good enough job at building momentum to switch that the final holdouts came over when we went r/o.

  You might consider building something similar if you want to make a genuine effort to switch to matrix or IRC. A relay bot solves the problem of the first people being punished by virtue of being first.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Android’s most beloved launcher may be done for good⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I switched to Niagara a few years back because Nova didn’t have good support for foldables and tbh I haven’t looked back. It’s very different but once you get used to it it’s much faster than a traditional launcher.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Your favourite piece of selfhosting - Part 1 - Operating System⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If you ran a raw Ubuntu/fedora/whatever, you can use qemu/libvrt to run small virtual machines as required. You start and stop them with virsh, define them with simple xml files, and can easily automate the creation/destruction of them if desired.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Your favourite piece of selfhosting - Part 1 - Operating System⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  if you’re automating the creation and deployment of vms, and the downstream operating systems, and not doing some sort of HA/failover meme setup… proxmox makes things way more complicated than raw libvirt/qemu/kvm.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Your favourite piece of selfhosting - Part 1 - Operating System⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe for the initial setup, but nothing is more repeatable than automation. The more manual steps you have to build your infra, the harder it is to recover/rebuild/update later

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Your favourite piece of selfhosting - Part 1 - Operating System⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t get me wrong, I use libvrt where it makes sense but why would anyone go to proxmox from a full iac setup?

  I do 2 at home, and 3 at work, coming from 4 at both and haven’t looked back.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Senators Introduce Bipartisan Bill to Guarantee Military Right to Repair Its Equipment⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Any legal precedent for this has to be a win right?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The balance of security and privacy sounds weird when privacy IS security.⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You say that right up until a tracking cookie links some accounts together that otherwise weren’t and some nut job buys your data from a data broker and comes to your house to kill you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nexus Mods' new owners promise they won't monetise the site to death as users panic at the whiff of venture capital⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There are JS based torrent downloaders. That would work for the normies to get files, but you’d still have to find a way to convince people to host files on the backend. It’d probably take a full-on desktop client wrapper with an embedded torrent client but that’s a pretty hard sell for the average nerd if you’re upfront, and probably a harder sell if you’re dishonest about it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The end of Windows 10 is approaching, so it's time to consider Linux and LibreOffice⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s reasonable; I just wouldn’t have called my wife’s laptop my laptop I guess. It was either that or there was probably an interesting story behind it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The end of Windows 10 is approaching, so it's time to consider Linux and LibreOffice⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  How many laptops do you own lol?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They’re trying to, but market adoption has said so far that we’re unwilling to tolerate it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube rolls out more unskippable ads that make viewers wait even longer to watch videos - Dexerto⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I am fairly certain smarttubenext was a rebrand by the same dev.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon Doubles Prime Video Ads Per Hour⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If you make it only toonami ads I’m in tho

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The biggest privilege rich people have is to be extremely stupid on purpose.⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I had an opposing shower thought the other day so I’m going to play devil’s advocate on this one.

  I think in a world of rational, good-faith actors (which I’m not arguing we live in), this is both by-design, and optimal at society scale.

  Think about those things you’re good at, and the things you’re not so good at. I’m really good with computers, my time is most efficiently spent troubleshooting and building technology stacks. This skillset is in demand enough that I make a comfortable living doing it.

  I’m comfortable enough that I have time to learn other skills when needed, but not comfortable enough to hire out all the otherwise commodity tasks I need done. A leak in the roof, a sink that needs replacing, some cat6 through the walls, leveling a floor before replacing broken tile from the 80’s… You get the idea. I can do drywall and other general contractor work but I’m not great at it. It takes me longer to end up with a worse end product than a professional, and I don’t enjoy doing it.

  Every Saturday I spend doing drywall could, at society-scale, be much more efficiently spent building a k8s cluster or helping a scientist build software for research. Just like the guy doing my drywall should have a me on the other end of a phone when he needs a new laptop, or his mother gets malware.

  When people hit “rich” the unspoken meaning is supposed to be that their time is valuable enough that society deems it more useful to spend it outside of commodity tasks. That seems like a good fundamental design… say what you will about its current real-world implementation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨First server: Buying hardware in a developing country⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m with you that he doesn’t strictly need a gpu, but if the price is right (free from old gaming PC, cheap from a friend’s old gaming PC, cheap old workstation card, etc) I stand by that he probably wants one. A lot less fussy, a lot more capable, nad nvenc does better quality encoding at lower bitrates (and probably less power too if you take into account time spent encoding at full tilt.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨First server: Buying hardware in a developing country⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Generally power supplies are the most electrically efficient at 20-60% utilization, so there’s no issue with over-provisioning power, other than the (generally minor) upfront extra cost, which might very well pay for itself in the first months/years of usage. I’ll take a look and see what I can find on those sites.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Forced E-Waste PCs And The Case Of Windows 11’s Trusted Platform⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  DRM is already the primary purpose of trusted compute if you read shareholder meeting transcripts; security is a marketing side effect.