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- Comment on Thought's on this Raspberry Pi Rival? board handled 20 open Chrome tabs and 4K video playback smoothly ,board has Rockchip 8-core ARM processor, 32 GB of RAM, Mali G610 GPU, competing with top OOPS. 20 hours ago:
Not too long until Windows 10 joins the list and that’s gonna be a real nightmare because there are so many PCs still running Windows 10 that run perfectly fine but aren’t “capable” or running Windows 11. People won’t just throw away their PCs and they can’t upgrade to 11. Sure, some will try Linux but too many won’t and they’ll be easy targets.
- Comment on Thought's on this Raspberry Pi Rival? board handled 20 open Chrome tabs and 4K video playback smoothly ,board has Rockchip 8-core ARM processor, 32 GB of RAM, Mali G610 GPU, competing with top OOPS. 20 hours ago:
I really hope you’re joking because that’s a security nightmare.
- Comment on Apple finally adds support for RCS in latest iOS 18 beta | TechCrunch 3 days ago:
Ah yes, Facebook Messenger. The only chat app I’d hate using even more than WhatsApp…
- Comment on Apple finally adds support for RCS in latest iOS 18 beta | TechCrunch 3 days ago:
Everyone was an exaggeration, obviously. WhatsApp is still very prominent and the primary messaging service in large parts of Europe.
- Comment on Apple finally adds support for RCS in latest iOS 18 beta | TechCrunch 4 days ago:
I know Apple aren’t perfect but they are the only major tech company that even try to seem like they take privacy seriously. Obviously, we don’t know how much data they actually harvest but at least they say it’s all private and on device. They make a believable case for their product actually being their hardware. You even pay extra for that. Meta, Google, Microsoft & Co. are pretty open, that all they want is your data and that you are the product. So, unless you want to go the extra mile and actively pursue privacy (get ungoogled android or a Linux phone, and only use open source software, etc.), Apple seems to be your best bet, imo
- Comment on Apple finally adds support for RCS in latest iOS 18 beta | TechCrunch 4 days ago:
I trust them a bit more than meta or google. Meta‘s main business model is selling data/ads. Apple’s main business model is selling hardware.
- Comment on Apple finally adds support for RCS in latest iOS 18 beta | TechCrunch 4 days ago:
In Europe everyone uses WhatsApp and I‘d rather use iMessage than sell my soul to meta… (Which I am. And Signal and Telegram. Only using WhatsApp for work)
- Comment on How did we switched from "Dinosaur are giant lizards" to "Dinosaur are giant birds" 6 days ago:
Not the closest. Ceres is a dwarf planet inside the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.
- Comment on New Teslas might lose Steam 1 month ago:
Well howdya think they make the steam?
- Comment on Microsoft is testing Game Pass ads on the Windows 11 Settings homepage 1 month ago:
Ah right. Count on canonical to make my point moot.
- Comment on Microsoft is testing Game Pass ads on the Windows 11 Settings homepage 1 month ago:
The funny thing is, there isn’t even really a free OS with ads. At least none that I know of. Linux is open source and thus usually non commercial. Worst case you get a “please donate” the first time you log in. macOS is technically free (although you kinda subsidize it through the hardware, I suppose) and it doesn’t have ads and even chrome OS is ad free afaik. It’s really only Windows and some Android flavours, usually those running on very cheap chinese devices. And Samsung of course.
- Comment on Self-hosted Jellyfin CPU or GPU for 4K HDR transcoding? 1 month ago:
The 970 works for encoding h.264 only. My recommendation: If you have a 7th Gen Intel CPU with iGPU or later, use that. Otherwise, sell the 970 and get one of these (in this order):
- Intel Arc A310
- GTX 1650
- GTX 1630
- Quadro P1000
- Quadro T400
- GTX 1050 Ti
- GTX 1050
- Quadro P620
- Quadro P600
- Quadro P400
The Intel Card has the best encoder, followed by Nvidia Turing, then Pascal. I recently sold my 970 and got a 1050 Ti for the same price. Works great with Jellyfin. If you need to tone map HDR, you probably shouldn’t get anything with much lower performance than that. If it’s just some UHD to HD or h.265 to h.264 for compatibility, even the P400 will work well.
- Comment on Self-hosted Jellyfin CPU or GPU for 4K HDR transcoding? 1 month ago:
A few reasons.
For one, storing multiple versions of the same film takes up a lot of storage, which is more expensive than a cheap 40€ gpu for transcoding. And I definitely wanna keep the highest quality I can. Besides transcoding on the fly is more flexible, ensuring the best possible quality at any time, instead of having to pick between the good and the shit version.
And secondly, usually I only need transcoding when I don’t watch on my home setup (or when some friends watch on my server). My upload isn’t as high as some of my film’s bitrates and some clients do not support h.265 or HDR thus needing transcoding and/or tonemapping.
- Comment on Windows 10 reaches 70% market share as Windows 11 keeps declining 1 month ago:
It’s absolutely supported if you have SucureBoot and TPM 2.0 support. Sure, it’s not on the official support list but that’s probably because those features weren’t standard yet in that generation and it’s not tested and verified. It’ll still work fine though.
Also, performance is not everything. Support for certain instruction sets is usually the problem, when newer operating systems drop support for older chips. Of course that’s not it in this case, Skylake and Coffeelake are essentially identical and the latter does have official support.
- Comment on Windows 10 reaches 70% market share as Windows 11 keeps declining 1 month ago:
Well, it‘s software
bloatbackward compatibility, not for hardware.And to be fair, that actually works quite well. Had a 20 y/o negative scanner driver that I could install relatively easily on windows 10. The first party macOS driver stopped working more than a decade ago (needs PowerPC compatibility) and the only modern third party driver software that gets it to work on Win, Mac and Linux costs 100€.
- Comment on Windows 10 reaches 70% market share as Windows 11 keeps declining 1 month ago:
Same. Was running 10 for years, tried 11, hated it, went back to 10 until that got so bad I just installed Linux…
- Comment on Windows 10 reaches 70% market share as Windows 11 keeps declining 1 month ago:
Probably a fair share. The hardware requirements aren’t unreasonably high but a lot of people (like myself) are running hardware that is 10+ years old because why not? Still works fine, if you don’t need that much power.
Not that I’d run Win 11 anyways. Tried it, was a pretty but nonfunctional mess, downgraded to 10 at first and upgraded to Linux later.
- Comment on What is Windows 11 'AI Explorer'? Everything you need to know about Microsoft's upcoming defining AI PC feature (including it always watching you) 1 month ago:
Isn’t that already a thing? That surely has to be a thing already.
- Comment on What is Windows 11 'AI Explorer'? Everything you need to know about Microsoft's upcoming defining AI PC feature (including it always watching you) 1 month ago:
But what about my Web 3.0 AI cryptocurrency in the metaverse?
- Comment on Why is Windows 11 so annoying? 2 months ago:
Generally yes, but: if you happen to have certain hardware (like nvidia gpus or certain wireless cards), getting those drivers can be quite a hassle, depending on your distro.
Also, the terminal might not be necessary for day to day use but if you want to install a program that isn’t in your distro’s repos or do something a little more out if the ordinary, most tutorials and guides will still prioritize the terminal.
Like, I‘d be confident setting up linux for my grandma because all she uses are browser and file explorer anyways. But for my dad, who‘d do more involved things and needs certain programs but doesn’t want to deal with commands, Linux just isn’t quite it yet. (Besides his dependency on MS Office).
- Comment on So sweet 2 months ago:
Calls are fine, especially when they’re social or important. Voice messages are just a way of saying "I don’t respect your time because I’m forcing you to listen to 3min of bullshit until I get to the point, when you could read that information in 10s).
- Comment on Showing appreciation for hard work. 2 months ago:
Nazi is short for national socialist. That wouldn’t per se suggest unkindness by name alone. The appearance is deceptive, of course.
- Comment on Apple argues in favor of selling Macs with only 8GB of RAM 2 months ago:
Yea, not just snapdragon and apple. Even intel and amd processors usually get paired with higher bandwidth soldered ram on many mobile offerings.
And on GPUs soldered VRAM has been a thing for a loooong time, with HBM memory being the prime example for what RAM close to the chip can do. AMD‘s Vega cards were highly sought after during the mining craze, even though they weren’t that fast in general computing, simply because their memory bandwidth was so beyond any other consumer cards…
- Comment on Apple argues in favor of selling Macs with only 8GB of RAM 2 months ago:
I mean, a (good) SSD is worth quite a lot, even on very old systems. I have an old 2008 MacBook laying around. It’s certainly not fast but with an SSD it’s totally useable, even on current macOS versions.
- Comment on Apple argues in favor of selling Macs with only 8GB of RAM 2 months ago:
That sounds more like issues Windows would have running on an HDD (or maybe eMMC) instead of an SSD… Bit that wouldn’t explain why it got better, when you upgraded the RAM…
- Comment on Apple argues in favor of selling Macs with only 8GB of RAM 2 months ago:
My experience is, that 4GB is just about useable for a bit of web browsing and similar stuff. Even on windows 11. I have an old Surface Pro 4 laying around that, in a pinch, works perfectly fine with 11. Of course, it’s not fast. But it’s totally useable.
- Comment on Apple argues in favor of selling Macs with only 8GB of RAM 2 months ago:
You forget there though, that a lot of the RAM, that Windows (and most modern operating systems) uses, while idling, is a cache of programs you’re likely to open and that gets cleared, if you open something else. That has been a thing since Vista and was btw one of the reasons why Vista was criticized for high memory useage. Windows 11 is very useable with 4GB of RAM, if you’re not planning to do something bigger than browsing the web or editing a word document.
- Comment on Apple argues in favor of selling Macs with only 8GB of RAM 2 months ago:
Maybe you’re not an average user then. Most people just browse the web and maybe manage some photos or fill out a document once in a while. You could do that on 4GB if you wanted to, let alone 8.
- Comment on Apple argues in favor of selling Macs with only 8GB of RAM 2 months ago:
Still leaves 3gb for the web browser and the average user isn’t using anything else anyways. And even on chrome that’s quite a few pages.
- Comment on Ain't no one around to hate in the basement. Just me and my jug. 2 months ago:
American beer is definitely high on the “hatred for self” scale