PeachMan
@PeachMan@lemmy.world
- Comment on Is it realistic to set up a HTPC that doesn't need a keyboard or mouse? 1 month ago:
I like to keep one of these tucked away: www.bestbuy.com/site/…/7575039.p
- Comment on Authorities hack cryptocurrency seed phrase 1 month ago:
Yeah, they probably just guessed his Google Drive password lol
- Comment on Two Major Anime Leakers to Be Exposed Following First-Time U.S. Court Order 2 months ago:
Lol this sounds like toothless bullshit. Are they confident that these people live in the US? Do they even know if these two twitter accounts are run by single individuals?
- Comment on Firefox rolls out Total Cookie Protection by default to all desktop users worldwide | It is Firefox’s strongest privacy protection to date, confining cookies to the site where they were created 2 months ago:
I think there’s some confusion here. You’re talking about Multi-Account Containers, that person was talking about the Facebook Container. Both Firefox features with confusingly similar names.
Facebook Container is similar to this TCP feature, but focused on Facebook. Now, Firefox has rolled it out for ALL apps, which is awesome and SHOULD HAVE BEEN HOW COOKIES WORKED IN THE FIRST PLACE!
- Comment on Ex-bank CEO gets 24 years after falling for crypto scam, causing bank collapse 2 months ago:
Kinda misleading or poorly written title. He was not convicted of falling for a crypto scam. He was convicted of embezzling funds from the bank, which he did while pumping them into a dumb crypto scam. It would have been illegal even if the crypto thing was NOT a scam (which is rare, I know).
- Comment on Susan Wojcicki, Former Chief of YouTube, Dies at 56 3 months ago:
I’m guessing her cancer is one of the factors that drove her son to OD…just speculating, obviously. Her husband must be fucking destroyed, this is awful.
- Comment on Microsoft says “Prism” translation layer does for Arm PCs what Rosetta did for Macs 5 months ago:
…but Apple started making performance ARM chips 4 years ago
- Comment on Microsoft says “Prism” translation layer does for Arm PCs what Rosetta did for Macs 5 months ago:
I’m not expert, but I can tell you that Apple Silicon gave the new Macbooks insane battery life, and they run a lot cooler with less overheating. Intel really fucked up the processors in the 2015-2019 Macbooks, especially the higher-spec i7 and i9 variants. Those things overheat constantly. All Intel did was take existing architectures and raise the clock speeds. Apple really exposed Intel’s laziness by releasing processors that were just as performant in quick tasks, they REALLY kicked Intel’s ass in sustained workloads, not because they were faster on paper, but simply because they didn’t have to thermal throttle after 2 minutes of work. Hell, the Macbook Air doesn’t even have any active cooling!
I’m not saying these Snapdragon chips will do exactly the same thing for Windows PC’s, obviously we can’t say that for sure yet. But if they do, it will be fucking awesome for end users.
- Comment on ChatGPT's voice, self-hosted? 5 months ago:
epub2tts: github.com/aedocw/epub2tts
Looks like a project that utilizes coqui-AI: github.com/coqui-ai/TTS
- Comment on Nearly all Nintendo 64 games can now be recompiled into native PC ports to add proper ray tracing, ultrawide, high FPS, and more 5 months ago:
Nintendo’s execs calling Boeing’s execs: “Hey, can you refer us to your…fixers? You know…rhymes with shmassassin…yeah you know, those guys.”
- Comment on Stack Overflow Users Are Revolting Against an OpenAI Deal | WIRED 5 months ago:
Reddit is still pretty useful, but it will become less and less relevant as contributors leave, if that’s actually what’s happening. Side note: people keep saying that’s happening, but I don’t really see it…maybe it is, but it’s very slow? Might depend heavily on the subreddit too.
- Comment on What's a good budget home server? 6 months ago:
If your budget is $150, then you need to look for used options on eBay. Look for Dell Optiplex or Lenovo ThinkCentre towers. You will not find specs that good in your price range. But maybe you can get a decent CPU and save money to upgrade your RAM later.
MAYBE you’ll get lucky and find an old Dell server on eBay. Sometimes IT guys will sell their company’s old server for a profit. But I personally wouldn’t buy one of those, the monthly electricity costs are stupid.
- Comment on What's a good budget home server? 6 months ago:
Looking for recommendations for a racecar, at least 800 horsepower. Needs to hit 60 mph in under 4 seconds.
My budget is $2000. Please give recommendations.
LOL
- Comment on Nextcloud Hub 8 is now available 6 months ago:
Yuuuup. I really don’t understand why it’s so popular. It’s bloated and overly complex. I’ve tried running an instance twice in the past few years, and both times I gave up within a week.
- Comment on Looking for a reverse proxy to put any service behind a login for external access. 7 months ago:
It’s pretty easy to do this with Cloudflare Tunnels. You can set them up to use a Google account for SSO. Downside of course is that you’re reliant on Google and CF.
- Comment on [deleted] 7 months ago:
Yeah it’s a data broker broker. Totally legit.
- Comment on Could someone explain how to set up a lemmy instance with ansible for an absolute beginner 10 months ago:
Lol. It should also be no issue for you to find the comment and read their answer
- Comment on Japan to crack down on Apple and Google app store monopolies 10 months ago:
Good, maybe they’ll accomplish something while America’s government is busy gargling billionaire balls and accepting bribes.
- Comment on Could someone explain how to set up a lemmy instance with ansible for an absolute beginner 10 months ago:
Oh yeah I think so. Honestly NextCloud is slow on any platform, so don’t be surprised if you’re not impressed. But it’s a neat project to set up.
- Comment on US Govt's sluggish Chips Act payouts slam the breaks on Samsung's fab — company delays mass production at Texas fab to await further CHIPS funding 10 months ago:
Title gore
- Comment on Could someone explain how to set up a lemmy instance with ansible for an absolute beginner 10 months ago:
Agree with others here. Ansible isn’t for beginners and neither is a Lemmy instance.
Try some other projects first, maybe some docker containers that involve a reverse proxy.
NextCloud is a very useful thing to set up as a project, but I would say that you specifically need the new Pi 5 with plenty of RAM for that. The Pi 4 doesn’t handle a full NextCloud installation well.
- Comment on Could someone explain how to set up a lemmy instance with ansible for an absolute beginner 10 months ago:
Yeah I also installed putty a long time ago, I forget if it was actually necessary or if I was just afraid of command line back then.
- Comment on Could someone explain how to set up a lemmy instance with ansible for an absolute beginner 10 months ago:
You can SSH using command line. I do have a Windows Pro license, but I THINK that it’s not exclusive to Pro…
- Comment on The full source code for GTA 5 has been publicly leaked 10 months ago:
Does this mean the hackers and cheaters will only get worse from here?
- Comment on What fun things can I do with an M.2 SSD and 2x4GB ram? 10 months ago:
Sure, the sky is the limit. You could also just get a motherboard, processor, and power supply, plug everything in and shove it in whatever container you want.
- Comment on What fun things can I do with an M.2 SSD and 2x4GB ram? 10 months ago:
The biggest thing to worry about is DIMM vs SODIMM. The latter is much smaller, and probably what most mini PCs will use. So if you have full sized DIMM RAM, you might have trouble finding a mini PC that will work.
And even if it is the right size, you’ll still want to make sure that your motherboard supports your specific RAM clock speeds.
- Comment on What fun things can I do with an M.2 SSD and 2x4GB ram? 10 months ago:
Plenty of barebones mini PC’s that you can get for relatively cheap (under $200 or even close to $100). “Barebones” is a good keyword to search for because that means it doesn’t include RAM and a drive.
Look for an N100 or N200 processor if you want something that’s very small and power efficient (but it won’t be powerful enough for many games). Or, look for whatever fits your budget.
- Comment on What DID Apple innovate? 10 months ago:
Yeah, Android had that advantage LATER, when they got their shit together. But when the iPhone initially released, it changed the game.
- Comment on What DID Apple innovate? 10 months ago:
Sure, a browser minus Flash, but it was still a real browser. Most of the web functioned without Flash. And none of the competition even had anything close. It was such a revolutionary product that the iPhone didn’t even HAVE competition until Android got its shit together, which took a couple years.
- Comment on The Epic question: How Google lost when Apple won | How is Google running an illegal monopoly with the Play store — while Apple’s App Store is in the clear? 10 months ago:
Fair, they do shit like that. But this case was about app stores specifically, and they haven’t allowed alternate app stores since day one.