Blue_Morpho
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- Comment on Ubiquiti U7 Pro Max WiFi 7 Access Point Teardown: To fan or not to fan 1 day ago:
I never claimed it was. But Java comes with its own baggage of Oracle shenanigans (they could start licensing drama with open source forks just like they did a few years ago) and java security patches means maintenance. All of which would be completely unnecessary if Ubiquity let you setup the AP with ssl.
The controller interface is amazing. But it, or a phone app should not be required to set up an AP.
- Comment on Microsoft has gone too far: including a Game Pass ad in the Settings app ushers in a whole new age of ridiculous over-advertising 2 days ago:
No, Pihole doesn’t help.
I think the reason you say you haven’t seen an ad on Windows is because the ads aren’t the traditional ads like you see on a webpage.
When someone talks about an ad on Windows, they are referring to the Spotify app presinstalled in the Start Menu, the OneDrive prompt for backing up during setup, and the weather bug on the taskbar that brings up news if you click it.
You might think that a weather widget isn’t an ad, but the idea is you click it, see a relevant news article, click the news article and you are taken to a traditional webpage with ads.
- Comment on This is what we used to worry about in the 80s. This and global thermonuclear war. 2 days ago:
Did some Googling and found he was in a sketch in a 1994 episode of Saturday Night Live that was a TNG / Love boat crossover.
But I can’t find a clip on YouTube!
Ten Forward needs this!
- Comment on This is what we used to worry about in the 80s. This and global thermonuclear war. 3 days ago:
My favorite role was Baron von Butcher.
- Comment on Ubiquiti U7 Pro Max WiFi 7 Access Point Teardown: To fan or not to fan 3 days ago:
If you were actually able to set it up via ssh, then you should be able to point me to the documentation for the Ubiquity AP cli.
I’m not sure if you are a fanboi or a shill but it is dishonest to claim that you say you could configure your Ubiquity AP when Ubiquity itself refuses to provide documentation of the cli interface.
Another poster said the same thing and linked to the same thread I found years ago which says in effect, “There is no official cli documentation for the APs. You might be able to sneak a few commands by digging through the forums.”
- Comment on Ubiquiti U7 Pro Max WiFi 7 Access Point Teardown: To fan or not to fan 3 days ago:
Docker
Yes, the Java app dockerized.
- Comment on Ubiquiti U7 Pro Max WiFi 7 Access Point Teardown: To fan or not to fan 3 days ago:
Requiring a phone app, java app or Cloud Key to configure an AP isn’t home lab ethos. That it looses config on reboot if you configure it by ssh is weird given you don’t need a controller running once they are setup. They can be rebooted without a controller and still work fine.
Where did you find the command line documentation? I was never able to find anything.
- Comment on Ubiquiti U7 Pro Max WiFi 7 Access Point Teardown: To fan or not to fan 3 days ago:
I’m not sure about configuring them independent of a controller as I haven’t tried.
That’s my point. With regular ap’s you can do everything via ssh. Ubiquity doesn’t seem to document the command line. The website doesn’t list any commands. It only says “only do it with a Ubquity engineer helping you”.
- Comment on Ubiquiti U7 Pro Max WiFi 7 Access Point Teardown: To fan or not to fan 3 days ago:
I bought several before knowing what I was getting into. They work well but are designed by people worshiping Apple. Everything is locked into their ecosystem. You can’t even ask into the router to configure it. You need to run their Java controller app to configure them or worse buy another product (cloud key) just to configure the access points you purchased. Then they try really hard to get you to setup your network admin password on their cloud servers ( they have already had security breaches where the passwords leaked).
For a small businesses that pay someone off-site to manage their network they seem fantastic. But they are the opposite of homelab ethos.
But again, they work really well. The access points do channel strength negotiation automatically every night by talking to each other.
- Comment on CATL battery successfully powers electric plane with 1,800-mile civil aircraft expected 4 days ago:
Its simple. Now that China is in the lead, do what China did to the west. If you want access to the markets you have to build a plant in the US and share IP. That’s why the EU just proposed to China’s EV manufacturers.
It’s good for everyone. Consumers get cheap batteries, China gets Western Markets, and Western companies get Chinese technology to drive the next wave of competition.
- Comment on Upcoming ANBERNIC RG40XX Handheld “Leaks” | Retro Dodo 4 days ago:
I think the fundamental issue with Android that can’t be fixed is complete power down and full boot time.
With a custom Linux, instead of sleep where there is minor battery drain, the handheld can turn itself off completely for no battery drain. Cold boot time is like 10 seconds. It means the hand held has a battery charge whenever you want to play it and you don’t have to wait.
- Comment on Upcoming ANBERNIC RG40XX Handheld “Leaks” | Retro Dodo 4 days ago:
How can you ask if it offers value without specifying a price?
After using OnionOS, the only thing that matters to me is the OS. I have a Retroid and Android gaming is clumsy. I might as well use an attachable game controller to my phone and have a better screen and CPU than any retro handheld.
- Comment on Why we don't have 128-bit CPUs 6 days ago:
And as I said, it could still be enabled with a boot switch.
It’s not like all distros in 1999 had PAE enabled by default. You had to find a pae enabled kernel.
And Linux PAE has been buggy off and on for 20 years:
"It worked for a while, but the problem came back in 2022. "
- Comment on Why we don't have 128-bit CPUs 6 days ago:
2 years was a long time to wait to use the extra memory that Linux could use out of the box.
For 8 years, Linux had the same limitations as Windows. Then for 2 years it was ahead. Going back 25 years to criticize Windows is kind of weird but you do you.
(I run Linux on a variety of PCs, SBC’s, and VM’s in my house. I just get annoyed by unjustified Linux fanboyism.)
- Comment on Why we don't have 128-bit CPUs 6 days ago:
Your other posts didn’t reply to your claim that it is a Windows only problem. Linux did and some distros (Raspberry Pi) have the same limitations as Windows 95.
32 bit Windows XP got PAE in 2001, two years after Linux. 64 bit Windows came out in 2005.
- Comment on How long would it take to create a Pyramid today? 6 days ago:
The Manhattan project took 2.5 years. It involved mining 18.8 million pounds of uranium. 10 Cyclotron factories of 20 cyclotrons for 22,000 workers was built in 6 months to separate the uranium.
So it’s really down to resources. If it was a Manhattan Project level of resources thrown at building a Pyramid, I’d wild guess 3 months.
It boils down to collecting all the building equipment from around the world and sending it to where you want to build the pyramid.
50,000 people cutting stone while 50,000 heavy construction equipment operators move the stones would take 2 months.
- Comment on Technically, almost all video games are puzzle games. 1 week ago:
Oh, I thought flavor was a style of game like puzzle or rhythm.
- Comment on Technically, almost all video games are puzzle games. 1 week ago:
Flavor?
- Comment on Why we don't have 128-bit CPUs 1 week ago:
I’m not sure what you are talking about. Linux got PAE in 1999. Windows XP got PAE in 2001.
- Comment on Photographers Push Back on Facebook's 'Made with AI' Labels Triggered by Adobe Metadata. Do you agree “‘AI was used in this image’ is completely different than ‘Made with AI’”? 1 week ago:
Cropping can completely change the context of a photo.
- Comment on Irrational 1 week ago:
but irrational numbers like pi
i is a rotational operator. So equations with i in them have pi encoded into them too.
Trying to expand a quantized rotation into a quantized linear coordinate is attempting to square a circle.
- Comment on Irrational 1 week ago:
Yes, it does not make any sense. If the link above is what it appears from the summary, some students unknowingly attempted to square the circle.
- Comment on And they say English is bad 1 week ago:
Pussycat.
- Comment on Irrational 1 week ago:
Imaginary numbers are a rotational operator.
You don’t need quantum mechanics to observe rotation in the real world.
- Comment on Godzilla (2014) was pretty good, except for Muto having that electromagnetic pulse weapon. Why would a biological evolutionarily develop such a thing? It's useless against Godzilla. 1 month ago:
Electric eel? It stuns prey. If scaled up it would as a side effect cause an em pulse that would affect electronics.
- Comment on How to port any N64 game to the PC in record time 1 month ago:
While I agree that ROM + emulator is best for preservation, you absolutely can fix the space invader bug because you have the C code which would let you add in delays. Just like there are many versions of Space Invaders for different consoles an none of them use emulation but play like the original. I’m a fan of si78c, a memory accurate reimplementation of the 1978 arcade game written in C.
Of course Space Invaders wasn’t written in C so this new tool doesn’t apply.
But the article does talk about how the decompiler sometimes introduces bugs and how they were manually fixed before compiling.
So you were right but the problem you brought up has already been addressed. (And will continue to need to be addressed as more cross compiling bugs are found in each game.)
I interpreted the word “legacy” the OP used as the fandom for old games rather than perfect preservation.
- Comment on How to port any N64 game to the PC in record time 1 month ago:
I followed this guide:
- Comment on Parents overestimate sons’ maths skills more than daughters’, study finds 1 month ago:
That seems wrong. I underestimate my son’s skills and therefore made him practice more than my daughter who was always in GT math.
If I had overestimated my son’s math skills, he wouldn’t be doing as well today.
- Comment on GameStop shares fall 20% after it files to sell additional stock, says first quarter sales dropped 1 month ago:
I argued this premise years ago with the wsb crowd during the first run up and was down voted.
GME won’t go up and stay up because whenever the stock goes up, the Board/CEO will issue more stock to cash out the money that shareholders put into the stock. It will be shareholder funded executive bonuses.
- Comment on We have to stop ignoring AI’s hallucination problem 1 month ago:
It shouldn’t even automatically fallback. If I am looking for an exact phrase and it doesn’t exist, the result should be “nothing found”, so that I can search somewhere else for the information. A prompt, “Nothing found. Look for related information?” Would be useful.
But returning a list of related information when I need an exact result is worse than not having search at all.