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- Comment on Huh? It's not that big 5 days ago:
14.5 M⊕ (earth masses) to save you a search.
- Comment on New Laptop Memory Is Here! LPCAMM2 Changes Everything! - iFixit Video 1 week ago:
cpubenchmark.net/…/Apple-M2-Ultra-24-Core-vs-Inte…
Benchmarks are of course just benchmarks, but the single-core performance is better for the M2, and the range-topping M2 is about 2x faster than the i9.
Also, regardless of how something compares, if it is ever memory-bandwidth bound, then faster RAM should help. While most tasks may be CPU or IO bound, AFAIK there can still easily be memory bound tasks in real-world workloads.
I picked the i9-11900k for comparison since I think that was the last one to only support DDR4 (making it “DDR4 era”). Ryzen maybe faster in the DDR4 era though?
- Comment on iFixit hails replaceable LPCAMM2 laptop memory as a 'big deal' 1 week ago:
“It’s more performant than the old SODIMM sticks, vastly more efficient, it saves space, and it should even help with thermals as well. All that, and it’s still about as repairable as anything we’ve ever seen,” iFixit concluded.
Yes, there was a perfectly fine, upgradable memory standard before. And many 486s were also perfectly fine, upgradable computers.
The fact that a new technology makes it so we can have our cake and eat it too — upgradability without any compromise — is a fantastic innovation.
- Comment on this picture is 27kb 1 week ago:
To be clear, most science/advanced education in the US is conducted in SI units.
- Comment on Mullvad VPN: Introducing Defense against AI-guided Traffic Analysis (DAITA) 1 week ago:
Someone else pointed out Tailscale; I’ve had luck with free tier VPS+WireGuard.
I have an Oracle one which has worked well. Downside is I did link my CC, because my account was getting deactivated due to inactivity (even using it as a VPN and nginx proxy for my self hosting wasn’t enough to keep it “active”). But I stay below the free allowance, so it doesn’t cost.
That said: as far as anonymity goes, it’s not the right tool. And I fully appreciate the irony of trying to self-host to get away from large corporations owning my data…and relying on Oracle to do so. But you can get a static IP and VPS for free, so that’s something.
- Comment on USA: The Minimum Wage Should Be $24 per Hour Not $7.25 1 week ago:
Minimum wage shouldn’t be a dollar amount, it should be a living amount defined in a reasonable and realistic way. (Probably should be region dependent, too?)
- Comment on We can dream right 2 weeks ago:
And it was…pretty one-dimensional.
I feel like the “rich live in the sky, poor live on the wasted earth” was over the top. As opposed to S1 of Altered Carbon which was way better at address the se trope. The meths were depraved, but you could kinda understand it — they’ve been alive for so long, but want to continue to “feel alive” through ever more extreme experiences.
- Comment on We can dream right 2 weeks ago:
I was so excited for Elysium because I thought it would be the spiritual sequel.
- Comment on The “Require videogame publishers to keep games they have sold in a working state” petition just got a response. 2 weeks ago:
Good point — getting the shitty ones to identify themselves is a good start.
- Comment on The “Require videogame publishers to keep games they have sold in a working state” petition just got a response. 2 weeks ago:
Unfortunately, I think there is no real way around companies killing games. Because as shitty as this is, is it worse than every game which doesn’t intend to comply simply selling the game as a service instead? I doubt that could realistically be made illegal.
In other words, one way of complying would simply be to only sell a 1-mo. “lease” to your game. You don’t own it, and at some point they stop selling more leases, and then kill the game. You never owned it to begin with, so you didn’t lose anything; you are no longer a customer. Of course…this is just describing a shitty subscription system.
That said: I think it would be a good start for companies to be required to list earliest end-of-support date. You already get this with many hardware vendors (enterprise network gear won’t be supported forever).
- Comment on Elon Musk Laid Off Supercharger Team After Taking $17 Million in Federal Charging Grants 2 weeks ago:
Buying Twitter was, arguably, a consequence.
- Comment on Thomas Edison was the Elon musk of his era 2 weeks ago:
Was Jobs really a techbro? I usually think of techbros as being fairly political/libertarian (or some interpretation of libertarianism, at any rate), while Jobs was afaik pretty apolitical.
- Comment on Can’t login to Syncthing GUI with Ngnix Proxy Manager 2 weeks ago:
This suggests nginx options to use re: hostname. Unsure of your nginx config…
- Comment on Can’t login to Syncthing GUI with Ngnix Proxy Manager 2 weeks ago:
403 Forbidden doesn’t necessarily mean a bad login attempt. Are you sure that’s the error? My troubleshooting steps would be to access directly (no nginx), and look at the logs for a successful login. Then, look try to login with nginx, and look at those logs (both access.log and error.log on nginx, and any/all logs from syncthing). Find out where the two cases diverge and go from there.
Does syncthing have a domain name specified? If it doesn’t know its domain name it may work from IP directly but not via reverse proxy. Just a hunch.
- Comment on Can’t login to Syncthing GUI with Ngnix Proxy Manager 2 weeks ago:
I’d definitely take a look at the syncthing logs…
- Comment on Can’t login to Syncthing GUI with Ngnix Proxy Manager 2 weeks ago:
Can you post the syncthing logs, as well as the nginx logs?
I assume you’ve seen this: stackoverflow.com/…/refused-to-execute-script-bec…
Can you post your nginx config? Is it just this one with different variables? docs.syncthing.net/users/reverseproxy.html
- Comment on I like this text. In which Lemmy community can I best share it ? Thanks. 2 weeks ago:
Disregarding the question but commenting on the material, I don’t think this is generally true. In labeling something as forever upfront (e.g., marriage, which generally includes a “forever clause”), it’s only natural though.
Contrast marriage with a “summer fling” — the expectation is a duration of at most one summer. Not really considered a failure (which is kinda the plot of Grease, dated though that may be…)
There was a great restaurant near me (Michelin star), and it closed a while back — the owner was upfront that he just had a kid and wanted to spend more time together. I don’t think anyone views that as a failure. A loss for the community, definitely, but not a failure.
- Comment on Net neutrality is back!!! 3 weeks ago:
Somewhere, someone is crying into comically large novelty coffee mug.
- Comment on Chinese battery developer unveils new tech with 1,300-mile range that could revolutionize EVs: 'An important piece of the puzzle' 3 weeks ago:
Not a battery expert, but I think there are safety implications.
- Comment on Chinese battery developer unveils new tech with 1,300-mile range that could revolutionize EVs: 'An important piece of the puzzle' 3 weeks ago:
We’re considering a new car (current car is an old econobox that’s been to the moon), and range anxiety does factor in for the “weekend adventure” use case. We live in CA, and something like a trip to Yosemite or Tahoe requires refuelling/charging. But these places can get inundated with weekend warriors (like us!), who are all on the same schedule. We’ve had friends who have had stressful incidents e.g. charging in Yosemite valley, or on the way back from Tahoe. Add a toddler in the mix and it gets even less fun.
Not insurmountable, but infrastructure and timing are still not as good as for dinosaur blood.
For 95% of the time though yeah — commuting, single-day adventures, or bopping around the city would be no problem at all.
- Comment on Windows 11 Start menu ads are now rolling out to everyone 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, I guess it’s a matter of what the analogy is to “page.” I would say my computer is the book, and the pages are the software. If some developer wants to make a piece of shit ad ridden software, well, great — but I won’t install it :)
- Comment on Windows 11 Start menu ads are now rolling out to everyone 3 weeks ago:
Yeah I think we’re in violent agreement to an extent — as I said in my last graf, if it’s effectively changing the user agreement, absolutely not ok. But if it’s a shitty product to begin with, then I’m just not going to buy it in the first place.
So yeah, Windows doing shitty things for users who have already paid for the product is definitely not cool. But for all users going forward to have a shitty experience? That’s… shitty, yeah, but I personally don’t think it should be illegal?
- Comment on Windows 11 Start menu ads are now rolling out to everyone 3 weeks ago:
I hate it as much as the next guy, but I certainly don’t see why it should be illegal (and disclaimer — Debian on all my personal machines, macOS for work).
Should it be illegal for books to have a list of similar material from the author/publisher? Should food staples not be able to list recipes on the back?
I completely agree that pulling the rug out from under the customer should be illegal (i.e., effectively changing the terms of service for an already-purchased product), but having a shitty product shouldn’t be illegal IMHO.
- Comment on Rooftop solar panels are flooding California’s grid. That’s a problem. As electricity prices go negative, the Golden State is struggling to offload a glut of solar power 3 weeks ago:
Absolutely! Living in a city, this gets a bit tricky though. But if I had a giant reservoir on a hill…and another one below it…
- Comment on Rooftop solar panels are flooding California’s grid. That’s a problem. As electricity prices go negative, the Golden State is struggling to offload a glut of solar power 3 weeks ago:
Oh, I have no intention of converting that back to electricity. The goal would essentially be to maximize usage during times of cheap/marginally free energy.
- Comment on Rooftop solar panels are flooding California’s grid. That’s a problem. As electricity prices go negative, the Golden State is struggling to offload a glut of solar power 3 weeks ago:
I’m hoping to one day install some solar, and looking forward to setting up non-battery “storage” — e.g., electric water heater that turns on when there’s an excess of power, deep freezer that gets as cold as possible when there’s excess power, that sort of thing. It seems thermodynamics is the relevant discipline for these sorts of “storage” methods :)
As an aside — while smart devices are much maligned, some rudimentary smart features for matching consumption seems like a pretty good idea. (If I ever get around to this stuff it’ll be local control via HomeAssistant.)
- Comment on Rooftop solar panels are flooding California’s grid. That’s a problem. As electricity prices go negative, the Golden State is struggling to offload a glut of solar power 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, various power generation techniques (e.g., big industrial power plants) do not want to run without a load. And switching them off temporarily isn’t really feasible (shutting them for good would ultimately be nice, but that’s another topic…).
And you can’t just “dump” huge amounts of excess of power — it needs to go somewhere.
- Comment on Rooftop solar panels are flooding California’s grid. That’s a problem. As electricity prices go negative, the Golden State is struggling to offload a glut of solar power 3 weeks ago:
Excess power on the grid is a very real problem though. It’s easy enough to shut off photovoltaic solar when not needed (which is probably what should be happening here!), but industrial scale generators cannot all be turned on or off on a whim. Serious damage can result if power production does not match the load.
It’s easy to dump a few kW (just boil some water or turn on a heater), but dumping many MW or even GW is not trivial.
- Comment on What's a small cleared space in a forest where people can live called? 4 weeks ago:
What, the curtains?
- Comment on Every song has that one comment 4 weeks ago:
I’m guessing Baby Got Back.