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- Comment on SSL certificates for things inside the lab 13 hours ago:
Once you accept the certificate it being not blessed isn’t much of an issue. And just turning it on should just generate a self signed certificate on anything not a piece of shit.
- Comment on Retro yet? 19 hours ago:
An iPhone without the phone??? When will Apple stop innovating!
- Comment on Nvidia Announces DLSS 5, and it adds... An AI slop filter over your game 21 hours ago:
Back to the ol pysx GPU days. Except physx made the game cooler.
- Comment on Is there a software method to "rotate" music around my head? 2 days ago:
On iOS with AirPods there’s spatial audio which does this.
- Comment on The surreal joy of having an overprovisioned homelab (2025) - from Anubis creator 2 days ago:
Then you’re losing pcie lanes, and you have to deal with split storage or software raid which doesn’t always work the best.
- Comment on The surreal joy of having an overprovisioned homelab (2025) - from Anubis creator 2 days ago:
VMs mostly. What are you hosting on Minecraft that isn’t using >=4 gigs?
Also ZFS.
- Comment on Google Fiber will be sold to private equity firm and merge with cable company 3 days ago:
When Google Fiber came here every ISP shat themselves and dropped prices, and raised speeds. And Google Fiber has been by far the most reliable ISP.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
What post is on your profile that’s deleted?
- Comment on Microsoft patents system for AI helpers to finish games for you 1 week ago:
Could you imagine how the fans would react to a skip button in Elden ring?
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Pretty much every modern laptop runs on 20v internally so USB Cs 100w was super easy to switch to. To get 240w you need to intake 48v and then convert that down to the 20v ish that laptops crave.
The framework 16 is the only laptop I know of that runs on the new spec. MacBooks will do 140w via MagSafe, and the new ThinkPad P1 does it over actual USB C. But almost nothing uses the new spec yet. Given more time I’m sure it will be more popular.
- Comment on Microsoft patents system for AI helpers to finish games for you 1 week ago:
What if you like the game, just not that one boss?
- Comment on Microsoft patents system for AI helpers to finish games for you 1 week ago:
Someone submitted it into a form at work like 10 years ago.
- Comment on Microsoft patents system for AI helpers to finish games for you 1 week ago:
Sure, if you’re a masochist. Not everyone has the time/energy/willpower to not even get close to finishing a boss after 50 attempts and need to do another 150 more. I can’t tell you how many games I’ve completely given up on because one specific boss does something that I just can’t manage.
- Comment on Microsoft patents system for AI helpers to finish games for you 1 week ago:
People who are stuck on a boss and can’t get past it.
- Comment on Avocado. Is it really so untasty or I am doing something wrong? 1 week ago:
Try a touch of salt.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
A keep difference is arm machines will get a full days worth of battery life and perform well. X86 machines only can get a day’s battery life.
X86 CPUs must race to idle to get decent battery life. If they don’t idle they’re guzzling power. Arm CPUs seem to handle the light but constantly active loads much better. My m1 MacBook gets me 10-15 hours of battery life no problem. My ThinkPad gets idk like 4 at best. Even factoring in the battery capacity difference they’re nowhere close.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
To be fair the firmware situation ain’t great on arm. The second thing your computer does after it turns on is hands off from firmware to the OS and that process ain’t exactly great or super standardized on any ARM system.
- Comment on How to I prove to someone that the U.S. moon landing wasn't staged? 1 week ago:
Tell them the landing was real, because if it wasn’t then how would the aliens on the dark side of the moon have told us not to come back?
(This is something my co worker unironically believes)
- Comment on Is "dark humor" generally acceptable or is it just my parents/culture more sensitive towards jokes? 1 week ago:
Dark humor is how I live my life.
- Comment on Lenovo’s New ThinkPads Score 10/10 for Repairability— Repair goes mega mainstream with the launch of Lenovo's new T-series laptops 1 week ago:
On Windows I use TPFanControl But I think the version on sourceforge doesn’t include some installer you need first. But I think the Thinkwiki version isn’t a PITA? IDK I found the version that worked and saved it a long time ago.
The software came out in the pre turbo boost age so the default automatic fan curve is almost useless and will constantly change the RPM. I just set it so it starts in manual mode and manual mode defaults to 7 (full blast) so when I’m running intensive stuff I just open the program, and when I’m done I close it.
- Comment on Lenovo’s New ThinkPads Score 10/10 for Repairability— Repair goes mega mainstream with the launch of Lenovo's new T-series laptops 1 week ago:
keyboard, screen, or charging port as the things that break
That’s exactly where structural reinforcement makes a difference. Keyboard less so since usually it’s the switches that break. But ThinkPads have reinforcement not just on the chassis, but the ports too. There’s a plate about 1 inch wide on all the ports of my machine. The less all components flex the less likely things break. From simple insertion cycles to actual physical damage, it all adds up over time.
- Comment on Lenovo’s New ThinkPads Score 10/10 for Repairability— Repair goes mega mainstream with the launch of Lenovo's new T-series laptops 1 week ago:
as the CPU hits 100°C in 0.5 seconds (:
Yup, 100% intentional. Any time there’s any sort of a load (even opening small programs) the CPU will go balls out to load it as fast as possible, then when the loads done should cool down quickly… Unless the load doesn’t stop then it hits PL2 and performance drops off a cliff. Any Intel laptop you buy will do the exact same thing. 30 watts seems to be the sweet spot to me. The factory 20 basically disables the P cores, and above 35 and you’re at the point of diminishing returns. If you set the fan speed manually to 100% it will sustain almost 40, but then it’s screaming and burning hot.
IMO never buy an Intel laptop unless you have no other options. AMD is much better about keeping their clock in their pants unlike Intel. But they still do something similar. I have a one gen older T14s AMD and it’s faster in almost every single way in real world usage.
Dell seems to be really busy trying to be Apple with their XPS line, but they don’t have the Apple Silicon that makes their laptops so good.
- Comment on Lenovo’s New ThinkPads Score 10/10 for Repairability— Repair goes mega mainstream with the launch of Lenovo's new T-series laptops 1 week ago:
Yup, same as my machine. PL1 is 64 watts which no way a smaller laptop with normal cooling can keep up. That’s just how modern CPUs are designed to run.
When it switches to PL2 and it fully settles down it’s limited to just 21 watts which is nowhere near enough for that CPU to stretch it’s legs. With the cooler from a dGPU model it handles the heat a lot better (60-70c steady state) but GOD is it still slow. But that’s mostly because Intel is incompetent. AMD versions fare so much better.
- Comment on Lenovo’s New ThinkPads Score 10/10 for Repairability— Repair goes mega mainstream with the launch of Lenovo's new T-series laptops 1 week ago:
Intel or AMD. Intel purposefully does this. It’s not overheating because it’s hitting 100c, it’s designed to run at 100c in order to turbo boost as much and for as long as possible. Outside of the turbo thick gamer laptops they’ll all be like this unless you put them in a power saving mode.
AMD is less stupid about this, but still does something similar.
- Comment on Lenovo’s New ThinkPads Score 10/10 for Repairability— Repair goes mega mainstream with the launch of Lenovo's new T-series laptops 1 week ago:
Depends on what features you value. Just raw specs? Some HP garbage will cost probably half what a comparable T14 costs.
2-3 years used? That ThinkPad is probably the same price or cheaper thanks to companies retiring leased machines.
- Comment on Lenovo’s New ThinkPads Score 10/10 for Repairability— Repair goes mega mainstream with the launch of Lenovo's new T-series laptops 1 week ago:
The machine doens’t wobble because there’s an Ethernet plugged in. The flappy thing is just to maintain the curve. I dont think it even touches the table when plugged in.
- Comment on Lenovo’s New ThinkPads Score 10/10 for Repairability— Repair goes mega mainstream with the launch of Lenovo's new T-series laptops 1 week ago:
While easy to repair, how does durability compare so you don’t need to repair it in the first place?
While not bad like an HP consumer grade laptop, I have not heard good things about the rigidity of the frameworks. All the modularity takes away space for reinforcement and leaves more points for things to break.
- Comment on Lenovo’s New ThinkPads Score 10/10 for Repairability— Repair goes mega mainstream with the launch of Lenovo's new T-series laptops 1 week ago:
No, they’ve always had some sort of magnesium reinforcement. Full blown roll cage? Yeah that went away around the T440 series. E or L series? They’ve always been cheaper. But there’s always been some magnesium reinforcement on the T series.
T460 i.ebayimg.com/images/g/…/s-l1200.jpg
T480 m.media-amazon.com/…/31Oj9fSCo-L._AC_UF894,1000_Q…
T14 Gen 1 ae01.alicdn.com/…/S59cb725ffd0043ccacb3e731f84097…
- Comment on Windows 12 release date in 2026 possible, with AI features that may force CPU upgrades 1 week ago:
If you’re used to the UI and UX of Mac OS and not Windows then almost any distro will be rough. There’s Elementary OS that at surface level looks like Mac OS, but then you use the actual Linux programs and they’re just Linux programs.
- Comment on Windows 12 release date in 2026 possible, with AI features that may force CPU upgrades 1 week ago:
You can still buy Office 2024 outright. I guess they got rid of professional, but who really wants to use Access?
