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- Comment on iPhone case with e-ink display lets users read books and comics without screen glare 2 days ago:
A Kobo is a hell of a lot bigger than that.
Phones are tall and narrow. For reading books you don’t want to be reading 5 words then having to go down a line. Ebook readers are typically closer to 4:3
- Comment on iPhone case with e-ink display lets users read books and comics without screen glare 2 days ago:
Lets be honest. When they upgrade their phone they’re not gonna bother replacing the ereader thing.
This device is neat in concept, but probably going to be awful in practice.
- Comment on 1GB Raspberry Pi 5 now available at $45, and memory-driven price rises 6 days ago:
Why not get an actual micro controller if you want a micro controller? That’s what the pico line is for.
- Comment on 1GB Raspberry Pi 5 now available at $45, and memory-driven price rises 6 days ago:
1GB Raspberry Pi 5
But why? It’s a shame to pair the actually pretty damn good hardware of the Pi 5 with that little (non upgradeable) ram. It’s future landfill fodder. The 1/2gb Pi 4 is better for that low price point.
- Comment on Don't throw away your old PC—it makes a better NAS than anything you can buy 1 week ago:
So I believe the Pi 4 was the 1st to have an actual ethernet controller and not just having essentially a built in USB to ethernet adapter so bandwidth to your HDDs/ethernet shouldn’t be a problem.
Streaming directly off of the pi should be tolerable. A bit slower than a full fat computer with tons of ram for caching and CPU power to buffer things. But fine. There’s some quirks with usb connected HDDs that makes them a bit slower than they should (still in 2025 UASP isn’t a given somehow) But streaming ultimately doesn’t need that much bandwidth.
What’s going to be unbearable is transcoding. If you’re connecting some shitty ass smart TV that only understands like H264 and your videos are 265 then that has to get converted, and that SUCKS. Plex by default also likes to play videos at a lower bitrate sometimes, which means transcoding.
There’s also other weird quirks to look out for. Like someone else was (I think) doing exactly what you wanted to do, but no matter what the experience was unbearable. Apparently LVM was somehow too much compute for the pi to handle, and as soon as they switched to raw EXT4 they could stream perfectly fine. I don’t remember why this was a problem, but it’s just kind of a reminder of how weak these devices actually are compared to “full” computers.
- Comment on Don't throw away your old PC—it makes a better NAS than anything you can buy 1 week ago:
HBAs are cheap, IPMI isn’t at all needed under normal uses cases, and ECC is way overkill.
For most people a halfway decent PC that isn’t failing is plenty.
- Comment on Don't throw away your old PC—it makes a better NAS than anything you can buy 1 week ago:
For backups it will be fine. Same for media storage. But if you want media streaming from the device (like plex) then you’ll want something better.
- Comment on Don't throw away your old PC—it makes a better NAS than anything you can buy 1 week ago:
The GTX 480 is efficient by modern standards. If Nvidia could make a cooler that could handle 600 watts in 2010 you can bet your sweet ass that GPU would have used a lot more power.
Well that and if 1000 watt power supplies were common back then.
- Comment on Don't throw away your old PC—it makes a better NAS than anything you can buy 1 week ago:
Most modern boards will. Also there’s integrated graphics on basically every single current CPU. Only AMD on AM4 held out on having iGPUs for so damn long.
- Comment on Don't throw away your old PC—it makes a better NAS than anything you can buy 1 week ago:
There was a post a while back of someone trying to eek every single watt out of their computer. Disabling XMP and running the ram at the slowest speed possible saved like 3 watts I think. An impressive savings, but at the cost of HORRIBLE CPU performance. But you do actually need at least a little bit of grunt for a nas.
At work we have some of those atom based NASes and the combination of lack of CPU, and horrendous single channel ram speeds makes them absolutely crawl. One HDD on its own performs the same as this raid 10 array.
- Comment on Thieves are starting to steal RAM now that it's as expensive as gold — a memory kit disappears in the snail mail at four in the morning with a bogus signature 1 week ago:
Yeah… I kinda regret not buying some ram that popped up for cheap like 3 months ago.
- Comment on New tech pulls lithium from dead batteries cheaper than you can buy it 1 week ago:
Maybe they’re just ultra fire batteries?
- Comment on Framework stops selling separate DDR5 RAM modules to fight scalpers 1 week ago:
Really?!? The company that LTT has invested in might also support some problematic people?
- Comment on Valve confirm the Steam Machine will be priced like a PC with similar specs, rather than a console 2 weeks ago:
Not anymore. That changed with the Xbox one and PS4.
- Comment on Snapdragon X1 Elite Linux laptop cancelled due to performance concerns — Linux PC maker says Qualcomm CPU is ‘less suitable for Linux than expected’ 2 weeks ago:
And when you see how bad their windows support is it’s a miracle anyone buys this garbage.
It’s a neat concept. But at the moment only Apple has pulled it off well. And that’s only if you stick with Mac OS.
- Comment on Microsoft finally admits almost all major Windows 11 core features are broken 2 weeks ago:
I have a computer at work that has like 10 phones plugged into it. Opening “this PC” part of file explorer freezes it for about 5-10 minutes. It’s a very fun issue when I forget about. Normally I just avoid that screen.
- Comment on HP and Dell disable HEVC support built into their laptops’ CPUs 2 weeks ago:
apps.microsoft.com/detail/9NMZLZ57R3T7
You can still buy it yourself. It’s only $1.
- Comment on If Microsoft ended Windows 10 support, why is it still getting updates like every other day? 2 weeks ago:
bleepingcomputer.com/…/microsoft-windows-10-kb507…
Looks like there’s an issue installing the extended support updates should you subscribe to it. So it makes sense to just give everyone the update.
- Comment on If Microsoft ended Windows 10 support, why is it still getting updates like every other day? 2 weeks ago:
What are the updates? Is it Windows getting the update, or Windows defender/programs that use windows update for updates?
As far as I’m aware even windows 7’s windows defender still gets updates.
- Comment on When you wake up, how long does it take for your brain's "OS" to "resume from hibernation"? 2 weeks ago:
Find an app for your phone/watch that wakes you up at the end of your sleep cycles. When you’re in deep sleep you tend to be pretty still, but when you’re at the end of a sleep cycle is when you typically move around a night. There’s apps that will wake you up when it’s almost your alarm time, but you’re moving around.
Also try to maintain a consistent sleep schedule. Eventually you can kinda figure out your own sleep cycles and try to work with them instead of against them.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Most current Gen. thinkpads have fully upgradable ram. The T4XX/14 series had half soldered ram until a year or two ago. SSDs have basically always been replaceable.
They’re also very easy to work on since it’s only a couple of screws and you have full access to the inside of the machine. Those older thinkpads were nightmares if you had to take the whole mobo out. Even MacBooks were easier.
- Comment on Portable KVM for console access 3 weeks ago:
I have the startech usb kvm. It’s expensive new, but used it can be pretty cheap.
- Comment on What's a 'common sense' thing that you genuinely don't understand, and have been too embarrassed to ask about until now? 3 weeks ago:
It’s based on the speed limit of the road. Yellow means proceed if safe or stop if safe. The faster it is the longer the yellow. And usually the longer the time between it turning green on the other side should you pull a whoopsie.
- Comment on the self-hosting rabbit hole is a bottomless pit, isn't it? 3 weeks ago:
Just because you can type that fast doesn’t mean you should.
Do you even care about the things you’re posting?
- Comment on Is it insane to run a home server on an old laptop instead of a Raspberry Pi for self-hosting - what do I need to worry about? 3 weeks ago:
I ran ESXi on an a ThinkPad W520 for years with no issues. Make sure you set a battery charge limit or else that battery will be toast in no time. A UPS is insane overkill. A laptop battery will long outlast the UPS batteries. Not just run time, but in terms of degradation. even without the charge limit.
- Comment on Why a new Steam Machine when the first ones flopped? Because this time, Valve say, it'll actually have games 3 weeks ago:
Relying on Proton just offloads development/optimization to the community instead of the actual developers getting paid to develop it. Sure it’s cool the game runs better. But like pay people to do that.
- Comment on Valve Announces New Steam Machine, Steam Controller & Steam Frame 3 weeks ago:
The case around it does. That’s what I want to replace.
- Comment on Valve Announces New Steam Machine, Steam Controller & Steam Frame 3 weeks ago:
That brings up my following question.
If the thumb sticks are capacitive and they wear smooth over time how do you replace them? Are the capacitive sensors under stick caps? Do you just have to replace the rim only?
- Comment on Microsoft confirms PCs boot into BitLocker recovery after the latest Windows updates 4 weeks ago:
There’s also all natural incompetence.
Microsoft’s long history has plenty of it.
- Comment on Microsoft confirms PCs boot into BitLocker recovery after the latest Windows updates 4 weeks ago:
We need an AI version of Hanlons Razor.
Never attribute to AI that which can be adequately explained by incompetence.
This is Microsoft after all.