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- Comment on Latest tablet with AOSP? 9 hours ago:
Lineage OS supports the Pixel tablet. But they don’t seem to be very cheap used even though it’s a couple years old.
- Comment on Russian enthusiasts planning do-it-yourself DDR5 memory amidst the worldwide shortage — building your own RAM is as 'easy' as sourcing your own memory modules and soldering them on empty PCBs 1 day ago:
I’m not sure there’s many DDR5 sticks of ram that are ewaste. Most probably still work just fine unless they were DOA and tossed.
- Comment on What is the cheapest console to get and collect for that still holds up? 4 days ago:
PS2 has remained surprisingly cheap over the years. I think the only reason it’s so cheap is because the OG PS3s are also a PS2 but with an HDMI port and wireless controllers. And those things keep creeping up in value. Too bad they’re so damn unreliable. PS2s on the other hand seem to be rock solid.
- Comment on YSK that Stanford scientists examined what happens when people stop using social media. They found deactivating Facebook and Instagram significantly improved users' emotional well-being and happiness 1 week ago:
Do you consider lemmy **ass **addictive/harmful as the mainstream socials?
That’s a very funny typo. But also kinda relevant. Lemmy’s sorting “algorithm” is just a very basic sort. There’s no personal tuning, just basic “does this post have more activity than this other one” so it’s as un addictive as it can get really. Short of purposefully trying to be bad.
- Comment on Mangmi Air X review: The best entry-level handheld, bar none 1 week ago:
Emulators on PC doesn’t really help an android device.
- Comment on Why make 250GB m.2 disks instead of 1TB 1 week ago:
There’s plenty of garbage M.2 ssds out there with only 1 nand chip for 1TB. Pretty much any time you sort by price low to high you’ll see some of the most dire SSDs you’ve ever seen in your life. They suck too, quad chip ones are almost guaranteed to be lightyears faster.
- Comment on What steps can be taken to prevent AI training and scraping of my public facing website? 1 week ago:
How well does Anubis actually work though? I have no issues with getting past it using puppeteer. But I’m also just dicking around at home not crawling an entire website.
Cloudflare for sure doesn’t work very well at blocking puppeteer or anything that runs a full browser. It’ll stop things that only rip the raw web page, but if you’re running JS and even halfway trying it’s not an issue to get past. And let’s be real. Do you want a crawler ripping 300k of text, or 400MB of page + images + videos + whatever other unnecessary garbage are on modern web pages?
- Comment on Samsung to halt SATA SSD production, leaker warns of up to 18 months of SSD price pressure, worse than Micron ending consumer RAM 1 week ago:
Comes with them, but only for legacy media. Outside of my NAS I haven’t bought a new sata drive in probably 10 years. And I haven’t touched my onboard sata ports in 5.
The fact that they’re still there impresses me at this point. But their numbers are slowly dwindling. Sata is usually the first thing that gets dropped when you need more pcie lanes. And even then most boards only have 4 at this point. They’re switching back to those god awful vertical ports which tells you all you need to know about their priority.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Ruh roh, I just installed that on my main work machine today. I’ve had 7462 installed on my fucking around laptop for 2 days no problem.
- Comment on RAM prices soar, but popular Windows 11 apps are using more RAM due to Electron, Web components 2 weeks ago:
I guess the key is it has to be the same version of electron in the back end. If they change too much of it then how much memory can be shared?
- Comment on iPhone case with e-ink display lets users read books and comics without screen glare 2 weeks 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 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago:
Maybe they’re just ultra fire batteries?
- Comment on Framework stops selling separate DDR5 RAM modules to fight scalpers 4 weeks 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 4 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’ 4 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 4 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 5 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? 5 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? 5 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"? 5 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.