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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨First server: Buying hardware in a developing country⁩ ⁨⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:
You do know that above 50 USD taxes are 92% right? Check it out, a product for 1000 reais will have 900 reais in taxes. It’s bonkers. But technically, it has always been like this, but it wasn’t truly enforced/audited. Now that they are collecting the taxes at the point of sale, you pretty much pay for two products to buy one.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨First server: Buying hardware in a developing country⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:
Below 50usd the taxes are considerably lower, and just above 50 usd they get a 20 dollars rebate on taxes, so it’s okayish to buy.

I bought a seagate 4tb drive, cheapest 4tb at the time, on Amazon if I’m not mistaken.

Oh, you’re lucky then. NET/Claro locks down all their modens for consumers, and I know that most other ISPs around here do the same.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨First server: Buying hardware in a developing country⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Nothing of the sort in Brazil. Stuff only gets replaced when broken or completely outdated. And any stuff that might work gets poached by insiders before seeing the light of day. You might get some stuff if you work in IT, out of question for anybody else.

Here people sell 2nd gen I5 + rx 580 pcs as “gamer pc” at 70% the price of a modern system. It’s absolutely bonkers.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨First server: Buying hardware in a developing country⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Hi fellow Brazilian!

Yeah, second-hand here sucks. You can get x-99 mb + cpu combos on alliexpress for 400 reais though, old xeons are good for server/jellyfin, just not very efficient. For Jellyfin, my biggest money sink is in HDDs. 4tb drives are 700 reais each, and there’s no second-hand refurbished stuff in the market, so you have to buy brand-new. For a GPU I have an ancient 750ti, but I’m looking to buy an intel A310 card if they drop lower than 800 reais. At the very least you’re looking at 3000 reais in pc parts for a server though. Mb + cpu + ram is somewhat cheap if you buy from china through alliexpress, but GPUs are a no go there. Keep in mind that when buying from China you have to avoid products above 60 dollars (around 350 reais) because of the super high taxes. If you want to buy domestically, I’d recommend a b450 AM4 board + a 3200g or something around that. You can avoid buying a dedicated GPU with a 3200g or similar, and get a nice modern platform, but the cpu will be quite weak for game servers, and have low support for pcie lanes, memory channels and sata ports though.

Also, for a game server, it’s very likely that you’ll have to work around being behind CGNat. I currently only self host Jellyfin inside my own house because of that, it’s just a huge pain in the ass to deal with it. There are solutions though, I just haven’t bothered. I’m still in the process of buying hard drives, so right now it’s not a huge priority.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google confirms more ads on your paid YouTube Premium Lite soon⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
They have clips from songs, so yes, I guess. I’m not sure if anyone can host a video there though.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft announces new Windows changes in response to the EU's (DMA) Digital Markets Act for EEA users, including Edge not prompting users to set it as the default unless opened⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Pirating windows and adobe is never wrong.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Peersuite p2p encrypted discord alternative⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
I just realized it’s on the post. Sorry for that. This looks like a solid thing, for sure. Since we’re talking, do you ever worry about people making use of the privacy features for nefarious purposes?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Peersuite p2p encrypted discord alternative⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Do you have voice calls/group voice calls and streaming already in or in the roadmap?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨KIOXIA and Linus Media Group Set World Record for Pi Calculation⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
The calculation technically only takes 12 straight days to compute, but they had many interruptions over the process, sometimes having to fully restart the whole calculation.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Enshitification of Youtube’s Full Album Playlists⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
I unironically love this ai tune. This is what AI is supposed to be used for.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft CEO says up to 30% of the company's code was written by AI | TechCrunch⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
I’m waiting to make a pc upgrade and buy new storage, then I’m switching.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Tech That Safeguards the Conclave’s Secrecy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
You live in a bubble. As a teacher, a lot of young students have already been indoctrinated into religion by the age of 12, most of them will never escape.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
It’s crazy that “lobbying budget” and “buying lobbyists” is a thing said in the openness and not illegal. Thanks for sharing this report, it’s a great (disgusting) read.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk's Social Platform X has filed a lawsuit agains Minnesota, challenging a law banning political deepfakes⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
It’s a huge part of the business model. Social Media is valuable for its data on people, and for its ability to manipulate and influence people.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Generative AI is reshaping South Korea’s webcomics industry⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
For good chinese Manhua, take a look at Ancient Sovereign of Eternity (aka Ultimate of All Ages), possibly the best ever Xianxia/Cultivation story in comic format. Magic (or Demon) Emperor is also great. And Martial Peak is good for the first 2000 or so chapters. Chinese comedy stuff tends to be fairly good as well, like Top Tier Providence.

Also, Solo Leveling is typical op MC done as cliched as possible, just the art style that’s quite good, although a bit overdone these days. Everybody is trying to copy Redice’s art right now. Koreans have crafted some amazing wuxia manhwas though: Gosu, Legend of the Northern Blade, and Red Storm are examples of amazing completed works in the martial arts murim genre.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenAI Is A Systemic Risk To The Tech Industry.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
Billionaires are a ~~systematic~~ risk*.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK creating ‘murder prediction’ tool to identify people most likely to kill.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Because of the early 2000’s movie Minority Report that has this exact same plot and is starred by Tom Cruise.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Most Americans think AI won’t improve their lives, survey says⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Hardly ever I come across a person more self centered and a bigger fan of virtue signaling as you. You ignored literally everything we said, and your alternative was just “sms”. Even to the point of saying that the other commenter should stop talking to their 47 friends and family members.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Most Americans think AI won’t improve their lives, survey says⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Lots of people. I need it because it’s how my clients at work prefer to communicate with me, also how all my family members and friends communicate.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Most Americans think AI won’t improve their lives, survey says⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Yes, there are. You just have to live in one of the many many countries in the world where the overwhelming majority of the population uses whatsapp as their communication app. Like my country. Where not only friends and family, but also businesses and government entities use WhatsApp as their messaging app. I have at least a couple hundred reasons to use WhatsApp, including all my friends, all my family members, and all my clients at work. Do I like it? Not really. Do I have a choice? No. Just like I don’t have a choice on not using gmail, because that’s the email provider that the company I work for decided to go with.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Most Americans think AI won’t improve their lives, survey says⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Right?! It’s literally just a messenger, honestly, all I expect from it is that it’s an easy and reliable way of sending messages to my contacts. Anything else is questionable.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LILYGO's T-Deck Pro Is a LoRa- and 4G-Capable Smartphone-Like All-In-One ePaper Dev System⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Oh, that’s quite cheap! I was afraid it was going to be one of those “cool indie tech” that costs hundreds of dollars and which makes no sense for the consumer except as a cool gimmick. If they can make them a bit cheaper through mass production, this might actually be an alternative.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LILYGO's T-Deck Pro Is a LoRa- and 4G-Capable Smartphone-Like All-In-One ePaper Dev System⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
This is cool, but how much was it?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨China is practicing ‘dogfighting’ with satellites as it ramps up space capabilities: US Space Force⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Great! I hope he fucks America deep enough, it’s high time for that Empire to crumble. I just also hope rhat he doesn’t destroy the rest of the world with him, just the part of the world that voted for him. If he can take a few multi-billion dollar corporations down a peg with him might be even better.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨HP Inc settles printer toner lockout lawsuit with a promise to make firmware updates optional⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
From my experience, those last years. But they are indeed a bit expensive… I have had my eco tank for the last 5 years, only had to replace the b/w printer head after around 4 thousand prints, and I’m almost sure it was my own fault for using expired low-quality ink that I had bought in bulk for super cheap.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft is reportedly killing Skype⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Around my region, South America, everybody used MSN as well. We went through a phase of using Skype, but it was too resource heavy in comparison with MSN. Later on, people who needed voice chat for games played around with several different apps, until we finally settled with Discord back in 2016. Say all you want about Discord, but I’ve been using it for almost a decade at this point, and if your need is to have voice and text chat and easy screen sharing for gaming, it’s basically the golden standard. The problem started when people started using it as a replacement for forums.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Vo1d malware botnet grows to 1.6 million Android TVs worldwide⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Your monitor is “smart”?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump Paralyzes the U.S. Wind Power Industry | The president, who despises wind turbines, has paused federal permits and leasing for such projects, putting company plans in limbo⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Voting for issues? We’ve had to vote for issues in my country in the past, specifically gun laws. People voted in favor of banning guns. It feels more impactful when you know your vote will directly correlate to a result, and compels people to discuss and think about their vote, and also to go vote. Voting for a politician is voting for the chance that the things you want them to do will actually be done. We could have legislators, professionals, responsible for writing legislation for certain issues, and people could read and vote. We could regionalize and localize politics even further, where each small local community should decide certain questions that pertain to their own community themselves. And leave less stuff to be solved at national level.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump Paralyzes the U.S. Wind Power Industry | The president, who despises wind turbines, has paused federal permits and leasing for such projects, putting company plans in limbo⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
No, that’s what Representative Democracy is. You can have democracy without representation, where every single individual is responsible for voting not for representatives, but for issues.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump Paralyzes the U.S. Wind Power Industry | The president, who despises wind turbines, has paused federal permits and leasing for such projects, putting company plans in limbo⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Part of the problem is that they had to vote for someone. Representative democracy is a popularity contest. And the orange fuck had a lot of people rigging the popularity game in his favor.