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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New battery life record: This CPU makes the best known business laptop more efficient⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Web browsing is monstrously demanding of CPU so if the laptop can do it, it’s not so slow. A 20 year old laptop can email or word process perfectly well today, but it can’t browse. The modern web is just too bloated.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I had an Acer as a work laptop some years back. It was fine, though I didn’t use it that heavily, so maybe issues would have come up if I did. Also, maybe there are worse now.

  For personal use I’ve generally bought Thinkpads and pounded the crap out of them. I’m currently thinking of getting a Lenovo Yoga if they go on special Black Friday again, but I have trepidations.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Power Companies Are Using AI To Build Nuclear Power Plants⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Of course it shook apart in the earthquake. What did you think vibe coding meant?

  The jokes write themselves.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When "AI" content becomes indistinguishable from human-made content, is there, philosophically speaking, any meaningful differences between the two?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s up to you. There’s a traditional wooden drinking cup called a kuksa that is popular with outdoors types. It’s carved from a solid block of wood. You can buy them, but it’s more “bushcrafty” if you make one yourself. Further, you’re supposed to use only hand tools, no power tools. OTOH, one that you order online was probably milled by a machine. It’s hard to tell them apart though.

  Is there a philosophical difference? Up to you.

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The 'if this goes down, I riot' self-hosted app⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t really have any of those. My stuff goes down and I later get around to restarting it. I’m a wimp in not self hosting more important stuff like email. But my media files are on a local disk rather than a server.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Refrigerator ads are finally here!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  My fridge has an ice maker. I fill the little trays with water and put them in the freezer and they turn into ice. Works great.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Refrigerator ads are finally here!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Joke’s on you: product placement in movies. The ads are already there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Refrigerator ads are finally here!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I saw a daily Home Depot special for “smart toilets” and my first thought was “you mean I can’t poop if AWS is down?!”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are physical mail generally not under surveillance? If everyone suddently ditched electronic communications and start writing letters, would governments be able to practically surveil everyone?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  1. physical mail has gotten way more expensive, now 78 cents for a regular letter and $5 for a small package. So it adds up. I probably send a dozen emails a day while sending out maybe 3 envelopes per month, usually stuff like bill payments or business docs, rather than personal letters.

  2. they collect all the metadata now, i.e. photographs of the front and back of the envelope. I try not to write return addresses on envelopes but sometimes it’s necessary and sometimes I forgot to omit it. They do get delivered without the return address, though I don’t have enough samples to say the reliability is any different.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨iPhone Pocket: $229.95⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Wtf, I thought this was going to be a new small iPhone to replace the 13 mini which some people miss. But no, lol.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I think the fediverse needs Android like hardware packaging⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The appeal is very limited IMHO, especially for this application. It might be more interesting for secure phones or similar.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I think the fediverse needs Android like hardware packaging⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I still can’t make any sense of that. How about a 1 click vps install, or a disc image for a raspberry pi if someone wants to host at home? Special hardware is a nightmare to build and use. Is there ONE person here who would buy and deploy a thing like this? I know I wouldn’t.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm unsure what to self-host⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Get a cheap one on lowendspirit.com instead.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨what would you do with an old dell server?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Depends on the specs. If it’s really old the power consumption will cost more than you’d spend on newer hardware. I have such a box sitting at home doing nothing. It’s cheaper to rent a hetzner dedi.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm unsure what to self-host⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Just get a vps it still counts as self hosting if you run all the software yourself.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I think the fediverse needs Android like hardware packaging⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Wtf this makes no sense. Just use the existing software.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ISO Project Ideas For Wyse 3040 & 5010 Thin Clients⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  That leaves you with 17 more of them though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ISO Project Ideas For Wyse 3040 & 5010 Thin Clients⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  These are mini PCs right? So you want something with a room full of humans or some type of local online service. Anyway, not a purely computer project.

  Library terminals and game room come to mind, but neither are for installing at home.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hard drives on backorder for two years as AI data centers trigger HDD shortage — delays forcing rapid transition to QLC SSDs⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I haven’t been following trends but I just looked on newegg, and HDD and SSD prices look about where they were before, or maybe a bit higher. It’s nothing like the Chia craze where every drive of any kind was snapped up by crypto miners. Or the simliar thing further back where a flood in Thailand(?) clobbered a factory so there were big shortages and price spikes. Right now you can get drives if you’re willing to pay for them. There just hasn’t been the usual downward price trend.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Backups of Backups⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I use remote encrypted backup and it’s been good so far. Hetzner Storage box, around $11/month for 5TB, pretty reasonable. If you want a lot more storage you can pay somewhat less per TB.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hard drives on backorder for two years as AI data centers trigger HDD shortage — delays forcing rapid transition to QLC SSDs⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Ram shortage too. But most users should avoid QLC.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨MPV: The Ultimate Self-Hosted Media Solution You're Probably Sleeping On⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Youtube up til now has resisted using something as brutal as an on-screen recaptcha, because of the friction that creates for regular users. If they’ve finally gone that route, it seems difficult to fix with simple automation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨MPV: The Ultimate Self-Hosted Media Solution You're Probably Sleeping On⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Looks cool, but it sounds like yt-dlp may be about to break? Someone posted a screen shot of youtube.com with a recaptcha on the screen. If that can’t be bypassed, it was just a matter of time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dashcam data retention recommendation?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t see much need to retain or upload dashcam video unless something happens. It’s so you can document what happened if you’re in a crash, get a ticket, or whatever. Otherwise just re-use the storage. You don’t need to permanently record every moment of your life.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do air purifiers really reduce dust much?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  They help, and they can take out airborne pathogens. Look up “Corsi-Rosenthal box” if you want to DIY a very powerful and cheap but noisy one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Which community for showing my apps?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Depends on the app? Maybe say more about what the apps do.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨when are the upcoming political elections held in america?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s no legal requirement for state or city elections to synchronize with federal ones, but they tend to do it anyway because elections are expensive to run, so they like to combine them. It’s not always, just a lot of the time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨when are the upcoming political elections held in america?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Not in 1900 or 2100…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨when are the upcoming political elections held in america?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  For the most part they are held every two years in November, in even numbered years. Next year is the so-called midterms, which will elect among other things the entire House of Representatives and 1/3 of the Senate. Every 4 years (2024, 2028, etc.) is the presidential election. For the Senate and Representatives, in practice, most of the incumbents get re-elected without much difficulty, but some seats will be in play.

  In odd numbered years like 2025, there are a few elections like Mamdani’s and a couple of stage governorships, but there are far fewer seats in play than in even numbered years.

  There are also occasionally special elections that can be anytime, i.e. in months other than November. Also, there are primary elections (not deciding who gets an office, but rather, who gets to be a party’s nominee for that office) that are held some months before the November (“general”) election.

  Finally there are various kinds of local elections that are not entirely synchronized with the ones for federal offices.