jim3692
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- Comment on BMW’s Newest “Innovation” is a Logo-Shaped Middle Finger to Right to Repair 1 week ago:
To make it inconvenient enough for non-authorized mechanics to touch the car. Forcing the owner to pay the manufacturer to fix the car.
- Comment on Thanks a lot, AI: Hard drives are already sold out for the entire year, says Western Digital 1 week ago:
SSDs are way more efficient than HDDs for swap.
SSDs are electronic, while HDDs are mechanical. This means that moving memory regions (pages) between system RAM and the storage requires:
- physical moves, in the case of HDD
- accessing a different region of the chips, in the case of SSD
Imagine a scenario in which completely unrelated data access requests floods your storage drive. An HDD needs to constantly realign its needle to the requested locations, while the SSD can just re-route its data lines to that location.
- Comment on Thanks a lot, AI: Hard drives are already sold out for the entire year, says Western Digital 1 week ago:
No. AI workloads benefit from SSD’s high random read/write performance. Also, I guess, more people starting using SSDs for paging/swap, as RAM prices skyrocketed.
This resulted in an SSD shortage immediately after RAM starting getting expensive. Which in turn caused an HDD shortage, because people need space to store their data.
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It looks like the whole 172.0.0.0/12 block belongs to AT&T
- Comment on This whistle fights fascists | How thousands of 3D-printed whistles are derailing ICE. 2 weeks ago:
If I understand correctly, this affects 3d printers the can read STL. What if someone, hypothetically, uses an open source slicer, like Orca, and print from gcode?
- Comment on So how would you handle this? 2 weeks ago:
To prevent lead acid getting sprayed everywhere, I would suggest the use of a lithium battery instead
- Comment on You won: Microsoft is walking back Windows 11’s AI overload — scaling down Copilot and rethinking Recall in a major shift 3 weeks ago:
You lost the Game
- Comment on What else should I selfhost? 3 weeks ago:
What are the advantages of Invidious, compared to Piped?
I have been self-hosting Piped for the last 3 years, but I never tried Invidious.
- Comment on Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney supports the $900 million lawsuit against Valve, arguing Steam is "the only major store still holding onto payment ties and 30% junk fee" 3 weeks ago:
Out of all the services that Valve offers, you decided to compare their checkout page?
- Valve offers to devs, completely free of charge, full access to their matchmaking network, across any platform
- Valve has vastly improved Windows games compatibility on Linux, by developing Proton. Epic locks users to Windows, because of their anti-cheat.
- Valve revolutionized handheld gaming, by bringing desktop games to portable devices
- Valve requires devs to show in the games’ store page whether it contains AI slop. Epic is a supporter of AI slop
- Comment on The TV industry finally concedes that the future may not be in 8K 3 weeks ago:
Nuh… We have had 16k for at least 8 years
- Comment on But think of the landlords! 4 weeks ago:
Make homeless colorful again
- Comment on Too much milk makes my tummy hurt 5 weeks ago:
As a therapist, I can confidently say that OP doesn’t have any issues
- Comment on Nvidia accused of trying to cut a deal with Anna’s Archive for high‑speed access to the massive pirated book haul — allegedly chased stolen data to fuel its LLMs 5 weeks ago:
I was referring to Altman lobbying towards considering AI training as fair use of copyrighted material.
I know that pirating is not fair use. However, AI companies seem to rely on pirated copies to train their slop machines, and they are trying to justify this behavior.
- Comment on Nvidia accused of trying to cut a deal with Anna’s Archive for high‑speed access to the massive pirated book haul — allegedly chased stolen data to fuel its LLMs 5 weeks ago:
No, it’s fair use
- Comment on Microsoft CEO warns that we must 'do something useful' with AI or they'll lose 'social permission' to burn electricity on it 5 weeks ago:
Maybe we could start making more slop memes, to outbalance the possible usefulness of AI ?
- Comment on VLAN trunking on Proxmox 5 weeks ago:
When you create VMs/containers, there is an option on the network step to set the VLAN tag to use
- Comment on Sorry Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that! PCs refuse to shut down after Microsoft patch 5 weeks ago:
We didn’t hid our heads in the sand. Your comment serves no purpose, besides being a rant about how Linux cannot work for you. You could at least be more polite.
No one forced you to use Linux, and probably no one will. It’s your setup, and it’s your responsibility.
If you want to keep being an asshole, you will only get more down votes. If you need help transitioning to Linux, you can politely ask for it.
There is no point attacking random people for not “acknowledging” your issues.
- Comment on F*** You! Co-Creator of Go Language is Rightly Furious Over This Appreciation Email 1 month ago:
Can you elaborate? To me, Go seems to have less boilerplate.
- Go does not have access modifiers
- Go does not force you to put everything in classes
- Go does not force you to declare every exception that may be thrown by a function
- Comment on F*** You! Co-Creator of Go Language is Rightly Furious Over This Appreciation Email 1 month ago:
Go is verbose? Have you ever written Java?
- Comment on surely your hobby can't be that expensive 2 months ago:
It’s free until you start wasting money on hosting and domains, for websites that no one will ever visit.
I don’t want to know how much I would be paying, if I didn’t have a home server with fiber internet.
- Comment on An Apple fan says they lost '20 years of digital life' after using an Apple gift card 2 months ago:
I have managed to get to locked out of my own Nextcloud. It was encrypted, and I didn’t know that I had to keep a backup of the keys in its config files. I only had a RAID1 for the user data.
- Comment on What DDNS providers you guys recommend? 2 months ago:
If you have a Mikrotik router, you can use its built-in Dynamic DNS, and configure a CNAME on your domain name
- Comment on Always wear protection, folks 2 months ago:
I had to remove my PPE to hear it
- Comment on Accidental rapture 2 months ago:
Kirk Charlie
- Comment on Mozilla’s Betrayal of Open Source: Google’s Gemini AI is Overwriting Volunteer Work on Support Mozilla 2 months ago:
No, there is only one definition for open source:
- Comment on Lawmakers Want to Ban VPNs—And They Have No Idea What They're Doing 2 months ago:
Keep in mind that a lot of webpages block traffic from datacenters, as they are trying to protect themselves from AI scrappers. I recently had an issue with OpenAI making thousands of requests to one of my servers.
- Comment on HP and Dell disable HEVC support built into their laptops’ CPUs 2 months ago:
blocked in acpi
install Linux
Huh? How could Linux solve an ACPI problem?
- Comment on HP and Dell disable HEVC support built into their laptops’ CPUs 2 months ago:
This doesn’t answer the Linux part of the question.
What does “licensing issue” means for the laptop itself? Is HEVC disabled at BIOS/firmware level, or it is just disabled at Windows driver level?
In the latter case, HEVC should work with Linux, as it uses generic Intel/AMD drivers, instead of specific Dell/HP ones.
- Comment on You can do anything at Zombocom 3 months ago:
Wait until you realize you only need 3 of those pins.