sefra1
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- Comment on What type of laptop do you recommend for simply browsing the internet? 9 hours ago:
Used thinkpad. You can get a nice laptop 140 to 220 in Europe on eBay and cheaper in US, depending on the specks or how old it is.
Generally speaking anything like the x280 / t480 / L580 or newer should be fast enough for most web browsing, including online meetings.
I seriously recommend spending extra on something with an IPS screen, or else your eyes are in for a bad time.
Also, try to get something with 16GB of ram, 8GB is enough for casual web browsing, but 16GB allows you to open many tabs comfortably and is run many applications at once.
- Comment on A WhatsApp bug lets malicious media files spread through group chats 2 days ago:
Oh yes, let me cut myself completely from society and 90% of people I’ve ever met. That will tell Zuckerberg!
- Comment on The upgrade argument for desktops doesn't stand up anymore 4 days ago:
Depends on what you use the computer for, for gaming, maybe you’re right, idk. I personally use the computer for 3D modeling which mostly relies on the GPU.
I’ve recently built a computer with the latest gen GPU and got a nice 12 gen i7 as platform for it, the GPU is from 2025, but the CPU is like 4 years old.
The thing is, I could have gotten a much older CPU haven’t I found the 12th gen for the same price. If I could just upgrade the GPU and ram on my old laptop I wouldn’t have bought a whole computer.
Besides, buying a laptop with 16GB of vram would have been much more expensive than a desktop.
- Comment on The TV industry finally concedes that the future may not be in 8K 6 days ago:
Meanwhile I’m still at 1080p and most content I watch not even that.
- Comment on We can't even pump fuel anymore without holding a digital billboard (Netherlands) 1 week ago:
Paint spray
- Comment on Lawsuit Alleges That WhatsApp Has No End-to-End Encryption 1 week ago:
Only a tech illiterate can expect privacy from a closed source program, open source is a requirement for both privacy and security.
- Comment on Doing Gigabit Ethernet Over My British Phone Wires – The HFT Guy 1 week ago:
It wouldn’t matter because 4 pair ethernet cable can still transport 2 pair phone signals just fine (if not better), so he could just replace the the sockets back to the old RJ11 ones and the landland wouldn’t ever know that anything was changed.
Either way, reading at the other replies, it seems that houses in UK don’t actually use ducts to pass the cables so replacing the cable is nearly impossible. Didn’t know that.
- Comment on Doing Gigabit Ethernet Over My British Phone Wires – The HFT Guy 1 week ago:
That’s interesting, but those boxes seem rather expensive, wouldn’t it be cheaper to just pull ethernet cable over the phone installation?
- Comment on Doing Gigabit Ethernet Over My British Phone Wires – The HFT Guy 1 week ago:
Ham radio operators hate it.
- Comment on Why are they different shapes? 2 weeks ago:
US , EU and FR variants.
Side question: Why do people buy baguettes? Do they make sandwiches with them?
Sometimes, sometimes just eat with butter. They make good toasts too.
How do you even make a sandwich from them?
Just cut it open and put the ham and cheese inside it, not much to it really. Either cut the slice in half if I’m feeling poor or fold it in two if I’m feeling rich.
- Comment on Developer patches Wine to make Photoshop 2021 & 2025 run on Linux — Adobe Creative Cloud installers finally work thanks to HTML, JavaScript and XML fixes 2 weeks ago:
Does this include adobe substance?
- Comment on Hundreds of Millions of Audio Devices Need a Patch to Prevent Wireless Hacking and Tracking 2 weeks ago:
I want to agree, I used to hate wireless headphones, until I realised that they don’t last long if I wear them anywhere outside my desk.
The cable keeps getting caught in door handles, accidentally stepped when I need to crouch and then snapped when I get up or the plug simply gives up from being constantly bent inside the pocket.
I’m a person who can use a soldering but that doesn’t make repair much easier, phones don’t usually like the 3.5mm jacks available in the market, opening and closing whatever plastic thing covers the contacts or the back of the drivers often break after a third time opening it.
The cables themselves start to breakdown and that time I ordered a whole replacement cable off eBay the phone lost all bass (probably high impedance).
Another issue is that modern phones output a very quiet signal that doesn’t get loud enough even when plugged the HD25.
In end wireless headphones solve this problem, I still use wired headphones on my desk. But for mobile use wireless it is.
- Comment on What if the Internet Goes Down? - 15 Jan, 7PM CET 3 weeks ago:
I will never get a ham license, one day I will get a 100W out of band CB rig, but as a matter of principle I will never become a ham.
There are several reasons for it, reason number one is privacy, I would never say my legal name to strangers on the internet, for obvious safety reasons, why should I have to identify with a callsign when chatting over radio?
Reason number two is that you can lose your license just for “swearing”? Like what the fuckl? What censorship is this?
Reason number three, it’s illegal to use encryption on ham bands, so I can’t even have a private conversation over ham radio.
Reason number four, I understand that licensed hams don’t want unlicensed noobs jamming their frequencies, I understand the need to reserve some of the spectrum to people who actually understand that just because you can’t hear anything, doesn’t mean you’re not jamming, but there should be parts of the radio spectrum reserved for free personal use. Reduce ham bands by half for all that I care, but I should be able to just buy a radio and transmit how many watts I need on those free bands without needing authorization from the government.
- Comment on Report: Microsoft quietly kills official way to activate Windows 11/10 without internet 3 weeks ago:
Until the user tries the “reset your device” option in the control panel. Then he’s stuck in the “please signup to your Microsoft account” screen.
And without internet, he’s never going to figure out the obsomething/bypassnsomething command.
Also this isn’t windows specific, my samsungs phones also doesn’t let me get pass the initial screen without connecting to the internet.
- Comment on If you're a parent, how do you prevent your kid from watching AI slop? 3 weeks ago:
He always wants to watch the video that’s the lowest quality shit just based on the thumbnail, because they have thumbnails that stick out.
There’s an add-on by the same guy who makes sponsorbock that replaces thumbnails (and video tittles) for more more accurate ones, maybe you want to try that.
(Disclaimer: The add-on itself is free software (as in freedom) but the developer added the restriction that after one hour trial you can either pay or wait 24h and then you can use it without restriction. It’s an interesting model.)
- Comment on What if the Internet Goes Down? - 15 Jan, 7PM CET 3 weeks ago:
Meshtastic sounds great in concept but IMO it’s useless in most parts of the world due to it’s extreme low power.
If all your neighbours have one or there aren’t many buidings around blocking line of sight then meshtastic has great potential. Otherwise I would stuck be sending messages to myself.
Now, they made boards with more power that operated and crossed at several different frequency bands, specially shortwave, then meshtastic would be an incredibility powerful too. However illegal.
- Comment on NVIDIA To Bring Back The GeForce RTX 3060 In Q1 2026 To Tackle Current-Gen GPU & Memory Shortages 4 weeks ago:
No offence taken.
My desision comes from two factors that play together.
First I am relatively poor and if I save to painfully save money and give up on other things that are also important so I can buy a GPU I want to make sure that I pay as least as possible for the most performance, if it takes a day to render a small animation on an nvidia GPU, it will take two days to do the same on AMD at the same price point. Besides I want to try to do this professionally one day, if that is to happen I can’t let my clients wait double, they will hire someone else.
Also I use Linux, so trust me I would love to get an AMD instead and get proper drivers.
The other factor is that I don’t believe my purchases as single individual make any dent in the market whatsoever. I can’t get it in my mind, I’m just one person, there are billions out there with way more money than me. The children get killed in Palestine and the data centres boil the earth no matter if I personality buy nvidia or buy from amazon or not. It’s kinda of a paradox because if everyone thinks like me then collective action doesn’t happen.
It’s kinda similar how I would be vegan if I had to kill the animals myself, but I don’t believe that if I stop buying chicken that less chickens get raised and killed, the retailer orders 1000 chickens independently if I buy one or not.
- Comment on NVIDIA To Bring Back The GeForce RTX 3060 In Q1 2026 To Tackle Current-Gen GPU & Memory Shortages 4 weeks ago:
I would buy AMD, I really would, but for what I use GPUs for, 3D rendering on Blender (cycles), nvidia is must much faster for a card of the same price point due to optix raytracing acceleration.
- Comment on The information density on a vinyl can be higher earlier in the record than later... 4 weeks ago:
The outerwards part of the record can hold louder signal without the needle jumping.
That’s why there’s actually a record that plays backward www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Afikv6k1-c because Bolero gets louder and louder as the song progresses,
- Comment on Report: Microsoft quietly kills official way to activate Windows 11/10 without internet 4 weeks ago:
For once, internet is a subscription service which not everyone can afford, just because you and all your friends can afford internet doesn’t mean everyone can, computers can be gotten for free, internet there’s no way around it.
But for the biggest issue, windows is spyware, the only way to use it while warranting privacy is by airgapping it from the internet and running it standalone, it is also the only way to be sure to contain cracked programs to make sure they don’t distribute illegal content from your IP.
It’s the way I run windows (when I have to) and I don’t like the prospects of not being able to run proprietary software securely when there aren’t viable libre alternatives.
Also, software being dependent on internet and therefore some company’s server means that eventually when said server or company shutsdown the program or device becomes useless.
- Comment on China Is Banning Tesla-Style Retractable Door Handles Over Safety Concerns 5 weeks ago:
Don’t get me started on that, stupid direct led brakes lights should be outright illegal. They literally blind every following car behind, specially if the windshield is dirty or foggy.
How those damn things got approved in the first place is
beyond my understandingcorruption.
- Comment on Spotify vs. Anna's Archive 5 weeks ago:
- For
popularity>0, we got close to all tracks on the platform. The quality is the original OGG Vorbis at 160kbit/s. Metadata was added without reencoding the audio (and an archive of diff files is available to reconstruct the original files from Spotify, as well as a metadata file with original hashes and checksums).
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popularity=0, we got files representing about half the number of listens (either original or a copy with the same ISRC). The audio is reencoded to [OGG Opus](en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opus_/(audio_format) at 75kbit/s — sounding the same to most people, but noticeable to an expert.
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- Comment on Spotify vs. Anna's Archive 5 weeks ago:
I think you’re confusing two different concepts, dynamic range compression and data compression.
The first is like an automated volume control that lowers the volume really really fast in a matter of ms when the volume reachest a certain threshold, (can also work the other way where in increases below a certain threshold, or both).
The reduces the file size, sacrificing quantity if a lossy codec is uses. Lossless codecs like flac are a bit to bit perfect of the original.
- Comment on Ready set go 1 month ago:
Sorry, but I’m not a prediction engine, I am capable of abstract thought, and actually understanding the meaning of the words.
I can also process all kinds of different data and make connection between then which includes emotional connections.
Another cool trick, I also have this thing called a consciousness which is something I can’t explain or put into words but I know it exists.
- Comment on Dell and Lenovo may limit mid-range laptops to 8GB DDR5 RAM in response to rising memory prices 1 month ago:
No OS if fine with 8GB if you use it for anything other than browsing memes
- Comment on The war on privacy and encryption goes on. This time in the UK. Under the “Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill”, lawmakers now want client-side scanning on every phone and tablet. 1 month ago:
A google pixel is very very far from being free
- Comment on The war on privacy and encryption goes on. This time in the UK. Under the “Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill”, lawmakers now want client-side scanning on every phone and tablet. 1 month ago:
Too expensive
- Comment on The war on privacy and encryption goes on. This time in the UK. Under the “Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill”, lawmakers now want client-side scanning on every phone and tablet. 1 month ago:
Unlocked phones are smuggled through the channel
Those come bound with both, government and criminal malware.
On the bright side pedophilia was completely eradicated and all the children are safe now.
Lol no!
- Comment on AI boom has caused same CO2 emissions in 2025 as New York City, report claims 1 month ago:
Why not both?
- Comment on RAM and SSD prices are still climbing—here’s our best advice for PC builders 1 month ago:
This, but 2015