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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This robotic hand has such sensitive touch that it can grasp objects as fragile as a potato chip or a raspberry without crushing them⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  But you cost money monthly, require insurance, taxes, food, human rights.

  Machine is a one time purchase.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bring Back the Burned CD— They’re a love language. And a reminder of the hope we once had.⁩ ⁨⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I find that most my old cassettes still play, can’t say the same for the CDs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Inside the fiery, deadly crashes involving the Tesla Cybertruck: Cybertrucks have locked passengers inside and burned so hot they’ve disintegrated drivers’ bones.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  It looks like a DeLorean model that refused to render properly

  Lmao

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are people so rude on Reddit compared to the Fediverse?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  WHAT DID YOU SAY ABOUT FIREFOX???

  I WILL KILL YOU!!!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What to self host with a GTX 1060?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  This sounds really cool. Does that actually work, did you do a comparison? I would have expected that most RAM usage comes from rendering the frame and not sending it, or does waypipe somehow outsource that as well?

  I haven’t tested yet, it’s something I plan to do this or next week.

  From what I understand, waypipe should use minimal ram, all it basically does is forwarding an image, sound and inputs, all the heavy lifting is done on the server side where the application actually runs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What to self host with a GTX 1060?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  “I have a hammer and I hate it’s not hammering, any cool ideas involving nails?”

  You see, I have the exact same problem as you, I just can’t stand seeing hardware going unused. Specially computer hardware that deprecates. But I think before thinking “what can I do with this hardware” you should think “do I have a need or a problem that can be solved with this hardware?” And if the awnser is “no” then maybe consider selling the GPU or giving it to some friend who needs it.

  My Jellyfin works without a GPU, just my old 2nd generation i3 is enough to realtime transcode video to my phone, maybe I would need upgrade of I had more users, but I’m it’s only user.

  Do you have multiple users on your server where you require GPU acceleration, if not there’s no much reason to use GPU accell anyway (which is usually trickier to setup)?

  Still reporposing the computer to use as a server seems to be a good idea, because I at least can’t stand the nightmare of using USB hard drives, I’ve hard really bad experiences with those lousy cables and connection. But if you do that. That leaves you with another problem. What to do with the raspberry pi?

  Also, I just recently also built a new PC had the same problem of not knowing what to do with my laptop, I came to conclusion that the best thing I can do with it is to run background chat applications on it and maybe web browser via waypipe. So it just looks like a window on my main PC and this way I have ram on my new PC that I may need for some heavy workloads like blender rendering.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cheapest 14x4tb NAS⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I have never build a machine like that, so I guess I can’t help you much, but like another comment said, it seems like a pain to maintain, I usually have trouble with sata cables losing contact, with that setup there are many cables keen to lose contact.

  As for ram I wouldn’t worry about it at all, unless you use zfs 4GB should be more than enough, even 2 or less. Ram is expensive now, so you may want to consider using as little as possible unless you already have it laying around. Does truenas use zfs? If so you may want to use other fs like btrfs or test how well zfs works with the ram you have. I’m not sure zfs is worth the trouble. I wouldn’t buy extra ram.

  As for CPU I don’t think it matters much, but like I said, I have never tried your setup. But even an ancient sandy bridge should work fine if it’s just a personal has, with HDDs even with encryption. Works fine on my nas.

  Also, if you have access to free old computers you can try a ghetto setup where each each computer only handles 4 drives and then you join them together on a master computer either via nbd or nvme other Ethernet (works on sata too). But that seems like an even bigger pain to maintain and increases your power consumption by a lot.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube ads are about to get even longer and they’ll be unskippable⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Peertube, but lacks content.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Claude Code deletes developers' production setup, including its database and snapshots — 2.5 years of records were nuked in an instant⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It seems that every few weeks some developer makes this same mistake and a news is published each time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple introduces Macbook Neo - cheaper Macbooks starting at $599⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  But why would anyone want to buy a chromebook? When they can buy a real computer for the same price?

  If battery life is such an issue, just buy a powerbank.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple introduces Macbook Neo - cheaper Macbooks starting at $599⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The low price

  Dude, there isn’t anything low about that price. That’s the point, with 600 dollars you can get a very decent computer for pretty much any other brand with at least the double of ram.

  You see, you can get an used thinkpad for less than half the price and still have twice the ram.

  It’s just a scam product for people who know nothing about computers and will pay for this trash because they simply think “apple a good brand, right?”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3214: Electric Vehicles⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Also, you’re not engaging with the fact that the typical ICE car lasts an average of 12 years.

  I will be honest, it’s not like I’m doubting your data, but that number is hard to swallow, a 12 year old car is basically new. Even if people in America throw away new cars just because they need some minor repair that doesn’t mean the car can’t survive 20 years more with proper maintenance.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3214: Electric Vehicles⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So how are mechanics going to solve the battery problem? Maybe replace dead batteries with used but still somewhat working batteries? But then after 20 years all batteries for that same model will be dead.

  Or are you trying to say that poor people will be able to buy newer cars than they do now, because rich people will dump them sooner?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3214: Electric Vehicles⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Real world studies are showing they last about an average of 12-15 years on average

  And that’s a problem for ppl who buy 20 year old cars.

  A typical level 3 charger will take a battery from 10% to 80% in about 25 minutes. And chargers can be in places where gasoline pumps can’t be, like ordinary parking lots and garages. So the dual purpose parking where you can charge the car while you shop at the grocery store or work out at the gym or sleep overnight at home is just a completely different paradigm from what we’re used to.

  Yes, you are right, I take back my “converting gas pumps into EV chargers”, that situation can be solved by having more charge points in other places, unfortunately, as things are know, I know from an EV drive himself that it’s almost impossible to find a free charger at least where I live.

  The average car lasts about 12 years, by the way. EVs last basically as long as ICE vehicles

  I guess that greatly depends on where you live, since you said “gallons” before I’m assuming US, at least here few people I know can afford a 12 years old car.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3214: Electric Vehicles⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Batteries are expected to last the life of the car (10-20 years)

  But that’s the problem, because the manufacturer always expects the car to last less than what it really does, poor people buy cars long after their “expected lifetime” has passed, (that is, when the previously owner considers the car to be too unreliable him), that’s when the person who is scrapping by, buys the unreliable car because it’s the only he can afford, now, repairing an old car as it keeps breaking down is expensive, but it’s still doable and much cheaper than buying a new car. But if the batteries are dead and the price of batteries cost as much as they seem to cost, then there’s no way to fix the car.

  Also I’m septic if an electric car battery can last 20 years at all, there isn’t any good data on it, but if it uses the same technology as laptops Lithin-ion I don’t see it lasting much more than 10. From my experience Lithin-ion don’t lose capacity in a linear fashion, it’s more like a cliff, one day the laptop lasts an our, next day lasts 10 minutes.

  All cars are expected to be recycled when major components are damaged or worn out.

  You see, that’s the problem, it’s “Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle”, recycling should be the last option when the object really is at it’s limit and can’t function (and be fixed no more), if things are build to be durable then there’s no need to recycle them.

  Charging in your driveway works fine

  Would be fun to test how long I could set a power cord down from my apartment window into the driveway without it being stolen or vandalized. Or maybe the police would find some law to fine me for that.

  Replaceable batteries make the car cost more, not less, same as engineering in easily swappable engines

  Yes, but the lifetime of the car will be much longer, so when you equate the price of the vehicle to it’s useful lifetime it actually becomes cheaper.

  The big thing you’re not getting is that POOR PEOPLE DON’T BUY NEW CARS

  Yes, and that’s exactly what I’m saying, if poor people don’t buy new cars, and there are no old electric cars in the market because their batteries expired and the cars got recycled instead of repaired.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3214: Electric Vehicles⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  People that live and work in high population cities. Most of what they drive with their cars could have been done with public transport if they live and work in the same city, so not too much sympathy from me here.

  You’re assuming that all high population cities have an efficient public traffic system, unfortunately that couldn’t be forwarder from truth, at least in my city, while for some places I can take the metro and it’s actually faster than driving, other places are dependent on very old busses that only show up once per hour and sometimes more often than not, don’t show up at all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Motorola confirms GrapheneOS support for a future phone, bringing over features⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s the thing, even used Pixels are almost twice the price of what I paid for my new phone.

  Back when I bought my phone I considered that route. but then since I can’t replace the batteries on new phones without risking destroying the device.

  I also understand that GrapheneOS can’t be installed on any “unlocked” phone, it needs to be OEM unlocked and most sellers don’t know/specify, so ended up considering too expensive and too much of a risk.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3214: Electric Vehicles⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  EVs as they are now, are only useful for rich people, for two reasons.

  1. Batteries only last 5 to 10 years max, meanwhile poor people drive cars that are at least 20 years old, since replacing the batteries costs usually as much as the whole car, there wont be any of those new electric cars on the road in 20 years.

  Electric cars are essentially disposable, where they are expected to be destroyed or “recycled” instead of repaired.

  Ofc rich people buy new cars every few years anyway, so it’s not an issue for them.

  2. There’s not enough infrastructure for charging electric cars, having to drive extra into a charging station which is usually being used and wait until said charger is free is a too much of an inconvenience for people who already don’t have any free time at hand.

  A gasoline car can be fueled in 30 seconds + 2 minutes to pay, and there’s usually a line at most service stations. Even if there’s mass adoption and all gas stations were converted into EV chargers, even if it only takes 10 minutes to charge an EV, that is 12 minutes per person, it would still amplify the queue to the point where it would be impossible to get anything charged.

  Ofc rich people can just charge in their backyard or garage at night, so not an issue for them either.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Motorola confirms GrapheneOS support for a future phone, bringing over features⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s nice, but how much will those phones cost? Will GrapheneOS be an option on the low end devices or will they only support “some” devices, which happen cost as much as a Pixel anyway?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you effectively backup your high (20+ TB) local NAS?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, first while raid is great, it’s not a replacement for backups. Raid is mostly useful if uptime is imperative, but does not protect against user errors, software errors, fs corruption, ransomware or a power surge killing the entire array.

  Since uptime isn’t an issue on my home nas, instead of parity I simply have cold backups which (supposedly) I plug in from time to time to scrub the filesystems.

  If a online drive dies I can simply restore it from backup and accept the downtime. For my anime I have simply one single backup, but or my most important files I have 2 backups just in case one fails. (Unfornately both onsite)

  On the other hand, for a client of mine’s server where uptime is imperative, in addiction to raid I have 2 automatic daily backups (which ideally one should be offsite but isn’t, at least they are in different floors of the same building).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Federated End-to-End Encrypted Messaging is Coming Soon⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Pgp is protocol agnostic, you can use it over email, xmpp, irc… Over pretty much anything that supports plugins.

  It’s usually used for email tho.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The RAM shortage is coming for everything you care about⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Paywalled

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The RAM shortage is coming for everything you care about⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Unfortunately there’s no good term for that, I guess. Market manipulation?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Android will become a locked-down platform in 194 day⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I meant that it would die as an “open” platform, so power users would be compelled to stop using android.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Android will become a locked-down platform in 194 day⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I understand, but there’s a good argument that Android is the reason why GNU/Linux phones don’t get good.

  The death of Android as an “open” platform would put some pressure to actual develop an alternative.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Android will become a locked-down platform in 194 day⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not sure how I should feel about this, if I should support the cause to keep android “open” (when it’s everything but), or if I should be happy that this piece of shit OS finally shows it’s true colours and people (including me) will finally be forced to find an alternative or stop using this trashware all together.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The 20 Darkest Anime Series of All Time, Ranked⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I would include too, The Day I Became God, Gunslinger Girl, Mahou Shoujo Site.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Western Digital runs out of HDD capacity: CEO says massive AI deals secured, price surges ahead⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Let’s just pray my anime harddrive doesn’t fail meanwhile…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"I am going to punch you" WHAT A BOSS!⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The punch was sufficient to pass a message without causing serious body harm that may get the kid into very real trouble.

  Ofc nothing prevents the nazi scum from getting someone else to punch him really hard so he can claim damages, but he seems too much of a pussy for that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A “QuitGPT” campaign is urging people to cancel their ChatGPT subscriptions— Backlash against ICE is fueling a broader movement against AI companies’ ties to President Trump.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not sure if it works like that.

  Just from using their platform you’re giving them value, at least in the form of data.