YetAnotherNerd
@YetAnotherNerd@sopuli.xyz
Nerd of many hats.
- Comment on Real and True 2 days ago:
Yup. But both are more difficult to use in practice, and I’ve been on enough calls where the person shares their entire 40” ultra-wide, to encourage it. I run with three monitors, and replacing any of them is trivial. The biggest problem is the KVM, and that’s ~$200.
- Comment on Real and True 2 days ago:
Easier to move windows around using the windows+arrow keys this way. Easier to share screen this way. Easier to switch context this way.
- Comment on RAM Prices Got You Down? Try DDR3. Seriously! 3 days ago:
The question is for companies like Ubisoft and EA which usually design games for what PCs are going to be when a game comes out. And since the games industry was bigger than the movies industry before it collapsed due to Covid, what’s that going to do to the economy?
- Comment on Pixlpal is more than just a screen 3 days ago:
I saw this use-case and was immediately interested. This hangs near my front door so I know what’s coming. This particular one has some limitations, but I think the low-res nature of this class forces some nice design decisions.
- Comment on Ring Cameras Join Flock and Amazon to Now Create Direct Data Access for ICE 6 days ago:
If you can see it’s a salesperson you can ignore them but answer if it’s the mailman/UPS. Get notified that a package was dropped off… or that shortly thereafter some rando walks up to said package.
Think of it as a door-peephole-at-range.
- Comment on See for yourself just how massive Meta’s Hyperion data center is 6 days ago:
Depends. Normally yes (I’ve been in data centers like you’re talking about), but because it’s likely using GPUs for the LLM it’s probably considerably louder. Closer to this, which is a crypto mine: theweek.com/…/the-noise-of-bitcoin-mining-is-driv…
- Comment on Seems like Trump waited for winter to escalate his ICE agenda but why did he go after Minnesota? People who are completely acclimated to frigid weather. 1 week ago:
Because he figured they wouldn’t care and wouldn’t put up resistance
- Comment on Are headphones like VR goggles for blind people? 1 week ago:
Think of the difference between VR and a normal TV. Same thing with positional audio/7.1 headphones/binaural vs regular headphones
- Comment on Digg launches its new Reddit rival to the public 1 week ago:
It’s effing hard. Doubled the numbers on one community after a year. Both of us are a bit depressed by that.
- Comment on Digg launches its new Reddit rival to the public 1 week ago:
There are hundreds of us. Maybe thousands!
- Comment on New study shows Alzheimer’s disease can be reversed to achieve full neurological recovery—not just prevented or slowed—in animal models 1 week ago:
Yeah, just see the headline and the link to that site, that’s it. At least on Voyager.
- Comment on New study shows Alzheimer’s disease can be reversed to achieve full neurological recovery—not just prevented or slowed—in animal models 1 week ago:
Okay… mind sharing whatever is linked in there? Is it just the earlier story?
- Comment on New study shows Alzheimer’s disease can be reversed to achieve full neurological recovery—not just prevented or slowed—in animal models 1 week ago:
Kind of what I was figuring, but wasn’t sure if it had different info. Thanks!
- Comment on New study shows Alzheimer’s disease can be reversed to achieve full neurological recovery—not just prevented or slowed—in animal models 1 week ago:
Anybody got an account on whatever fedia.io is?
- Comment on Bandcamp bans purely AI-generated music from its platform 1 week ago:
The next Bandcamp Friday is Feb 6 (Bandcamp foregoes their cut).
- Comment on A black metal band that uses toddlers-having-tantrums as vocalists 2 weeks ago:
It was that end credit when I realized it wasn’t real.
And therefore you get this: youtu.be/e4Br7vvebFI
- Comment on Autofocusing Smart Glasses With Eye Tracking Tech Could Make Bifocals Obsolete 2 weeks ago:
Zenni. Have your doc write a scrip for standalone monitor glasses and have them fill that. (Had bad luck with Zenni doing progressives, but a simple reader prescription? $20)
- Comment on A black metal band that uses toddlers-having-tantrums as vocalists 2 weeks ago:
Roosters can do cyclical breathing?
- Comment on Should speakers hum when they're connected to a stereo, but the volume of is turned all the way down? 2 weeks ago:
Looks more like bad design unless there’s a ton of other cables or if some of your cords/cables are in loops. I just checked my amp/preamp, and surprisingly they’re not using grounded plugs either, and it’s fairly high-end gear.
Only other thoughts:
- plugging directly into the wall if you’re plugged into a surge protector, or plugging into a Surge protector if you are plugged into the wall.
- I would also try moving the volume up and down a little bit because I’ve seen gear where that caused hum issues (god knows why).
- try plugging in a source in case they’re somehow using the connectivity to other gear to provide the grounding (grasping at straws here).
Unfortunately, it’s been long enough since I’ve dealt with ground hum issues that the I’ve forgotten all the tricks. :( You might need to find an audiophile group. Because even cheap-ass gear shouldn’t do that.
- Comment on Should speakers hum when they're connected to a stereo, but the volume of is turned all the way down? 2 weeks ago:
Google “60 hz hum”. It can sometimes be helped by plugging the various components (amp and preamp) into the same power strip.
There are also devices to fix the “ground hum”, but I’d say to read a couple of the articles on some audiophile sites. Also: see if it happens with nothing plugged in. If that’s the case and the outlet/plug is properly grounded, it might just poor manufacturing/design.
- Comment on A black metal band that uses toddlers-having-tantrums as vocalists 2 weeks ago:
Love it! “Hatebeak made its second record with Caninus, a band whose lead singers were two dogs.”
“I am not a parrot”
- Comment on A black metal band that uses toddlers-having-tantrums as vocalists 2 weeks ago:
That was a crap ton cooler and more coherent than this kid today was. :)
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- Comment on Creators of Tailwind laid off 75% of their engineering team 2 weeks ago:
All subscriptions are for the lifetime of the product, aren’t they? It’s like Plex Pass; pay monthly/yearly or buy the lifetime and hope they don’t bankrupt out. But if you like a product like that, there’s only a few options, and it seems like they’re trying to stay afloat and still make a relatively open product.
And there’s always the free tier for personal use, which seems to have been glossed over.
- Comment on Creators of Tailwind laid off 75% of their engineering team 2 weeks ago:
That’s for lifetime. Or you could pay five bucks a month for it. It’s been quite impressive, as a person who just uses the service. Tried it on the free tier liked it enough to start ponying up.
- Comment on Can someone ELI5 RSS/Atom feeds? 4 weeks ago:
I use News Explorer which is Mac/iOS, runs locally, and uses iCloud to sync status++ between devices.
- Comment on What’s up with Myrrh being more prevalent? 4 weeks ago:
Specifically: the three wise men brought gifts to baby Jesus: gold, frankincense, and myrrh. So it’s tied to Christmas.
- Comment on Google's Agentic AI wipes user's entire HDD without permission in catastrophic failure 1 month ago:
And thank YOU, since it’s been far too long since I’ve read any Dickson! I know I’ve got one around here somewhere. :)
For what it’s worth, for cyberpunk my personal fave 3 are
- The Shockwave Runner (John Brunner), which introduced the concept of a computer worm and is arguably the first cyberpunk novel, written in 1975(!).
- Neuromancer
- When Gravity Fails, George Alec Effinger. Middle-eastern tinged and quite good.
- (Does the Quantum Thief count? I don’t think that’s really Cyberpunk per se, though)
- Comment on Google's Agentic AI wipes user's entire HDD without permission in catastrophic failure 1 month ago:
It’s “Neuromancer” by William Gibson. A burned computer jockey gets a chance to get his ability to “jack in” back, by doing a heist against a corporate stronghold in low earth orbit, after being hired by an A.I.
Seriously, an amazing cyberpunk novel. One of the best novels in the genre, and one of the most influential
- Comment on Google's Agentic AI wipes user's entire HDD without permission in catastrophic failure 1 month ago:
Can’t watch. But the book should be at pretty much every used bookstore. “The sky was grey… the color of a dead telvision channel”