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- Comment on How much does it matter what type of harddisk i buy for my server? 1 day ago:
As you are looking for bulk data storage, the drive’s speed isn’t of too much concern. A 5400RPM drive is plenty.
If you are looking to put these drives into an array with other drives, make sure you get a CMR drive as SMR drives can drop out of arrays due to controllers finding them unresponsive.
Additionally, if there are multiple spinning drives in the same enclosure, getting drives with vibration resistance is a good bonus. Most drives listed for NAS use will have this feature.
- Comment on in search for a YouTube alternative to upload my video 1 day ago:
There is also odysee.com. I’m just glad more people are working on and joining competing platforms. Youtube’s near monopoly is not good.
- Comment on Stellaris gets a DLC about AI that features AI-created voices, director insists it's 'ethical' and 'we're pretty good at exploring dystopian sci-fi and don't want to end up there ourselves' 1 day ago:
From my experience, nothing. I’m not sure what the guy is complaining about.
- Comment on Biden really, really doesn’t want China to flood the US with cheap EVs 6 days ago:
German industry is in shambles right now as they allowed an unreliable trade partner, Russia, to completely take over a segment in the German economy (oil & gas). When that unreliable trade partner pulled the rug in 2022, suddenly Germany is paying out the ass for gas for LNG, reducing factory output, even on-lining coal plants to keep the lights on.
It is simply a bad idea to allow an unreliable trade partner to completely take over a segment in your economy.
- Comment on Biden really, really doesn’t want China to flood the US with cheap EVs 6 days ago:
China is becoming an increasingly unreliable trade partner. Preventing them from completely taking over a segment is prudent.
- Comment on Glorious Victory 1 week ago:
You don’t get to do something shitty then expect everyone to be happy. If you want that, they shouldn’t have done the shitty thing in the first place.
- Comment on [Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism? 1 week ago:
Providing a decent vegan option is easy
Considering even a caesar salad (cheese) and Jell-O (gelatin) are not vegan, providing vegan options really isn’t particularly easy. Most events will have vegetarian options without even thinking about it. However, vegan options require very explicitly thinking about what is offered. Meanwhile, group event planning is already a PITA without such heavy restrictions.
- Comment on Windows 10 will start pushing users to use Microsoft accounts. How to turn it off. 3 weeks ago:
2023 was the year of the Linux laptop for me. 2024 is shaping up to be the year of the Linux desktop for myself as well.
- Comment on What 11in laptop do you suggest? 4 weeks ago:
If you are OK bumping up to 13", Framework makes extremely good laptops.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
It’s amazing Microsoft has mismanaged their OS so badly that even gaming increasingly makes little sense on the platform. Why spend extra money on hardware just to have your performance stripped away by a bloated Windows?
- Comment on Eww, Copilot AI might auto-launch with Windows 11 soon 5 weeks ago:
It’s not just one thing. It’s been a barrage of crap for years and years. That pile of hay gets awfuly heavy as you make it taller.
They still haven’t fixed the Settings/Control Panel stuff. That has been in the works for what, over a decade now? A core feature just…allowed to rot.
- Comment on US to award Samsung up to $6.6 billion chip subsidy for Texas expansion, sources say 5 weeks ago:
These places will pay no taxes, create the most minimal of jobs, and pay next to nothing.
You are talking about a clean room chip fab here. They have highly skilled labor that is paid top dollar.
Then, when their tax breaks run out, they pack up and move to the next tax break.
Chip fabs cannot just ‘pack up and move’. They are horrendously expensive to build. The whole damn place is a clean room for an idea of how difficult these things are to build.
- Comment on US to award Samsung up to $6.6 billion chip subsidy for Texas expansion, sources say 5 weeks ago:
Growth in an industry drives tax growth, job growth, and wage growth. Furthermore initiatives like this one insulate the country from strategic holes. The US goverment and tax payers most certainly get dividends on investment.
- Comment on Looking for the Perfect USB Flash Drive 5 weeks ago:
For running an OS off a USB drive, I would recommend getting a USB to M.2 enclosure and putting an M.2 drive in it. This will give you better performance than any flash drive out there. The memory they put into normal flash drives is just slow slow slow for the use case of an OS.
Example enclosure: bhphotovideo.com/…/sabrent_ec_snve_usb_3_2_type_c…
Example M.2 Drive to go in it: bhphotovideo.com/…/sabrent_sb_rocket_nvme4_1tb_1t…
- Comment on Why bag the hydrant? 5 weeks ago:
My guess is to keep water from getting into the threads and freezing them shut.
- Comment on Microsoft is blocking Windows Customization Tools 5 weeks ago:
well, when anticheat supports Linux
It certainly does in many games. Helldivers 2 and Hunt: Showdown (the first two pvp games that came to mind) are both rated gold on Linux.
- Comment on Microsoft is blocking Windows Customization Tools 5 weeks ago:
They’re not exactly “being blocked”
Simply renaming the executable works to re-enable Start All Back. They are being intentionally blocked by Microsoft.
- Comment on Microsoft is blocking Windows Customization Tools 5 weeks ago:
Get a big, well-organized group like Mozilla to produce an accessibility-ready, normie-ready, mainstream, FOSS version of Linux.
Linux Mint works out of the box and has every tool a normie would want. The product you are asking for exists.
- Comment on Microsoft is blocking Windows Customization Tools 5 weeks ago:
He said marketing sets the tone (not the path), and that is absolutely true. Many products are killed or poorly received due to the tone poor marketing set.
- Comment on Microsoft is blocking Windows Customization Tools 5 weeks ago:
That’s because the windows one came a decade+ too late, has a bunch of restrictions (particularly at launch), and generally doesn’t fit with the ecosystem.
- Comment on Microsoft is blocking Windows Customization Tools 5 weeks ago:
And it continues to be true. Linux has continues to get easier and easier to switch to. For gamers, just look at how much work Valve and engine creators have put into native Linux support.
- Comment on Microsoft is blocking Windows Customization Tools 5 weeks ago:
The Microsoft devs have time to do shit like this, but haven’t yet gotten the Settings screen as functional as Control Panel was two decades ago…
- Comment on Best printer 2024: a humorous critique of the Google search engine and printer enshittification 1 month ago:
Hey, I own that printer! It’s a good printer.
- Comment on FCC bans cable TV industry’s favorite trick for hiding full cost of service 1 month ago:
The former is more of a technical one. LEO has (some) air drag, so anything there is temporary; and you need them in LEO to not have pings measured in seconds. But, as you stated, the CEO is…fucktarded. I’ll fully agree there!
But, more importantly, hat’s why I also mentioned cell networks. In the US, TMobile and Verizon home cell internet is competitive in quite a good percent of the country.
- Comment on FCC bans cable TV industry’s favorite trick for hiding full cost of service 1 month ago:
The proliferation of home cell internet and Starlink internet has had a nice downward pressure in many markets. Both are often surprisingly good, even for heavy internet users. They are something worth checking out in your area.
- Comment on Electric cars will be cheaper to make than gas vehicles but with much higher repair and insurance costs 2 months ago:
Car rentals are expensive and time consuming affairs. This ‘solution’ is worse for the vast majority of people than owning a car. It’s why you don’t see people doing it.
- Comment on Electric cars will be cheaper to make than gas vehicles but with much higher repair and insurance costs 2 months ago:
Most people want a car that can do everything they need a car to do. As otherwise they have to buy a SECOND car that can perform the jobs the first car can’t. At that point people look at their finances and wonder why they have the first car at all, that first car has a monthly payment, insurance, and repairs. It would be so much cheaper to ditch it and just have the car that performs all the functions.
- Comment on Electric cars will be cheaper to make than gas vehicles but with much higher repair and insurance costs 2 months ago:
Yeah, I’m not really sure what the path to the EV being cheaper to produce is. Every EV we have seen is more expensive than its ICE counterpart. And it isn’t like batteries are some new tech that manufacturers don’t know how to make well. No, these are being mass produced.
The higher repair costs come from the fact that while an EV pack is the single most expensive part of the car, and if it is damaged, you now have to replace the single most expensive part of the car.
Higher insurance costs flow from the higher purchase cost and the higher repair costs. So, those won’t come down either.
- Comment on VPN Router + Pihole 2 months ago:
The pihole is pretty easy to setup and allows for much more (optional) configuration, I would say go for the VPN router + pihole.
- Comment on Microsoft's draconian Windows 11 restrictions will send an estimated 240 million PCs to the landfill when Windows 10 hits end of life in 2025 2 months ago:
Linux Mint is a pretty solid option for a desktop OS. And it feels quite a bit like Debian.