kalleboo
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- Comment on Post your setup. no matter how uggo 19 hours ago:
It’s 6 years old now so I can’t really complain but even new ones don’t come with 2.5Gbe by standard, it seems that should be cheap enough to throw in there by now. At least a lot of the new ones can be upgraded internally to 10 Gbe.
- Comment on Post your setup. no matter how uggo 1 day ago:
It’s from a japanese Gacha machine! bitbang.social/@kalleboo/112755170852099746
- Comment on Post your setup. no matter how uggo 1 day ago:
The rear ethernet is 1 Gbit, the USB adapter is 2.5 Gbit!
- Comment on Post your setup. no matter how uggo 3 days ago:
I just got 10 Gbit internet last week so I had a chance to tidy everything up. The ThinkCentre is the 10 Gbit router, the Synology actually hosts everything.
Also finally labeled all the mystery cables. Also replaced the proprietary 20V/12V bricks for the ThinkCentre and 10G Fiber ONU with USB-C adapter cables to keep things tidier.
- Comment on Entire Mac Lineup Now Finally Starts With at Least 16GB RAM, Ending 8GB Era 3 weeks ago:
I wonder what the industry standard is for developers?
The Stack Overflow developer survey (which has it’s bias towards people who use Stack Overflow)… says 47% use Windows, 32% use Mac, and uh, Linux is split up by distro so it’s hard to make sense of the numbers but Ubuntu alone is at 27%.
- Comment on M4 Mac Mini Power Button Has New Bottom Location 3 weeks ago:
The Mac mini draws 5 W when on, let alone sleeping
- Comment on Student dorm does not allow wifi routers 2 months ago:
Where I went to school, originally the dorms were on the university network but a year in they offloaded us onto regular, commercial ISPs. The change was great for us since the university network was very strict on stuff like torrents (using DPI any torrent, even legal, got you disconnected for 24h)
- Comment on Linus Tech Tips uploaded a video showing how to block ads on Youtube. Which was removed by Youtube for community guidelines violations. 2 months ago:
YouTube creators can see the view rate for each section of the video, I’d be surprised if sponsors didn’t ask for that data (if just to know the viewer retention for sponsor segments at the beginning vs end of the video)
- Comment on Microsoft says Delta’s ancient IT explains long outage after CrowdStrike snafu 3 months ago:
Where does it say that? It says that the source says that they are mobile apps (so obviously NOT Windows) that “look like they were designed for Windows 95”.
- Comment on Cars Are Now Rolling Computers Now. So What Happens When They Stop Getting Updates? 3 months ago:
You can get a USB 4G modem on Amazon for $40
- Comment on Cars Are Now Rolling Computers Now. So What Happens When They Stop Getting Updates? 3 months ago:
Naw, I live in a hot as hell country I’m super jealous of people who can remote-start the air conditioning in their cars.
It should be an open interface like OBD2 though where you can choose the hardware/provider instead of being locked to the car manufacturer deprecating everything in 3 years to sell you a new car.
- Comment on An angry admin shares the CrowdStrike outage experience 3 months ago:
The Linux kernel has a special kernel extension scheme specifically to keep software like CloudStrike from crashing it ebpf.io/what-is-ebpf/ This is supported by CloudStrike on recent versions of Linux (if you’re running an older version, then yes CloudStrike still has the ability to ruin your day)
- Comment on CrowdStrike downtime apparently caused by update that replaced a file with 42kb of zeroes 3 months ago:
It could have been the release process itself that was bugged. The actual update that was supposed to go out was tested and worked, then the upload was corrupted/failed. They need to add tests on the actual released version instead of a local copy.
- Comment on Most consumers hate the idea of AI-generated customer service 4 months ago:
90% of people calling support lines are due to questions that are in the top 10 ten on the FAQ. They’re just the type of people who don’t like reading and just want a social answer. The same kind of people who get told “just do a search, this is asked weekly” on Reddit.
If there was a way to direct the “I just need a FAQ that I don’t need to read myself” people to an LLM and the “something is actually broken I need real help” to people, that would be ideal.
- Comment on Affinity’s Adobe-rivaling creative suite is now free for six months 4 months ago:
The Affinity Suite started out as macOS-only apps which later got ported to Windows so I would be very surprised to hear they had any substantial portion written in .net
- Comment on Real 4 months ago:
Checking what a fridge cost you in 1980 in an old Sears catalog, you’d be paying $4000 today accounting for inflation.
- Comment on Sony will cut around 250 jobs from the recordable media business manufacturing hub and will gradually cease production of optical discs, including Blu-ray discs. 4 months ago:
Exactly like vinyl!
This is why when when CDs originally came out, the industry kept saying “soon CDs will be super cheap since they’re so much cheaper than manufacturing tapes!” (which really DO need to be dubbed linearly, even though they can be done at like 10x speed in digital high-speed dubbers) before they realized people were still perfectly happy paying $15 for a disc.
This is also why they kept trying to make laserdisc (and RCA’s CED) be a thing, since they were cheaper to mass manufacture by stamping than prerecorded video tape’s slow dubbing process.
- Comment on Sony will cut around 250 jobs from the recordable media business manufacturing hub and will gradually cease production of optical discs, including Blu-ray discs. 4 months ago:
Pressed discs (like movies) are physically… pressed. They make a metal mould which is then stamped into melted plastic to make the pits and lands and then coated with a metal film to make the reflected backing, filling in the pits. This makes manufacturing of millions of disks extremely cheap since it takes seconds per disc. Burning commercial disks individually in thousands of burners would be way too slow/expensive.
- Comment on Sony will cut around 250 jobs from the recordable media business manufacturing hub and will gradually cease production of optical discs, including Blu-ray discs. 4 months ago:
Pressed discs have a completely different manufacturing method
- Comment on Arizona toddler rescued after getting trapped in a Tesla with a dead battery | The Model Y’s 12-volt battery, which powers things like the doors and windows, died 4 months ago:
Every car I’ve driven with keyless ignition (which seems to be the standard now) refuses to lock if it detects the key inside the car, even if you try to do it manually by pressing the lock button, so hopefully this is a solved problem now.
- Comment on Is This the End of Plastic? Visa's New Technology Could Replace Physical Cards 5 months ago:
Apple Pay/Google Pay already exists though?? What’s new?
The last credit card I got, it took me like a month of two to unpack the physical card since right after signup I could already add the virtual card to Apple Pay through the bank app and I just used that.
- Comment on ‘My whole library is wiped out’: what it means to own movies and TV in the age of streaming services 6 months ago:
Tech Tangents did a video on disc games where either the DRM server is down, or the content is just not on disk www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZYy9KzFT2w
- Comment on ‘My whole library is wiped out’: what it means to own movies and TV in the age of streaming services 6 months ago:
TBF I’m pretty sure all the rare earth and manufacturing that goes into the NAS and hard disks is far worse than some small plastic discs. I say this a a huge NAS user myself.
- Comment on The Birth, Boom and Bust of the Hard Disk Drive 6 months ago:
Another great history lesson from Asianometry
- Comment on Biden really, really doesn’t want China to flood the US with cheap EVs 6 months ago:
The Volvo EX30 is based on a Geely platform, made in China, and does well in the EU (won several Car of the Year awards).
MG also has no trouble selling in the EU.
Chinese manufacturers can make quality, safe care when the market demands it of them. If the market wants cheap and doesn’t demand safety, they can do that too.
- Comment on After announcing increased prices, Spotify to Pay Songwriters About $150 Million Less Next Year 6 months ago:
It’s because they are 100% reliant on the record labels, and the record labels know that. So the record labels can charge Spotify whatever they want, because what is Spotify going to do?
That’s why Spotify tried to hard to move into Podcasts and now Audio books, so that they are less reliant on the record labels.
- Comment on MKBHD - Do Bad Reviews Kill Companies? 7 months ago:
For tech stuff, the best reviews to read are always the 1 or 2 star reviews, since you can see if the people complaining have legit gripes or they’re just idiots who bought the wrong thing for their task.
- Comment on ISPs can charge extra for fast gaming under FCC’s Internet rules, critics say 7 months ago:
The customers of A are paying A to access to the internet, including N. So A should charge their customers enough that they can pay for the equipment to deliver that.
In a working market with many participants, customers can choose a cheaper ISP that has congested/throttled peering, or a more expensive ISP with gold-plated interconnects.
The problem is that in the US, typically your choice of ISP is limited by geography. In many other places you have open fiber networks where the last mile is shared and then you can choose what ISP you want ontop of that, and the ISP is what determines how good your peering is.
- Comment on Apple argues in favor of selling Macs with only 8GB of RAM 7 months ago:
It mostly just shows how crazy fast modern SSDs are that they can do swap duties with performance that is acceptable to many people.
- Comment on The 6502 CPU Powered a Whole Generation! | The 8bit Guy 7 months ago:
For what it’s worth, he quit the worst of his gun-nuttery once he realized how insane every one else who was into that scene was. He posted a mea culpa video the last time everything blew up.
Not saying you have to like him or agree with his views but he did change his mind about a lot of things.
