kalleboo
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- Comment on T-Mobile secretly records iPhone screens and claims it's being helpful. 18 hours ago:
iOS does have an API for apps to record these screen these days through Broadcast Extensions, but it has to be user-initiated through the control center screen recording toggle (where they then get to pick what app to record the screen to instead of just saving as a video), it wouldn’t do that people think the T-Mobile app is doing
- Comment on Realtek's $10 tiny 10GbE network adapter is coming to motherboards later this year 4 days ago:
- I do have 10 Gbps, I pay $35/mo here in Japan (not even a big city like Tokyo, this is a depopulating, rural capitol)
- More importantly, even my 5 year old, 4-bay spinning rust Synology NAS can saturate 2.5 Gbps copying files. With soldered storage in modern machines, faster networking is cheaper than replacing my whole machine
- Comment on Realtek's $10 tiny 10GbE network adapter is coming to motherboards later this year 4 days ago:
Yeah what I’ve settled on is one of those $40 generic Chinese 4x2.5G PoE+2x10G SFP+ switches. Gives me:
- 10G for internet/router
- 10G for my main computer
- 2.5G for secondary machine
- 2.5G for NAS
- 2.5G PoE for WiFi
- One port chained to a 16-port Gbit switch for all the slow junk that doesn’t need performance
Would be great to get 10G for the NAS as well!
- Comment on With the recent happenings with Synology/Plex, I’ve decided it’s time to make the move and up my self-hosting game, just need some input from the veterans to solidify my plan and put it into action. 1 week ago:
For what it’s worth, Synology Hybrid RAID is just a fancy GUI over linux mdraid, so the drives can be mounted on any Linux system (Synology even have instructions for how to do this on their website). You’ll be SOL mounting them with any kind of third-party NAS GUI that expects their own configuration though.
- Comment on Why Balcony Solar Panels Haven’t Taken Off in the US 1 week ago:
What are you powering with it?
You plug it straight into the wall, it syncs to the grid and back-feeds it, up to 800W
- Comment on Why Balcony Solar Panels Haven’t Taken Off in the US 1 week ago:
because if the grid went down, these types of panels could keep feeding the house, out to the street, and electrocute a line worker
The inverter in these is designed to shut down if it doesn’t detect a waveform from the grid to sync with. As long as the hardware is legit (which is a big if with how easy it is to get unsafe junk in from China) there is no safety issue, it’s purely regulatory.
- Comment on Japan moves to ban Google, Apple from blocking app store competitors 1 week ago:
Yeah when I went over my bank statements for last year, I only went to an ATM a single time in the whole year. Mostly only need cash for stuff like parking
- Comment on ‘If 1.5m Germans have them there must be something in it’: how balcony solar is taking off 3 months ago:
In the EU, as long as it’s under 800W it can be plugged directly into an outlet in your home without any kind of installation, back-feeding the grid that way.
You’re not getting paid anything for the power you send back into the grid so anything you don’t use you lose.
- Comment on Those YouTube ads everyone hates made $10.4 billion in just three months 3 months ago:
And that’s probably what will kill them as payouts get worse and worse making other platforms more attractive as you’re not losing as much. A lot of YouTubers I follow seem to becoming more and more reliant on Patreon as ad revenue goes down.
- Comment on Those YouTube ads everyone hates made $10.4 billion in just three months 3 months ago:
The lack of alternatives where creators actually get paid for people watching their videos is the biggest problem.
- Comment on China is quietly pushing ahead with massive 50,000Mbps broadband rollout to leapfrog rest of the world on internet speeds 3 months ago:
I have a cheap noname chinese switch with 2x10gbit ports and 4x2.5 Gbps ports, so I have the 10 Gbit ports to the internet and my computer, and use a 2.5 gbps port for my NAS, everything else is 1 gbit
- Comment on How do you keep up? 3 months ago:
This is why I’m still using a Synology ¯_(ツ)_/¯
I can install all the fun stuff I want in Docker, but for the major OS stuff, it’s outsourced to Synology to maintain for me
- Comment on China is quietly pushing ahead with massive 50,000Mbps broadband rollout to leapfrog rest of the world on internet speeds 3 months ago:
(or even Ethernet)
Technically, those 100+ Gbps fiber LAN/WAN connections used in data centers are also Ethernet, just not twisted pair.
That said recently I was in a retail store and saw “Cat8” cables for sale that advertised support for 40 Gbps copper ethernet! I wonder if any hardware to support that will ever be released. It is a real standard: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/100_Gigabit_Ethernet#40GBAS…
- Comment on China is quietly pushing ahead with massive 50,000Mbps broadband rollout to leapfrog rest of the world on internet speeds 3 months ago:
I have symmetrical 10 Gbps at home ($30/mo) and I’ll agree. When it’s nice when you have big updates, for most households 1 Gbps is going to be just fine. As you say, the vast majority of users are bottlenecked by Wi-Fi.
The bigger crime are all the asymmetrical connections that people on technologies like Cable TV networks have, where you get 1-2 Gbps down but only something tiny like 50 Mbps up. This results in crappy video calls, makes off-site/remote backups unfeasible, etc etc.
- Comment on China is quietly pushing ahead with massive 50,000Mbps broadband rollout to leapfrog rest of the world on internet speeds 3 months ago:
They’re probably not building out 50 Gbps to the rice farmers
- Comment on China is quietly pushing ahead with massive 50,000Mbps broadband rollout to leapfrog rest of the world on internet speeds 3 months ago:
Most residential fiber currently is GPON with a 2 Gbps shared line using passive optical splitters, split up to 32 ways. Raising that shared line to 50 Gbps is a great upgrade.
- Comment on Dell kills the XPS brand 4 months ago:
replacing them with three main product lines: Dell (yes, just Dell), Dell Pro, and Dell Pro Max.
PC/Android companies not trying to blatantly rip off Apple challenge: Impossible
- Comment on HDMI 2.2 will require new “Ultra96” cables, whenever we have 8K TVs and content 4 months ago:
Japan has had an 8K TV channel since 2018, they really thought that would take on a lot quicker haha
- Comment on There’s No Dancing Around It: Apple’s Vision Pro Was An Ugly Dud 4 months ago:
Yeah it feels like even Apple is half-heartedly invested in it. Lots of the first-party Apple apps are basically just iPad apps, a year after launch. And there’s no real video content, just a bunch of short 7-minute teasers.
- Comment on What are your Homelab goals for 2025? 4 months ago:
It would be to replace my 4-bay Synology DS918 NAS with something with more drive bays and 10 Gbit connectivity
- Comment on Merry Christmas to all you retro folk! 5 months ago:
It’s MacOS 9 running on a PowerBook G3, with Holiday Lights running and a Kaleidoscope Scheme from Xmas 1999 applied!
- Submitted 5 months ago to retrocomputing@lemmy.sdf.org | 3 comments
- Comment on flouride 5 months ago:
My barometer is when it’s something that pretty much only the U.S. is obsessed with doing, then it’s probably a dumb thing caused by lobbyists or something.
- Comment on Post your setup. no matter how uggo 6 months 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 6 months ago:
It’s from a japanese Gacha machine! bitbang.social/@kalleboo/112755170852099746
- Comment on Post your setup. no matter how uggo 6 months ago:
The rear ethernet is 1 Gbit, the USB adapter is 2.5 Gbit!
- Comment on Post your setup. no matter how uggo 6 months 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 6 months 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 6 months ago:
The Mac mini draws 5 W when on, let alone sleeping
