kalleboo
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- Comment on Netflix Becomes Max-Level Patron Of Blender's Development Fund 4 days ago:
Whoever inside of Netflix pushed for this, you’re fighting the good fight!
- Comment on How many containers are you all running? 5 days ago:
13 running on my little Synology.
Actually more than I expected, I would have guesses closer to 8
- Comment on Wifi 15 gigabytes per second — Researchers demo invention 1 week ago:
Laptops have all but taken over from desktops for everything but AAA gaming. New houses are still built with zero Ethernet because “the internet is Wi-Fi right?”
People are using their laptops to edit video off of a NAS, MacBooks can run 100 GB LLMs. Heck even non-AAA games are many gigabytes.
- Comment on Meta has discontinued its metaverse for work, too 2 weeks ago:
What happened to Second Life anyway? All the gooners are on VRChat now and they seem to be doing fine
- Comment on Meta Reportedly Cutting About 1,500 VR and AR Jobs Amid Renewed Push to Become an AI Juggernaut 3 weeks ago:
I mean I’m a big fan of VR but it’s clearly been a money pit for meta, their massive investment in it is never going to pay back, they were betting on selling “metaverse” real estate rather than making money on the hardware
- Comment on Speed test pits six generations of Windows against each other — Windows 11 placed dead last across most benchmarks, 8.1 emerges as unexpected winner in this unscientific comparison 4 weeks ago:
Windows 8 was where Microsoft went all-in on optimizing Windows to run on low-power tablets to compete with the iPad. It’s mostly remembered for the terrible tablet-first full-screen “start menu”, but also continued the work to trim away all the Vista bloat that had started with Windows 7 (where the motivation was to make it work on netbooks so they could finally stop shipping XP)
- Comment on Article: I switched to eSIM in 2025, and I am full of regret 4 weeks ago:
That’s not a solution. There is no other carrier that has the coverage I need.
The problem with eSIM as a concept is that it puts too much responsibility on the carrier, and there are way too many shitty carriers out there, and with the cost of building a network and the limited amount of spectrum, mobile carriers are not a functioning free market.
- Comment on Article: I switched to eSIM in 2025, and I am full of regret 4 weeks ago:
The screen died on my wife’s iPhone, fine I have other spare iPhones aplenty she can switch to. But she had switched to eSIM so we couldn’t just move a physical SIM over, you had to go through the “transfer eSIM” menus, which we couldn’t do because the screen was dead. The only option the carrier gave us was going to a physical store.
I’m never switching to eSIM, what a PITA for absolutely no upside.
- Comment on Article: I switched to eSIM in 2025, and I am full of regret 4 weeks ago:
My parents came to visit my over xmas and installed Airalo to get a local SIM. Activation failed, the support AI bot re-issued the eSIM, activation failed again, it got escalated to human support, they asked for a refund, and 12 hours later randomly the phone popped up an “eSIM activated!” message. That would have sucked if you actually relied on needing the SIM on landing.
- Comment on Where are you running your wireguard endpoint? 4 weeks ago:
On my (OpenWrt) router
- Comment on Artists dump X as launch of new AI image editing feature sparks outrage - Cryptopolitan 5 weeks ago:
Yeah they’ll log out in protect, but they’ll all be back in a week or so. People are really obsessed with the big (fake) numbers they see on X and don’t want to give up their “reach”
- Comment on Zig quits GitHub, says Microsoft's AI obsession has ruined the service 2 months ago:
Their FAQ actually has an audio clip, haha forgejo.org/static/forgejo.mp4
- Comment on Building the PERFECT Linux PC with Linus Torvalds 2 months ago:
The only way to stay sane
- Comment on Anubis is awesome and I want to talk aout it 2 months ago:
Anubis was originally created to protect git web interfaces since they have a lot of heavy-to-compute URLs that aren’t feasible to cache (revision diffs, zip downloads etc).
After that I think it got adopted by a lot of people who didn’t actually need it, they just don’t like seeing AI scrapers in their logs.
- Comment on U.S. solar will pass wind in 2025 and leave coal in the dust soon after 3 months ago:
This is complete BS, I could find zero sources for that claim.
The only tangentially related thing I could find was that in colder climates, they need heat to de-ice the wings, and at one point, the power supply to a Scottish wind farm was cut off, so they put in some temporary diesel generators on-site to power the de-icing system.
- Comment on "Very dramatic shift" - Linus Tech Tips opens up about the channel's declining viewership 4 months ago:
It could even be something “innocent” about how ad-blockers have started to interact with the site as YouTube ramps up their anti-adblock measures and the ad-blockers have to change how they work. Like maybe the ad-blockers have started blocking the JavaScript callback that logs the views.
- Comment on "Very dramatic shift" - Linus Tech Tips opens up about the channel's declining viewership 4 months ago:
Even before this drop in views, the rule was you have to watch a video for at least 30 seconds before it counts as a view, as a way to combat clickbait where people instantly bounce from a video. Maybe they have changed this further?
- Comment on "Very dramatic shift" - Linus Tech Tips opens up about the channel's declining viewership 4 months ago:
On broadcast TV, a 30 minute timeslot had only 23 minutes of actual content and 7 minutes of ads.
That’s what we’re heading back to.
- Comment on "Very dramatic shift" - Linus Tech Tips opens up about the channel's declining viewership 4 months ago:
Everyone here is speculating about their content, but the simple answer is YouTube just changed how they count the view number. The change basically happened overnight, so it’s not some slow attrition of views. They said in the WAN Show that while the view count halved, the number of likes hasn’t changed (the view/like ratio doubled), and the revenue they earned hasn’t changed (CPM doubled). All of this points that the same number of humans are watching, but what counts as a view in the “views” number just changed.
- Comment on OpenAI will not disclose GPT-5’s energy use. It could be higher than past models 5 months ago:
They literally don’t know. “GPT-5” is several models, with a model gating in front to choose which model to use depending on how “hard” it thinks the question is. They’ve already been tweaking the front-end to change how it cuts over. They’ve definitely going to keep changing it.
- Comment on Threads is nearing X's daily app users, new data shows 6 months ago:
Instagram is extremely popular, and it’s heavily promoted inside of there, with Threads content embedded to almost look like Instagram content but when you tap on it it hops you over to Threads. I’m not surprised that they’ve been able to build a user base while X declines
- Comment on T-Mobile secretly records iPhone screens and claims it's being helpful. 8 months 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 8 months 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 8 months 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. 8 months 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 8 months 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 8 months 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 8 months 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 11 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 11 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.