kalleboo
@kalleboo@lemmy.world
- Comment on ‘If 1.5m Germans have them there must be something in it’: how balcony solar is taking off 2 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 2 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 2 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 2 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? 2 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 2 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 2 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 2 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 2 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 3 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 3 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 3 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? 3 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! 4 months ago:
It’s MacOS 9 running on a PowerBook G3, with Holiday Lights running and a Kaleidoscope Scheme from Xmas 1999 applied!
- Submitted 4 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 5 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 5 months ago:
It’s from a japanese Gacha machine! bitbang.social/@kalleboo/112755170852099746
- Comment on Post your setup. no matter how uggo 5 months ago:
The rear ethernet is 1 Gbit, the USB adapter is 2.5 Gbit!
- Comment on Post your setup. no matter how uggo 5 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 5 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
