kalleboo
@kalleboo@lemmy.world
- Comment on Those YouTube ads everyone hates made $10.4 billion in just three months 1 day 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 1 day 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 days 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 days 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 days 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 days 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 days 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 days 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 weeks 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 weeks 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 5 weeks 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? 5 weeks 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! 1 month ago:
It’s MacOS 9 running on a PowerBook G3, with Holiday Lights running and a Kaleidoscope Scheme from Xmas 1999 applied!
- Submitted 1 month ago to retrocomputing@lemmy.sdf.org | 3 comments
- Comment on flouride 2 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 2 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 2 months ago:
It’s from a japanese Gacha machine! bitbang.social/@kalleboo/112755170852099746
- Comment on Post your setup. no matter how uggo 2 months ago:
The rear ethernet is 1 Gbit, the USB adapter is 2.5 Gbit!
- Comment on Post your setup. no matter how uggo 2 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 3 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 3 months ago:
The Mac mini draws 5 W when on, let alone sleeping
- Comment on Student dorm does not allow wifi routers 5 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. 5 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 5 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? 6 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? 6 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 6 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 6 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 6 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 6 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
