cmnybo

@cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ring is always recording and uploading to their servers, even with you're not paying for the subscription⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Cameras and DVRs should always be on an isolated network.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨TV Execs Warn FCC: NextGen TV DRM Could Turn Free TV Into Gambling and Pay-TV Platforms⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  That worked when TV was analog and they were running megawatt transmitters. It doesn’t do so well with the low power digital stations unless you are close to the transmitters.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows 11 is finally killing off legacy printer drivers in 2026 — and it’s going to shake up a lot of older hardware⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Printer drivers have been deprecated on Linux too. CUPS will eventually drop support for them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨More Mac malware from Google search⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Wow, grabbing a base64 obfuscated URL with curl sending the output to bash is a huge red flag. I guess Mac users must not know anything about the CLI.

  Never pipe the output of curl or wget to bash. You can’t inspect whatever it downloads before it gets run. If the URL is obfuscated, there is basically a 100% chance that it’s malicious.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s Mumble for voice, text and images. The server is self hosted and there is no chat history so it’s private. It uses Opus so the audio quality is very good without using a lot of bandwidth. For gaming, it supports positional audio and a HUD that shows who is talking.

  For the projects using Discord for support, they should move to a forum.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s also most certainly against the terms of service for your ISP, VPN or VPS, so you could get your service terminated.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Running something like this will put a big target on your back. I hope you have your network locked down tight.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's your opinion on Ubiquiti/Unifi gear?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve been using their access points for a long time. They have been working quite well. I do have an old WiFi 5 AP that’s starting to fail, but that’s not too surprising considering the age.

  I’ve just been running the controller with a local account. Hopefully they won’t try to force me into using a cloud account.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is the Raspberry Pi Still an Affordable SBC? I Don't Think So⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s USD $53 on DigiKey and Mouser. That’s still rather expensive for an old single board computer, but it has a lot more IO than most other computers as well as a pair of real time co-processors for handling high speed IO.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is the Raspberry Pi Still an Affordable SBC? I Don't Think So⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s always the BeagleBone Black if you need a lot of IO. It has a 12 bit ADC too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Consumer hardware is no longer a priority for manufacturers⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You used to get a fairly significant upgrade ever few years for about the same cost as the old hardware. Transistors aren’t really getting much smaller anymore, so more performance needs a bigger die and costs more money.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨MX Anywhere 3 middle click unreliable⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Does that wheel assembly even contain the switch? Every mouse I’ve repaired has had a small SMD tact switch on the PCB for the middle button.

  To find a replacement switch, I go to Digikey or Mouser, filter by the approximate size, then look through the pictures until I find something that looks right. Then I download the datasheet and check the exact dimensions to see if it will fit. Tact switches are cheap, so order a bunch. I usually have to replace them every few years. If they are available with different actuation forces, get several different ones to try out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LG joins Sony and TCL in abandoning 8K TV market⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That would be nice for CAD work, but it would have to be an actual PC monitor, not a TV. 42 inch would be just about right for my desk. The only ones I’ve seen are 32 inch, which is too small to replace four monitors.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kiss goodbye to 8K as support from the TV industry 'dwindles'⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The screen size needed for 8K to make a difference doesn’t fit in a typical living room.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I used an original iPod Nano in 2026, and it worked surprisingly well⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Rockbox supports modern codecs including Opus, so you can fit nearly 4 days of decent quality music on a 4GB iPod.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Electric Flying Cars Now for Sale by California Company Pivotal⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s an ultralight. You don’t need a pilots license to fly one in the US. You can even build one yourself if you want to. You don’t even need any inspection or airworthiness certificate. Since they can’t legally be flown over populated areas, it’s unlikely for anyone except the pilot to get injured or killed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube seems to be blocking background video playback on Samsung Internet, Brave, and other browsers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It works fine in Firefox on Android if you switch to the desktop site.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The TV industry finally concedes that the future may not be in 8K⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  IMAX film is equivalent to 12K. Their digital laser projectors are only 4K.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Musk's Starlink to allow consumer data to train AI⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s always an opt out. Making it a mandatory opt in will never happen in the US.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Musk's Starlink to allow consumer data to train AI⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  There is an opt out. Sign into your account, go to settings then privacy preferences and uncheck the AI training box.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows 10's extended support ends in eight months, but users are still rejecting Windows 11, at least in Germany⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Wine has support serial and parallel ports. They work fine. In recent versions of wine you don’t even have to set anything up. Just run ls -l ~/.wine/dosdevices/com* after running something in wine to see what the com port number is for your device. The ttyACM and ttyUSB ports are USB serial ports. The ttyS ports are hardware serial ports and they will probably show up even if your computer doesn’t have any.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does self hosting your own internet count?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  MeshCore runs at 2.73 kbps and it can send a short text message in a fraction of a second. The short turbo preset on Meshtastic is 21.88 kbps, but that’s still too slow for images. The higher speed reduces the range by quite a bit too.

  For images, you would be better off using WiFi HaLow, which runs several mbps on 900 MHz.

  If you have a ham license, there is HamWAN and ARDEN as well. They are fast enough to stream live video. They can work over long distances, but the high gain antennas have to be aimed carefully.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Run a NAS OS on an old Compaq laptop?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not going to make a very good NAS. It looks like it only has USB 2 and 100M ethernet. That’s going to be slower than the NAS I built with the Pentium 4 desktop I got for free in 2007.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨RAM Prices Got You Down? Try DDR3. Seriously!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The list of vulnerability mitigations for those old CPUs is going to be a mile long. They will probably have their performance cut in half or worse. Even a much newer CPU like Zen 1 takes a big performance hit.

  You can disable mitigations, but then a malicious website could potentially steal sensitive information on that computer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wifi 15 gigabytes per second — Researchers demo invention⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  For home use, all I can think of is wireless video. 15 GB/s is faster than the fastest DisplayPort or HDMI versions. It could handle any resolution and refresh rate currently in use without any compression. That would be useful for VR headsets since they need low latency.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you have one, how much do you pay for a domain name? Any cheap registrar recommendations?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The DNS authoratative servers are what hold all of the records for your domain. With Cloudflare, you are stuck with theirs. As for why you want to use a different one, maybe you need more than the 200 records Cloudflare limits you to. Maybe you don’t like the way their API works for automating updates. Maybe you don’t want to set up all of your records all over again if you transfer your domain to another registrar. Maybe you just don’t like Cloudflare.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you have one, how much do you pay for a domain name? Any cheap registrar recommendations?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A .com domain should be under USD $12 a year with WHOIS privacy included. If someone is charging more than that, they are ripping you off. Most web or VPS hosts will charge a significant markup if they sell domains. Make sure you check the renewal price too. Some registrars will give you the first year cheap, then charge significantly more to renew it.

  Cloudflare is the cheapest, but they force you to use their DNS servers. Porkbun is a dollar more, but you can use your own DNS if you want to.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨🔌 testing an a/c adapter before use-- 12v PSU measures at 18+v, increasing. Is that a problem?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A switching power supply should be regulated. The one you have is defective. Some do have a minimum load, but I’ve never seen that on an adapter that can be unplugged from the load.

  A linear power supply has a linear regulator and will supply its rated voltage with very little ripple. The unregulated power supplies are just a transformer, rectifier & capacitor. They only provide their rated voltage when they are supplying their full rated current and there will be a lot of ripple.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wildlife cam setups?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Get a CCTV camera for it. Make sure it supports ONVIF. An IP camera can be run 100 meters on CAT5.

  Trail cams are not intended for remote viewing. They are battery powered and a remote connection would drain the batteries quickly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨🔌 testing an a/c adapter before use-- 12v PSU measures at 18+v, increasing. Is that a problem?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Is that adapter heavy? It sounds like an unregulated transformer type power supply. It’s not unusual for those to output twice their rated voltage with no load. They will damage equipment that requires a regulated supply.