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- Comment on Amazon Wins $6 Million in Damages Against Pirated DVD Stores, Plus Domain Takeovers 1 hour ago:
If they are based out of China, then Amazon won’t get a single cent out of them. They will be back up with a new name and website soon.
- Comment on Acer and Asus halt PC and laptop sales in Germany amid H.264 codec patent dispute — Nokia wins patent ruling, forcing tech giants to license HEVC codec 1 day ago:
Around 25% for a 1080p 30fps youtube video played in MPV. Power consumption is about 10-12 watts. A video with hardware acceleration uses about 8 watts.
- Comment on Acer and Asus halt PC and laptop sales in Germany amid H.264 codec patent dispute — Nokia wins patent ruling, forcing tech giants to license HEVC codec 1 day ago:
Software decoding is an option. My Thinkpad T480 can play 1080p AV1 if the bitrate isn’t super high. That’s a mid range business laptop from 2018. It’s the encoding that really needs hardware acceleration.
- Comment on Acer and Asus halt PC and laptop sales in Germany amid H.264 codec patent dispute — Nokia wins patent ruling, forcing tech giants to license HEVC codec 1 day ago:
That doesn’t help with all the content that’s been encoded in H.264 over the last two decades though.
- Comment on Acer and Asus halt PC and laptop sales in Germany amid H.264 codec patent dispute — Nokia wins patent ruling, forcing tech giants to license HEVC codec 1 day ago:
Hosting and development would just move to a country that doesn’t allow software patents.
- Comment on Google criticizes Europe's plan to adopt free software 1 day ago:
In Linux, the package manager will ask you if you want to install the dependencies. You don’t have to install them manually unless you’re compiling the program from source.
- Comment on New nickel-iron battery charges in seconds, survives 12,000 cycles 2 days ago:
Charge time depends on the UPS. The cheap consumer grade ones usually have a float charger that takes forever.
- Comment on New nickel-iron battery charges in seconds, survives 12,000 cycles 2 days ago:
Nickel iron is typically used for off grid solar energy storage. Weight doesn’t matter at all since the battery won’t be moved. The most important thing is lifetime. Traditional nickel iron batteries last for decades and can be refurbished.
- Comment on New nickel-iron battery charges in seconds, survives 12,000 cycles 3 days ago:
UPS batteries need to be fully charged all the time. Lead acid batteries like to be fully charged. Lithium batteries need to be stored around 50% charge to have a long lifetime.
- Comment on Can my SPARC server host a website? 3 days ago:
It would work fine without Cloudflare. The server is running the current version of OpenBSD, so it could be configured to safely host a website without any tunnels.
- Comment on Why is self-hosted voice chat so hard? 3 days ago:
Mumble will do all of that except screen sharing. Only the server has to deal with NAT.
- Comment on Ring is always recording and uploading to their servers, even with you're not paying for the subscription 5 days 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 6 days 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 6 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 6 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 6 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] 1 week 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] 1 week 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? 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week 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 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago:
It’s always an opt out. Making it a mandatory opt in will never happen in the US.