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- Comment on HP and Dell disable HEVC support built into their laptops’ CPUs 14 hours ago:
They are disabling it because the license cost went up 4 cents? Just pass that cost onto the customer. Even if they mark that up several times, I would rather pay that than have my battery drained because I have to software decode a video.
There is still a lot of H.265 content out there. I have many terabytes of it that I don’t want to transcode.
- Comment on Browser Fingerprinting And Why VPNs Won’t Make You Anonymous 1 day ago:
You can’t hide or get rid of the browser fingerprint, but some addons can help to randomize it so it looks like you’re using a different device every time you visit a site.
- Comment on Family Email w/ Custom Domain 1 day ago:
Inleed.xyz has free email hosting with IMAP and POP3 access. You can have as many accounts as you want, but there’s a limit of 1GB shared between all of them.
- Comment on Screw it, I’m installing Linux 1 day ago:
You need to backup any data you want to keep to another drive before installing.
Make sure there’s nothing important on the flash drive too. Writing the iso will erase everything on it.
- Comment on How to Run Custom Linux Images on Oracle Free Tier 2 days ago:
They’ve had it for years. It can be difficult to sign up for though.
You get a lot of resources for free, but don’t use them for anything important. They can nuke your account for any reason.
- Comment on Self hosted DNS 2 days ago:
Yes, they do require you to use their nameservers unless you have a business account.
- Comment on Own domain for Jellyfin and privacy concerns 4 days ago:
I used to use dynv6, but I started having issues about 2 years ago. DNS records would just stop resolving until I deleted and recreated them. Their forum has been broken for years, so there’s no way to get support.
If you only need 5 records or less, give FreeDNS a try.
- Comment on iRobot’s revenue has tanked and it’s almost out of cash | "Roomba customers are understandably concerned about the impact these current financial troubles might have on their home cleaning robots." 4 days ago:
That means apps tend to stop working if the developers don’t keep updating them. Mobile operating systems much, much worse backwards compatibility than windows. If the device hosts its own website instead of using an app, it will most likely work fine decades from now without any updates.
- Comment on iRobot’s revenue has tanked and it’s almost out of cash | "Roomba customers are understandably concerned about the impact these current financial troubles might have on their home cleaning robots." 4 days ago:
Mobile apps bit rot pretty quickly when they stop updating them. A web UI would be better. A server or internet connection is not needed, a web UI can be hosted directly on the device.
- Comment on New battery life record: This CPU makes the best known business laptop more efficient 5 days ago:
Not when it comes with the huge downside of non upgradeable RAM. I will carry around a huge power bank before I buy a laptop with soldered RAM.
- Comment on How would I make a HVAC simulator to see what a thermostat would do if the indoor temp was 400°F 5 days ago:
That’s right around the melting point of some types of lead free solder.
- Comment on virtualizing OPNsense is....not going great 6 days ago:
Keep the firewall on dedicated hardware. You don’t want your whole network going down because you have to do some work on the server.
- Comment on Late Uncles Electronics stash: Things to not use anymore because of safety and obsoleteness and things that are as good as new 1 week ago:
There’s nothing wrong with using leaded solder, you just need to wash your hands after soldering. Many of the components made before RoHS will contain lead too.
Old capacitors may be no good. Electrolytic capacitors go bad with age. You can measure the leakage and ESR to see if they are still good. Any paper capacitors are going to be very leaky by now. If there are any oil filled capacitors from the 1970’s or earlier, they may contain PCB oil, which is very toxic.
- Comment on ISO Project Ideas For Wyse 3040 & 5010 Thin Clients 1 week ago:
- Comment on Hard drives on backorder for two years as AI data centers trigger HDD shortage — delays forcing rapid transition to QLC SSDs 1 week ago:
About the only thing I would consider using QLC for is games since write speed doesn’t matter and they can just be downloaded again if they get corrupted.
- Comment on Is Fast Charging Killing the Battery? A 2-Year Test on 40 Phones 1 week ago:
What kills the batteries is keeping them at 100% charge all the time, especially when the laptop is hot. Some laptops do have the ability to limit the maximum charge. Setting the maximum charge to 60-80% when the laptop is going to be plugged in for a while will extend the battery life. It is necessary to occasionally do a full charge to keep the capacity sensor calibrated though.
- Comment on The 512KB Club is a collection of performance-focused web pages from across the Internet. To qualify your website must both be actually useful and under 512KB in size. 2 weeks ago:
It’s not hard to make a useful website that’s small. You just have to avoid using javascript libraries and keep images to a minimum. There are a number of static web page generators if you don’t want to write HTML yourself.
Keep in mind that a 50 kB page is about a 15 second load on a typical dial-up connection. Before high speed internet, almost everyone kept their web pages small.
- Comment on Does anyone have experience with Mumble? 2 weeks ago:
Mumble supports text chat and images too. Right click on a channel or user and select send message. There is an insert image button in the message window. I wish they would make it so you could just drag and drop an image though.
- Comment on Trivial pcb with curved trace 2 weeks ago:
That trace is a fuse.
- Comment on Nearly 90% of Windows Games now run on Linux, latest data shows 2 weeks ago:
They tend to require installing a rootkit on your own computer. I wouldn’t buy them even if they did support Linux.
- Comment on PRUSA releases the OpenPrintTag, open source standard for filament spool identification and data tracking 2 weeks ago:
There are USB NFC readers. Someone could add support for that to Klipper.
- Comment on Question on TV's 2 weeks ago:
Dumb TVs are still readily available. They are intended for commercial use and will suck for games or movies though.
- Comment on US Government Urges Total Ban of Our Most Popular Wi-Fi Router 2 weeks ago:
Well, they have had a lot of vulnerabilities. Most people won’t even update the firmware let alone install OpenWRT on them.
- Comment on Antique Electro-Cautery Unit: Measuring voltage with ADC and general safety. 3 weeks ago:
If you want to ground it and don’t require a floating output, you could connect ground to one end of the secondary.
- Comment on perplexity pro 3 weeks ago:
At least use a decent QR scanner that shows you the contents without automatically opening anything.
- Comment on You have one week to opt out or become fodder for LinkedIn AI training 3 weeks ago:
There’s no guarantee that deleting your account actually deletes your data. They will probably keep it and use it to train their AI.
- Comment on Here’s what ads on your $2,000 Samsung smart fridge will look like 3 weeks ago:
Even if the smart fridge doesn’t become enshittified, the smart features will likely become obsolete long before the fridge its self is worn out. Just try using a phone or tablet that’s 10-15 years old. It probably won’t be able to open an https website, let alone install new apps.
- Comment on Here’s what ads on your $2,000 Samsung smart fridge will look like 3 weeks ago:
Get a magnetic case for a tablet and stick it to the fridge. If it starts showing ads, you can take it off, put it through the wood chipper and the fridge will still work fine.
- Comment on Study Claims 4K/8K TVs Aren't Much Better Than HD To Your Eyes 3 weeks ago:
The article was about TVs, not computer monitors. Most people don’t sit nearly as close to a TV as they do a monitor.
- Comment on Its a solar powered phone / webserver! Made from a pixel 6a, solar panel, and hopes/dreams. 3 weeks ago:
That hasn’t stopped the addresses from changing on any of the devices I’ve tried it on.
