cmnybo

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨RAM prices soar, but popular Windows 11 apps are using more RAM due to Electron, Web components⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, it runs a separate browser instance for each electron program. Many of the programs that use it could just be a PWA instead.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the security situation when opening a jellyfin server up for casting?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, if you have IPv6, you can open a port in the firewall and have external access. Whatever you are accessing it from must have IPv6 as well though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When a video codec wins an Emmy | The Mozilla Blog⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  No, but I don’t want to wait a day or more for a movie to encode either.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When a video codec wins an Emmy | The Mozilla Blog⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Hopefully they will fix the encode speed with AV2. You need a super computer to encode AV1 in a reasonable amount of time. H.265 is significantly faster for a similar quality.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The tech world is sleeping on the most exciting Bluetooth feature in years⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  TLDR: The ability to receive audio broadcasts without having to pair.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon’s dynamic pricing is causing chaos for school budgets⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Wow, that’s a bigger ripoff than Grainger. At least they give discounts for business accounts that spend a lot.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LED Display for SBC⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Are you looking for a 7 segment display? A lot of people build those with LED strips and 3D printed parts. You can often find large 7 segment LED displays on ebay or aliexpress too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨RAM is so expensive, Samsung won't even sell it to Samsung⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  No, some of them are running generators on site to get more power.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Russia bans Roblox over child safety fears⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Good, it should be banned or restricted to 18+ everywhere until they start moderating appropriately. It’s absolutely not suitable for children.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Options for remote Wake-on-lan. Or I guess wake on WAN.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Use SSH. Ether open a port in the firewall or connect it to a VPN. If the backups are done on a schedule, you could also setup a cron job on the Pi to send the WoL packet a few minutes ahead of time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Options for remote Wake-on-lan. Or I guess wake on WAN.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You could use a very low power computer that’s always on like a Raspberry PI Zero W to send the WoL packet to the backup computer. It only uses about 1 watt. Some routers have the ability to send a WoL packet as well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Unofficial IETF draft calls for grant of five nonillion IPv6 addresses to ham radio operators⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It would be nice to have a dedicated block of IPv6 addresses for ham radio, but why a /16? That’s 4 billion /48 networks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft “Improved” Notepad. I Un-Improved It. - Dave's Garage⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  There are plenty of good FOSS text editors out there. I certainly don’t want to use one that was barfed up by an AI.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Filament splicing? Do any of you guys do it?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Small pieces of filament are good for a 3D pen if you have one. Splicing filament isn’t really worth the effort just to use up such a small amount of filament.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Samsung reveals first tri-fold phone⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Nice, it has twice as many failure points as previous folding phones.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Research] At least 80 million inconsistent facts on Wikipedia – can AI help find them?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  No, but it can make things a lot worse.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Best way to browse and share files between hoarders?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  SFTP or WebDAV would work.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Don't throw away your old PC—it makes a better NAS than anything you can buy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You can slow the RAM down too. You don’t need XMP enabled if you’re just using the PC as a NAS. It can be quite power hungry.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New tech pulls lithium from dead batteries cheaper than you can buy it⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  They would have to be 21700 cells to hold 4.3AH. 18650 cells top out around 3.6AH. While it is possible to make higher capacity cells, there are some major downsides with doing so.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anubis is awesome and I want to talk aout it⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve never had any issues on my phone using Fennec or Firefox. I don’t have many addons installed apart from uBlock Origin. I wouldn’t be surprised if some privacy addons cause issues with Anubis though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can I use a steel sponge as a soldering sponge?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not good for the iron tip. You should use a brass sponge.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thank Mozilla for Killing Localization on Support Mozilla (And Replacing Human Contributions With AI Bots)⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve never seen any machine translation that I would consider anywhere near good.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Plex’s crackdown on free remote streaming access starts this week - Ars Technica⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Jellyfin is free open source software, they don’t have the money to provide free proxies to their users.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Framework stops selling separate DDR5 RAM modules to fight scalpers⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  RAM prices will come down sometime after the AI bubble bursts and they start making more DDR5 again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dead mosquito proboscis used for high-resolution 3D printing nozzle⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I hope not. Around here, you just step outside and there will be a dozen swarming around you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google's new 'Aluminium OS' project brings Android to PC: Here's what we know⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, no. If you really need to run Android apps on a PC, you can run them with Waydroid.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's a good high wattage soldering iron?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  For multi layer PCBs like motherboards, you want a PCB preheater in addition to a good soldering iron. The ground and power planes will take a lot of heat. If they are already warm, they will need less heat from the soldering iron.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨HP and Dell disable HEVC support built into their laptops’ CPUs⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.