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- Comment on Microsoft kills official way to activate windows without internet 1 hour ago:
Well, I’ve never done it because it’s not part of my tasks, but for example industrial PCs used for SCADA usually run Windows, and they are never allowed on the internet, so…
- Comment on Counterintuitively, I did this to eliminate the need for supports 2 hours ago:
I know I’m not going to run the old one anymore, it’s more hassle than it’s worth, and it’s slow. But I’d like to keep it.
- Comment on If the Bond franchise hadn't been sold to Amazon, it was possible we could have seen a movie with the US as the bad guy. 2 days ago:
And there’s another (real!) American fighting them
- Comment on Counterintuitively, I did this to eliminate the need for supports 3 days ago:
I’ve got newer printers as well, but I just can’t get rid of the old girl
- Comment on Counterintuitively, I did this to eliminate the need for supports 3 days ago:
Old geezers unite
- Comment on Switching out most of the toolhead stack on a Voron 2.4, anybody know if these options work together? 3 days ago:
Idk over a year ago. They released a new firmware but it doesn’t work so they advise using the previous one. Yeah not a great look, but well, lately it’s been behaving.
And no, beacon doesn’t do CANBus, that’s why the next build will also sport a nitehawk, probably on an Anthead.
- Comment on Counterintuitively, I did this to eliminate the need for supports 3 days ago:
Folger
- Comment on Switching out most of the toolhead stack on a Voron 2.4, anybody know if these options work together? 3 days ago:
It does, I have a carto on stealthburner, you have to reprint the carriage, another option is to use carto’s CNC carriage, which I’ve heard is good.
I’m not super happy with the carto to be honest, I originally had many problems and destroyed 2 expensive printing plates. Seems to have stabilized now, but I’ve bought a beacon for my next build.
- Comment on A post-American, enshittification-resistant internet (39C3) 4 days ago:
If only our politicians had more than 3 neurons and could focus them on the common good instead of their own greed
- Comment on Nvidia GeForce Now’s Time Limit Will Stop Gamers After 100 Hours Each Month 1 week ago:
IIRC it used to be 50 hours. Most people don’t hit that.
Adding this limit doesn’t make sense then. Why anger your customers for minimum benefit?
- Comment on The invention of smartphones probably made the idea of international travel less intimidating since you now have a pocket translator tool and can find your way in a foreign place with GPS navigation. 1 week ago:
Yeah the problem came with verbal communication, you can’t transcribe a language you don’t understand, and good luck getting a stranger to type sentences on your smartphone (at a time when most people didn’t have one), you mostly got garbage translations. When speech-to-text got good enough for on the spot translation, that was a game changer, but that had to be around 2015 or something.
That’s assuming you had a connection at all, at the time you paid for connection DURATION, not traffic, so you were offline most of the time. And roaming data had impossible costs.
- Comment on The invention of smartphones probably made the idea of international travel less intimidating since you now have a pocket translator tool and can find your way in a foreign place with GPS navigation. 1 week ago:
Americans for a time were made fun of for their terrible cellphones, so yeah
- Comment on Why Katy Perry is using a sexualized version of the Romulan uniform? 2 weeks ago:
rocket tits, never out of fashion
- Comment on Denmark wants to ban VPNs to unlock foreign, illegal streams – and experts are worried 2 weeks ago:
All company VPNs I’ve used limit the tunnel to the intranet, the internet doesn’t go through there. But that’s a matter of choice I guess.
- Comment on A story-rich open-world FPS with Max Payne and Cyberpunk 2077 vibes? All right, you have my attention, No Law 3 weeks ago:
I mean, he could be a milkshake veteran that’s formerly military
- Comment on Marco Rubio bans Calibri font at State Department for being too DEI 3 weeks ago:
Times New Roman is disgusting
- Comment on 'Huge respect to the folks at Obsidian': Todd Howard invited Obsidian devs onto Fallout season 2's set so they could see New Vegas in the flesh 4 weeks ago:
My opinion is that only 2 Fallout games were made: Fallout 1 and Fallout 2.
Fight me.
- Comment on Filament splicing? Do any of you guys do it? 4 weeks ago:
MMU units like the ERCF allow you to use a functionality called "endless spool, which detects spool run-outs and automatically switches to another spool in the same group.
You still waste some filament, to be precise the length from the MMU unit inlet gates to the extruder, but whatever. - Comment on Don't throw away your old PC—it makes a better NAS than anything you can buy 4 weeks ago:
The host is running Proxmox, so I guess their kernel just works with it.
It does run the fan way more than I’d like, but its noise is drowned out by the original AMD cooler on the CPU anyway, but thanks for the info, I may look into it… But I guess I’d have to set up GPU pass-through on a VM just for that.
- Comment on Don't throw away your old PC—it makes a better NAS than anything you can buy 4 weeks ago:
Drivers? Are you running it on Windows? On Linux I just plugged it in and it worked, Jellyfin transparently started transcoding the additional codecs.
It fixed my issue with tone mapping, before this HDR files on my not-so-old TV showed the wrong colors.
- Comment on same shit every day, on god 4 weeks ago:
Eh, we’re still moving electrons around in wires like Faraday did in the 1800s!
- Comment on same shit every day, on god 4 weeks ago:
If it’s possible at all
- Comment on Don't throw away your old PC—it makes a better NAS than anything you can buy 4 weeks ago:
I think we need to qualify “idling”, my NAS runs bittorrent with thousands of torrents, so it’s never really “idle”, it just isn’t always doing intensive processing such as transcoding.
- Comment on Don't throw away your old PC—it makes a better NAS than anything you can buy 4 weeks ago:
Eh, TBH I’d like to consume less power, but I mean, a 30-40W difference isn’t going to ruin me or the planet, I’ve got a rather efficient home all in all.
- Comment on Don't throw away your old PC—it makes a better NAS than anything you can buy 4 weeks ago:
And more freedom.
- Comment on Don't throw away your old PC—it makes a better NAS than anything you can buy 4 weeks ago:
I think you can install OpenMediaVault on that, at least I used to run it on a Pi 3 and an USB drive. Then just run whatever docker container you wish to.
- Comment on Don't throw away your old PC—it makes a better NAS than anything you can buy 4 weeks ago:
as long as you drop the video card
As I wrote below, some motherboards won’t POST without a GPU.
Take only that extra and you probably have a few years usage before additional electricty costs overrun NAS cost. Where I live that’s around 5 years for an estimated extra 10W.
Yeah, and what’s more, if one of those appliance-like NASes breaks down, how do you fix it? With a normal PC you just swap out the defective part.
- Comment on Don't throw away your old PC—it makes a better NAS than anything you can buy 4 weeks ago:
So I did this, using a Ryzen 3600, with some light tweaking the base system burns about 40-50W idle. The drives add a lot, 5-10W each, but they would go into any NAS system, so that’s irrelevant. I had to add a GPU because the MB I had wouldn’t POST without one, so that increases the power draw a little, but it’s also necessary for proper Jellyfin transcoding. I recently swapped the GPU for an Intel ARC A310.
By comparison, the previous system I used for this had a low-power, fanless intel celeron, with a single drive and two SSDs it drew about 30W.
- Comment on Criminal court ditches American software giant– Can Dutch universities do without Microsoft? 5 weeks ago:
The article is talking about officeware, so documents, file sharing, chat and e-mail. My comment was about documents specifically. I’m sorry if your work is frustrating, but as a non-academic, what am I supposed to do, except vote for candidates that promote education? That’s been my priority from when I was old enough to cast a ballot.
Your university’s leadership failed you in the decades before today when they went for closed-source, foreign-controlled options. I cannot describe the stupidity of hosting research data on American services, a choice that to me points either to stupidity or bad faith.But the crux is still this: the best time to switch was the previous 30 years, the second best is now. Saying “we can’t do it!!” only lets the tumor grow and grow. Nobody’s expecting change overnight, what should be expected, though, is action.
- Comment on mmm... tastes like chimkin 5 weeks ago:
Idk what’s that in the picture, but it’s not a horse
