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• ⁨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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Eh, we’re still moving electrons around in wires like Faraday did in the 1800s!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨same shit every day, on god⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  And more freedom.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Don't throw away your old PC—it makes a better NAS than anything you can buy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Idk what’s that in the picture, but it’s not a horse

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Criminal court ditches American software giant– Can Dutch universities do without Microsoft?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  No no, it’s literally that easy. When you do your taxes, do you do them your way, or the way your government requires you to? Why? There, that’s your answer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Criminal court ditches American software giant– Can Dutch universities do without Microsoft?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Require all submitted documents to be either odf or pdf.

  Done.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A Vibe Coded SaaS Killed My Team⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Pro enough to be one of the last employees remaining, but not pro enough to find new employment sooner?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Work out girl.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  She isn’t, but she does her best to put up a smile for others

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An entire PS5 now costs less than 64GB of DDR5 memory, even after a discount — simple memory kit jumps to $600 due to DRAM shortage, and it's expected to get worse into 2026⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not really, shortage in one category spills over to the next ones as well

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Thing is, I can also NOT play games and spend my money on other hobbies.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Equivalent doesn’t mean much when it’s not a standard, upgradable PC. This device competes with consoles, not desktop PCs, and needs to be in that price bracket, as the equivalence is not on the hardware or performance, but just “can it play current-gen games?”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Fair pricing means a reasonable profit on the base cost. Trying to gauge what people are willing to pay means that you want to maximise your profit at all costs, consumers be damned.

  I understand that’s what Americans consider “fair”, but I don’t fully agree.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Frustrated users crowdfund a $2,000 fix for Lenovo Legion ‘speakers not working properly’ error — bug bounty posted, coder wins the cash by fixing complex audio annoyance in just a month⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  First of all, it says it took a month of time from when he posted the initial bounty, not a month of labour… Maybe it took less. Anyway if someone has this sort of skills, they should make good money anywhere.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They’re letting us discuss this ad nauseam just to understand what prices people consider acceptable for these devices

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reuse old security system⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The sensors should still be usable, there should be a main control board they’re all wired to, you’d have to replace that and the keypads.

  There’s also Konnected, if you have Home Assistant.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Every new Mass Effect playthrough since the first⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My Shepard was celibate, can’t waste time on romance when you’ve got:

  • A galaxy to save
  • Garrus’ calibrations to review
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cloudflare is down this morning ⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  NAT may be insecure but it keeps chugging on

• ⁨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."⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Connect it to a spare access point, create a custom filtering rule on the router…

• ⁨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."⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Weird, must be regional

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Own domain for Jellyfin and privacy concerns⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Whenever I create a redirection on my domain it’s always instantaneous, but it still warns me that “DNS records may take up to 24h to propagate”