Creat

@Creat@discuss.tchncs.de

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t buy anything by crucial, as you’ll have trouble getting a 2nd stick in the future. They are shutting down their end user business.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Options for remote Wake-on-lan. Or I guess wake on WAN.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Ssh over Internet is fine as long as it’s properly setup (no password auth, root not allowed, etc.).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I dunno⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  But the USA seems to use PEDMAS? I’m confused now…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Framework stops selling separate DDR5 RAM modules to fight scalpers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s the same with other vendors though. I man those that allow you to swap internals without losing warranty. Bought my laptop with just a 16g stick (base price/included), then bought 2x24g for the price one additional 16g module would’ve cost. And now I got a 16g module left over, too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They Made a Zip Drive.. for your TV?!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Same with normal floppy disks. Their reliability was abysmal, as was their longevity.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DFRobot router board with a CM4⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Or if you have separated your devices into subnets/VLANs. Which becomes more important as your get more hardware that you don’t really trust.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Screw it, I’m installing Linux⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I had blocked the user, might have been before writing my reply. I guess that caused it to fail to the top level, weird. Deleted the comment as it doesn’t make any sense there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Screw it, I’m installing Linux⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Might want to calculate out what the actual number is those “small” 3% represent. Or how the curve looks over time. how it changed from a mostly flat line to a very clearly and relatively steeply climbing curve.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Screw it, I’m installing Linux⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  CachyOS is basically vanilla Arch, from a resource point of view. They have their own repos, but they just mirror the arch repos. The arch wiki fully applies. For the very few special things, there is documentation (basically a few notes on gaming related performance options).

  So why use it? Carter it’s trivial to install, and everything you need is preconfigured to just work with sane defaults. Installing it is like Mint or Ubuntu. But it uses optimized repos according to your available CPU instruction set, and optimized proton and wine (their own). Games just work (even more so than they already do generally), and are faster. Programs are faster (where it matters). But you don’t need to do anything for that, it’s just there by default.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are you ready for a $1,000 Steam Machine? Some analysts think you should be.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They can’t sell this at a loss, or at least it would be incredibly risky. This is (intentionally) “just a PC”. It ships with SteamOS but you can of course install whatever you want, including windows. If it is (much) cheaper than a roughly equivalent normal PC, companies might just start buying them in bulk but obviously not generating the supporting sales needed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Using Fail2ban to protect exposed services⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Tailscale is WireGuard under the hood, if you didn’t know. It’s an overlay network that uses WireGuard to make the actual connections, and has some very clever “stuff” to get the clients actually to connect, even if behind firewalls without needing port forwarding.

  Using WireGuard directly basically just changes the app you use, which may or may not help with your issues. But the connecting technology is the exact same.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Hardware [new Steam Controller, Steam Machine, and VR headset Steam Frame, coming in 2026]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Steam is still privately owned, never went public. No share holders demanding things surely is a major factor.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Game marketing company takes down blog post bragging about how good it is at astroturfing Reddit after Reddit finds the post⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They can literally setup an instance themselves. By the time it is identified as such, the damage is basically done. Just make a new one. Or use one of the many instances not requiring approval. Or fill out the form with ai. They don’t actually need an insane number of accounts for their subterfuge. Having just “some” and keeping them tied to conversational themes/topics seems sufficient?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why aren't people harassing marketers?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I assume you mean unsolicited phone calls with this? I haven’t gotten any of those in about a decade, if not more. And those were isolated cases as well. We have laws against that sort of thing. It’s not been a problem for a very very long time (early 2000s or so).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does anyone have experience with Mumble?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d suggest looking into TeamSpeak, like others have mentioned. Trivial to self host, too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I keep waffling on Proxmox. Sell me. For or against.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  but you can do everything without it.

  yes but why would you? There’s a reason we use GUIs, especially when new to a field (like virtualization).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Aldi just launched its own £16.99 rival to Ring's battery video doorbell – and it's completely subscription-free | TechRadar⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The 3$ isn’t a component price but also retail already.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Aldi just launched its own £16.99 rival to Ring's battery video doorbell – and it's completely subscription-free | TechRadar⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The actual hardware cost of these devices is actually minimal. Basically any wifi capable microcontroller, a camera and depending on implementation some storage (or a micro sd-card holder). So that price is only cheap in comparison to existing products.

  For reference, said microcontroller with basic camera can be had for like 3$ or something.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Sodium-Ion Battery Revolution Has Started⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Sorry but the theoretical price of cells isn’t relevant to the consumer. The price of products containing them is. This thing costs currently on the official site 900€ (with some sort of sale going on). The Elite 100v2 with comparable capacity, but using LiFePo4 (included in the same current sale) costs just 550€. To add insult to injury, it also outperforms the Na model in nearly every aspect except sub-freezing performance. This includes an abysmal solar charging efficiency of roughly 50% at normal temperature. Somehow.

  Again, once the price reflects the cell cost, this could be a very attractive option. At the moment, unless you’re into camping in sun-zero climates, it’s just a very bad deal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Sodium-Ion Battery Revolution Has Started⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The thing currently costs at least 50% more than the closest equivalent LiFePo4 from the same brand. The only real advantage seems to be it’s ability to handle sub freezing temperatures, but usability still drops dramatically (both capacity and available power delivery). Everything else is straight up worse in this one in direct comparison.

  It’s only the first product, so it’ll most certainly get better. Also as numbers of products sold rise, costs fall. Once these are cheaper, that are a real choice.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Got 'em⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s level, not flat. Measuring flat-ness is a whole different complexity and ball game.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does anyone else notice an up tick in hostility on Lemmy lately?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Didn’t notice anything like this, not even slightly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hackers can steal 2FA codes and private messages from Android phones⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The attack seems similar to sidechannel attacks for CPUs, where you’d essentially read protected memory by observing side effects. Same idea but with pixels sent to the display.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DIY YouTuber builds cheap VR headset and makes it open-source⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The critical thing with these is response time. If it’s even slightly too high (I think 20-30ms is easily too high), some/many people get very motion sick. Getting that time down as low as needed is also not trivial.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨VPN Comparison 2.0⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  So then delete the row. OP, you control the spreadsheet, right?

  I can’t speak for others, but I personally appreciate the info anyway. Because I wouldn’t trust a VPN company that’s been around for like 3 months. And it allows you to judge a track record with context.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Logitech will brick its $100 Pop smart home buttons on October 15 - Ars Technica⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Mine are of course also on a VLan but with no Internet access unless they need it for everyday operation (like a radio, or the amplifier that can play Spotify).

  We don’t use the manufacturer apps at all. Everything is integrated into (fully local) home assistant. No need to open a specific app to operate a switch, or a light. Everything in one place. Trivial and incredibly clear. Things that can be are of course automated.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Logitech will brick its $100 Pop smart home buttons on October 15 - Ars Technica⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Just because it’s a “smart” service doesn’t mean it has to connect to the Internet or a server or the manufacturer. If it does neither, it can’t be turned off by them.

  All my devices run local-only protocols. Nothing leaves my house. The devices that would be proprietary were reflashed to tasmota (fully open source, local only). Others are either Zigbee or Shelly. While Shelly has a cloud connection, it’s fully optional and disabled by default (including automatic updates). The hardware is also supported by tasmota, and reflashing is always just 5 minutes of effort away.

  There is absolutely nothing that any manufacturer has to do to keep my stuff working. I have to do a little something (keep my tiny server on, basically). But more importantly there is nothing any manufacturer can do to stop my stuff from working.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Self hosted chore app⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  While it’s fantastic software, it’s probably a relative cannon to shoot at his problem. Maybe there’s a way around this, but I’ve found the necessary management, curation and bookkeeping that was necessary for it too be useful to be just way too much to be worth it. I mean it’s fun for some, including me to a degree, but not too this extent.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  UnRaid doesn’t provide anything in interested in, at all. Currently running TrueNAS for main storage and proxmox for virtualization, both ZFS based. If TrueNAS ever enshittifies, I’d run some bare metal Linux with ZFS. My workstations also win ZFS, making backups trivial. VM snapshots and backups of any system are trivial and take seconds (including network transfers).

  I never understood why I’d even consider UnRaid for anything.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google just broke *all* third-party web clients, including yt-dlp; a full JS implementation is now required.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Revanced actually is the official YouTube client, just modified on the users device before installation.