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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Western Digital runs out of HDD capacity: CEO says massive AI deals secured, price surges ahead⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Eh, the market will adapt.
  I’ve been looking at components on AliExpress. Even now, there’s lots of X99-based motherboards with LGA2011-3 sockets that can take both regular DDR4 and ECC DDR4.
  But the descriptions are quite hard to understand, and they are apparently quite picky about which RAM will work with them.

  I could get a combo of that motherboard with 2 Intel Xeon E5-2680 V4 CPUs (2.4GHz, 3.3GHz turbo, 28 cores, 56 threads in total) (hey, a dual CPU motherboard) for €120. And it’s got 8 RAM slots. So 32GB just with cheap 4GB sticks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Home renovations⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Did you mean kV? I don’t know if 40kHz is high enough, but I know at some point it doesn’t even shock anymore, just burns. Hence you can take a screwdriver in your hand, and get it close to high frequency Tesla coil / slayer exciter circuit (not that I know the difference) and have it flow through you no problem, just if you touch the spark directly it burns.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨noo not the cashier⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Self checkout, makes more sense. In some places you have to scan the ticket to open a gate so that you can leave.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨64GB of DDR5 RAM now costs more than a MacBook Air - memory prices have surged 300% in just six months⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Wait what? I still remembered it as a recent console…

  I feel like my brain is stuck. When I think of most powerful GPU, my brain’s muscle memory replies with 1080 Ti.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you are not in a tech field, what got you into self-hosting?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  As a student, most things are more interesting than studying.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why ‘deleted’ doesn’t mean gone: How police recovered Nancy Guthrie’s doorbell footage⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  They really do just look like a cartel: youtu.be/EG7bqoDJ9L4

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows 11 is finally killing off legacy printer drivers in 2026 — and it’s going to shake up a lot of older hardware⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Except that

  1. The driver disc from archive.org still works just fine
  2. I do use Linux, and it “just works” there, except for high DPI

  So if I want to use high DPI, I need Windows in VirtualBox.
  By the way, the high DPI mode takes 20 minutes to print one A4 page. But the result is really damn sharp, almost like a laser printer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows 11 is finally killing off legacy printer drivers in 2026 — and it’s going to shake up a lot of older hardware⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve got HP PSC 1315. When I tried it with Windows 11, it said it couldn’t find drivers, and to use manufacturer’s website.
  Le HP

  Installing Your Printer Driver Using the Windows Built-in Solution Install the HP Printer Driver and Software provided within your operating system.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What type of laptop do you recommend for simply browsing the internet?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know if other distros have that too, but Ubuntu and Mint have a nice graphical driver manager. Really simplified things when I used Nvidia GPU and Realtek WiFi card. Just click to install, restart, there you go.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What type of laptop do you recommend for simply browsing the internet?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  First I’ll address “less addicting”:
  Short form media (e.g. YouTube shorts and TikTok) combined with notifications from everything that is fighting for your attention at all times. Mobile apps are specifically made to be addicting, whether it is just another 30 second vertical video, game with daily sign-in bonus or Amazon app telling you that you’re ugly (“You haven’t purchased any beauty products yet”)

  Ease of use, typically you have Windows pre-installed. Not my choice of OS, but nevertheless a “just works” experience.
  Phone is going to do plenty of tracking.
  Phone is going to need an account (to use Play Store).
  And when speaking of web browsing, you get a physical keyboard to type comments/posts. If you want to watch movies, you get a larger screen, ditto if you just want to read articles.
  When you open a website, you get the website, not some limited interface prompting you to install 200th app that just ends up being a web UI anyway.
  When you open up multiple things, you can nicely have multiple tabs and windows. And they won’t get closed just because you opened the calculator or locked the screen and now the browser got optimized to save battery (hopefully you copied whatever you were typing to clipboard).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What type of laptop do you recommend for simply browsing the internet?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  mobile is way more simple to use and less addicting.

  Is this sarcasm or not?
  I am actually asking.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Hey now, that also works for the region of penile frenulum.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I received a used product that was advertised as functional, but is defective, and now I feel bad about talking to the seller about it⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Or perhaps worse (like paying extra money or installing provided malware (at least seems like it based on VirusTotal)).

  I’ve checked the official guides. They’re awful as hell. They use some random programs, which are provided on there as exe files. Considering that the one I checked makes VirusTotal blink like a Christmas tree, they’re probably not good. Mind you, the card was still taped in with warranty void sticker.

  For restoring the image, they provide disk images as .pmf files, which I have trouble finding information about.

  They also talk about file access over SMB and SFTP. All is well, except that they show you to log into your router to find the device’s IP address to connect to it. Meanwhile, it responds to mDNS for emuelec.local. They don’t even know their own products? Right, they just copied FOSS software and sold it.

  Worst part now. The provided software to browse the SD card will mount it read only. As people report in YouTube comments, they had to pay for a license to mount it read-write and modify configs as the official guides follow.
  Guess what that is doing.
  Mounting ext4 on Windows. That’s it. Paying money to use ext4.

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• I received a used product that was advertised as functional, but is defective, and now I feel bad about talking to the seller about it
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you have one, how much do you pay for a domain name? Any cheap registrar recommendations?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  From a deal on racknerdtracker.com (so RackNerd as the name suggests).
  But their panel is a bit limited. If you want a custom OS that isn’t provided, you have to open a ticket with them to get an ISO mounted. You can also boot into recovery environment, but that is outdated minimal installation of Debian 9 without working APT. I was still able to use it to install Arch Linux from bootstrap image though. I just had to decompress it on my PC, create a temporary partition for it and scp it over.

  And I am again mentioning Arch. It comes naturally.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you have one, how much do you pay for a domain name? Any cheap registrar recommendations?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  racknerdtracker.com keeps all the deals that don’t expire.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you have one, how much do you pay for a domain name? Any cheap registrar recommendations?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not at all. And that’s without whois privacy.
  .com .net .org .us .me are $24.95/year
  .meme is $24.99/year
  .io is whopping $69.00/year

• If you have one, how much do you pay for a domain name? Any cheap registrar recommendations?
  Submitted ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩ to ⁨selfhosted@lemmy.world⁩ | ⁨98⁩ ⁨comments⁩
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft gave FBI a set of BitLocker encryption keys to unlock suspects' laptops: Reports | TechCrunch⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  cupholder.exe

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft gave FBI a set of BitLocker encryption keys to unlock suspects' laptops: Reports | TechCrunch⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sorry, but the argument above was for a regular user, who doesn’t know what Rufus is, who doesn’t know the concept of OS, who simply knows thinks the files are saved “on the computer” (while they somehow ended up on OneDrive).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨if portals are invented, will I be able to eat out myself?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I said personal experience. It could be individual.

  But I am not flexible enough.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨if portals are invented, will I be able to eat out myself?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Still, that’s just a theory, needs confirmation by personal experience.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨aspirations⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I like Open Camera. Also let’s me select audio source, and there’s “unprocessed option”. Usually needs tune up with audacity to increase volume, but my phone’s audio processing sounds like 8kbps MP3.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Take the L 🐟⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You are both wrong. The salmon is silent, because it’s a fish.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨aspirations⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The picture often looks better in viewfinder than when I finally snap it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨RAM shortage chaos expands to GPUs, high-capacity SSDs, and even hard drives⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  *Okey dookie

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Learning Japanese⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Nemecko
  Nemý

  Never realized that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What if the Internet Goes Down? - 15 Jan, 7PM CET⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What about more extreme cases, say Castaway (movie) type situation. Stranded on an island in middle of nowhere.

  But conveniently, one of the packaged has a functional 2m battery powered radio and a Yagi too. There’s no one you can make contact with, except… the ISS.
  What if the ISS was the only station you could contact?
  “Hello International Space Station, I am stranded on an island after a plane crash. Can you help?”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What if the Internet Goes Down? - 15 Jan, 7PM CET⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Free Starlink during disasters for everyone, but surveilence child protection and anti-terrorism you must accept X as a Certificate Authority.