MrFoof

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by MrFoof 3y ago
I’m still waiting after 7 weeks for a refund from Mouser. I ended up escalating to my business’s credit card issuer. Ordered a $120 cable in which both vendors had recommended. It wasn’t what was required, so sent it back as an RMA, in al
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by MrFoof 3y ago
Our family TV growing up was a Heathkit. Somewhere in the 20-25” range, with a (wired) remote control. My father built his way up to it. They kept it around for over 25 years. The reality is if anything went wrong with it, my father stil
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by MrFoof 3y ago
Live in New England. Home I grew up in (built in the late 70s) had one. All but one apartment I've lived in had one -- including this one, which was built in the late 1920s.
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by MrFoof 3y ago
>And IKEA stuff costs a lot less than 1/3 of finished solid wood furniture. To put things into perspective, I ordered a desk from a local company. I had a lot of customization options, but basically I wanted a 60 x 30" top.
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by MrFoof 3y ago
I think my parents realized when they were adults (late 20s, early 30s) is that games had staying power and were potentially evergreen entertainment. They could see it was more than a fad, especially when N years later their kids are pla
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by MrFoof 3y ago
My father turns 74 this year. He still will very proudly 100% a Legend of Zelda title without looking up an FAQ. The whole reason I play video games is because my parents did. Some of my earliest memories was being crammed on the couch wi
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by MrFoof 3y ago
Listen to the answer to the question, "How long until our game installs take up 500 gigabytes of space" : https://youtu.be/tmfHxJT1I3I?t=7152s The reality is a game has increasingly more content nowadays. Rememb
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by MrFoof 3y ago
The Moore's Law is Dead podcast recently did a podcast with an Infinity Ward award-winning effects artist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmfHxJT1I3I . The crazy thing he mentioned is that if there was zero compression
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by MrFoof 3y ago
Again, I disabled IPv4 purely for testing reasons , to guarantee nothing was using IPv4 without me knowing it. There’s no reason to actually disable IPv4 as a fallback. Over 99.999% of traffic through my home network is IPv6 now. The tin
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by MrFoof 3y ago
Discord calls on Windows was the only exception I ran into, because as you found yourself, it functionally had to fallback on DNS64. In general, some peer-to-peer situations are the likely one of the few cases where it will end up fallin
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by MrFoof 3y ago
Especially when the reality is… you can almost go IPv6 only nowadays if you wanted to. I went down the rabbit hole recently, switching my network to IPv6 primary with IPv4 as the fallback. The ultimate test was disabling IPv4 for a weeke
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by MrFoof 3y ago
Depending on where you live, it very well may be coal. Have a friend in Kentucky who pays about $0.105/kWh, but 70% of his electricity is coal powered.
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by MrFoof 3y ago
For CA, depends very much on where you are. $0.47 is not the highest in CA, nor in the continental US. Here in Boston, my rate is $0.14479/Kwh for delivery with a $0.33891/kWh supply charge, or $0.4837 per kWh. Yep, higher tha
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by MrFoof 3y ago
To be fair, I was talking really about enterprise, where the bulk of HDD sales still are -- especially in any meaningful capacity. Moreover, enterprise is where tape lives. HDDs are quickly Falling off in the consumer space because SSDs ar
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by MrFoof 3y ago
Yep, though it depends on the use case. If you want truly cold storage that's super rarely accessed, LTO tape is really hard to beat on $/TB!
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by MrFoof 3y ago
HDD still has a point, but as SSD prices diminish, we'll continue to see it drop off. One of the main reasons is density. You can put 32 E1.S EDSFF SSDs in a single rack unit fairly commonly nowadays. It wouldn't surprise me if
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by MrFoof 4y ago
This is pretty much it. Tesla's share isn't increasing, but it's roughly maintaining the size of its slice in a larger pie.
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by MrFoof 4y ago
It also doesn't prevent some TVs from finding access points it can connect to, in which it then will entirely on its own. There's quite a few that'll do that.
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by MrFoof 4y ago
The reality is WD My Cloud was breached yet again: https://www.pcworld.com/article/1681254/western-digitals-my-...
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by MrFoof 4y ago
Moreover, at least last time I played around with it on reasonable hardware (3rd gen EPYC) , your first real limitation is your operating systems’ IO scheduler, not the hardware — at least on a “single node.” At least a year and change ag
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by MrFoof 4y ago
So the reality with a lot of the mass market fast food like McDonald’s is there’s functionally two ways to look at it: You use the app for deals, and any coupons from circulars you get via mail, and buy only what’s a great deal. Or you get
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by MrFoof 4y ago
So digging in, the issue is I misspoke here, and I may also have not linked to the correct video. It had nothing to do with coal. Instead I believe it was the proportion of CO2 emissions for the area he's in, relative to other parts o
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by MrFoof 4y ago
The salesman could very well be correct. The reality is the numbers are incredibly contextual relative to specifically where you live. A great example of this exercise was Harry Metcalfe actually doing the digging and the math to attempt to
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by MrFoof 4y ago
In 2008 I moved into my first apartment with a proper air-to-water heat pump. Granted, the place clearly also had a smart architect, and was built to very high efficiency standards (was rated LEED Platinum). It was installed in a small vo
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by MrFoof 4y ago
Apparently it looks like DietPi — the primary lightweight distribution I use on my Pi Cluster — looks to be regularly creating images for the Orange Pi now, as well as tons of other Radxa boards, and RockChip SBC boards in general. Definite
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by MrFoof 4y ago
Personally I've standardized on "DietPi" which is functionally a super-stripped down Debian.
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by MrFoof 4y ago
It's always good to hear about support, as more options are never a bad thing. I've been a fan of ultra-SFF computers since the original Mac Mini, and SBCs are just an extension of that. If you're shrewd and smart about how
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by MrFoof 4y ago
Boston in general has always had the 128 loop containing a fair number of companies. Especially prior to the Big Dig, where congestion in and directly around the city was beyond heinous. DEC never really was in Boston, but QUITE a ways
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by MrFoof 4y ago
Strongly agree here. Local SD storage IO aside, a Pi 4B 8GB is basically on par with a high end desktop I had in the mid-2000s. That’s an insane amount of compute on something that can be sub-2W over POE, or 1.3W on WiFi. Though for all
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by MrFoof 4y ago
Forgot the memory. * Four Kingston 32GB DDR4-3200 CL22 2Rx8 ECC Unubffered Memory (KSM32ED8/32ME )

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