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by giobox 4mo ago
Yet to encounter this side effect. So far every crappy wifi device I've tried has obliged.
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by giobox 4mo ago
> In the UK, the equivalent tax on housing is council tax Council tax is difficult to compare to a percentage based property tax - the band based system means people in super valuable homes pay virtually nothing, at least relative to the
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by giobox 4mo ago
Not sure how widely available this feature is, but the unifi controller software for the popular Ubiquiti APs lets you bind individual client devices to specific APs such that they can only connect to the ones you choose. I had to solve a s
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by giobox 4mo ago
> Smalltalk's syntax never go really popular though. One could say that was its biggest drawback. A lot of Smalltalk-style syntax was absolutely massive for a decade or so you could argue, at least under the guise of the gazillions
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by giobox 4mo ago
Ain't just me who thinks it looks like an Asian EV: > https://www.euronews.com/next/2026/05/26/ferraris-550000-ele... > https://nypost.com/2026/05/26/business&#x
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by giobox 4mo ago
The exterior screams asian-EV design langauge to me - which may not be an accident. Ferrari have made no secret of their hopes this car will succeed for them in China. > https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2
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by giobox 5mo ago
One such extension, https://www.tuxlervpn.com/faq/ : > Will other users of tuxlerVPN be able to connect using my IP address? "When you use our free residential VPN, you automatically agree to add your IP address
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by giobox 5mo ago
I sometimes feel like the whole industry forgot the entire mainframe vs the desktop battle that birthed the PC industry when we discuss AI. Moore's law, even if it has had the occasional slow down or hiccup, always wins over time. 128g
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by giobox 5mo ago
This field already is alive and well in the gaming community. Games companies are notorious for not spending money on keeping their old code around, which is why it's been at the forefront of digital archaeology efforts a lot of the ti
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by giobox 5mo ago
There was the 2007 spike following the Windows Vista release when a huge chunk of the corporate market had to buy new machines, there was also the Hynix fire in 2013, to pick a few recent ones. The 2007 spike was pretty rapidly killed by th
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by giobox 5mo ago
For older hacker news readers who have lived through multiple RAM price spikes - it has held true for decades so far. Making memory is one of the most vicious tech markets to compete in.
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by giobox 5mo ago
> Plex is dead simple to setup (minus maybe GPU passthrough to a container) Even the GPU passthrough is simple these days in Docker. For 99 percent of people its one extra line in a Docker compose file or one extra arg passed to docker r
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by giobox 5mo ago
Dual gigabit ethernet + even 6ghz wifi means this will likely work nicely as a travel router, which would mean I might actually carry it. There are a whole bunch of portable server use cases this opens up especially as it seems to have a bi
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by giobox 5mo ago
Not on the free version since last year, when they introduced the changes to make remote access a chargeable feature: > https://support.plex.tv/articles/200430283-network/ "Tip!: This feature requires an a
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by giobox 5mo ago
This is now a feature toggle hidden behind a PlexPass sub, you used to be able to do this on the free version until the changes in 2025 to make remote access a chargeable feature. > https://support.plex.tv/articles/2
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by giobox 5mo ago
It's been death by many cuts for me with Plex. This follows the recent change where if a device on your network is not in the same IP range (say you have some clients on 192.168.1.x and some on 192.168.2.x, but on same subnet), Plex co
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by giobox 5mo ago
> Some run paper dealership plates which I guess don't need to have any license number on them at all, just the dealer logo In California, isn't this just a normal person buying a new car? If bought from a dealership lot, a new
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by giobox 5mo ago
> A KVM that can handle 4K 144hz VRR is... not cheap, if available at all It's supported by the relatively old HDMI 2.1/DisplayPort 1.4 standards - it shouldn't be that hard to find a KVM that can do this.
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by giobox 5mo ago
The 554 RTSP restream thing is something I see a lot in badly configured NVR setups. Many NVRs are configured to restream the cameras they watch, the idea being that only the NVR watches the camera's feeds directly to reduce the CPU lo
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by giobox 5mo ago
> I guess at some point we will have lawyers, attorneys and judges using this stuff We are already well beyond this point. Look already at the number of cases around the world where lawyers have provided documents to the court with hallu
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by giobox 5mo ago
> They are rarely seen in the city Rats and mice are ridiculously common in central Glasgow, its plagued the city for years to the point many argue its a public health crisis. While sure the suburbs might be better, I've never once
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by giobox 5mo ago
Remarkable, I had absolutely no idea I could do this in my state. I suspect this post is going to cause a spike in applications as folks like me discover we can have one for free.
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by giobox 5mo ago
Anecdotally, it feels like something materially changed in the US software hiring market at the start of this year to me. It feels like more and more businesses are taking a wait and see approach to avoid over-investing in human capital in
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by giobox 5mo ago
> they don't have a used by date For quite a lot of use cases, the current systems arguably do get worse over time if not continually updated. The knowledge cutoff date will start to hurt more and more as the weights age in a hypoth
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by giobox 5mo ago
In the good old days a decade or so ago where the full fat Pi board was always 35 dollars and the zero was just 5, they were so cheap as to be practically disposable. I have an insane number of Pi 3/4 and Zero/ZeroW boards in proj
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by giobox 5mo ago
Publicly announced succession plans happen fairly regularly, especially for a company as stable as Valve. Tim Cook is 65 and just did so for Apple. The announcement of Ternus was hardly a bolt from the blue, either. Gabe is 63, and there is
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by giobox 5mo ago
I really wish the company would talk more about the post-Gabe transition, or at least begin to give us a rough indication of where the company plans to go. Those of us who have been customers over 20 years often have a pretty significant in
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by giobox 5mo ago
> dpeends on the car Of course, thats why I've been clear all my assumptions are for 260wh/mi, which I think is a very fair middle ground figure to compare to a 35mpg car - one can pick far more fuel efficient gas cars for this
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by giobox 5mo ago
This isn't as big an advantage as you might think, as a huge number of US homes have 240v sockets to power the clothes dryer: > https://getneocharge.com/a/blog/identifying-your-240v-dryer-... Almost everyo
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by giobox 5mo ago
At some stage I wonder if the UK will need to regulate the charger industry. The price gouging is wild in places. If we look at the energy content of petrol, a litre of gas contains about 9kwh of energy, or at average pump prices 1.58/

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