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by jsjohnst 6y ago
> Only a die-shot, it's disappointing that there's no comment or explanation. A die shot that Apple themselves showed at the event. Which has had the same level of annotations previously by Anantech. Sure, the DFR in early 2021
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by jsjohnst 6y ago
I’m not seeing them in stock with the sellers I usually buy from, but here is a 4 pack for $4.39 including shipping from China ($2.09 from US, but not free shipping): https://m.aliexpress.com/item/4000066002225.html
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by jsjohnst 6y ago
I’ve picked up used gear on eBay and also from office liquidators and had good success going that route. Yes, you don’t get warranty coverage then, but I typically buy a backup just in case. Yes, you will pay 5x the price per port even used
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by jsjohnst 6y ago
> 10Gbe copper requires fast switching and more shielding That depends greatly on your cable length. A 50ft run (about the distance commonly found from switch to device in an average home) will _easily_ operate trouble free and full spee
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by jsjohnst 6y ago
> hopefully there's growing discontent at this old old old 1Gbit, & also meh 2.5Gbit ethernet Nobody is stopping you from going all in with 40GbE. It can be done over twisted pair copper even if you are so inclined, but I prefer
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by jsjohnst 6y ago
> Handoff is handled by the client, not the AP. For virtually all consumer grade gear, that’s definitely true. That isn’t exactly true if you are using enterprise grade hardware.
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by jsjohnst 6y ago
If you are willing to wait on them, you can get 5 packs of 9g servos for $2 including shipping from China.
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by jsjohnst 6y ago
Did you consider using servos vs electromagnets? Curious if small servos couldn’t accomplish the same goal.
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by jsjohnst 6y ago
> I have a bias against bad products like the 2016-2019 era macbooks which were dreadful. Your biased opinion. My biased opinion? I can’t stand the pre-2016 MBPs anymore, and the keyboard is a major reason. Yes, I love the 2016 and lat
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by jsjohnst 6y ago
> AMD has made a surprisingly quick move from the bargain basement laptops I specifically called out niche as not a negative term for this reason. I didn’t mean to imply bargain basement, but more that high end processors like this would
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by jsjohnst 6y ago
I know it exists, I was just using the words used by the author I was replying too. How does that change the point I was making?
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by jsjohnst 6y ago
The PoE Hats are $15-30 on Amazon. That makes the most expensive one 30% of the price of a Pi4 8gb.
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by jsjohnst 6y ago
> The M1 competitor with similar thermals, close IPC per core, and on board GPU is widly rumored to be announced in Jan at CES. Ok, so what you’re saying is that AMD is wildly rumored to have a processor that you might be able to find as
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by jsjohnst 6y ago
I’ve seen the same thread (and commented in it). I stand behind the statement I made there (and here in the past), it’s very likely one of two issues 1) specific monitor and connection method combinations have issues 2) manufacturing defect
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by jsjohnst 6y ago
> This laptop had quite a bit of overheating issues to the point you can't even drive all the monitors it says it supports on the spec sheet off the iGPU anywhere close to comfortably. Also, which laptop is this claim in reference t
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by jsjohnst 6y ago
> I've got a stacked 64Gb Dell XPS 5550 and an ass end M1 MacBook Air. I'd rather use the Air any day. I’ve got a 12 core 3.3ghz Xeon Mac Pro w/ 256gb RAM and a max spec 13” M1 MacBook Pro. Like you, I’d rather use the M1
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by jsjohnst 6y ago
I’m not going to continue doing your laptop buyers homework for you, but I just checked the T480 spec sheet[0]: weight/screensize ratio: .25lb/in Screensize/bodysize: 86.9% So definitely not way ahead either, actually behind
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by jsjohnst 6y ago
> The screensize/weight ratio, the screensize/body size ratio Based on HN comments, one of the most popular non-Apple laptops seems to be the Dell XPS. XPS: via https://downloads.dell.com/manuals/all-produc
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by jsjohnst 6y ago
Can you run a container of Windows on an x86 machine? The answer is no, and for the same reason it won’t work on ARM. A “container” is not a virtual machine, you can only run the same Linux executables you would on a normal Linux system. T
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by jsjohnst 6y ago
> it doesn't run an init or normal system daemons There’s no technical limitation stopping you from running init or system daemons inside a container, it’s just an anti-pattern and missing the point of a container in most cases.
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by jsjohnst 6y ago
> I don't want to be _too_ pedantic but the M1 macbooks are significantly cheaper than their Intel counterparts. The M1 MBP is about 15% cheaper, which I guess might be significant to some, but isn’t a huge selling point to me like
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by jsjohnst 6y ago
I agree the mounts have been mostly reverse engineered, but that doesn’t detract from my point (which I might not have done a good job of articulating). The point I was trying to make is that each mount has different focal characteristics w
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by jsjohnst 6y ago
> For example, it would be trivial to adapt the camera to literally any mount, from EF to E to G and so on, which in and of itself is completely disruptive. That’s a bit hyperbolic, the collar isn’t the only difference between those lens
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by jsjohnst 6y ago
I’m not one who did, but I’m assuming the confrontational tone of GP is likely a cause.
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by jsjohnst 6y ago
> AFAIK a good chunk of digital camera processing is still done in ASIC/hardware I’m not authoritative on this topic, but I can’t think of a camera produced by one of the majors which isn’t mostly or entirely ASIC based for image pr
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by jsjohnst 6y ago
> The crux of the matter is that neither Amazon or Walmart or any other online or offline supermarket restricts anyone from buying a product directly from the producer / manufacture or from elsewhere. That’s not true either. Just be
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by jsjohnst 6y ago
pfSense - it only blocks known DNS over HTTPS servers, but generally all “smart” devices that use it use the publicly available servers. I log and periodically check TCP flow metadata, so I could identify new ones later.
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by jsjohnst 6y ago
Depends on your firewall, but yes you can (assuming your goal is to block those queries)
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by jsjohnst 6y ago
> Yes, it is a "bitter criticism" of Apple Exactly what I said it was > It is not a "bitter criticism" of you or your beliefs. Which I never said it was, I rather said you were replying to me with your vitriol for
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by jsjohnst 6y ago
Assuming linear scaling (which is not a good assumption), Apple would need 6x the number of GPU cores in the current M1 to get in the range of performance of the Radeon Vega II Duo.

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