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by theodric 3y ago
Shit, I was paying 80.-/mo for Swisscom DSL @100Mb in Schwerzenbach because it was the only wireline option available. Eventually just switched to Yallo 4G at 15.-/mo, which was mostly fine.
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by theodric 3y ago
The British company hasn't abandoned anything. The Raspberry Pi 1 still has full, modern, feature-parity support in Raspberry Pi OS, eleven years after launch. But fine-- in my trash bin you'll find a Cubietruck, an Asus Tinkerb
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by theodric 3y ago
If the Pi gets replaced, Chinese trash that is abandoned in a half-working state after zero updates will replace the Pi.* Or thin clients. Dark days ahead. *like, just random example, the Radxa Rock 3 https://youtu.be/KghZIg
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by theodric 3y ago
8TB NVMe SSDs are rather expensive, and I'm running 3x 8TB SSDs in addition to 2x 2TB and a 512GB boot volume. Cost was not a major constraint on this build, but paying 1199.- vs 399.- for an 8TB SSD felt a bit comical. I also can&#x27
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by theodric 3y ago
That power footprint also includes the 6 SSDs. Are there mini PCs with 8 SATA ports that fit in a 13-17W power envelope including 6 disks?
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by theodric 3y ago
I'm with you, but I don't find the Raspberry Pi underpowered. I'm running 5 Alpine VMs and a Nextcloud snap on top of Debian on a Pi CM4 8GB, with a (now)8 port SATA controller with 6 SSDs and USB3 controller with 2 hard driv
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by theodric 3y ago
Am I the only one that thinks the EU is gonna take one look at this, determine that it's anticompetitive and completely at odds with the spirit of the law, and take a giant shit on Apple's head? I don't think governments like
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by theodric 3y ago
There are a couple of companies that still make CRTs (Google turns up Thomas and Gassler for display rather than X-ray applications), but I expect your stock options will have to have done very well to afford their services on a small scale
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by theodric 3y ago
thank you.
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by theodric 3y ago
I spent a couple grand[1] building myself an all-flash Pi CM4 NAS that I reckon will deliver RoI in ~25 years at €0.39/kWh. I did it for the sport, mainly, and because I wanted silence and minimal power draw. It works pretty well, thou
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by theodric 3y ago
> in general, right now Rockchip images are mostly kernel 5.x based No, they're mystery meat -based, merely pretending to be 5.x, like most of those Chinese SoCs. I'll care when it can run mainline and not Armbian.
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by theodric 3y ago
> Slashdot is a place to post things It is! But this isn't there :)
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by theodric 3y ago
I appreciate that we all have different bugbears, but realtime mail notification isn't going to get me off Thunderbird. Email is asynchronous, and therefore finding out 10 minutes later about a message coming in shouldn't be a pro
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by theodric 3y ago
I searched the text of their comment with Google and the third hit was this article (the first two being their comment): https://semiengineering.com/aging-problems-at-5nm-and-below/
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by theodric 3y ago
> Some will cuss you out in a nice way for you making them do their job close to closing hours. Try asking a Swiss man in his late 50s/early 60s at a Swiss bank to do a medium-sized but achievable task at 15:00 on a Friday and see w
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by theodric 3y ago
If I were still in the business, and someone posted a video of me fucking up this badly as a manager, I'd be embarrassed, but I wouldn't hold it against them; rather, I'd try to fuck up less badly in the future. She seems lik
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by theodric 3y ago
What I meant is that somehow companies released native applications for a multitude of operating systems in years past. Internet Explorer on Solaris, Windows, MacOS. Photoshop and AutoCAD on IRIX, Windows, MacOS. Netscape Navigator on anyth
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by theodric 3y ago
I'm going to assume you're in the USA, which may be incorrect. I live in the third world, in Amazon's estimation-- Switzerland, Ireland, the Netherlands. If I search for something, there's a better-than-not chance that i
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by theodric 3y ago
Point of order, because this is HN and I get to be pedantic here: the 737 Max is cursed; the 737 and 737NG are proven good by their long track record of reliability through thousands of units produced and in service
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by theodric 3y ago
Somehow we did this for 30 years, but now that Electron exists, it's impossible? Fine. Pick a platform to support.
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by theodric 3y ago
This is an extremely short-sighted and crypto-moralistic position masquerading as reasonableness. Why should I be forced to provide a government ID to a random third party simply because I want to view legal images? One does not follow logi
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by theodric 3y ago
Yes, a native application for each major operating system, that respects the OS's UI guidelines, and runs efficiently.
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by theodric 3y ago
Can you provide more information about this? I couldn't find any references online.
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by theodric 3y ago
I received a Beepy with a plain US keyboard but uneven keyboard backlighting. When I ordered a new Q10 keyboard from AliExpress, I got one that was left half Arabic/English and right half US-English. My T-deck came with the Arabic one.
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by theodric 3y ago
And 30mph is fine if you're not going very far, but that's not what people wanted, and their wants dictated what technology succeeded at the time. Even a Model T could do about 50 MPH, not that you'd want to, and not that yo
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by theodric 3y ago
There's a tethered electric ferry, anyway https://youtu.be/xhwZ-XFKJKk
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by theodric 3y ago
I think it would be tricky and would create more purpose-specific equipment to buy. Fields are big, like sometimes really big, definitionally remote, and electrical transmission losses are real at "normal" voltages with fieldscale
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by theodric 3y ago
The efficiency is undeniable, but it couldn't make up for the awful battery technology and absurd drag coefficient of a garden-shed-on-wheels car from the 1910s. Streamliners and aerodynamics matured a little later. It's a pity we
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by theodric 3y ago
Furthermore, it's a lot easier to carry an equivalent amount of energy in petrochemical form vs the primitive lead-acid batteries of the day, long before hyper-optimized computer controlled motors were available to wring every last mil
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by theodric 3y ago
Correct, I'm a bore at parties (always on my phone) and even worse in bed (idem)

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