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randomaside , 5 days ago

"Kumbaya my lord "

• South park season 8 episode 9

randomaside , 9 days ago

Google is collapsing because we are not the customer they serve (anymore). We are the product.

They have spoiled all the good will their brand has which means they are vulnerable to competition.

randomaside , 8 days ago

I mean a few of us are still ... Android, Chromecast (Android TV), Google One, Google Suite, Google Mesh, Nest (the few products that remain).

randomaside , 19 days ago

I just found out you have to PAY for your prison stay. $50 dollars a day. What the actual hell?!

randomaside , 22 days ago

There is something about the Palm Pre or Jolla Sailfish OS that was so endearing back then. Devices that support it just don't exist.

randomaside , 27 days ago

Large language models are going to replace search. Naturally concise recommendations are easier for humans to interact with than a swath of web pages. The problem that you get here is this is going to disincentive the creation of new web content outside of the walled gardens we already have. The walls are just going to get higher.

randomaside , 26 days ago

💯

randomaside , 27 days ago

I gotta be honest, I love his deadpan dry ass thumbnails.

randomaside , 1 month ago

Don't forget about newsgroups (⌐■_■)

randomaside , 1 month ago

It's usenet.

https://blog.harveydelaney.com/configuring-your-usenet-provider-and-indexer-with-sonarr-radarr/

randomaside , 1 month ago

This. It used to be the dream because we believed in what technofuturism had to offer. We believed in instant access to knowledge and we thought we could all make it cheap enough that it would be an uplift across humanity.

We came up with so many cool things in the process. Little did we know we were simply building the foundations of our dystopian cyberpunk corpo future.

"We just wanted ice cream cones and fast cars" (South park).

randomaside , 1 month ago

Depends on the usage. That's the gamble you take. I would maybe buy three and put two in a mirror and keep the third one as a replacement?

That's 240$ for three drives without warranty though... Nevermind I'd prefer to buy two new Toshiba X300 new for 210$ a piece and forget the headache and get the warranty.

Sometimes you get what you pay for ... Sometimes

randomaside , 1 month ago

Bravo, well played!

randomaside , 1 month ago

I don't know what to think about the rushed inclusion of Copilot. It's so very very flawed.

The only thing I can think of is that users are training it by using it and therefore Microsoft is getting free labor from you (as well as search/advertising revenue through their lock screens, dynamic as based backgrounds, live tiles, etc).

I think we're the product here guys.

randomaside , 1 month ago

Abso lutely

randomaside , 2 months ago

I really hate having the taskbar permanently affixed to the bottom of my screen. I've had it on the left side for decades now. They are really throwing the baby out with the bathwater.

Someone at Microsoft "Customization is the enemy of progress!"

randomaside , 2 months ago

Correct

randomaside , 2 months ago

I find that when I'm feeling depressed and lefty, singing out loud helps me. Maybe you too can sing along!

"Do you hear the people sing?
Singing a song of angry men?
It is the music of the people
Who will not be slaves again!
When the beating of your heart
Echoes the beating of the drums
There is a life about to start
When tomorrow comes!"

Don't feel shame, be heard, be loud, and beat the drum!

(Yes this is les mis)

randomaside , 2 months ago

Probably not but you can buy digital signage. You will pay upwards of $4k potentially based on your needs.

randomaside , 2 months ago

I 'member

randomaside , 2 months ago

Jeff Geerling did a whole video about you can just use a professional display. It has the option to install a raspberry pi because it's meant to be a display for a store window. This would be a good alternative but $$$.

https://www.sharpnecdisplays.us/products/displays/m551

Note: the reason TVs are cheap now is because they collect data about you. Your data is subsidizing the cost. So if that's the case how much money do they make off you that getting a non smart display costs 4k?

randomaside , 2 months ago

Same as it ever was.

randomaside , 2 months ago

Big companies with no vision of the future are often ripe for disruptive tech to harvest. We'll see what happens. The apple "visio pro"" is not the future of the company.

randomaside , 2 months ago

This is the design

randomaside , 2 months ago

A lot of people talk about Proxmox but I wouldn't be surprised if redhat open shift decided to throw its hat into the ring as an HP or Dell partner.

randomaside , 2 months ago

I think this is very interesting. I've been investigating the solutions and found that a lot of other platforms like scale hci, virtuozzo, and oracle VM are all based on the oVirt/Openstack platforms but have been customized.

Openshift and Suse Harvester both have a very similar Kubernetes first approach which I think is interesting. Harvester seems to rely on KubeVirt to deploy "legacy workloads" (probably windows).

The reason I mention openshift though is because I've been paying attention to Wendell, level1techs, and the level1 forums and Wendell keeps hinting that Redhat/IBM openshift + intel is being used as a VDI platform featuring Intel flexGPUs for a secret customer (I wouldn't be surprised if it was a government facility like the national laboratory near Knoxville). I'm just trying to envision how that deployment looks.

randomaside , 2 months ago

I never thought of hashicorps products as a replacement for VMware but more of an add on to it.

randomaside , 3 months ago

They listen and say "We hear you but the data shows you much rather have the Witcher 3 running on your dashboard and webcam more easily monetize this."

randomaside , 3 months ago

I agree. A digital file is written to disk yet has no second hand value because of the nature of replication. Your books have value after you've read them because it's not easily replicated and has more value beyond its basic consumption. It can be collected, displayed, traded, burned... It has all sorts of intrinsic value beyond the words on the page.

It's as if the printing of the media to a physical device in the end provides you a solid copy but not the rights to the work contained inside of it. You're not allowed to modify and distribute those works as that violates copyright.

I feel like the individual ownership of physical media actually protected copyright and now in the digital era, the lack of ownership is subverting its own purpose. We as a people never understood or acknowledged the implicit agreement that came with the acquisition of our books and DVDs. We ignore all the legal messaging and even made fun of it. We laughed when we realized "How could they ever enforce this?!" And so we didn't care.

Now here we are, learning in real time how it will be enforced.

randomaside , 3 months ago

I think about this a lot and it really does depend on your needs.

Home lab vs home server. I like to keep them separate just because I consider my lab unstable and my home server stable. You don't have to do it this way it's just the way I like it.

https://a.co/d/6k6QpOD If you want to build a low power NAS I suggest investing in an Intel n100 based itx Nas motherboard. You can then use a case like this from Jonsbo https://a.co/d/1ayqwJV. This could be a nice cool and quiet solution. If you want to do video transcoding, the n100 has quicksync on board and with something like Truenas it's pretty easy to set up via the app catalog (check out truecharts).

If you want something even more simple (good for home users or like a backup target you keep elsewhere) I've been meaning to grab one of these "Topton 2-Bay NAS R1 PRO 12th Gen Intel N100 Network Attached Storage Media Server" from AliExpress for just this case.

As for a Lab, I suggest finding a W680 chipset based motherboard like an ASRock IMB-X1314 LGA 1700 Intel W680. You can get a cpu like a 12400 or 12500T (lower power and less heat) used cheap and you have the option to upgrade and use ecc memory without a XEON. You also have a lot more pci express connectivity.

What ever you do choose, anything pre 12th gen Intel is basically ewaste (those 11th gen mobile erying I9 engineering samples are very good but less reliable than desired). Do not invest in any old x99 based gear (unless you get it for free). I have an old dual XEON system that is still running and it uses power like a small fridge.

randomaside , 3 months ago

Nintendo doesn't care. They stay in their lane and they are strategic about each move.

I remember hearing about pretty terrible corporate culture as they demand obedience and swear you to secrecy. I think I remember some guy mentioned he worked at Nintendo on a podcast and they instantly fired him to make a point.

What Nintendo does care about is knockoffs. At their core they are toymakers who make collectibles. What is a knockoff? Anything that Nintendo deems so.

randomaside , 3 months ago

I do think it's interesting that a lot of people seem to think AI is going to take away jobs but understanding AI just a tiny fraction, it seems like the things that are threatened are one that were already micro serviced away like internet search.

We use search everyday and having the best search engine means being the best tech company. These companies are in a race to topple Googles search dominance through providing AI as a service. There's money in them hills if you can train an AI to recommend when and where to go buy the newest shiny thing that solves all your problems.

randomaside , 3 months ago

When you make a website and perform SEO tactics like the ones in this article, Google isn't providing a service to you, you're providing the service to Google.

randomaside , 3 months ago

Knowing Nintendo the Switch 2 will already be obsolete at launch

This is the reason I believe it's delayed. Tinfoil hat rant incoming:

Nintendo usually is ready to go for obsolete cheaper designs to maximize profit on hardware. However the Nvidia tegra family successor for entertainment devices never materialized (I won't count anything on the Jetson platform). These chips never came down in price either. Nvidia pretty much dropped everything related to gaming once deep learning became its future cash cow. No shield tablets, android TV's, or gaming devices anymore. Nvidia has disappeared from the consumer arm market.

Until now. Nvidia recently been looking to bring derivatives of its Grace Hopper platform to desktops and laptops in the near future. I'm sure the timing has to do with the rumors that Qualcomm is going out as M$oft's exclusive arm for windows partner. There is a major urge in the AI field to have development uniformity across platforms and therefore arm coming directly to the developer is speeding up everyday (apple is the only name in the game atm).

That puts Nintendo in a place where to get priority, they will need to bid high for hardware. I don't think they will. They know they make toys and they will just keep stretching the life span of the switch. It's probably a better strategy anyway as Nintendo Remains in demand and they have no need to be a loss leader on hardware.

We think 8 years is long for a console but Nintendo dragged out it's Gamcube, Wii, Wii U dynasty of hardware for almost 16 years before moving to a new platform. The DS hardware line lasted much longer.

We'll get a switch 2 when Nintendo can get cheap Arm Chips.

End of rant.

randomaside , 3 months ago

That's some nice density you got there. While you're at it...

Can I get a 12.8TB drive 1/10th the physical size (m.2 2230) and has a steady transfer rate of 2.4GBs that costs <$200 dollhairs? Pretty please 🙏

randomaside , 3 months ago

I am using NUCs.

randomaside , 3 months ago

I'm trying to move to Linux! I game on a custom built chimera OS computer using an AMD GPU. I've been using a MacBook Pro as a life raft. I still need windows for work.

I've considered once 24H2 Windows 11 release comes out that I would try to customize that image and keep it like an LTSC but I heard about some read only registry components that are going to make that very difficult. I'll just kick around on Win 10 LTSC for anything that I can't get rid of until it's no longer useful.

randomaside , 3 months ago

I have tried (story option below):

Currently virtualization for the desktop, even though that is in fact the future, there are many issues at the moment. For instance, graphics are holding me back.

Wendell on level 1 techs has plenty of these videos and there is one specifically where he goes in depth on spinning up a windows virtual machine and essentially using a GitHub project to make registry hacks to turn that windows VM into a fake RDS app server then using those apps via the RDP protocol.

I really like this solution but it is still less than desirable when attempting to save files, pass through devices to apps other than keyboard and mouse, run corporate ssl VPN Clients (they often enforce desktop sessions non-rdp via policy).

I follow these threads closely: https://forum.level1techs.com/t/vfio-passthrough-in-2023-call-to-arms/199671

I sometimes think maybe moving to an Intel processor with onboard video for my displays and then using the Nvidia driver patch like this https://github.com/DualCoder/vgpu_unlock or this https://github.com/ProTechEx/vgpu-proxmox to drive local 3D apps and pass GPUs into VMs is potentially something that can be used to get this going (without the need for a second discreet GPU).

I just don't want to have to do this. So I just have a windows desktop (still).

randomaside , 3 months ago

My dad tells me it has something to do with Communism and the color pink but I can't really understand him through his slurred speech three drinks in after Thanksgiving dinner.

randomaside , 3 months ago

Is this like using linked lists?

randomaside , 3 months ago

I love LXD/INCUS + ZFS! It goes together like chocolate and peanut butter.

randomaside , 3 months ago

This is exactly what happened.

randomaside , 3 months ago

What's slowing down Linux adoption?

Is it the monopoly Microsoft has on all PC hardware and strong relationships it has with desktop software partners that make leaving windows near impossible?

No, it must be the users.

/s insert principal Skinner meme

randomaside , 3 months ago

Idk if it's worth trusting articles from this site after the fake ddos toothbrush article.

Nonetheless, I can't imagine crime not getting more sophisticated as time moves on.

POE cameras are the way.

randomaside , 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago)

Linus Torvalds himself also said this and basically positied he thinks Valve will be the company that brings us to a working desktop ecosystem by deciding on a universal desktop app packaging format.

I saw a video recently about the history of x11 development from retro bytes on YouTube and it is pretty much exemplary of the nature of open source development. I think I understand this whole conundrum a bit better.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-N-fgKWYGU&t=0

randomaside , 4 months ago

Appimage may be the closest thing to the "executable" that Linus is talking about in that specific conference I mentioned.

Debconf14 QA with Linus Torvalds

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pzl1B7nB9Kc&t=530

randomaside , 4 months ago

Sooner or later . . . https://archiveos.org/lindows/

randomaside , 4 months ago

I also feel like a lot of those people are there just to be pricks. I don't think they really know much at all so their input was unwarranted in the first place.

The arch wiki is a very good resource and I use it for all Linux distros. But like most repositories of its kind, it gives you the how and not the why.

That's what most people want from another person, they ask "how" but I think they mean "why".