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by Decade 5y ago
I’m using an AMD system as an OBS Studio streaming system, and Linux was not great. I first set it up with a Ryzen 5 3600 and Radeon HD 6750, running Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, because I thought I didn’t really need that much processing power. After
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by Decade 5y ago
In short, Apple does things in non-standard ways without explaining how to get another OS to work. Apple doesn’t prioritize lack of binary blobs. The EFI firmware is all proprietary. All their Wi-Fi have been switched to Broadcom. They do w
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by Decade 5y ago
It’s Wired.co.uk. British humor is less reverent than what’s practiced in the US.
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by Decade 5y ago
To expand on that: The design challenge of high-performance CPUs today is heat. Too much heat induces throttling. Putting low-priority stuff onto efficiency cores reserves the power budget of the SoC for high-priority tasks. https:/&#
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by Decade 5y ago
My impression was more than a little regionalism. KDE came from Europe. GNOME came from America. Most distros that I know come from America. In addition, Richard Stallman made lawyers nervous of KDE by claiming that using GPL libraries with
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by Decade 5y ago
Those negative effects were not necessarily linked. Prop 13 was written by a lobbyist for commercial landlords, and corporations have always benefited the most from it. https://www.pbs.org/video/the-first-angry-man-lnpy
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by Decade 5y ago
It’s not the will of the market because the people with power pass laws to funnel resources even more to people with power. https://www.epi.org/publication/the-color-of-law-a-forgotten... When we have developers buildi
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by Decade 5y ago
Difficult? Yes, a billion times yes. Most of the stress on land comes from exclusionary laws. People with power don’t want poorer people (and especially people of another race) to live near them—attributing their success to their efforts an
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by Decade 5y ago
> Also, doing burnouts and donuts on public streets sounds fun but it leaves the road covered in tire rubber and I imagine it smells awful while they’re doing it. It indeed does smell awful, and the tire dust is filled with toxins that
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by Decade 6y ago
There’s a very good chance that the MacBook is outdated or otherwise broken by the time the SSD fails. I’ve been using SSDs for about 10 years, and I’m not the heaviest user, but so far I’ve never had an SSD fail from wear. Thumb drives, su
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by Decade 6y ago
The mortgage interest deduction was an accidental side-effect of pro-business regulation, and it doesn’t advance any reasonable societal goals. It’s effectively a regressive tax break, the richer the beneficiary the larger the tax break, up
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by Decade 6y ago
That’s sort of a broken window fallacy. A direct stimulus doesn't take away people’s time and materials producing things that nobody wants.
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by Decade 6y ago
My knee-jerk reaction is this doesn’t seem like a great idea. I’m pretty sure Android would never have gotten so big without Google’s cash infusion, and even so they depended on Microsoft, Blackberry, and Nokia’s missteps leaving such a big
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by Decade 6y ago
It’s not just a California issue. Pretty much all of post-war (World War II) American development is functionally insolvent. Actually, not having enough residents per square mile is a leading driver of the need for more tax $. https:/
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by Decade 6y ago
One difference, as highlighted by the YIMBY Action lawsuit against the California Department of Housing and Community Development, is that both Beverly Hills and San Bernardino are included in the Southern California Association of Governme
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by Decade 6y ago
7-Zip. It does a lot more than just 7z archives. I don’t want to see adware naggy WinRAR ever again.
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Data show rich cities are failing the Bay Area on housing(goldenstatswarrior.substack.com)
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by Decade 6y ago
Correct, you don’t need to care. But the commons only needs to be a tragedy if you let it be a tragedy. Just because others behave badly or worse doesn’t give you the moral right to do badly. We don’t need to be perfect. If everybody did as
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by Decade 6y ago
…So it can route 2.5 Gbps, by cutting out Linux’s entire networking stack and rebuilding the minimum necessary in eBPF. Not slowed down by NAT or TC yet. How do you do the I/O? As I understand the MOX, it has one SGMII interface for th
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by Decade 6y ago
I would not have guessed SuperH, but I did not use Dreamcast or Jornada. 32-bit CPU with 16-bit instructions seems weird. VLIW had a lot of hype. DSPs had already proven it, and Itanium, Transmeta, and various embedded processors were using
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by Decade 6y ago
In terms of raw data rate, each byte of data on 802.11g takes the airtime of about 3 bytes on 802.11n. Since 2.4 GHz WiFi penetrates obstacles so well, that’s airtime that you’re excluding from up to several nearby homes if you generate tra
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by Decade 6y ago
We thought the US was not stupid, and then we elected Trump. Never underestimate emotional motivations. P.S., not saying that China will attack Taiwan, just not ruling it out.
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by Decade 6y ago
In addition, NVIDIA is the GPU to get for gaming, not AMD. NVIDIA and AMD trade blows in terms of price for performance throughout the product range, but there are no scenarios where the fastest AMD is decidedly faster than the fastest NVID
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by Decade 6y ago
For me, it’s primarily because this device has stood still while faster, cheaper, more powerful devices with lower power consumption and more fully open-source firmwares have entered the marketplace. The WRT54GL doesn’t have a fully open fi
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by Decade 6y ago
I have one of their dual-channel mini routers, the GL-AR750. The preinstalled OS is a fork of OpenWRT that comes bundled with Wireguard, Samba, and several other useful programs, but the package repository doesn’t have the variety of the Op
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by Decade 6y ago
Benchmark sites like userbenchmark.com and cpu-monkey.com rate the 7-year-old 3.2 GHz Haswell as having roughly the same single-core performance as the 2-year-old 2.1 GHz (3.7 GHz single-core turbo) Zen+ CPU in the DMAF5. But that doesn’t c
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by Decade 6y ago
The limitation is only on the DFS channels. Channels 36–48 and 149–165 are free of radar. And also crowded in a modern urban environment. I’m not sure what the device manufacturers are doing to prevent unauthorized use of DFS channels, but
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by Decade 6y ago
“Open” is not the only problem. I tried prioritizing “open.” I had a customized firmware on a fully open-source (even open-source WiFi firmware) Atheros-based router. And “open” turned out to mean, “enough rope to hang yourself.” I didn’t d
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by Decade 6y ago
Thin clients were fun, but they aren’t nearly fast enough for modern multi-gigabit Internet connections. They can route maybe up to a couple hundred Mbps. I’m wondering whether a mini-PC can route even 1 Gbps at line rate. Lots of people ar
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by Decade 6y ago
Isn’t that basically Keyboardio? Except it’s a San Francisco company selling them for $150; expensive, but still within reason for boutique mechanical keyboards.

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