nicolaslem

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by nicolaslem 8mo ago
That may be one explanation, but more broadly with analog audio it is actually quite difficult NOT to end up with an AM receiver.
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by nicolaslem 8mo ago
CO2 is a bit of an outlier in the groups of pollutants emitted by a car. Modern cars will emit way less of the other pollutants that are directly unhealthy for humans to breathe (NOx, CO, particulate matter, etc.). I know the thread is most
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by nicolaslem 9mo ago
I hear you, personally grabbing the charger for overnight stays hasn't been a problem but there are a few compact/inexpensive third-party dongles that are like the official charging cable but without the cable[0]. They can be stay
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by nicolaslem 9mo ago
For what it does, the battery life of the Apple Watch 11 is not that bad. It typically lasts more than 48h for me and charges very quickly. Putting it to charge when taking a shower is enough to not have to think about battery life.
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by nicolaslem 9mo ago
Another example of firmware update reusing something that is already there: some electric guitar effects from TC Electronics can be reprogrammed by bringing a phone close to the guitar pickups. The phone app encodes the data as sound that i
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by nicolaslem 9mo ago
I don't think it's fair to call Cyberpunk 2077 a colossal flop. It had an awful release, but the company stood behind it and fixed everything that needed fixing. Five years later it is now an acclaimed game that sold 35 million co
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by nicolaslem 9mo ago
What goes into a Nintendo console is not prime silicon. When it's time to design the next console, I am sure Nvidia will still be more than happy to give them a design that they have laying around somewhere in a drawer if it means they
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by nicolaslem 9mo ago
Maybe I have been here too long but I can guess exactly the content of each thread about systemd/Gnome/Wayland/Firefox before opening the link.
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by nicolaslem 9mo ago
I don't think this is straight LLM, it's probably an homage to a line of websites like https://thebestmotherfucking.website
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by nicolaslem 9mo ago
Little known fact, the Steam Deck has hardware ray tracing, it's just so weak as to be almost non-existent.
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by nicolaslem 9mo ago
I have an i3 controlled by Home Assistant, it is on an "IoT" network without access to the Internet. Works like a charm. The integration allows to start, stop and view information like battery level, area cleaned, issues, etc. No
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by nicolaslem 9mo ago
They do get really creative to achieve their goals. Claude Code routinely uses these kind of one liners.
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by nicolaslem 9mo ago
Unfortunately it idles at ~8W, which is quite far from the ~3W of the best in class laptops.
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by nicolaslem 10mo ago
This is my experience as well. Unless you actually need a directional antenna, an iPhone will be faster and more reliable than dedicated hardware.
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by nicolaslem 10mo ago
Friendly reminder that you should never test a UPS by unplugging it from the wall as this also cuts the ground connection.
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by nicolaslem 10mo ago
75W idle is 650kWh a year, that's quite significant in the context of a home.
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by nicolaslem 10mo ago
The author is not suggesting anyone should rebuild their NAS every year. Instead he is investigating which options make sense in year X. I remember reading his recommendations back when I built my NAS in 2021 but that doesn't mean I bo
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by nicolaslem 10mo ago
I have been running my NAS on the 304 for 5 years. It fits natively 6 HDDs but I think it is possible to cram two more with a bit of ingenuity. It is tucked away in an Ikea cabinet that I have drilled the back of for airflow.
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by nicolaslem 10mo ago
That is also somewhat true for GPUs, hard drives and SSDs. They all usually have different cycles but today AI is making them peak all at the same time.
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by nicolaslem 10mo ago
What percentage of iOS users use a midi keyboard with their devices? 0.01%? My desktop audio interface plugs right in an iPhone (USB-C to C), no hub or dongle needed, and provides audio in/out, 5-pins midi in/out, microphone pream
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by nicolaslem 10mo ago
The article is a bit light on technical details. Can someone shed a light on how hardware decoding is disabled? Do they blow an efuse, disable it in the firmware or in the OS?
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by nicolaslem 10mo ago
It's not like what you are describing is impossible today. With the switch to USB-C, iOS devices are compatible with a vast number of affordable adapters. Some of which add features and ports that realistically couldn't be physica
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by nicolaslem 10mo ago
I am with you. How is it that in the past we got major successes like TCP/IP, 802.3, HTTP and WiFi but somehow in the past decade big tech decided that was too much collaboration and it would be better for everyone to stop doing that?
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by nicolaslem 10mo ago
For me the firmware 0x01030b00 solved most of the problem. It now runs well on my previous laptop 65W HP charger, which is much lighter than the literal brick the G1a came with. It still does not work on an Anker 140W power bank I have. How
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by nicolaslem 10mo ago
Linode has been rock solid for me. I wanted to back this comment with uptime numbers, unfortunately the service I use for that, Uptime Robot, is down because of Cloudflare...
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by nicolaslem 10mo ago
Just yesterday I turned off the server for a pet project I had. Postgres had been running unattended for 7 years on Linode. pgdumpall to Backblaze B2 on a nightly crontab, that is it.
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by nicolaslem 10mo ago
I got a Cloudflare captcha to access a few kb of plain text. Chances are, the captcha itself is heavier than the content behind it. What is the point?
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by nicolaslem 10mo ago
I used to also have a dedicated Windows machine just for gaming, but two years ago I formatted the Windows drive and put SteamOS (via ChimeraOS) instead. I can legitimately say that it has been more stable than running the same games on Win
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by nicolaslem 10mo ago
Please tell me this is satire.
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by nicolaslem 1y ago
You could look into MDM solutions. These are meant for unattended devices like kiosks in public spaces. You should be able to control devices remotely and lock them down to only the essentials.

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