cmnybo
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- Comment on Hardware price surge drives student demand for refurbished laptops 2 days ago:
You want a business laptop. Most of them are designed to be repairable and have parts readily available. They are also a lot more durable than the junk you find in the stores. The only downside is they are not good for gaming, but you can always pick one with Thunderbolt/USB 4 and use an eGPU. Just make sure the port has all 4 PCIe lanes connected.
- Comment on Old laptop with non-funtional display... What do I turn it into 1 week ago:
It would even make a decent living room gaming PC. The 3050Ti won’t run the modern AAA junk, but it will handle most indie games and a lot of older games.
- Comment on Desktop Linux is now inevitable. Here's why. 2 weeks ago:
Look for a small form factor business PC like a Thinkcentre. They are small, quiet and don’t use a lot of power. They are great for home servers as long as you don’t need a bunch of hard drives. You can still find used ones at decent prices.
- Comment on Skip today's Windows 11 update: it breaks cursor styling, resets wallpaper, and more 1 month ago:
Skip all of them and install Linux. The computer does not belong to microslop. Take back control of the hardware that you own.
- Comment on Comcast turns your Xfinity WiFi into a home motion detector 1 month ago:
I’m not sure about OpenWRT, but you can do WiFi motion detection with an ESP32.
- Comment on Futuristic mosquito-zapping laser now available to buy, video shows device in action — tiny device shoots down bugs like a personal air defense system, but costs $1,000 1 month ago:
The ones for mosquitos use a chemical attractant.
- Comment on Logitech to ship mice with replaceable batteries in Europe only, following Nintendo 2 months ago:
I prefer mine with a cord. It looks like there are still plenty of wireless mice available that use AA batteries. Eneloop batteries work great for those.
- Comment on Meet Flock's Alpha Drone – It Reads License Plates from 2,000 Feet 2 months ago:
That’s not going to hit anything at 2000 feet. Everyone needs anti aircraft cannons now.
- Comment on The Last MPEG-4 Visual Patent Has Expired 2 months ago:
I’ve still got thousands of old TV shows recorded in xvid.
- Comment on FCC approves giant space mirror as astronomers warn of risks to the night sky 2 months ago:
They say it will be equivalent to moonlight. With such a small mirror, I doubt it will even be that bright.
The real issue will be a really bright satellite messing with astronomy. If they somehow manage to launch 50,000 of them, it will be huge problem.
- Comment on Chinese memory ban would cut off RAMpocalypse relief 2 months ago:
The rest of the world will have access to cheap Chinese RAM, so the AI companies investment will still be devalued.
- Comment on HP fined 1.4 billion rupees for “cartelization” of ink cartridges, toner, PCs 2 months ago:
What, is that like the cost of a dozen of their ink cartridges? That fine needs a lot more zeros.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
You can cast your own bullets and make your own gunpowder. Making bullets hard to buy won’t stop criminals that use ghost guns.
- Comment on Microsoft warns Authenticator now blocks rooted Android and jailbroken iOS, verify if you're affected 3 months ago:
Yes, both KeePassDX and KeePass2Android support TOTP.
- Comment on Microsoft warns Authenticator now blocks rooted Android and jailbroken iOS, verify if you're affected 3 months ago:
There are a couple Android ports of KeePass. They are open source and won’t care if your phone is rooted.
- Comment on Nearly Half of LG Smart TV Apps Contain Residential Proxy SDKs 3 months ago:
It might stop some depending on the block lists you have. You would have to set a firewall rule to block all other DNS, DoT and DoH servers so nothing can bypass your block lists. Blocking DoH servers is hard because it looks just like HTTPS. Even then, it could still connect to a hard coded IP address instead of doing a DNS lookup.
A better option would be to use an IPS to detect and block suspicious connections from the TV. Ideally, you would just keep it offline though.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
Why does a car need an app anyways? I assume it’s just a way for it to vacuum up more personal data from your phone.
- Comment on Google will now verify if you're a human by turning on your webcam and asking you to wave your hand 3 months ago:
They can’t turn on a webcam that doesn’t exist. I have no intention of connecting one to my desktops.
- Comment on US | Seattle, home to Amazon and Microsoft, poised to pass moratorium on new datacenters 4 months ago:
That probably just means a larger bribe will be required.
- Comment on 60% of PC gamers have no plans to build a new PC in the next two years — AI pricing crunch on RAM and other components paralyze enthusiast market 4 months ago:
I certainly won’t be upgrading until DDR6 memory is available. My PC still runs everything I need just fine. I just want a more energy efficient CPU. Mine uses 80 watts sitting idle.
- Comment on 'Think twice before posing with hand signs': Experts warn of fingerprint theft 4 months ago:
You leave your fingerprints on everything you touch. Fingerprints should never be used as the only authentication factor for anything important.
- Comment on YouTube now lets you turn off Shorts 5 months ago:
Does it remove every trace of shorts like the browser addons do?
- Comment on Senators Ask Tulsi Gabbard To Tell Americans That VPN Use Might Subject Them To Domestic Surveillance 6 months ago:
VPNs are good for torrenting without getting nasty letters from your ISP. Self hosted VPNs are good for securely accessing your home network remotely.
- Comment on Your Antenna TV Shouldn’t Need the Internet — But Roku Made It So 6 months ago:
They aren’t trying, they already did it. ATSC 3 broadcasts are encrypted in a lot of cities in the US. The FCC should have never allowed that.
- Comment on 6 months ago:
Just don’t allow the students to have their phones when taking tests. They could be left in another room out of bluetooth range or be put in a faraday cage to block the bluetooth signals.
- Comment on “Educational” AI YouTube videos accused of teaching kids to play in traffic & eat toxic food 6 months ago:
What do you expect when the AI is trained on reddit posts?
- Comment on AI-Generated Passwords Are Apparently Quite Easy to Crack 7 months ago:
Any password manager worth using will generate secure passwords. There is absolutely no reason to use AI for that.
- Comment on Acer and Asus halt PC and laptop sales in Germany amid H.264 codec patent dispute — Nokia wins patent ruling, forcing tech giants to license HEVC codec 7 months ago:
Around 25% for a 1080p 30fps youtube video played in MPV. Power consumption is about 10-12 watts. A video with hardware acceleration uses about 8 watts.
- Comment on Acer and Asus halt PC and laptop sales in Germany amid H.264 codec patent dispute — Nokia wins patent ruling, forcing tech giants to license HEVC codec 7 months ago:
Software decoding is an option. My Thinkpad T480 can play 1080p AV1 if the bitrate isn’t super high. That’s a mid range business laptop from 2018. It’s the encoding that really needs hardware acceleration.
- Comment on Acer and Asus halt PC and laptop sales in Germany amid H.264 codec patent dispute — Nokia wins patent ruling, forcing tech giants to license HEVC codec 7 months ago:
That doesn’t help with all the content that’s been encoded in H.264 over the last two decades though.