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Maakuth commented on 5G networks meet consumer needs as mobile data growth slows spectrum.ieee.org/5g-band... · Posted by u/saigovardhan

SteveNuts · 7 months ago

How many people consuming these services are doing so over a mobile network?

For my area all the mobile network home internet options offer plenty of speed, but the bandwidth limitations are a dealbreaker.

Everyone I know still uses their cable/FTTH as their main internet, and mobile network as a hotspot if their main ISP goes down.

Maakuth · 7 months ago

Here in rural Finland, 4G/5G is the only option available to me. I'm getting 50-150Mbps download speed, but often just a dozen Mbps upload. On the night hours it's better and that's when I my game downloads and backup uploads. I think there's going to be another municipal FTTH program, let's see if I get a fixed line at that point.

Maakuth commented on Fair Pricing kagi.com/changelog#6155... · Posted by u/CleverLikeAnOx

bandrami · 7 months ago

Fifteen years ago people were talking about micropayments per article for news services being just around the corner. What ever happened to that?

Maakuth · 7 months ago

AFAIK it never pans out really. People turn out very stingy if they're faced with a decision to pay or not to pay for every article, so the revenues end up a lot lower than what the subscription model would pay.

Maakuth commented on Run DeepSeek R1 Dynamic 1.58-bit unsloth.ai/blog/deepseekr... · Posted by u/noch

phkahler · 7 months ago

>> While 192GB of ram is appealing, it's also quite expensive at $6000.

That's because it's Apple. It time to start moving to AMD systems with shared memory. My Zen 3 APU system has 64GB these days and its a mini ITX board.

Maakuth · 7 months ago

What is the performance in ML workloads like on AMD APUs compared to Apple Silicon?

Maakuth commented on Webtop – Alpine,Ubuntu,Fedora,and Arch containers containing full desktop envs docs.linuxserver.io/image... · Posted by u/weitzj

hifikuno · 7 months ago

Yeah, I made a mistake with my config. I had setup SWAG, with Authelia (i think?). Got password login working with 2fa. But my dumbass didn't realize I had left ports open. Logged in one day to find a terminal open with a message from someone who found my instance and got in. Called me stupid (I mean they're not wrong) and all kinds of things and deleted everything from my home drive to "teach me a lesson". Lesson painfully learnt.

But before that happened Webtop was amazing! I had Obsidian setup so I could have access on any computer. It felt great having "my" computer anywhere I went. The only reason I don't have it set up is because I made the mistake of closing my free teir oracle cloud thinking I could spin up a fresh new instance and since then I haven't been able to get the free teir again.

Maakuth · 7 months ago

There are operations that put cryptominers into any unauthenticated remote desktops they can find. Ask me how I know... Way friendlier than wiping your data though.

Maakuth commented on Four causes for 'Zoom fatigue' (2021) news.stanford.edu/stories... · Posted by u/rzk

noneeeed · 8 months ago

We use Google Meet and this is one of the big things I miss from Zoom, there appears to be no way to turn the self view off. On every call I have to turn it off manually.

I find that a lot of people who say they turn their camera off say they do it because they don't like watching themselves on screen, and don't realise this is optional. Personally I think all the video call systems should turn it off by default, I've never understood what purpose seeing yourself all the time is supposed to have. It would be like having a meeting room full of mirrors.

Maakuth · 8 months ago

Cameras unintentionally left open would be much more typical if this was not the default. I agree that it still should be possible to have it off in every meeting after changing some setting, though.

Maakuth commented on Germans turn to balcony solar panels to save money france24.com/en/live-news... · Posted by u/vinni2

venky180 · 8 months ago

In india, atleast in my state, they let us add solar to our roof and let us give excess energy back to the grid. And they pay us back for the energy that is sent back to the grid

Maakuth · 8 months ago

In Germany I believe the tradeoff is that you don't need to do any paperwork with your grid operator when you add a balcony powerplant, but then you're not reimbursed for the power you sell either. If you would do the paperwork, you would be paid with the excess power and could install bigger plant too. The _balcony_ implies that this is for small scale.

Maakuth commented on Bye-bye Windows gaming? SteamOS officially expands past the Steam Deck arstechnica.com/gaming/20... · Posted by u/rbanffy

chuckwfinley · 8 months ago

As far as I know, you can drop back to desktop mode on SteamOS and be on your way.

Maakuth · 8 months ago

It's a real KDE Plasma desktop too, not some joke that is just there to check a box!

Maakuth commented on Autodesk deletes old forum posts suddenly forums.autodesk.com/t5/ne... · Posted by u/nsoonhui

mmooss · 8 months ago

How does the public access ArchiveTeam's archives?

Maakuth · 8 months ago

They send everything to archive.org and the data is eventually included in the Wayback Machine.

Maakuth commented on Autodesk deletes old forum posts suddenly forums.autodesk.com/t5/ne... · Posted by u/nsoonhui

Maakuth · 8 months ago

ArchiveTeam (https://wiki.archiveteam.org/) fairly routinely makes archival blitzes on dying forums. If there's any forewarning of such on a forum you frequent, let them know.

Maakuth commented on Intel Core Ultra 9 285K "Arrow Lake" Windows 11 vs. Ubuntu Linux Performance phoronix.com/review/intel... · Posted by u/rbanffy

coreyh14444 · 8 months ago

tl;dr 6% faster on Linux. Basically, once a year I try to run Linux instead of Windows and I've been doing that since 1999 (seriously). It still has enough annoyances that it isn't worth 6% or extra freedom for me.

Maakuth · 8 months ago

In my case I tried to work on Windows with some ThinkPad 5ish years ago when I got annoyed of unrealiable docking behaviour on Linux. It turned out it was flaky hardware of firmware on the Lenovo dock and it didn't work appreciably better on Windows.