cmnybo

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[–] cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 13 hours ago

You can find used Thinkcenters pretty cheap with AMD CPUs. I recently got an M75s Gen2 with a Ryzen 3 4350G for around $100.

[–] cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

It's fairly minimal compared to the amount of microplastics that go down the drain every time someone washes a load of laundry made from synthetic fibers. At least PLA dust will break down a bit faster than many of the other microplastics.

[–] cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 21 points 23 hours ago

Normal DVDs are not good for archival. Cheap ones can degrade in less than 10 years. You want to get the M-disc ones for long term storage.

[–] cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 5 days ago

LTO tape is good for 30 years when properly stored. You should be transferring the data to a newer format much sooner than that anyways. LTO drives are only backwards compatible for 1 or 2 versions, so you probably won't be able to find a working drive that can read your tape 30 years later.

[–] cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 32 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Is it x264 or AV1? They are two completely different codecs. If it's AV1, you may not have hardware acceleration since it's fairly new. It takes a lot of power to software decode AV1 and you will get dropped frames if the CPU can't keep up.

[–] cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I've never had to defragment the ext4 drives in my server. Ext4 is fairly resistant to fragmentation.

[–] cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 29 points 6 days ago (4 children)

Solar panels are already quite cheap. What we need is much cheaper grid forming inverters so we can stop destabilizing the grid with solar.

[–] cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 6 days ago

You basically need a supercomputer for windows 11 to not run like complete shit. Linux will run well on 15 year old hardware, although I wouldn't suggest anything that old if you care about power consumption.

[–] cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 6 days ago (2 children)

There's a browser addon that lets you disable auto translation.

[–] cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 6 days ago

The card is rated for 180 watts. It has a single 8 pin power connector, which means the maximum it could possibly draw is 225W. Pick a power supply that will provide that plus whatever the rest of the computer draws. I would suggest oversizing the power supply a bit so you don't use more than about 75% of it's rated output.

[–] cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 1 week ago

I haven't had any issues with my RX 6700 XT. It works great for games and CAD. I've never gotten the video encoding working though. I think it needs the proprietary drivers.

 

I picked this little scope up from the Seapac swap meet a week and a half ago for $3. It turns out that all it needed was some contact cleaner to get it working again.

This is a portable scope that can run from 12V DC as well as an internal battery. I don't have the battery for it, but I could probably put some 18650's in there if I disable the built in charger.

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