what does ‘actual monitor’ mean for a digital display?
“has a scaler and can therefore accept signals not in its native resolution” as a baseline
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4TB for $83 ($0.021/GB) seems like a good deal to fill up a four-bay NAS. Larger capacities don’t get more cost efficient by the byte and I can’t imagine using up 16TB soon. Are the speed/cache/durability worth getting fewer bigger drives?
here’s the thing, you’re going to want redundancy in a four-bay NAS (even if you never RAIDed anything in your life, synology gives you headache-free btrfs out of the box, and you won’t regret it), so 4TB is a bit of a waste of a slot
most 8-12TB drives can do linear reads/writes at around 200MB/s these days and I don’t think anything smaller is terribly competitive (though my NAS transfers bottleneck at around 80MB/s over 3x3ac wifi)
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Yeah but at this point I’m really not playing most AAA games. I recognize I’m a weird outlier though
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I’d like to be annoyed that sony have successfully socialized “buy your own console storage” but given where the numbers are at right now and that they’re at least supporting generic hardware, it seems reasonable enough
good NVMe is still like twice(?) as expensive as it feels like it should be for media-class storage, though I guess what’s in contention now is whether games should be treated as “media” rather than “software” for storage purposes
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“two gamer household” and “his-and-hers SSDs” gave me psychic damage, posting this to r/AreTheStraightsOK to sublimate
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I feel the same, households should have zero gamers at most
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anyone have any thoughts on watchtower for keeping containers up to date?
imagine hiring a dom to squeeze mark cerny by the balls and ask how he likes “marble madness”
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no, thank you
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It’s so hard to find a practicing Freudian these days
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I don’t think you’ve gotten enough “cursed image” feedback for this.
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when I have the windows MR headset hooked up it stacks a “6,7,8” directly on top of #1
you know, nice normal 30mpix virtual framebuffer
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anyone wondered why resolving IPv6 addresses may be fractionally quicker than IPv4?
neither did i!
… until today, when i stumbled across a ‘Happy Eyeballs’ mention in TLSv1.3 spec (seriously! ch. 4.6.1, new session ticket message… of all places, TLS.)
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc8305
Of course, that name has come from … not google, it was apple (… this time).
(n.b. for the record:
no, i cannot perceive 50ms delay, i am too old for that already. 2 seconds, that’s where my Planet of the Apes brain slowly starts to begin wondering why i am, and what the hell am i doing reading these things!!! 
)
(n.n.b. thought initially that this was one of the april fools RFCs, that’s why i clicked. because, you know, I do have a life. Which is why I feel like it is justified to place three paragprahs to explain myself for posting a stupid link, there is absolutely nothing to see here, Officer 
)
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I had a very fun interaction with this recently where my old Macs would resolve any IPv6-capable domains as my website instead of the intended location, but nothing modern did
eyeballs were very much not happy
the issue was apparently that these machines would look up DNS within the local network’s domain (which lives underneath my web domain) and that would for some reason go ahead and resolve to the wildcard I use so I don’t have to configure every single subdomain manually, but only on these old systems. weird stuff! so now I don’t have wildcard DNS on that domain 😮💨
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Everyone can perceive & consciously verbalize they noticed a 50ms delay, it’s just context-dependent. For example when stylus drawing or fingerpainting directly on a screen, it couldn’t be more obvious if the screen takes that long to catch up with where your hand is. It’s going to look like a snake following your hand at a certain distance and only catching up when you stop.
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exactly, and a decade+ of firefox use, coupled with android training for half a decade as well, a second lag in input on anything web-related doesn’t even register as out-of-this-world bad anymore, such is the decay of the browsing-experience until today.
Fancy animations or apps try to hide the fact, and most users have adapted anyway to not expect more anyway, myself included. It’s only when using old programs or systems that you realize how high the bar was before the regression in performance took hold.
How much of that is due to changing landscape, cysecurity or inability to diversify, idk, and i do not wanna be that “C=best;” guy, since i acknowledge that many good things have come about by tearing down the ivory tower of the few that could properly program™ on machine level.
However, if an autostarting MS teams takes away the focus of the UI, and you end up typing things in the most recent chat that happens to be open, aggravated by teams taking seconds to start (i. e. you don’t notice for a short while that the focus is gone), i kinda believe we, as a F… unctional Programming Société (
), could do better.
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Steelcase Criterion - a classic!
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