after like ten years of dithering i started migrating my personal mail to fastmail
now know several people who’ve had their goog accounts terminated out of nowhere, seems untenable
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60% ANSI is not my choice but $60 for a hotswap socket bluetooth wireless PCB running ZMK is great. The battery they sell also fits in with what looks like a JST connector, no soldering.
Hopefully they branch into 65% etc.
what’s this 6e wifi shit. what do I need to buy to find peace in my heart with wifi and not drape cat cables across my girlfriends house
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6E flopped, almost nothing supports it. I’m planning to wait for Wifi 7 before upgrading my router.
One option is a mesh wifi system. Or if you happen to have unused coax already in the walls, Moca networking can do 1 gigabit nowadays (that’s what I do).
yeah, 6E got caught in the hardware refresh hell of 2020 → present where it basically never shipped in an affordable state (Intel actually got cheap and good clients on the market immediately but the routers themselves barely materialized). it’s still not clear if 6E will become mainstream before 7 does; all of the affordable-ish 6E routers right now are using crappy 2x2 configurations that are mostly worse in practice than an older 4x4 router. Apple stuff notably doesn’t support it yet, only 6, and 6 was never the greatest upgrade on 5 (ac) in the first place despite being fairly expensive
Moca is like powerline networking where it’s always like a generation behind current Wifi at best in addition to being annoyingly expensive per-client
tl;dr – mid-2010s hardware is still effectively mainstream in this category, like other categories, for a number of reasons
I’m waiting for reviews of this because their software is good and the price is reasonable: U6-Enterprise Preview: UniFi's First Wi-Fi 6E AP — McCann Tech but like, to the extent that a person can await a router that’s only shipping to early adopters
sounds like I’m running a cat cable across her house for a while at least
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oh
oh no
I need to cancel my Deck reservation before it pops Thursday
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what are people’s thoughts on storage that’s worth buying these days? I have a Dan A4 ready to go when the 5nm stuff rolls out, and I have a 4-bay NAS with huge drives in it so I don’t actually need to think about spinning disks in a PC anymore, but I gather whatever I build in here will probably have room for 2 NVMe drives and 2 2.5" drives.
I’ll be migrating a machine that has a 250GB SSD + 3TB HD, and I’d like to go at least somewhat larger out of the gate, but matching the larger disk would require me to get 4TB of QVO SSD, which seems in no way worth it, whereas I can probably get away with 1TB of NVMe for now and get another 2 later. I might just get 2+2 instead?
I’ve been OK with modestly sized SSD especially because Steam lets you pick what hard drive games are installed on on a per-game basis nowadays, and stores your saves on the cloud. I use the SSD for actively played games in the 25-100GB range and delete them when I’m done. As for games small enough to fit entirely in RAM, I put all of them on my secondary drive up front because they can’t have very long loading times, and that way I don’t need to worry about death-by-a-thousand-cuts.
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Just get the 2TB now. Save yourself the trouble like I didn’t.
Edit: I’m personally avoiding QLC at this point unless the drive won’t be written to constantly.
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I’m bummed optane didn’t pan out
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I like this because it looks like a no-name condom
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15TB!?
the datacentre SSD market is theoretically interesting because it’s a bunch of products that never get marketed to consumers but they aren’t usually very attractive
agreeing with this
bought 2x samsung 980 pros when they were on 50% discount on black friday, which suits because i previously had a rats nest of sata stuff now repurposed + am incapable of cable management
actually considering checking out Desktop Linux for the first time since running arch for a year in 2006, is this a midlife crisis
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I’m using my partner’s retired iPad mini 4 (2015) in lieu of my phone for ereading and browsing in the evenings. I replaced it with a mini 6 that’s hilariously 5x faster single-core.
I’m impressed that it holds up as well as it does considering its age, ~300 Geekbench score, and 2GB of RAM. I turned off notifications and background app refresh, then turned on “reduce motion” in accessibility settings. It’s perfectly fine for Safari and reading books/comics.
Battery has about 80% of its original capacity after ~700 cycles (replacing it looks like a nightmare I am not keen to undertake)
The mini iPhones are much nicer to use as phones but definitely worse as general purpose all-computers and I’m doing a lot less of the former. It’s still really hard to justify a big iPad when I have a 14" MBP but one of the new minis is definitely appealing vs. an 8" Kobo, Kindle, etc. I do not want a keyboard case on an iPad ever again, especially now that they’ve got USB-C.
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YES.
It always is, craving the freedom and never understanding what freedom means, no matter how many distros you have test driven …
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I fucking love the keyboard on my ipad air, but I also don’t have a laptop so
And so many apps have atrocious layout bugs when there’s no on screen keyboard, looking at you discord
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daily driving linux is freedom in much the same way having the option to repeatedly punch yourself in the balls is freedom
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