bought a pi4
dunno what i actually want to do with the thing, oops
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get some ws2812bs and start working on christmas lights in the SB palette?
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pi hole, octo pi, CRT pi?
yeah i think it’s just gonna be pihole and a low tier nas
lakka doesn’t feel too great, too used to runahead and nice shaders
retropie can definitely do runahead these days
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Sup
We get our WiFi via our landlords, since cable/internet is lumped into our rent (this is an illegal apartment situation)
The signal has always been sorta shitty but it seems to have gotten worse, it’s possible they’ve moved the router or something around. We get pretty strong signal in the bedroom but not really in the living room (almost none in the bathroom or kitchen but that’s not really a big deal to us).
Short of getting my landlord to rent another router and contributing toward the cost on a monthly basis, what are our options? Should we just stick a repeater in the bedroom and hope that it boosts the signal to the living room enough to make things livable?
Yeah, that should work. I might suggest using a different SSID on the repeater so that your devices don’t try to connect to the weak original signal (same-SSID mesh networks that work well involve a set of units all from the same brand).
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do any media players convert hdr screenshots to sdr yet
god that’s getting old
for a while the Nvidia overlay’s video and screenshots had no colorspace conversion out of HDR but they patched and now it just…refuses to capture
not an improvement
doesn’t mpv do automatic tonemapping on an sdr display if you put this in mpv.conf?
hdr-tone-mapping=hable
I have not actually looked too closely into this but I had that rattling around the back of my head
mpc and vlc will convert hdr to sdr on a sdr screen but if you take a screenshot it’s still the washed out look. I was wondering if somebody invented a box to check next to the screenshot options yet to do the same thing it does for playing video for the screenshots.
I don’t use mpv cause it sounds like command line nerd shit
If I plan to upgrade my desktop in the next year or two, should I be planning to include Optane NVDIMMs? I’m having trouble pinning down the value proposition of Optane but it also feels like something that will make its way into most computers sooner or later.
I would lean to no – unless you’re going to have like 3+ nvme slots, it’s less trouble to just buy nvme drives and sata SSDs separately, and not worry about trying to split the differences
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is there group policy or something to turn this shit off?
oh yeah remember i posted about random shutdowns on boot and presumed it had been fixed by a bios update
got another one today and noticed it’s the power button sticking ever so slightly and this is a known thing with this particular fractal case, love it… turned on wake from usb and made a mental note to swap the power and reset switches when i can be arsed, had some antics with this build
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I’m blocking all the updates that remove old edge b/c it’s still impossible to get hwdec of encrypted video in chrome on nvidia, it needs newer intel, and I need to spare myself that one extra cpu core’s worth of decoding when I multitask watching football, etc.
we will see if this become non-viable before chrome finally supports encrypted hwdec on nvidia alone
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honestly, i did that for several firefox releases that broke something truly useful, and after a few days, weeks or something like three months, i gave in.
when you keep ever so slightly track of browser-vulnerabilities, you don’t want to visit unknown URLs, and after a while, any website anymore, and that isn’t fun after the novelty wears off.
It’s bullshit what mozilla or even the EDGE team is doing, make no mistake, and i sometimes miss the browsing experience of 2008-2010ish, with up to 80 open tabs cross five to six tabgroups, a stable tabmix+ config across two devices, watching videos bent across half a side of two desktop cube faces, partially translucent faces, I should note, and I never even thought that a few years later i would be happy if i just can keep bookmarks in some preferred sequence that doesn’t get fvcked up by a new “minor” update where FF breaks things for the sake of it, which in reality is mainly about to kill adblockers.
I guess that’s what growing up means to the digital generation, huh?
Watching the things you used naturally being killed off by corporate greed, wilting away until you are OK if there’s just the bare minimum of functionality left.
Remember RSS-readers?
That was a thing, huh.
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I’ve still got…twenty feeds on an RSS reader? It’s still my prime internet portal.
Honestly twitter has done more to kill it than Google killing Reader did
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yeah i rinse feedly
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Yeah I use feedbin for whatever reason but they fairly recently added newsletter support where you sign up for them with a special email address and they show up alongside your other rss feeds which is pretty nice
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ooh, that’s a smart feature