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  • US education

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  • That's not a dodgy HDMI cable. One of the devices, if multiple are connected together, is causing the mains electricity to be capacitively transferred across the transformer core in the power supply.

    That's a dodgy power supply design because of either a cheap core design, poorly rated decoupling caps across the HV to LV side of the core or lack of earth pin.

  • Reddit in talks to embrace Sam Altman’s iris-scanning Orb to verify users

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  • And I was worried that it was the Australian Governments Digital ID shit that would be what gets in my way. You know what reddit, just do it. It would be the kick I need to completely drop reddit.

  • "You need to try Linux"

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  • It's hard to tell sometimes. Especially when it's such a sensitive issue where normies will parrot the same ignorant crap over and over again. I one went off on someone, not even considering it was in-jest, because is was so convincingly written.

    The /s is important people. I know it slightly reduces the impact of the joke but some people believe that shit 110%.

  • CHATCONTROL STOPPED!

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  • Congratulations.

    How does/can Australia stop the Under 16 Social Media ban? I suspect that this is the first step of many to undermine Australians.

  • [rant] everytime i give it a chance, btrfs lets me down

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  • Not really. Even TrueNAS Core (ZFS) highly recommends ECC memory to mitigate this possibility from occurring. After reading more about filesystems in general and when money allowed, I took this advice as gospel when upgrading my server from junk I found laying around to a proper Supermicro ATX server mobo.

    The difference I think is that BRTFS is more vulnerable to becoming unmountable whereas other filesystems have a better chance of still being mountable but contain missing or corrupted data. The latter usually being preferable.

    For desktop use some people don't recommend ZFS as if the right memory corruption conditions are met, it can eat your data as well. It's why Linus Torvalds goes on a rant every now and then about how bullshit it is that Intel normalized paywalling ECC memory to servers only.

    I disagree and think the benefits of ZFS on a desktop without ECC outweigh a rare possibility that can be mitigated with backups.

  • Linux Mint and Framework Laptops Join Forces

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  • Hopefully this means coreboot support finally.

  • Windows 11 is now automatically enabling OneDrive folder backup without asking permission

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  • Doesn't Windows 10 already do that? I could never get the freaking thing to leave my files behind and disable itself.

    Windows 10 LTSC for the win if you have software you can't yet abandon.

  • Reader's Block

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  • I'm both. Somehow. I apparently switch between them.

  • New ASUS router firmware now requires a user to be 16y or older and will restrict features and even security upgrades if you opt out

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  • Isn't the Banana Pi R64/R3/R4 close enough to that?

  • New ASUS router firmware now requires a user to be 16y or older and will restrict features and even security upgrades if you opt out

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  • FYI the open source OpenWRT based Banana Pi R3 AX 4x4 is a thing. Don't buy closed source Routers/APs on purpose.

  • Twitter/x.com is now forcing you to disable Firefox's Enhance Tracking Protection.

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  • Every time someone writes x.com I immediately think they're talking about a porn site. What a shit rebrand. Or what a perfect name I guess?

  • Android 15 will let you find your Pixel 8 even when it's off

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  • You know what's funny. I was investigating the hardware datasheets for the PinePhone and looking at the RTC module and just like PC RTC chips there is an option to trigger an interrupt/power on when a certain time is met. That means that there appears to be no reason this couldn't be a current feature on probably all modern smartphones. Just lack of software support.

  • DVD-like optical disc could store 1.6 petabits (or 200 terabytes) on 100 layers

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  • Well I'm in my mid 20's so I'm hoping for at least that long :). No I won't likely need alot of what I store to last that long although I am a member of r/DataHoarder (not sure if they're on lemmy yet) but for a few items like family photos/videos it's nice to have it written in a way that I can mostly just set and forget. With the standardization and open source implementation of LTFS you have even less worry about having the software to read it in the future. A SAS IT mode HBA and linux with a git clone of the LTFS repo is all you need.

    In terms of cost the drive was very expensive ($2500 NOS from eBay US) but if you treat that as the one off entry cost, the tapes are cheaper for me to buy than the equivalent in HDDs here in Australia. That's comparing ~$460 20tb EXOS HDDs from serverpartdeals.com to $43 x 8 = $344 2.5TB LTO-6 from stutchdata.com.au.

    Also I store the tapes in IP67 boxes from bunnings along with a pack of desiccant and put the boxes in a cool but damp area. Don't really have alot of choice where I live. It's either that or hot daily temperature swings. Basement vs attic/garage.

    I hope that's enough to store them correctly environmentally speaking. I am in the process of working out how to clean family VHS tapes that were not stored correctly and that's not an operation I want to revisit. An extended project is to make 900mhz button cell humidity/temperature monitors to notify me when desiccant has expired.

    This may seem excessive but I would argue most don't do enough in an age where more and more is being stored digitally as the only copy rather than print, etc. I feel this is a small price to pay to keep the still more compact and convenient all digital lifestyle without the data loss issues most people experience. The drive was expensive to buy into but with how little I use it I hope it's going to last a long time.

  • DVD-like optical disc could store 1.6 petabits (or 200 terabytes) on 100 layers

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  • DVD-like optical disc could store 1.6 petabits (or 200 terabytes) on 100 layers

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  • Yea but the tape is likely to last the 20-30 year estimate. You couldn't say the same about HDDs especially the helium sealed ones.

    Whether the tape drive will survive as well is another question but between the simpler mechanism, a drive 2 generations ahead can still read the tape, parts inter-compatibility if you needed to frankenstein an older drive with new rollers and motors and just plain buying and keeping drives sealed in storage as new-old-stock ahead of time. You have a few options to choose from.

    Where as with HDDs you may have to repair each one. The helium ones you may have to re-gas.

    Tape sounds like a better long term archival/backup approach.

  • DVD-like optical disc could store 1.6 petabits (or 200 terabytes) on 100 layers

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  • Believe it or not, first gen DVD-RAM came exactly like this. But manufacturers cheaped out / wanted the drives to be more easily compatible with CDs. So the caddys were scrapped.

  • DVD-like optical disc could store 1.6 petabits (or 200 terabytes) on 100 layers

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  • And then unsolved as of late by manufacturers cheaping out.

  • MacBooks, Chromebooks lead losers in laptop repairability analysis

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  • Where do I get the keyboard as a part from? I bought a keyboard from a seemingly branded seller on Aliexpress and the keyboard was really shit. The spacebar didn't balance at the edges and all the key felt mushy.

    I also bought a battery from iFixit and got two warranty replacements and not a single one lasted more than a few hours before bricking itself. As in the battery still measured a voltage and it could keep the ram contents in sleep but the controller/battery info no longer showed up in macOS.

    I can do these repairs as difficult as they are but where do I actually get the parts from?

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  • Have you considered the PinePhone (Pro)?

  • Don't be that guy.

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  • Absolutely. Should have clarifying that I'm not defending the attitude and abuse of developers. However driving non technical end users to insanity with ill thought through processes is also wrong. Such as expecting users to write bug reports when an automated tool should be being used. An unclear installation guide where 90% of user run into the same problem. etc.

    Linus's (LTT) Linux challenge was the ultimate test of the open source community and they failed miserably. Blaming linus for bricking the system. Um hello, he never should have been incentivized to open the command line at all.

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