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JustEnoughDucks

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  • Both sides income, like police

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  • And this is why peertube will never actually take off outside of a Utopian future of unlimited energy and a future where everything is perfectly distributed

    Who is going to pay the hosting costs? Who is going to pay the bandwidth costs? Let's say magic happens and the users donate enough for that. Who is going to pay the creators who that is their main source of income?

    Now what will happen when people demand 4k content everywhere, and then 8k after that? That quadruples the cost of the bandwidth and hosting costs.

    I absolutely hate hate hate subscription models and hate ads. There has to be a subscription model for any video hosting platform, and YouTube doesn't split up into exclusivity deals like shitty steaming services to screw over the consumer for profit. So at least there is that.

    Decentralized systems work extremely well for text and even audio-based services. Video is a whole other beast, especially long form video at high resolutions.

  • GNU Shepherd 1.0 Service Manager Released As "Solid Tool" Alternative To systemd

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  • Yes but as a somewhat layperson (electronics engineer and light firmware design, and some hobby sysadmin stuff), I can learn systemd's "language" in 30 minutes and most attributes are so self evident that you can puzzle them together without learning the language at all.

    That Shepherd mess I would have no idea what to change to make a small tweak without spending hours and hours learning it because it is written extremely cryptically in comparison.

    It's the difference between modifying a config with human readable names and having to go into the source code to change heavily abbreviated variables that require a lot of background knowledge to even read.

  • Here's How Linux Mint is Silently Redefining User Experience

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  • Pretty much people that don't game with hardware from the previous 5 years or so, which is a ton of people.

    My hardware just hit 5 years old and I think mint 22 was the only one with a recent enough kernel not to have breaking bugs for Navi 1 on AMD. It is not easy, straightforward, or often well compatible to upgrade the kernel and mesa on mint.

    Plus ppas are terrible. I had more things break due to ppas or bad updatws in 3 years of mint (granted it was 2014-2017) vs 7 years on arch and 6 months on Bazzite.

    Other than that it is great, and definitely familiar for beginners! Plus the forum is great!

  • What devices or equipment you own or had that doesn't have much use in the modern world anymore?

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  • I am going different on this one.

    An awl on a utility knife.

    Nowadays, 99% of camping, hiking, and "survival" equipment is light weight composites that can be better fixed with glue, tape, small needle and thread, or a patch with one of the above. There are very few alternative uses for it that aren't better with a different standard tool.

  • What is the worst movie that you enjoy watching?

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  • Yup, Sharon stone and dicaprio, 1995

  • What is the worst movie that you enjoy watching?

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  • Disney's robin hood and robin hood men in tights were big during my childhood so I like them for the nostalgia.

    Kingsmen movies are fun

    The quick and the dead with decaprio is very bad but I enjoy it.

  • What was cancelled or discontinued that you wish wasn't or that they brought it back?

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  • Not "technically" discontinued, but almost

    Buying products and owning them.

    Buying products and getting full repair manuals and electrical schematics

    Cathode ray tubes

    Overbuilt refrigerators and washing machines

    Clothes that last and are repairable

    Houses built with full bricks and iron with actual straight walls and unbroken woodwork

  • Selfhost alternative to sharedrop.io?

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  • This is what I need.

    If you only need to drop files on the same LAN, then you really don't need a server. P2P is perfect and cuts out the middle man.

  • How could digitial age verification be possibly implemented with privacy in mind?

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  • Here in Belgium we have cryptographically signed tokens on our legally mandated IDs.

    You can use that token to do all sorts of things (my company uses them as authorship signatures for our quality system for medical devices), but if we had some standard like that, then we could have some software that would have a OTP based on that that is a huge list of valid OTPs in a website API or so, not linked to the token itself. (So you would have to trust this software that generates the OTP). You will get people using the same OTP, but that wouldn't matter because it would just be a validity check. Lind of like the old product key generators for games.

    Sure this could be abused or gotten around by a programmer or hack, but for 95% of the population it would be effective age verification without giving away any information or statistics. Sure, people could also abuse it and save a code and use it constantly, but then they would already have been verified. Sharing a code around would also happen with teens, but it would be far more effective than not, especially for the low stakes of age verification.

  • Is there a community where I can get news about technology as in science, as opposed to "drama involving tech companies"?

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  • Literally the 2nd post on !tech@programming.dev is about mega corporations financials. Many other posts are about legal cases of megacorporations.

    It seems to be less about technology, and more about the market and software drama/politics.

    At least no musk spam.

  • Nominate your favorite projects of 2024 | Unplugged Tuxies

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  • Not OP, but maybe because it is a survey from a Linux group and discord has treated Linux like 2nd class citizens since 2015 and they don't give a flying fuck about making the experience as good on Linux as windows. It is an afterthought.

    And it is not like they did anything special at all this year to warrant a "of the year" award. Discord has been out for almost a decade. That is like saying windows is OS of the year when they have done almost nothing but bad decisions this year and the OS is already been out for a long time.

  • What's the best Matrix client?

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  • Also no threads on fluffy chat yet. Hopefully soon!

  • Does anyone else feel like tech peaked around 10+ years ago?

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  • GPU advances have also gone way way down.

    For many years, YoY GPU increases lead to node shrinkages, and (if we simplify it to the top tier card) huge performance gains with slightly more power usage. The last 4-5 generations have seen the exact opposite: huge power increases closely scaling with performance increases. That is literally stagnation. Also they are literally reaching the limit of node shrinkage with current silicon technology which is leading to larger dies and way more heat to try to get even close to the same generational performance gain.

    Luckily they found other uses for uses GPU acceleration. Just because there is an increase in demand for a new usecase does not, in any way, mean that the development of the device itself is still moving at the same pace.

    That's like saying that a leg of a chair is reaching new heights of technological advancement because they used the same chair leg to be the leg of a table also.

    It is a similar story of memory. They are literally just packing more dies in a PCB or layering PCBs outside of a couple niche ultra-expensive processes made for data centers.

    My original comment was also correct. There is a reason why >10 year old MCUs are still used in embedded devices today. That doesn't mean that it can't still be exciting finding new novel uses for the same technology.

    Again, stagnation ≠ bad

    The area that electronics technology has really progressed quite a bit is Signal Integrity and EMC. The things we know now and can measure now are pretty crazy and enable the ultra high frequency and high data rates that come out in the new standards.

    This is not about pro gamer upgrades. This is about the electronics (silicon based) industry (I am an electronics engineer) as a whole

  • Does anyone else feel like tech peaked around 10+ years ago?

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  • It has absolutely stagnated. Earlier transistors were becoming literally twice as dense every 2 years. Clock speeds were doubling every few years.

    Year 2000, first 1GHz, single core CPU was released by nvidia.

    2010 the Intel core series came out. I7 4 cores clocked up to 3.33GHz. Now, 14 years later we have sometimes 5GHz (not even double) and just shove more cores in there.

    What you said "it's just that you don't need to upgrade anymore" is quite literally stagnation. If it was a linear growth path from 1990 until now, every 3-5 years, your computer would be so obsolete that you couldn't functionally run newer programs on them. Now computers can be completely functional and useful 8-10+ years later.

    However. Stagnation isn't bad at all. It always open source and community projects with fewer resources to catch up and prevents a shit ton of e-waste. The whole capitalistic growth growth growth at any cost is not ever sustainable. I think computers now, while less exciting have become much more versatile tools because of stagnation.

  • Does anyone else feel like tech peaked around 10+ years ago?

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  • Well it is literally not going as fast.

    The rate of "technology" (most people mean electronics) advancement was because there was a ton of really big innovations at in a small time: cheap PCBs, video games, internet, applicable fiber optics, wireless tech, bio-sensing, etc...

    Now, all of the breakthrough inventions in electronics have been done (except chemical sensing without needing refillable buffer or reactive materials), Moore's law is completely non-relevant, and there are a ton of very very small incremental updates.

    Electronics advancements have largely stagnated. MCUs used 10 years ago are still viable today, which was absolutely not the case 10 years ago, as an example. Pretty much everything involving silicon is this way. Even quantum computing and supercooled computing advancements have slowed way down.

    The open source software and hardware space has made giant leaps in the past 5 years as people now are trying to get out from the thumb of corporate profits. Smart homes have come a very long way in the last 5 years, but that is very niche. Sodium ion batteries also got released which will have a massive, mostly invisible effect in the next decade.

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  • Better compared to the MK4S price since you get the enclosure with it.

    That being said, definitely high compared to bambu, but that is also because bambu takes advantage of much lower labor, operating, and land costs in china. It is quite normal for EU-designed and certainly EU manufactured products to be more expensive.

  • TIL antiperspirant works better if applied at night before bed

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  • To be fair though, most people with a BO problem don't know they have a BO problem because the human brain is incredibly good at simply throwing away at "constantly present" smells. That's also why people have a quasi unique scent, but they don't know what their own is.

    I have definitely had a few coworkers with a BO problem that thought they didn't smell at all, so YMMV.

  • Solar modules now selling for less than €0.06/W in Europe

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  • Only partially true. The solar panels almost all inject power back into the grid. Power companies started complaining about their profits when they had to actually pay the users for their power that they generated so now home power generating houses get paid pennies on the dollar for delivering power and reducing the power capacity needed by the power companies and of course the power companies didn't lower prices at all, so they are just sucking up the difference in pure profit.

  • What are some self hosted services that you think are essential?

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  • Depends on what your usecase is for what is "essential."

    I think keeping household documents, taxes, medical bills, etc... In a local only paperless-ngx instance is quite essential to the organization of a household where everything is searchable and able to be organized on multiple levels compared to a simple document folder on 1 computer.

    Having a document or self-hosted wiki with an in - case - of - death document that gets backed up in an encrypted, but accessible by family place is probably the most "essential" thing.