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From what I gather, the cyber resilience act applies to all products placed on the EU market, regardless of whether the manufacturer is based inside or outside of the EU. So Europe…

CXL Vistara reminds me a bit of the AST Rampage 286 memory expansion ISA card I had in my 286 back in the day, as a kid. Things go in circles, I guess.

I did actually alert BankID about this potential lock-in issue back when they announced they would be abandoning the SIM-based (and thus phone-independent) solution, to little unde…

Thanks! I'm seeing a 10/90 split between CPU/GPU with gemma4:26b, so I guess there's at least something to win there by adding the other GPU. And perhaps something to win by connec…

I just recently got into experimenting with local LLMs when I had anyway (for non-LLM reasons) built myself a new desktop system with Intel Ultra 270K-Plus and RTX 5080. With 64GB …

Following your parallel: Except the fact that you still need a car in your life, even if you take an uber to the airport when needed :) And in this analogy you need to spend a lot …

> 1. We're still in the "$5 airport Uber" era of LLMs. They're heavily subsidized, and everyone still complains about costs. How does that figure look if you count in the current u…

These "hidden" costs of AI/LLM driving up IT (and energy) related price inflation are starting to feel more and more as a kind of an inescapable, AI-imposed tax. We should start ca…

Vestax actually did something similar in the early 2000s with the VRX-2000 lathe cutter. It cost around $10K back then. The audio wasn't the best, but hey, you could make your own …

Back when Adobe upended their perpetual licensing, Capture One was touted as _the_ alternative and I gave it a try since my new Sony camera's RAW format wasn't supported by the las…

Things seem to be on their way up now, and https://status.denic.de/ is working again, at least from here. DENIC's status page currently says "Frankfurt am Main, 5 May 2026 – DENIC …

Doesn't work here, at least not anymore. Every single .de domain I have tried doesn't resolve.

Same. Core i7 2600K clocked to 4.4GHz with 32GB DDR3. It still does its job as my stationary DAW, and basically handles anything DAW-related I throw at it with ease. The only issue…

I found it quite entertaining (as well as deeply disturbing) to picture Zuckerberg & the other social media kingpins as a modern subtype of druglords rather than "traditional" soft…

FYI OpenLook did have a quite different default colour scheme in SunOS than in these Amix screenshots. Neutral grey window frames with a slightly muted cyan desktop background. In …

So, let me get this straight. If I've been lazy, postponed updates and I'm still on 8.5.8 (Oct 2023) - it turns out I'm actually...safer? Anyway, I hope the author can be a bit mor…

So they're basically role-playing or dry-running something with certain similarities to an emergent form of consciousness but without the ability of taking real-world action, and t…

One thing I'm trying to grasp here is: are these Moltbook discussions just an illusion or artefact of LLM agents basically role-playing their version of Reddit, driven by the way R…

True for their dishwashers. But to their credit, Miele's washing machines actually come with two additional cassettes that you can fill with your (liquid) detergent of choice. You …

Well, of course it's a good idea to double check with various output methods. But if a mix sounds good on studio monitors with a flattest possible frequency response (preferably ev…

Aren't ultra-fine particles still a potential health issue with laser printers? Especially in home office or domestic use, where they typically aren't placed in a separate printer …

I guess you could say the same about fossil fuel cars and gas stations? I doubt that everyone keeps their tanks full at all times. And just imagine the amount of traffic on roads i…

You don't have to go further than Norway to be allowed to park on both sides of the street (unless indicated otherwise by signs) as well as park in both directions. I believe many …

Except for the not-so-minor issue for us Android users: The default gain on Apples adapter is far too low for most proper headphones, and Android doesn't touch the gain and just re…

I haven't had a single headphone jack fail since my 2nd gen. original iPod (and I'm an avid headphone user). It had this special variant with a remote connection in an outer ring a…