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> DACs are copper, and they're happy. Yeah, but DACs are pretty short and tend to have much thicker cables than regular copper Ethernet.

Yes, the decryption happens in hardware. For your OS (and potential capturing software running on it) the place where you see the video is just an empty canvas on which the hardwar…

I think the noise emissions of a successful launch already make it an unattractive and potentially hazardous (for your hearing) place to live, especially considering SpaceX' launch…

> AMD supports it on all chips Unfortunately not. I can't say for current gen, but the 5000 series APUs like the 5600G do not support ECC. I know, I tried... But yes, most Ryzen CP…

They have a video where they have an eInk display show video at 60 Hz. In contrast to a previous video, where the display was running at 2.4 Hz and the video then sped up by 10x, t…

> As you'd expect, the embryo was only tiny and measured just 27cm long. 27cm is not exactly what I would call tiny. For comparison, this is what Wikipedia has to say on the topic …

The BSDs have diverged significantly since then and not just in userland. Unlike Linux distros they do not all have the same kernel. There are of course common parts in their kerne…

I recently used this (via https://depenguin.me/ ) to install FreeBSD from a Linux Rescue Image on a Hetzner root server. Hetzner sadly discontinued the FreeBSD Rescue Image. This i…

> Surely they can transfer data through water efficiently enough? Actually, no. Water absorbs most of the electromagnetic spectrum pretty well, severely limiting the communication …

No, there is no defragmentation for ZFS, unfortunately. A way to get around that is to send the pool's content to another (fresh) ZFS pool, where it would be written sequentially. …

When pointing out that HDDs can outperform these SSDs, 'sequential' is the key word. I regularly pull remote backups with syncoid (i.e. `zfs send | zfs receive`) and over time that…

At home: - a FreeNAS with a bunch of Samba file shares and a Plex. I tried Jellyfin, because I got annoyed with Plex trying to force me to create an account on their cloud stuff, w…

Not sure what the confidence intervals of these numbers are. For example, the BH14NS40 drive is listed with an accuracy of 99.4937, whereas the WH14NS40 is listed with 98.0869. The…

> Getting newer versions of software. Often the version available in pkg is several major versions out of date. The default settings for pkg use the quarterly branch. Remove the co…

Adding to the banking data points: I have an Xperia 10 II running Sailfish. MobileBankID and Swish (Sweden) as well as the ING Banking app (Germany) work on it. I was pleasantly su…

Ohh, interesting. From the foto [1] this appears to be the same AC057TC1 panel that the Inkplate 6COLOR [2] uses. [1] https://core-electronics.com.au/media/catalog/product/cache/..…

It's what you get support for. At my job we run several third party applications that are targeted at RHEL/RHEL-clones. Sure, they might run on other distros, but if you need the v…

relevant Video excerpt: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCRzaGUKEFA&t=408s

I guess it's always a question of perspective. Coming from Germany, there definitely is _more_ of a cycling culture in Sweden than in Germany. The cycling infrastructure is better …

Similarly I discovered yesterday that the systemd service definition for auditd includes the `RefuseManualStop` option for this exact reason. When stopping (and thus also when rest…

If you understand German and like 4 hour long podcasts, Tim Pritlove just released a CRE episode about Terravision where he speaks with Pavel Mayer: https://cre.fm/cre222-terravisi…

Hm. With (only) uBlock I get a subscription overlay that I can't get to go away, keeping me from reading the article. With uMatrix and uBlock I can read the article, but get the su…

There is no web browser on the ReMarkable. On purpose. Their mentality is that the device should be a distraction-free note-taking, idea-sketching tool. source: https://remarkable.…

You are right of course. I was primarily thinking of phones, where the battery life is sacrificed for half a millimeter and laptops, where ports are eliminated for a millimeter or …

I'm going to guess it is to keep it slim. And while I normally think this fad to make everything thin is stupid, in this one case I feel it makes sense. You want the thing you're w…