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shadowpho
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Comment #48972779
I’d love to see a schematic. I’d highly recommend to make sure you have plenty of esd diodes and protection resistors on all inputs. That’ll help the longevity of the system.
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Comment #48922633
I see the antenna points straight at ground and buttons. Is the wifi ok?
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Comment #48818735
Cost is a reason. You need to dig out that dirt (which is expensive), it needs supports, your house needs support around it/through it… Making things bulletproof and massive runs o…
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Comment #48703585
Practically speaking any person cannot maintain that for significant length of time. Dieting has like a 99% fail rate by year 2. It’s hard to maintain that for many people — your b…
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Comment #48563221
Well everyone would. How many would you buy if you could turn around and sell them for $30k easily lol? It’s like saying “well if Subaru launches a nice hybrid suv for $1k it’ll se…
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Comment #48542419
Why can’t Apple launch a $50k product for $1k? Everyone would buy it!
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Comment #48492912
I have a g9 and cooling is fine, but not great. I ended up opening it up and placing heatsinks on hot chips
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Comment #48428862
I mean fast 128gb of ram is like $2k so it’ll be $3k after overhead for just the ram portion of device.
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Comment #48283309
> and having extremely predictable payments for years I’d argue rental is more predictable. Housing has a huge amount of upkeep — $10k ac, $5k water heater, $20k roof…
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Comment #47883612
I’ll need to check my notes on power consumption. I’ve spent quite a bit of time trying out different modes and configurations… it’s not great. I would not expect years at all. You…
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Comment #47684043
The value of electricity is extremely time dependent. You can easily overproduce solar power for your house during the day fairly cheaply. However batteries + gas generators for cl…
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Comment #47650390
Citation needed. Edit: it’s absolutely not true universally and it’s ridiculous to suggest it is. Comparing averages will be very tricky as well.
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Comment #47631966
> cheap buck from 40~80V to e.g. 5V. That’s not a cheap buck lol. Order of magnitude more expensive then 12v not even mentioning capacitors that can withstand 80v is $$$ and your d…
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Comment #47304499
I thought x64 was better for perf per watt just because perf is so much better
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Comment #47304029
I’d go a step further and say get a mini pc unless you need gpio
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Comment #47267652
China is coming online :(
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Comment #47154160
I keep making the same mistake. How do you make intermediary planes?
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Comment #46882075
Isn’t that less efficient in power and can have different color?
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Comment #46881878
It’s because building 500 units would be a non starter for many of them
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Comment #46700823
Some of devices automatically lock once used on a carrier network
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Comment #46596795
>If the goal is consistency, then wall-clock isn't the simple way to do it. It’s simpler than doing a limit on number of states, and for some applications consistency isn’t super i…
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Comment #46506836
Why?
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Comment #46493934
Does X even support hdr yet? When I looked last time the answer was none
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Comment #46417988
You can get an n100 system for $110 on sale. Price went up but I still see $135 on eBay now. However YMMV because Europe prices are different For power I don’t know about orange pi…
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Comment #46406327
Yeah but you can get a n100 on sale for about the same price, and it comes with a case, nvme storage (way better then sd card), power supply, proper cooling solution, and less main…