Why do you use a TLD that is commonly blocked?
We run https://aero.zip, works fine, not once anyone complained about it being blocked. There was a study somewhere that .zip TLD actually gets less malicious registrations compared to other TLDs.
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Re: Show HN: MiniPCs.zip – Charting the Pareto frontier of Mini PCs
#42It's wild that the 128GB RAM machines have completely disappeared. I feel like I'm in possession of a sacred item, having bought a Ryzen 9 system just a month or two before the craze hit.
It has been hard to find 64gb sticks since they launched ime. I had much better luck building 96gb machines. Haven’t looked since the ram crisis.
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Oh for sure - your feedback is totally helpful, I agree the colors are not obvious (especially red being good), perhaps my tone sounded dismissive but that was not the intention at all - symtom of a quick response from my phone! I'll definitely work on improving the readability of the colors and what it means (tricky to find the balance between nerdily over explaining how it works)
If there was a key explaining what the colors meant that would be great. And maybe the option to select colors or pick between a couple of alternatives - i think in western culture green is good but in Chinese i think they normally think of red as the best - just being able to swap between those two defaults would probably be enough - thanks for your hard work - much appreciated
There is; click on the "CPU DEALSCOPE" button on the page and it shows a legend, while also letting you change what the primary axis of color-coding is. (Though oddly, the x-axis itself doesn't change, so random dots end up colored after changing this.)
Re: Show HN: MiniPCs.zip – Charting the Pareto frontier of Mini PCs
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the color allocation is closer to chinese symbolism than western. You don't need to change it, just describe it somewhere, probably with a rainbow strip, maybe bottom right, like a scale symbol on a map.
Oh good point - I was thinking more like "how hot is this deal" (and thus red == best) as opposed to just "good or bad". Now when clicking on the 'dealscope' button there's a little modal which tries to clear it up a bit.
> "how hot is this deal" (and thus red == best)
If that's the intuition you want, then wouldn't it be natural to use the blackbody radiation spectrum (a.k.a. "color temperature")? Red hot -> white hot -> blue hot.
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Well by that token we should probably also block the .com TLD since that is actually an executable file suffix.
Modern 64-bit Windows doesn't execute .com files, unless the user installs an emulator or something.
It does execute PE files with .com extension.
Re: Show HN: MiniPCs.zip – Charting the Pareto frontier of Mini PCs
#46Why do you use a TLD that is commonly blocked?
We run https://aero.zip , works fine, not once anyone complained about it being blocked. There was a study somewhere that .zip TLD actually gets less malicious registrations compared to other TLDs.
The whole TLD is blocked by my work firewall. I imagine you don't get complaints because the few people who are blocked just don't know what you do. How would they even complain if they can't access your website?
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#47I like the little Mini PCs.
I have a GMKtec nucbox with an Intel N100 and an M5 Plus.
The biggest issues with them are around firmware and power consumption, especially idle. It's hard to get them as low as some of the bigger vendor devices.
The M5 plus sometimes resets its fTPM and won't boot without user input until that is resolved.
I can get the nucbox to idle around 4-5w and the M5 plus idles closer to 8w.
Most of the BIOS options are hidden or obscured for power saving.
The worst offender though is Beelink which idles at closer to 30w in the GTi14.
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#48Earlier quoted context omitted.
We run https://aero.zip , works fine, not once anyone complained about it being blocked. There was a study somewhere that .zip TLD actually gets less malicious registrations compared to other TLDs.
The whole TLD is blocked by my work firewall. I imagine you don't get complaints because the few people who are blocked just don't know what you do. How would they even complain if they can't access your website?
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