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Anyone else here self-hosting on absolutely shit hardware?
  • I use it for Plex/Jellyfin, it's the cheapest NVIDIA GPU that supports both AV1 encoding and decoding, even though Plex doesn't support AV1 yet IIRC it's still more futureproof that way. I picked it up for like around $200 on a sale, it was well worth it IMO.

  • Anyone else here self-hosting on absolutely shit hardware?
  • Not anymore. My main self-hosting server is an i7 5960x with 32GB of ECC RAM, RTX 4060, 1TB SATA SSD, and 6x6TB 7200RPM drives.

    I did used to host some services on like a $5 or $10 a month VPS, and then eventually a $40 a month dedi, though.

  • Dell kills the XPS brand
  • Well that sucks. I haven't bought an XPS since the Dell XPS 15z like over a decade ago, but still, the idea that I could buy an XPS Developer Edition laptop and have it be Linux compatible without having to think about it was nice. Now I'm limited to ThinkPads and System76 plus whatever other compatible Clevos there are or maybe a Framework, which I guess is fine since I do own multiple ThinkPads.

    Still, really weird decision.

  • More game devs should be like the devs of Marvel Rivals when it comes to emulation
  • They are similar, but generally emulators have a higher run-time cost - this is because they are "emulating" an entire system, not just translating system calls. By cost, I mean performance of course. Emulators typically simulate/mimic other hardware, whereas translation layers just convert the system calls to be run natively on your existing hardware (which means your CPU architecture must match, etc).

    Wine is far faster than regular emulation would traditionally be.

  • YouTuber LegalEagle sues PayPal over 'sleeping leech' Honey extension | TechCrunch
  • I'm thinking this lawsuit will be more about how they wronged creators, and less about how they wronged customers. I don't expect there to be any justice or concern for the customers who were wronged. Therefore, I agree with TAG, I would worry that them losing would set a bad precedent, and possibly make it so that tampering with referral codes, tracking links, etc isn't allowed anymore because it hurts creators and sellers/companies, and thus that could outlaw adblockers entirely by extension which would not be great.

    That's like worst-case scenario, though, I don't necessarily expect that to happen, but I think it's possible.

  • Daily Driving
  • That's why I love Ubuntu/Mint too.

    It's boring stable.

    I've been tempted to try out other distros, but honestly, when it works as well as it does for me, it's too hard for me to give it up for something that might not be as stable of an experience.

  • I still don’t think companies serve you ads based on spying through your microphone
  • I've literally seen advertisements for products that I was talking about but explicitly did not search for or type or anything on any device. All I did was talk about it in real life.

    It's literally a thing that happens, I have seen it happen first-hand.

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