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Speed test from who?

I've got gigabit fiber from AT&T and Netflix's site is the only one that can reliably shove a full gigabit at me. (Or ,rather the 940mbps, which is "gigabit" according to Ma Bell.)

Maybe try fast.com and see if you get different reported speeds?

Maybe the router is just too weak? Well, I used iperf3 between two desktops that are both hardwired in and I got ~940 “Mbits/sec”.

Also this doesn't mean anything: switching is probably handled by an ASIC in the router, and routing is handled by the CPU to keep track of all the NAT table state stuff, so you 100% could have a device that'll pass gigabit on the lan, and only 10mbps on the wan.

It's not even really that bad: a new patch will force recompiling of the shaders in Fortnite, and by the time you hit the ground from the battle bus it's usually... fine?

Like, yes, it's a stuttery mess in the lobby and while landing, but who cares? That's not gameplay where it matters in the least what the pixel-peeping frametime stats say.

This kind of thing is why I've just stopped caring about product reviews. It's either pixel-peeping nonsense that nobody but the reviewer thinks is important, or it's nonsense like 'The new Gaming Blaster X 2000 Mega Pro! For $1499 it's the best thing since the last thing, you should buy it, recommended!' and you look at the benchmarks, and you see that last gen was 148 fps, and this thing is 158 fps on the minimums and like, who gives a shit.

You won't notice this if you're playing the game and not playing watch-a-stats-graph, and this has kinda become the norm for a few generations of reviews on everything.

The thermalright peerless assassin would be my first choice. Cheap, good, and works on either amd or intel chips. I’ve got two with no complaints.

New (7000 and 9000) ryzen CPUs have an iGPU that can transcode via AMF, so the 'equivalent' would just be buy a modern AMD CPU.

AMF isn't quite as good as Quicksync, but it's probably fine for most use cases for most people, though I can notice the image quality losses when you're doing something like transcoding to 1080p low(ish) bitrate for remote streaming, and so have a very big bias in favor of nvenc or quicksync.

Also, I'm in the more-ram-is-better camp, so buy as much as you want and/or the platform supports.

Extra fun nginx thing: don't use 403, use 444.

That's a nginx special response that doesn't actually send anything back, it just drops the connection and moves on.

Oh no, botsin.space is going away? :(

I don't think they necessarily have any special intel, but they're certainly expecting the US to do something boneheaded, like decide to leave NATO, and thus encourage more militarism on the part of countries not included in NATO.

Of course, odds are pretty high that's exactly what's going to happen.

Not the OP, but capacity: there aren't 20TB 2.5 drives.

(Or 18, 16, 14, 12, or 10TB ones, for that matter....)

Kinda a dead-end product since laptops are all on SSDs, and enterprises have flocked to SSDs as well and that was essentially the entire market for that size of HDD.

Yeah, I'm just using some cheap NFC stickers from Ali Express.

The thing is that I don't use the dashboard: not every action has a dashboard entry and even if there is one, the amount of time it takes to load the app, open the correct dashboard tab, and then click a button is like, 10x the time of 'tap your phone on the NFC tag, and thing happens'.

On Android anyway: iOS requires you endlessly tap 'Yes, yes I'm sure I meant to do that it's fine just do it already' for NFC triggered actions, and on Android, it just goes 'boink' and does it.

TLDR: it's super faster than hitting a button on the dashboard.

Had to stop reading, as it pissed me off pretty quick-like.

The Mom is completely gone and some talk therapy isn't going to fix what's wrong here.

"Oh she never talked about it!"

"Oh Trump wouldn't do that!"

"Oh there's nobody coming for you!"

"Oh I didn't know that you were worried about this!"

Just low-informed plus gaslighting to justify doing what they wanted, regardless of who gets hurt.

Honestly, I would have assumed 1080p was an acceptable default assumption.

Is this just a case of older hardware, or are there still laptops that don't have 1080p panels at this point?

A quick review of stuff on BestBuy indicates that $150 laptops have 1080p displays now, and anything more than that does as well, so uh, what devices are still using these?

Everything Whedon has ever done was mid, and I'm going to be banned for saying that, probably.

Man, the things you have to do to cancel a gym membership these days is out of hand.

(/s, just in case).

Both!

The native automation is perfectly cromulent for what I want, usually, but there's a couple of cases where the integrations either don't exist or don't return meaningful data.

FOR EXAMPLE, the video playback in the living room thing. Sure, the roku integration says "something is playing" but it's shockingly wrong and unreliable. What happens is it falls into 'idle' status between videos, or if you're fast forwarding sometimes and thus the automation was not doing exactly what I wanted.

The Jellyfin API, though, can look at the living room tv user and is spot on as to what is going on with play/pause/stopped statuses, so I have node red yank that data direct from the API and it works great.

The equivalent of Intune for Linux would be... Intune.

Though you're still having to do a lot more work on the implementation side for it, and a lot of IT teams isn't going to want to deal with it for the two people that actually want Linux, out of the 10,000 employees they're otherwise managing.

I've gone way too far down the automation path.

All manner of temperature, humidity, occupancy, motion, and air quality sensors make all sorts of things do appropriate responses.

For example, I've got a mmwave motion/occupancy sensor in the bathroom, and if there's no motion/occupancy and the humidity is more than 5% higher than the hallway sensor, then turn on the exhaust fan until it's not.

Or, if the air particulate count in the kitchen is too high, turn on the exhaust fan until it's not.

Or, if the living room is occupied, and the tv is on and playing media, turn the overhead lights off and turn the RGB accent light on very dimly. And if the media is paused or stopped, increase the brightness of the RGB lighting so you can see where you're walking, and if it stays paused or stopped for more than 10 minutes, turn the main lights back to whatever state they were in before media playback started.

No dashboards though, since the goal is essentially that you don't have to think about what is going on, because it should Just Work(TM) and never be something you have to deal with.

...though, really, I'd say we're at like 80% successful with that.

For manual interactions I've got a bunch of NFC tags in various places that will trigger the appropriate automation in the case that you either want to do it by hand or it fails to do the needful, plus the app is configured to allow manual control of any device and to trigger specific automations.

Yeah, you have to have a meeting to discuss the merits of violating the prime directive BEFORE you violate it, duh.

https://x.com/realdebrid/status/1859673163681960169?s=46&t=v7hlI5j-ie2ub28ChSkAKw

Roku TV app store

Yes, and it works pretty well.

But not so much with the consoles, though there is a UWP xbox app, but it's uh, not very good.

Search will never search non-local content.

Which is the point I'm trying to make: right now, you cannot use search as a discoverability medium, unless you're on something the scale of mastodon.social.

Search with a focus on new content discoverability is utterly useless for smaller or single user instances, because a search that only finds things you already know about isn't exactly a useful search for discoverability.

If I have to be on the biggest instances, then there's very little difference between something like Bluesky and Mastodon in terms of usability, and uh, I might as well pick the one that's more likely to have the most growth and diversity of content.

We have to give up on the idea of having easy and direct access to the whole of thw fediverse.

I agree, and it's why I've pretty much migrated back to centralized services with the exception of Lemmy, because Lemmy works very well in terms of finding useful shit to follow in a way that literally no other federated platform does.