[-] aard@kyu.de 2 points 2 years ago

AMD keeps some older generations in production as their budget options - and as they had excellent CPUs for multiple generations now you also get pretty good computers out of that. Even better - with some planning you'll be able to upgrade to another CPU later when checking chipset lifecycle.

AMD has established by now that they deliver what they promise - and intel couldn't compete with them for a few generations over pretty much the complete product line - so they can afford now to have the bleeding edge hardware at higher prices. It's still far away from what intel was charging when they were dominant 10 years ago - and if you need that performance for work well worth the money. For most private systems I'd always recommend getting last gen, though.

[-] aard@kyu.de 2 points 2 years ago

At the time of sending the mail I need the metadata - so offering a SMTP server implementation which keeps this in memory while forwarding is not hard. You'd lose a persistent spool in case of delivery errors - but we've been doing relays that keep the client connection open while trying to deliver the mail to relay errors directly to the client already 30 years ago, so that also isn't an excuse.

For IMAP - if you don't do serverside searching or similar it'll work with fully encrypted mails.

[-] aard@kyu.de 2 points 2 years ago

I was referring to work setups with the overengineering - if I had a cent for every time I had to argue with somebody at work to not make things more complex than we actually need I'd have retired a long time ago.

[-] aard@kyu.de 2 points 2 years ago

It did, but note that the linked picture is the full resolution of the camera. Also, the phone had very limited storage space, and the display was in no way suitable for displaying the pictures taken, so you just hoped for the best until you managed to check them on your computer.

The S55 got lost eventually, but the camera module should still be around here somewhere.

[-] aard@kyu.de 2 points 2 years ago

A Siemens S55. After that I moved to a Treo 270, and stayed with Palm until Nokia gave me an N900

[-] aard@kyu.de 2 points 2 years ago

"Did Loki port it?", which was a very short list, plus a few exceptions like Quake.

[-] aard@kyu.de 2 points 2 years ago

and send everyone to harvest at the first sign of blight

That sounds like a good strategy until blight happens in the middle of a massive invasion.

I still do mostly corn, but with smaller fields with gaps in between. Makes it easier to take fields out of use if I don't need them and they'd just be wasting work time, and I can ignore blight without losing too much if something else is going on.

[-] aard@kyu.de 2 points 2 years ago

While that's generally true we might want to look into utilizing available cores more - but I guess with LLM it might be harder to scale that while keeping file size the same.

A lot of the current compression programs only use one thread properly - which was still perfectly fine a few years ago, but thanks to AMD cores have become cheap. Few years ago most notebooks would come with two cores, and either two or four threads, with higher end models with 4c/4t. Something bigger pretty much didn't exist for notebooks, and was expensive for desktops.

Nowadays you can get 16 cores in a reasonably priced notebook, and if it benefits your work you won't think much about spending a bit extra for a 32 or 64 core CPU in your workstation - where just 6 years ago you'd have had no option for such a notebook, and paid the equivalent of a not too shabby car for the workstation.

[-] aard@kyu.de 2 points 2 years ago

It seems to be available in Factory nowadays. Add the X11:Wayland repo for faster updates. You probably also want to install xdg-desktop-portal-hyprland.

I have my own packages in OBS where I occasionally build the latest git version - initially I've been updating it every few days, nowadays it's mature enough that sometimes I lag behind the released versions.

[-] aard@kyu.de 2 points 2 years ago

Mine are handling oit perfectly fine - and we have the added difficulty of having German as mother tongue, and wanting to keep the English language content in the kids library low. Finding german language torrents is rather tricky.

[-] aard@kyu.de 2 points 2 years ago

replacement motherboard (ludicrous this is this even a thing

A lot of energy and water savings in modern machines are due to the electronics used. Also, replacement of weight to keep the machine from wandering around during spin cycles with sensors and attempts to rebalance laundry, if necessary.

was triple the price of the entire washing machine.

The EU commission is aware of that, though for now hopes their ecodesign initiative for repairable products will be enough to push vendors in the right direction. Given that all of this is pretty new it's quite impressive to see how some vendors are embracing it already - I first noticed it when replacing an ancient kitchen oven, and in the shop next to spare sheets I could get all electronic components used in that thing.

I imagine they'll monitor the situation, and will have a chat with problematic companies based on that, or consumer protection complaints - like they did with the switch joycon drift thing, which I think was one of the first instances where eco design was referenced as reason for taking action.

[-] aard@kyu.de 2 points 2 years ago

emacs lisp already lets you use the full range of unicode.

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