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kroy@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Tech's broken promises: Streaming is now just as expensive and confusing as cable. Ubers cost as much as taxis. And the cloud is no longer cheapEnglish51·2 years agoThis is REALLY not the case everywhere.
Toss in like 3 streaming services, which is pretty typical coverage for what most people want to watch, you are at cable costs.
And I dunno if you’ve been in an Uber lately in a larger city in the US, but literally in the last year we’ve gone from people driving nice clean modern cars, to people driving late 90s/early 00s hoopties that are dirty, stained, and don’t have AC, smell like whatever thing was in there before, etc.
kroy@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Microsoft Finally Realizes Nobody Wants Its Windows 11 Preinstalled BloatwareEnglish131·2 years agofeels like a bit of a strawman.
arguing that you can’t use the client without the license for the server… on the same machine, is silly. There’s tons of utility with the client even if you don’t have the server license locally, especially if you ever use the Remote Desktop Client remotely.
kroy@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Twitter is now X as the little blue bird disappearsEnglish5·2 years agoUltimately if they aren’t completely “yes people”, then they are long gone.
kroy@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•How Signal Walks the Line Between Anarchism and PragmatismEnglish81·2 years agoIf you are required to give them information that they can use to figure out who you are, it’s not anonymous.
So if you are on normal post-paid cell phones, where you have given them your real info, or use a credit to pay for it with your name on it, etc. that means you aren’t anonymous.
So when super secret drug lord is caught, they can figure you were talking to this drug lord and charge you, because they have his end of the communications and can verify with your cell provider who YOU are.
Privacy just means they don’t know what you are saying. They may know you are communicating with drug lord but not what you are saying.
You can have neither, one or the other, or both
kroy@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•How Signal Walks the Line Between Anarchism and PragmatismEnglish3·2 years agoIf you are required to give them information that they can use to figure out who you are, it’s not anonymous.
So if you are on normal post-paid cell phones, where you have given them your real info, or use a credit to pay for it with your name on it, etc. that means you aren’t anonymous.
So when super secret drug lord is caught, they can figure you were talking to this drug lord and charge you, because they have his end of the communications and can verify with your cell provider who YOU are.
Privacy just means they don’t know what you are saying. They may know you are communicating with drug lord but not what you are saying.
You can have neither, one or the other, or both
kroy@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•AI System Detects Social Norm ViolationsEnglish9·2 years agoThe line will come far far FAR before that
kroy@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Elon Musk Wants to Relive His Start-Up Days. He’s Repeating the Same Mistakes.English11·2 years agoAs far as paywalls go, that’s one of the nicest ones. One click and I was able to fully read the article without signing up or anything.
kroy@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•[Lifehacker] - Your Phone Isn’t Spying on You to Show You Ads (It’s Worse Than That)English21·2 years agoSure. But you can install a plug-in if you aren’t tech savvy. You can also run something with ad blocking turned on by default.
Ad-blocking on the browser level is enough for most people to never see an ad again.
kroy@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•[Lifehacker] - Your Phone Isn’t Spying on You to Show You Ads (It’s Worse Than That)English195·2 years agoWho actually sees ads? Between NextDNS or PiHole and ublock origin, I haven’t seen an ad in years.
kroy@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Texas power use hits record high as heatwave lingersEnglish11·2 years agoWhile I wholly support this bit of righteous outage… most of the comments here are going to be about the grid and the Republicans.
kroy@lemmy.worldto Selfhosted@lemmy.world•ELI5: Why are SBCs nowhere to be found?English2·2 years agoMeh, I don’t know if they need defense. It’s just kind of how it is.
They got big and popular and that means momentum. Momentum is good for adoption and momentum is good for support, but it’s not great for huge jumps in technological sophistication.
I still LOVE the 2040, pico, etc, but there are just better options when you go bigger than that.
The Potato, Rock Pis.
This creator is great for when you want to SBC shop
kroy@lemmy.worldto Selfhosted@lemmy.world•ELI5: Why are SBCs nowhere to be found?English2·2 years agoGo check out ExplainingComputers on youtube.
https://www.explainingcomputers.com/sbc.html
He basically goes over every SBC possible. The good ones now are the Rock Pis and the Potato series
I’m happy to discuss it, as I’ve written articles about it.
I live high level routing and firewalling in VMs (60 Gbps+), and there are a couple of realities you need to accept, especially when you involved a *BSD in the mix.
- *BSD’s networking drivers and, to a lesser degree, the whole stack SUUUCK. This becomes extra poignant when you involve *pf, which is incredible for hand editing, but also horrible for performance because it’s a straight top-to-bottom list.
- We could argue about the whole networking stack sucking all day, but in reality, it’s the driver situtation that really brings it down. That’s why “You must buy Intel” is such a mantra on *BSD. Because they are about the only drivers which don’t make for a completely horrible experience. You can meme about how terrible Realtek is, but really it’s only terrible on *BSD. It’s a first-class linux citizen, and often supports better hardware features than the ancient X520, pre-Connect-4, etc people circle-jerk about. And if you often losing out on cool new features/offloads/abilities.
- The virtio drivers are usually more efficient and performant than most physical hardware drivers (on *BSD)
- You asked “why would anyone ever need to do that?”. It’s simple. High availability. You can run two router/firewall VMs on two different hosts and have zero downtime. Or, if you only want one, you can migrate the VM either manually or automagically, and only suffer the downtime for a reboot as the VM moves to a different host. You can share the same physical NIC between multiple VMs with SR-IOV for maximum low-latency networking, aka storage. It’s a waste throwing 10Gb at just pfSense when it’ll be idle most of the time, and with older hardware pfSense isn’t going to even be able to hit half of that.
- Your VM just works if you ever have to move it to another host. Your main routing and firewall VM is now tied to a single specific host. In a disaster recovery situation, this is going to make you hate yourself as you basically end up needing to either physically pull a card and re-setup passthrough, or setup passthrough on a new card, make sure the VM is bound to those MACs. When it’s fully virtualized, it’s hardware agnostic. Your VM may think it’s 10Gb on a single link, but underneath the links are high availability (aka vSphere vDS), on different VLANs, etc. My example here is a few years ago where I swapped in a Z8350 WYSE 3040 when my main router died with 40Gb uplinks. Sure, I was limping for a few days, but as far as my router is concerned, there is no difference.
- NUMA becomes an issue. Even single processors have NUMA nodes now, and it wouldn’t be difficult for someone not knowing was a NUMA node is to create a NUMA issue, where you incur huge penalties going from CPU/Chipset to RAM to NIC and back again, depending on where the items are physically arranged in the system. This is doubly poignant in the *BSD world.
- If a 1Gb interface is your bottleneck, your network design is broken. There is no reason for most people in a homelab to try and route >1Gbps on your edge. Don’t packet inspect it, and internally you are up to 10Gbps and beyond. Sure, a >1Gbps link might be a reason in 2023, but what’s your 95th percentile, like 25Mbps if you are lucky. It’s only “hawt” for your speedtest numbers, and an occasional download. And you can do 10Gbps pretty easily with virtio on basically any semi-modern system especially with the large files that most people would want 10Gb for, and not dedicate a PCIe slot to it and make it portable.
I mean, you do you. But I’d much rather to just be able to change the uplink on a vSwitch or bridge to get my router going again instead of having to reboot, passthrough, insert grub cli options, swap cards, etc.
kroy@lemmy.worldto Selfhosted@lemmy.world•ELI5: Why are SBCs nowhere to be found?English171·2 years agoThey aren’t even great platforms anymore in comparison.
Other SBCs are cheaper, more smartly designed, and have more features (emmc, pcie, etc)
The big thing RPI have going for them is that they are the standard and all the OS/software/etc end up being super turnkey
Passing through a NIC just adds complexity, not lessens it. And is a bad idea for a plethora or reasons
kroy@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Advertising revenue in Twitter crashes by 50%English1·2 years agoHe’s below his height of wealth, but he’s still #1 and has 250 billion
kroy@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Advertising revenue in Twitter crashes by 50%English11·2 years agoWhile I’m the same and agree, I’m certainly loving the drama and downfall of that toolbag.
kroy@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•The shady world of Brave selling copyrighted data for AI trainingEnglish22·2 years agoJust like anywhere else, it’s know your audience.
People like to pretend they are hyper privacy/anti-Google focused, but then give over their entire life and capture what they had for dinner on FB and instagram
This is a patently absurd comparision
I don’t even like Apple, but when you talk about their mobile ecosystem (mainly looking at phones/watches) here, Android is laughably behind at this point.
I use linux on my desktop and laptop, but iPhone is the only phone that matters.