ky56

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[–] ky56@aussie.zone 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Can I donate to your campaign to ban political donations?

[–] ky56@aussie.zone 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Fuck Electron. I hate that current trend. I like my long battery life and being able to run more than 3 applications on my MacBook Pro.

I will always use the example of how I subscribed to Spotify for a couple months back in 2015 and realized that the app constantly sat at the top of the Using Significant Energy list on my mac and was the reason the fan was so loud. I switched away to Apple Music for that sole reason. iTunes by comparison was very power efficient. It plays music for gods sake. How can you fail at playing music that badly.

[–] ky56@aussie.zone 5 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Then you're really not doing that much research. I can easily open 20 to 50 tabs for just one project. I'm not defending leaving them open. I've finally started to address the problem by learning how to take notes. I chose Joplin for this.

Autism/ADHD is a bitch for some things and note taking and writing up research has never just "come to me".

[–] ky56@aussie.zone 28 points 2 months ago (4 children)

So a republicans house is just this but every room is labeled guns?

[–] ky56@aussie.zone 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Doesn't Windows 10 already do that? I could never get the freaking thing to leave my files behind and disable itself.

Windows 10 LTSC for the win if you have software you can't yet abandon.

[–] ky56@aussie.zone 4 points 2 months ago (11 children)

Ur tolling right?

[–] ky56@aussie.zone 3 points 2 months ago

I chose Manjaro KDE as one of the SteamVR requirements is KDE Plasma. It's required because it has a DRM function to allow SteamVR to take ownership of the DisplayPort.

A quick google search says that PopOS is Gnome based. But KDE can be installed over it? I might give it a go.

[–] ky56@aussie.zone 12 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Windows 10 LTSC FTW!!! I just installed it and wow is it snappier and devoid of nearly all of those annoyances. I have no idea if productivity apps are affected by its stripped down nature but for Steam gaming it's perfect. I get less lag spikes on steamVR.

I haven't trusted Windows in years. This is just for gaming. I have a physically separate hot swappable Optane SSDs for Linux and Windows Gaming.

For those who will winge at me for not just switching to Linux. During this process I gave a concerted effort to give Linux a go and chose Manjaro KDE to try for steamVR gaming. It sucked. Once I had worked out that it was a permissions issue (It's always a fucking permissions issue under Linux) and just ran it under the root account, there was extremely high latency for the VR compositor to HMD display. Completely unusable as it made me sick and that's usually very hard. I tried X11 and Wayland. Direct and Non Direct output modes. No success.

[–] ky56@aussie.zone 3 points 3 months ago

I'm both. Somehow. I apparently switch between them.

[–] ky56@aussie.zone 2 points 3 months ago

Isn't the Banana Pi R64/R3/R4 close enough to that?

[–] ky56@aussie.zone 15 points 3 months ago (1 children)

FYI the open source OpenWRT based Banana Pi R3 AX 4x4 is a thing. Don't buy closed source Routers/APs on purpose.

[–] ky56@aussie.zone 5 points 3 months ago

Sound like another reason for the "free press" to get reforms about their accuracy reporting the "news". I am typically against such restrictive legislation but if the news holds that much power, they need to see some regulation put in place.

 

Newegg seems to be no longer offering free over ~$380 World EggSaver Standard to Australia? Can anyone else confirm this?

 

Is there any progress regarding buying a Framework without Intel Boot Guard or AMD PSB enabled?

There is a dead discussion on the framework community form where framework talked about

exploring the idea of shipping a version of the mainboard with boot guard disabled for those who want to run their own firmware

back in 2021 but nothing since.

https://community.frame.work/t/intel-boot-guard-coreboot/1178

 

I bought this cable for an IcyDock MB699VP-B V1 only to discover by multimeter that it is missing the #PERST and #REFCLK+- pins.

I can't test it but I believe it's good for SAS4 use.

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005003792232466.html

Is this that something that someone will want? Or is it so niche that I'm unlikely to find a buyer? I bought it months ago so while I am waiting for a reply but it's unlikely that the seller will accept a return/refund.

 

Does lemmy have an even remotely thriving version of r/homelabsales?

I don't want to break my anti-reddit oath since June but this might do it.

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submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by ky56@aussie.zone to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
 

cross-posted from: https://aussie.zone/post/2534398

The 10GBase-LR is 1310nm and the QSFP-40G-LR4 CWDM channels are 1271, 1291, 1311 and 1331 nm. Are the 1310nm and 3rd channel 1311nm technically compatible?

I have a 10Gb and (will eventually have) a 40Gb switch both fitted with basic LR (Q)SFP+ transceivers and want to know if I can directly connect them or will I have to use an adapter to fit an SFP+ in an QSFP+ port?

I'm looking at using the XQX2502 QSFP+.

EDIT: The goal of this exercise is I’m trying to work out if I can make an easily interoperable system where a singlemode fiber wall jack fed from a 40G switch can act as a both a 10G or 40G port as needed.

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submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by ky56@aussie.zone to c/homelab@lemmy.ml
 

The 10GBase-LR is 1310nm and the QSFP-40G-LR4 CWDM channels are 1271, 1291, 1311 and 1331 nm. Are the 1310nm and 3rd channel 1311nm technically compatible?

I have a 10Gb and (will eventually have) a 40Gb switch both fitted with basic LR (Q)SFP+ transceivers and want to know if I can directly connect them or will I have to use an adapter to fit an SFP+ in an QSFP+ port?

I'm looking at using the XQX2502 QSFP+.

 

Alphacool only has plexi front. Is EK's nickel plating still iffy?

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