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Mar 26, 2024

Nearly 2 years ago. Absolutely insane.

I’m transcoding on a HD770 without an issue on jellyfin.

A wire with a screw. Like the aviation industry.

I would like to bring the attention to LoRa.

Meshtastic is a good example of leveraging LoRa.

I have gotten more interaction with pixelfed than with Instagram.

I have more followers in 1 year on pixelfed than 4 years on Instagram.

About 60% of my followers are only fans bots and the other 30% are people I know. The last 10% are organic followers who like my photos. I don’t do short form videos so I don’t have any lasting engagement.

I have advertised my pixelfed I think twice on the fediverse. But not any more than that.

If you want to have the community, I’ve heard that flickr is probably the best. Many people use it and it’s photography focused.

Instagram is taken over by short form videos. If you’re not doing that or making really really good photos in unique areas, then you’ll max out at 2-3 hundred followers.

The boring answer is something like a bond or CD ladder, or treasury bill focused ETF that’ll give you 3% a year before taxes.

2 million dollars can safely net you 50,000 a year without working.

And since it’s mostly federal bonds, you could be tax exempt up to a certain amount.

Of course this is the US POV.

And there are riskier investments that can hit 8ish% with only $600,000, but you’ll be at the whim of high risk high reward.

If you’re wanting to hit the tax free limit of $15,750 a year (total income) then 3% APY is $525k.

Or go super risky run options.

I used to have a 5700G system that I had to switch out to a 14600k system due to quciksync pass through.

I got my 14600K down to 55w from 75w with everything else being equal. Insane how efficient some setups can be.

My 16tb Pi sips at 13w max or 8w idle. But no encoding or enough storage for normal work. So it’s warm storage

I use a Sierra Wireless EM9293 with a USB3 to M.2 Key B 4G 5G Modem Adapter Enclosure with SIM Card Slot - V7 from Wireless Haven.

Impressive kit and costs me about 300 in parts.

Works natively with my Mikrotik USB port.

5G as in cellular?

I use MikroTik with a USB CAT 20 modem.

I think that’s PWM dimming vs DC dimming.

PWM dimming turns pixels on and off to make them darker. So for 50% of the brightness, it’s off 50% of the time. Higher end panels flicker much faster which helps mitigate perceived flicker. I think 500hz and above is preferred.

For DC dimming is just using voltage to control the darkness with no flickering involved.

I have a 7840U with a 55HWr battery. I can squeeze out 7 hours. If I’m power using then 5-6 is typical. With the 63WHr battery, you’ll get about 15% more time with it.

I always have the irrational or maybe rational fear of glass breaking. Any furniture I buy doesn’t have any glass elements.

This age gap fails the check for me

37 / 2 = 18.5, 18.5 + 7 = 25.5

If someone that old who can’t get someone around his age, but is suddenly interested in younger people… That’s just someone preying on naivety.

People do not necessarily do reasonable things. A lot of society is built on the assumption of people doing reasonable things.

I’m confused, do you have an example of a laptop that uses numbers for their model number iteration rather than their screen size or feature set?

I didn’t see the LTE module? Is it m.2 form factor?

The laptop with a full sized mechanical keyboard on it. Oh and dual 330w power bricks.

https://www.pcworld.com/article/407225/acer-predator-21-x-review.html

I use it for alt text for photos. Mostly because I just don’t know how to describe my images.

I use adguard home in conjunction with NextDNS.

I find adguard a little better in the UI department. Have it in a docker container so it’s a set and forget.

Yeah there’s no foolproof way to do a general upgrade. Wiping is the easiest way to bypass the tpm requirement.