cmnybo

joined 2 years ago
[–] cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

My newest PC only supports PCIe 3.0. My SSDs are still plenty fast, at least until they start thermal throttling.

[–] cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

When I used dial-up, local calls were free.

[–] cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 3 weeks ago

I used packet writing for a while when I got my first DVD-RW drive. A few years later, multi gigabyte flash drives became affordable and there was no need to mess with DVD-RWs anymore.

[–] cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 4 weeks ago

It's an important thing to have in an emergency. The remaining cell towers will probably be overloaded, but you will likely still be able to hear an FM broadcast station to find out if you need to evacuate and where to go.

[–] cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

I don't think a mobile version would be practical, they don't have enough processing power. Blender needs a high end PC.

[–] cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 15 points 4 weeks ago (7 children)

Switch to IPv6 only and the port scans will go away. The address space is so big that port scanning is difficult, so the usual bots don't bother.

[–] cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 15 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

If a laptop has a dedicated GPU, it's not low end.

[–] cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 34 points 1 month ago

Yeah, but it can't run a decent ad blocker. That makes it useless to me.

[–] cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Maybe it could also have something to do with people not wanting AI rammed down their throats on every device, website and program they use.

[–] cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Just ban it already. Nobody needs that brain rotting site.

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