nfriedly

nfriedly, 10 months ago

There's a couple of details that I don't really care for - I'd like it to be a bit smaller and have a USB-A port, but overall I'm still looking forward to this one.

nfriedly, 10 months ago

A couple of questions:

• Does the <1400€ target budget need to include a screen, keyboard, mouse, speakers, etc? If so, you'll probably want to set aside 3-400€ for those.
• Do you think you'll prefer smoother gameplay (high refresh rate) or better graphics? (Higher resolution, ray tracing.)

As others have said, https://www.logicalincrements.com/ and https://pcpartpicker.com/ are both great sites for helping you pick out what parts to get. I also wanted to mention that logical increments has guides for screens, keyboards, mice, etc.

nfriedly, 10 months ago

Sadly, no one else is as good as EVGA was when it comes to the warranty.

nfriedly, 10 months ago

I've worked at more than one job where I was told it was OK to use MIT, or Apacje-2.0 licensed things, but to not touch any GPL or AGPL software.

So, even though there wasn't any non-commercial clause in the license, it's copyleft nature led to that effect at those businesses.

In general, I like the balance that the GPL & AGPL strike - commercial use is allowed, but the company has to give back. The "condom code" thing that you mentioned is certainly less than ideal. I would prefer that businesses open up their full codebase. But, I think the more likely scenario is that they just don't use any open source at all (or they use it and violate the license!) I'd prefer condom code over either of those possibilities.

nfriedly, 11 months ago

Amazon bought goodreads a while back, and it's basically stagnated ever since then. They only notable change they made was to shutdown the API.

nfriedly, 11 months ago (edited 11 months ago)

I really like the idea, I'm going to have to try it again sometime soon.

The last time I tried, their database was missing a lot of books. When I imported my goodreads history, some books got dropped. But, worse, some of the books they didn't know about were incorrectly matched to completely different books in their database. So my my reading history on bookwyrm.social is currently kind of a mess. I messaged someone on mastodon, who directed me to file an issue on github. I did, but no one ever responded to it.

nfriedly, 11 months ago (edited 11 months ago)

I run the linuxserver.io docker image on an unraid server. I've generally been happy with it for notes and camera upload and file storage.

That said, there have been some hiccups:

• My system is set to auto-update docker images once a week. It took me a while to realize that updates to the docker image did not update the nextcloud install. I now have a weekly cronjob that installs nextcloud updates.
• The Android notes app occasionally gets out-of-sync with the server if I use it while offline, and then I have to wipe all of it's data and re-configure it on my phone. A couple of times, it kept trying to create the same new document when I got back online - it worked on the server, but the app didn't seem to recognize this and would then try again, so I ended up with hundreds of new files on the server.
  • (Hasn't happened in a while, so maybe it's fixed now.)
• I can't figure out how to get the office suite to work. The Collabora Online Develpment server seems to disappear every time I reboot, and I think it's required for Nextcloud Office to work.
• I know there's the "all-in-one" image that is supposed to handle a lot of these issues, but I've tried to set it up twice and failed both times.
• My nextcloud instance used to feel really slow. It's running on from an SSD on a relatively unloaded server with an i7 and 16gb of RAM in my house, so I really thought it should be faster than it was. It turns out the External Storage plugin was indexing all 30+ TB of my file server for each account on the server (one for myself + a few family members). I uninstalled that plugin and some of the other ones I wasn't using, added the redis caching server, and maybe did some other tuning I'm not remembering. It now feels acceptable. Not fast, but good enough. Recent releases seem to be getting faster, so I think it's trending in the right direction.

nfriedly, 11 months ago

Thanks, I'll try that out

nfriedly, 11 months ago

Is this problem also the same issue for Anbernic devices like RG353V?

Likely yes, although I don't have any anbernic devices to confirm it on right now.

I always see comments saying never use USB-C to USB-C cables, but wasn't sure if it was for this reason, or because most USB-C chargers put out higher voltage and the device will melt (which actually happened to my first RG353V after I inadvertently plugged it into a QC3.0 charging socket overnight, thoroughly melted)

The USB-C and the USB-C Power Delivery protocol are pretty safe. USB-C starts out with chargers putting no power on the main power lines, and only a tiny amount of power on the CC pins. Once the CC pins detect specific levels of resistance coming from the other side, it will put out 5V at up to 3A (15W) on the power pins. (This is the hack I did in the article, which costs next to nothing for device manufacturers to impliment.)

USB Power Delivery requires a digital negotiation with the device on the CC pins before going above 5V, and it has to negotiate with both the device and the cable to go above 3A. (e-marked cables have a small chip in them. Chargers aren't supposed to go above 60W (20V*3A) without the cable and the device both confirming compatibility.)

USB-A ports, on the other hand, always put out power on the power pins. Normally it's 5v, but I think QC can go higher. However, QC (all versions) is a proprietary technology, so I don't really know the specifics of it. I wouldn't expect it to do higher voltage without some negotiation, but who knows. Anbernic probably isn't following the spec either way.

nfriedly, 11 months ago (edited 11 months ago)

I'm using my phone to access the kbin.social website. Specifically I'm using Iceraven, which is a fork of Firefox for Android with a lot more add-ons enabled, and some other annoyances fixed.

Some things seem really snappy, other things seem to take a long time to load or even time out. But I assume that's just growing pains and it'll get better in due time.

I also tried using the official Mastodon app, but found that I couldn't really follow communities, only individual users.

[Edit]: trying it out on my computer now (Firefox on a Macbook) - looks about the same, just more content on screen at once. Feels like it's loading faster, but that might just be because it's been a couple of hours.

nfriedly, 11 months ago

That wouldn't surprise me, I think most of the devices that have a 7840U are going to be $800+. Although, on the other hand, Anbernic isn't exactly known for competitive pricing.

Regardless, what I'd really like to see is more competition on the low-end. Like a Win601 with some small improvements (like dual-channel RAM) for a similar or lower price as the Win 600.