How far we’ve fallen that this isn’t in the collective cosciousness anymore.

The oligarch propaganda machine is preparing to shift into high gear. Larry’s son bought CBS and is slated to install Bari Weiss as their news boss. Saw a headline about him also eyeing a purchase of CNN. Keep all of this in mind in the months and years to come when you see material from these sources.

Frankly at this point I think I would rather have China have control over the data and algorithm than Oracle and Andreessen Horowitz.

Ars Technica’s comment section is getting radicalized.

It’s beautiful. They’re using the capitalist incentive model to drive production capacity and drive cost down at an extraordinary pace, producing vehicles at non-profit prices. That means the vast majority of Chinese consumers and businesses end up with high quality, non-poluting vehicles at extremely low costs. Which leaves more money in their pockets for other economic activities. At the same time this speeds up the EV transition and keeps people working. The famed competitive markets that lower prices for consumers that we’ve all heard about but almoat never experienced? These guys engineer them where and when needed. And yeah, competition is terrible for business owners because their profit interest is opposed to the interest of their customers to pay less. But it’s beneficial for society as a whole because most people are consumers / workers.

If you ever wonder why it’s cheaper to produce in China even though manufacturing workers get USD $15-16K a year at present, which is similar to Eastern Europe, that’s a major reason. The costs are lower across the board. When PCBWay needs a transport van to haul product, it costs significantly less than it would in the EU, because the Chinese autos can’t tack on hefty profit margins. And that’s on top of all the components inside that van, whose manufacturers are likely also unable to make significant profits. In the US auto industry, the cost of labour is typically under 15% of the manufacturing cost. Everything else is costs of inputs with their embedded profits and auto manufacturer profits. And so PCBWay can afford to offer you lower prices for your PCB orders. An EU PCB manufacturer could not because they paid 50% more for their vans. Extrapolate for all other tools and materials they have to acquire to make a PCB, placement robots, soldering ovens, CNC, etc.

E: Meanwhile the price of the F-150, a staple vehicle used throughout the trades and industry in the US and Canada:

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Another trick to keep in your arsenal if you need more ports is to get a very high-speed USB adapter and split it using a hub. E.g. 20 or 40Gbps port split via 4/7-port hub still gives you 3-10Gbps per port. Note that over 5Gbps cable quality starts to really matter.

It’s a CPU and chipset bug. AMD CPUs have built-in IO chipset that provides USB among other things. Most chipsets other than X570 use a different IO chip with different performance characteristics. The X570 chipset contains the same IO chip that the CPUs have so it’s got the same characteristics. Depending the board some ports might be wired to the CPU others to the chipset. It’s hard to know. The only certain combination is that a X570 boards have this issue. I don’t know what USB chip is contained in the Threadripper boards. Either way, you use your board and if you notice USB dropouts when using high-bandwidth applications, get a PCIe controller for that. There’s no other solution and there’s no point spending time trying to workaround it. You can find many reports on the web. I was hit by this and tried even different boards till I finally gave up and got a add-in card. The AM5 platform seems to not suffer from this. I’m using the onboard USB controller on a X870 board at the moment. There’s ptobably not much point of getting Intel just for this. I considered that and the performance per dollar was still much better on AMD even if having to buy a USB PCIe controller.

As others have said, for the money, absolutely. The only thing to mind is that if you use high-bandwidth USB applications, like using a multi-bay storage box, you may encounter USB dropouts. This is common to many AMD platforms up to 5th gen Ryzen. If you get hit by that, install a PCIe USB controller and you’d be set.

I am also thinking about this in terms of reserving people’s time. If people decide to take longer to do stuff there’s little you can do to counter that without going down the arduous path of performance metrics, monitoring and evaluations. People can tweak their productivity over 955 regular working schedules where tasks just take longer and project comoletion times stretch further. They just take more free time within the regular schedule. So I suggest time-proportional pay only under the condition where we decide to let some people reserve more of their time to this activity of doing work. But perhaps we don’t want that as there are other side effects too.

You just don’t do that. You assume everyone is doing avg productivity for their job. Otherwise you enter the fools errand of performance measurements and evaluation. Assume avg productivity, pay the person who wants to spend 5 days a week proportionally more than the person spending 4 days a week. Or 8hrs vs 6hrs, and so on. Only if you want to allow for some poeple to work more than others. Maybe you don’t. Maybe we shouldn’t.

It was going great until “I’ve come to the conclusion…” Gave the whole game away.

Or to be extra based, distribute accoring to people’s socially-necessary labour-time. E.g. pay the 8hr-day person 20% more than the 6hr-day one. Assuming people’s productivity is average, which is most often the case.

I’ve been using it as default ever since its introduction along with a large subscribed list and it’s been great. All+Scaled for discovery of new community discovery, All+Top Day for checking on what Lemmy was on about today.

You can set whatever sort and feed defaults you like so that you don’t have to set it every time you visit.

Might I invite everyone to use the Scaled sorting algorithm to see more of what the small communities have to offer! To avoid the firehose, you can default your feed to Subscribed and then liberally sub to the communities you like or might like. Then once a day or so switch to All+Scaled or All+Top Day to see what you might have missed and perhaps make some new community subs.

Such a wholesome thread. 🥰

Never noticed that phenomenon anywhere else

Most of us (posters, commenters, voters and lurkers) know why we’re here and why we need to do the work. We’ve been on so many platforms and gotten shafted. Many of us now know why and what needs to be done to avoid that for the long haul.

Lurkers, step up your voting duties!

Verified here wirh “us states with letter d”

Pro some life.

0 4   *   *   *    /usr/sbin/reboot

Adjust interval as needed.

Or if you want something a bit faster and less disruptive:

#!/bin/sh

NAME="$0"

logger_cmd () {
  echo $@
  logger -p daemon.info -t "$NAME[$$]" $@
}

if ! which ncat 1>/dev/null
then
  logger_cmd "ncat not found, installing..."
  opkg update && opkg install ncat
fi

chk_conn () {
  echo "Checking connectivity to $@"
  if ncat --send-only --recv-only -w 334ms $@ 2>/dev/null; then
    return 0
  fi

  logger_cmd "Cannot reach $@"
  return 1
}

restart_network_iface() {
    # TODO: Don't restart every minute

    COOLDOWN_LOCK=/tmp/internet-connectivity-watchcat.tmp
    COOLDOWN_SECONDS=300

    cooldown_time_end=$(cat $COOLDOWN_LOCK || echo 0)

    time_now="$(cat /proc/uptime)"
    time_now="${time_now%%.*}"

    cooldown_time_left=$((cooldown_time_end - time_now))

    if [ "$cooldown_time_left" -lt "1" ]
    then
        logger_cmd "Restarting network interface: \"$1\"."
        ifdown "$1"
        ifup "$1"

        cooldown_time_end=$((time_now + COOLDOWN_SECONDS))
        echo $cooldown_time_end > $COOLDOWN_LOCK
    else
        logger_cmd "Skipping interface \"$1\" restart due to cooldown. Cooldown left: $cooldown_time_left seconds"
    fi
}


logger_cmd "Checking internet connectivity..."

if   chk_conn google.com 443 \
  || chk_conn amazon.com 443 \
  || chk_conn facebook.com 443 \
  || chk_conn cloudflare.com 443 \
  || chk_conn telekom.de 443
then
  logger_cmd "Connected to internet."
else
  logger_cmd  "Not connected to internet."
  restart_network_iface "$1"
fi

In restart_network_iface use /usr/sbin/reboot instead of interface up/down and run the script every few minutes via cron or systemd timer. This was written for OpenWrt so if you use that you can use it as-is. For other systems you’d also have to adjust the logger_cmd.

You can place that on another machine and send a signal to a smart plug instead if you’re worried of a locked up / frozen router. That said if your router freezes like that, you should probably change it and you should be able to run this script on it.

Feels difficult to breathe. 🤭

I had probably half of my Hue bulbs die within a couple of years of purchase. It was a specific model that died. The 1600lm white Hue A21 bulb. Philips replaced all the dead ones but from the replacement, about half died too. They ran very hot and I’ve had a few develop a rattling sound when shaken, as if an SMD had fallen off the PCB. I haven’t had problems with any other Hue or non-Hue Philips bulbs. I really like their high-CRI Ultra Definition dumb bulbs. I use them with Zigbee/Z-wave dimmers.

Wow, that’s crazy. I can’t wait for the current 16TB drives to be replaced in datacenters and go on sale for cheap! :D