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dd_xplore··on Show HN: I got tired of btop not seeing my Mac's chip, so I built siltop
What! Htop is newer than btop?
dd_xplore··on What I self-host
I had a N100 mini PC with 16GB DDR5 (the chinese ones with 4 Ethernet for router use). That thing ran lot's of my services - arr stack, jellyfin, immich (iGPU + ML + another container running on my PC for additional ML resource), n8n, it-tools, handbrake, and another project that I used to do. This mini PC also handled 4k hevc quite fine! This is a surprisingly capable chip.But I wanted more so I bought a core Ultra 7 155H mini pc and took the RAM, ssd from the n100 machine (couldn't afford more due to ramocalypse).

I now also host this (shameless plug):https://news.freestuffsthat.work This simple site uses the built-in NPU, iGPU and the GPU on my desktop to summarise, sort topics etc for the news headlines.

dd_xplore··on Someone on Torrent Sites Kept Fucking with My Sonarr
That's not how it works!
dd_xplore··on Someone on Torrent Sites Kept Fucking with My Sonarr
The same happens for other series as well! I was frustrated with it! Good thing you decompiled this monstrosity
dd_xplore··on Making big downloads resumable in Firefox
IDM is king. I first saw it in a cafe back in 2006. It still works flawlessly!
dd_xplore··on Show HN: News.txt – world news by region, from each region's own outlets
I'm glad you liked it! Thank you for the feedback.
dd_xplore··on My server is a phone now
Apple’s no software is server centric.
dd_xplore··on Ziggity – A terminal UI for Git, written in Zig
I wonder when is the 900,000 lines single commit coming for Rust rewrite
dd_xplore··on Is this the end of the once-mighty GoPro?
My only gripe with GoPros is lack of external mic like dji ecosystem.
dd_xplore··on AMD silently removes memory encryption from consumer Ryzen CPUs
I think intel tried to offer GPU virtualisation with their consumer offerings but not sure what happened to that.
dd_xplore··on AMD silently removes memory encryption from consumer Ryzen CPUs
No vendor should be able to do this remotely at all. Irrespective of security vulnerabilities present or not.
dd_xplore··on Brazil's Pix payment system faces pressure from Visa and Mastercard
The wallet doesn't allow you to keep more than ₹2000
dd_xplore··on Googlebook
Horrible computer
dd_xplore··on Brazil's Pix payment system faces pressure from Visa and Mastercard
In some setups UPI doesn't even internet! Just an SMS is sufficient
dd_xplore··on New 10 GbE USB adapters are cooler, smaller, cheaper
Or Better use only iperf (or known as version 2), it has multi threading support
dd_xplore··on Free Gotenberg.dev Instance for You
Docs: https://gotenberg.dev/docs/getting-started/introduction
dd_xplore··on Vercel April 2026 security incident
Oracle too
dd_xplore··on Apple approves driver that lets Nvidia eGPUs work with Arm Macs
Not using NVMe is not a difference. It's not a different architecture. It's just simple circuit/space optimization, and has been done in other platforms as well. The controller, instead of being on the ssd module; it's present onboard the device.
dd_xplore··on The Orange Pi 6 Plus
I bought a NanoPi R6C in the past in the hope that it's going to be a nice mini pc to run all my containers with super low power usage or router. But the software was bad, really bad. I found https://github.com/Joshua-Riek/ubuntu-rockchip/ , it was godsend but still had some shortcomings. after 2 years, it's bit stable but I just keep it around as a backup route to access my homelab incase the main machines go down.
dd_xplore··on Artemis II crew see first glimpse of far side of Moon [video]
I don't think they'd or any other space mission will take that much risk anymore. Atleast without the pressure/tension of cold war space race.
dd_xplore··on Apple approves driver that lets Nvidia eGPUs work with Arm Macs
Why does Apple need to make the drivers in a walled garden? Atleast they should support major device categories with official drivers.
dd_xplore··on I Built an Open-World Engine for the N64 [video]
I just loved road rash, I had the demo version initially, I used to call it demo rash. Once in a race I accidentally jumped on a building, it was first open world experience for me!
dd_xplore··on Push events into a running session with channels
I thought this was sarcastic
dd_xplore··on PC processors entered the Gigahertz era today in the year 2000 with AMD's Athlon
I remember back in 2006 I used to browse overclock forums to overclock my pentium 4, I tons of fun consuming lots of instructions, I learned the bios, changed PLL clocks, mem clocks etc.
dd_xplore··on Arm's Cortex X925: Reaching Desktop Performance
Linux apps today dont have that feel of apps that we had in 98/2000 era or even XP era. Windows platform had really good apps.
dd_xplore··on Arm's Cortex X925: Reaching Desktop Performance
The major issue is these days most software is electron based or a webapp. I miss the days of 98/XP, where you'd find tons of desktop software. A PC actually felt something that had a purpose. Even if you spin up a XP/98(especially 98/2000 VM) now, you'd see the entire OS feels something that you can spend some time on. Nowadays most PCs feel like a random terminal where I open the browser and do some basic work(except for gaming ofcourse). I really hate the UX of win 11 , even 10 isn't much better compared to XP. I really hope we go back to that old era.
dd_xplore··on An ARM Homelab Server, or a Minisforum MS-R1 Review
That's a bad implementation and seems like a bad afterthought
dd_xplore··on I tried building my startup entirely on European infrastructure
I have been self hosting since couple of years, yes I got very very interested in self hosting my apps, away from the cloud overlords, but the major issue is the network.

You'll need business internet plans with redundancy and based on locations that might be prohibitively expensive. Some startups might even require their own AS numbers.

Also the connectivity to the data centers or cloud infra like WAF , CDNs etc will be definitely worse compared to cloud instances. Then comes firewalls, their configuration and their redundancy.

These things will matter if you're serious about your SaaS.You could definitely co-locate, but that's another cost, then comes the redundancy of everything, from servers, to disks to network (routers and switches etc).

I personally believe that modern hardware is pretty reliable and doesn't need redundancy in every layer, but most people won't agree with and when startups have enough money, this doesn't matter to them.

I think the only reason the common public is unable to start SaaS is handling and managing these problems. Redundancy costs a lot. And many startups don't want to deal with it even if it'll help them in long run. They just gather enough cash and throw at the overlords.

I do hope that the general infra should improve so that can properly host their own.

Nevertheless I'm still trying to start something in SaaS space and self host from my home...

dd_xplore··on TSMC to make advanced AI semiconductors in Japan
But why should the world depend on a single country or entity? Everything should be diversified.
dd_xplore··on When internal hostnames are leaked to the clown
NPM is pretty painless
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