samoa42

someone probably said this to stallman and tovalds

> Am I just lucky or is this "crashes and blue screens"-business just a persistent memory from the late 90s and early 2000s?

the choice of components determines if a windows machine bluescreenes all the time or accumulates uptime like a pro.

hard to make a informed choice thou because the market is moving very fast and so "luck" is a huge factor.

idk an url of a video file passed to a player worked 20years ago as it does now.

"the streaming video tech" integrated the player into the browser to control it and show ads. not much gained imo.

> I've been using awk for past 2-3 years or so and I wrote a book on GNU awk one-liners

not to criticise your work, but this does not sit well with me.

also a question of codec.

h264 is still the only widely supported in-hardware decodeable codec out there (cheapest for the client) but google serves webm by default (cheapest for them and built in-house)

ytdl-format lets you choose

> You can’t put modern ads into a downloaded video

youtube-dl has an experimental --include-ads option =)

> I wonder how many of those use YouTube-dl on the backend

i wager to say that the vast majority of browser extensions and websites that allow downloading of media content use ytdl in the background

try out mpv. with cranked up caches it will buffer the whole vid in ram and bobs your uncle.

> The placebo is the meningitis vaccine

wtf?! a placebo should by definition have no effect at all

afaik pole coverage is not on the table

it is

> youtube-dl isn't just a user facing tool

it sure is on my end

yea, mobile devices are limited by the ammount of thermal energy they can dissipate. most laptop cooling systems top out at around 30W, anything more is peak load or charging.

my i7-6600u idles at around 3W

> Has the tech improved significantly since then? I'm also skeptical of wireless headphones

i used logitech h600 for a decade, they had a usb-bt dongle which connected instantly, the range was good, they were lightweight an cost around 60euro at the time. i liked them but the battery died.

replacement is 50% heavier has no mic-arm and the bt connection is a mess everytime.

i'd say no, bt-headphones have not improved.

thb it is very dependent on the location.

ie. i get good 4g signal in most of the forests in bavaria but no signal at all in the lobby of my local hospital.

completely agree on most points but starlink is not likely to beat the speed of light, so geolocation is still the dominating factor for latency.

it will improve the situation for regions with poor wired infrastructure.

funny thou how 8gigs of ram seems to be good enough for a decade now.

not sure where you think this meme (never heard of it) was brought up itt.

was going to say "of course, why would the router care for layer4 proto" but then again, netgear is like a synonym for "unpredictable crappy middlebox".

considering how many sites say "dont archive me" while residing as a public resource on the internet at the same time, i support this practical ingnorance.

suggests that ipv6 is here to replace the rfc1918 space but "the internet" largely remains ipv4.

the high v6 penetration in mobile networks likewise suggests that smartphones are generally not a part of the network as much as dedicated leaf nodes that require no inbound connections.

the wording "can be faster" tells that this is the upper bound. ie. it is generally about the same, while it can be 15% faster or slower than the ip4 average. sample sizes are most likely somewhat different aswell .

note that this is a runtime config. drop it somewhere in /etc/sysctl.d/ to make it permanent.

hope everyone appreciates the irony of that reply as much as i do.

ie. "you can pay the muggers or build yourself a castle with a drawbridge"

> "ohmygod I need one extra K of unfragmented low memory, time to tinker with config.sys again"

i know a lot of ppl went deep down the rabbit hole of computers because of this.

thou the period _was_ short because memory got bigger/cheaper and then win95 came along with 32bit and virtual memory.

> CPUs get more energy efficient at lower speeds.

intuitively i agree but how does this fall in line with the 'race to idle' concept?

would love to see some graphs with operations-per-watt for different cpu/arch.

those seem to be a minority thou

> I stream alot.

no kidding

1080p stream ~ 1-2GB/h -> 1TB/mo ~ 16h/day

> I last had a 150GB/month cap when I had ADSL connection

there is no cap, i meant what i said 'typical usage'

> How are you using so little data. Do u just read text and look at limited images?

indeed, we read a lot.

generally you can not block DoH without blocking most of the web, thats literally the point of it.

really surprised that india apparently has data caps in the terrabyte range... typical usage in germany is around 150gig/mo.

is p2p that much more popular? are you streaming everything in 16k+?