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tempest_on I don't think the cheapest APC Back-UPS units can be monitored except in Windows

I just bought batteries for a 20 year old UPS, still chugs along, network interface is base 10!

tempest_on Just 137 crypto miners use 2.3% of total U.S. power

Use the energy. We'll start making more of it and cheaper. Everyone benefits.

Ehh

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/feb/18/bitcoin-m...

tempest_on Billion file filesystem

I wonder how ZFS would fare.

tempest_on “Wherever you get your podcasts” is a radical statement

15 years ago I downloaded podcastaddict, it keeps my RSS feeds and updates them all every morning at 7am, or at the press of a button.

tempest_on “Wherever you get your podcasts” is a radical statement

Who is "manually managing mp3" files?

My software reads RSS feeds and downloads the podcasts.

I never see a file on my phone.

tempest_on The three million toothbrush botnet story isn't true

I have had the tooth brush for a while, maybe four or five years.

When I saw your comment I figured I should check and see and it looks like they dropped the location permission.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.philips.cd...

tempest_on The three million toothbrush botnet story isn't true

My "smart" tooth brush wants my location data to use the app....

tempest_on SeaweedFS fast distributed storage system for blobs, objects, files and datalake

Lets say instead of 1000s I need to store billions.

So far I have been testing with seaweed and it seems to chug along fine at around ~4B files and it is still increasing.

Has minio improved on that lately ?

tempest_on SeaweedFS fast distributed storage system for blobs, objects, files and datalake

The dev is suprisingly helpful but yeah I agree the wiki is in need of some beefing up w.r.t operations.

tempest_on Kagi search reached 20k paying members

Just perverse incentives.

Google isn't incentivized to be a good search engine.

They are incentivized to be just good enough that you don't go elsewhere while increasing the number of ads / paid results.

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Design has its fads just like everything else.

Its like how everything was flat for a bit and now my phone icons are slowly drifting back to gradients

tempest_on Framework Laptop 16 Review

It really depends on how you develop.

For some people laptops never have enough power and are essentially a thin client to something else.

tempest_on Tesla Cybertruck owners who drove 10k miles say range is 164 to 206 miles

Wear out HOW much faster, are we talking 1% faster? 10% faster... etc.

The difference between replacing a wearable component at 100,000 km or 101,000 doesn't make a huge difference (ignoring the fact that it could just fail earlier due to one of a hundred different environmental reasons)

tempest_on Tesla Cybertruck owners who drove 10k miles say range is 164 to 206 miles

Every time I read anything about a "break in" on cars it always felt like people were just repeating old wives tales because I could never get an answer on what the result would be if I ignored it.

Will the transmission last 5000 extra kms or the engine will make it from 500,000 to 501,000 km? No one seems to know.

Makes it feel like poeple telling me I have to discharge a battery all the way because it has "memory" long after most batteries were lithium ion with a charge controller.

tempest_on Bing Gained Less Than 1% Market Share Since Adding Bing Chat

This used to be the case when using a computer before the mobile walled gardens took hold.

Non tech savvy people don't even realize they are using Chrome in android or Safari on an iphone. They will never change they just use the default search bar that is on their device.

tempest_on What happens when a school bans smartphones? A complete transformation

The price is steep but if I used it every day I could probably justify it.

The one thing that I noticed immediately is it seems to still use micro usb.

Without usb c it is a non starter, especially at that price.

tempest_on What happens when a school bans smartphones? A complete transformation

Those light phones are interesting products and I thought about trying one at one point but seen some mixed reviews.

tempest_on Field experimental evidence of AI on knowledge worker productivity and quality

Only if being wrong actually matters.

tempest_on Autonomous trucking is harder than autonomous rideshare

I mean just look at how popular automated enforcement like speed and red light cameras.

tempest_on Autonomous trucking is harder than autonomous rideshare

Also isnt waymo only operating in Pheonix and California where the weather is always nice?

What happens when it snows ?

tempest_on Gas pumps freeze at Calgary gas stations [video]

The base load is nuclear but it isnt necessarily cheap.

The government tried to take away the hydro subsidies a couple years ago and a bunch of people who live in the middle of no where and use baseboard heating lost their shit so the government went right back to subsidizing it.

tempest_on The Internet Is Full of AI Dogshit

That was the first thing that came to mind for me as well

tempest_on Ask HN: What alternatives exist to a Mac mini but for Windows?

You might find these interesting, though I have never used them.

https://www.khadas.com/

https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/khadas-mind

tempest_on The drive stats of Backblaze storage pods

It has been a while since I looked but CFs R2 was cheaper than s3 the last I looked, never used it though.

tempest_on Almost half of British teens feel addicted to social media – study

The flip side is retail workers get worked to death.

Around here the only day retail is closed is Dec 25, every other day is open.

I have not worked in retail for so long, maybe they prefer the opportunity to make more money I don't know.

It would not really change anything for me.

tempest_on Almost half of British teens feel addicted to social media – study

I remember when stores used to be closed on Sundays.

We can close social media on Sundays and reopen monday morning aha

tempest_on With revenue declining, Mozilla CEO gets a 20% raise

In fact they get chided around here for anything that isnt a firefox specific endevour.

Browser engines are not a money making business (if it was Microsoft would still be in the game)

tempest_on Rolex fined $100M for preventing its watches being sold online

The internet has just ruined niche culture a bit in my opinion.

I used to be harder to find people in to a specific sub-culture but now it is easy to find a subeditor or whatever. They just feed off each other until they are insufferable.

Beer, mechanical keyboards, watches, whatever.

tempest_on Show HN: Wave – Modern Open-Source Terminal (macOS and Linux)

It is my very limited experience that the frontend JS devs who mainly have experience working with cloud GUIs and PaaS and do not have a lot of experience in a terminal environment appreciate those types of features.

tempest_on Canadian internet bill S-210 is a step closer to becoming law

In 2023 I can't believe they are still naming bills like this

"Protecting Young Persons from Exposure to Pornography"

Every time a bill gets a moniker like that I assume it is hiding some major government over reach.