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dualbooton Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting

Russia took the US with social media and an election. Not bullets.

dualbooton AMD RDNA 4 – AMD Radeon RX 9000 Series Graphics Cards

The 3090Ti, while still an excellent card is hardly "newer hardware" at this point in 2025.

| The one huge advantage of digital media is that it doesn't degrade in any meaningful way (aside from random tracks being accidentally deleted

That assumes you're using a storage platform that routinely validates the integrity of the data at rest.

dualbooton Nvidia's RTX 5090 power connectors are melting

So funny because the only reason the 5090 has 32GB of RAM is because AMD put 24GB on the card they released against the 4080.

dualbooton ASCII porn predates the Internet but it's still everywhere (2019)

Your lack of understanding of the history of the internet is really not any of my business nor concern.

dualbooton ASCII porn predates the Internet but it's still everywhere (2019)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARPANET

dualbooton ASCII porn predates the Internet but it's still everywhere (2019)

Predates the web but not the internet.

dualbooton Valve says Steam users don't own a thing, GOG says its games can't be taken away

It's fundamental to all non-free software.

dualbooton My Homelab Setup

Just means that you're getting shit done.

If I see cable management, it just tells me that they spent more time doing that than labbing.

dualbooton Apple introduces M4 chip

Those aren't VMs -- they're containers.

dualbooton Super Micro Computer has gone from an obscure server maker to $60B market cap

Indeed. An OOB interface is something you should always handle like radioactive material. It's volatile, powerful, and should be handled with extreme care and caution.

dualbooton Prime Video cuts Dolby Vision, Atmos support from ad tier–and didn't tell subs

This is not even remotely true.

Patriot is amazing.

dualbooton Bad bots account for most internet traffic? Analysis

I'm not defending the validity of this article but it is very rare that Netflix, Youtube, or any other stuff backed by the big CDNs(Content Delivery Networks) cross actual metered transit connections(for the networks, not including what the end user has to pay for their servivces.)

dualbooton Interview with Jeff Geerling

Jeff is awesome, and only mentioning it because I have the same experience with Adrian Black's videos (Adrian's Digital Basement.)

I would have killed for this kind of content as a youth.

dualbooton RIP to my 8-port Unifi switch after years and years of Texas outdoor temps

I remember when Ars Technica was a forum with a token website attached.

dualbooton Announcement regarding possible offer

Runa is already a major stakeholder in MariaDB.

Recently, the MariaDB board started to pursue additional private equity and a dilution of shares and this is part of Runa's response.

More information is available in this SEC filing : https://d18rn0p25nwr6d.cloudfront.net/CIK-0001929589/2335caa...

dualbooton Twitter has officially changed its logo to ‘X’

This. Twitter has been the bane of billionaires, aspiring billionaires, and corrupt nation-states for a long time now.

dualbooton Be worried about what’s going on at Turner Classic Movies

From the headline I assumed Ted was back to colourizing all of the classics again.

dualbooton How I installed TrueNAS on my new ASUSTOR NAS

Just want to throw out there that people should be allowed to be wrong. Especially if they've shown the capacity to recognize their mistakes and own them.

Yeah, we cringe but who ever actually learns something without making some mistakes along the way?

If we spent all of our time dealing with the anxiety of trying to never be wrong -- most of us wouldn't be able to function.

dualbooton Rock and Roll Drums: All You Need to Know

I think this says more about the general state of guitar playing than anything else.

dualbooton Rock and Roll Drums: All You Need to Know

Same, but a two door '89 Grand Am with a 24" Kick drum in the front passenger seat.

dualbooton Dingo, an open source robot dog

The BoM has a lot of overpriced versions of common parts, as well.

It's not quite as bad as it seems at first blush.

dualbooton Apple halted M2 chip production in January amid 'plummeting' Mac sales

My biggest issue with the early Airs is that they were so aggressive with how thin the display is, that the LCD is often damaged by the bag you keep it in from the outside.

A replacement display is basically 70+% the cost of the entire machine.

AppleCare had to replace two of them on my Sandy Bridge MacBook Air. They blamed the bag I kept it in(when replacing it the second time), but they also sold me the bag.

dualbooton 3Dfx Voodoo Memory Upgrade – 6MB Mod [video]

I disagree as technologies like DirectStorage and equiv. mature and are adopted.

In addition, undersized vram amounts is one of the ways in which Nvidia limits the usable life of their video cards.

dualbooton Apple introduces Apple Pay Later

Lots of answers here but for the merchant it's an alternative to a "sale price" to drive a transaction.

dualbooton These Stupid Trucks are Literally Killing Us

They're more deadly to anything that encounters them in an accident that is smaller than them.

dualbooton The Steam Deck is on sale for the first time ever

Unless you're planning to immediately replace the SSD yourself, I recommend going with the 256G version.

The 64G version uses an eMMC drive, which might as well be a microSD card itself.

That said, I use the 256G NVMe version with a few microSD cards and it's been an amazing experience. Games have slightly longer loading times when played from microSD but that's almost completely irrelevant because of how well the deck handles resume from suspend/sleep.

dualbooton Moving my PC into my rack in a 2U case

technically a Mid-Size tower. There really aren't any Full-size tower cases anymore.