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stampson Bonsai 27B: A 27B-Class model that runs on a phone

Yeah I’m not 100% sure, they claim “special durum wheat variety.”

For the price, from a protein perspective, it would be cheaper to get it elsewhere.

https://shopfelicettipasta.com/products/monograno-felicetti-...

stampson Bonsai 27B: A 27B-Class model that runs on a phone

I know felcetti has a few varieties that exceed that number. ~112g for 16g protein.

stampson Citing 'severe' math deficits, UC faculty demand a return to SAT tests for STEM

E-vibes?

stampson Ploopy Bean: a trackpoint for every computer

Twiddler is probably the closest thing I can think of that meets those requirements off the shelf.

https://www.mytwiddler.com/

stampson BambuLab new firmware to cut access to third-party API and tools

When buying a 3D printer I found it better to support Prusa[0] or another company that cares more about open source / hardware.

[0] https://github.com/prusa3d

stampson Restic – Simple Backups

My recommendation would be Duplicacy [0]. Code is also on GitHub [1].

It has a paid GUI version, $20 for the first year and $5 for subsequent years with discounts for multiple machines [2]. At least once they've run a promotion for a very cheap lifetime license.

Use it just from the CLI is free.

My setup is pretty simple, Syncthing and Duplicacy (GUI version) run in a docker container on my home server. Everything gets sync'd to the server and then Duplicacy backs it up hourly to a Hetzner Storage Box and BackBlaze B2.

The deduplication is a huge data saver on the cloud storage especially for pictures or videos that may be on multiple computers and different syncthing folders.

[0] https://duplicacy.com/ [1] https://github.com/gilbertchen/duplicacy [2] https://duplicacy.com/buy.html

stampson Ask HN: How do you do backups for personal/home server?

I tried a bunch of different ways but ultimately settled on Duplicacy [0].

It runs inside a Docker container and backs up both my data as well as configurations like my docker compose file and smb.conf.

Off site storage was Backblaze B2, but I moved to Hetzner. Likely will move back just because B2 is cheaper and a bit faster for my region.

Another layer of backup I do is use Duplicacy to backup to a portable hard drive occasionally that I keep off site.

[0] https://duplicacy.com/

stampson IBM Palm Top PC110 [video]

The Dragonbox Pyra[0] I've mentioned on hacker news before is a piece of hardware that is just starting to ship it's preorders.

It's an interesting device that's of this form factor. It has an older OMAP5, but it's placed on a replaceable daughter board potentially giving it an upgrade path.

[0]https://pyra-handheld.com/boards/pages/pyra/

stampson Show HN: TinyPilot – Build a KVM over IP using a Raspberry Pi

I have this one[0] that works great.

Wendell at Level1Techs does good work and there's even newer ones that can do 8k30.

[0] https://store.level1techs.com/products/kvm-switch-dual-monit...

stampson PinePhone: PostmarketOS Community Edition

You can install an SD card.

stampson Librem 5 Is Calling

Maybe the majority of people who pre-ordered these brick sized devices will finally start to received them after they've been "shipping" for 9 months after already being more than a year late.

Thankfully there's more competent companies like Pine64 pushing alternative devices.

stampson WHO launches global megatrial of the four most promising coronavirus treatments

Maybe OP is referring to this one?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtN-goy9VOY

stampson Librem 5: The Linux-based smartphone is not close to consumer ready

At this point I don’t think anyone should be recommending this device over the PinePhone.

stampson Librem 5 phone shows the cost of being different

The PinePhone is a much better price ($150) and quite a fun toy as the OSes develop to a much more usable state.

stampson Librem 5 phone shows the cost of being different

$150 for the PinePhone is a lot cheaper. I'm not sure how much cheaper you want it to be.

stampson Librem 5 phone shows the cost of being different

I have a PinePhone and I've been using as a daily driver. It's pretty rough right now, but all the features are generally there. Within another six months I can see postmarketOS or UBtouch being feature complete.

It's fun to install something like XFCE and have a full blow desktop environment.

For $150, replaceable battery, SD card slot, privacy dip switches, and open source the value is more than there.

stampson U.S. drinking water widely contaminated with 'forever chemicals': report

Mind sharing the exact system?

stampson U.S. drinking water widely contaminated with 'forever chemicals': report

Some companies have 1:1, gallon of clean to gallon of waste.

Here's one that's quite popular: https://www.theperfectwater.com/Home-Master-hydroperfection-...

stampson U.S. drinking water widely contaminated with 'forever chemicals': report

A lot of RO systems come with a sediment filter, carbon filter, and UV as part of the package.

Seems about as close as you can get to completely clean water.

stampson U.S. drinking water widely contaminated with 'forever chemicals': report

You can get as good as 1:1 clean and waste water using.

Though as you stated it still doesn't solve root cause.

stampson U.S. drinking water widely contaminated with 'forever chemicals': report

From the article it seems reverse osmosis is up to the task, but the problem is the waste water generated now has concentrated PFAS.

stampson How to Make a Raspberry Pi VPN Server

Unfortunately Wireguard doesn't work on PFsense/FreeBSD otherwise I would be using it.

OpenVPN is generally well supported.

stampson Ask HN: Any Pebble Alternatives?

You can actually get a devkit that's the full watch (just not sealed/glued shut) and it will ship within a couple days.

https://store.pine64.org/?product=pinetime-dev-kit

stampson PinePhone Review

The hardware is there. With some work a USB C dock can be plugged in and the phone can be used as a portable work station.

stampson If You Can't Buy the Keyboard You Want, Build It Instead

https://ultimatehackingkeyboard.com/

Mechanical and split ergonomics.

Has built in Mouse capability using the keys. They’re also working on attachable touchpad, trackball, and trackpoint (just like a thinkpad).

stampson The trouble with VPN and privacy review sites

>Does not install Tor, OpenVPN, or other risky servers

Why do you consider OpenVPN risky?

stampson AMD Ryzen 9 3950X Review

I don't have the exact grouping on hand, but I'm able to run a Ryzen 2700x (8 core) with a 2080 (Windows VM GPU) and wx4100 (manjaro host GPU) all on a GIGABYTE X470 AORUS GAMING 5.

USB passthrough with an Startech USB PCI-E card was a bit problematic as the group was not isolated. Turned out the 2080 has a USB controller for the type C (I'm told for VR).

stampson Building a Raspberry Pi 3B+ full keyboard handheld

I think the use case is mainly targeted at handheld computing/gaming.

It's definitely a more boutique device.

My guess would be it's for the crowd looking for repair ability and control over the device.

stampson Building a Raspberry Pi 3B+ full keyboard handheld

See my post above.

Here's the latest thread from the forums:

https://pyra-handheld.com/boards/threads/even-more-to-see-he...

stampson Building a Raspberry Pi 3B+ full keyboard handheld

It definitely has been a long time.

From the forums you can see the updates that the creator has provided.

Here is the most recent thread which details the case molds and shows a assembled unit: https://pyra-handheld.com/boards/threads/even-more-to-see-he...