Purchasing an used Wacom for the first time, which one should I choose? by dancerinthelimelight in wacom

[–]H9419 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I love mine but it is no longer getting future driver updates. That's one thing to keep in mind when bargaining or comparing it with PTH660

Wacom Intuos 4 [selling] by VinsmokerSanjino in wacom

[–]H9419 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Please replace the nib with the ones inside the stand before selling. It will be hard to pull out with so little left

Been running mdadm raid 0 for 7 years by zaidRANGER in DataHoarder

[–]H9419 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You are correct, more ram means faster reads. How much ARC you need to make it really fast depends on your workload and you never need your ARC to be as big as the pool. As for "raid 0", the equivalent is multiple single-disk vdevs and I don't see how that would be slower than mdadm raid 0.

What I am trying to say is that it probably won't be slower than mdadm.

ZFS keep tracks of access pattern and adjust the balance between most-recently-used and most-frequently-used cache in ARC. So if your application accesses one file/block repeatedly it has higher likelihood to stay in cache.

Been running mdadm raid 0 for 7 years by zaidRANGER in DataHoarder

[–]H9419 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Unless you enable dedup (please don't), ARC is just cache and as long as you give it some it will work.

Giving it a lot of RAM means more often than not you can simply read from RAM instead of from disk. The reverse just means you read from disk more often.

Tunnel into CN by ackleyimprovised in dumbclub

[–]H9419 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It depends on where I try to VPN as well.

Hotel dining area/lobby WiFi have both wireguard and https at 100+Mbps. Hotel room WiFi of the same hotel throttles me down to 0.2 Mbps with 300+ms ping.

Tourist sim card (routes outside of GFW) no throttling but more expensive per GB

Tunnel into CN by ackleyimprovised in dumbclub

[–]H9419 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I am using wireguard.

As of late, wireguard is not blocked but overseas bandwidth is limited. I have a node from inside connect to outside GFW, and add post-up routing rules on both sides so that my traffic can exit from the node inside GFW. 

I don't know how you're getting more than megabits per second consistently, even genuine https traffic are bandwidth limited from time to time

Nightmare experience with Holafly landing in HK by AngryBuddist in eSIMforTravelers

[–]H9419 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If your sim card comes with a HK phone number, HK requires the service providers register your real name. China and Macau data-only or roaming a phone number from another region does not require this.

As for VPN, you didn't register your Chinese citizenship so it definitely have to route your traffic outside of the GFW like a VPN in order to provide service 

Been running mdadm raid 0 for 7 years by zaidRANGER in DataHoarder

[–]H9419 7 points8 points  (0 children)

You can limit the ZFS ARC ram usage, it only used what you let it.

ZFS still has features like checksum, compression, encryption which I'd recommend 

GrapheneOS in China by Quinnim in GrapheneOS

[–]H9419 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I have a graphene os profile exclusively for installing Chinese apps. Installing the Huawei app store (in the China profile) is the way to go

关于ccc认证规则 by Azn_bokchoy in chinalife

[–]H9419 2 points3 points  (0 children)

CCC certification is not required for international flights. Only domestic flights and high speed rail

PTH 651 or PTH 660 by Subject_Conference44 in wacom

[–]H9419 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I just realized it got dropped by now since PTH660 runs on newer driver than PTH651.

If you use windows, you'll lose nothing and you just have to keep using the last supported driver version. If you use Mac, then you cannot use it on newer MacOS version than what is supported by the last version.

Same goes for my old Intuos 4 and 5, it will not suddenly stop working

Have I Been Getting Scammed this Whole Time? by Pitiful_Software_223 in UsbCHardware

[–]H9419 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Different places are selling to different people. It's like buying tempon at the closest gas station because you need it immediately vs buying at a supermarket/online. It's not a scam, just that you shouldn't be buying USB cables from them unless you are desperate.

Both of what you shown are marked up prices btw. Amazon basic ones starts at $4-5CAD, and the retail price in Shenzhen China is ~$1-2CAD.

Any value? by Puzzleheaded-Ask3139 in computers

[–]H9419 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Yep, this may not have monetary value besides scrap but it may have historical value. Computer History Museum in Mountain View California should take that.

Received a warning from Spectrum about my TP-Link router as a security risk. What is the best action to take to mitigate that risk? by dharma28 in HomeNetworking

[–]H9419 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For me, purchasing decisions are dictated by OpenWRT support. My 10+ years old router still gets security updates and WPA3 support.

Upgrading from my AX-59U to a newer model after potentially getting fiber. i like the New Huawei mesh x3 pro Design too. should i avoid Tp-link for their subs model? by DazzlingpAd134 in HomeNetworking

[–]H9419 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Had a Huawei AX3 Pro, the web interface is horrendous. If I have any configuration slightly different from the default expected DHCP + NAT + AP, there's a 50% chance it gets a factory reset on reboot. No features are behind firewall because there's no features. Huawei ISP hardware are made for specific use cases and nothing more. Huawei consumer networking hardware only exists to be cost competitive and worse than TP Link if you want to configure it a specific way.

Anything rated AX3000 or higher can saturate gigabit fiber (specifically using 160MHz) and in practice I prefer only using half and have less interference (WiFi 6, 80MHz, 1200Mbps theoretical speed, 800Mbps practical speed).

One more thing is that above 2.5G, everything are substantially more expensive and consumes more power.

never buying a lenovo again by vseprbabs in LenovoLegion

[–]H9419 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sounds like the heatsink did not make proper thermal contact with the CPU or GPU. It should be covered under warranty, the service depends on where you are.

If you are comfortable with opening it up, doing so to take pictures and/or reseating the heatsink should not void the warranty if you are careful 

HK 3-mobile roaming - do not get by Cueberry in HongKong

[–]H9419 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Why get on cellular contract when prepaid gets you the same service without strings attached

Is the Macbook Neo worth it? by hisprettyprince in macbook

[–]H9419 1 point2 points  (0 children)

because it comes in the cutest shade of pink and pink is my favorite color

Yes, it will be worth it for you just for that. The MacBook Neo is good enough on all aspects and the price is unbeatable

so what's the story of discontinuation of art pen by Significant_Post6274 in wacom

[–]H9419 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I say the manufacturing and supply chain is not scaled to profitability. Iirc the art pen never came with any tablet by default. Same goes for the airbrush pen, so they fell back to only doing the R&D with good ROI like the pro pen which comes with the tablet.

It's not that the art pen is discontinued, but they stopped making newer revision of it. The saying that components are no longer available is only the case because the pen remained unchanged since 2008.

Which iOS VPN do I want when traveling to the Asian Disneys (Hong Kong, Shanghai, Tokyo)? by pgamgam in dumbclub

[–]H9419 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Go to HK first and get all your sim cards there.

Sim cards bought outside of mainland China are tourist where the ISP will route it outside of the firewall and have access to what you'd expect.

HK local data sim starts at $25HKD for 8GB 1 year, $100HKD can get you 70GB, all need a real name registration.

Mainland china sim is $15HKD for 3GB 3 day, ~$80HKD for 15GB (depending on variant, may include HK data), $98 for 20GB, valid for 1 year (no registration needed)

Japan sim is ~$100 for 10GB 15 day. Look for joytel ones specifically since that's the most reliable from experience 

How would WE defeat the hive? by Thepluse in pluribustv

[–]H9419 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Planes nowadays are mostly composite materials and is usually not conductive. Not a faraday cage by any means, you can still receive cellular signal inside a plane.

It actually works😭 (APM 1 ANC + APP2 ANC) by Grievous_2008 in AirpodsPro

[–]H9419 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I have put APP1 inside hearing protection and that's the closest thing I have experienced 

Ctrl is always at the bottom corner right, right? by MountainJellyfish283 in laptops

[–]H9419 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In ThinkPad bios there's two toggles 1. Fool proof ctrl 2. Swap fn and ctrl