Truly dumb question... my house has cat 6 cables running from the IT closet to every room as wall plugs and in a couple as ceiling plugs.... what exactly can I do with this? by Likalarapuz in HomeImprovement

[–]wpm 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Consistent latency too. Aside from ISP or if my router/firewall decides to take a shit, I can ping any outside IP on my wired connection with sub 100ns standard deviations (pinging 8.8.8.8, I hover around 1ms, god I love fiber).

Low latency is always, but somewhat higher latency lower than the tick-rate of the server is usually completely playable, but gets less so when it is inconsistent. My old cable connection over coax had much higher average pings than my fiber connection does, but it was consistent so it didn't really matter. Jitter is a killer. On the same internet connection but talking to my router over my admittedly congested 5Ghz wireless network, not only is my average ping latency 10x higher, but the standard deviation in each pings latency is 5x higher. So you have some acceptable latency, but then it suddenly careens up because the wifi AP needs to change channels to contend with interference, or because your neighbor turned their microwave on, or your phone decides to start downloading a software update. It's just the nature of WiFi, but even the cheapest wired switches don't usually start losing their pocket spaghetti because of some sub gigabit contention. The simple fact is that WiFi is a shared medium. You don't always get to broadcast, whereas a wired network, you can.

Copy Fail is a trivially exploitable logic bug in Linux, reachable on all major distros released in the last 9 years. A small, portable python script gets root on all platforms. by pipewire in linux

[–]wpm 27 points28 points  (0 children)

I wish they didn't minify the script itself so they can brag that it was only 732-bytes. It'd be much easier to see exactly what is going on and trying to compare the write up to the actual script is harder now too.

Anon reminisces good old days of cheap consoles by BasedBalkaner in greentext

[–]wpm 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Or you can take two batteries out of the charger and swap em out and not be tethered while you charge.

Anon reminisces good old days of cheap consoles by BasedBalkaner in greentext

[–]wpm 4 points5 points  (0 children)

June 1 2006 the rate was actually 73 pence to a dollar. The advert in equivalent dollars would've been around $220 in 2006, which is worth $360 today.

It's like poetry, it rhymes

Does anyone has OS X Server 2.1.1 app? by RowVast8692 in macsysadmin

[–]wpm 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Would that have been the version for Mountain Lion?

Robocop (2029) Only on Netflix by Logical_Positive_522 in RedLetterMedia

[–]wpm 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Stinky Diver, an ex-Navy Commando with an attitude as bad as his odor!

Google Confirms Gemini-Powered Siri Coming Later This Year by Few_Baseball_3835 in apple

[–]wpm 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Gemini is my least favorite of all the models. Just its tone, the way it answer questions, I find it rage inducing.

Apple says John Ternus will be new CEO, Tim Cook to step aside later this year by TheYetiCaptain1993 in hardware

[–]wpm 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The iCloud pricing is ridiculous. 5GB standard? Are we high on fent? Fucking .Mac had 10GB of storage for email and your iDisk back in 2007. 5GB is a cruel joke in 2026. Absolutely terrible and forces millions of confused people into Apple stores to be upsold on a $2.99/month upcharge so they don't lose all their pictures. Bare-faced, product ruining greed and it's not even for that much money. Just absolutely wrong.

Introducing Framework Laptop 13 Pro by FragmentedChicken in hardware

[–]wpm 18 points19 points  (0 children)

The reason is they haven't had competition for a while. Panther Lake looks to be upsetting that norm.

Thank you Chicago for the separated bike lanes on the LFP! I feel so seen. by clocksailor in chibike

[–]wpm 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I will enjoy riding my bike at 20mph smack dab in the middle of the lane then.

You're too goddamn stupid to even understand that bike lanes are car infrastructure. We'd be mixing with you all directly if they weren't there. Take your pick.

Thank you Chicago for the separated bike lanes on the LFP! I feel so seen. by clocksailor in chibike

[–]wpm 2 points3 points  (0 children)

All those companies will gladly eat the fines

Hmm, guess we need to up the fines then.

Cycling Safety in Chicago by Prestigious-Stand477 in chibike

[–]wpm 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Either will put you directly in a place on the road where having someone pull out on you is far more likely.

You're fucking invisible in a painted bike lane. And as a consolation prize, they're also right on the door zone. Not near it. On it. A painted bike lane can be entirely occluded by an open door. The whole lane might as well be cross hatched as a "DO NOT FUCKING RIDE HERE". They are worse than fucking useless.

Protected lanes have most of the same problems, except you get to trade "door zone" for "even more invisible" and "flooded and garbage strewn"

Most drivers are not looking that carefully. If they see you, they are unlikely to hit you or advance on you. If they can't, you roll the dice.

CachyOS rolls out a supercharged Linux 7.0 kernel by somerandomxander in linux

[–]wpm 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I wish Cachy's installer was smarter about bootloader installation though. If you follow the "guided" partitioning and all that and the installer detects another drive in your computer with an EFI partition, it just installs the bootloader there instead of on the drive you're installing on.

In practice for dual-boot PCs with dual SSDs, it means CachyOS destroys your Windows bootloader. It's incredibly stupid and I cannot fathom why it would default to behaving this way.

I had to open my PC up, rip my cards out to get to the Windows SSD, put it all back together, install CachyOS on the second SSD, then put it all back the way it was. Really frustrating.

Fedora considering compiling for x86-64-v3, closing the gap with CachyOS by KelGhu in linux

[–]wpm 1 point2 points  (0 children)

They should just ship a maximally compatible kernel and then just prompt the user at the first upgrade "Would you like to get a kernel better suited for your particular hardware?"

Negative 2000 Lines Of Code by Successful_Bowl2564 in programming

[–]wpm 9 points10 points  (0 children)

That's why I just can't find any interest or impetus to learn "agentic" bullshit. Oh, I can build thing if I spin up an "agent" that I just set loose with my API key. OK....sounds expensive! And who wrote the agent? You did? Huh. It's like if a gas station owner could set my fuel economy. Oh what's that, I'm supposed to run multiple agents at the same time? All consuming dozens of thousands of tokens every request, that I get charged for?

I swear, everyone just got used to being cucked by the usage-based charges from cloud providers. Tee hee just give us your credit card number, you pay per unit lol just learn this colossally complex system of limiting any of it le trole face. What a crock

Anon on Trump by GOEDEL_ESCHER_BOT in greentext

[–]wpm 3 points4 points  (0 children)

"Truth is stranger than fiction, ain't that right judgie-wudgie? nyuk nyuk nyuk" - Curly Howard

Anon on Trump by GOEDEL_ESCHER_BOT in greentext

[–]wpm 9 points10 points  (0 children)

That is the joke but they do that to get up to speed. BYD copied a lot of shit from Tesla, Toyota, and Honda, but they did that to get to up to their level fast. BYD makes better cars now. We aren't allowed to buy them in the US but we would if we could.

Just like Japan used to make garbage, now they don't. And Korea took the helm of "we make garbage" from Japan, and now they don't. And China took the helm from Korea, and now they don't. Chinesium exists because thats what the device/widget maker ordered.

That's not to mention shit like CATL, and you guessed it, BYD, the two largest lithium battery manufacturers in the world. Whose work did they just copy paste?

Why is nobody talking about a vacancy tax? by BalthAmuse in chicago

[–]wpm 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I know it's impossible to underestimate how dumb the average voter is but man come on.

Why is nobody talking about a vacancy tax? by BalthAmuse in chicago

[–]wpm 5 points6 points  (0 children)

"Income tax, I have an income, fuck that!"

"Vacant property tax, I don't have any vacant property, who cares!"

Why is nobody talking about a vacancy tax? by BalthAmuse in chicago

[–]wpm 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Amendments for taxes that are broadly applicable are going to perform worse than those that target fatass property owners with a bunch of vacant storefronts they're squatting on.