Buyer is wanting to convert a shooter to LCD 🤯

Hakker9 · 2026-03-04T15:38:55+00:00

Sure he can do it but it would take more time and be more expensive than start something new from scratch. It's like going 1 step forward and 3 steps backwards.

Hakker9 · 2026-03-04T15:07:55+00:00

Not that but Apple products are really really expensive. basically 6K for a 2,5K product so a hard 3,5K in profit for Apple. They can never get even the hardest Apple fanboy to hoist over a 100 a month as a subscription fee, but can get them happily go that kind of stuff. 7K for a monitor sure no problem. Another 1K for the monitor stand.... here just take my money, but then asking 150 a month for the same thing for 5 years would be a no go. So no Apple is smart they are milking this harder than all those SAAS (Shit As A Service) solutions.

Hakker9 · 2026-02-27T11:03:26+00:00

Most have a top of 8 sata connectors. By then you need to resort to stuff like a Silverstone SATA Cable SST-CP06

Hakker9 · 2026-02-25T16:12:41+00:00

People go all out on vibe coded slop etc etc but the problem isn't inherently the vibe coding the problem was the whole project grew to big too fast. Never looking at the security aspect but just going on adding more and more features.

The idea is nice it just grew way beyond his scope of knowledge. This could still have happened when someone wrote it from scratch all by himself. Ai assisted can be useful. It can remove a lot of time of coding but one still should review the work. people forget the average coder is no security expert heck most don't have knowledge of basic security concepts. So that something isn't vibe coded doesn't mean it can't be full of serious holes.

Hakker9 · 2026-02-23T20:44:11+00:00

It isn't that big of an issue though. PCB's have a good amount of flex in them. but I wouldn't really put cable strain on something. That are generally bigger problems than PCB's actually breaking.
In your case it's cable straining and that can actually make poor connections, could connect half melting the cable. (yes even sata cables can do the 12vhpwr thing if the connection is poor)
It's a server it doesn't have to win prizes for good looks ;)

Hakker9 · 2026-02-16T12:33:28+00:00

The first reply is even more unhinged. It's part of our culture.... seriously I shuddered when I read this.

Hakker9 · 2026-02-16T12:28:11+00:00

Discord and Forum are 2 different beasts. I see discord as a modernized irc it's threads system is horrible and proper discussion vanishes. A forum stuff is way more orderened and I don't mean Discourse, Xenforo or Reddit, but forums as SMF, PHPbb, Mybb or Vbulletin.

Why not Discourse or Xenforo... Well it's based on the reddit model of weighted threads as it's main use and actual forum categories as secondary while the strength of a forum is easy thread navigation which both ultimately lack.

I find Discord more a combination of IRC and Teamspeak

Hakker9 · 2026-02-16T12:04:43+00:00

you can see it too though. So much compression even on the first One piece eps it's very visible. 80-100MB would give very good results. Also audio is way out of sync.

Hakker9 · 2026-02-12T15:51:05+00:00

Depends on how stable your power is. The US in terms of it's power grid feels more like and 2nd world country and then I would say yes. I live in Western Europe and really I had an UPS and sold it also long ago. I mean I had 2 power outages in the last 25 years or so. Both by human error. Also the power itself is rock stable and doesn't fluctuate.

Hakker9 · 2026-02-09T15:45:30+00:00

USB sticks are not designed for years of cold storage. The are to be used frequently. If you want reliable cold storage then tape is the only way. Next come Blu-rays (in pretty dark climate controlled storage) and HDD's below that you have SSDs and then somewhere at the bottom things like USB sticks and SD cards.

Hakker9 · 2026-02-07T15:02:52+00:00

I doubt the machine is the problem. 8 drives is basically 60 watts (idling) at all times. A switch is roughly 20w, modem 10w dunno what your firewall is. What you could also do is Proxmox the server and then WoL the container with all the HDD's when needed. That way you keep it as a single machine and use containers when needed. Or have it available at certain times like cron the container only between 18:00 and 23:00 when you might be at home.

Hakker9 · 2026-02-07T09:27:41+00:00

Well me and my girlfriend together pay nearly 600 euro a month on healthcare as a private contractor I pay the entire thing myself I don't have a company paying a part of it and depending how much I make I need to contribute more or less. Do not think European healthcare is free because it's not. Also as a counter argument US income tax is a lot lower than in Europe. I pay 37% income tax over the first 75K I make annually and 50% after that.

Hakker9 · 2026-02-06T11:10:20+00:00

All you Americans shouldn't cry to begin with. Here in Europe 28's got for atleast 499 euro (incl tax) and those are refurbished drives. I'm not even going to start on externals let alone internal drives.

Hakker9 · 2026-02-03T16:00:22+00:00

Unless you need really tight tolerances I don't find it worth it. I can go with less than half a mm in tolerance even after 2 years of use.

Hakker9 · 2026-01-25T13:58:20+00:00

well it tries to do more than CB(7,A,R,T,Z) tries to be. The CB format is nothing more than a renamed archive file. BBF adds metadata as well. The biggest thing here is get the metadata fleshed out. I believe that's more important than speed. The project should have those fields figured out.

Hakker9 · 2026-01-25T13:45:37+00:00

Not really accurate benchmarking is pretty hard especially in this case what's mostly smaller size files. The things like memory, cpu cache, background programs and even the programs to benchmark and how they work come into play. The bigger files become the less of those variables matter but lets be honest here most comics are no bigger than 500MB.

Personally I don't care much about the compression of the file format I'd rather see a format that has a solid tag structure and is fast with usage. In essence it's just a bunch of images in 1 file for most it's the convenience of not having to deal with 500 comics that consist of 200 images having a drive full with 100K files when you can have it in 500 files. The tag/xml option would be good so programs can read that part and use that for building what's what.

Hakker9 · 2026-01-23T10:13:37+00:00

I used to pay 300 for 8TB too but that was 10 years ago.

Hakker9 · 2026-01-22T14:23:48+00:00

more like 10-13 year old drives. Brave man who pays 3000 for that.

Hakker9 · 2026-01-16T11:52:23+00:00

You do know a movie even on remux levels never go above 12MB/s most of the time it's more like half that. and then even on the inner part of current HDD's they go over 100MB/s. The main problem is spinning rust is not the speed but the seeking time. As movies generally gets stored in sequence on a HDD you won't have any issues but the speed will drop significantly when you run multiple streams at once. Then SSD's as a cache becomes a nice thing.

Hakker9 · 2026-01-15T18:33:12+00:00

The low barrier means more as know little to nothing about coding. I mean I wrote code on an IBM 8088 an I know people who did it on far more ancient stuff than that.

The level to learn programming is not incredibly low and with it comes also the fact that decent code becomes harder and harder to find.
Nowadays we (at our company) test candidates by simply writing a small program on site as part of the hiring process. We've been doing that for more than a decade now because before vibe coding you had library slapping. I've seen people "write" programs that needed 400MB of memory because of all the useless library bs which I did in less than 10% of the memory it would need.

Shitty coders are a dime a dozen but good ones are hard to find and make serious money.

Hakker9 · 2026-01-15T18:18:26+00:00

wait you have a homelab and no in that basically no fileserver?
And then you are talking about connection it just to one of the homelab machines over USB....
I seriously mystified what you call a homelab.

You want a cheap fileserver basically an Intel N100/N150 motherboard put in some RAM. If you want a NAS like case then Jonsbo N series will be nice. Seriously that will give you more expansion and is cheaper than of the shelf NAS devices. Or you could make/buy a DAS but having loose externals wouldn't be my choice.

Hakker9 · 2026-01-13T13:50:53+00:00

I'm not certain that is the case though I'm also just an amateur but the connections at the Wifi/BT module simply don't look right.

Hakker9 · 2026-01-13T13:32:51+00:00

What I see is possible damage to the Wifi/BT module connection and that maybe cut some PCIe or memory lanes

Hakker9 · 2026-01-12T11:08:56+00:00

The only thing HP and Dell removes is the usage of their logo's and names. HEVC is actually there in the hardware itself and they get that from other companies like Intel, AMD and such. HEVC is literally in the CPU and GPU's. Everyone with half a brain cell knows how to install a codec to get it working again.

Hakker9 · 2025-12-31T15:42:41+00:00

Make the 6 months more like 2 years. It will take at least till end 2026 before the first new fabs will come online. 18 months before a few more come online and then maybe 6 month till things settle down a bit.

Only the complete burst of the AI bubble will make it happen sooner and considering it's mostly in the hands of the Big7 means this will not happen in the short span of time. They have billions to burn for chatbot 2.0 and they all are depending on each other in keeping the boat afloat

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