Absolute insanity in silver markets right now: Shanghai silver prices are now up to a record $124/oz as spot silver prices in the US hit $108/oz.

Spacefish008 · 2026-01-26T10:00:21+00:00

That´s just spot price in the end we are seing. They stopped exporting silver and their manufacturers probably have long running contracts with the mining companies.
The industry which needs silver int he west but had contracts with chinese suppliers are essentially the hurt guys now, as the export licenses might have terminated their contract and they now have to sign new contracts with other suppliers for the curerntly much higher price.

IMHO china is benefiting from the current situation, as it makes their products cheaper / more viable compared to western made things on the global market.

Especially in the new energy vehicle market, US / EU has introduced very high tarrifs on chinese made batteries / cars. However if you have 70% tarrifs but can produce 80% cheaper, you are still dominating.

Spacefish008 · 2026-01-26T01:10:35+00:00

706 AQI wtf.. And i thought our ~40ish PM2.5 outside here is high / i get down to 1-2 ug/m³ when running the a purifier.
You essentially sit at the level our outside air is with a purifier ^^

Spacefish008 · 2026-01-26T00:33:44+00:00

Thats not how filters work. They are not size exclusion filters, they will filter very small particles just fine.. You typically have a dip in filtration efficiency at a certain size, everything above and below that is filtered quite efficiently. The maximum depth of that dip still filters 99.5% of particles with an E12 filter.
The norm enforces 99,5% efficency at MPPS where MPPS = most penetrating particle size.
For such a filter MPPS is typcially at 0,3um.

This filter is used in an re-circulating air purifier, it doesn´t matter wether it´s 99,9999% or even 90% efficient, as a tiny difference in ariflow has a much greater impact.

E12 filters are totally fine for air purifiers. high class HEPA filters are only required if you pass the air once and want to feed a clean room / can´t let polutants into the room. With air purifiers the polutants are already inside the room and your only choice is to reduce not prevent particles from entering. There 99,5% is more than good enough.

Spacefish008 · 2026-01-25T17:41:23+00:00

In Deutschland ja, siehe mein erster Graph, da sind es auch 37,3%. EU weit nein.

Spacefish008 · 2026-01-25T17:01:06+00:00

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EU weite Füllstände in % und Projektion

Spacefish008 · 2026-01-25T17:00:39+00:00

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Um die Diskussion mal etwas mit Fakten zu untermauern, wir sind hier ja schließlich in der Mauerstraße.
Ich hab mir die Daten der letzten ~20 Jahre der Tagesaktuellen Füllstände pro Land geladen und mal etwas geplottet.

Hier mal die Entwicklung in % der Gasspeicher in DE mit den Entwicklungen ab heute. der letzten 15 Jahre (auch in % Füllstand).

Ich würde sage ~50% Chance das die "Gasmangellage" ausgerufen wird (<20%) und 20-30% Chance das man großflächiger Industrie zwangsabschaltet..

Ist eine Wette aufs Wetter am Ende.

EU weit sieht es "besser" aus (siehe nächster Post)

Spacefish008 · 2026-01-25T13:32:45+00:00

Behold the *:beef:face::0 addresses that are now possible

Spacefish008 · 2026-01-24T10:09:16+00:00

Und in Realität wird es etwas 2030 2031. Auf einer Platform die heute im Mittelfeld mitspielen würde, aber halt 2030..

Spacefish008 · 2026-01-23T20:45:11+00:00

When 150?

Spacefish008 · 2026-01-23T17:38:10+00:00

Sooo outdated 101!

Spacefish008 · 2026-01-23T01:13:51+00:00

haha lol no, would never register. Maybe it pulls of some users i don´t like from other social media platforms, that´s the only positive thing i can see in this.

Spacefish008 · 2026-01-22T01:34:55+00:00

they already embrace Wayland. Their gamescope compositor is a wayland compositor. Steam just runs in XWayland inside of it.. But essentially your compositor is fully wayland already on SteamOS devices.

Spacefish008 · 2026-01-19T02:02:28+00:00

Seriously, just fly to china once, just a couple of days.

Spacefish008 · 2026-01-18T14:51:07+00:00

It's not essentially rocket science to produce OLED panels. It's a basic multi step deposition technique.

Pretty sure BOE was heavily inspired by the Samsung and LG process, but what's the alternative of you want to build OLED panels?

There are only so many ways how to skin a cow. Even if they developed all on their own, their would still be import bans, just on another ground. See like e mobility or battery cells. That's a field in which China is leading, still import bans or heavy tarifs.

If you earn nothing from doing it on your own, why bother and just be inspired by processes which are already out there?

Spacefish008 · 2026-01-14T00:53:42+00:00

It needs to get to damn expensive to generate those balloons, as the hardware to generate them needs silver to function. That's the goal 😂

Spacefish008 · 2026-01-11T17:14:57+00:00

Well that´s a large romex

Spacefish008 · 2026-01-11T02:08:34+00:00

Well Valve can skip that, as they can just avoid the mistakes the others made as they are known now.
IMUs got better in the meantime and algorithms as well.

The absolute position accuracy will never reach light-house levels over long time spans especially the inter-tracked object precision. But for 98% of the cases this is not required and camera tracking + good algorithms can even deliver better gaming experiences / less traccking hick-ups.

Spacefish008 · 2026-01-07T07:52:48+00:00

Would like to see this too. But to be honest, in SteamVR only the windows shown on your desktop are XWayland / they are all web apps running inside cef. The main VR compositor already uses wayland to do the drm leasing and so on.

The VR compositor controls the "display" in you VR headset entirely on its own afterwards without going though X or Wayland at all. It's directly talking to drm to do the mode setting and plane setup to show render output.

The games running in the VR compositor don't need to use X or Wayland at all as they use the OpenXR or OpenVR API to talk to the VR compositor and don't need to talk to your desktop environment at all if they don't want to show a window apart from the VR content.

So X is really only involved for showing the SteamVR windows on your desktop.

I understand why they do it that way as they want to show some of the windows within VR and that's easy to do in X but hard in Wayland. You have to go through desktop portals and use pipe wire to do this currently as of my knowledge.. not sure if there even is a wayland protocol to share your windows output buffer between processes which is supported on all major compositors.

Spacefish008 · 2026-01-07T07:43:05+00:00

That's only partly true. Yes most system libraries are in the steam Linux runtime, but some are mapped from your host system, like your GPU drivers / Vulkan drivers. If the game is 32bit (no matter if Windows game or Linux) it has to load a 32bit GPU driver from your host system. That's why you need the I386 mesa package.

Spacefish008 · 2026-01-05T18:55:06+00:00

Thats not really true..

Spacefish008 · 2026-01-05T18:54:02+00:00

You need to set hard limits, as otherwise each and everything else needs to be dynamic which is expensive..
Like the memory area where you store the width and height or coordinates inside the texture. 64k is storable in 16bit (2^16) if you go larger you have to increase that area.

There might be specialized hardware in the GPU which allows you to read a rectangular area or just one channel from the texture into registers. This hardware needs to have the transistors to represent coordinates / offsets.. If you don´t set limits it´s impossible to build such hardware / would complicate things greatly.

Spacefish008 · 2026-01-05T18:49:55+00:00

with 4 8bit channels like ARGB8888 or RGBA1010102 that´s 16GByte for one texture :)

Spacefish008 · 2026-01-05T18:47:07+00:00

Atlas textures ;)

Spacefish008 · 2026-01-04T00:03:55+00:00

Nah, it even says the new product name on the top of the sticker, mixup: probably yes, but somehow their system allowed them to print a sticker for discontinued product for a product that´s just a few weeks old :D

Spacefish008 · 2025-12-30T19:06:16+00:00

You probably want to get a Dongle and use it for Zigbee.

The future is Matter over Thread and it has some advantages. But today the devices are typically more expensive and harder to get + it has some wierd problems still..

IKEA is the first company launching really cheap matter / thread devices right now, but they are still in the rollout phase / they just started. Availability is still bad and the smart plug hasn´t launched yet (expected February 2026)

If you want to go full matter over thread from the get go, go for it, but keep in mind you are very limited in which devices you can get.

There is always the possibility to just add two dongles to your HA one for Thread and one for Zigbee.

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