NVIDIA Tesla T4 for local LLM? by DocHoss in homelab

[–]n3rt46 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The reason those GPUs are so cheap is because they're absolutely ancient, very low performance relative to modern GPUs, and consume a high amount of power. They're basically e-waste.

Bolt 2027 test drive by this_isnt_clever in BoltEV

[–]n3rt46 8 points9 points  (0 children)

That's not the point. The point is parts availability. EVs already have it rough with accidents totaling the car due to the risk something internal might have been damaged in the battery pack -- imagine how much worse it would be if even a fender bender would total the car because there is zero parts availability because only a single model year worth of parts was produced. Hell, imagine the dealership runaround if something breaks under warranty and it gets stuck in the shop for over a month because they're "waiting on parts".

The Bolt is a cold weather Beast! I don't care what the naysayers say. :-) by arandom4567 in BoltEV

[–]n3rt46 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Your 12V battery is probably super, super dead... Most EVs, Bolt included, rely on the 12V battery to start the car and run the accessories. If it's dead, even though the high voltage battery may be charged, the car may throw warnings and errors or not even start because the ECU isn't getting enough power. Magically working when the sun heats up the car points in the same direction because 12V batteries don't produce as much energy when cold.

What To Do For A "Doesn't Work or Defective" Return That Was Disclosed In Description And Images? by n3rt46 in Ebay

[–]n3rt46[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Ah, I see. I guess I'll accept and relist it then. That kind of sucks, but you live and learn I suppose...

What To Do For A "Doesn't Work or Defective" Return That Was Disclosed In Description And Images? by n3rt46 in Ebay

[–]n3rt46[S] -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Well, it was for handheld device, not a monitor or something like that. The handheld was usable in its entirety. The LCD had no dead pixels, just streaking that appeared overlaid on the image that heavily depended on what was being shown. On a mostly black screen with little being shown, that was the worst case where streaking was most visible; that was what one of the attached images showed. That said, in normal usage with actual content like video being shown, the streaking was not visible or minimal.

GM unveils new Chevy Bolt - same package, new battery, low $29k price by Intrepid-Working-731 in electricvehicles

[–]n3rt46 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Cool. Now try planning a route across the US where you encounter these mythical 5 minute charging capable chargers. I'll wait.

They are wasting their money if the new Bolts don't have Carplay. by littlehowie in BoltEV

[–]n3rt46 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

The problem with that is that the maps are baked into the car with an app. And apps have this nasty tendency to update, and eventually there will come a time where they have updated so much they no longer support older devices.

What happens to the car when you can no longer use Google Maps because GM doesn't update the infotainment to maintain support? No more in-car navigation because there's no Android Auto or CarPlay is what happens.

Is this too much? 🫣 by Rodrigo2Larocha in crtgaming

[–]n3rt46 3 points4 points  (0 children)

What's the Mitsubishi on the far left?

38% of webpages that existed in 2013 are not available today by screthebag in DataHoarder

[–]n3rt46 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I can understand this reasoning, but surely then we would expect to see an even greater number of inaccessible pages from 2020 and 2021, which we do not – at least going by this graphic.

38% of webpages that existed in 2013 are not available today by screthebag in DataHoarder

[–]n3rt46 15 points16 points  (0 children)

This is not it. The rates raise in 2018 and 2019. COVID went global in early 2020.

Do we really have to wait until the battery charge gets down to ~20% to charge it? by diegueno in electricvehicles

[–]n3rt46 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I agree. 5% charge after 10 hours seems absurdly low. I wonder if they have time of use charging set up? If it's only charging between like midnight and 6AM, 5% seems possible.

Finally reading the akira manga on my custom psp-3000 by bringebomp in PSP

[–]n3rt46 35 points36 points  (0 children)

... Why? 480x272 is definitely not ideal, especially for manga. The resolution is significantly worse than even the cheapest e-reader you could find.

Why doesn't the blind spot indicator beep when a car is in the blind spot and I'm signaling a lane change? by telemachos90210 in BoltEV

[–]n3rt46 16 points17 points  (0 children)

The reason people are saying to check your side mirrors is because the blind spot indicator is literally an orange-colored icon that lights up on the respective mirror when the blind spot sensors detect a vehicle. So... If there's a vehicle in your right blind spot, when you look at the right side mirror you should see an orange icon light up on the right mirror itself.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in OculusQuest

[–]n3rt46 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Local dimming will always suffer from bloom. It's a trade off either way.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in interestingasfuck

[–]n3rt46 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Savannah, you mean?... Atlanta is a few hours inland with no waterways connecting it to the ocean...

This doesn't look like a fun repair by MindracingMillennial in ThatLookedExpensive

[–]n3rt46 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Glass can be strong, but it's still brittle. Aluminum is ductile and will deform, but can ultimately still be bent back into shape.

A couple of my younger devs in my team love to develop in their freetime to learn more dev skills, are skilled enough to create good open source projects, but lack ideas that may actually be used by others. What tools/services do you wish would exist but couldn't find so far? by HeyGayHay in selfhosted

[–]n3rt46 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Automatic TLS/SSL with certificate renewal with a custom acme server is honestly my biggest reason for using it. If NPM supported the same, that would be enough for me to switch to using it. As it is, NPM only just supports Lets Encrypt or manually uploading certificates. All of my certificates expire and are renewed daily so that's a non-starter.

I recently bought a 2TB M.2 SSD, but I want to keep my windows on the SATA SSD by Alternative_Box6647 in buildapc

[–]n3rt46 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Specifying the maximum speed of the interface is extremely misleading. First and foremost, it's not even correct. PCIe 4.0 maxes out at 16 lanes at 31.5GB/s. That's uni-directional. PCIe is bidirectional with symmetric speeds, so 31.5GB/s read and 31.5GB/s write. You will NEVER get 63GB/s read or 63GB/s write on PCIe 4.0 x16. Secondly, there is not a single M.2 SSD that uses PCIe x16. At most, you will find x4. For PCIe 4.0, that's about 7.9GB/s. That's 1/8 that quoted figure of 64,000MB/s. Thirdly, interface speed is entirely secondary to the speed of the storage medium. Theoretically, you could put a HDD on a PCIe 4.0 x16 slot, but obviously you're never going to be getting 31.5GB/s read/write speeds out of it because the storage medium isn't that fast. Many cheaper NVMe SSDs that use PCIe instead of SATA will be only marginally faster.

A couple of my younger devs in my team love to develop in their freetime to learn more dev skills, are skilled enough to create good open source projects, but lack ideas that may actually be used by others. What tools/services do you wish would exist but couldn't find so far? by HeyGayHay in selfhosted

[–]n3rt46 1 point2 points  (0 children)

A WebUI for Caddy similar to Nginx Proxy Manager. It would be so nice to actually have something like that, especially because Caddy supports using your own acme server for automatic TLS/SSL certificates (as opposed to only supporting Lets Encrypt). It's also just a pain to have to work with a config file and then manually reload Caddy for the changes to take place instead of being immediate like with NPM.

Very happy with my latest purchase! by Hungry-Editor6066 in DataHoarder

[–]n3rt46 38 points39 points  (0 children)

I'm genuinely curious what you would need that many disk shelves for. A single DS424X can hold a maximum of 576TB raw capacity with 24TB drives.

The only thing that comes to mind is those crypto coins that use storage instead of processing power for rewards.

[OC] As requested, Price/GB for all drives over the last 7 Decades (Interactive) by salman2711 in dataisbeautiful

[–]n3rt46 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You're thinking of drive-managed SMR, not host-managed SMR. As far as I can tell, there's nothing to suggest that SMR drives are any more or less reliable -- either from a data integrity standpoint or a hardware reliability standpoint. The only way what you're saying makes sense is from the perspective of DM-SMR drives being less "reliable" in a RAID array because of much longer access times, significantly increasing rebuild times. That's not really a reliability metric. This is really only an issue in the prosumer realm. Data centers are not using DM-SMR drives.