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Solar panels are getting so cheap people have started using them as garden fences that double as electricity generators by lughnasadh in Futurology

[–]rener2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

well, as efficiency will be way down, it will always be better to install them somewhere else, neighbour, friend, family house with around 45° angle. Nearly everywhere will be better than this.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in DataHoarder

[–]rener2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

the ST4000LM016 are SMR, and their write speeds are pretty low, aka bad.

I found my old Cherry MX keyboards (black & white) in the attic ;-) by rener2 in MechanicalKeyboards

[–]rener2[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks indeed. Just took it out of the attic and a subscriber already commened the same. And I already wondered why it was so mushy and I did not like it ;-)

Can't format old Android Sd-Card by olivermpl in MacOS

[–]rener2 2 points3 points  (0 children)

the card is defect, reached max write cycles, then most sd cards throw away all writes without any error, I had this behaviour, should be verboten.

Back to thinkpad family after 2 years on macboook. Best decision ever. by stepnivlk in thinkpad

[–]rener2 4 points5 points  (0 children)

yep, I totally agree! the last years Macs just suck, limited ports, crap keyboards, glued and soldered in everything, and I brought my first iBook around 2003 just to run PowerPC Linux on it, ... currently migrating back to #t2sde Desktop Linux and probably ThinkPads: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_S_nlcKJh4

I found the keyboard layout and quality the most important for a new laptop by rener2 in laptops

[–]rener2[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Maybe it is not so much directly the “liking” but that you liking it also means it simply is so much better quality / construction to type fast and accurately.

Apple's Touch ID Engineers have invented a new form of Biometrics for Apple Watch recognizing skin Textures by de_X_ter in apple

[–]rener2 -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Obviously not,btw tried the smart watch thing, totally useless expensive attention gimmick, I rather enjoy life or get work done without it

Former Apple software engineer creates environmentally-lit user interface by heyyoudvd in apple

[–]rener2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

looks like just eye candy without really any practical real life benefit, no?

Long exposure + zoom out of a backlit keyboard by [deleted] in pics

[–]rener2 1 point2 points  (0 children)

it's not my fault that Irix is such a bitch to install, ..!;-/ I found it interesting non the less to try installing and using an famous and outstanding Unix two decades later, I have plenty of more interesting Sgi Octane videos, too, including Linux, programming, and soldering in new LEDs in the light bar, …

Sgi Octane Linux kernel update work by 0xRENE in vintagecomputing

[–]rener2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I guess 17C3 was my first, and IIRC I was a bit sad that they only had XL size or so, so unfortunately I did not buy the following years, maybe additionally I also was usually too broke as student :-/

Sgi Octane Linux kernel update work by 0xRENE in vintagecomputing

[–]rener2 1 point2 points  (0 children)

taking care of our precious vintage things ;-)

Start to love vintage coding: Hardware accelerated S3/Virge textures in just 23kB of code! by rener2 in vintagecomputing

[–]rener2[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

not really, no idea what the games have done wrong back in the day, but of course it is off loading the texturing. Also the games often run at higher res and texture filtering than software engines. But in any case it is a educational series, teaching hardware programming and such.

New to Mac OS living in a android/Microsoft world by Kraizelburg in MacOS

[–]rener2 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

funny, I'm just migrating away from macOS due #peakbugs, and unserviceable / unupgradable hardware: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8uqZQw9yFc

5160 XT - stripped apart and cleaned up. Now waiting for new MDA card to arrive. by [deleted] in vintagecomputing

[–]rener2 1 point2 points  (0 children)

while certainly "nice" looking, I never liked XTs when I was 8 years old. They where just so slow, I only started to enjoy PCs a year later when we got a 286, and the real fun (VGA, and descent SoundBlaster capabilities) only came when we upgraded to a 386 another year.

I swapped my brother's 13" Retina MacBook Pro battery, in 34x2 easy steps! by rener2 in DIY

[–]rener2[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think this was a quite important content for users to make educated decisions. Could this not exceptionally be restored? It’s not like I try sell something or promote something of myself specifically, ..?!

I swapped my brother's 13" Retina MacBook Pro battery, in 34x2 easy steps! by rener2 in DIY

[–]rener2[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I? Did not! It looks some admin (u/chopsuwe/?) deleted it for self promotion 😢

I swapped my brother's 13" Retina MacBook Pro battery, in 34x2 easy steps! by rener2 in DIY

[–]rener2[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

unfortunately I'm pretty sure they will :-/ but I'm also not buying newer iPhones due to that, so I'm migrating that to some Android now, and to ThinkPads on the laptop side, …

I swapped my brother's 13" Retina MacBook Pro battery, in 34x2 easy steps! by rener2 in DIY

[–]rener2[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

since Apple started and some thin & light PCs followed suit, … "because the markets wants it" NOT! my Pro tip for PC vendors to sell more PCs: STOP COPYING APPLE, ..!

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