HakFoo

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[–] HakFoo@lemmy.sdf.org 24 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (4 children)

But GOG is alresdy the Steam with Principles..

[–] HakFoo@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I didn't. It just looks like the fair number of Cisco (and the occasional Dell) 10/100/sometimes Gigabit switches I've seen in junk shops.

I bought a nifty blue Netgear 24-port one mostly because I'm more willing to buy junk from the Humane Society shop, but then decided it was too loud (40mm fans) and went to 2.5G (with smaller fanless switches) instead.

[–] HakFoo@lemmy.sdf.org 23 points 1 day ago (9 children)

Old Cisco gear shows up in the thrift shops here. I think you can't even give 10/100 kit away.

[–] HakFoo@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Fujifilm successfully repositioned towards other chemistry. I know there's that Eastman spinoff but why wasn't it as successful?

[–] HakFoo@lemmy.sdf.org 29 points 1 month ago (3 children)

ARM has a high probability of blowing a tire.

They have a complex relationship with their licensees which may try to cause self-sabotage trying to pull more of the money home. See the various licensing fights.

If you don't want or need x86, what does ARM have to offer-- in the long term-- over RISC-V, which is much less coupled to a single firm's caprice? We can assume the gap in performance will continue to shrink ovrr time.

[–] HakFoo@lemmy.sdf.org 23 points 2 months ago (1 children)

My objections:

  1. It doesn't adequately indicate "confidence". It could return "foo" or "!foo" just as easily, and if that's one term in a nested structure, you could spend hours chasing it.
  2. So many hallucinations-- inventing methods and fields from nowhere, even in an IDE where they're tagged and searchable.

Instead of writing the code now, you end up having to review and debug it, which is more work IMO.

[–] HakFoo@lemmy.sdf.org 13 points 2 months ago

Not to mention the Xbox Box, and the shipping cintainer full of 'em, the Xbox Box Box

[–] HakFoo@lemmy.sdf.org 51 points 2 months ago (2 children)

My idea was a worm that just torrents random shit and dumps it on your desktop like a cat bringing you a dead bat with "I broughted you a pwesent ^w^" energy.

[–] HakFoo@lemmy.sdf.org 11 points 2 months ago (4 children)

As a (non-game) developer, AI isn't even that great at reducing my burden.

The organization is enthusiastic about AI, so we set up the Gitlab Copilot plugin for our development tools.

Even as "spicy autocomplete" only about one time in 4 or so it makes a useful suggestion.

There's so much hallucination, trying to guess the next thing I want and usually deciding on something that came out of its shiny metal ass. It actually undermines the tool's non-AI features, which pre-index the code to reliably complete fields and function names that actually exist.

[–] HakFoo@lemmy.sdf.org 11 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Or that there's a huge amount of legit demand for mature node chips and it makes sense to own the supply for it.

The 5000 microcontrollers you inyeract with each day, by and large, do not need 5nm processes.

We saw a few years ago how relatively cheap, commodity-grade, low-complexity chips suddenly become vital when you can't get them and they have unfinished cars piling up at the assembly plant.

[–] HakFoo@lemmy.sdf.org 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I suspect Intel has a broader product range than AMD to justify the headcount, but I'm not sure where the extra resources should go.

Their networking chipsets were gold-standard in the 100M and Gigabit era, but their 2.5G stuff is spotty to the point Realtek is considered legit.

They've pulled back from flash, SSDs and Optane.

There must be some other rich product lines that they do and AMD doesn't

[–] HakFoo@lemmy.sdf.org 15 points 2 months ago

It can also throw things against the wall with no concern for fitness-to=purpose. See "None pizza, left beef".

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submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by HakFoo@lemmy.sdf.org to c/opnsense@lemmy.world
 

After a home rewire, I'm ready to bump up to 2.5GbE, and demote my old 1Gbps router/wifi box to "AP Only mode".

I want at least ~~five~~ six total ports, four of which need to be 2.5+ (three to different rooms, one for uplink, one 1G+ for the AP, and one "any speed is enough" for the networked printer :) )

It seems like the "mini-PC with a bunch of 2.5GbE ports running OPNSense" option fits neatly between "Build a router out of my old i5-2500K and some eBay NICs and ignore the USD450 electric bill", and "enterprise rackmount gear with Delta fans left over from people overclocking their Socket A Athlons."

I see a lot of machines of the form "fanless case with a little castle of fins on top, Intel N100 CPU, six 2.5G ports from I226 chipset". A representative example is https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256806214512701.html

I suspect they may all be re-brands of the same basic product, but I wanted to know real-world experiences:

  • Basic question: can anyone vouch for any specific one of these devices/sellers and confirm it worked for them?

  • I understand the i225-v LAN chipset was much buggier than the i226-v and to be avoided; still the case? I see a few products that are like USD50 cheaper, with different CPUs and i225-based LAN.

  • For routing/firewall duties (probably 4 PCs, 3 phones, a couple printers, and some smart devices) , are the bottom-of-the-line configs (8GB RAM/128G disc) suitable? Is the CPU sufficient? The N100 makes me laugh-- Intel doesn't even want to give it a brand name.

  • Regarding WiFi, should I just block out that little Mini-PCIe slot on the board from my mind? I know that FreeBSD WiFi has been sort of a fourth-class citizen for years, but I was wondering if there had been a breakthrough, or at least a "here is one specific card you can buy for a largely drama-free experience"

  • Weird question: Any problems with RF noise? I have had some devices where the power brick made a mess of a neighbour's AM radio reception, and I don't want to start a war with him. I figure when you're buying a device with a 60w wall-wart from a random brand, it might not be the cleanest.

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