Also remember those double-sided Micro-USB cables I said were worse than useless a few years back because they basically only work one way round while being able to fit both ways? Well after a year in storage and some extra wear and tear, they actually seem to work reliably now.
@Bob Nothing special, just like any generic looking and feeling $10 wraparound rubber/silicone case but with a slightly oversized sammobile logo on the back.
It's black, which aside from the logo, looks a lot better than my existing transparent/dirty-beige looking one, but is a lot stiffer making the buttons harder to use and it's a bit less grippy
@noitsbecky Of course, but right now I can output the sound from a Firefox tab (which doesn't have that option) to a bluetooth speaker for my daughter, while playing a game that doesn't support audio output on the main speakers.
Also, I'm not sure why so many Firefoxes... It doesn't seem to be related to the number of tabs I have open though.
@MichaelFrank Yeah it's sorta nice Windows can do it now, but anyone who's worked with professional audio has gotten used to controlling I/O paths from within their software itself.
This to me seems like yet another case of Microsoft dumbing things down for the general public while making shit harder for professionals
That said, I'll have to see how it interacts or conflicts with existing I/O routing to see if it's a real drawback. Lots of shit they've layered on top of Windows 10 has had detrimental impact by chucking an extra layer of complexity on top, but some haven't.
@MichaelFrank That's the thing though, does one override the other? Which takes preference? Old applications will be unaware of the new API change, so how will changes be synchronized?
If program A requests output to device B but windows is set to default to device A, will the output go to A or B?
Microsoft has historically had a very long-standing and very strong policy of never breaking backwards compatibility so I'm hoping they've implemented it in a way that existing things will still just work as they are, but that's not guaranteed.
Isn't that already the case? Windows defines a default output and the application overrides it. I would assume a Windows set output would take a backseat to the application set output.
@MichaelFrank That's the current case, yeah. But if you change the setting in the Windows settings app, existing applications will have no way of detecting or knowing that's been done, and Windows has no way of propagating a reverse change into the application. So where will the output end up - will Windows ignore it's own setting and respect the application, or override the application without notice?
It just reminds me of the clusterfuck that has long been the status quo for graphics settings - games have inbuilt antialiasing settings, graphics' drivers have their own antialiasing settings, both have an "Override the other" button, and while they may have basic awareness of said instruction neither has any way of synchronizing or propagating changes so that both settings agree with each other.
Which basically means there is no way to reliably and deterministically determine the end result.
> Set game to "Force antialiasing mode ON, override graphics driver setting" Set driver to "Force antaliasing mode OFF, override game setting" End result: Undefined.
I can imagine the same thing happening with this new Windows audio feature, unless Microsoft have been incomprehensibly smart about its implementation.
Which then reminds me of... "What happens when an unstoppable bullet hits an impenetrable wall?"
Anyway, probably making a mountain out of a molehill. Professional users will probably ignore the Windows settings. Regular users will probably use the Windows ones, not even knowing their software has their own overrides. Just wonder what will happen to power users who want to use a combination of both in different scenarios.
Linux, WiFi, Ethernet, USB, and a few pins of IO for ~£5 shipped.
This sounds amazing for DIY stuff
In fact, it sounds incredible
Found a few: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/3G-4G-Wifi-Router-Mini-Wireless-Portable-Wifi-Router-4G-Hotspot-RJ45-150Mbps-Wifi-Hotspot-Support/32817259451.html?spm=2114.search0104.3.51.1fe44bc5uDofsu&ws_ab_test=searchweb0_0,searchweb201602_5_10065_10068_204_318_319_328_10059_10884_317_323_10887_10696_100031_320_321_322_10084_10083_10103_10618_452_10307_532,searchweb201603_55,ppcSwitch_0&algo_expid=b26fb90b-08d7-4c92-ad62-88c75ae78b98-7&algo_pvid=b26fb90b-08d7-4c92-ad62-88c75ae78b98 https://www.aliexpress.com/item/Portable-Lightweight-Mini-WiFi-Wireless-4G-3G-150Mbps-Router-for-Android-iOS/3…
@rahuldottech Link says it's for an Android phone. Not sure what you're trying to achieve, but it's not going to provide anything a $5 router off Ebay can't do far better.
@rahuldottech It's in transcript order, just missing out a dozen irrelevant messages in between.
Anyway.
RaLink SoC with 4MB flash and 32MB RAM is fairly limited but will do basic non-routing functions along with just about any advanced routing functions.
Don't expect to run BitTorrent on it but you might get by with an FTP server.
Just make sure what you're getting is what you're actually linking/expecting. Seeing as at least one of the AliExpress links says nothing about the make/model/chip that's inside and it's plenty easy to have a dozen variants with different SoCs some of which will and some won't run OpenWRT.
Fuck it, I'm buying a Samsung 970 SSD
Only question is 2x500GB or 1x1TB
Lmao. Whinging about lack of disk space, then I discover this:
Apparently my OCD in having round numbers for my drive sizes has had me hiding 142GB from myself for the past year...
Hmm leaning towards the 1TB. Totally unnecessary capacity wise, but it's got an SLC cache big enough for my hibernate file and twice the write speed outside of the SLC cache
And hibernate/resume speed is the most annoying drawback of my current M.2 boot drive which drops to like 100MB/sec when it's pissed off
@Bob I don't need the space, I want the hibernate/resume performance
I'm actually thinking WD black now. Anandtech says it's basically the same performance +/-10% across the board but uses half the power. Which matters in a laptop when you've got 3 drives in it
In fact in the heavy benchmark the Samsung 970 Evo uses over 20W, the WD less than 10W. Two of the Samsung SSDs would use more power than my quad-core CPU at full load.
Went for the 500GB WD Black. Might be the first time in 10 years I bought a non-Samsung SSD... (exception being a cheapo 120GB Kingston for the work laptop in '15)
Fuck, now I wish I gone for the Samsung. Sure it has 14ms idle latency but that's less than 1 frame on a 60Hz display, i.e. almost literally unnoticeable, and sure it has double the active power draw, but how much time am I really going to be spending writing 2GB/sec while on battery?
Now I want the Samsung 970 Pro
ARGH
@Bob Y'know what, I just cancelled my order for the 500GB WD Black and the 1TB 970 Evo and went for your suggestion of a 512GB 970 Pro.
It's "only" £35 more than the 500GB Evo and it outperforms the 1TB Evo by 50% in sustained write (which is going to be important for a 32GB hibernation file on an encrypted drive, which is basically gonna be nearly always at 100% full steady state performance.)
I ssh tunneled to my experimental router. Then used that tunnel to open up a port on my actual router. Then forwarded that port to the experimental router then to my test client...
I'm trying to formulate a halfway intellegent question on something and have no idea where to start putting together something that isn't a "I have a thing? How do I do the same thing from scratch?"
> Hi Here's the thing about me - in case you haven't gathered from our conversations thus far - I'm extremely shy and self-conscious I've only ever met one person off tinder and even though that turned out great, it took weeks and weeks of phone calls and convincing I'm in no way suggesting that I expect you to do that, because I really don't. In fact you shouldn't I'm just a very difficult person. I'm really sorry I feel like I owed you an explanation, at the very least I wish I wasn't like this, but I am:(
@ThatBrazilianGuy I feel like our community here has become too insular. We haven't had anyone new come along and join it in a long time. There's no one new to invite to Matrix!
@HornOKPlease I find it peculiar how sometimes it becomes a "commentary track" for SE chat and lately I'm way more on Riot than here, and out of the blue there comes a phrase that makes no sense out of context.
