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  • A blockchain doesn’t actually provide control over a transaction, it just verifies that it happened. It’s supposed to be a long, immutable record of every transaction that has ever ocurred, which is precisely why transactions can’t be reversed. The work of verifying those transactions is performing by miners, or some other “proof of” design where you have an authority in the chain that confirms it.

    Basically, it’s nothing more than a fancy receipt.





  • A cursory search says somewhere between a 3060 and 4060, which seems about right. Games that parallelize well across the GPU cores will benefit, though that benefit will be niche if it exists at all. HBM2 memory is weird for gaming.

    You’d see some benefit for sure, but this really is better suited to parallel computing, given the emphasis on CUDA core counts and memory bandwidth. You may also find you run into some latency, since it requires selecting the V100 as your primary GPU but a secondary card as the video output. Integrated GPUs work well for this, since your motherboard may already have this ability. Otherwise, you could use it in tandem with a 1030 or similar to get display out.





  • I’d be trading one smart mess for another, and paying more money to do it. My TV is from 2018, and when it’s hit 10 years old maybe I’ll think about it. But right now, there’s no reason for me to rush out and find something else when I know the Roku can’t phone home and Jellyfin works like I want it to. Besides, whether an account is required or not, I wouldn’t trust Google any more than Roku/Fox. I don’t know what I’ll buy next, but I’m not prepared to think about it right now.


  • It saddens me, as I liked Roku for being the least ad-ridden option of the bunch. The apps don’t advertise to me as I hover over them, and a DNS change renders the single poster-style advert on the screen inert.

    I’ve got a couple Roku devices that realistically I’ll continue to use unless I manage to find a hospitality TV or something to replace my TCL with. I’d just use my PS5 if it weren’t for the fact Sony won’t approve Jellyfin’s app




  • The trouble for me in this sense is that I have an AVR, I’d like CEC to work and I’d like an interface that was actually designed for a remote.

    I’ve done this before, and frankly it’s just not as good. It works reasonably well, but an HTPC has never served as well as a purpose built piece of hardware or software, even if that’s the TV itself.

    If I really wanted, I could buy a hospitality TV and use the RS232 to control it from the PC but I’m tired thinking about the ways that’s likely to fail.



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    6 months ago

    Generally speaking, most VPNs used for business are a split tunnel, and aren’t forwarding all of your traffic, just the traffic relevant to your company resources that would otherwise be inaccessible unless you were on-site. So your internet traffic and regular browsing are still sent as if you had no VPN connection at all.






  • Paying for journalism is ideal, but unfortunately makes it difficult to cite/link to a source the way Wikipedia needs as a way to ensure the information remains open and accessible.

    Admittedly, I’m not familiar with these outlets enough to know if those paywalls are significant, but the problem with direct article links is that those links can change. Archival services (I suppose not archive[.]is) are important for ensuring those articles remain accessible in the format they were presented in.

    I’ve come across a number of older Wikipedia articles about more minor or obscure events where links lead to local new outlet websites that no longer exist or were consumed by larger media outlets and as a result no longer provide an appropriate citation.