jolan
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Comment · 1 month ago
As an example of this, Sarah Langs uses a synthesized voice due to the progression of her ALS symptoms.
Comment · 1 month ago
You seem to just be extrapolating based on old information and bad comparisons. Click through the $269 link. The M2 listing redirects to an Intel Mac mini model.
Apple trade-in value is currently $565 for the base 16GB/256GB M4 mini. (up from $480 a couple weeks ago)
https://i.imgur.com/9qgKSZd.png
I paid $500 for it. Why would I sell it to you for $300?
Comment · 1 month ago
They are very close in benchmarks. https://i.imgur.com/Bk5Dcfb.jpeg
I think we will continue to see some performance improvements for both systems over the next coming months.
It works great if you turn the BC-250 on, play games, and turn it off.
By jank, I mean it's not a streamlined console experience like the Steam Machine. There's no suspend/resume and the idle power is quite high. If you want wifi/bluetooth, you'll have to pick a chipset well supported by Linux. (I use ethernet and a steam controller). If you want USB ports and a power button in the front like a console would have, you'll have to pick a solution for those. Carefully read over the options for power and cooling. They're very important if you're going for max performance. All the little extras add to the over-all cost as well.
https://mosfet.party/ sells a bunch of BC-250 add-ons to give you an idea of price and options.
Comment · 1 month ago
I bought one while waiting to see if my Steam Machine reservation would be fulfilled.
I paid ~$186 shipped for the board on eBay 5 weeks ago. I use an ATX power supply and NVMe that I had laying around and I printed a big case for it[0].
I seem to have gotten a good one as it has no problems after unlocking the extra CPU/GPU cores.
I run vanilla Arch on mine configured to boot into Steam. The jank factor is pretty high but it does trade blows with the Steam Machine for a fraction of the price.[1]
I did end up going through with the purchase of a 512GB Steam Machine for $1160 w/tax and swapped in a 2TB NVMe. It is definitely a more polished/living room-ready product and I'm happy with the hardware but it's definitely a questionable value.
It's worth reading over the docs[2] first before committing. There are lots of options for cooling, storage, and power supplies. Just depends on what you want to get out of it and how much time you want to invest in it. There are pre-made images so you don't necessarily need to be a Linux expert but it would help if you want to stay on top of the latest developments. There is still on-going work to get even more performance[3]
- [0] https://www.printables.com/model/1789618-bc-250-atx-case-dua...
- [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Sw1SdU9buQ
- [2] https://elektricm.github.io/amd-bc250-docs/
- [3] https://github.com/lonewolf0622/BC250-Native-Mesh-Shaders-
Comment · 3 months ago
Cloudflare offers domain registration/renewal with no markup if you're looking for an option. I moved to them after AWS increased fees.
Comment · 7 months ago
Tony Chen from Microsoft gave a talk called "Guarding Against Physical Attacks: The Xbox One Story" and he explains that they want any sort of physical attack to cost at least the price of 10 games ($600 at the time).
Comment · 7 months ago
This attack is on the early models that didn't have those protections enabled. The researcher surmised that later models do indeed have anti-glitching mechanisms enabled.
Comment · 10 months ago
FYI, it's been almost two years since us-east-1-chi-2 launched and it's still missing on the site. Any reason for this? Kind of feels like local zones are a 2nd class citizen even at AWS itself.
Thank you for maintaining this, I do use it every few months at $DAYJOB and it's quite useful for my capacity/deployment planning.
Comment · 1 year ago
I think he meant the audio output itself sounds like an infomercial.
Comment · 1 year ago
This is a great series by a Toyota mechanic:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeFzfl0Q8rQUOHwFNOMTu...
He goes into the practicalities of owning/maintaining/repairing as well as the engineering.
Comment · 1 year ago
Yes that revision is patched to specifically counter RGH. Microsoft disabled the ability to get the precise timing needed from the CPU and also added more filtering/robustness so the system will reset properly instead of getting into the inconsistent state of the old revisions.
Comment · 1 year ago
The Winchester revision is still considered unhackable afaik. It's crazy how many Xbox 360 revisions there were compared to other consoles.
Comment · 1 year ago
If you want a more polished product, GL.iNet's Flint 2 is almost identical, has more ports, and runs stock OpenWrt just fine:
Comment · 2 years ago
Comment · 3 years ago
Would be great if EOL models could be officially transitioned to ChromeOS Flex in some way.