Pretty sure that’s a x4 PCIe slot (admittedly PCIe 5x4, but not many video cards speak PCIe5), would totally trade a usb4 for a x8, but these laptop chips are pretty constrained lanes wise.
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MalReynolds@piefed.socialto History Memes@lemmy.world•Old gods were terribly meanEnglish10·3 days agoDear God(ess) that’s a fun take and easily justified, but it was holsum=wholesome that really threw me. It’s almost like three millennia old morals have little relevance to the current world, and yet, the kardishans, trump etc say no. Silly apes. Still like Eris best, much fun.
MalReynolds@piefed.socialto Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•The time and expense of commuting is theft, if that job can be done from home.English39·3 days agoHistorically unpaid commute originated before urban sprawl, car culture and a massive spike in population, it’s been grandfathered in, but it’s absolutely theft in the current environment, whether the job can be done at home or not. Posit 1 hr commute either way, that’s 10hrs a week, and should probably get hazard loading as well. When unpaid commute originated it was more like 10-15 minutes walk per day.
One of the most significant and efficient policy changes to combat CO2 and other pollutants would be to legislate paid commuting (with just protection against discrimination for both employee and employer). Just watch every employer WFH everyone who can doing the obvious, not to mention improved quality of life, local services and being hugely popular. Expect one hell of a fight.
MalReynolds@piefed.socialto science@lemmy.world•Repeated heatwaves can age you as much as smoking or drinkingEnglish3·4 days agoThey then compared biological age with the total cumulative temperature that participants were probably exposed to on the basis of their address in the two years before their medical visit.
Gonna call that tenuous, thin even. Would look at the paper, but fucking paywalls.
MalReynolds@piefed.socialto World News@quokk.au•25 countries suspend postal services to U.S. over tariffs: UNEnglish8·4 days agoAlso Australia
MalReynolds@piefed.socialto Buy European@feddit.uk•Proton VPN expands Linux capabilities with new split tunneling featureEnglish2·13 days agoEh, I’ve been using a couple (a local exit for targeted searches and a remote one for general usage) of gluetun containers for ages. Hook apps to the proxy server or tun (and containers to the relevant network). Does the same, more versatile, likely more secure, lot of eyes on gluetun. FoxyProxy lets me set rules based choices in firefox, or manually override in a couple clicks. Still, good for them and the untechnical, I guess.
MalReynolds@piefed.socialto No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•If I stood on a precision scale and farted, would I get lighter or heavier?English23·14 days agoYou seem to be assuming that the volume is immediately replaced by the external atmosphere, which I doubt is valid, more likely that the volume of the person would decrease, at least temporarily. The weight of 1 Liter (assuming a massive fart) of air is 1.275g according to wolfram, so, using your density numbers above, 1.275 * 1.06/1.2 = 1.126g lighter. Measurable with a really good scale, if the 90ml fart volume is realistic (has to be more realistic I guess), that’s ~.1g,
Think of yourself as a hot air balloon with a very tiny chamber, and when you release a 90 milliliter fart, you lose a little buoyancy and sink a little. You get heavier when you fart.
No, you get denser, but not heavier.
Perhaps a poisoning the well attack on AI scrapers?
MalReynolds@piefed.socialto Privacy@lemmy.world•Question about self-hosting SearxNGEnglish2·18 days agoCool, you said ‘old Win 11 machine’, I assumed. It’s really not intensive, never know it’s there. I guess it’s a VPN, a few curls, some stats and a light webserver ?
MalReynolds@piefed.socialto Privacy@lemmy.world•Question about self-hosting SearxNGEnglish3·19 days agoI have a similar setup on my laptop, a docker searxng (well podman rootless, but near enough) locked into a gluetun instance. Works fine, simple to set up, sucks less than any individual search engine and is usefully configurable, but I’m on linux, I expect there’s more pain for windows (linux might be a use for the spare computer…). It’s not resource intensive. Gluetun let’s you expose a local port for searxng and you just point your browser at https://192.168.x.x:8192 or whatever, no need to worry about exit IP. Gluetun is well used and has a focus on avoiding leaks, plenty of eyes on the code, I’ve never had any problems.
You can wireguard (or tailscale or whatever) into your home network and use it on your phone too. Spin up a pihole for adblock while you’re at it. I say go for it…
Boo! Silly me thinking DDR5 implied PCIe5, what a shame.
Feels like they’re testing the waters with Halo, hopefully a loud ‘waters great, dive in’ signal gets through and we get something a bit fitter for desktop use, maybe with more memory (and bandwidth) next gen. Still, gotta love the power usage, makes for one hell of a NAS / AI inference server (and inference isn’t that fussy about PCIe bandwidth, hell eGPU works fine as long as the model / expert fits in VRAM.