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10 hours ago, Lurick said:
Can you tell the regular thermostat that you're on the way home early/late and to change the temperature in advance or that you've suddenly left in the middle of the day and to stop cooling because you're out running errands? Or perhaps you don't have a consistent schedule and setting things in advance doesn't work, you would prefer it to only cool/heat when you're home, otherwise keep it at a much higher/lower temperature?
For some people it doesn't make sense but for others there are plenty of reasons why a smart thermostat can make sense
yea i know, for some people it kinda makes sense, but it still is pretty gimmicky. but most people have a consistent 9 to 5 schedule. also its better to maintain temperature when away for an hour or two then to disable (for boilers atleast). they are more efficient on a constant load
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Just now, AnonymousGuy said:
Cat was running low on water, which I saw on my wifi enabled cameras, so I turned the thermostat down a few degrees to reduce his water intake rate. Had a friend stop by and refill the water and then I set the temperature back up and saved something like $5 from the weekend alone.
Nest only costs $250, if you save $1 a day from the advanced scheduling and features (which is very easy) you recover the cost in less than a year.
normal thermostats have advanced scheduling. my parents have had one for years, program by the minute what temperature you want on what day of the year. cost 40 bucks. and like i said, niche situation. not gonna buy a 250 bucks thermostat and more on wifi cameras for that one or two times a year we forget to ask someone to water our plants or something like that. its a cool gadget, but its totally a gimmick.
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Just now, AnonymousGuy said:
I was changing my house temperature from another state this past weekend. Couldn't do that pre-Nest.
in what niche situation would i want to do that and how does it justify the price premium.
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54 minutes ago, nerdslayer1 said:
you don't have to get up to change the temperature.
that problem was tackled years before any smart thermostat came around. simple RF controls.
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4 minutes ago, Drak3 said:
Because you have to get your ass up to change it if you don't have kids.
remote thermostats have been around for ages, ya know remote control was a thing before wifi.
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i honestly don't see the appeal to this over just a normal thermostat that isn't connected to the internet.
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windows media player can play blueray's, atleast ripped ones.
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1 hour ago, ignaloidas said:
When Mojang was bought for $2.5 billion that sum looks small
the minecraft brand is incredibly valuable, you can influence basically 90% of the
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remember kids, this plan never worked and the FCC overstepped its jurisdiction and thats what its all about. totally not about the way this is done or the underlying reasoning that nobody as far as I've heard agrees with yet. /s
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1 minute ago, porina said:
We don't know the software but it would be worth testing it to find out. Conversely if it isn't the case, Ryzen might offer a lot of performance for not a lot of money. Testing only way to be sure.
since the software is so specialized they should also consult with the client and ask if they still have a contact with the developer of the software and ask the dev what instructionset it uses, i would still test it on the actual hardware though. just an extra layer of security and dedication that the client notices.
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1 minute ago, porina said:
Anything strongly using AVX2. HT does not magic up any new resources if you can max out the performance on a single thread, which is not difficult to do. If this applies here, Ryzen family suck at AVX2. Intel all the way if that is the case.
yea, this. if it uses instruction sets that are much better on intel than probably fuck threadripper.
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5 minutes ago, GeekFixUK said:
What is the heat output like on decent load? Client prefers Intel over AMD after years of use and therefor until Ryzen never considered AMD, also the rigs are kept in their office so they must run fairly quiet.
we're not sure yet since it isn't released yet. its just around the corner, august i believe is the launch date. even if the heat output is much worse, it has much much more cores for a lower price. ryzen is the go-to platform for core's, threadripper will be too. 16 core cpu will cost 1000$ vs 16 cores i9 for 1700$. it is probably a little behind in clocks per instructions but the vast price difference should make it worth it.
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why do they prefer i9 over threadripper? is it better optimized for intel and single core performance?
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28 minutes ago, nerdslayer1 said:
I am going to give it 6 months for AMD to clean up drivers and optimize the card before I judge it, we really need competition in the high-end GPU stage.
by then next gen nvidia will be out sadly.
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hoooly shit 2 aorus gtx 1080ti's for the price of 1 new one, 3 years of warranty left. gpu is back on the menu boiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii
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6 minutes ago, lukesterboy said:
It's easily unknottable. And cut and twisted in a way that doesn't have crosstalk. It's not that bad anyway. I've done it now and I never even really tidied it up, but it works fine. Solid 95 Mbps.
then gg it worked out, at my parents we had a similar situation but even after tidying up it had problems with packet drops and stuff like that, maybe it was close to a powerline or something.
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7 hours ago, lukesterboy said:
There is nothing wrong with the cables. Most cat cable is unshielded? It's cat 5e so its fine.
the cables are twisted for a reason, in the picture they are not twisted but in a knot. this will increase crosstalk, especially when they all are in a knot like that, its basically a messy coil generating an magnetic field of cross talk and instability.
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i don't think you will reach 100mbit with that clusterfuck of wires. if you want a good stable connection i recommend running a new proper wire trough it, but maybe this will work fine who knows. those wires look crusty, old and
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looks really nice and stylized.
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7 minutes ago, Lurick said:
Interesting. I guess it could work but it's asking for the destination/use so I'm not sure if they're going to setup a tunnel to that address at which point it would become moot without a router to accept the tunnel and act as the termination point or they just want something like "I need this for gaming" in which case it would be fine.
im not sure, i don't think a gaming server takes up that much bandwidth right? i never bothered to check because bandwidth is dirt cheap here.
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its a hotspot for virusses, its a system program that hosts a bunch of things windows needs to do in the background. do some virus scans, malwarebytes etc. don't worry though, might be a simple windows glitch or something.
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Just now, Lurick said:
Agreed. You either need 6to4 or 4to6 tunneling and as far as I know, there aren't any consumer grade routers that support it.
Your friends either need a tunnel broker service to get IPv6 or you need to find a way to get an IPv4 address.
Regardless, there isn't a simple or easy answer for this unfortunately unless you can find someone else hosting a server that supports both IPv4 and IPv6
i found this free service, im always suspicious of free stuff like this but since it isn't any valuable data going through it it shouldn't be a problem to try. 6project.org
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Video games and Unemployment
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well thats not really true, video games are part of the problem. the stem of the problem is our own reward center. loads of things can be addicting, some things are made to be really rewarding and thus addicting. like drugs, music, tv, games, casino's. all things exploiting that easy reward for money. i don't think we can pinpoint it on one thing, in the end society as a whole is responsible for the situation because we all contribute to it in our own way's.