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Exposing SMB to the internet is a very bad idea, so you should set up a VPN server in your home that you can connect to with the iPad.
 
But since you'll be limited by your internet connection it's likely going to be unbearably slow anyway.

When it comes to performance on a raspberry pi, nothing beats raspberry pi OS. Just it to boot to a console instead of the desktop and you'll be able to squeeze every drop of performance out of it.
 
The reason why Raspberry Pi OS offers the best performance is because it's written exactly for and only for Raspberry Pi hardware. No generic ARM image can ever compete.

Games don't age. If they're fun, then they're fun

My AppleTV and Plex server chillin right now.

With the amount of crazy stuff they connect to their network, I'm sure they've got a segmented VLAN or hardware LAN just for stuff like this. Otherwise their channel would be streaming Elon crypto scams all day every day instead of just the one time.

I think this article is mostly right, but it's missing what I think is the reason *why* PC building has become harder in the last 20 years. The disappearing local PC repair shops, or their shifting focus to enterprise only.
 
Time was you could pop down to your local shop and somebody could help you pick out the parts you need for your budget and aesthetic needs.
 
You: "I'd like a beige tower and monitor please"
Shop keeper: "yes, we have many options right over here". 
 
The motherboards were also a lot less crowded with heat syncs and other coolers back then. It was easier to see slots and have them described to you. Add the smaller GPUs to the equation and now you've just removed a lot of the pain points from this article.
 
So yeah, it's hard to build a PC. The "building a PC is easy" advice is held over from a time when that was really true. And that was true because PC buyers could get what they needed from a local shop where a good rep could get you from "Is the monitor the PC or this weird box?" to gaming without you ever reading anything about teraflops. 

Yeah, you're right. My use of fanless there wasn't quite what I meant. I meant that Apple's choice of passive cooling for the Air and active cooling via fan for the Pro was validated in this video.
 
I disagree here. All laptops are thermally constrained. Engineering teams have to balance how much heat to let the system generate and how to get rid of it. Thermal throttling can be a valid way to keep a system's temps safe. Thinkpads, and other laptops that offer high end single threaded performance often choose to make this trade off for sustained multi-core workloads. Because it allows you to push single core performance (which people feel much more) further.
 
In the Macbook Air, Apple decided to let the peak heat output be such that extended workloads that push the CPU and GPU will result in some thermal throttling. In the Macbook Pro, they decided to put in active cooling system which would have fans spin instead of thermal throttling.
 
The M1/M2 Macbook Air would be a worse laptop than it is now if a noisy cooling solution were added to it, just so that you could run workloads like Cinebench for 30+ minutes without thermal throttling. 

This really feels like an embarrassing take overall.
 
All the jabs at Apple for actually having a passively cooled but quite impressively performant laptop - an actually silent laptop!
 
Then they go and mod it, make it noisy, don't talk about the noise, get the laptop to use about 5 extra watts under a stress test and gain maybe 10% performance - but only after its heat-soaked - for bursty workloads there's zero performance gain.

Nothing about this cooler actually benefits the normal use case for the Air product line, or the unique aspect of being 100% silent. It doesn't even make the cooler tech seem especially impressive, even though it might be in a different application.

If anything, this shows that the M2 Air is actually extremely impressive as it's designed and that there's almost no upside to adding noise and dealing with internal dust build up.

It's just a poor take and it makes LTT look silly.

With the amount of crazy stuff they connect to their network, I'm sure they've got a segmented VLAN or hardware LAN just for stuff like this. Otherwise their channel would be streaming Elon crypto scams all day every day instead of just the one time.

I had the same reaction to the video. I think their decision to make a fanless option and a "Pro" option with a fan was the way to go. 
 
At one point in the video he says, about the noise, "we'll get to that later" but they never do. But the end result was probably that their modded Air was way louder than the regular Air and even louder than the Pro. 
 
These things are cool, but putting them up against Apple Macbook Air and Pro cooling systems was not a great plan to begin with. If they had pitched me this video idea, I would have suggested that rather than ruin a Macbook they should take some existing, but loud, ultrabook PC and mod these things in to reduce noise / improve cooling.
 
Especially if the goal is to make them look attractive.

Here in Germany some advertising laws changed a few years ago. Now you can’t call something a sale unless it’s actually sold at the previous higher price for 30 days or something similar. 
 
Since then sales like Black Friday are very minor. 
 
Amazon in particular has taken to pointing out that their prices are cheaper than the “recommended retail price”. 
 
It’s a violation of the spirit if not the letter of the law so who knows how long that scam will last. 

Here in Germany some advertising laws changed a few years ago. Now you can’t call something a sale unless it’s actually sold at the previous higher price for 30 days or something similar. 
 
Since then sales like Black Friday are very minor. 
 
Amazon in particular has taken to pointing out that their prices are cheaper than the “recommended retail price”. 
 
It’s a violation of the spirit if not the letter of the law so who knows how long that scam will last. 

My place.

 

 

Two computers connected to 3 screens and 1 touchscreen control surface.
Mac Pro for my music production and daily work:
Xeon 3275M 28 Core CPU / 384GB RAM / 1TB System Drive + 4 x 1TB Samsung 970 Pro RAID 0 + 2 x 1TB Samsung 970 EVO / RX580
RME Fireface UFX Audio Interface / Rockchip 3399 Android Development Board with my own touchscreen control surface for audio production workflow.
Mainly using Headphones. The monitor speakers are rarely used.
PC for games and 3D Rendering work:
AMD EPYC 9374F 32 Core CPU / 128GB DDR5 4800 RECC RAM / Tyan S8050GM4NE Motherboard / Samsung 980 Pro + WD SN640 7.68TB U2 NVME SSD + Intel P5510 7.68TB U2 NVME SSD / 2 x Inno3D GeForce RTX 4090 / Corsair AX1600 Power Supply
 
3 Screens(from left to right) : DELL U2312HM (Old!), DELL U3219Q, LG 27UL550,
1 Touchscreen at the bottom: DELL P2418HT
 
I am a software developer, and also I do some music production and 3D rendering work. So here is my workstations. There are some custom software running on the Android Development Board and controlled using the DELL P2418HT touchscreen. 

You’ll never get Mac performance out of a windows machine on battery though no matter how much you change 

If memory serves, M1s only support 1 external display. The Max chips may support more, but I think they are still locked to 1 for the M1 series. 

I would avoid anything Manjaro. It tends to break, especially if you don't know how to use it.

AI is never going to work for this, as LLM by their nature are trained over a long period of time on a data set - which means by the time its been trained its months or even years out of date. As many pointed out, you can see this clearly in the demo where it gets things wrong.

You also have to trust that all that data is accurate, before you even get into the issues around hallucination.  I'm sure were familiar with multitudes of situations where just looking at the "most common" opinion on something, which an LLM by its nature will do, can be completely wrong.  So putting so much trust in it telling you the right information is bad, you might as well get your facts from TikTok (which frightening some people do).

They are promoting this product as being able to do things based on CURRENT data, it can't possibly use AI for that due to above.  Its more like a basic Google search, which can also bring up results hours of out of date.  The number of times I've found a product listing on Google and thought "oh that's a good price", only to follow the link and find the price has gone up.  By its nature it can never be as simple as asking about a product, being given a price and buying it at that price without having to double-check it hasn't gone up, unless the service is by someone like Amazon who have access to the actual real-time prices.  Even then, there are often hidden costs, people gaming the system to make their listing appear cheaper by it being an import, etc.

So just for buying products alone its deeply flawed, which is why hardly anyone uses Alexa for this, which is actually the most optimised to do it.  Its a terrible idea to just buy the cheapest product listing without any human checking the details.  That's just one example alone of how this can't work.

I will, because you still don’t know the difference between low-end specs, and actual manufactured e-waste. It’s not for a lack of explanations either, you’re just being obstinate and made a bad argument with nothing to support it.
 
 

I've seen a bunch of takes like this and I really disagree that these text generation AI algorithms are really any good at all at this "digital assistant" type role.
 
They lie constantly and cannot be programmed to do otherwise because there's no actual intelligence to be tuned here. The system gets trained on a shit load of human generated text and then plays "guess what the next word might be" in response to your queries. 
 
This is a great way to generate resume templates, code examples, or prepare short text summaries. But it's absolutely not intelligence and so giving it a role that demands intelligence is just setting yourself up for failure.
 
The demo video actually has a really good demo of why this ML tech is the wrong choice for this product; the solar eclipse question. The AI Pin just spits out random garbage and the user has absolutely no way to validate it. Same with the restaurant recommendations, or questions from text messages. How often is it going to recommend restaurants that don't exist or tell you completely wrong info about your conversations? Based on the demo video, probably enough that it won't be very useful.
 
And it's important to remember that although this company is a random startup, they're using ChatGPT the absolute best text generating ML /AI on the market. When you use it for stuff it's good at (document templates, example code, text summaries, etc) it's incredible. 
 
The problem isn't the ML tech they've chosen is bad per se. It's that the tech is bad *at this task* and has no hope of ever being good at it.
 
To date, nobody has ever made any AI that demonstrates any actual intelligence. Until somebody makes something that at least has the ability to synthesise information at the level of 2 year old, no product like this has any hope of being worthwhile.

This isn't true at all. There's nothing like AirPods for Windows / Android. My AirPods Max are paired to my Apple TV, Macbook Air, Mac Studio, iPhone, and iPad. And due to audio sharing they're basically paired to my wife's devices too.
 
As much as I love my Pixel buds they just don't come anywhere close to AirPods.
 
Universal clipboard also has no true parallel on Windows + Android. KDE Connect is cool but really clumsy compared with universal clipboard and AirDrop. 
 
Before moving into the Apple ecosystem I was using first gen Pixel Buds, a Pixel 2, and a Surface Laptop. That Android + Windows user experience is much worse than a Macbook, iPhone, and AirPods.

This isn't a good recommendation for this thread. OP doesn't even know what OS to use and you're trying to convince him he needs a level 1 hypervisor. It's just an added layer of complexity that will not help somebody setting up their first home server.
 
You've gotta meet people new to home servers where they're at. Because while Proxmox might be worth it for a rookie setting up a small business server, the added complexity is not worth it for a home user with a single digit number of applications in mind. And using Proxmox as a first timer might leave the false impression that running a home server is really complicated.
 
OP, you should just install the Ubuntu 22.04 and it'll do everything you want it to. With the added benefit of being extremely easy to get support online because Ubuntu is popular both in the business world and the home server world. You mention Minecraft server specifically and most Minecraft server setup guides assume you're running Windows or Ubuntu.
 
If you later decide that you actually do need a load of VMs, instead of just running what you want on the server directly, your Ubuntu usage in the mean time will have given you the skills you need to understand how best to setup each VM in terms of RAM, vCPU cores, storage, etc.

My work just ordered me an M1 pro Macbook. lol
 
Still a good machine, but probably the funniest timing our upgrade cycle could have had.

I always get pre-builts so so I'm not picky about it. But I always try to get 2 sticks, and I try to buy what I need up front so that ideally I never need to upgrade my PC until it's time to replace it.
 
For me, my gaming PC is basically just the best console. I hook it up to my TV, play games for 7-10 years and then upgrade the whole thing lock stock and barrel. 

Personally, I'm looking for that more for the web site. Maybe it's a personal preference, but I much prefer my details graphs on web pages vs in YouTube videos. 
 
I think a good case study here is rtings. 
 
Here is their video review of the LG C3: 
And here is the article: https://www.rtings.com/tv/reviews/lg/c3-oled
 
Since I'm not in the market for a TV right this moment, I watched the video version. But if I was a big TV tech buff or, when I was actually looking to buy, I only used the website.
 
For a specific example from the review, check the web version comparing HDR brightness in and out of game mode vs that section of the video. The video definitely gives me the important info, but if you care at all about technical details the article is the way to go.
 
So I just can't see the LABS team publishing their most technical results in videos, given how much better a website would be for that content.

Also think of it this way.
If you where in Madisons shoes for example.
You really want to have this all chewed out publicly, cus not only the things that others done wrong will come to light.
You will also be railed over every error made, its not a nice situation.
And then making it worse by having it all out in the public is fucking horrendous.
So demanding inside info like this kinda makes me think you want to much info thats none of your business.
Like said before this happens in all companies, only here it has been made public.
Have you any idea how much shit Madison (unfairly imho) has gotten from this ordeal?! Stupid assholes have sent death threats and everything.
Is that what you want to for the rest of the staff? Cus thats what gonna happen, its happened before.