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[–] [email protected] 43 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

I'm honestly kind of surprised there aren't "torrent torrents." Just distributing a collection of torrents that might be of interest within a given category, say "top 100 movies of 2024." Once you have the list of torrents locally you are less reliant upon some website hosting them for you.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I have not. I'm mostly doing webdev on it and it works fine for that. I honestly don't even need the dedicated GPU. If there's something you'd like me to run lmk and I'll see if I can find time for it. I'm running Debian stable on it and it's the i7-12700H with an RTX A1000 and 32GB 4800MHz RAM version.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)

I got a Gen 5 - 21DDS70700 from Newegg shortly before the Gen 7 was released. I originally bought a refurbished higher end model from their outlet store but they sent the wrong model so I returned it. It is built and performs well and has a great screen and keyboard.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (5 children)

I'd love an AMD P1 as well. I just bought a P1 after looking at their offerings for a while and while I did look into their AMD offerings they just seemed to have intentionally neutered them.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Not exactly an explicit ad, but more a product I heard about from an infomercialesque "review" for the PCPanel.

It was a cheap gadget that addressed a shortcoming I was experiencing. It works well and I use it every time I use my computer.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

A microphone is a membrane attached to a means to generate electricity (like shaking wires around a magnet). When you make sound by a mic you shake the membrane and it in turn generates a small amount of electricity.

This electricity is an analog signal (it's continuous, and the exact amount changes over time). We can take that signal and digitize it (literally chop it up into distinct digits) by using an ADC or analog to digital converter. Essentially an ADC takes a snapshot of the analog signal at a specific point in time, and repeats that snapshot process very quickly. If you take enough snapshots fast enough you can have a reasonable approximation of the original signal (like following a dotted line).

Now we have a digital signal and we can store those series of snapshots in a file.

But how do we turn that back into sound? We literally just follow the process in reverse.

We open the file and get the list of snapshots. We pass those to a DAC or digital to analog converter that generates a continuous analog signal that passes through every original point. We pass that signal to thin wire wrapped around a magnet and attached to a membrane. This mechanism takes the small generated electric field from the DAC and causes the membrane to shake in the same pattern that the mic originally shook in.

In practice there are often other steps in line such as amps to increase the strength of a signal or compression to minimize how much space the snapshots take up.

[–] [email protected] 438 points 4 months ago (16 children)

Because schools cannot forcibly out students to their parents SpaceX is now incapable of working there? Seems like there's something else going on.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

That's a contributing factor to battery life remaining stagnant. Manufacturers use those advances while continuing to slim phones rather than making an actually flat brick that uses those advances to drastically increase battery life. Regardless of the energy needs of the phone manufacturers can use the difference in height between the back of a phone and the camera bump to include more battery capacity and it will increase both the daily and usable life of the phone.

[–] [email protected] 119 points 4 months ago (16 children)

So let's keep making phones thinner and thinner while simultaneously growing the camera bump instead of making a flat profile with, say, 2 days of life!

[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Can't tell if the spelling misstakes are engagement bait or just a sad irony.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago (4 children)

This is a literal plot point of Stargate.

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