[X] My Assistant

if its opensource and makes limited use of all the c# windowsisms, the majority of the non ui code should be able to smashed into actaully portable dotnet core code. but sure might be fun/good to just start over with something need specific

I'd rather not write my own frontend.
There is a library already, which is allegedly ".net core," but it's useless unless someone writes a frontend. And they've just doubled down on making the wrong frontend more incompatible.

And they still made it *less* portable in a practical sense by breaking away from what worked in Mono.

I also don't want to write C# very much. It's not inherently awful, but its runtime coming with telemetry that defaults to on is, and so is needing to visit M$'s heavyweight site full of modern web developer sins for documentation.

This post has been edited by dragontamer8740: Feb 6 2024, 20:51

SSDs have been steadily regaining price after the catastrophic (for the manufacturers) price drop in 2023. I'm not in real need of SSDs right now, would rather get more HDDs but well, I knew the trend couldn't have kept going forever.

The problem is that there is a price vs quality interaction. Whilst prices have dropped roughly 20% a year the quality and durability have slowly declined as well. The price dip, caused an additional quality dip.

I used to use intel only, then switched to Samsung. The issue was Samsung SSDs had problems during 2022-2023. They were rushing them out a little bit too fast.



Also USB sticks seem to have not dropped much. I can buy 16gb USB drives for the same price as 5 years ago and then have the same shite performance as 10 years ago.

I kind of expected them to keep improving in terms of value. There is a big leap in price to get decent quality / speed for them.

Going to a dedicated seller, it does seem prices have come down but its all over the place for speed x quality x capacity.

edit:
[ssd-tester.com] https://ssd-tester.com/usb_flash_drive_test.php

Seems that value has improved for the top 10% of USB thumb drives but the rest of mass market devices seem to have stagnated.

This post has been edited by EsotericSatire: Feb 7 2024, 00:16

I used to use intel only, then switched to Samsung. The issue was Samsung SSDs had problems during 2022-2023. They were rushing them out a little bit too fast.

Yup, i had a samsung sata 2TB SSD that started to flake out and randomly corrupt things. My 4TB seems fine thankfully, but it's still quite irritating that that's my first SSD experience.

Yup, i had a samsung sata 2TB SSD that started to flake out and randomly corrupt things. My 4TB seems fine thankfully, but it's still quite irritating that that's my first SSD experience.

A few times now they have shipped with firmware with bugs. At least they didn't auto brick like that intel or sandforce (all products), though depending on how early you caught it, it could corrupt a lot of the drive.


I remember for a while people would ask me about problems with their computer and the answer just always was their OCZ Agility 3 sdd shat itself.


It also is somewhat genuinely Intel's fault who set the industry standard that SSDs can ship with bugs that you can fix with firmware updates later. So you can almost always assume that a new SSD product line will have issues till patched.

A few times now they have shipped with firmware with bugs. At least they didn't auto brick like that intel or sandforce (all products), though depending on how early you caught it, it could corrupt a lot of the drive.
I remember for a while people would ask me about problems with their computer and the answer just always was their OCZ Agility 3 sdd shat itself.
It also is somewhat genuinely Intel's fault who set the industry standard that SSDs can ship with bugs that you can fix with firmware updates later. So you can almost always assume that a new SSD product line will have issues till patched.

I started noticing images corrupted in my hentai hoard, and after about a week of that (just one or two images at a time usually) I backed up what was left with dd_rescue. Most stuff survived just fine, but I still am finding a handful of images here and there that I've had to try to hunt back down.

Drive is out of warranty, though.

And yeah my first ever experience with an SSD was when someone came to be with a bricked intel one that my PC wouldn't even detect when I plugged it in. Which is why I just feel vindicated in my belief that I can't trust SSD's.

Especially since my HDD's have easily llasted over a decade without fail, apart from one in an ipod classic which tbh I'm not surprised about.

Performance without data integrity isn't worth it.

Wish it were easier to get 9mm (or taller) 2.5" HDD's in large capacities; seems the only way now is to buy enterprise SAS drives. We could fit tons more data on 2.5" HDD's if we weren't obsessed with making laptops wafer thin, purely by virtue of having more platters. But 7mm SMR seems to be the only consoomer option now.

This post has been edited by dragontamer8740: Feb 7 2024, 16:21

Performance without data integrity isn't worth it.

They could be way more robust but the product features come and go, the main driver is usually price per GB, energy efficiency and predictable write durability, and high IOPS.


Features come and gone:
-Internal Parity
-configurable reserve capacity
-capacitors to prevent write cache loss
-backup controller chip or backup firmware/bios chip
-heat tolerance? (seems each new gen has lower heat tolerance)


Looking at enterprise vs client standards, it seems enterprise drives need to have a higher operating heat tolerance but allow a much lower data retention period?

We have now fallen to 3 months powered off data retention for some products vs original 10+ years.

edit: This table from intel is different than I expected


It seems operating at 55oC - 60oC and storage at or below 25oC maximises data retention in months?

I thought higher operating temp was detrimental to data retention?



This post has been edited by EsotericSatire: Feb 8 2024, 04:13

They could be way more robust but the product features come and go, the main driver is usually price per GB, energy efficiency and predictable write durability, and high IOPS.
Features come and gone:
-Internal Parity
-configurable reserve capacity
-capacitors to prevent write cache loss
-backup controller chip or backup firmware/bios chip
-heat tolerance? (seems each new gen has lower heat tolerance)
Looking at enterprise vs client standards, it seems enterprise drives need to have a higher operating heat tolerance but allow a much lower data retention period?

We have now fallen to 3 months powered off data retention for some products vs original 10+ years.

edit: This table from intel is different than I expected


It seems operating at 55oC - 60oC and storage at or below 25oC maximises data retention in months?

I thought higher operating temp was detrimental to data retention?

Not sure about the full context of this chart, but I can imagine that higher operating temps might be due to a larger manufacturing process, where each 'transistor' or capacitor is larger in size.
Unless this is specifically for one chip on one explicitly defined process. If the different drives are specified to have different operating temperatures in a given ambient environment, then it makes sense.

It makes sense to me that a die with larger gates and capacitors would retain data better but also run hotter.

This post has been edited by dragontamer8740: Feb 8 2024, 05:21

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If the $300 DOCSIS 3.1 modem I have on order + Cat6a cabling doesn't fix this, I'm going to shove my fist up Comcast's collective ass (or start shopping around for fiber service). 1.2Gbps service btw.

This post has been edited by 8055: Feb 9 2024, 04:26

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If the $300 DOCSIS 3.1 modem I have on order + Cat6a cabling doesn't fix this, I'm going to shove my fist up Comcast's collective ass (or start shopping around for fiber service). 1.2Gbps service btw.

hm was about to pull up my h@h to show I thought that was just a setting not a measurement. but it seems mines been down since I rebooted a while ago.
client cant get past startup port open/client check yet nothing changed and I can still do both tcp and udp on the port with netcat on public ip.
not the thing I wanted to see or know was happening

the error makes me think it might be more than it not being able to connect due to the port but some internal ssl lib cursery?
Startup Failure: FAIL_CONNECT_TEST:OpenSSL SSL_connect: SSL_ERROR_SYSCALL in connection to xxx.xxx.hath.network:13338

quick edit: after a lot of dicking around on router (overcomplicated enterprisium opnsense), the terrible ssl situation on mediaserver (half overwritten binaries with wolfssl for another bot thas running there).
it was the ISP or router doing some weird shit, running with --disable-ip-origin-check makes it work again.
I truly suffer in current age technology

ANYWAYS, WHAT I WANTED TO POST
are you sure its set high enough, it always lacks something under what I set it to, mine is at 15000 and gets such:



This post has been edited by cate_chan: Feb 10 2024, 00:20

Now on Firefox 115.7 ESR.
Some stuff had to be adjusted, and other things had to be put in comments in CustmJSForFx files because they're fixes to issues of normal version, but now it seems somewhat stabilized.
Some features may still have tricks to show though (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/ph34r.gif)

Other thought:
I wonder if I can find something in France (so english keywords are sadly useless) that can be used as a vacuum cleaner for the room, handheld vacuum cleaner for corners, heights and stuff, AND also blow dry air and thus being usable to remove the dust from my PC.
Started thinking about that after seeing the dusters in bottle (I lack vocabulary in both french and english for this damn thing lol) are not very appropriate for me.
Probably would be cheaper on the long go too.

Just learned that the early windows Touhou games don't even work right in windows 8/10.

Feeling rather superior running it in wine now.

I used to see people praise Windows' backwards compatibility, and how much of a marvel it was for being able to run ancient software. Not anymore.

Touhou 6 is a direct3d 8 game i think.

This post has been edited by dragontamer8740: Feb 11 2024, 17:03

Holy shit, based and autonomous-car-firepilled.
San Francisco residents destroyed a driverless robotaxi by beating the shit out of it and then setting it on fire.
[www.theverge.com] https://www.theverge.com/2024/2/11/24069251...isco-china-town

Rare instance of san fran residents doing something I don't hate or dislike. Although honestly it seems like it's the companies ruling the town, not the residents.

This post has been edited by dragontamer8740: Feb 13 2024, 02:23

Yeah I don't like how the tech bros are trying to get rid of jobs, and doing a poor job.

Those driverless taxis have run over people a few times.

Not to mention just stopping in the middle of the road and blocking traffic.

Everything is going just fine.


Would be awesome if this meant i stopped seeing chatbot things in the corners of web pages.

This post has been edited by dragontamer8740: Feb 18 2024, 01:49

Many companies are alterning their TOS on their 'smart' products where you have to give them data sharing.


Data sharing on horribly insecure internet connected devices? What could go wrong?

Anyone here tried the Sennheiser HD490 Pro? Heard it's a "better" HD600, but not seeing much reviews (that I trust) floating around.

Anyone here tried the Sennheiser HD490 Pro? Heard it's a "better" HD600, but not seeing much reviews (that I trust) floating around.

Since they're only a month old I'd not expect to get any good reviews from anyone but shills yet. Once the next model is out you can expect to see actually honest reviews. I'd personally wait until then, or buy whatever model these are supplanting (if the reviews for THOSE are good).

The difference is going to be marginal anyway, if the HD600 is the predecessor model and uses the same or similar open backed design. Even open backed headphones aren't a super new technology, since the HD414's are from the 1960's (1968).

Speaker technology, including headphone technology, has been very mature since the 1960s and 1970s, and the main things that change now are materials (less biodegradeable/weatherable construction compared to older ones that used more "organic" material like paper) and weight reductions. But to my knowledge (and I used to repair loudspeakers as my job, so I was in proximity to this field and think I know what I'm talking about), there has not been a recent major earth-shaking change in headphone design. Open backed ones have simply become more mainstream and perhaps more affordable.

Oh, and the pads are probably nicer on high quality new ones than they were on high quality new ones in the 70s.

So anyway, I recommend you just go for a predecessor model from sometime in the last 10 years, save a bunch of money, and get something that's 90+% as good. Better that way than being the lucky one to find out senheiser did some cost cutting on their shiny new product.

But, if you want to ignore my advice - and it's perfectly fine to do that - Wayward_Vagabond/StupidLikeAFox/Toneth is in the market for some open backed headphones. Maybe he could help you on IRC or something. I'd say he knows what to look for and would probably be helpful.

I just am very skeptical of anything that is currently being manufactured and has a marketing team trying to move the product. I'd rather go with something that's been on the market for more than a month, and ideally something that is being discontinued soon/on clearance.

I've been using $20 monoprice "modern retro" headphones with $20 replacement pads and been happy. I know they aren't as great as a lot of expensive ones, and the frequency response curve is not even close to flat, but they still do a nice job and reproduce details clearly. And I don't have to worry about damaging them as much.

thought: I'd kind of like to find some 1970s AKG's sometime. Not in a hurry to do that though. I'd probably get a pair that needs repairs since they're cheaper that way and they feel more personal when I've put a lot of work/love into them. They'd also match with my 1979 JVC amplifier.

This post has been edited by dragontamer8740: Feb 18 2024, 08:56

Just had a joystick break in an exciting and new way.
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HOW

Anyone here tried the Sennheiser HD490 Pro? Heard it's a "better" HD600, but not seeing much reviews (that I trust) floating around.

Checking out some good reviewers. Its the HD 600 with the improved headband from late model HD600/650, different ear pads, and the latest revision of the coil dampening, similar to what 3rd party upgraders were selling.

With the HD 600 pads it measures within 5% of the HD600 with better treble control due to the dampening upgrade. With the HD 490 pads it measures a bit more mid / treble forward.

With the HD600 pads it is 'technically' objectively better, however it may take the HD 490 ear pads to be able to hear a subjective difference (pads that are included).

The headband is supposed to be more comfortable but won't be much of an upgrade over very recent HD600/650s.

As with all Sennheisers since back in the day when I was an actual reviewer, it depends on price, and also probably your musical interests. Higher end Sennheiser are usually good for soundstage, classical, music with instruments and female vocals.

Everything a grain of salt as I have not listened to the HD 490. Also even when I was a reviewer, I think we used to get hyper focused on finding differences that we over-emphasized the differences.



One interesting review, is that its similar to the Sennheiser x Massdrop HD 6XX, which is on sale atm.

LOL they look extremely similar to the special edition HD 6XX. The HD 490 has higher quality materials, but seems to share many of the design changes.

[www.amazon.com.au] https://www.amazon.com.au/Sennheiser-HD6XX-...s/dp/B08T123MCT