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emotional_soup_88

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  • Experience on torrenting and hoarding with Raspberry Pi?

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  • Linux Archipelago

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  • What rabbit hole have you lead me down... Now I can't stop reading about BSD.

  • Arch btw...

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  • How did we arrive at today's common word sizes?

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  • Amazing! Seems I posted in the right "sub". I'll check out Unicode tonight, perhaps as a "prelude" to endianness. :)

  • How did we arrive at today's common word sizes?

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  • Thanks! I have no idea what endianness is, except for hear "big endian" in some CS-related presentation a while back... I'll read up on it!

    As for my questions and your answer, would it be correct to say then that it's about scalability? That one byte being eight bits scales efficiently in binary?

  • How did we arrive at today's common word sizes?

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  • Thanks! Your answer led me to this, which kind of explains it:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word_(computer_architecture)

    Character size was in the past (pre-variable-sized character encoding) one of the influences on unit of address resolution and the choice of word size. Before the mid-1960s, characters were most often stored in six bits; this allowed no more than 64 characters, so the alphabet was limited to upper case. Since it is efficient in time and space to have the word size be a multiple of the character size, word sizes in this period were usually multiples of 6 bits (in binary machines). A common choice then was the 36-bit word, which is also a good size for the numeric properties of a floating point format.

    After the introduction of the IBM System/360 design, which uses eight-bit characters and supports lower-case letters, the standard size of a character (or more accurately, a byte) becomes eight bits. Word sizes thereafter are naturally multiples of eight bits, with 16, 32, and 64 bits being commonly used.

    So it has to do with character size, earlier six bits and today one byte/eight bits.

  • Linux Archipelago

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  • "Unfuck into workable state" is gold. Hope it's open licensed. 🙏

  • Linux Archipelago

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  • Gentoo and LFS to the Highs of Knowledge

  • [WIP] UNBEATABLE.klwp

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  • Sic. Reminds me of the intro animation to Cowboy Bebop or the in game menus for Cyberpunk 2077.

  • Would you rather eat a totato (potato that tastes like a tomato) or a pomato (tomato that tastes like a potato)?

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  • No.

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  • A book about how to make medicine and food out of wild plants by some former military medic.

  • Isn't geodata revealed when the packets leave a VPN node?

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  • Sweet! So the VPN endpoint hosts a dhcp server that assigns temporary addresses to the packets that are about to roam outside the VPN?

  • Speeds drop on ONT restart

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  • Thank you so much for sharing your first hand experience! I'll make sure to point out when they contact me that this can't keep happening every time there's a reboot.

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  • Just as a bonus: this lead me to discover why wan/eth1 didn't show up on the status page. I had to add "device" and "protocol" under "network" in /etc/board.json

    Two birds.

  • Speeds drop on ONT restart

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  • Every interface under ../net/ returns 1000. Unfortunately, I don't have any other devices with which to interface directly with the ONT. But then again, there's just a gigabit switch between the Pi and the ONT... Anyway, thank you so much for indulging me! I've learned a lot! :)

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  • That's great insight! I think I'll ask them when they get back to me on the current ticket, why the ONT doesn't retain the setting after a power cycle (if that indeed is the case). I unfortunately don't have any legitimate way to interface with the ONT and I really don't want to get on their bad side by trying to hook something up in a MacGyver fashion. Worst case scenario, they charge me $200 in technician fees if they find out that I accidentally messed something up in the process.

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  • Thanks for the advice on ruling out physical "dirt" factors! I rarely think of those...

    Regarding the negotiated speeds, I'm unsure where to find them. Neither the interfaces page, nor the status page nor an ip link shows anything speed related (other than the MTUs but those have always been set to 1500).

  • Arch-Based Omarchy 3.3 Brings AI Dictation Hibernation and Hyprland Fixes

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    y'all are gonna hate me for this, but it's the truth

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  • Haven't checked my low level sound drivers in a long time - I'm using pipewire and wireplumber to control it all. Is ALSA still there at the bottom/as a dependency? Arch btw.