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New comment by Giefo6ah in "The MacBook Neo"

Giefo6ah — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 20:15:33 +0000

I was assigned an E14 once. Compared to a T14:

The case is all thick ABS.

It weighs like 2.4 kg, and the weight is unbalanced.

The USB-C charge only works at 20V, nothing less.

While charging it overheats and spins up the fans.

It came with a TN screen with terrible viewing angles, that could not be used in a brightly lit room. I didn't use the laptop for two months while I waited for a replacement screen from aliexpress.

Keyboard is much thinner, the trackpoint drifts easily.

Camera quality is worse, somehow it cannot handle sun-lit scenes. Microphone and speakers are similar to the T14.

It stopped receiving firmware updates after two years.

It uses about 0.5 W while suspended, so its tiny 48 Wh battery typically doesn't last the weekend with the lid closed.

The motherboard has design issues, a missing protection diode in the headphone jack microphone input ended up frying the CPU due to a ground loop. Meanwhile the T14 has eaten the same ground loop and even a 48V passive PoE in an accident and dealt with it by rebooting. A T450 from 2015 is still running.

New comment by Giefo6ah in "Flash media longevity testing – 6 years later"

Giefo6ah — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 20:35:34 +0000

> After 24 months, one of the drives had a %95 loss, almost every picture was lost cut-off bottom half or so.

If these are JPEGs with a grey or green lower half, it's likely only a few 16x16 macroblocks are corrupted and you can recover the rest.

This cannot be done programmatically because you have to guess what the average colour of the block was, but it can be worth it for precious pictures.

New comment by Giefo6ah in "MinIO repository is no longer maintained"

Giefo6ah — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 16:48:20 +0000

Ceph solves the distributed consistent block storage problem very well. But I hardly ever need that problem solved, it's way more often that I need a distributed highly available blob storage, and Ceph makes the wrong tradeoffs for this task.

New comment by Giefo6ah in "Y Combinator will let founders receive funds in stablecoins"

Giefo6ah — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 20:16:37 +0000

And how are you supposed to convert USD to USDC to local currency at par? The exchange fees end up eating any savings you got from not using the normie SWIFT network, and then at tax filing time you have to account for paying / being paid in specie instead of cash.

New comment by Giefo6ah in "The recurring dream of replacing developers"

Giefo6ah — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 17:20:41 +0000

Let's say the average firm has 10 workers. 90% of people are nihilists and empty lifers?

Do I want to lead a business filled with losers?

New comment by Giefo6ah in "Designing an IPv6-native P2P transport – lessons from building I6P"

Giefo6ah — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 12:01:00 +0000

That simple, implicit standard exists since RFC793:

  Simultaneous initiation is only slightly more complex, as is shown in
  figure 8.  Each TCP cycles from CLOSED to SYN-SENT to SYN-RECEIVED to
  ESTABLISHED.



      TCP A                                            TCP B

  1.  CLOSED                                           CLOSED

  2.  SYN-SENT     -->               ...

  3.  SYN-RECEIVED <--               <-- SYN-SENT

  4.               ...               --> SYN-RECEIVED

  5.  SYN-RECEIVED -->  ...

  6.  ESTABLISHED  <--  <-- SYN-RECEIVED

  7.               ...      --> ESTABLISHED

                Simultaneous Connection Synchronization

                               Figure 8.

Every stateful firewall supports this. All you need to communicate off-band is IP addresses and ports.

New comment by Giefo6ah in "The World Happiness Report is beset with methodological problems"

Giefo6ah — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 16:56:56 +0000

You should probably check where Finland is in a map before talking about hard to defend borders…