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New comment by shadowpho in "The "$60 Gaming PC" – AMD BC-250 (2025)"

shadowpho — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 21:28:50 +0000

Jeez I checked eBay and they are up to $300+ now

New comment by shadowpho in "Show HN: I replaced a $120k bowling center system with $1,600 in ESP32s"

shadowpho — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 23:47:30 +0000

I’d love to see a schematic.

I’d highly recommend to make sure you have plenty of esd diodes and protection resistors on all inputs. That’ll help the longevity of the system.

New comment by shadowpho in "Weathergotchi – an open-source climate Tamagotchi"

shadowpho — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 15:47:00 +0000

I see the antenna points straight at ground and buttons. Is the wifi ok?

New comment by shadowpho in "Sodium-ion "salt" batteries will revolutionize electric-vehicle and grid storage"

shadowpho — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 14:56:29 +0000

Cost is a reason. You need to dig out that dirt (which is expensive), it needs supports, your house needs support around it/through it…

Making things bulletproof and massive runs opposite of cheap

New comment by shadowpho in "What Ozempic does to the gut-brain axis"

shadowpho — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 01:50:57 +0000

Practically speaking any person cannot maintain that for significant length of time. Dieting has like a 99% fail rate by year 2. It’s hard to maintain that for many people — your body will keep you in starvation mode, keep you hungry and hang on to every calorie received.

New comment by shadowpho in "Apple Foundation Models"

shadowpho — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 22:37:30 +0000

Well everyone would. How many would you buy if you could turn around and sell them for $30k easily lol?

It’s like saying “well if Subaru launches a nice hybrid suv for $1k it’ll sell like pancakes” and yeah.. but it costs more in steel/ram to build that lol

New comment by shadowpho in "Apple Foundation Models"

shadowpho — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 15:08:52 +0000

Why can’t Apple launch a $50k product for $1k? Everyone would buy it!

New comment by shadowpho in "Nextcloud Hub 26 Spring: Built together, designed for the future"

shadowpho — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 16:55:46 +0000

I have a g9 and cooling is fine, but not great. I ended up opening it up and placing heatsinks on hot chips

New comment by shadowpho in "Nvidia is proposing a beast of a CPU system for Windows PCs"

shadowpho — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 20:47:35 +0000

I mean fast 128gb of ram is like $2k so it’ll be $3k after overhead for just the ram portion of device.

New comment by shadowpho in "The real cost of owning a home"

shadowpho — Tue, 26 May 2026 17:59:08 +0000

> and having extremely predictable payments for years

I’d argue rental is more predictable. Housing has a huge amount of upkeep — $10k ac, $5k water heater, $20k roof…

New comment by shadowpho in "A programmable watch you can actually wear"

shadowpho — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 23:32:04 +0000

I’ll need to check my notes on power consumption. I’ve spent quite a bit of time trying out different modes and configurations… it’s not great. I would not expect years at all. You gotta be very careful about what has to stay on and off.

Furthermore, bugs. To this time there’s random crashes that happen with sleep which limits their use

New comment by shadowpho in "Has electricity decoupled from natural gas prices in Germany?"

shadowpho — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 02:10:50 +0000

The value of electricity is extremely time dependent. You can easily overproduce solar power for your house during the day fairly cheaply. However batteries + gas generators for cloudy day quickly make the cost significantly higher.

The grid gives you expensive guarantees about reliability. Just giving power does not do that.

New comment by shadowpho in "Finnish sauna heat exposure induces stronger immune cell than cytokine responses"

shadowpho — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 15:25:56 +0000

Citation needed.

Edit: it’s absolutely not true universally and it’s ridiculous to suggest it is. Comparing averages will be very tricky as well.

New comment by shadowpho in "ESP32-S31: Dual-Core RISC-V SoC with Wi-Fi 6, Bluetooth 5.4, and Advanced HMI"

shadowpho — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 20:40:42 +0000

> cheap buck from 40~80V to e.g. 5V.

That’s not a cheap buck lol. Order of magnitude more expensive then 12v not even mentioning capacitors that can withstand 80v is $$$ and your derating goes to shit

New comment by shadowpho in "Apple's 512GB Mac Studio vanishes, a quiet acknowledgment of the RAM shortage"

shadowpho — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 03:16:47 +0000

I thought x64 was better for perf per watt just because perf is so much better

New comment by shadowpho in "Every single board computer I tested in 2025"

shadowpho — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 02:05:02 +0000

I’d go a step further and say get a mini pc unless you need gpio

New comment by shadowpho in "AMD will bring its “Ryzen AI” processors to standard desktop PCs for first time"

shadowpho — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 21:37:24 +0000

China is coming online :(

New comment by shadowpho in "Topological Naming Problem"

shadowpho — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 16:55:54 +0000

I keep making the same mistake. How do you make intermediary planes?

New comment by shadowpho in "Lessons learned shipping 500 units of my first hardware product"

shadowpho — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 06:08:58 +0000

Isn’t that less efficient in power and can have different color?

New comment by shadowpho in "Lessons learned shipping 500 units of my first hardware product"

shadowpho — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 05:36:33 +0000

It’s because building 500 units would be a non starter for many of them