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DietPi reminds me why I'm not fond of Linux. I couldn't get any output from the HDMI output on the Rock64. No idea if that's normal with DietPi. Seems like it might be since the change resolution section of the display setup menu says, "This option is not available for Rock64". So, I got to...

I defer to Handy then. This would be for my HTPC, and those are't very quiet as far as I've read.

Interesting... I hadn't gone looking for it. I have to admit I don't get the whole upstream / downstream thing. Ultimately, I don't play Blu-rays on any of my Kodi boxes (just music) so it's really a moot point. I was just trying to help out the project with my findings.

What reference cooler? You mean the single squirrel cage blower thingy?

So the LibreELEC devs made me a test builds with two patches that drastically sped up SMB share reading by about 10x on the Odroid C2 and the Chromebox. Both can now play Blu-ray .ISO files under LibreELEC without issue. The CoreELEC devs are still in their hypersensitive denial. They deleted...

I'm looking for a good 1TB M.2 SSD option for my Dell XPS 13. The Evo 970 is a power piggy in terms of efficiency. The WD Black is a pretty good without being a power hog and the new Toshiba XG6 looks interesting also, but is apparently OEM only.

My presumption was that he bought the ones with the waterblock already on it thereby eliminating the possibility to air cool it with minimal effort. Hence my reply.

Well, that sort of kills it. Bummer...

You want to give me a good deal on the used 1080Ti you're replacing with it right? :)

Seems like if people sit tight the price will have to drop.

The Odroid C2 running CoreELEC 8.95.2 also can't play back Blu-ray's without pausing and buffering for about 10 seconds every minute or two despite having a gigabit Ethernet connection. I can move data to it at >110MB/sec over SMB, but it can't stream 45Mbit/sec smoothly from a SMB share. So...

Do you know something we don't? :scratch:

That's nothing to sneeze at considering none of those games/benchmarks are utilizing new feature of the 2080 cards. Still, the price of entry is quite stiff.

So the Odroid C2 didn't really achieve what I wanted. It's only slightly faster than the RPi3 at music library navigation. About what you'd expect for a 1.5gHz A53 CPU (C2) vs. a 1.2gHz A53 CPU (RPi3). eMMC vs. uSD didn't make any different for UI navigation. The Chromebox (1.4gHz Haswell)...

I noticed they seemed cheap compared to where they had been sitting pretty flat for quite some time. I haven't bought any though. I'm not sure why the price has all of a sudden dropped.

Are you a formerly missing member?

Did you let them know? What about South Carolina?

How would the TV look smaller? If the center is the same distance from you it should look slightly bigger because the edges are closer. Curved TVs were a fad that has passed. Even Samsung is pushing them much less aggressively. Their top end models are flat this year after several years of...

Distance on the curved surface. Basically, flatten the panel and measure it normally.

You missed one. 4) Don't connect it to the internet. Also, I thought only the Enterprise version allowed updates to be turned off.

There is some appeal to the curved model for that very reason even though I hate the idea of a curved TV. For a computer monitor there is some sense to the idea.

You can put two or three windows side by side on it. You more or less treat it like a multi-monitor setup, but it's only a single monitor.

In other news I got a 34" 21:9 (3440x1440) monitor for my desk at work to replace a dual monitor setup of the 14.1" FHD laptop display + 24" FHD monitor. It's a LG 34UM88C. It's big, but seems pretty decent so far. I have it on a Amazon Basics monitor arm sitting almost at the back of my...

Well, they can probably do more about it than we can.

Did you call and complain?

It's not quite as nerfed as I expected, but they definitely are stingy with the video features.

Good call... I'm scared of Wikipedia too.

It's 2 x USB 2.0 and 1 x USB 3.0. It's HDMI 2.0, but the nerfed 10.2gbit/sec version. Of course that doesn't matter for my uses.

I plan to start with DietPi. I plan to run it headless and control it over SSH. However, it has HDMI and two USB 2.0 ports if you wanted to connect a monitor, keyboard, mouse, etc. You can always add a USB hub if you need more ports.

Doubtful, they don't generally charge import duties/taxes on personal shipments that are under a few hundred dollars.

I ordered up an Odroid C2 for testing with Kodi. I was somewhat underwhelmed with the Rpi3 as a audio player. The UI is rather sluggish navigating a large music library through the menus (if you control it entirely from the Yatse remote app on Android it's not bad). The Chromebox is much more...

I ordered up a Rock64 SBC yesterday. I want to see how it works as a really cheap NAS/server. It has a USB 3.0 port and gigabit ethernet. I ordered the 4GB version. The CPU is comparable to the RPi3+, but has USB 3.0, real gigabit (not connected to USB 2.0 sharing bandwidth with the other...

So, what's the problem? Get the USB-C to DP cable and plug it in. https://www.amazon.com/Plugable-USB-DisplayPort-Adapter-Cable/dp/B01EXKDRAC

Why do you need DisplayPort?

Imagine if Nvidia tried the Canon strategy with graphics cards. The 1070 couldn't be faster than the 980ti. They'd have to neuter it somehow otherwise people would stop buying the 980Ti! The idea of making the 1070 all it could be and replacing the 980Ti with a new even better model wouldn't...

Canon just can't stop being Canon. It's in their nature to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory by artificially limiting the performance of their models so that they have at least one Achilles heel so they don't release a superior model that undercuts an existing one on price. That's how you...

The lack of a joystick doesn't mean anything. It has a touchscreen. The 30MP indicates it's not a 6D class body. Okay, then Mr. Moneybags...

But is that the previously rumored $1900 MILC body? A large number of people are speculating that's the MILC FF 5 series, not the MILC FF 6 series. It seems rather promising and not immediately disappointing like pretty much all leaks of new Canon gear, but not to worry, Canon can still screw...

That they could still advertise 10,000lm for it.

Did you upload the straight out of camera file(s) to YouTube? How were you controlling the exposure? Was the camera on auto?

MP4 vs. MOV comes down to what your editing software can support. Theoretically H.265 should have better image quality at the same bitrate. If your editing and playback software can support it, it's probably the better choice. I'm not buying into Adobe's subscription model, so Premiere Pro...

That's just what Apple and the fanbois want you to think.

Yeah, when I watched it the first time, I was like, "Don't go in the metal box car. Your radio might cut out."

That's a feature not a bug to the people that run those regulatory agencies. If they can't figure out how to make money from it, they'll want to ban it. You don't want to put yourself out of a job. Doing things to increase your budget and size of your agency are seen as positives. Then...

You can do a little bit more than that, but not much. You can fly it over public land presuming there's no other people there and it's not against the law for that public land and you're following all the other rules. It seems like most people just do what they want. I'm not exactly sure, but...

It's not that great without the humidity either.

At least you could stand under it and get a bit of a breeze. :rofl:

Nuke it from orbit just to be safe? Oh, and it's SF...

Playing with your toys at work?

I took a quick skim of their regulations today no one would buy one of these drones if they intended to follow the regulations. You can't fly it indoors. You can't fly it out of line of sight (unaided). You can't fly it over 400ft. You can't fly it at night. You can't fly it over people...