| ▲ | randerson 2 hours ago |
| I've developed a new fear of my 2025 desktop PC being damaged by a power surge or something, because it would cost at least $2K more to replace than I paid for it, assuming I can even find parts now. Compared to the rest of my adult life when I used to secretly pray for something to fail so I would have a reason to upgrade. |
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| ▲ | srik an hour ago | parent | next [-] |
| Living in developing countries taught me to never plugin expensive computers without a surge protector UPS. |
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| ▲ | porkloin an hour ago | parent | next [-] | | Honestly even in "developed countries" it's not worth blindly trusting that the power in your house/building is clean. It's cheap and easy enough to just put any expensive hardware on a UPS rather than speculating what's going on behind the walls. | |
| ▲ | Onavo 11 minutes ago | parent | prev [-] | | Do you still need a UPS if you have one of those household (Powerwall style) battery packs? Also Apple switched mode power supplies are pretty well built. But then again there's horror stories like https://www.reddit.com/r/applehelp/comments/1maegvb/i_burned... | | |
| ▲ | bob1029 4 minutes ago | parent [-] | | Yes. The power walls are like cheap UPS topology. You could still get whacked with a transient from the grid before the ATS decides to island the house. |
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| ▲ | SlightlyLeftPad 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Silver lining: literally all Macs are a total steal right now. |
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| ▲ | jmward01 21 minutes ago | parent | next [-] | | Anyone have a good take on how well Asahi linux keeps the power management working on mac hardware? The biggest killer feature for me of mac hardware is the battery/weight. I have found it hard to get a good laptop in the linux ecosystem mainly because of power consumption. If Asahi doesn't really impact the battery life then I would seriously consider going that route. Similar question about support for pytorch on linux/arm64 / Asahi. | |
| ▲ | cyanydeez 3 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | The AMD395+ PCs have unified memory and since it's not tied to a garbage OS nor reasonably affected by future dram costs, it's a better choice for reasonable people, unless you're going for greater than 128GB | |
| ▲ | haunter 17 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Too bad I can’t play the games I want to play on them | | |
| ▲ | realo 14 minutes ago | parent [-] | | Hint : GE Force Now ssshhhhh... do not tell anyone I told you... | | |
| ▲ | haunter 10 minutes ago | parent [-] | | It's horrible. Bad quality, bad latency, can't mod the games etc. And worse you have to pay for it when you already have a more than capable computer. | | |
| ▲ | john_strinlai 2 minutes ago | parent [-] | | i wouldnt go as far to say "its horrible". i would never recommend it to someone who otherwise has a capable computer, of course, but it really isnt that bad. i gave it a pretty thorough test out of curiosity, and when they sponsored a few streamers i watch, it was totally fine. with the caveat that you have a decent internet connection. and, as far as i know, there is limited support for modding |
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| ▲ | remus 30 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | I mean they're still expensive, they just seem relatively good value because everything else has gotten more expensive. | | | |
| ▲ | Joel_Mckay an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | | Good Mac Pro models are still spendy, but the M3/M4 laptops are great if your software use-cases are met. =3 | | |
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| ▲ | Joel_Mckay an hour ago | parent | prev [-] |
| We used those Tripp Lite LC1200 to knock down the noise floor (14dB) on remote equipment. These line-conditioners actually perform well given the cost, but never buy used surge-arresters given the finite spike hit-count. Best of luck =3 |
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| ▲ | cyberax an hour ago | parent [-] | | These devices are basically autotransformers. So they reduce the noise by providing inductive filtering. But they don't really protect against strong surges by themselves. So Tripp Lite uses a regular varistor for that, just like any other surge protector. In Europe you'd be far better off buying a voltage relay and adding it to your electrical panel, but it's not usually possible with the non-modular US electrical panels. | | |
| ▲ | Joel_Mckay an hour ago | parent [-] | | The simple line-conditioners were surprisingly effective, and are a fraction of the cost of lab/medical grade galvanic isolation ferroresonant transformers. =3 | | |
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