Posts by gfx 66 publicly visible posts • joined 5 Nov 2008
I got the base M1 but only when the price dropped to 879 euros last november. I like the hardware, just close the lid and the battery isn't drained after a week. 8GB seems enough (more was way to expensive) and qemu with an x86 operating system is way to slow. The SSD size of 256GB is sad when a 1TB M2 disk is below 100 euro. The webcam is pisspoor or really bad. Two ports only, one for charging one for an USB-A, RJ45, HDMI dongle which gets warmer than the Mac itself.
You don't need cloud for that stuff, the whole thing can run off a 40 euro raspberry pi. The few thingies I have still talk to a raspberry pi 1B, The music stuff runs on a Pi 3. The only downside is that the new ones are always on backorder.
Industrial stuff is usually very expensive companies like Siemens buy a lot of the competition to force their own antiquated s7 and very user unfriendly tools.
systemd
Ususally it works and it plays sound from multiple sources together. When using an external DAC and not want everything downsampled to 44.1kHz then you'll have to look into that.
Lately when the monitor awakes it send the sound to HDMI instead of the prefered optical output.
There is a setting for that somewhere in some file, but I forgotten where.
Funny thing is at work we had a building control system and the tasks running on the controller are in BASIC. It does multiple tasks and taskswitching. One task could stop but the others kept running. Ofcourse this marvel of 80's technology got bought by Siemens to be replaced by stupid 1960 PLC logic.
Depends on your use and expectations, as just a browser my 300(?) euro Toshiba still works.
It has a 1920x1080 non gloss screen. It's a bit slow. But maybe clean the browser cache once in while or a fresh reinstall.
While watching the voice or x-factor kind of show when they sing out of tune the ears of the cat go backwards.
We did have a rat once at work, the mice leave cables intact but the rat was testing the fiber optic patch cables under the computer floor. Chewed everywhere. Replaced it with a rodent proof one
a sturdier mantel with a couple of patch wires inside and made to length with a number of connectors.
Not even that expensive compared the couple of cables it replaced.
The dumb speakers I had on the desk lasted for more than twenty years. They still work but got some new and even better bookshelfs. I really don't get all wireless fancy stuff. Having said that an old mac mini from 2011 does bluetooth audio to the amplifier. The previous nine years I used a cable.
PE being Protective Earth is connected to the Earth with a ground pin at home and/or the local street transformer. The Neutral is connected to the Earth at the 3-phase transformer somewhere in the neighborhood. In my country usually a 10500V to 400V one. If you use one phase with a neutral you'll end up with 230 VAC
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