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by randerson2 hours ago |
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upvoteby srik1 hours ago|
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Living in developing countries taught me to never plugin expensive computers without a surge protector UPS.
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upvoteby kelipso13 minutes ago|
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Lightning can mess you up in every country lol. Had to replace a PSU because of that, thankfully it was just that and minor damage to GPU.
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upvoteby porkloin1 hours ago|
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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.
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upvoteby Onavo27 minutes ago|
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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...

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upvoteby bob102920 minutes ago|
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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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upvoteby SlightlyLeftPad1 hours ago|
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Silver lining: literally all Macs are a total steal right now.
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upvoteby whyenot12 minutes ago|
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I bought a Mac Mini in February and maxed out the ram and storage. Now, it seems like that was a prescient move, but honestly I really only bought it for photo editing and playing the new World of Warcraft expansion (don't judge me!).
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upvoteby jmward0137 minutes ago|
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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.
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upvoteby erxam15 minutes ago|
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I think it's improved from when I last tried it, but it still isn't great. You can get like 60% of the battery life compared to macOS.

Someone with more recent knowledge correct me on this, but I believe idling is the biggest power drain in Asahi. You will want to shutdown and/or hibernate whenever possible.

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upvoteby haunter33 minutes ago|
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Too bad I can’t play the games I want to play on them
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upvoteby realo30 minutes ago|
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Hint : GE Force Now

ssshhhhh... do not tell anyone I told you...

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upvoteby haunter26 minutes ago|
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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.
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upvoteby john_strinlai18 minutes ago|
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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 its probably not good for twitchy games like counter strike.

and, as far as i know, there is limited support for modding and some unsupported workarounds.

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upvoteby elorant7 minutes ago|
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You pay an $1k extra just to get the model with 1TB disk. How is that a steal?
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upvoteby cyanydeez19 minutes ago|
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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
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upvoteby Joel_Mckay1 hours ago|
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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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upvoteby Choco3141529 minutes ago|
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I’m still doing great even with an M2!
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upvoteby remus46 minutes ago|
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I mean they're still expensive, they just seem relatively good value because everything else has gotten more expensive.
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upvoteby moralestapia41 minutes ago|
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Yeah, that's what @SlightlyLeftPad said.
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upvoteby Joel_Mckay1 hours ago|
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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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upvoteby cyberax1 hours ago|
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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.

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upvoteby Joel_Mckay1 hours ago|
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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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upvoteby FreezingKeeper52 minutes ago|
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What’s with the ‘cock and balls’ emoticon?
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upvoteby Joel_Mckay46 minutes ago|
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Don't worry about it =3
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upvoteby amatecha49 minutes ago|
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welcome to the internet, sometimes people make smiley faces :)
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