Because docsis 3.0 standard is nearly 20 years old at this point and 3.1 is significantly faster. Docsis 3.1 is only 15, but 4 (which is still 8 years old) probably isn’t supported by your ISP yet. But the speed difference is quite noticeable. 3.0 will theoretically do 1gbps down, and 100-200 up, but 3.1 could do 10 down and 1gbps up. In the age of symmetrical fiber internet those upload speeds are dire. 3.1 realistically gets you a symmetrical gig connection.

Yeah IoT devices don’t need bandwith, they need range (at low powers) and those lower frequencies get them that. 6ghz wifi has pretty small range and is awful for IoT stuff.

M1 performance with (hopefully) 16 gigs of ram? Yeah that’s the perfect computer for a “normal” person who just wants to browse the web on something other than a phone or tablet.

Honestly I just wish these machines had better display scaling options. I’d really like a “looks like 1080p” (ish) option for when I’m out and about and need to remote desktop into my PC at home for work stuff. Currently I use an el cheapo ThinkPad for that.

As long as they’re not back to back I don’t mind. But what I HATE is people that spam out like 30 posts in one go. I don’t want an entire page to be posts from one person/community.

I especially hate it when it’s the exact same link, but different communities (shouldn’t be an issue for OP, but I hate that shit). Lemmy really needs to fix that. I don’t mind people cross posting 30 times, but I only want to see the same link once per page.

The heatsink comes away just as smoothly if you’re looking to reapply thermal paste down the road.

Not that you ever should, since it has PTM7958 which should never need to be replaced, and gets better with age.

That’s what they said about the internet in its infancy.

For long drives I have maps up mostly to alert me for traffic. Even if I know the route.

A forum? You’ve seen forums before right?

There is a reduce transparency toggle which does help a bit, esp. for readability

I’ll have to try that out because the transparency annoys me. But honestly readability on the actual device is very good for me.

CUPS doesn’t have a yearly release schedule. iOS does.

iOS 18 > 26 doesn’t make sense, but from 26 onwards it’s not a problem.

Only if you assume it does.

The built in SSH will handle the SFTP server for you.

For a GUI program I typically just use Filezilla. It might do SCP (haven’t tried) but it definitely does SFTP and has a good enough GUI. Plus it’s cross platform so you get the same mediocre ass UI everywhere.

Can you just get an aux cable and plug that in?

I could run it in a windows virtual machine, but I literally use that app 40+ hours a week.

That’s what we do at work, and it’s just fine. Granted this is running on nice mac hardware and not like a 5 year old computer with integrated graphics.

That was my first guess too after reading 500gb HDD. If that’s the original drive then it needs to be replaced by now.

Also just FYI the drive cables in those machines are super flakey so you might want to order a new cable when you’re at it. Even when these machines were relatively new (2015) I tore through so many of those things working on them. 10 years after that and they’re not getting any better.

It’s been like this for over a year now, it’s purely visual it doesn’t affect anything. You’re still subscribed.

Being open source doesn’t magically make it good. There’s a ton of open source software that straight up sucks.

The 14” pro is nice, but unless you’re buying an older model at a steep discount the base machines price is just insulting. Get a good USB hub and the air will be great.

As long as you get a good one that doesn’t overheat its HDMI converter chip you’ll be golden. Ideally buy one that’s just DisplayPort, those have been far more reliable for us at work.

Let’s be honest. You could make the simplest most intuitive UI and people still won’t spend the 30 seconds to read.