During the COVID-19 pandemic, I managed to build a PC, with some updates.
For whatever reason, my GPU and motherboard died at some point, and had to be replaced. Recently, it couldn’t even power on anymore. I gave up, liquidated almost everything except my inputs/outputs.
Here’s the revised, final table with a new column for the selling price:
Part Purchase Price Sale Price GPU MSI GeForce GTX 1650 SUPER VENTUS XS OC 4GB 259 0 GPU ZOTAC GeForce GTX 1070 150 TBD CPU AMD Ryzen 3 3300X 181 80 HSF Stock 0 0 MotherBoard MSI B450M MORTAR MAX 180 0 MotherBoard GIGABYTE B450 DS3H WiFi 125.
Xiaomi Miio is an integration for Home Assistant, an open-source home automation software. It is the link between Home Assistant itself, and your Xiaomi smart devices.
Except I don’t want my network traffic routed to some server up in China or wherever when I’m at home, and the device itself is at home, as it makes for a meaningfully longer turnaround time, and is probably a privacy hole too. (The next step is cutting off “phone home” traffic from these devices, but story for another day.
Today I opened the MariBank app to discover this notification:
That’s on their savings account product, and so an increase of 0.38% given the existing rate (2.5% per annum).
Interest is credited daily; e.g., a 75K deposit earns ~$5.92 instead of ~$5.14 per day, and so a 15.2% increase.
It’s unclear how long this will last, but hey, make your money work harder for you while it can. (This campaign should be brief, given that GXS Bank’s 3.
YouTube video: Link
“Happy birthday” video. [That “thank you” song, real catchy.]
Today is all about Apple Watch and iPhone.
Recap about the new Macs (the Studio, the Pro, and the 15" MacBook Air).
Much flexing about the 15, I feel like.
Vision Pro, ships “early next year”. [I’d forgotten, got excited all over again!]
Watch Series 9 “Most popular watch”. [How did you know?]
Apple silicon (S9 SiP) in the Series 9.
Today I launched Apollo, a 3rd-party client for Reddit, and saw, to my dismay, an update from Apollo’s developer.
The following is an excerpt from his post on the Apollo App subreddit:
… 50 million requests costs $12,000, a figure far more than I ever could have imagined.
Apollo made 7 billion requests last month, which would put it at about 1.7 million dollars per month, or 20 million US dollars per year.
The browser history tells me I’ve visted this FFmpeg HOWTO page many times as I get handy with the tool:
My brain works on absolute, not relative, time so I’d much rather be able to directly indicate when to start cutting -ss, and when to stop -to; I also want to only copy the original video/audio, without any re-encoding, hence the -c:v copy -c:a copy part. Putting it all together: we take some input file foo.