Your smart home is harder to use than a dumb one — here's why smart relays solve the problem
This is my biggest smart home regret.
We haven't written up this one. XDA Developers has the full story — the link below goes straight to it.
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I swapped my paid cloud storage tier for Syncthing, backing up full-resolution photos locally without subscription costs
This simple app lets me back up my phone's photos to my computer without relying on cloud storage
I attempted to become a professional driver in a GTA 5 where every car had no friction
Gotta make ends meet somehow.
Waymo Is Expanding to Germany
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Intel confirms Crescent Island GPU will pack 32 Xe3P cores and up to 480GB of memory
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That Time Client Retries Turned a Recovery Into a 7-Hour Outage
GitHub had an interesting incident last August. A component in Central US failed under load, and when it started recovering, the recovery took much longer than it should have.
- Clients repeatedly retried connections after brief outage, causing flood of requests
- System partially recovered, but retries flooded it again, creating loop
- Recommended solution: exponential backoff with jitter to spread out retry load