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Cake day: June 16th, 2023

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  • Yeah of course! Once I went on a buying spree of used WNDR3700. They were so cheap and I won a few too many bids at once.

    I gave one to a flatmate when we lived together as students and he took it with when he moved out. Put one in the office room of my current flatmate and still have one or two in reserve. I usually take one with me to LAN-parties.

    Before that I once used DD-WRT on a WRT54GL. It also wasn’t bad from what I remember.


  • You haven’t mentioned what sort of access link or speed you have, that seems very relevant here.

    For my 1Gbit/s fiber connection the Edgerouter 6P has been pretty good. It has an SFP port and can route 1 Gbit/s of traffic without issue and my dual-stack setup works well too.

    The only significant downside is that its switching is slow, it has no hw support. So I put my NAS on a separate subnet instead so that the traffic to it can be routed instead.











  • the original 1s and 0s

    I think your issue starts there, you already have to decide how to build your sensor:

    • If it’s a CMOS sensor how strong do the MOSFETs amplify? That should affect brightness and probably noise.
    • How quickly do you vertically shift the data rows? The slower the stronger the rolling shutter effect will be.
    • What are the thresholds in your ADC? Affects the brightness curve.
    • How do you layout the color filter grid? Will you put in twice as many green sensors compared to blue or red as usual? This should affect the color balance.
    • How many pixels will you use in the first place? If there is many each will be more noisy, but spacial resolution should be better.

    All of these choices will lead to different original 1s and 0s, even before any post-processing.




  • Is this indicative of future potential bottlenecks? Maybe but i wouldnt be so sure.

    This is exactly what I expect. I have seen what happened to my friends with their GTX 970 when 3.5 GB of VRAM wasn’t enough anymore. Even though the cards were still rasterizing quickly enough they weren’t useful for certains games anymore. Therefore I recently make sure I go for enough VRAM to extend the useful service life of my cards.

    And I’m not just talking about buying AMD, I actually do buy them. I first had the HD 5850 with 1GB, then got my friends HD 5870 also with 1GB (don’t remember if I used it in crossfire or just replaced), then two of my friends each sold me their HD 7850 with 2GB for cheap and I ran crossfire, then I bought a new R9 380 with 4GB when a game that was important to me at the time couldn’t deal with crossfire well, then I bought a used RX 580 with 8GB and finally the RX 6800 with 16 GB two years ago.

    At some point I also bought a used GTX 960 because we were doing some CUDA stuff at University, but that was pretty late, when they weren’t current anymore, and it was only used in my Linux server.