Yes! Anything that can run ipmitool will work. You can find the fanspeed script here: github.com/darkain/FreeBSD-Server/blob/main/bin/fanspeed - and you can install ipmitool from pkg or ports. Do note that the hex values may be different for SuperMicro, I've only tested this on various Dell PowerEdge servers.
I personally don't have a universal remote setup right now. But good ones will have a "learning" feature where you point an existing remote at it, and it'll clone the iR codes it sees.
This video is very interesting and got me for the first time interested in BSD in a way that I wasn't before. As Linux user for years, I know the struggle of wasting a huge amount of personal time to try and get something to work and then feeling gratified when it finally does. BSD seemed like another UNIX that is just less used, older, more antiquated, etc. Something to play around with once in a while for something different to tinker with. Now I'm thinking this is something I may need to look at more seriously. Because the gratification of getting work done or seeing a service work is far greater than the gratification of merely figuring out how to get something installed and functioning as expected.
First off, thank you for this video. I've used Linux since 1.0.9 days, and tried out FreeBSD back in 4.7 days (yes, that was a really long time ago). While I mostly agree with your points about package/ports installing for FreeBSD, you've left out one thing - customizing the install. The package or port maintainers make a best effort to create a package install that "works" for the majority of people, but at least for me, I'd want to tweak the build options, for example if I was stripping out support for various things such as i18n, utf8, graphical support or perhaps even networking. I do grant that most people won't "need" to do this, but occasionally they may "want" to. I'm aware that the ports system does provide ways to customize the various packages; after all, this isn't the first time this topic has come up. I'd have liked to see a very quick explanation that this customizing is really easy, even if you consider the packages' requirements.
Windows doesnt document compile flags, download locations, build instructions, etc. EITHER. And it must be superior, because YOURE USING IT. edit - I think this video is EXACTLY the same as BSD - in that it proves jack shit, and is a complete waste of time. NOT Subscribed haha
That's a very strange argument, considering Microsoft's MSDN is one of the absolute best repositories in the entire world for programming documentation, and Visual Studio dating back to the 1990s was always easier to setup and get going than any F/OSS alternative. The whole "developers developers developers" speech was all about this, giving developers the tools they needed to write software quicker and easier than any other platform. But hey, thanks for the engagement, it's helps feed the YT algorithm and boost my channel ;)
Kinda true, but pretty irrelevant, IMO. If I install say LinuxMint everything is likely a binary, that you pick, and it installs. Things like nano are already there without you doing anything already. I think it is about what you need to do. Most people want to just use the computer, a reasonable BSD for this is GhostBSD. 'Ports' is/are cool, but just an alternative method. On Linux the application is almost always available as a binary, and there may also be alternatives such as Flatpak, Snap, Appimage etc. This allows sandboxing, as well as multiple versions concurrently installed without conflict. There are some basic truths to be considered. All of the top 500 computers run Linux without exception, this means high performance, high efficiency, and stability, and any other considerations must lean towards Linux being the answer for most uses. Phones use BSD, and Linux, so I expect that means they are both well suited to that task. Both are free to use, so I would say those that use one or the other have a liking for a system, or they have a good reason to chose whichever. It is looks to me that by any measure Linux must have more than the 'failing' attribute in its favour.
Great video! I have a small collection of AOL internet service disks; mostly not opened. Why AOL disks? They were quite creative with their packaging, with some coming in odd shaped metal tins. I believe I may have a few MSN disks too.
Is TS restricted to just testing latency for TV picture settings or modes, or can it also reveal the latency for wireless controllers, along with Wired USB? Like with 8bitdo's 2.4g controllers for example?
The Time Sleuth has no input devices on it, it is simply a video signal generator, and will measure the time between when it generates that signal and its sensor views that image from a screen. It doesn't support controllers at all.
@@circuitrewind Thanks for the heads up! I'll still be picking one up regardless, because it's still going to come in handy when testing different settings for whatever future QD-OLED TV i decide to buy. Cheers!
13:15 Windows Protp: Ctrl+Shift+Esc will open task manager immediately, without the need for any mousing or menus. Additionally, in this instance using WinKey+R to bring up a run prompt and running "taskkill /im unreal* /f" would be a more reliable method given the massive amount of stutter (had your keyboard not ALSO been a jankfest at the time). Source: years of experience with similar scenarios due to all manners of tech shenanigans, personal and professional. It's saved me a lot of time trying to fight a system in this kind of state and I hope it helps you in the future :)
Thanks for all the suggestions! Yeah, the keyboard most certainly was still jank in the video! I didn't cover it here, but I was still using the Famicom Keyboard that I showed off in a previous video. Why? Because it was still sitting on the desk, and I was too lazy to move it and find something else!
InstaGib is the BEST! :D You all were wondering why I'm so good at it!? Because every time I make a video, I get distracted and play another hour fragging bots LMAO
About to snag the TINK4K in the couple of months. Just a quick question, if i were to run a game at 120fps on PC or PS5 for example, would the TINK4K offer 120hz BFI options to reduce motion blur ever further?
The Tink probably wouldn't even accept the input signal. It'll accept 1080p/60 input, or 720p/120, tho I've not gotten the latter reliable yet (I can do 720p/100 fine tho). As the name implies, its designed mostly for retro consoles, even though it does have HDMI in.
@@circuitrewind Ah i see. So it's best just to settle for native 120fps-144fps games, and let your OLED TV cut down 50%-60% of the motion blur without messing with the tink4k. Modern OLED TV's no longer support 120hz BFI settings, which is a shame. I was hoping tink4K would of addressed this, even at 1080p + 120hz bfi. As long as the TINK4K's 60hz BFI supports games running at 4K+60fps. I wonder how many nits of brightness you gain by using the HDR SDR Brightness boosting trick setting after losing 50% brightness from the 60hz BFI setting. I'm specifically buying this for 8-16 bit retro consoles with a smaller QD-OLED, but I'd like to buy another for my Switch & PS5, with games running at 60fps so i can cut down the motion blur by 50%.
I wish I had one...Even if I don't have a Super Famicom, I absolutely want one of these for my collection, it's such an interesting part of Nintendo history. (You should have tried putting Asterisk no Daibouken onto it though, given its the only game that was ever successfully dumped from a RAM cassette.)
When working with hardware like this in my public videos, I'll only showcase homebrew software due to the legalities of copyright from other content. Additionally, being a former homebrew dev myself, I like to help spread word of cool things the scene is still pumping out ;)
this should be a definite go to video for this topic I finished watching satisfied how you worked all of this out! never thought I'd be having a question like this until brought up!
Hi Vince, I am a new subscriber to your channel and I enjoyed watching this video. I am in the process of converting and digitizing VHS and High eight videotapes. I have a thunderbolt based black magic digitizer that I run into a Mac laptop. do you think it’s a good idea to run the tapes through the retro Tink 4K and then running its output into the digitizer?
Its certainly a good idea to test. There are a bunch of features in the RT4k specifically designed for VHS. I've yet to try them out myself, however, as oddly enough, a VHS player is something currently not in my collection.
Is it true that TINK4K uses dual strobe black frame insertion to work with 24 & 30fps content, be it Movies & TV shows? I was told that it reduces motion blur based on the hz of your TV. So with 120hz OLED TV's, it will cut down 50%(8.3ms persistence) of motion blur @1080p, and then around 60%(6.94ms persistence) for 144hz QD-OLED's, also @1080p. That's a big improvement, and if true, will give QD-OLED plasma tier motion clarity.
I came here ready to hear your arguments but didn't find it compelling to compare FreeBSD's ports to "I'm just gonna grab me some software off the internet" on Linux. A proper comparison would be to a distribution's package collection, or if you really want it to be from source, for example, the Debian equivalent to FreeBSD ports would be using "apt-get source" "debuild". I found the parts about stability and continuity more compelling - the fact that things keep on working the way they always worked. That's a really cool fact about the BSDs compared with Linux.
While I was doing my research I found the same KVM and I think it will fix all my issues, but did you ever encounter any input lag or latency issues with the mouse and keyboard? I play fps games and I don’t really want to sacrifice my experience.
No additional lag at all! It takes in bits, and passes them straight through without really buffering anything. I use it for FPS gaming too, and absolutely love this setup
Is it possible to hook up either the retroUSB 'AVS' or Analogue Duo to the RetroTINK4K via' HDMI, and gain the CRT scanline/softness features provided by RT4K, including the HDR brightness boost trick that neither the Duo or AVS have on their own?
YEAH! Totally! The RetroTINK 4K will accept any HDMI signal that is 1080p/60 or lower. And from there you can downscale the incoming signal, apply the Tink processing, and then re-upscale it back to 4K w/ the pseudo HDR mode and scanlines.
The picture by picture mode lowers the max FPS and disables the color calibration of the monitor, making things look like ass to be honest. For casual viewing, that's fine, but for multimedia work that I do or for gaming, it just didn't cut it. It also doesn't have a way to hook up multiple USB sources, so I'd still need a USB switch to toggle the keyboard/mouse/everythingelse between the systems.
@@circuitrewind I was looking to get the monitor to flip between my work desktop and gaming desktop, but still use the keeb i built for work and the one i built for gaming so wasnt too worried about usb sources. So if I have two sources and only plan to use one at a time does it still mess things up or is that only when trying to do pbp for both sources?
@@Penguinishy pbp is the only time it screws up. if you're doing full screen inputs, its great. the controls to switch inputs are not the best IMO, it is a 4-directional nub on the back of the monitor that isn't too responsive and menu navigation gets wonky sometimes.
I have rgb modded all my consoles and have HD Retrovision cables (neo geo, ps1, ps2, ps3, HDMI Gamecube, Saturn, TG16, HDMI Dreamcast, NES, SNES, xbox, xbox 360 ect ect. I also have a 4k LG C3 OLED...The TINK4k was made for me right?
It would be nice to have them controllable over WiFi so it could be connected to a Pi weather station and ramp the fans up on hotter days for use in an Avery or a Vivarium or even dog kennels.
it's very admirable that FreeBSD is much easier to build things from source, but it's very seldom that one has some reason to do so, so its far more the case that will just install packages to get binaries. And so most people don't see that clear advantage that FreeBSD has to be relevant to their manner of using the computer and its OS. It's an advantage that doesn't do much to promote FreeBSD user adoption.
"This one feature is a feature I don't use, so don't talk about it". - gotacha. ;) Its something I very frequently require, and am simply discussing my experiences. This is only one of many MANY experiences where FreeBSD is easier to administer than other OSes.
@@circuitrewind just so you know, I do root for FreeBSD because don't want to see monolithic solutions in any market place situation. One of the practical problems for adoption is device drivers. This is in a way ironic. There was a time when Linux got the constant complaint of paucity of device driver support - stunting its adoption. That has improved to large extent to where people these days can use Linux as a daily driver desktop OS. It's still in a queue behind Windows and MacOS, but it's gotten better for sure. But FreeBSD or any flavor of BSD is trailing further. So is it technically conceivable that a BSD kernel could put enough of a compatibility layer in place to then use Linux loadable modules, i.e., it's population of device drivers?
@@TheSulross FreeBSD already has that. There is already Linux KPI support, which is exactly how DRM KMOD works. There are already several drivers that are cross-licensed GPL/BSD that have both native Linux and FreeBSD kernel interfaces. Honestly, other than WiFi, which is a serious body of work right now, the driver support is not too far apart from either. Intel and AMD GPUs use the Linux KPI interface, Nvidia has a unified driver architecture that works on Windows, Linux, and FreeBSD. Every NIC that I throw at FreeBSD works. I've been talking with others this week, and the one laptop touchpad that sucks ass on FreeBSD also apparently equally sucks ass on Linux, so its about the same! LOL. There are some things that get FreeBSD support first too, such as the new ARM security architecture currently in development, FreeBSD is the OS chosen for creating the hardware itself.
We made Linux, and we made FreeBSD. About 25 years ago. Many were still kids. FreeBSD was fun to use in 2000. A pain now, it's much slower than Linux. Even GhostBSd is not user friendly Using Linux daily since 1998. Years with FreeBSD, mostly circa 1999 / 2005. Still a multiboot Linux Win10 NetBSD FreeBSd. Haiku GhostBSD. And still Linux as a daily. Because it just works.
It may be hard to believe, but Linux is over 30 years old... and uuuhhh, FreeBSD started life, if you really wanna trace it all the way back, in the 1970s. Also, not sure about the "much slower" bit? FreeBSD beats Linux in some key areas, which is why companies like Netflix are using it to push 800gbps per node. There are also some Steam games benchmarking faster on FreeBSD than Linux, despite them being native Linux binaries.
Now I see why they say that Gentoo's ebuild system is so similar to FreeBSD ports...because it is, with the exception of the ncurses pop-ups for setting options (i.e. Gentoo use flags). Gentoo does however purge older packages over time.
Usually those power supplies have temperature/load controlled fans. Maybe cheap/dummy ones have just direct 12V for fan. At least all lab psu:s what I have have temp controlled fans. I think you are not using full load then maybe downsizing cooling is fine. It's pretty nasty if it's cheaply designed transformer and when melting it kill all connected devices. Usually driving circuit run hotter and will cause thermal shutdown before transformer melting.
If you're talking about the 12v power delivery in my entertainment center, no, that did not have a thermal controlled fan inside of it. It is designed for 24/7 security camera operation, which I'm not using it for. It thus has a static 2-pin DC fan running at full speed. This is a very common thing on devices, most devices I modify use 2-pin DC fans, which is why I'm in the process of replacing them. Now, if we're talking about PC power supplies, its actually a relatively recent addition to have PWM control in them (the past decade or so). A lot of the stuff I'm playing with is quite a bit older that I'm retrofitting for modern features.
Steve Jobs said you will lose a person every time he or she has to do additional steps to complete something. Humans are lazy creatures, they will always take the path of least resistance regardless of if it's good for them or not.
I run it just fine on a modern Ryzen desktop with a RTX 3080 and it runs well enough to play Steam games. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ It also works well on several laptops I have it on. Oh, I'm also running it on the Steam Deck.
I never did install FreeBSD that way. I have done linux installs like Arch but not others. I had used DesktopBSD and PCBSD back in the day and loved them both. Of course by doing it the way you do it you can install whatever you want.
Yup! Just took longer than expected to sift through the hours of captured footage. And no worries, I'm a total doofus on camera. :) Will be at LAN again, let's hang out again! Not doing interviews this time, but will be showing off some other recent projects.
There wont be 4k/120 FPS. That requires increasing costs significantly for a device like this. HDMI 2.0 and 2.1, despite being close in version number, are entirely different signalling standards, and a device would need to be able to support both.There is also very little benefit to that much bandwidth anyways, since old consoles are 60FPS, sending that to the TV but at double the refresh rate does very little to the end experience. Its a lot of cost with little to no return.
