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A bunch of usual suspect Twitterers are saying that the Blackwell 5070 will be inflicted with 12GB GDDR7 over a 192 bit bus for an effective 15% gain in memory bandwidth and probably a much higher than $600 launch price. I'm sure you all can join me now in a bout of laughter out loud.

Neither of the server-class 10Gb NICs I have here will negotiate a 2.5GbE connection on Cat6a with this cheapo 2.5GbE switch I just got. But it did work with a $10 PCIe NIC with a Realtek chip on it and my Asus 2.5Gb USB dongle. I'm not surprised that Intel and Broadcom didn't bother to...

Zen 5 isn't bad as it is. It got slightly better performance on lower power draw. If you're coming from anything other than Zen 4, it's going to be substantially faster than what you have.

OK, the lower power demands are actually very substantial: The 2x0 7/9 SKUs are 125W / 250W max TDP and Ultra 5s will max out at 160W. So Intel is getting quite a bit of benefit from the die shrink, just not as a performance boost. Source is some leaked slides for the release press kit that's...

Dave, you are rocking a two year old flagship CPU and GPU. I realize cost is not a limiting factor for you but unless you suddenly need a fuck-ton of 40Gb+ Thunderbolt ports in the next 12 - 24 months, there's probably not a single damned thing you're likely to get out of a CPU upgrade or...

It is official. Lunar has won "Something random." Here's the problem: You guys are going to start seeing hurricanes as climate becomes increasingly temperate. Sandy hit NYC 10 years ago and yes that was an extreme outlier at the time, but given the number of 500 year extreme weather events...

I'll take the occasional hurricane over four months of black ice and snow that's pretty for 20 minutes in December until it mixes with the charming rust belt melange of industrial effluent and thereafter makes the entire world look like 50s TV. I'd prefer New Orleans to Florida though. Better...

Apparently Core Ultra 9 285k benchmarks show that it's functionally on par with the 9950X on typical benchmarks while using somewhat less power than the 14900k. This is important because the 14900k is faster for games than the 9950X. If that's what you care about for your next gen CPU, you'd...

There's a GenX person, but he's also kind of permanently addled from partying like it's 1999 well into the 2000s. And he's a pharmacist, so we're talking about a very specific definition of "addled." One of my friend's roommates has worked for four different programs in its state EPA and DNR...

Just found out my best friend isn't planning to leave her place in Tampa. Her housemates flew off to NYC or Atlanta without telling her their plans and left all their pets, apparently thinking that the other group was going to take them. She's resolved to keep the animals together as best she...

Some kid won NES Tetris.

From these guys: https://www.serversimply.com/blog/amd-and-nvidia-in-the-professional-sphere-a-comparative-analysis ... So yeah, AMD doesn't look so good compared to nVidia by any metric with its datacenter products.

AMD consolidated its product lines from mainstream/gamer and AI/datacenter to a unified architecture for next generation products. I don't think it's giving up on RX x900 so much as $300k GPU compute racks.

I'm actually kind of excited to have a 2.5Gb switch to mess with. I have some multi-gig twisted pair NICs sitting around and my new workstation has a 2.5Gb native port in it that's currently not doing anything. I'm not sure the server NICs I have will negotiate 2.5Gb or not, but 2.5GbE is very...

Amazon is doing "people don't spend enough money in October"-day and a couple things I see as interesting are Beelink mini-PCs. Beelink SER5 5800H 16GB/500GB mini PCs are an extremely reasonable $275 today. Beelink S12 Pros (N100, 16GB, 500GB) an even more reasonable $157. There are actually...

I think the specific area of AMD's concern is OpenCL vs CUDA and AI and datacenter workloads rather than whatever is going on with DirectX and gaming; AMD isn't seen as meaningful competition to nVidia; no one is. That's why nVidia is the whateverth-most-valuable company in the world right now...

Intel is making Iris Xe cores regardless, in part because AMD is already there with its APUs and in part because the market is pushing for AI capabilities. Neither AMD nor Intel need to worry all that much how their Add in Boards do because they both have solid markets from traditional OEMs and...

AMD has functionally already left "high end" since there's nothing that gets close to the 4090, but the 4080 and 7900 are competitive. I do think AMD gets a bad rap for general-purpose gaming GPUs. It's the basis for the Xbox and the PS5. Even if the Steam crowd aren't fans and they don't do...

That seems pretty sweet to me. If Handruin already has his CPU horsepower elsewhere, there's no reason to give that system any more than that Atom has and it's hard to argue with a 10GbE NIC, ECC RAM and drives at local speed. Are you just running the system over direct-attach or do you have...

FSF still has people working on the lost cause that is HURD, which last I heard finally got SATA and USB support in about in about 2015, so they're clearly not opposed to keeping relics of a bygone era around.

There's an i9-7900k workstation on my desk in my office. It has 64GB RAM and some kind of low-end Quadro GPU in it and that thing is by no means a low end PC, but it can't run Windows 11. I finally got tired of messing with having to specially prepare upgrade media for it and switched it to...

The most condescending asshats I've ever encountered in my life were two people who both represented themselves senior devs in the Debian project on a couple IRC channels I happened to be active on at probably the very beginning of 1995. I've never gotten over it. For all I know, those dipshits...

The biggest issue I have with Proxmox now that I've looked in to it to any degree at all is that it's Debian-based. I've got it up and running on a spare system but I feel dirty for doing it. The FSF people are dicks and they always have been.

These are the people of sarcasm, LM.

Google just got a smackdown in one of two pending antitrust cases in the USA today. It has been ordered to allow third parties to use its app store infrastructure and to cease the requirement for app developers to use its payment tech. This is a win for Epic, but I am curious to know if it means...

re: Chevettes. Growing up, my closest neighbor kept buying them. They were the epitome of white trash, Jerry Springer-guest types. Youngest daughter pregnant at 12. Younger son hasn't had more than 6 months out of state prison in 30 years. Great folks all around. Anyway, the guy who lived next...

I use Firefox Sync and my Chrome sign-in to keep bookmarks in common between devices. The only reason I need both is ChromeOS, which doesn't really like Firefox for Android very much for some reason. Once Firefox syncs to whatever device, I can usually import it to anything else I care to use...

I think a big reason why 10GbE hasn't entered consumer mainstream is that single ports of 10GbBaseT use crazy amounts of power, like 6 - 7W/port. I don't know if 5GbE has the same problem to the same degree or not. I am assuming that it does. 10Gb twisted pair also suffers terribly from...

The way SMP computers normally work is that banks are reserved per CPU socket. There's almost always an order in which the slots have to be populated for the goddamned things to boot properly. The order usually uses the farthest unpopulated banks, so on a system with 4 DIMMs total and two CPUs...

I don't like the people who currently run WB, actually hated volume 1 in that series and I've NEVER liked DC properties. Joker 2 managed to get the worst audience reaction scores ever attained by a "super hero" movie, ever. That says nothing about super hero movies generally and everything...

Apparently, AMD is letting price cuts happen on RDNA 3 cards because there's a huge oversupply in stocks. This explains the ease of finding NIB 7800 and 7900 boards. I haven't seen tons of 40% off 7900XTXs like I did last week, but I HAVE seen tons of Ebay sellers offering them at around 33%...

I have to roll my eyes at GPUs at the $100 price point. Part of the appeal of a 1-slot GPU is easy cooling and no extra power, but we all remember being able to get some kind of $35 card that more or less existed just to give someone three displays and just enough OpenGL/DirectX for to not be a...

It exists and it works over vanilla twisted Cat 6 pair over modest distances and adapters work on x1 PCIe or vanilla USB 3, but you'd need to use it with what is probably a more expensive switch. I'm not even fully convinced 2.5GbE is a "standard" because it's just this half-assed option for...

It is called Rufus and it is at Rufus.ie.

You'll find thousands of registry differences as well though. BUT, as a last stab at a fix, you could upgrade to Windows 11, just to see if it magically fixes itself. If you downgrade back, you'll have a modest number of defaults you'll have to fix, but I'll bet that if it starts working on 11...

As far as I can tell it's nationwide and worse the younger for people are. My best friend's roommates literally would not let her move in unless she was willing to accept an apple phone. I've also heard of kids swapping a brand new flagship of a four year old apple device to stop certain kinds...

Do you get functional networking from your Linux boot environment?

OK I am having trouble wrapping my head around this. Even if the link structure of internal web sites are complicated, wouldn't you just bookmark the sites you need? Is this because you don't necessarily get to pick the URLs that come out of containerized appliances?

That's probably a matter of class. People who take off their clothes for money, like nearly all my friends, mostly aren't coming out of privilege, although I do know some exceptions to that as well. With regard to phones specifically, there's a massive social pressure specifically to have an...

Honestly something like this would piss me off enough to keep digging vs. wipe and reload. The biggest problem I have for doing that with personal systems is putting security certificates, private networks and database connections back. It's not like any one of those things is a big deal but I...

I have never, ever, EVER seen system restore fix anything. You can use netsh to manually set IP as well. The error message would probably be very helpful.

I've done router/firewall on a VM. I decided it was a bad idea after I had a VM shit itself on an ESXi host and I had to drive out and fix it in the middle of the goddamned night. I DO keep a router VM on each hypervisor, but it's a backup rather than a primary config.

You do or don't have an real IP? A 10.whatever or 192.whatever vs a 169.254.whatever? Can you access local shared folders or printers or is name resolution the biggest issue? Can you get to a share by netBIOS name or IP? What's your Provider Order (Network Connections, hold down ALT, Advanced...

Todd Howard the Fallout Ruiner, to me, has a career unmarred by success, but Morrowind is the only Elder Scrolls game I tried for any length of time. I've certainly seen enough unmodded Skyrim. No one ever talks about the other Elder Scrolls games. EVER. Dude functionally inherited the wealth of...

Bare bones Radeon graphics should get you hardware HEVC encoding. That should be plenty for a Plex stream or two. The encoding features usually don't change within the same hardware generation. My Plex server has a GTX 1050 in it instead of using the ASpeed IPMI controller for video. At some...

It doesn't look like Tailscale is much different from Zerotier or Hamachi to me. I started using both years ago, although at this point I'm doing more with Zerotier just because it's less work from a support standpoint. I do see that somebody has an open server endpoint for it. That's a plus for...

I looked at the picture on my phone and thought that thing was a NUC-alike. Mea culpa. The x16 PCIe is what makes the biggest difference though. Having all the CPU cores in the world stuck on something with limited connectivity is definitely sub-optimal.

That's in a NUC form factor, right? No big boy I/O other than maybe USB 4?

Something I've just encountered for the first time ever is a Ryzen 5700GE. I'm glad I looked it up because it's some kind of secret OEM only product that's all kinds interesting because, like Intel processors with the -T suffix, it trades acouple hundred MHz per core for almost half the wattage...

I don't know anyone under 30 who doesn't do at least some electronic gaming. Another funny aspect of this is that PC gaming is often aspirational. The GenZs mostly grew up wanting to play PC games but not having a computer with a real GPU, so a gaming PC is an affordable luxury purchase.