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Everything in the RTX4000 series can be considered downgraded by one designation based on past standards of performance and pricing vs older generations. The 4080 probably should've been a 4070Ti, for example.

4060 came out. It is not particularly better in any way than a 3060Ti until the AI frame generation stuff is put in play. The A770 and 6700XT are both in the same price range. Intel released better Iris/Alchemist drivers just this week and while the 6700XT is 10 - 15% more expensive, it also...

You're not worried at all that the recent change in government in Finland might spread through the rest of Vikingland?

Roblox is a massively popular game construction platform. People who make games using it can even get paid if their creations get popular enough. The very first time I saw it, several people were sexting in the open world text chat, and a little more exploration found games within it that were...

Unfortunately, screens are on some level a necessity. Most educational programs at this point incorporate Chromebooks or ipads. Take the device away and the kiddo can't do homework. The GenZs who live with me all have stories about how much they got away with even with a desktop PC in a public...

Chicago has the worst air quality in the USA today because half of Canada is on fire right now. The air smells a little funny and visibility out my window is about a third of what it normally is. I usually have a small joke that the southern tip of Lake Michigan is probably one of the safest...

Disney has a thing called Circle that gives parents decent control over screen time. It's $10/month, but I'm told it's very flexible. I'd probably segregate everything on distinct SSIDs and then enforce connectivity limits with a combination of a proxy server and more restrictive DNS, if...

The issue with 2U for me is that it will bump me up to the point in my datacenter billing where I need to pay for a full rack every month rather than half a rack. As you might imagine, I'd rather not go there. I bought Dell hardware from Savemyserver a couple times, but it's been a few years...

Looks like $2000 for an R740xd with 24C/48T, 32GB RAM and a 2x 10Gb NIC. The TDP on both CPUs pushes your requirements but there's probably a reduced power option in the firmware; 85W looks about as low as Xeon Scale stuff seems to get and these are sold with two CPUs. I'm pretty sure you can...

I'm finding that U.2/U.3 support on a backplane is the most exotic part of my wishlist. An Adaptec HBA1200 is affordable and can support tri-mode (SAS/u.2/u.3) operation, but I'm really only seeing u.2/u.3 backplanes on Supermicro and the usual Tier 1 OEMs. Supermicro makes a 20 bay 1U...

My go-to for this purpose is SpaceSniffer. Wiztree works faster, but I like that Space sniffer displays everything in the context of a single window representing the source drive or folder. Also: Seeing the sizes of games on dd's PC makes me glad I'm not a gamer.

Where I live, it's all overhead lines. We have a lot of tall trees. This means we can have power outages just from WIND.

Apparently somebody has managed to cobble together enough video footage that there's supposed to be a feature length documentary by the end of this current week. That won't be sensational at all, right? I went to a drag show in Tampa last night. I took pictures and got to hang out with some...

This stuff is why I'd rather use full software RAID. I think most of us here have had a "but it was supposed to work!" moment with a RAID setup, even if it might've been back in the days of IDE devices.

Not always. Some businesses still want hardware on premises. Data centers generally have power sorted but sometimes they charge extra for access to the giant batteries or fancy real time power monitoring. The last nasty long term outage where my servers are, the pumps that feed diesel into the...

That's actually interesting to know, although I'm curious what led you to experiment with this configuration. Broken RAID1?

FWIW, a lot of server systems I support need more than five minutes to shut down properly. 90 seconds for a desktop to shut down? Cool. VM or database host? Not so much. The batteries I use are generic but I haven't found OEM batteries to work any better.

I buy them for all my customers with on premises servers and the bill for replacing them in mine kind of gets split up in the labor cost of swapping everyone else. I do them every couple years after finding that there's a pretty steep decline in capacity in the third year pretty much across the...

Every two years in September.

It's a lot easier to design a spherical bathysphere to deal with pressure than to make an oblong one. The design that went poof is partly carbon fiber composite and partly titanium and that on its own is a little bit suspect. Who knows how they joined the materials? They were really proud of...

My father was a Naval Officer and these days he's a bit of a Naval historian. He used to tell me about shipwrecks and naval disasters, and it always struck me how desolate almost any fate besides safe passage can happen to anyone who takes to the open water. There's a story in the news right...

The Christopher Titus Tool has a bunch of nifty stuff built in to it for first run on a new PC. It installs my friend Chocolatey and also brings up a quick menu that can fix a whole bunch of things all in one go, like restoring the old style right click menu and turning off telemetry in Windows...

There is some pretty justifiable complaint that Burnham is the most Mary Sue character ever to show up in a Trek series. She's Spock's heretofore unknown sister. She's a disgraced and insubordinate officer who somehow manages to ping pong between losing her commission and having command rank...

If nothing else, I feel like I've identified a product that needs to exist.

There aren't many options for a roll-your-own 1U hot swap storage chassis. Newegg has a discontinued Athena Power case with 12 2.5" bays, but those bays only supports an older Mini-SAS connector spec that doesn't include the high-bandwidth interface I'm looking for, and I don't see an option...

My family used to have a hi-fi system that did that. Wound up that part of the electrical wiring in the house wasn't done properly and so the wiring was acting as an antenna that would sometimes become an inducted antenna for high power frequencies. We got air traffic bound for Midway and fire...

Picard is awful. It's just a string of guest roles for no particular reason. Lower Decks is great, although I do understand why a lot of people say that it's not really Trek. If you haven't seen it yet, it's animated and the vibe varies between Star Trek continuity porn and absurd humor. It's...

Not sure anyone fully cares, but Paramount put the entire first season of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds up on Youtube. Strange New Worlds is excellent through and through and it's well worth watching, capturing both the fun of the Original Series and the gravitas of Deep Space Nine.

AMD just launched Bergamo as the new Epyc architecture, which is 35% smaller than standard Zen4 and offers up to 128c/256c at up to 3GHz. There's some expectation that we'll start seeing a mix of big and little cores in future Ryzen offerings, just like 12th and 13th generation Core products.

That feature is not well documented by the OEMs and they all use different naming conventions for the flash file, but the short version is that the MB will power on and will display video during the update process if there's an onboard port. I've done this on Asus, Gigabyte and Asrock boards but...

I spend a lot of time worrying about write endurance, probably more than anything else, which makes cheap SSDs unappealing. I'm tempted to just buy something like a barebones Lenovo SR630 with either 10x 2.5" SAS/U.2 combo or EDSFF bays. I'm a little daunted at what I might be getting into for...

My servers in production are Broadwell or Haswell Xeons, either Dell R630s or Lenovo RD550s. They have crap tons of RAM and most of them are SMP, ~2.4GHz/core systems that are perfectly adequate for the load. They're old, old enough to be E-waste for corporate systems, but they're also perfectly...

I feel like it compares well to the average middle aged dude's weekend lawn care routine. 😁

It is definitely the pastime of the bachelor. Also, step one is almost certainly "Make friends and keep up with people who were and still are working at a strip club over a thirty year period and somehow don't do anything creepy to anyone in all that time."

This is a valuable lesson that absolutely explains why putting Linux on a laptop 20 years ago was hardcore masochism. On the other hand, getting Suse or Mint on a 2022 or 20223-model PC is universally easier than installing Windows 10 on the same hardware. Which is completely hilarious, IMO.

As someone who takes a lot of pictures of butts, this is wonderful news. I'm not even joking.

I'm really impressed with the Lenovo Flex 14. The one set before me has a 6c/12t R5 5500U, 8GB RAM a 1920x1200 touch display that flips for tablet operation and the whole thing apparently cost less than $350. If it didn't have soldered RAM, it would be absolutely awesome for the money.

Actually, what IS eVGA doing now? They don't make video cards or motherboards. What's left? Cooling setups? OK I went and looked and... Liquid coolers, PSUs and gaming peripherals. The margins on a gamer mouse might actually be higher than a mid-range GPU and that's crazy.

IIRC, there were single-sided and double-sided DIMMs, with double-sided working fine on AMD but only only showed up as half capacity on an Intel PC. This is still something that happens; I have some high capacity DDR3 modules that do the same thing on older Core i-whatever but are fine AMD...

It looks like nVidia 4000-series GPUs are getting big markdowns. 20% off puts their price almost at the point of sanity. Apparently sales of graphics cards are the lowest they've been in actual decades and pretty much no one is happy with that state of affairs.

Weirdly, the places I'm most likely to run in to Macs are law offices and small software developer shops and one-offs for VIPs who use them as glorified Email and Powerpoint terminals. I do some work for a commercial and graphics press and even they're 100% PC. My office has an M1 iMac because...

My almost 23 year old domestic partner will say with absolutely no sense of irony, that she grew up poor and therefore only had Android devices until she was able to buy Apple once she started earning an income. Her high school used Google for Education and Chromebooks as well, and to her...

The RAM on their SoCs is just DDR5. The architecture is obviously different, but I think the only difference is the width of the bus between RAM and actual CPU. It's not a miracle. I understand that CAMM modules mitigate some of the issues with using wider, faster buses for newer memory...

Apple Silicon Macs always seem like lightweights in the RAM department. I know it's part of the SoC but even with the greater memory bandwidth, you can't magic away large data sets. It seems like there should be an option to add CAMM modules or something, if only to make that machine more...

Apple very specifically doesn't want send users to deal with the concept of files, let alone worry their pretty little heads about concepts like bitrates or formats. It just works if you send it to another Apple thing!

New Mac Pro with an M2 Ultra dropped today. It's a weird system. $7000 base price, maximum of 192GB RAM. Has PCI-e 4.0 for, oh, something-or-other that isn't GPUs, no access to socketed RAM and no CPU configuration that's particularly better than the Mac Studio. I guess the intention is to...

This morning, an acquaintance asked me to look at his iphone 14 Pro Max. 1TB model. It was full, with 880GB of 20 - 25 second long video clips that had been recorded in 4k. I had many questions. The clips are recordings of him demonstrating dance moves. They are very short because those are the...

That sounds like a massive pain in the ass, but it should be do-able. I do know that the Thinkpads of that era, the ~T20 at least, did support USB boot. I'm not familiar with the C400. You could also get a PC Card drive for it, just for the fun of playing with something old enough to be a...

Users can and probably should turn off LAN access by UEFI or disable the @App Center Download. The mitigation is fairly straightforward for people comfortable enough to get in to the firmware interface.

I don't think anyone is making a combined BT / Wifi 6/7 USB adapter. Those do exist for m.2. Some desktop boards, especially mATX and ITX models, have a vertical m.2 slot for mounting such a card. If yours doesn't have one of those slots, you'll probably wind up using two USB ports to get all...