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Ouch. Really sorry to see that. Hope the RMA process goes smoothly with all of the... current events going on.

I'm actually quite happy with my stability -- since I got everything dialed in, not one crash or lockup, and I've been periodically folding and stress testing with mPrime and big compilation jobs using all threads. For a cheap upgrade this is really looking nice.

Of course that's not how it actually works, but that's how it does in most people's minds, so hopefully they'll stop panicking for three seconds and realize that they're not helping.

Cool, there's a potential vaccine now. Hopefully things will calm down in relatively short order.

Well, if the utilities go down I'm about 95% sure the wood stove downstairs is hot enough to cook on with a full fire going. Not that it's ideal to have a fire going in it with it getting warmer and all, but if I have to the option's there. I should have stocked up on water while I could but I...

Why does everything have to get political?

Burnt my candle at both ends a bit and just went for it -- it's remarkably quick and painless. The hardest part, no exaggeration, was realizing eudev uses the old network interface naming convention and so my network interface, which was enp5s0, was now eth0.

Debian, or: How I learned to stop worrying and love systemd. It's no secret that I'm not a big fan of systemd -- not its concept, and not its perceived mission statement, that being to absorb all the little helper daemons and utilities in the GNU/Linux userland until there's nothing left. A...

Considering we have areas here in the US within areas within areas within areas that do/do not observe DST (think the various Native American reservations, specifically Arizona is what I'm thinking about with this remark) it's really time something was done about it, I think. I'm ready to...

I did buy it within the last couple years -- I think it was early-mid 2018? I can't remember, but I know I didn't have it before then. Like I said I'll have to check it out when I have it open next, until then I don't see much of a point in bothering. I really should do some kind of Windows ToGo...

Fair enough -- I don't actually have any UHD blu-rays I'd like to rip in the first place, I just figured the capability would be nice. I use MakeMKV. When I have the case open I'll check to see if it's an NS50 -- but I think it's just a plain NS40 anyway. If it is an NS50, I might go through...

I have the same drive and was wondering what the best firmware is for drives that still need to be able to burn discs? I read the thread you linked and mostly just still feel lost -- this is my first experience with potentially flashing (and cross-flashing at that) optical drive firmware and I'd...

In everything I've thrown at it my R5-1600AF handily outpaces my 3570K, even with the clock deficit. Even single-threaded tasks usually run noticeably better -- not world-shatteringly so unless it makes use of AVX2, but still, the gains are there. I was a little surprised actually. I got 3200...

I rushed my own plans a little and got my NVME SSD because I was concerned that by the time I was ready to "properly" get it in mid-summer supply would be low and prices much higher. I'm not having another situation like where I got my GPU where I got it less than a month before the market...

My V30, and because the stock Verizon ROM goes through my battery in... not a great amount of time, mostly. That and I wanted access to the storage that'd be freed up by actually being able to delete stock carrier-installed apps like that NFL thing Verizon insists on preloading. Other than that...

Well, it's certainly a lot more well-heeled than what I've got, and it's more "pro-sumer" level at least. I'd figure they might have saved that specific feature for chips that could actually make more use of it, as in, those meant for use in servers and/or high-end workstations. Much like how...

So would this be something I might see on Linux, perhaps when using a different CPU scheduler? I currently use MuQSS on my ck-patched copy of 5.5.2. It'd be cool to see it power down all but maybe 2 cores when I'm "idling" but I understand if that sort of thing is restricted to not only the 3000...

Well, considering it's just a 2600 hiding behind the old 1600 name (the AF moniker is an unofficial one to differentiate it from the original 1600 whose P/N ends in AE) I'd probably say anything it can do, the 1600AF can do as well. I'm not sure what that means, and likely won't until I get it...

I'm at as much of a loss as you are, but I'd suggest backing up your profile and just trying to unregister them to see what happens. My money's on them reloading when you reload the page they're attached to.

I find it interesting that in Stereodude's latest screenshot, it appears to be idling at ~300MHz all-core. That's actually way lower than the lowest idle I've seen from a modern chip (the N3050's 480MHz is what I'm comparing against) and I find that interesting -- is that kind of power-savings...

What release of Lubuntu is that? Kernel 3.13 is ancient, just how long have they been procrastinating on updates? Anyway, I second what Chewy said. Though, if they're freaked out by this, then maybe these steps are a bit too much for them.

Got my phone unlocked, rommed with an unofficial build of LineageOS 17.1, and rooted via Magisk for the hiding capability. Still can't use Google Pay but then again I didn't use it anyway, so it's not a big loss. A couple things are slightly broken (the Wifi menu is one of those things, but I...

Well, damn. I can't say I saw this coming -- I caught a sale on some things, and now I'm the proud owner of a Ryzen 5 1600AF, ASRock B450M-Pro4, and 16GB of DDR4-3000 CL16 RAM. This is strictly a platform upgrade, nothing crazy otherwise, keeping everything else. Right as I started messing with...

... Scratch everything I just said about 1.1.1.1 not working, apparently it does just fine now. I couldn't use it when I took it for a test spin on my burner phone about 6mo ago. I just tried it again.

I'm sure that's what it uses by default, but on LTE if I enable the 1.1.1.1 proxy-type thing that worked fine on Verizon, I lose all internet access on Straight Talk. I'm betting they filter by that. But again, my Tor proxy works, so I'm not too worried.

Paid off my phone and immediately transferred my number back over to Straight Talk. Probably sticking with this until it dies. I went from US$145/mo with Verizon's "Beyond Unlimited" plan and my phone payment to US$95/mo for just the plan to US$55/mo for a nationwide unlimited plan from Straight...

@jtr1962 I wouldn't be surprised if that is indeed the case. It would horrify me, but it wouldn't shock me at all. And considering that the numbers are in all likelihood far worse than the Chinese government is letting on... this is really starting to scare me. I'm afraid I'm still a bit out of...

I should probably be more careful myself considering I regularly serve people who travel all across the country if not the continent at large.

I mean, I would... I'd very much like to build a DX2-66 with VLB video and super I/O. Much moreso than anything 10th-gen Intel, though I might be upgrading to a Ryzen 5 3600 later this year if I catch a sale with the money in my pocket. It's the last era of computing that really interests me...

That's true. It was a very long operation -- over twelve hours -- it could have easily gone wrong somewhere. I should really be more grateful. But she'll be all right, that's the important thing. Thanks.

All I got for Christmas was food poisoning -- the whole house was laid up all day the 26th because one of our cousins brought something in with the holiday dinner and didn't know herself until she got home. Guess who had to go to work in that mess? Of course, saying that's all I got is a gross...

Oh, I'd just love a Model F or a real Model M (I have one, but it's the mid-90's rubber dome version) but for half the cost of one of those beasts on ebay I built myself a nice board that I like a lot and can tinker with when I get bored. I'd characterize the BOX Navies as being much, much...

My views trend along the "everyone is corrupt and we need to reset everything" line. My own politics tend to be moderately liberal, but everyone currently in Washington is either crazy or bought and paid for. I try not to talk politics because I'm either considered a bleeding heart liberal who...

I think AMD will still send you some crappy AM4 Athlon for flashing purposes if you need it. You just have to send it back.

Indeed, it is a CS. As for the screen being only capable of 256 colors... well then, I guess that solves it! All those hours I spent tearing my hair out and considering trying a VESA driver... for nothing, as usual. It's interesting that the screen's only 256-colors capable, since the utilities...

Swapped 95 A for 95 C on the T2130CS (modified to exclude IE in any form, in lieu of which I installed Netscape Communicator 4.80 ;)) so that I had FAT32 support and thus didn't have to split my 4GB SD card into two partitions. It also came with some updated libraries that I guess made it...

When I eventually move out my plan is to not really bother with communications beyond an internet connection and a cheap cell phone plan. Said internet connection will likely be the fastest thing in the area, which is where I expect the expense to come... After some 6 years of living with 3mbps...

Well, RE: SCSI, I played with a AHA-2940U2 OEM that I flashed to a 2940U2W with the unofficial 3.10 BIOS, and it was a pain and a half trying to get it working with a 146.8GB SCA drive. I ended up ditching the idea entirely, after having sunk a not-insignificant amount of money into it. That...

Card arrived yesterday and it utterly destroys the old Broadcom card on all fronts. 9.2MB/s throughput over SMB compared with the machine's previous 600K/s max, it's rock steady instead of the Broadcom's wildly inconsistent performance and stability, and it barely sips power by comparison. I got...

I found an Intel 7260AC card on Ebay that has a Lenovo FRU number that's confirmed working with the whitelist on the X140e, so hopefully that gets here sooner rather than later. It turns out that I can blame my mediocre-to-awful network performance on the Broadcom BCM43228 that's currently in...

That last bit reminds me, maybe I should look into NFS. My stuff can all make use of SMB shares but performance over the wireless on my laptop is utterly abysmal at roughly 600KB/s r/w. Only slightly faster than what I've got coming down my pipe to the rest of the world these days. My PPro...

Oh I'm prepared for stupid slow transfer rates on both accounts since my SCSI controller is only good for SCSI-1 and is ISA. I ran out of PCI slots... A half-baked idea I once had was to replace the Ultra66 with a SCSI controller on the PCI bus and then swap my SD to IDE adapter for a SCSI2SD...

I'm no stranger to IRQ/DMA troubles. It took me forever to finally get it just so for my Vibra16S to have IRQ5 and DMA1 to itself. Remember my USB2.0 card? It lies in a heap of unused parts because the damn thing wants three IRQs all to itself. Even disabling my primary onboard IDE channel and...

Well, that's a bust. Not only does the onboard controller still corrupt data (in WDMA mode especially, but even in PIO mode with LBA enabled... sad times...) but NT 4 seems to just not like my SD card whatsoever. That's fine, it can be a drive bigot all it wants, I'll just keep using what...

Yeah, you would think that those that lived through those times sacrificed their sanity so that I wouldn't have to so far later, but let's be honest, I've always been a little strange. o_O

So apparently the PIIX3 the board uses supports DMA modes, just not UDMA modes, meaning that at least in theory I can get NT 4 to play nice with it... And apparently I'm a dumbass who doesn't know how to read. The reason it had trouble with drives >8.4GB was because I had the primary IDE...

It's fairly common knowledge that's how most of the game keys are acquired for sites like G2A and Kinguin, and they've been running for years. I guess I just assumed that could be the case for this as well. Note that I also did not say that must be what's happening. It was a question and quite a...

Well, that explains an awful lot. I don't know how to force it down to a PIO mode on my controller card (it autodetects and doesn't seem to let me change anything), and wouldn't want to anyway -- the increased CPU load for file transfers would render the entire point of installing NT 4 -- i.e...

Well, I can't say much, because my LTSC key is one of those "too cheap" keys -- it worked just fine, and I refuse to pay hundreds of dollars for something that should be settings in the control panel, but exactly how legal is it? Were these purchased with stolen credit cards or charged back once...

Well, due to the rather "dirty" way NT 4 setup formats NTFS drives (in an extended FAT partition unless you pre-partition the drive, and starting in FAT and then converting to NTFS on the first boot into setup proper) it really, really, really hated my SD to IDE adapter. The bootloader seemed to...