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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.

I standardized on opnsense as an access platform a while back, because I got sick of dealing with everyone having something different, although part of that is that I'm the only person who really connects to each system as an end point, so switching up security certs is mostly only a headache...

Kinda. The GenZs live in some combination of Twitch and Youtube. Twitch in particular drives me nuts because a lot of it revolves around its god-awful chat interface. I did finally convince my partner to use SOundTV instead, which is an adblocking Twitch client that more or less only displays...

My partner shares her gaming accounts with her dad, basically because she's had them since she was little. Still, she's the fan of Shitty Todd Howard Games (TM), and having added up the numbers from Playstation, Xbox and Nintendo Switch, she's put something like 7% of all the hours she's been...

I actually use a combination of Hamachi and Zerotier for software defined VPNs (Hamachi is great for desktops and servers but it doesn't cope well with laptops and computers that go to sleep, hence use of both) and I also have OpenVPN running on opnsense on my router system, which is also on...

This thread is inspired by Handruin mentioning that he wanted a low-power replacement for an ancient Xeon server setup. What are we all doing with our server systems? I'm guessing I'm not the only person here who runs Plex or Jellyfin. I'm sure most of us know about containerized VMs and may...

I have a dislike of gamepads, so the handhelds aren't for me regardless. There's an Ayn Odin sitting around my place and it does get used quite a bit, but I've been messing with an RG35XX-H recently as well. At ~$50, it's pretty interesting just from the standpoint of what it can do as a...

AMD says both x670e and x870e have the same 44 total PCIe 5 lanes, but lots of boards do goofy things like run the second slot and third x16s at PCIe 4.0.

Play vanilla before you try War of the Chosen and don't add mod classes until you've done at least a few games with the base classes. Four of the same troop class going in on a drop is more or less always OP. A 99% chance to hit is not a guaranteed hit. A 1% chance to hit is not a guaranteed...

Setting the age conversation aside and to answer LM's question, the big thing other thing that was supposed to come with the x870(E) was supposed to be mandatory USB 4 support. Which is something for someone I guess, but USB adoption is always screwy and uneven and I just can't get excited about...

Phones purchased direct from Samsung have varying levels of protection plans. The most expensive plan includes loss and theft coverage. I think it's something like $12/month for up to three years. Samsung's insurance plan is serviced by ubreakifix, which has several hundred retail locations in...

Looking at forums where people talk about phones, Eurolanders bitch constantly about how lucky we Americans are to get Qualcomm SoCs in our S series Samsungs. It's not just that Exynos chipsets are a bit slower, they're also a lot hotter. There MAY be better battery life, but if the device is...

There's no way an 8TB m.2 PCIe 4+ SSD will be cool to the touch. My thinking was to get a single board computer with at least a 10Gb USB port and an internal m.2 so that you could copy either direct from camera or from a CFexpress reader to an m.2. It wouldn't need much of a display and the OS...

My favorite games are mostly turn based strategy. Battletech, X-Com and even Baldur's Gate are the way I like to play. My partner is for some reason playing Stellaris on Xbox. That is a game that should not ever be played with a gamepad. That game should not exist for consoles. Every third...

One ideal solution would be to have an automated card duplicator, but without a notebook, it would be hard to verify the copies, and even being able to duplicate the cards becomes a hassle when your camera uses. LM is also working with systems that use CFexpress, an NVMe storage format that...

Yes, but it's generationally off by about a year from whatever AMD is doing on the desktop. Zen 4 Threadrippers were released last winter. Epyc is on its own timeline as well. It's also very possible to find real deals on Threadripper workstation systems late in their lifecycle. Lenovo was...