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    Master Disaster got a reaction from Spart0n in Switching to Linux from Win(11) - which distro is best for me?   
    And without going too deep, running closed source fully proprietary software at ring 0 to protect a video game from you cheating is one of the absolute dumbest things I ever heard. Its akin to giving the keys to your house to the security guard you hired through a third party and had no say in the vetting process while you're on holiday just in case someone does break in. It becomes MUCH more likely the security guard is just gonna use the key, empty the fridge, shit in your toilet and sleep in your bed than a criminal actually breaking in,
     
    Windows users are slowly being desensitised to this type of software and being taught that its normal for a fricken anti cheat to need complete and unfettered access to your entire system kernel.
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    Master Disaster got a reaction from emothxughts in My 3 day battle with my PC randomly shutting down while gaming and how I solved it.   
    This one isn't a request for help, it will be more of a detailed log of how I solved my problem (fingers crossed anyway) in the hope it might help others with a similar issue.
     
    I should add that my issue was something specific to having an X570 & Zen 2 pairing while also running PCIe 4.0 devices. If you're not running this setup its unlikely this solution will help you.
     
    The Problem.
     
    After a random period of time (between 10 minutes and a few hours) while specifically playing games (and not all games were affected) the system would hard reboot. By far the worst affected game was SW Battlefront 2 (I'd be lucky to get half an hour before the crash happened) so this is what I concentrated on for testing moving forward.
     
    Testing.
     
    The first thing I did was leave memtest running overnight on Friday. It passed a full pass with zero errors.
     
    On Saturday morning I quickly established that it was only happening in games. I left P95 Small FFTs & Furmark running simultaneously for hours (according to AMD CCC Furmark was running for 6 hours) and the system was totally fine. Temps were completely normal on the CPU & GPU. CPU reached 90c peak & GPU reached 76c peak on the die and 94c peak on the junction. Temps were not the problem.
     
    My next thought was that it was being caused by GPU Hardware Scheduling so I DDUed the AMD HWS Driver and went back to the non HWS but this did nothing.
     
    Next I went into UEFI and disabled EVERYTHING I could think of that might have been causing this, all settings in AI tweaker were set to Auto (or so I thought, more on that next), PBO was set to Disabled, all power limits were set back to 100%, LLC was disabled, heck I even turned off IOMMU & SVT. Rebooted and fired up BF2 and almost instantly it crashed again.
     
    Rebooted back into UEFI and this is were I kinda got lucky, I noticed that while turning everything off in AI Tweaker that I had missed the DOCP setting so my RAM was still OCed however I ignored this because the system had worked for months with DOCP and never had an issue. (Spoiler: I shouldn't have done that).
     
    Anyway I then wasted the rest of Saturday night and a few hours Sunday morning swapping out the GPU, RAM & PSU for spares I had lying around. This also did nothing.
     
    After putting all my original components back I went back to the HWS idea so after doing a full HDD image I proceeded to format Windows 10 2004 and reinstall Windows 10 1909. After installing drivers & Steam/Origin I fired up BF2 and literally as soon as I hit Start Mission the crash happened again. At this point I was starting to get annoyed so after reimaging 2004 back I shut it down and went and watched a movie.
     
    When I came back to it, for reasons unknown, I decided to turn off DOCP. I went back into Windows and got 3 hours of play time in BF2. Went back into UEFI, reenabled DOCP, fired up BF2 and 30 minutes in it went. Progress, its the RAM, right? Wrong.
     
    I noticed that when you turn on DOCP the UEFI warns you that the FClock will be overclocked from the base of 1200Mhz to 1800Mhz (the same effective speed as my 3600Mhz RAM) and that doing this might cause instability with PCIe 4 devices. Then it hit me, the first time I noticed this issue was around a month ago, the day after I installed a Corsair MP600 PCIe 4.0 SSD. At the time I put it down to a random crash and thought nothing of it (since it had never happened previously). Between then and now I've not really played games on the PC at all (I've been playing a lot on my Original Xbox instead) so it stands to reason I've not noticed any crashes.
     
    The Cause and solution.
     
    I did some Googling and discovered, what I think (hope) is the cause. The FClock (or the Infinity Fabric Clock) is controlled by a little SOC built into the CPU. With just my PCIe 4 GPU installed the SOC was fine with OCing to 1800Mhz but as soon as I added the SSD to the bus the SOC could no longer cope with running both the GPU & SSD at 1800Mhz. The solution was as simple as upping the SOC Voltage for 1.1v to 1.15v (according to the article I read it can go up to 1.2v safely on air).
     
    I've been playing BF2 this morning with my system running at its normal UEFI settings, DOCP on, PBO at Level 1, Power Limits at 120% and LLC on Optimised and so far its been rock solid.
     
    Obviously I cannot say its fixed yet as I haven't had the time to test it thoroughly but its played BF2 for over 2 hours with no crash where as normally it goes within 30 minutes. If it goes again I'll make sure to update this thread.
     
    It was a very frustrating but also very fun weekend. It feels good to track down a problem and solve it.
     
    Happy Monday everyone.
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    Master Disaster got a reaction from Mr.Nelf in Kaspersky files an antitrust lawsuit to EU and Russia against Microsoft for keeping users safe with Windows Defender   
    This is going to sound very callous but well, I genuinely don't care. I've almost dropped Windows entirely these days. I use it exclusively for gaming and nothing more.
     
    I'm going to hold my hands up and say I'm probably a little biased on this topic, I've grown very dismayed with Windows over the last 12 to 18 months. It just seems like our "personal" computers are not personal anymore, MS seem hellbent on removing the users choice and forcing people into doing things a certain way, their way.
     
    I'm smart enough to be able to handle my own PC and I don't need anyone telling me what I can and can't do with it.
     
    Just my opinion though, I've got nothing against anyone who chooses to run Windows.
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    Master Disaster got a reaction from DarthBaggins in Merge two SWM files.   
    dism /export-image /sourceimagefile:install.swm /swmfile:install*.swm /sourceindex:1 /destinationimagefile:installFirst.wim /Compress:max /CheckIntegrity Will merge both files back into a WIM.
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    Master Disaster got a reaction from John Solar System in Is it bad to flip the switch on the PSU every day?   
    OK, I'm just gonna put this to bed right now. I found a nice PDF from Texas Instruments which outlines exactly what current inrush is and what dangers it poses.
     
    https://www.ti.com/lit/an/slva670a/slva670a.pdf
     
    So tell me again how inrush current protection is only a thing for whole house circuits please. Engineers will design circuits to handle inrush current from the outset since ya know, its kind of important that a power supply unit can handle being turned on and off.
     
    And solutions...
    So according to one of the worlds biggest IC designers, there are plenty of ways to deal with it, soft power being one but hardware solutions do exist and have done for a very long time.
     
    Now TBC I'm not saying that inrush current has never or could never damage a PSU, far from it. What I am saying is that good PSUs have it taken into consideration from the offset and have every possible mitigation in place to prevent it. Just because there's a minuscule chance that something might go wrong doesn't mean something will go wrong otherwise where does it stop? There's a chance your PSU could dump the full hot input onto the cold output rail and fry everything in your system, should you also never use the PSU then? There's a chance you might crash your car and die, should you never drive?
     
    Inrush current IS a problem for power supplies, luckily its also a problem we fixed many years ago at this point.
     
    Edit - Should clarify, not just PSU but any high power or switching mode device.
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    Master Disaster got a reaction from MichaelMouton in Windows 10 Ameliorated Ordered to cease operations due to LTT video   
    No, it really isn't. Microsoft allow Windows 10 to operate in unactivated mode, they wrote that function in and they removed functions that prevented it in other versions of Windows.
     
    It might be technically against the EULA but if it ever made it to court there's not a judge on the planet that would side with MS on that one. The EULA is unenforceable since MS themselves provide the means to circumvent it built right into the software.
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    Master Disaster reacted to Levent in Accessing devices through just domain instead of domain+port on both VPN and LAN.   
    My mistake turned out to be super dumb mistake lol. I figured out with nginx as well. Attempting to "wrassle" the SSL. Thanks guys
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    Master Disaster got a reaction from Levent in Accessing devices through just domain instead of domain+port on both VPN and LAN.   
    The only thing I can think might offer a clue to what is going is is to create a vhost on port 80, leave out the SSL stuff and see if you can connect to it. AFAIK this error usually happens because SSL kinda expects port 443 and throws a fit if it doesn't get that. By eliminating SSL entirely (temporarily) it should allow you to at least connect and test your config.
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    Master Disaster got a reaction from Levent in Accessing devices through just domain instead of domain+port on both VPN and LAN.   
    I do it all though Apache, it has its own proxy module. Unfortunately I actually cannot get into my webserver at all, its been so long since I needed to change anything I actually forgot the password. I've been meaning to redo it but I'm worried I might go from it working flawlessly to not.
     
    Edit
    So using Apache & mod_proxy something like this should work
    This would forward whatever is on 127.0.0.1:8080 to sub.domain.com:443, you can adjust it as needed. You probably don't need the rewrite and socket stuff TBH, all this does is reformat the URI and forward it to a running socket, most websites don't need that.
     
    Edit 2 - Now that I think back, it works better if you create a non SSL vhost on port 80 then run certbot and let it generate the SSL config for you. I don't remember the exact reason why but I do remember it caused me issues when trying to create an SSL vhost manually.
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    Master Disaster got a reaction from Levent in Accessing devices through just domain instead of domain+port on both VPN and LAN.   
    You need to create a virtual host on your webserver for each service then define the domain name and port in each vhost config file. I have my setup running exactly like this only internally.
     
    nas.home.lan for my NAS which uses port 9001
    home.lan for my webserver which uses port 80
    pma.home.lan for phpmyadmin also on 80
     
    etc etc
     
    then as above, use reverse proxy on the webserver to forward whatever port to whatever service. Local services can share a port since they should all have their own folder on the webserver anyway so you can define the subdomain and point it to whatever folder you like.
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    Master Disaster got a reaction from Electronics Wizardy in Accessing devices through just domain instead of domain+port on both VPN and LAN.   
    You need to create a virtual host on your webserver for each service then define the domain name and port in each vhost config file. I have my setup running exactly like this only internally.
     
    nas.home.lan for my NAS which uses port 9001
    home.lan for my webserver which uses port 80
    pma.home.lan for phpmyadmin also on 80
     
    etc etc
     
    then as above, use reverse proxy on the webserver to forward whatever port to whatever service. Local services can share a port since they should all have their own folder on the webserver anyway so you can define the subdomain and point it to whatever folder you like.
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    Master Disaster got a reaction from Nayr438 in How To Setup Webhosting?   
    You already have, right now its just internal. Just to clear a few things up, 127.0.0.1 is generally called the loopback address or the localhost address and self hosting literally just means you run the webserver yourself from your home or business.
     
    To make your current setup web facing you simply need to forward the correct ports (usually 80 and 443) through both your OSes internal firewall and your routers firewall to the server.
     
    Before you do though its important you consider a few things, if your server is web facing then it is accessible to everyone which means anyone with the correct knowledge can pretty easily locate your server through your IP address and criminals can (and will) try to gain access (my webserver gets ssh requests upto 10 times per day). Security has to be your number 1 priority because you are literally exposing the machine to the entire world, personally I run my web server inside a VM on my NAS with nothing on it except for my web facing files, if anyone ever did get access they would only have access to my website files and an otherwise clean operating system.
     
    I STRONGLY recommend Linux, learn how ACL works and use it properly, make sure your web server can only access your web files by using the http group and permissions, run fail2ban to auto ban repeat pingers and failed login requests, learn how virtual hosts work and use them combined with different internal and external ports and port forwarding and if you wanna take it to the extreme use firejail.
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    Master Disaster got a reaction from HexagonSun2077 in AMD-GPU and Davinci Resolve on Linux   
    Cool, I'm in 😄
     
    What makes you think gpu-pro is sub par? I can't really speak for other distros but on Arch OpenCL can be installed as a module, it runs alongside the existing mesa open source driver and still uses the open source driver stack, afaik it shouldn't have any impact on your base driver at all.
     
    As for which versions you need to install,
    https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/DaVinci_Resolve#Installation
    has a nice table with all the requisites listed and a link to a script you can run which will test your system.
     
    It seems like, as long as you have Vega or newer then you're good with mesa for OpenGL and rocm-opencl for OpenCL support (note these package names are from Arch, they will probably be called other names on other distros).
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    Master Disaster got a reaction from RockSolid1106 in How To Setup Webhosting?   
    You already have, right now its just internal. Just to clear a few things up, 127.0.0.1 is generally called the loopback address or the localhost address and self hosting literally just means you run the webserver yourself from your home or business.
     
    To make your current setup web facing you simply need to forward the correct ports (usually 80 and 443) through both your OSes internal firewall and your routers firewall to the server.
     
    Before you do though its important you consider a few things, if your server is web facing then it is accessible to everyone which means anyone with the correct knowledge can pretty easily locate your server through your IP address and criminals can (and will) try to gain access (my webserver gets ssh requests upto 10 times per day). Security has to be your number 1 priority because you are literally exposing the machine to the entire world, personally I run my web server inside a VM on my NAS with nothing on it except for my web facing files, if anyone ever did get access they would only have access to my website files and an otherwise clean operating system.
     
    I STRONGLY recommend Linux, learn how ACL works and use it properly, make sure your web server can only access your web files by using the http group and permissions, run fail2ban to auto ban repeat pingers and failed login requests, learn how virtual hosts work and use them combined with different internal and external ports and port forwarding and if you wanna take it to the extreme use firejail.
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    Master Disaster got a reaction from lewdicrous in Scam or Really Linus ? i Think its a scam and if it is maybe its good for others to know here.   
    Yeah, in case anybody doesn't realise, scammers actually try to make it obvious its probably a scam. Seems counter intuitive but it actually serves a very useful function, they don't want to waste their time "working" on people who might eventually realise its a scam so by making it obvious they can, as much as possible, ensure the only people responding are the gullible/vulnerable or trolls.
     
    The people they target are not the type of people who would usually consider reaching out to someone to ask and certainly not go out of their way to make a forum account and read stickies.
     
    With that said though, I echo the sentiments from above, if a sticky can help even 1 person its still a good thing and a net win.
     
    I swear though, I personally cannot fathom how so many people these days are still falling for these types of scams.
     
    Also fun fact, the easiest way to get removed from a scammer call list is to verbally abuse them. Obviously make sure it really is a scam then waste their time as much as you can before letting rip with the insults. These days they actually keep a separate list of known baiters and trolls which gets passed around, all you gotta do is get yourself on that list and the calls will almost entirely stop 🙂
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    Master Disaster got a reaction from WereCat in Court in Munich rules for Ford Germany to destroy all of their cars, because of missing LTE licenses. (Probably won't happen tho)   
    Honestly, sounds like the courts are trying to push Ford into paying the royalties more than anything. I'd be stunned if they actually went through with even the ban, let alone the bonfires and fireworks.
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    Master Disaster got a reaction from da na in Court in Munich rules for Ford Germany to destroy all of their cars, because of missing LTE licenses. (Probably won't happen tho)   
    Honestly, sounds like the courts are trying to push Ford into paying the royalties more than anything. I'd be stunned if they actually went through with even the ban, let alone the bonfires and fireworks.
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    Master Disaster got a reaction from Senzelian in Court in Munich rules for Ford Germany to destroy all of their cars, because of missing LTE licenses. (Probably won't happen tho)   
    Honestly, sounds like the courts are trying to push Ford into paying the royalties more than anything. I'd be stunned if they actually went through with even the ban, let alone the bonfires and fireworks.
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    Master Disaster got a reaction from cretsiah in Switching to Linux from Win(11) - which distro is best for me?   
    And without going too deep, running closed source fully proprietary software at ring 0 to protect a video game from you cheating is one of the absolute dumbest things I ever heard. Its akin to giving the keys to your house to the security guard you hired through a third party and had no say in the vetting process while you're on holiday just in case someone does break in. It becomes MUCH more likely the security guard is just gonna use the key, empty the fridge, shit in your toilet and sleep in your bed than a criminal actually breaking in,
     
    Windows users are slowly being desensitised to this type of software and being taught that its normal for a fricken anti cheat to need complete and unfettered access to your entire system kernel.
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    Master Disaster got a reaction from V3SPER in Switching to Linux from Win(11) - which distro is best for me?   
    And without going too deep, running closed source fully proprietary software at ring 0 to protect a video game from you cheating is one of the absolute dumbest things I ever heard. Its akin to giving the keys to your house to the security guard you hired through a third party and had no say in the vetting process while you're on holiday just in case someone does break in. It becomes MUCH more likely the security guard is just gonna use the key, empty the fridge, shit in your toilet and sleep in your bed than a criminal actually breaking in,
     
    Windows users are slowly being desensitised to this type of software and being taught that its normal for a fricken anti cheat to need complete and unfettered access to your entire system kernel.
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    Master Disaster got a reaction from 05032-Mendicant-Bias in The crypto bubble might have just burst, a top 10 stable coin jumped off a cliff and now all crypto is crashing hard   
    This is an incredibly long and complicated topic, I'm only gonna cover the basics here since I don't have time and I couldn't do it justice anyway. For more info see KiraTV, Upper Echelon Gaming and/or Coffeezilla on YouTube, these guys cover this stuff and unlike me actually understand the ins and outs of blockchain.
     
    To begin lets establish a few things, the entire project is called Terra and it contains 2 different coins/tokens, TerraUSD(UST) is the stable coin, Luna was the algorithmic coin. Its important to understand they are 2 parts of the same thing.
     
    OK so back in Oct 2021 the Terra project founder got into a twitter dispute over a possible attack method to destroy his project, not gonna go into too much detail but am mentioning it because its possible this was the start of the downfall. Essentially he responded to a random who posted a theoretical way of destroying the coin by calling them poor and then goading billionaires into trying it out to "see what happened".
     
    Fast forward to last week, the market noticed a billionaire making some big trades, the Terra founder reached out on twitter and was told "maybe I have big plans for Luna?"
     
    Then this happened...

     
     
    Now to be super clear, we don't actually know why this happened yet, I'm sure the reddit sherlocks are trawling the ledger RN to find out however this caused what can only be described as a full market meltdown, pretty much all crypto is down, stable coins have been hit really hard but even the old faithful names like BTC and Ether have taken hits.
     
    Its gets even worse, turns out the Terra founder happens to be one of the top 5 BTC holders on Earth and now everyone is panicking that he's gonna liquidate all his BTC and crash that market as well.
     
    Source - https://www.theverge.com/2022/5/12/23069232/terra-luna-collapse-stablecoins-crypto-crash-bitcoin
     
    My thoughts
     
    I thought I would be jumping for joy and shouting "I told you so" from my megaphone on the rooftops, then I remember that a fuck load of normal, not very wealthy people just lost a combined sum of $200 Billion, many are left with literally nothing and have zero recourse about what just happened.
     
    This is not a happy day.
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