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    scottyseng reacted to Skiiwee29 in Why are Microcenter cpu's always on sale?   
    They use it as a tool to get customers into the store. When they come in to buy a CPU, 99 times out of 100, they buy other things that will net profit vs the loss they're taking on the CPU price. 
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    scottyseng reacted to RONOTHAN## in Hooorrible Cinebench scores.. unbelievably low.   
    First off, what version of Cinebench are you running? There's quite a few different versions, and the scores from each of them don't line up with each other. The scores you listed sound like CB 2024 (this produces very low scores compared to the more prevalent R23, though your chip should still be doing ~750 multi core in 2024), though it can technically be something else. 
     
    Second, what CPU are you actually running? The 3700XT doesn't exist, is that a typo for the 3700X or 3800XT? It won't make much of a difference, but it's still good to know. Also, is that the ASRock B550AM, and what CPU cooler are you running?
     
    Third, since there's dozens of things that can cause this, going for the Hail Mary solution is probably for the best. Download HWInfo64 and launch it in "Sensors Only" mode (it'll show up in the dialog box if you want it sensors only or summary only). Once open, in the bottom right of the window there will be a button that looks like a piece of paper with a plus sign, hit that and run Cinebench. This will create a log of every sensor in the system that can be read later to see if there's something over heating, a power limit set way too low in the BIOS, the CPU not boosting correctly, etc. Send that file once you create it. 
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    scottyseng reacted to coasterghost in Nikon acquires RED Digital Cinema   
    Summary
     Japanese camera company Nikon announces that they are purchasing  RED Digital Cinema and that it will become a wholly owned subsidiary.
     
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    My thoughts
     I did not have this on my 2024 Bingo card by any longshot. That being said, I hope that Nikon does allow for others to use for instance ProRes Raw internally, and to make it easier for other companies to introduce their own raw formats as they see fit. We all know that RED was very lawsuit happy, so let's also hope that Nikon doesn't follow Reds footsteps and tries to sue anyone who even thinks about wanting to do a raw format. 
     
     
    Sources
    Nikon PR: https://www.nikon.com/company/news/2024/0307_01.html
    News Shooter: https://www.newsshooter.com/2024/03/06/nikon-acquires-red/
    The Verge: https://www.theverge.com/2024/3/7/24093109/nikon-acquiring-red-cameras-film-motion-picture-tv
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    scottyseng reacted to Hassan170 in Microsoft fixes the Teams app on Windows 11   
    Summary
     The built in Microsoft Teams app in Windows 11 will now support work/school accounts, you will not need to have 2 different Teams apps anymore.

     
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    My thoughts
    Out of all the things wrong with Win11 when it came out, the Teams app was probably my biggest gripe.
     
    For the simple reason being that there was absolutely no F***ING reason why the built in teams couldn't do work/school accounts. 
    To top it off, it took 3 years to make a simple quality of life improvement like this. 
     
    Sources
    XDA-Dev Article
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    scottyseng reacted to Kisai in Legacy Ad-Free HBO Max Subscribers to Lose Access to 4K HDR, Max Parent Company WB makes content on competing streaming services worse   
    Like I said elsewhere,
     
    Doing things like this, just makes people not trust the streaming network, and sends people back to piracy.
     
    Just ask the anime fans/fansubber/pirates. After basically having unfettered access to stolen anime content for like a decade, it's hard to get people to switch to crunchyroll, and CR never offered everything (other stuff was on funimation, VRV, etc, before they all got bought/folded into Sony), nor offered it at the quality the Japanese people would see it at. So many people just went on and kept pirating the 1080p videos, and refusing to pay CR just to watch 480p videos.
     
    That is the future of where everything not on Netflix is headed. People will just justify pirating it because the content holder has decided they'd rather fight pennies domestically rather than accept dollars internationally.
     
    Either put content everywhere at the same quality, or offer all tiers of quality on your own service at the same price. It's a lose-lose situation where piracy becomes where people go to first because they don't know who has the version they want, so it's just faster/easier/more-convenient to just pirate it.
     
    Remember half the reason why people were really into SOFTWARE piracy in the first place it simply wasn't available. At all. Pulling stuff off your own VOD system to write off for tax purposes and not releasing it, just says "pirate me". licencing stuff to others at a lower quality, is just going to encourage pirates to pirate your content and release "better" versions than whom you licensed it out to. A lot good that does.
     
     
     
     
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    scottyseng got a reaction from Drewer in 4-pin PWM to Molex fan, Does it exist?   
    http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16812311001
     
    I use this to run my Delta Fans. I just use the CPU fan header (4pin / PWM) and it controls the Delta Fans. The Molex powers the fans themselves. Do note that three pin non PWM fans with this cable will run at full speed.
     
    Yeah, if I were to plug the Delta Fans into my mobo, the mobo would short out. haha....
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    scottyseng reacted to Kisai in M3 Macbook Pro Reviews. 8GB of RAM on a $1600 laptop is criticised heavily   
    Irrelevant. We're not talking about an Iot Linux box or a Web server being compared to a laptop. We're comparing a BYO Desktop to a proprietary Apple laptop in the same use case.
     
     
    That's not how it works. The OS doesn't go "I'm going to allocate 4GB to applications and reserve the rest for cache while ignoring the applications"
     
    When a device only has 8GB of memory that is used by both the CPU and GPU, that puts it more in line with a game console, where applications have to be explicitly designed around being the only application running.
     
    A desktop doesn't run "just one program", and does not have infinite capacity to run more by just chewing up disk space for virtual memory while ignoring the RAM in the system. 
     
    There is also this annoying problem where developers started putting CEF webviews in everything, so what should be a small application or game suddenly has hundreds of MB's of overhead.

    You know why Epic Games Launcher sucks so much? Because it sits there and uses 800MB of RAM, to do NOTHING. EA's launcher? 400MB to do NOTHING. 

    Steam, still uses quite a bit.
     
    You know what is really stupid though?

    Why oh why is Notepad 73MB. It has 3 tabs open, Notepad++ has 37 tabs open.
     
    This is not "oh you have more ram, so everything takes more memory", this is "applications keep trying to be OS-agnostic by using their own copies of webview frameworks."
     
    This is the state of things on Windows. I can't imagine the  situation on OS X is much better. That 8GB of memory disappears pretty quickly.
     

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    scottyseng reacted to Middcore in $600 Million And A Decade Later, Where Is Star Citizen?   
    I guess it's supposed to make it easier for people to just skim but the way they've bolded phrases in every other sentence in this article is really distracting.
     
    Anyway, there's nothing much new to say about this compared to every time it's come up (not just on this forum but anywhere) the past several years.
     
    I don't think it was meant from the ground up to be an intentional scam like some people do but as long as they can get people to keep throwing money at them without delivering a finished product, what incentive is there to deliver one? At some point it becomes functionally indistinguishable from a scam even if it didn't start as one, doesn't it?
     
    Plus I think even if the developers sincerely want to finish it, they know that nothing they could produce would ever be able to live up to the expectations of the most devoted fans, it would make the hype inflation for Cyberpunk 2077 pale in comparison; if this game ever actually released and didn't bring about peace in the Middle East and cure cancer it would be a letdown. 
     
    So whether due to grift, fear, or feature-creep, or (probably) a combination of the three, everything is against this game ever getting done. Star Citizen is the counterpoint to the "a delayed game is eventually good, a rushed game is forever bad" quote people love to trot out. Without somebody (a publisher or whatever) holding a financial gun to developers' head saying You need to ship something by (date) to keep the lights on, this is what can happen. 
     
    Meanwhile, as more games actually come out that offer at least part (if not all) of the type of experience Star Citizen claimed it would offer, Star Citizen gets less and less relevant to everyone except the true fanatics. 
     
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    scottyseng reacted to LAwLz in Ubiquiti - Not a fan at all (They screwed me)   
    A lot of people like Ubiquiti because they provide cheap and decent access points that can work with a controller.
     
    Getting the all-in-one router from them is in my opinion not a good idea. The point of having controller-based access points is that you can add several access points to cover a large area. Because of regulations and just the laws of physics, a lot of homes will never get adequate coverage from a single Wi-Fi source, so getting several is required. Up until fairly recently, mesh networks were awful as well if they existed at all. Even know, having wired access points still provides faster and more reliable networking than mesh systems.
     
     
    I also think Ubiquiti hits a pretty good sweet-spot where it's easy enough for the more "tech enthusiast" crowd to configure, and it has a pretty UI to entice them, while not being as complex as the more enterprise-oriented offerings. But since it is a bit more complex than your typical home setup, I wouldn't recommend it to the average Joe either. 
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    scottyseng reacted to Levent in Hardware Unboxed Goes on Twitter Rant in Response to LTT Labs Potshots   
    Alternative title: HardwareUnboxed makes a valid argument on twitter after LTT employee makes uncalled comments on record.
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    scottyseng reacted to leadeater in Intel exiting the PC Business as it stops investment in the Intel NUC   
    That doesn't at all sound like a problem to me since that is what they do and suits their requirements. Why spend more unnecessarily when computers of these specifications are well suited to these job roles?
     
    If you need more sure that is perfectly valid but for example we don't hand out Tier 3 standard desktop configurations to all staff since they are 6x the cost and barely 5% need that. Our Tier 2 configuration is 12700 with 3070 and I'm not even sure more than 10% have been allocated that. The rest work very happily with a 12500T and 16BG ram.
     
    I literally work in a university with every department type that exists and am responsible for the entire backend infrastructure of the university along with my team. I manage the storage infrastructure, I manage the VMware clusters, I manage the HPC clusters, I manage  network load balancers, I manage all the Windows and Linux operating system builds and management software as well as all patching.
     
    It doesn't matter at all what you do or have done, not even a little when generalizing and saying people need XYZ when it's actually 2% of people, or more, or less depending on origination etc. But more often there are what are called knowledge workers in organizations than engineers or developers etc. 
     
    Most systems if we are or you are going to generalize do not and will never need a dGPU. iGPUs have been working well for decades now and only get faster and aren't having problems with any applications that don't actually need a dGPU which is not most applications regardless of framework used to make them. Slack for example will never need a dGPU, no application like it will, Electron or otherwise.
     
    Really I'm just saying be careful how much you want to brush stroke things, go too wide and you paint the wrong thing. It's actually really jarring to read "everyone needs a dGPU" when they in fact don't and won't. It actually makes people go "wait, what?!"
     
    iGPU won't be the reason for that.
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    scottyseng reacted to LAwLz in EU Lists First 7 Potential "Gatekeepers" Under The Digital Markets Act (DMA)   
    I don't think anyone really knows right now, not even the EU. It's worth noting that these are just the companies being considered right now. They might be removed from the list (probably not) and what it entails will vary from company to company.
    I would assume that Samsung's component manufacturing branches won't be affected by this since they would be hard to classify as a "core service platform". Their TVs might be though, since they have app stores and such. But even if they are they probably won't have to change much. Maybe allow sideloading, and uninstalling some preinstalled apps but that's probably it.
     

    Some of the rules seem a bit vague but overall I feel like if you haven't done shitty things towards your users (like restricting their freedoms), then you will be fine even if you end up on the list.
     
     
    I wonder if Microsoft will be forced to finally move away from their "temporary" OOXML transitional format into the strict standard version in Office.
    For those who don't know, an open and free format (ODF) was proposed to become an official standard. This scared Microsoft because at the time their document format was a major vendor lock-in strategy. So what they did was create the OOXML, an open format and proposed that as the standard instead. During the (quite shady) negotiation to make OOXML a standard, Microsoft created its own hybrid version of OOXML and labeled it as a "transitional" version of OOXML. The argument was that they weren't ready to fully transition to the open OOXML standard yet and needed to retain some backward compatibility with their previous closed-source format. This was about 17 years ago and Microsoft still doesn't use the OOXML standard they themselves pushed. They use the transitional version, which only they use. That's one of the big reasons why documents written in Word don't look right when opened in for example LibreOffice.
     
     
      
    Sadly I don't think it would help much even if TVs were included. I don't think the DMA prevents a company from dropping support whenever they want.
    I totally feel your pain though. I am currently looking for a new TV and have reached the conclusion that I don't want anything other than Android TV. Because that's the only platform that provides the necessary APIs, functions and guidelines to do what I want (mainly Kodi and a third -party Youtube app that can do things like SponsorBlock).
     
    Neither WebOS nor Tizen does those things. The DMA might make it so that you can get around their guidelines by sideloading, but if the OS doesn't support some things to begin with then third-party apps won't be able to do the things not allowed by the guidelines to begin with.
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    scottyseng reacted to AlTech in Google sabotages Open Source Android and Custom ROMs by deprecating Open Source built in Dialer and Messaging Apps   
    Summary
    Google has decided  that if you want to use a Dialer app or Messaging App on Android then you need to use Google's Proprietary DIaler and Messaging app and not the open source apps. They have decided that they are getting rid of the Open Source Dialer and Messaging Apps from AOSP. Custom ROMs will need to provide their own equivalent to allow users to continue using a non proprietary Dialer or Messager.
     
    Proprietary Google equivalents will continue to be supported.
     
    If you make a custom ROM, you now need to develop your own phone dialer application and your own text messaging application.
     
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    My thoughts
    This is not the first time Google has robbed, cheated, and stolen things from AOSP Android,  plundered the Open Source loot, and taken it back to their proprietary Google Play Services libraries and Google Services Frameworks.
     
    Google is no longer happy that Android is open source and they would like to make it proprietary as they have been doing slowly but surely over the past almost 15 years.
     
    If there is no backlash then this will keep on happening until eventually none of Android will be open source at all.
     
    The beatings will continue until morale improves. Google will own your phone and all your devices. You will own nothing and you will be happy. Daddy Google would like to remind you that they are in charge and you will submit to them.
     
    Sources
     
    https://www.androidauthority.com/google-kill-android-aosp-dialer-messages-app-3334980/
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    scottyseng reacted to leadeater in WHAT did I just BUY on Facebook Marketplace??   
    Yes and NVMe destroys any HDD array always, even single device. Trust me I know, we have a few million dollars of NetApp (A400 and FAS8300, multiple of them in different datacenters).
     
    Large queue IOPs is literally worthless of databases for example. Even if you deployed out enough HDDs to breach sustained IOPs of a good Kioxia the per I/O request latency is still far worse. If you are lucky your reads will be in the controller head NVMe cache, if you are lucky. Flash Cache is by no means a replacement for an actual flash array, even a tiny one.
     
    Edit:
    Full random 4K IOPs on a 15k RPM HDD is less than 200, even with 100% perfect scaling (impossible) 96 is not close to the IOPs of modern NVMe. That's why the storage controllers have read and write caches that are way faster to get achieved IOPs much higher than the disks alone could actually do.
     
    P.S. I've been in the storage realm since SCSI-2, I do not miss the ever changing cables and connector standard back then
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    scottyseng reacted to fili0926 in WHAT did I just BUY on Facebook Marketplace??   
    I've been working with NetApp arrays for 14 years.  I've got 4 NetApp arrays in my home lab.  
     
    One correction to what Linus said about the battery in the controller, it is not for a RAID card, but rather NVRAM.  It functions similarly to as how Linus explained it.
    Linus questioned the multipath capability once he thought it was an "old school RAID card" but the NVRAM is divided into 4 banks.  Two are for the local controller which take turns flushing writes to disk once full, the other two are mirrored from the partner controller and so both controllers have a mirror of the most recent writes from it's partner controller, this is how the HA and multipath are able to function.
     
    NetApp uses proprietary RAID levels:
    -RAID4 - 1 parity disk - used for root aggregates or cache raid groups, but not typically used for user data aggregates
    -RAID-DP - 2 parity disks - supports raid groups 3-28 for SAS disks, 3-20 for NL-SAS/SATA
    -RAID-TEC - 3 parity disks - recommended for drives 6TB+, required for 10TB+, supports raid groups 4-28 disks.
     
    All 3 of these RAID levels use dedicated parity disks rather than striped parity that you see in RAID5 or RAID6.
     
    I also have a 500TB TrueNAS box in my home lab that is using 2x 4246 NetApp Shelves with 16TB WD RED Pro disks.  If you choose to use those 4243 as JBODs you can swap the IOM3 modules for IOM6 to convert from 3G SAS to 6G SAS.  You can also drop from 4 PSUs to 2PSUs when using SATA disks, only the 15k SAS disks require all 4 PSUs.  Although the PSUs will ramp up fan speed unless you have the blanks to fill the empty PSU slots (airflow).
     
    Let me know if you need any documentation, firmware, or licensing for that array.  I'm happy to give advice on how to configure it, assuming you don't have someone at NetApp reach out to you.
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    scottyseng reacted to nhand42 in WHAT did I just BUY on Facebook Marketplace??   
    You are confidently incorrect. iSCSI is a block-level protocol. NFS is a file-level protocol. They are completely unrelated. iSCSI is most definitely a SAN protocol and has nothing to do with NAS. I have worked in this space for two decades and I was impressed by how little LTT got wrong in this video. You on the other hand need to read more.
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    scottyseng reacted to leadeater in WHAT did I just BUY on Facebook Marketplace??   
    @LinusTech @jakkuh_t You should have (just kidding) asked me since we're one of, maybe the biggest or was at one point, Netapp customers in my country.
     
    FYI NetApp is not hardware RAID, that's wrong. NetApp is nearly identical to ZFS (to the point they had nerd fights with each other over who stole what). Those batteries are for the NVDIMM in the controllers. The controllers have NVDIMM as well as read cache cards (now NVMe SSDs for read cache).
     
    The RAID Groups are "vdevs" and the RAID Groups (vdevs) are added to Aggregates which are the same as ZFS Pools. For simplicity sake you can literally think of and talk about NetApp as if it were ZFS and you'd be 80% or better correct.
     
    All those JBODs are missing their second IOM module (SAS interface controller) which makes the JBOD fully redundant and you could lose up to 3 PSUs without loss of access to any disks in it (SAS disks only!).
     
    Overall C- on the technical details 😅
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    scottyseng reacted to leadeater in WHAT did I just BUY on Facebook Marketplace??   
    SAN typically refers to block storage which is iSCSI. iSCSI is a block storage protocol over TCP/IP, you provision and present LUNs to iSCSI initators (servers basically). The Initiator system is the one that formats and creates the filesystem on the LUN and not the storage array. 
     
    NAS is file storage or network file systems like SMB or NFS, these the storage controller creates the file system on the storage volume.
     
    You don't have to take my word for it though, here is a NetApp system showing SAN configuration and iSCSI

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    scottyseng reacted to Kisai in Gigabyte Motherboards have a firmware backdoor   
    Summary
     Hidden code in hundreds of models of Gigabyte motherboards invisibly and insecurely downloads programs—a feature ripe for abuse, researchers say.
     
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    My thoughts
    This is Bad with a capital B. I'm not sure why Gigabyte figured this was a good idea. User-initiated BIOS firmware update is OK, but automatically? Last thing you want is for it to download an update and then the computer is reset or powered off because the computer seems to be locked up at the bios screen. I've had previous bad experiences with Gigabyte boards flashing bioses unnecessarily (on their quad bios boards) and rendering the board unusable. I don't trust Gigabyte to do unmanned firmware updates properly, never mind how it gets the firmware.
     
    Sources
    https://www.wired.com/story/gigabyte-motherboard-firmware-backdoor/
    https://eclypsium.com/blog/supply-chain-risk-from-gigabyte-app-center-backdoor/
    https://eclypsium.com/wp-content/uploads/Gigabyte-Affected-Models.pdf
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    scottyseng reacted to CerealExperimentsLain in Modernizing pfSenpai: My pfSense box   
    Tragically, last night the SSD in pfSenpai died.  This of course lead to the fun of 'Why doesn't the internet work?  Is it the network?  The internet?  ISP?  Oh god, I rebooted pfSenapi and it just booted straight to BIOS.  It sees no bootable devices'..
     
    Since I had two other 120GB SSDs collecting dust, the fix was a ZFS RAID1 in hopes that any future failure survives in the face of redundancy.
     
    ...I wonder if pfSense is capable of warning the user if one of the drives dies?
     

  22. Agree
    scottyseng reacted to miagisan in Does HP like to get SUED? || HP is blocking third-party printer ink again...... ||   
    Work in construction/engineering, everything has to be hard copies or posted on job sites. Printing is required so everyone has access to it.
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    scottyseng reacted to Middcore in Microcenter Opening 3 New Retail Stores In The US. Indianapolis in June then Miami and Charlotte to Come Later   
    It would be weird to be in a Micro Center that didn't have that vague 90's dinginess. 
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    scottyseng reacted to DrMacintosh in Windows 11 - Update - iPhone, Bing Chat, Record screen and more   
    Biggest feature improvement hands down. The more apps that can have tabs, the better. I'm not joking its a great way to work.
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    scottyseng reacted to Middcore in Alert for LastPass Users, The Breach in August was Worse Than Expected   
    This was even worse than it looked before.
     
    https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/02/lastpass-hackers-infected-employees-home-computer-and-stole-corporate-vault/amp/
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