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Believe me, if I could drop that class I would. I haven’t really learned anything and the things I could’ve learned are all outdated. The only reason I’m taking that class is because it looks better on a resume than “2 years of making YouTube videos”
 
I mean, I was told the largest an SD card should be is 32GBs because anything larger than that “is too much”

The moment I see something like this I drop that class and avoid that professor. Had a professor hand out diagrams describing DDR2 in a class I took in 2013. You clearly don't give a shit about your material enough to update it, why am paying $100s - $1000s of dollars to take your class. 

Sorry for the forum being down. As we were preparing a host for update and running migrations, the host locked up. The host in the cluster is now restarted and working again and was just a matter of very poor timing for a failure.

I still don‘t understand why it’s totally fine to let kids play/watch games where sticking a knife in somebody‘s neck leads to a medal popping up, yet people flip their shit when a female nipple is on screen.
 
As with most content it should be parents responsible…

Several years ago I was using my parents' Dell D830 laptop.  Was leaning with my elbow on it below the keyboard next to the trackpad.
Heard this nasty screeching sound, and the computer froze up.  (I don't remember if I had to force power it off from that, or if it blue screened.)
 
Apparently I was leaning so heavily on it that I'm thinking I somehow managed to slow or stop the spindle motor on the hard drive (it didn't have an SSD at the time).

Luckily I didn't cause a head crash, as it rebooted fine and the data was all fine.


Also in the early 2000s or so, my name on Planet Fortress forums was [<0FPS]FriedVideoCard ....
We had an ATI All-In-Wonder card that my brother had originally bought in 1997.  I'd been doing a bit of experimenting with video capture from VHS and similar tapes.  One time, I was hooking it up, and there was a pop and some smoke, and we no longer had a graphics card.  Had to pop in an older low-end card, like a Trident 9685 or some other Super VGA card from the mid 1990s, so we'd have video out, but that ended my gaming for a while.

Even with that ATI card, I don't think I ever got out of single-digit fps at 320x240, lowest settings, software mode in Half-Life 1 / Team Fortress Classic, even with my face embedded in a textureless wall on an empty server.  That, combiend with the fact that we only had dial-up internet at the time, meant I pretty much exclusively played as an engineer building sentry guns.
Then when I've seen "Can it run Crysis?" ... I imagine that when Crysis came out, its performance on the top-end GPU configs of the day (like 3-way SLI GeForce 8800 Ultra or 4-way Crossfire Radeon HD 2900 XT) would, at best, have maybe matched what my ATI AIW got in HL/TFC. 
 
 
  
 
That reminds me, several years ago I was wanting to back up my dad's laptop HDD (500GB) to one of my desktop HDDs (2TB).  I didn't actually have a working desktop at the time, so had to use an external enclosure hooked up to the laptop.

Anyway, I first shrunk the partition that was already on there to make room for cloning from the 500GB drive, as I was only using maybe about 1 to 1.2 TB of space. 
Then, I don't remember if I actually go so far as to copy the partition (I think I used GParted in Linux), but at some point, the drive ended up coming up RAW with the data inaccessible. 
I had to shelve the drive for a few years, as I didn't have a second or third drive to clone and atttempt recovery for a while.   I knew enough to not use it at all, to increase my chances of possible recovery when I did have extra drives and a way to hook them up simultaneously, to attempt data recovery.  (Also I held out hope that I could recover it because -- there was part of the process that I forget exactly what I told it to do, except that it was supposed to affect the entire hard drive, and it only took a few seconds to do, whereas writing the entire drive would take at least a few hours or so.  Before, the data was fine, after, it was inaccessible.)
And I'm still not sure, even 10+ years later, if I managed to get everything, some of it did come back, but some of it didn't remember any folder structure or filenames when doing the recovery.  I was using TestDisk and PhotoRec, I think.

REVIVING THIS THREAD, I DON'T CARE
LOOK AT HER!!! 😍
 

Of course. Cat owners willing to spend the money on their pets, cats are totally worth it.
 
Hopefully, I can get an auto litter box when I get a cat again... When we have transporter technology, I hope I can just teleport cat poo straight to the bin. Then I'll get 6 cats.

The whole pc master race thing seems to be more about bragging about their hardware online or masturbating to overblown reflections on water rather than actually enjoying stuff.
 
Tbh, I used to play way more games when I had no money and an old rig, whereas today my fancy hardware is mostly mean for studies or some silly casual games once every week or so.

microwave 🔥bang💥wiped☠️

On a hard drive sure, but DBAN shouldn't be used on SSDs.
 
If the drive is an SSD you can download the manufacturer's software, there's usually an option called something like "secure erase" that will wipe everything on the drive.

DBAN. Accept no substitutes

more of a consumer tech trend:
 
upgrading every generation
 
the amount of people i've seen on this forum and else where on the internet with the last gen top of the line hardware saying they are upgrading to the top of the line for the next gen (3090 > 4090, i9 12900k > i9 13900K etc)

So I'm currently watching this week's WANShow where Linus and Luke talk about the mercedes subscription to unlock the true power of the engine.

The problem: Having to pay a subscription for absolutely bloody everything, which is especially egregious when it comes to features that are already present on the hardware and are just soft-locked out (ie, held for ransom)

The cause: as Linus pointed out, the economic model expects and requires recurrent revenue. We've reached a level of absurdity that says selling a product for a profit is not enough as shareholders demand not just a return on their investment, but ever increasing returns at any cost. This mentality means that if there is something that will make a business money, they will do it, no matter how sleazy, morally reprehensible, unethical, or, in some cases, illegal it is.

The solution(?): This is not going to be a "market will sort itself out" kind of thing. Corporations will keep doing this and they will do it more aggressively as time goes on. There is no such thing as "enough." The only solution is legislation to outlaw this kind of practice and, as L&L mentioned during the smart doorbell bit, meaningful fines and liability that don't just amount to "legal for a fee." I would propose legislation that
1) Outlaws locking users out of features that are already physically present in the hardware. If you buy it (ie, you own it), you get to use it. No extra money to unlock heated seats when the hardware is already installed. No day 1 DLC. None of that.

2) Subscriptions are permitted when there is an ongoing cost of development to provide both the present functionality and future additional functionality. For example, netflix can operate as a subscription because (1) there is an ongoing cost to maintain the existing service (data centre costs, bandwidth costs, etc) and, (2) the subscription provides additional functionality as time goes on (ie, new content).

 You cannot except the users to revolt. Even if they do, corporations often announce something sleazy, back pedal after backlash, and then quietly implement the sleazy thing later on once the backlash has died down and people have started to get used to the idea. Remember when the very idea for DLC was frowned upon? Now look at where we are. They will keep pushing the envelope and getting away with it unless there is legislation.

 How likely is that legislation? That depends on your jurisdiction. The EU is probably the most likely large consumer jurisdiction to act, but whether Canada, the US, Australia, etc will follow is a big, "maybe."

/rant

I'm going to go to bed now and hopefully stroke out in my sleep.

 

We'll make an announcement regarding the next LTX when we're ready! Unfortunately nothing to share at the moment. 
 
We'll announce anything official/important on the website or twitter account when the time comes, and Linus will probably leak some info early on the WAN show at some point anyways.
 
We definitely haven't gotten "too big" for LTX, if anything that just means we can hopefully make it a better experience when it does happen again!

IIRC that's the Fractal Design Define R4. Not what I'd call a weird case by any means, though that one is very dirty. 

It's a Fractal Define series. R3 maybe. It's no weird or obscure. They were very popular.

Dual boot. VM performance sucks and the setup is complicated. You're not really escaping the grasp of Microsoft if you're using Ubuntu in a VM anyway.
Since you're building the PC, I highly recommend having each OS on its own drive because it'll make things 10x easier since your BIOS controls which OS to boot into, no fooling around with configuring boot loaders. 

It is possible to have separate tier list for pcie 3.0 and 4.0? 

Context: So I'm currently working my way through yesterday's WAN Show and am at the bit where Linus and Luke are talking about the proposed legislation in the EU that would open up platforms owned by major tech companies and Linus is responding to a comment against the legislation that goes something like, "Oh great, more government control."
 
Question: Why does such pro-corporate anti-consumer rhetoric seem to be so concentrated in the US while, seemingly paradoxically, being framed as a libertarian argument? (This is not suggesting that all Americans are like this, obviously, but the US seems to have a higher than average concentration of corporate apologists)

Hypothesis: I think at least part of this "regulation is bad" attitude comes from American law. Now, I'm Canadian and a legal professional, but I regularly have to go sifting through American legislation, and I can tell you it's a complete nightmare. Frustrations include:
laws and regulations being extremely difficult to find online documents often not being searchable (as in literally typed up on a type writer and then scanned) laws and regulations on a single subject being scattered across many pieces of legislation trying to ensure that what you do find is the latest version the names of Acts as they are referred to aren't actually what the legislation is called the often indecipherable meaning of the words you reach in a given section (example: "you need a business license unless a exemption applies" but then not giving you any clue about what those exemptions are or whether you qualify for one)  My hypothesis, then, is that American laws and regulations are so difficult to find and understand that it creates the impression that "laws and regulations = bad." It's, at least partially, an accessibility problem: the law is completely inaccessible to the lay person and so all laws and regulations are bad by association. (This is not a complete explanation, obviously, as there are huge educational problems, corporate and government propaganda problems (muh freedums!), and so on. But I think the inaccessibility of American law contributes to this "laws = bad, laws = government control.")

 By contrast, Canadian, Australian, New Zealand, and UK legislation tends to be much more straight forward. It's much easier to find the relevant Act, all/most of the relevant law is contained within that one Act/document, and the wording is such that it is much easier to understand. Example: The Residential Tenancies Act (Alberta). Can be found on the Queen's Printer website along with all other Alberta provincial legislation. It contains everything you need to know about renting a house/apartment to live in. It is fairly straight forward to understand.

Yes.
Eh, not really. I've left my PC on for years at a time, never had an issue. Restarting occasionally is usually a good idea, but not turning it off does nothing bad.

The cores themselves are basically the same architecture as the cores in the 10th gen parts. So if we're asking about the individual Skylake cores, then saying they're outdated would mean that the cores in the 10th gen refresh from last year are outdated - the i3 10105 was only released in Q1 2021.
 
Of course, the idea that Comet Lake was an outdated refresh of a refresh of a refresh, 14nm+++∞ and beyond, was already being said when the original 10th gen came out...
 
I don't think Skylake is an outdated architecture. It does well in terms of the per core performance. The issue with 6th gen was that the core count stayed the same as it had been for 7 years, and it actually traded blows with Devil's Canyon. Plus it was on a new socket, and 5th gen was basically non-existent, which kind of burned people who invested in a Z97 board.
 
That's arguably not as bad as the Kaby Lake and Z270 release, where 8th gen came out within the year on an incompatible socket and obsoleted it. Or Rocket Lake and Z590, where the same thing happened with Alder Lake 9 months later.
 
Honestly the whole Skylake 14nm era was a rough time for Intel and Intel fans, but hopefully they will bounce back with the new CEO and we won't end up with Intel 7+++∞ for 16th gen in 2028.

Developers have gotten really lazy with PC development. Nothing is optimized well. 

I use Pixel 4a still running on Android 10. When I first started using the phone I noticed that "Android System" had a very high battery usage on my phone. It was always positioned at 2nd or 3rd in my battery usage list with like 10-15% battery usage, affecting my battery life. Compared to my other android phones with similar usage, it was higher on Pixel.

For a long time I couldn't figure out what caused it. Played around with many system apps by turning things on/off, turns out it was due to Device Personalization Services (now called Android System Intelligence). It had a high data usage when I checked it. I disabled it and it solved my problem. Now Android System drains just 3-4% of my phone's battery. I use 2 phones and bought Pixel 4a specifically for its camera. I don't use any of the Device Personalization Services and completely fine without it. So I'm mentioning my experience incase anyone wants to turn it off.

This is purely my opinion, so here's my view:
 
The list provided is a reference guide, so when they put a PSU in lower Tier, like Tier D, it means you have to be caution if you want to use any of the PSU in that tier. Here's why:
 
The PSU may lack a few feature, such as OCP or OTP, which can be very dangerous if short circuit were to occur or the temperature go way to high until the solder joint melt or the component catch fire.
The PSU may have high ripple voltage. Ripple voltage is not good for your component because your voltage controller (VRM) will have to work extra hard to adjust the correct voltage to your CPU or GPU.
The PSU may trip itself thinking there's a short circuit when the GPU suddenly draw a lot of current to prepare running a game.
 
However, if your system is low end or a little mid-tier (Ryzen 5 5600G with no dedicated GPU AIC) and the power consumption is low, this PSU actually is not bad.
 
Hence this is why it is in Tier D.
 
The list, again, is provided as is, meaning it may not reflect your situation. This list serve as a guide for general PC builder. If you are building an RTX3080 with Intel 12900K, then you should not get a PSU in Tier C and below, and Tier B is only marginal, so you are recommended to get Tier A PSU for your build. Tier C PSU for those system may run fine initially, but it may put a lot of strain to your components which may end up failing prematurely. The Tier C PSU may trip its OCP thought it was a short circuit, but in actual fact, it was the GPU draw a lot of current all of the sudden while running a game.
 
So that's the reason why. Hope this gives you a clear view how this list works. Your PSU may not be bad if your system is quite low-end, but generally, it is bad for many situation, especially when you start to add a mid-range GPU. Your PSU life-span also not that great as well and it may be 'out of specification' after a few years of use (12V rail may drop to 11.5V)
 
Regards,
Chiyawa

M.2_1 is the top slot yes. It is recommended to disconnect all other storage than the one you are installing Windows to. Sometimes the installer can throw boot files on another drive which may cause problems in the future. Or you can just RAID them.