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  1. 9 minutes ago, James Evens said:

    In detail what?

    Beta tester to find bugs or feedback if general decisions are good?

     

    For the first find somebody who is extremely structured, intelligent and works daily with that software. The second is the challenging one as you can't talk to everybody and have to differentiate between personal preference and common sense.

    More feedback in general decisions. I'm pretty good at finding bugs, though a few pop up every once in a while.

    7 minutes ago, Eigenvektor said:

    Are you talking about a full time paid position in a company, or a one off test for a personal project? Are you talking about paid software, free software or maybe even open source?

    One off for an open source and free personal project. I'm a big believer in OSS, so many of my projects are open and free.

  2. Note: Wasn't sure if this should go into the software topic, please move there if it should.

     

    I recently finished an Amtrak Train Tracking app just a few weeks ago. One of the major issues I've faces is trying to get beta testers and people to give feedback on the app. Does anyone here have experience with recruiting these people and how you do it?
     

    Thanks!

  3. 2 minutes ago, YoungBlade said:

    Thank you for working to design software that can run on lower-powered hardware. Not only are you benefiting your customers, but you are democratizing computing by lowering the barrier-to-entry and thus making the world a more fair place for everyone.

    Yeah, we have a large market in places where the resources available are low. Got this image sent to us a few weeks ago:

     

  4. 1 minute ago, 8tg said:

    Neither can Ubuntu 20.04

    100% swap file all the time 

    I don't think ubuntu is a good OS to install for many reasons, but if you want something to run on a few hundred megs of ram, you need to do some tinkering. For example, debian while using fluxbox for a DE works fine with a few hundred megs. While the experience is far from great, it is definitely usable.

  5. 4 minutes ago, Kilrah said:

    A browser with a single page will easily take 500MB on its own, so 1GB is the strictly bare minimum.

    And then RAM is only a part of the problem, pages are CPU-heavy now so enjoy long loading time and slow operation, and on a machine with that little RAM expect no hardware/GPU acceleration for any of the modern stuff so forget videos, animations etc. 

    Nobody only goes on light static HTML sites nowadays anymore...

     

    7 minutes ago, YoungBlade said:

    A modern browser visiting any modern website is going to chew through 500MB in no time. Even 1GB probably isn't enough for web browsing these days. The most lightweight distros still use about 150MB just to get you to a window manager, let alone a desktop environment, and whatever browser you pick + YouTube is going to suck through the remaining 850MB like a kid with an Icee. And the result will be the PC equivalent of brain freeze - swap usage.

     

    While it depends on the site and the browser, I do just have to agree with you. 2gigs is probably the minimum you can get away with while browsing BUT I do have to interject.

    I work for Replit, its simply an IDE which runs in the browser. One thing we have to focus on is keeping memory usage low (100-150MB) for customers who have very low powered computers and phones, so we know people like this exist.

    I did go ahead and boot up a vm running fluxbox (lightweight) and firefox, and then loaded google, youtube and facebook. While the experience was laggy, it still used under 800MB of ram to do so.

  6. 2 minutes ago, Kilrah said:

    Neither will a modern linux distro that has everything you'd expect in this day and age.

    And a browser with a few windows and tabs takes just the same on either, and it's what's the main issue today - resource requirements of the stuff you want to use, not the OS.

    I've gotta agree with that, though it really depends on your use case. If you simply need a machine for some simple web browsing, 500MB or a gig might work fine, but power user stuff will require, well, more power.

    Moreover, I've installed linux on the laptop I carry around, and it does still stand the lower bloat and higher power efficiency, as I went from 3ish hours to 6-7ish hours of battery life out of a charge. Also the stability of softwares such as blender improved somehow, no idea if that is related though.

  7. 35 minutes ago, Adan215 said:

    I was able to find myself a deal for a iphone 12 mini for 500 dollars  but then i noticed the 13 is around the corner is it worth the extra 200 dollars and worth the wait or just go with the 12 mini.

    I'd wait, but as the 12 mini has not sold well at all I'm not sure if there will even be a 13 mini.A CIRP sales chart of iPhone sales during the iPhone 12 launch window.

    (source: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/02/the-iphone-12-mini-hasnt-sold-well-according-to-multiple-estimates/)

  8. In a few months I'll be heading off to college for computer science and I'm also getting a new laptop. I currently have a Lenovo Yoga 730, and even though it has suited me well, I really don't think it has been the best fit for me. Here are some prerequisites for my next laptop, whatever it may be:
     

    • $900, am flexible though
    • Pretty decent battery life, I like coding on the couch/in bed without cables from time to time
    • Known good support for Linux, in the Ubuntu branch mainly (I run Zorin OS, a branch of Ubuntu)
    • AMD processor, don't want Intel for various reasons, but talking about some of those are political which aren't allowed here
      • With this, the more cores the better
      • Essentially anything non-intel, but I don't think SiFive is dropping any full PCs soon and I don't like ARM, long story
    • 16+GB of RAM, 32GB preferred (or 16GB with a path for upgradability) - I use blender from time to time which will sometimes take up 25+ GB of RAM
    • Backlit keyboard is a must
    • At least 1 NVME slot and at least 2 drive bays total (whether its 2xNVME or 1xNVME and 1xSATA
    • Relatively lightweight + thin (this is definitely open for interpretation)
    • No GPU is required, but OFC would still be nice, I have a desktop with a 5800x + 3080 so theres really no need

    I hope I gave enough information here, but please lemme know if I haven't.

    - Piero

  9. 3 minutes ago, Anicool007 said:

    I have an RTX 2060 laptop and while testing mining on it its temps goes up to around 65-70c my only query is that doing mining only for 2-3 months will it going to damage/hurt my graphic card because I only do mining 10-12 hours a day and my GPU temperatures only go to max 70c so is it save doing mining on my laptop only for 2-3 months can someone help me regarding this... The reason is that I don't want to damage or hurt my laptop so please help me. My laptop specification is i7-10750H and RTX 2060. Thanks in advance...

    Regardless of temperatures, mining in general will really screw with your GPU, especially in a laptop. Even if you're only going to be mining for 10-12 hours per day, your laptop is also most definitely going to be overheating. I wouldn't do it.

    If you decide to ignore everything I said above, don't mine bitcoin, mine ethereum, litecoin, or some other alt coin. You just can't mine BTC on a GPU these days.

  10. Hey all!

    In an upcoming build, I plan on using an RTX 2060 super founders edition. The problem is, the silver/gray of the FE cooler clashes with the matte black of the rest of the build, so I am either going to paint the card black/dark grey or end up switching out the cooling system entirely. Here is the thing about each of these solutions:

    1. Painting the card might not end up good, well, because I'm no expert at it and I will 100% mess it up somehow.
    2. Getting a random aftermarket cooler. Chances are I'd have to paint that too, just not as much, to fit in with the color scheme. Also, most of these which I have seen are fairly ugly (IMO)
    3. Getting a cooler from a different model 2060s. MIght run into compatibility issues, also the fact that I'm not sure how many 2060s coolers are just floating around.

    Thoughts?

  11. 3 hours ago, Bombastinator said:

    So it can handle a heavy load.  It’s something specifically about Netflix that is different.  Netflix app or are you running it out of a browser?

    Running it in chrome, which also handles things like youtube just fine. Asked on the Nvidia forums and they said this is a standard problem rn and apparently using the netflix desktop app fixes it.

  12. Specs:
    Ryzen 7 5800x
    64GB DDR4-3200
    Gigabyte RTX 3080 Eagle OC (Stock Speeds)
    Windows 10 Home 20H2
    Nvidia Driver 461.72
    1000W PSU 80+ Plat from Seasonic (if you are concerned about the PSU being the problem)

     

    Hey all! As the title suggests, my PC shuts off while watching netflix. It lasts anywhere from 5 to 30 seconds, but all of a sudden my screens go black, and my pc shuts off. WhoCrashed gives no information about any crash logs and the windows logs only state that the computer unexpectedly shut down.

    Any ideas?

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