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XenosTech

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    XenosTech reacted to jaslion in X570 Taichi giving error code D0   
    Probs a sitting refurb. The taichis are high end low moving quantity stuff so not too surprising.
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    XenosTech reacted to dogwitch in LTT Official Folding Month 2021!!!   
    it can be ether one or both.
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    XenosTech got a reaction from GOTSpectrum in LTT Official Folding Month 2021!!!   
    I have the feeling my pc is too potato for that atm. Is that mostly CPU or GPU?
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    XenosTech got a reaction from dogwitch in LTT Official Folding Month 2021!!!   
    I have the feeling my pc is too potato for that atm. Is that mostly CPU or GPU?
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    XenosTech got a reaction from Ben_F in LTT Official Folding Month 2021!!!   
    I going to be a folding event newbie
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    XenosTech got a reaction from dogwitch in LTT Official Folding Month 2021!!!   
    I going to be a folding event newbie
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    XenosTech got a reaction from GOTSpectrum in LTT Official Folding Month 2021!!!   
    I going to be a folding event newbie
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    XenosTech got a reaction from Dominik W in US government sues to block Nvidia ARM acquisition   
    That would be the logical and sensible thing to do but then again capitalism doesn't benefit from the sensible thing
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    XenosTech got a reaction from Techstorm970 in US government sues to block Nvidia ARM acquisition   
    That would be the logical and sensible thing to do but then again capitalism doesn't benefit from the sensible thing
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    XenosTech got a reaction from Arika in US government sues to block Nvidia ARM acquisition   
    That would be the logical and sensible thing to do but then again capitalism doesn't benefit from the sensible thing
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    XenosTech got a reaction from da na in US government sues to block Nvidia ARM acquisition   
    That would be the logical and sensible thing to do but then again capitalism doesn't benefit from the sensible thing
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    XenosTech reacted to leadeater in Linux Challenge actually helps Linux with a lasting impact: Debian and Pop_OS updating 'apt' package manager to make it more fail-safe for users   
    It's not a case of not reading the warning, this issue is multiple factors including but not all being the following. First the user is only installing Steam therefore there is zero expectation that this could possibly lead to what happened to Linus, this is legitimately impossible on any other OS installing trusted software that is not malware, it's never ever going to happen. Second "I just want this bloody application to install, yes, whatever just bloody do it, this is stupid. Oh great now my system is fucked, Linux is just as broken as everyone says it is". This is equivalent to road rage, guess what, if something/someone is being a pain in the ass people might well do something because of it and it's not stupidity that is the reason. Some might say it's adjacent or related, myself included, but it's not actually stupidity.
     
    It's got nothing to do with "rocket science" and everything to do with what is realistically reasonable and expected for only installing a basic application. I don't expect my car to explode because I don't put my foot on the break before pressing the ignition start button, I would expect that on a rocket or race car or anything else that legitimately requires a correct and safe starting process that is not and should not be automated by a single button press.
     
    APT and CLI aside the Pop!_OS package manager really needed better error handling and error message with some kind of explanation of what the problem actually is, why and suggestion about what to do about it, even if that is a link to support page. Being thrown an incomprehensible error without a single suggestion about what to do about it or a support link just isn't good. Windows is very often just as bad in this regard too, like in general many software is because it's the sort of thing left to last and given low priority.
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    XenosTech got a reaction from Mihle in Linux Challenge actually helps Linux with a lasting impact: Debian and Pop_OS updating 'apt' package manager to make it more fail-safe for users   
    This here is the reason why I have never been able to use linux long term. It's not novice friendly and usually some individuals in the linux community are snarky a-holes who are less than helpful and only alienate the new comers who then revert back to windows or Mac Os. Linux is an awesome set of Os's but the communities for some of the distros are partly the reason why some distros don't get the recognition they deserve for being novice friendly.
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    XenosTech got a reaction from Paul Thexton in Linux Challenge actually helps Linux with a lasting impact: Debian and Pop_OS updating 'apt' package manager to make it more fail-safe for users   
    This here is the reason why I have never been able to use linux long term. It's not novice friendly and usually some individuals in the linux community are snarky a-holes who are less than helpful and only alienate the new comers who then revert back to windows or Mac Os. Linux is an awesome set of Os's but the communities for some of the distros are partly the reason why some distros don't get the recognition they deserve for being novice friendly.
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    XenosTech got a reaction from Forbidden Wafer in Linux Challenge actually helps Linux with a lasting impact: Debian and Pop_OS updating 'apt' package manager to make it more fail-safe for users   
    This here is the reason why I have never been able to use linux long term. It's not novice friendly and usually some individuals in the linux community are snarky a-holes who are less than helpful and only alienate the new comers who then revert back to windows or Mac Os. Linux is an awesome set of Os's but the communities for some of the distros are partly the reason why some distros don't get the recognition they deserve for being novice friendly.
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    XenosTech reacted to leadeater in Linux Challenge actually helps Linux with a lasting impact: Debian and Pop_OS updating 'apt' package manager to make it more fail-safe for users   
    That is literally only masking an issue, chucking in a bad package in to a repo is the root cause of AN issue, one that as best as possible everyone tries to avoid. System76 should have a proper system in place that automates dependency validation so this doesn't happen.
     
    If you want to be a distro for the masses then you shouldn't be having these problems, it's a horrible user experience to not be able to install Steam or any other basic application from a package manager with an unknown error that the supposed target audience just isn't going to understand. Surely you must understand how annoying it would be to have to be googling a problem for an hour, or more, to try and fix an issue you have no idea why is happening and then magically it just fixed it self, and who knows when you tried again.
     
    The correct safeguard is the QA in putting packages in to repos, the incorrect safeguard is relying on APT's ability to correctly identify packages as essential and give that extra warning and prompt to remove them. Let's just play a follow along game, what happens if the DE packages for whatever reason don't have the essential tag against them, now what will APT do?
     
    I choose to not to jump out of perfectly good aircraft in spite of having a parachute.
     
    Remember Linus was put in to that situation because of System76's error, he wouldn't have jumped out that plane otherwise.
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    XenosTech reacted to Master Disaster in Linux Challenge actually helps Linux with a lasting impact: Debian and Pop_OS updating 'apt' package manager to make it more fail-safe for users   
    Why do people feel the need to apportion blame at all? The software was designed in a way that wasn't exactly the best for newcomers and could result in extreme situations, it was pointed out (in the most high profile way possible) and they fixed it.
     
    Hindsight is always 20/20, until an issue becomes apparent how exactly is anybody supposed to know its an issue?
     
    There's a legitimate argument that S76 did something wrong in this case but not because of the way apt acted, they were the ones who swapped out a library forcing steam to pull a different copy from Ubuntus repos instead but again, they weren't in the wrong in doing this, they just did the wrong thing (or more accurately missed an issue with what they did) and there's a big difference between the two.
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    XenosTech got a reaction from dogwitch in LTT Official Folding Month 2021!!!   
    Getting in some folding here and there. Feeling much better and hopefully I'll be back out toe work so my pc and fold 24/7
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    XenosTech got a reaction from GOTSpectrum in LTT Official Folding Month 2021!!!   
    Getting in some folding here and there. Feeling much better and hopefully I'll be back out toe work so my pc and fold 24/7
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    XenosTech reacted to leadeater in LTT Official Folding Month 2021!!!   
    When you forget this is going on and you both wrote the script and it's running on your computer... lol
     
    Glad nothing is on fire and it's still working, us Kiwi's know how to use duct tape and no.8 wire 🙃
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    XenosTech got a reaction from GOTSpectrum in LTT Official Folding Month 2021!!!   
    Home with covid so I haven't done any folding since Monday I believe 
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    XenosTech reacted to LAwLz in Backblaze: SSDs might be as unreliable as disk drives   
    Yep, exactly what I thought too.
     
    For those who didn't read about it, Backblaze used to post "reliability reports" or something along those lines for drives. The problem was that their sample sizes were all over the place, and they were running drives way outside of their intended use.
    For example they could buy a 100 dollar external hard drive, rip it out of the enclosure, put it into a rack with vibrations from a hundred other drives, and then subject it to a ton of read/writes and then they went "look at how poorly this Seagate drive did in our test".
     
    Sometimes they had a sample size of like 20 drives and 1 of them died, making the failure rate 4%. Meanwhile, they would put that up against a drive where they had 1000 and 40 of them died. 
     
    That's why their reports were always soooo out of line with other stats such as RMA rates. For someone like Newegg their drive RMA rates were like 1%. Meanwhile, stats from Backblaze showed failure rates like 10 times higher.
    It's like if I started using smartphones as hammers and then reported on "reliability of modern smartphones" based on that. 
     
    As long as Backblaze has such varied sample sizes and run their drives outside of their intended uses, I can't take their statistics seriously.
     
     
    Edit:
    Read the full report now.
    For those wondering, yes, their sample size for SSDs are way smaller than the HDDs.
    They have had 7 SSD failures and 551 HDD failures, and somehow they think that's enough data to extrapolate what the numbers will look like several years into the future. They only had a handful of SSD models, one of which they only had 49 drives of and one of them died so they put the AFR of that at model at 2.82%. 
     
    And before anyone asks, yes, they still use consumer grade parts in their server environment. That SSD they only has 49 of? That's a Seagate BarraCuda SSD which is no longer sold, but I found an old listing for it that seems to indicate it was a $80 drive that was "perfect for laptops and desktop PCs".
     
    For crying out loud they even list "DELLBOSS VD" as one of the "drives" they use. The problem is that "DELLBOSS VD" is not even an SSD. It's a PCIe to M.2 expansion card. So we have no idea which SSDs they even put in that.
     
     
    Edit 2:
    As @wanderingfool2 pointed out here, the full report" I read was not actually the "full report" they used as the basis for the article. 
    For example the 551 HDD failures vs 7 SSD failures I quoted were measured over the course of 7 years. Meanwhile, the HDD vs SSD article only uses a subset of that data when it draws their conclusions.
    I still think it's a really shitty article full of holes and irrelevant data, but it's not as out of whack as I first thought.
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    XenosTech reacted to mr moose in Backblaze: SSDs might be as unreliable as disk drives   
    Blackblaze is as defective as you can get.  I have yet to see them redeem themselves form their last attempt at pretending to be science.
     
    A proper study of hdd and ssd longevity has to explain how it controlled for batch (random acquisition of specific drives) and end use variance (things like temperature, primary use conditions, etc).  There is no point in comparing 1600 low end ssd's to 1600 enterprise grade hdd's or even to 3400 shucked seagate specials. 
     
     
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    XenosTech reacted to porina in Backblaze: SSDs might be as unreliable as disk drives   
    1% effective failure rate for drives averaging just over a year old under constant use doesn't sound too bad to me for either drives. My personal sample size is much smaller, but I've had two SSDs go "sudden death" on me within the 1st year of owning them from new.
     
    Also I started a thread recently in that I think I'm seeing longer term bit rot on cheaper SSDs. Most recently it was a Kingston A400. One before that I think was a Sandisk of some description, but in both cases I bought it on price, not performance.
     
    If you need that level of data availability, then redundancy is the obvious solution (for example a mirror), or at least a good continuous backup strategy. You'd have to be unlucky to have both fail at the same time unless caused by external factors, which would be a different more serious problem.
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