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KarathKasun

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    KarathKasun reacted to jerubedo in Should I upgrade, or keep what I have?   
    1) Yep, I personally didn't think you were. There are a lot of die hard AMD people on this sub-forum though.
     
    2) Then yes, the 9900K is the best of both worlds and is the best you can get if the budget allows.
     
    3) I'd personally wait and see if Ryzen 3000 is a game changer since it's only a few months out. It COULD have better single thread performance for the first time in ages, but we won't really know until review day. Even if it doesn't, though, Intel is GOING to release a response, and that one might be your best bet as well. It's all very soon. And even if we weren't taking into consideration upcoming hardware, I'd still say wait so that you could do your 9900K build. That's what I'd do at least.
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    KarathKasun got a reaction from razdiel in An open letter to Linus: We at /r/linux_gaming are happy to help   
    Fixed that for ya.  Rocket.Chat is a steaming pile of refuse code wise.  In Debian based environments it has to be run in a container because some of its dependencies are outdated and cause conflicts elsewhere.
     
    This is a fairly universal problem in Linux that makes it not user friendly.
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    KarathKasun got a reaction from Stefan Payne in An open letter to Linus: We at /r/linux_gaming are happy to help   
    And then packages dont even work if a project isnt re-building packages constantly.  Linux is just now getting out of DLL hell with sandbox frameworks where the app includes all of its includes.
     
    People do not want to compile everything from source and dig around making symlinks to fill in missing library requirements.
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    KarathKasun got a reaction from leadeater in An open letter to Linus: We at /r/linux_gaming are happy to help   
    And then packages dont even work if a project isnt re-building packages constantly.  Linux is just now getting out of DLL hell with sandbox frameworks where the app includes all of its includes.
     
    People do not want to compile everything from source and dig around making symlinks to fill in missing library requirements.
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    KarathKasun got a reaction from Stefan Payne in An open letter to Linus: We at /r/linux_gaming are happy to help   
    No, not really.  The forced updates have killed it for lots of people over the last year or so.  The base functionality is not really better/worse than something like Debian.  I will admit the default GUI used on most distros is... cancer at best, with massive regressions in the past few years.  Thankfully there ARE ways around these problems without dropping cash on a shell replacement or customization suite.
     
    Nearly all of the above is due to Linux UI designers being a bunch of hipsters and advocates for irony.
     
    <rant>
    That being said... LXDE has to be, hands down, my favorite GUI.  It sticks to familiar forms and is EXCEPTIONALLY lightweight, but it lacks many GUI tools for system configuration.  And I cant really blame its devs for this problem... Because the core system devs got a wild hair up their ass and just threw out the entire system configuration framework fairly recently.  And just as things were settling down, the entire network configuration stack gets nuked and replaced too.  This recent problem of people just ripping working components out and consolidating UI dev work on two trash implementations is what has killed "vanilla" Linux.
     
    Now if you have a problem with the default trash fire of a UI, Gnome 2 & 3, you don't really have any options unless you also know how to use the new CLI tools and even more confusing than before config scripts.
    <end rant>
     
    TL;DR Linux was really close to mainstream, recent changes in dev direction have killed it.  Even as a home-game Linux sysadmin, I would rather use Windows Server 2016 at this point.  The last time I had to seriously re-learn its GUI or CLI was back in ~2006 (powershell), and I can still use the classic shell commands from NT5 to this day.
     
    You could almost make the argument that the Linux devs at large seem to just want a whole new OS, but didnt have the balls to call it something else.
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    KarathKasun got a reaction from Luuk17 in Render server x5675   
    You can get something like this, another CPU, and more RAM...
    https://www.ebay.com/itm/HP-Proliant-DL160-G6-Server-1U-2x-2-67GHz-Hex-X5650-Xeon-WRails/273741259094?hash=item3fbc402156:g:VroAAOSwWiJce3xa
     
    Or just get one already kitted out with RAM for ~$200...
    https://www.ebay.com/itm/HP-Proliant-DL160-G6-Server-1U-2x-Hex-X5650-Xeon-2-67GHz-48gb-DDR3-PC3-10600/382785619711?hash=item591fcd06ff:g:MTcAAOSwXq5cZIye
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    KarathKasun reacted to freakyyyy in Memory DIMM Socket Support 2 or 2/4?   
    Good, thank you!, Because the two dual kit is a little bit cheaper than one Quad kit this is why I'm getting two dual kit instead of one quad and it's the same!
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    KarathKasun got a reaction from freakyyyy in Memory DIMM Socket Support 2 or 2/4?   
    Yep.
     
    1x 4 module kit = 2x 2 module kits.
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    KarathKasun reacted to straight_stewie in Having difficulty understanding "net neutrality"   
    Net Neutrality was primarily designed to make sure that ISPs make it equally easy for you to access all sites. Or, in other words:
    ISPs won't slow down sites that don't pay them extra ISPs won't censor sites that they don't like, agree with, or couldn't bully around. ISPs won't charge you extra money to access certain sites. However, there are three big problems with "Net Neutrality" as proposed in the US that are large enough for me to be entirely against it:
    The text of the "bill" is thousands of pages long. This means that it's realistically impossible to know what it actually does, and means that we have to rely on what politicians and business owners tell us it does. Those people are not known for their unbiased truthfulness. It creates an opening for strong government regulation of internet, something that history has shown is inherently a bad idea: Throughout history governments have always increased the amount of law and regulation they impose on their constituents, and seldom reduce it. It was a law that was not to be passed by any of the constructs which we have for passing law. The passing of net neutrality in the way it was attempted would further strengthen a dangerous precedent where government agencies are starting to go around writing their own laws, without any action from our legislature.
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    KarathKasun got a reaction from freakyyyy in Memory DIMM Socket Support 2 or 2/4?   
    You want four modules with TR.  Does not need to come in a single kit as long as the modules are all the same speed and timings.
     
    Also clean the slots thoroughly after you feel them up.
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    KarathKasun got a reaction from mr moose in Having difficulty understanding "net neutrality"   
    Honestly I think ISPs should be treated as non-profits, in that their network access contracts should be publicly available.  Its not like there is anything to lose from competition.
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    KarathKasun got a reaction from MEC-777 in Jagged Shadows,Pop in,Low LOD and jagged aa   
    I just posted how you can check if your power is a problem instead of just grasping at straws in ignorance.  If that is too tall of an order... I don't know what to tell you.
     
    Having run equipment from noisy switch mode "fake sine" AC supply gear, I can tell you that power "quality" makes no difference.
    "Is your post somehow supposed to help this situation?  I find it worthless to say the least."
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    KarathKasun got a reaction from LAwLz in Having difficulty understanding "net neutrality"   
    You are missing the whole point then.  Big ISP's owning backhaul is part of the reason that the ISP market is so stagnant.  And if they own the backhaul they pay less for the same network service.
     
    Vertical integration has its benefits.
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    KarathKasun got a reaction from LAwLz in Having difficulty understanding "net neutrality"   
    Blatantly false.
     
    Comcast owns HUGE portions of the potato farm.  Same goes for ATT/Bell and Verizon.
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    KarathKasun reacted to TheGlenlivet in Is this a m.2 slot in my laptop?   
    YUP.
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    KarathKasun reacted to terminator1375 in Is this a m.2 slot in my laptop?   
    yep
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    KarathKasun reacted to RAS_3885 in Shift key is stuck please help me   
    You didn't turn on sticky keys or something, right?
     
    Is the physical key stuck down, or is it "electrically stuck"?  What kind of keyboard?
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    KarathKasun reacted to GoldenLag in AMD/Intel Processors   
    i mean, sort of what i mean.  
     
    atm AMD is forcing the game of paralization. something they physically cant loose at. we have a doubling of core over 2 years essentially. which is neat
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    KarathKasun got a reaction from TechyBen in Some thought on eGPU investment   
    The CPU will limit performance of pretty much any GPU you use.  Then the eGPU connection will also limit it.
     
    It is possible that even something like a 1050 Ti would be limited by your low CPU clocks if a game is particularly CPU heavy.
     
    I would not invest in anything more than a 1660Ti.
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    KarathKasun reacted to captain_aggravated in linux ls command   
    That is to say, it is case sensitive.  ls d* searches for files that begin with a lowercase d, ls D* for files with an uppercase D.
     
    ls | grep -i d*  will ignore case.
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    KarathKasun got a reaction from Graxix in Amd motherboard ddr3   
    Only AMD systems that support DDR3 are AM3/AM3+.  So Phenom II or FX.  You are better off getting a used Intel system to use that DDR3 (in which case you are limited to the performance of the modern R5 1500x) or selling it.
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    KarathKasun got a reaction from scottyseng in why wont my ram fix my my motherboard   
    Contact oxidization is a thing.  After a few years many boards need a bit of movement against the contacts to break the oxide film to allow good electrical connections.
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    KarathKasun got a reaction from Franck in Low level programming languages   
    1) Not really.  AFAIIK modern X86 processors do not let you at the arbitrary architecture that exists behind the X86 translation layer.  ARM and others may allow this however.
     
    Also, modern CPUs are almost never below Ring 0.  Full hardware access needs what is effectively Ring -1 (maybe even Ring -2 or -3 depending on the platform, Intel's vPro security processor lives down there on their platforms).  Everything that is above the lowest Ring is virtualized to some degree.
     
    2) You are more likely to hard-lock the system or corrupt data.
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    KarathKasun got a reaction from Hi P in Low level programming languages   
    1) Not really.  AFAIIK modern X86 processors do not let you at the arbitrary architecture that exists behind the X86 translation layer.  ARM and others may allow this however.
     
    Also, modern CPUs are almost never below Ring 0.  Full hardware access needs what is effectively Ring -1 (maybe even Ring -2 or -3 depending on the platform, Intel's vPro security processor lives down there on their platforms).  Everything that is above the lowest Ring is virtualized to some degree.
     
    2) You are more likely to hard-lock the system or corrupt data.
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    KarathKasun got a reaction from SkilledRebuilds in WRATH: Aeon of Ruin - New Quake 1 engine FPS from 3D Realms   
    Content and gameplay trump shiny graphics.
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