Normand_Nadon

Of course if you want to interact solely with the Microsoft ecosystem, in a Microsoft only business, it will be simpler using Microsoft's OS to get started. But once the initial setup and workflow adaptation is behind, I would not go back to Windows... All the users in the company are fighting against their machines all day, while my team, all on Pop!OS, we barely ever have issues!

I just say B&O... Safer this way!

If it makes you happy, who are we to judge ! Just be careful with extraordinary claims... Physics apply to everything in the universe, even audiophiles! Now put on a music track, and enjoy your music the way you like it!

Putting two insulated conductors, pumping high current with varying frequencies, in parallel, makes them a capacitor... which is one of the thing they claim to reduce... (capacitance) Then the more you read, the more they claim! RF elimination, Inductance shenanigan (it is not a coil! it is a straight wire and the setup acts like a capacitor, not an inductor... The speaker is the inductor in the system!!!) But in the end, the point is that when you use reasonably good quality, adequate gauge conductors and good shielding techniques, you can get way better performance than what you get from those 5000$ cables!

Honestly, at some point, the products they were showing were real jokes! Ok, you want to test real equipment, in real test scenario, but this none-sense?... It does not deserve to be taken seriously! As I said previously, the trend in "audiophile" speaker cables is to use flat, parallel cables "to eliminate interference and distortion"... That is stupid! You just created 12 foot long antennas! Of course you will ear a difference when they are not touching the ground... because they were bad (super expensive) speaker cables to begin with and were creating capacitance with the ground! I am talking about those stupid Wires... These would be worthy of a real test IMO to prove that they are freaking antennas and catch all the RF noise in the room!

such goodness is too much to handle for humankind! It cannot be achieved!

I have been kicked-out of an online audiophile group because I called-out that kind of rip-off stuff... These guys were buying 1000$ power cords made from off-the-shelf cheap components. At the time, I thought Audiophiles were really knowledgeable (some are, but few) then I realized they were just victims of scams! And don't get me started on flat cables... This is the most idiotic thing to buy! If you want to cancel interference, you need to twist cables together, not run them flat and in parallel like a perfect antenna! And maybe think about using shielded cables! They kicked me out when I started mentioning that the laws of physics apply to everything, even audio products! Around the same time I was arguing with a guy that paid 100 000$ for an amplifier, and added a 12 000$ line filter to his circuit to "filter the bad A/C signal". At first I thought it was a fancy inverter, but not even so.... 1- We live in Canada, where A/C current is regulated and is more precise than what most AC/DC/AC device can deliver. 2- Why the hell can't the power stage of your 100 000$ amp filter the AC noise? what is in that stupid thing? I mean, a 150$ Computer PSU can deliver 1 000 Watts of ultra-clean DC power! How can a 100 000$ not be able to do the same? Edit: Proof of my claims on crazy A/C power cords prices...

Are you running it in containers? If so, what OS are you using and how are you deploying? I have multiple services on the same machine at home, all using the same network, available online, and I use Pi-hole... I can surely help you out!

My first NAS was a WDMyCloud and I really loved it (I outgrew it in terms of needs and am now using an UNRAID server) It had automatic TimeMachine backups for Apple products (never used i though, I don't own I-things) The file server was fast and easy to use, and it had many nice features and companion apps. It even had the protocols needed for my older TV to read my files (before smart TVs, there were network enabled TVs) Only down side is the requirement for an online connexion... but on the flip side, it gives you remote access to your files.

It is just not enabled by default... But if that is what stopping you from using Linux, I really don't understand your thought process... You don't want to update Windows because your good old version works well enough, yet you want to use Wayland, the new shiny still in development thing, instead of the venerable X.org... Not upgrading to Windows 11 is legitimate (I hate Windows 11, it is horrible!)... Not updading the system, drivers and applications is really a bad idea! There are dozens of reasons to update, security is one of them, but bugfixes, optimizations, better performance, QOL improvements are many others! Ah dang it... I am sure I could have come with a clever answer! Aaaah... Marilyn Manson... Such an underrated, highly intelligent individual... He is the living representation of "judging a book by its cover" So much to unravel when we get past first impressions! And I don't live in fear... I live in awareness, to avoid fear! Good day!

Wayland is available on Pop!OS and have been for a while... I just don't care about it for now... And will switch when it becomes the default for my distro I see... I guess I fell in the Troll trap... Have a nice day!

This is wrong in so many ways! You should definitely update Windows on a regular basis! Upgrading Linux is a way better experience than updating Windows... You have no Idea how simple it is! Software management on Linux is similar to an android phone if you will... Your apps and package come from a "store" and get updated in a few seconds. I respect that it is not for everyone, and I don't mind people using the tools they know, but your reasons are not based on facts... As previous posts stated, if you have an Nvidia card, Install Pop!OS (a flavor of Linux) and it will work... No workaround, and definitely not clunky!

Am I right to assume that PCIe 5.0 is not worth it for the moment? Boards that support it seem to cost 2 to 3 times more and don't offer a lot more features

Moarrrrr is betererrrr ! I am impressed by the price for the 24cores Intel setup you sent me! How can it come out so low? I always thought as AMD being cheaper for the same amount of cores... And this is current gen hardware?

Why do they put 4 slots on motherboards if they never get used? It has been like that since DDR1 !! Memory controllers have always had issues using all the slots! I thought it would be a way to share/parallelize de load... but no... it just melts memory controllers!