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I think there is a certain lack of transparency. Not in the way of "Linus telling the community XY-Details on WAN show", but in general expectations. E.g. regarding the "trust me bro" I think you're right when saying "you have to trust me anyway, so why not take just my word for it, that I will make it right". The issue isn't trust (as it so often isn't when e.g. hiring a contractor) it is about getting one the same page and understanding what "right" means for each other. That's where something conclusive and formal does help, not even necessary written but in a clear spot and easily findable, what can I expect here. The same probably can be applied to some of you practices and guidelines. What does an Unboxing on SC incorporate what are the standards for evaluating? Where are the border for a sponsorship vs a review and so on. To clarify it again, this isn't about trusting you, this is about understanding what exactly to trust you for, because people can and will have different understanding and views. I know you've said so in some videos, but even I who watches most of your stuff would neither know the newest stands on above mentioned points nor where to look for them. So probably a video or "policy text" explaining such stuff would be nice and then linked and the endcard and maybe with a short standardized summary for each channel in the description + a link to the whole explanation/guidelines. Really props to you, for reacting so quickly.

For one as he said, he has journalistic responsibility and I agree with that. Secondly as the interviews show the issues already seems to be known. The reaction to the HWUnboxed Tweets also shows there wasn't really any consequences even though stuff was known. And the billet auction definitely had to be made public!

I agree Steve is often a bit to "harsh" and applies standards which I wouldn't agree with or perceive as realistic. However he is consistent with those standards, so not really something to blame just to disagree. And honestly given the issues a video definitely was necessary, yes I would have done it a bit less "harsh" too.

Firing him because of what he said would be completely inappropriate. 1. this statement was made in front of other people, 2. it was edited, 3. it was reviewed (hopefully QC?), 4. (AFAIK) he isn't in a leading role (non technical at least) 5. as far as I understood it, it is actually the plan/goal for the lab 6. the lab provides data the writer puts them in a video As Steve himself said I would consider that a minor issue. The other issues and specifically the Billet Labs thing are much worse. Whether someone should be fired for it highly depends on the circumstances and can only be reviewed internally.

I own a Lenovo V155 Notebook with a Ryzen 3500U with 8GiB of RAM and I always noticed that Linux does not use all the RAM. So I digged a bit into this and found that the e820 and efi memory map do not list the complete memory. For one they have a few large holes and they don't seem to reach the end address of 8GiB. reserve setup_data: [mem 0x0000000000000000-0x000000000009efff] usable reserve setup_data: [mem 0x000000000009f000-0x000000000009ffff] reserved reserve setup_data: [mem 0x00000000000e0000-0x00000000000fffff] reserved reserve setup_data: [mem 0x0000000000100000-0x0000000009bfffff] usable reserve setup_data: [mem 0x0000000009c00000-0x0000000009cd0fff] reserved reserve setup_data: [mem 0x0000000009cd1000-0x0000000009efffff] usable reserve setup_data: [mem 0x0000000009f00000-0x0000000009f0afff] ACPI NVS reserve setup_data: [mem 0x0000000009f0b000-0x00000000b19f5017] usable reserve setup_data: [mem 0x00000000b19f5018-0x00000000b1a02457] usable reserve setup_data: [mem 0x00000000b1a02458-0x00000000b857dfff] usable reserve setup_data: [mem 0x00000000b857e000-0x00000000bc77dfff] reserved reserve setup_data: [mem 0x00000000bc77e000-0x00000000be77dfff] ACPI NVS reserve setup_data: [mem 0x00000000be77e000-0x00000000be7fdfff] ACPI data reserve setup_data: [mem 0x00000000be7fe000-0x00000000bf7fffff] usable reserve setup_data: [mem 0x00000000bf800000-0x00000000bfffffff] reserved reserve setup_data: [mem 0x00000000fd200000-0x00000000fd2fffff] reserved reserve setup_data: [mem 0x00000000fed80000-0x00000000fed80fff] reserved reserve setup_data: [mem 0x0000000100000000-0x00000001beffffff] usable is the memory map from dmesg, which has (I guess) the following holes: 978MiB: 0xbfffffff-0xfd200000 (partially used by GPU) 27MiB: 0xfd2fffff-fed80000 18MiB: 0xfed80fff-0x100000000 410MiB: 0x1beffffff-0x1ffffffff (I would expect 0x1ffffffff as last address?) I had a quick look into what grub's lsmmap and lsefimmap show and while they show all entries and not just the merged ones it has the same holes. I don't really know whether windows used all memory, after I bought the notebook. Unfortunately my BIOS has basically no settings not even for the GPUs shared memory size. But lshw -C display tells me it uses memory:c0000000-cfffffff memory:d0000000-d01fffff ioport:1000(Größe=256) memory:d0800000-d087ffff which is a bit more than 256MiB. Which is in one of the holes, but not uses all of it. Am I getting anything important wrong here? Is there any way to debug this further? Is there any way to manually specify further memory areas? (I guess by writing a kernel module? But besides that?)

Yeah the viable options I could find were all VA panels.

Yeah if there would be a decent model with my requirements for below 300€ I might go to a smaller size, but since the 27'' seem to cost only about 50€ less than the Dell S3220DGF I am willing to spend that for more screen size.

No I am not at all serious about photo editing. But since I usually do a lot of different stuff once in a while, it is nice to be able to do this stuff in a decent/accabtable way. Mostly if I do something with photos I do something for printing, where my old cheapo display offered a good enough quality/comparability, so in doubt I can compare with it (will become a second display).

Hmm, well the AOC page and the pcpartpicker details say both 300 cd/m²

Nice site. Looking at ratings and price the Dell S3220DGF still seems to be the best option for me

I also looked at that one, but while I have no direct reference 300 nits seems pretty low.

Yeah >= is a common term from programming languages, the mathematical sign is ≥ and it means "greater than or equal as".

I tend to not rely that much on pcpartpicker especially for more secondary stuff like monitors. I found many deals not listed on there. But looking on there now the Dell S3220DGF is also the most promising on there listings.

Hello, I am currently looking for a new Monitor: Ideally 30-32'', but >=27'' would be ok VESA Mount >=1440p >= 120HZ (optional) HDR (optional) GSync (unofficial) support Ideally below 400€, but willing to spend a bit more if wortwhile (Points above are roughly sorted by importance to me) Usage: everything a bit: Video/Photo editing, 3D modelling, CAD, programming, Watching movies, Gaming (mostly single player AAA titles, rarely BF5 and Rainbow6 competitive) My current favorite is the Dell S3220DGF, which I get for around 380€, it ticks all boxes above, it has 31.5'' and 165Hz and as far as I can tell good reviews. Also the Gigabyte G32QC looks promising (400€). So has anyone positive or negative with the mentioned Dell? Or anyone any other recommendations? Thanks lal12

Looks good, still thinking about going ATX for more expandability, but this is obviously not a performance issue. Though are you sure about the Ryzen 5 1600? For NVENC probably fine, but also for Software Encoding?