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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?

Thanks I think I might choose a cheaper mainboard, if I find something with enough slots for the same/lower price. The MSI X470 GAMING PLUS MAX seems to be price reduced for currently 120€. Yeah 450-500W PSU is probably better.

No you are correct about non SUPER models, where the 1650 only had the old Volta NVENC and not the new Turing one. But the 1650 SUPER has the new Turing NVENC.

Budget (including currency): 700-900€ Country: Germany Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Streaming with OBS Studio Other details: I am currently building a Streaming PC for our church (Covid-19 Livestreams). I want to stream in 1080p30 with OBS. Incoming are several network video streams (different Cameras and Image from the Projector) My current plan is the following: - Cheapest Brand PSU e.g. Corsair 400W) - Cheap ATX case - Ryzen 7 3700X or Ryzen 9 3900x - 2x8GB DDR4-3200 - NVME 500GB (probably Crucial P1) - Maybe a MSI X470 GAMING PLUS MAX - GTX 1650 SUPER or a AMD RX 550 or 560. So first of all what are your thoughts on the build regarding its purpose? I am relatively certain that it is sufficient from a performance side, I don't have that much experience with streaming though. I basicially chose the MSI X470 GAMING PLUS since it was the cheapest option with a bunch of PCIe expansion slots. Currently I only need one Slot for a GPU, but I could imagine that in the future it is imaginable that I would want to use a 10G NIC and maybe a USB expansion. But from a performance standpoint, would you have any concern regarding a X470 or B550 or B450 board? Since I prefer to use Software encoding the GPU is not that essential. I think I just for scaling and other filters OBS is not that GPU intensive. Am I correct on that? So the only reason I consider the GTX1650 SUPER is that it is the cheapest card from Nvidia which has the new NVENC Engine, which probably won't be used, but I would like the option to. The AMD RX 550 or 560 also have Hardware Encoding units, but I didn't found much information on how good they are. I would be grateful for your feedback and suggestions. Thanks lal12

The PIs are very cheap The PIs have a low power consumption (7-13€ per year depending on usage and where you live) Small, even small x86 servers are many times bigger Linux is in general just the best OS for servers, besides it is the best when tinkering with more Low Level stuff.

Well if you don't want the classical sync stuff as mentioned before. There are e.g. FTP server apps, I use one sometimes if I don't have an USB cable laying aroung.

You can install a busybox terminal on your phone and try to copy the ISO file from the phone to the usb stick via dd (as you would on linux). This can work depending on the phone model. But this probably will only work with root. Is your phone rooted? There are ways without rooting the phone but they are probably not very practical, and I couldn't explain howto without trying some stuff myself.

I am a bit confused by your setup. If you use VPN most routers will allow you to access their local network directly, so you wouldn't need the port forwarding. Besides SFTP itself is already encrypted so using VPN only for file transfer is not necessary. Also the used port is not the standard SFTP port (22) so I assume you assured that your sshd runs on port 7493. You can use "sudo netstat -ltpn" or "sudo ss -ltpn" to check the listening services and their ports. Also I looked a bit more into your reported error message. It indicated that you are not using SFTP but FTP(S), which are very different protocols. The passive/active functionality has to be enabled on your server side aswell. So you have to configure the FTP server, how to do that depends on the installed ftp server (mentioned commands above might show which ones are used). If you are using VPN all of this usually shouldn't be a problem, but it seems that at least for the FTP connection you are not using the VPN tunnel.

First answer the following questions: What protocol are you using to access those files? FTP, SFTP, FTPS, SCP...? How do you reach your own network? DynDNS, PublicIP, VPN...? If so how was that set up. Did you setup a port forwarding in your router? If so maybe attach a screenshot from the regarding config page so we can see the settings. Can your PI reach the internet? Run "ping -c4 google.com" and "ping -c4 8.8.8.8" and send the result Run the command "ifconfig" on your pi and post the output here.

Well not exactly, you've missed a couple of steps here. $mysqli = new mysqli("localhost", "my_user", "my_password", "lotr"); if ($stmt = $mysqli->prepare("SELECT * FROM `charachters` WHERE Name=?")) { /* bind parameters for markers */ $stmt->bind_param("s", "Legolas"); /* execute query */ $stmt->execute(); /* fetch value */ $res = $stmt->fetch_array(MYSQLI_ASSOC); var_dump("my character: ", $res[0]); /* close statement */ $stmt->close(); }else{ echo "ups, error"; } This utilizes mysqli which is ok to use, but I personally prefer using PDO which is a bit more comfortable. It is technically a bit slower but this won't matter for your application. $pdo = new PDO('mysql:host=localhost;dbname=lotr', 'username', 'password'); $statement = $pdo->prepare("SELECT * FROM `characters` WHERE Name=:character"); $statement->execute(array(':character' => 'Legolas')); $res = $statement->fetchAll(PDO::FETCH_ASSOC); var_dump('my character:', $res[0]); Btw passing "MYSQLI_ASSOC" or respectively "PDO::FETCH_ASSOC" will give you an column name indexed Array, which usually is easier than using numeric indexes.

Or even better use mysql prepared statements.