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the magic word is choice. As a user, I would like to have choice. This is in contrast to most tech industry corporations, which define themselves as making choices for the users. Worse, most of choices made for the user are often in the interest of the corporation, not the user. I do not care which choice people make, but I do care in making sure people still get to have a choice. Therefore this guide.

previously, people were able to make the choice of not having internet after a Windows installation and therefore getting the option to create a local account. Same for pre-built PCs. Currently that option is gone, except you do this trick. (1) This is not a troll, but you do need to create a new Microsoft Account. Don't worry, we will no use it, we just need one, so please create one on another PC. For the love of god, do not use an account that has any Xbox or MS Store purchases on it. Make a brand new one, trust me. (2) Now it is time to log into your new Microsoft account, except you won't. You will enter the wrong password. A lot. Until you see a message that the account is locked. Perfect, that is where we want to be. (3) Install Windows 11 on your new device, connect it to the internet. (4) When Windows 11 asks for your Microsoft account, enter the one that is locked because of too many login attempts. Seems like Windows will not allow you to log into that locked account, asking you whether you want to create a local account in the meantime. (5) Voila, you can now create a local account. It will never require you to upgrade to the online account, it is a good old fashioned local account. All you had to do to not use an online account, was to make an online account, burn it to the ground and exploit the courtesy of Microsoft. What's small and flaccid, but very nice? Is Microsoft really what she said? Alternatively, you can still create local accounts after doing the first login with an online account. After that you log into the local account and delete the online account. Have fun

Has Linus realized that once he puts a 100 Cat cables in there, the door is not likely to close? And he has then to remove all devices to be able to reposition the front vertical beams two notches to the back? just saying, been there, done that, feel the pain.

A small Youtube Chinese channel is showing off i9-11900k benchmark results My thoughts At first I was confused about Intel selling a worse product at a higher price, then the real news dawned on me. Look how the CPUs are held high without them being dropped. Witness the LTT beanie being utterly outclassed by her headwear. Intel has truly arrived at the point at which the specifications of their product have become utterly meaningless backdrop to online fashion shows. Sources https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j73J_nzEkcE

Project for the AMD 2TB RAM machine Upper limit of future loading times: (not counting smarter preloading/caching mechanisms obviously) Since Linus has a nice new server with 2TB of RAM, why not use it to run a few things from RAM disk that are usually not run from RAM Disk? As in complete Windows 10 installation with games. The combination of 64AMD cores and RAM-Disk loads will lead to a nice reference value. A good 100% value of what is possible. Then do the same benchmark, but instead of RAM Disk, use a GEN4 SSD, Sata SSD, HDD, Tapedrive, and rank it with however many % of the RAM Disk machine were able to achieve. A second benefit of this setup is by clocking the CPU up and down, one can measure the impact of CPU power to loading times, while minimizing the impact of the SSD. In honesty, 10 years from now, we may be using MRAM anyway and current SSDs will be a joke from the past. https://www.everspin.com/spin-transfer-torque-mram-products But who has the machine to approximate this future today? Linus does with that 2TB RAM monster.

Loading time is just a general term between a player indicating his intent and the game starting. Here is what happens when you load a game, such as Division 2. You click on "Play Game". This will load the copy protection scheme and perform a check. Since the game is competitive, the cheat protection will quickly scan your memory for anything funky. Now the real exe is being started and you are connected to the login server, which checks the ID received from your Uplay client. You receive a list of servers to which to connect. Upon getting a connection the engine itself is loaded to memory to connect to the server. Your savegame is downloaded now. Depending on your character look, the texture required to display are loaded. Welcome to the character selection screen. You may have seen some videos to cover up what was happening up to this point. Now, if you click "Benchmark", the game will fully locally load the level to do the benchmark and display it. This loading time is the only time you can actually benchmark your loading time in this game. It consists of a few file transfres from SSD to memory and quite a bit of unpacking by the CPU followed by a bit shader crunching by the GPU. If you load into the game itself, you will notice that it take A LOT longer. This is because there is another round of network connectivity happening in which you get a list of servers transmitted to your PC and then connect to one of them for the instance that you are a part of. Essentially, it is the first part of this list all over again. Especially online games have reached the point at which loading times are more like 'waiting on the server times'. It will be funny to see what Sony will be doing once they outfitted the PS5 with super fast SSDs, while companies such as Ubisoft retain poor server performance leading to 'slow' loading. 'Loading' the Tower in Destiny already is its own meme. You can track behavior such as this on a basic level with your Windows 10 Resource Manage that is part of the Task Manager. If you are so inclined you can throw a firewall at it and have some fun blocking individual IPs to see how the game is squirming when it does not reach the servers it wants to reach. The server the game contacts initially is always the same, so if you block that, you can see the next server in rotation. You can also see why Windows 10 users really need the functionality to sandbox their games in the future. The amount of game developers taking the liberty to scan your memory for whatever they want (claiming it was to protect you from cheaters) is really concerning.

Company ordered one in early January, at which point it was said to arrive within 7 days. After a week we were told the distributor had all the parts but was unable to deliver, since the official rollout had been delayed until mid February. Sounded to me like they were holding it back until some update arrives. Outside of video editing, systems such as this move towards being virtualization platforms which run everything from Ramdisk, while the NVME are just there to provide backup layers.

This looks like LTT wants to get in the business of making case prototypes which are then mass produced someplace else.

I like that he made the same mistake I made when placing the AMD cooler. That little knob that reads AMD has to be pointed away from the RAM slots. Some boards, e.g.MSI, but also that ASRock judging from the video, have the issue that the RAM could clear the cooler, but not the AMD knob sticking out from the cooler. But sure, in 99% of all used cases, this will never be a problem.

I fail to see the April fools joke in this. What else would one do with a couple of curve monitors?

The real bottleneck is the raytracing anyway. Disable RTX and your CPU 2070 combo is likely to deliver 1080@120fps or 4k near 60fps. Whether the CPU shaves off a few frames due to being a small bottleneck is no big deal. But for nvdia's asking price, a lot of cards deliver that for 600 bucks. The big bottleneck is when you turn on RTX. Your frames will take a massive hit and neither your CPU, nor the rasterizer part of your GPU part is to blame. Simply put, there are too few RTX rendering cores on your 2070, it is not balanced right. Ideally, you need a card that does 1080 at 60fps and then turns on RTX while staying at 60fps. Nvidia does not deliver that, they deliver an uneven card which prioritizes rasterization engines over raytracing ones. Looking at the bad support for raytracing at the moment that does not come as a surprise. Stop thinking CPU->GPU. Instead think CPU -> GPU (Rasterizer) -> GPU (Raytracer) No use worrying about the CPU, when the card is its own bottleneck.

you can pick up a third generation i3 from those office PC resellers for less than 140 bucks. Toss in a 1050 and you are off the ground for less than 300. Also benchmark with 2080Ti just to be sure.