Zer0_F0x
@Zer0_F0x@lemmy.world
- Comment on Seagate just unleashed 44TB hard drives 3 days ago:
I assume that’s the same way people felt like in 1980, when IBM released the world’s first >1GB hard drive.
It was as big as a fridge and cost $100k in today’s money to buy, for a whopping 2.5GB of storage.
My astrophotography projects are several GB each, my phone can shoot 4k RAW video that eats up 6GB a minute and it’s all hobby-level.
I wouldn’t mind if those 44TB drives became more affordable in a few years, I’m already saving up for a 24TB NAS.
- Comment on MSI's $80 AMD motherboards with DDR4 support swoop in to rescue gamers amid the global RAM crisis 1 week ago:
I’ve been happily sitting on my R5 2600x for so many years now lol. My MB is an MSI B450 Pro Carbon and it can easily handle a 5950x or 5800x3D or whatever.
Add another 2x8 gb ddr4 for 32GB total and I’ll be seeing some insane performance relative to what I’m already happy with, which will last me another 5 years easily unless the mobo dies.
It’s really insane how well designed AM4 is.
- Comment on MSI's $80 AMD motherboards with DDR4 support swoop in to rescue gamers amid the global RAM crisis 1 week ago:
Ah, AM4.
At 10 years old, it’s still the platform that keeps on giving.
- Comment on Westerners, what's your impression on the Chinese Diaspora? And what does the people around your area of residence think of the Chinese Diaspora? 2 weeks ago:
In Greece they all seem to own or work at big stores that sell randomly branded clothing and low to OK quality tools, fishing gear, cooking pots, gardening stuff and a myriad of random electronic devices like flashlights, LED strips, chargers, selfie sticks etc, all sold dirt cheap.
Some of them learn the language at some point, but most don’t. They don’t seem to even hang out amongst themselves, it’s seemingly isolated families here and there.
They keep to their own and bother no one.
- Comment on Man accidentally gains control of 7,000 robot vacuums 2 weeks ago:
Just go to the house of any cyber security worker, or any sysadmin / IT worker and tell me how many internet connected smart devices you find.
The “S” in IoT stands for Security.
- Comment on Dutch Defence Secretary Boldly Claims F-35 Software Could Be 'Jailbroken' 3 weeks ago:
Lol just drop an F35 brain off in pretty much any hacking convention / competition, sit back for a day and enjoy the most literal manifestation of the phrase “weaponized autism”.
I’d bet good money someone manages to run Doom on the AR visor within a week.
- Comment on Ad blocking is alive and well, despite Chrome's attempts to make it harder 4 weeks ago:
I believe he meant “people use their browser like they use an appliance” as in they don’t know any details about it, just open it and use it as is.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
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Windows Update. If the thing was off for a while, expect windows update to cripple it until it’s satisfied.
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Slow boot drive. If it’s an older SSD it might be kicking the bucket soon. Also, if your boot drive is over 90% usage you’ll definitely feel it.
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RAM issues. Download RAMMon (free RAM checking tool) and let us know what you see
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Thermals. If your CPU hits 90+ degrees then it’ll have to throttle down to save itself. Cleaning the dust helps a lot with that because dust is an insulator and traps heat in.
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- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
It’s not always the utilization percentage that tells the whole story.
You’re a bit out of luck as far as upgrades go for that platform, but if you have 1 stick of RAM and get another one you’ll feel a difference.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
The man is a master of the Gish gallop. Here’s a Wikipedia link about it.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
Step 1. Create 2 reddit accounts
Step 2. Post the question in the builds sub
Step 3. Answer it yourself with whatever you think is best. Make sure you’re very confident it’s the best solution and nobody could come up with a better one
Step 4. Rejoice at the flock of tryhards that will down vote your reply to hell while fighting each other for the actual best answer
Step 5. Choose whichever comment wins.
- Comment on AI data centers may soon be powered by retired US Navy nuclear reactors from aircraft carriers and submarines 2 months ago:
So I got a job at this company back in the day that did phone and email customer service for other companies.
I was one of the last people they ever hired. Me and 7 other people were shown to our cubicles that had brand new Dell sff computers and peripherals in their boxes.
We were told the IT guys were off or on sick leave and I offered to try and set the machines up at least to save time. With the help of the others we plugged everything in and then kinda sat there all day doing nothing.
Next day we all show up for work and we see people carrying boxes out of the building. Turns out the owner was neck deep in debt and just dissappeared, people were told they shouldn’t be expecting any more paychecks or bother suing.
Basically the manager told everyone to just sort of take whatever they want home and everyone just took their work PC home. Me and 7 other people basically got a free PC for half a day’s work, others got shafted though…
All I’m trying to say here is maybe DON’T SELL NUCLEAR AIRCRAFT CARRIER REACTORS to private companies that are 100% going to go tits up soon when yet another tech bubble bursts and those reactors end up being sold on AliExpress?
- Comment on GTA 6 dev Rockstar says recent firings were due to leaks of "confidential information" and were "in no way related to people's right to join a union" 3 months ago:
Xbox yes, pc version comes later to boost console sales.
- Comment on Bewildered enthusiasts decry memory price increases of 100% or more — the AI RAM squeeze is finally starting to hit PC builders where it hurts 4 months ago:
I bought 16gb of ddr4 for 110eu back in 2018. Welcome back to the DDR wars, with NAND soon to follow.
- Comment on Linux gamers on Steam finally cross over the 3% mark 4 months ago:
As encouraging as that is, I suspect it’ll drop a it as the Deck becomes obsolete and while SteamOS or Bazite don’t come pre installed with more machines. Microsoft has lots of money to burn to prevent Linux gaming from happening
- Comment on YouTube is taking down videos on performing nonstandard Windows 11 installs 4 months ago:
BTW
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
Microsoft really shit the bed with Windows Phone.
The UI was great, it ran great on budget hardware and the high end Lumia lineup had some banger features, crazy Nokia cameras etc.
I had 2 of them and I really believed the OS would become a viable choice along with Android and iOS…and then Microsoft proceeded to do absolutely nothing with it for years. No incentives to build apps, no tools to port over existing versions for devs, never got an Instagram app, no push for desktop mode or a decent file system or compatibility with regular desktop apps via a translation layer for x64 (how apple launched M1), nothing.
They put no effort and just let it die. Such a shame.
- Comment on Apple iPhone 17 Devices Plagued by Wi-Fi Connectivity Issues 5 months ago:
Let me guess, are we holding it wrong again?
- Comment on What China Banning Nvidia Chips Means for the AI Race 5 months ago:
Which is why the proverbial canary is coughing a little, but is still alive.
TSMC announced their new gigafab in Arizona is being sped up with a 100 billion dollar investment to produce and later package the latest 2nm and A16 nodes. Taiwan is always a step ahead because it makes economic sense for it to be. If that stops being the case, then the US will take the lead and China will “Hong Kong” their way into Taiwan.
- Comment on What China Banning Nvidia Chips Means for the AI Race 5 months ago:
Unless China starts implementing the “We don’t care” stance due to the ongoing trade war, which, judging by this Nvidia move, they’re clearly moving towards.
China cares because they have an economic incentive to care. Once that’s gone they’ll switch their tune quite drastically I would assume and due to the nature of their government structure, quite rapidly, too.
- Comment on What China Banning Nvidia Chips Means for the AI Race 5 months ago:
The canary in the Taiwan coal mine is starting to cough a little.
Once China has AI parity or dominance with homegrown chips and the US can produce everything locally or in allied countries, there’s little need for the current protections to remain in place.
- Comment on What if LGBT adopts a white and grey striped flag to replace the rainbow? Then Florida would have to abolish crosswalks entirely. 5 months ago:
Are you trying to get the entire dcip3 banned??
- Comment on (Rant) Don't buy Rockstar games. 6 months ago:
I used to work for a company that Epic Games outsourced their support to. We were based in Athens, Greece. There were other companies receiving the same email pool on Helpdesk Bulgaria or Romania, as well as an Indian office, all supporting US customers via email.
We were paid 3.5eu / hour and our performance was micromanaged by counting how many replies we did per hour.
Hence, we had canned responses that we’d copy/paste to save time and maybe achieve a bonus for that month.
Unfortunately we ended up being shit on on reddit on multiple occasions because some poor guy misunderstood the request and a legitimate request would be promptly denied, even though it shouldn’t be. The level of English comprehension varied wildly among us.
All I’m saying is maybe Rockstar actually has a way to ID your account based on IP addresses, credit card used, date purchased if you have the receipt email, driver’s license etc and you’re just dealing with an underpaid dude in Eastern Europe not quite understanding you.
Usually if you threaten to sue they escalate to tier 2, so you may have more luck that way and tbh I don’t know about Rockstar, that’s how Epic did it back in 2018.
Maybe try explaining it a different way? I dunno but good luck.
- Comment on If there's a sort of "apocalyptic" event but there are still surviving communities, will people be able to make eyeglasses again, or are people with vision issues gonna be fucked? 6 months ago:
You could make “glasses” out of wood or bone with thin slits using the same idea
- Comment on If there's a sort of "apocalyptic" event but there are still surviving communities, will people be able to make eyeglasses again, or are people with vision issues gonna be fucked? 6 months ago:
Some glass is many sheets glued together, that could be trickier to work with
Thick glass that’s not tempered will be the easiest to work with
Pretty much any piece of glass and a series of sandpapers going from low to high grit will eventually work if you know what you’re doing
- Comment on European Commission launching #Wifi4EU initative, 93k high-speed private access points across the EU, free of charge. 6 months ago:
Honestly nowadays data plans are cheap on most mobile carriers and they’re obligated to have them work accross EU, so you no longer really need Wi-Fi when traveling.
Also, I can see this being easily and constantly exploited via Wi-Fi attacks where hackers set up fake Hotspots with the same name as the closest legit one.
- Comment on Trump says he plans to put a 100% tariff on computer chips, likely pushing up cost of electronics 6 months ago:
1000%, 2500%, 600%, 1500%
- Comment on Humans can be tracked with unique 'fingerprint' based on how their bodies block Wi-Fi signals 7 months ago:
Not if everyone buys it, because then we’d all look the same
- Comment on [deleted] 7 months ago:
I’m sorry to hear that. My comment was in no way trying to demean yours or anyone’s personal struggle. There’s real assholes out there. Stay strong.
- Comment on [deleted] 7 months ago:
Oh, save the tears brave soul, that’s a funny dad trolling their child the same as always. They’re gonna be fine.