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Or, the ARM ISA has limits to scalability, and incrementally improving the performance without drastically increasing cost or power usage is much harder than it is with AM64 ISA, meaning that Apple got most of the low-hanging fruit with the M1, and there just isn't room without a drastic...

Someone who wants to learn really should stay with major or base systems. If you want easy - Ubuntu If you want to learn for professional use - Fedora/RedHat (or SUSE if you live in Germany) If you want to learn the inner workings of a Linux distribution - Slackware If you want to learn how an...

Just remember "Net Neutrality" is not "net neutrality."

It's good, but make sure you do all the side quests, as the main quest/story is way too short. Definitely worth $7 though!

That's a pretty big risk to take for a potential product. If the AppleVR is designed to be working with the Apple ecosystem, then this all makes sense. But there is no Apple ecosystem for VR, and may never be one. Would Apple invest heavily in a system that is used to develop products that...

Wow, some people need to go get a sense of humor.

Pfft. Youngsters. I remember when you didn't even need a fan or a heatsink to cool your CPU! This is a real problem with modern technology though, and shows that lack of low-level innovation for performance. The only thing that really is going on lately is throwing more electricity at the...

Thanks for the glabels tip. I've been looking for a program like that for a while.

May have to give this a try. Lots of old pictures taken on cheap 35mm cameras that could definitely use some touchup. It's available as a port for FreeBSD, though currently at a slightly older version (1.1.2). It doesn't look like it would be too hard to manually install or update the existing...

Honestly, how many times are users needing to utilize a CPU warranty? I've been working in computer repair for over 25 years, and can only think of one or two genuinely failing CPUs I've encountered. I'd say, if you don't break your CPU with the process, don't sweat it.

When it comes to the performance, wow is really the only appropriate word. If these really do sell for the ~30 euro mentioned in the article, it will be hard to purchase any of the other fans. Looking specifically at the comparison to the Noctua NF-A12x25 PWM, the Alphacool gets up to about...

I would ask first, what are you wanting to accomplish by encrypting the folders? Whole drive encryption tools like bitlocker protect against physical access to the hard drive. It does not protect against remote attacks. If you are logged into the computer, anyone who has access to your...

Do you need to run Ubuntu? If you are set on using ZFS, with 14.0 about to release, it might be worth looking into switching to FreeBSD, since it has full native support of ZFS.

All that uproar about an insider build. I mean, that's what insider builds are for - to try out new features and sometimes radical changes, and get feedback. The feedback was quite negative to the changes, so Microsoft reverted them. Seems like the system is working as it is meant to here...

I've been building and maintaining a Linux boot utility USB drive for our Helpdesk office for a couple of years, using Ubuntu as a base. I really don't like Ubuntu for multiple reasons, and would like to find a good alternative. We use the utility drive primarily for data recovery, drive...

From the article: Fooling someone to give up their password to an "IT technician" is a whole lot easier, faster, and cheaper. There is a reason these sorts of exploits are found by researchers in a lab, rather than by bad actors actually breaking into systems. I'm all for more secure...

RTX is the future, man! In 10 years, no one will be rasterizing their games, so better get that RTX card now! /s

I'd have to dig some more, but that article makes it sound like Sony was artificially limiting the supply, then opened up the supply later on. The linked article to explain the end of the shortage doesn't exactly dispute that idea either.

Gotta be fake news. Only AMD has driver problems, and nVidia drivers are always perfect without any issues from day one. /s

This makes me wonder if Barefoot would still be around and profitably making networking chips if Intel hadn't bought them. Seems to be the case often where a big company buys the smaller company, then ends up shuttering that business when it doesn't work out for them. Would be nicer if they...

Welp, there goes the [H] For Sale/Trade threads! :D FWIW, I just bought a couple of RX 5700XT's off ebay, most likely mining cards (but sold through computer recyclers with thousands of feedback, I'm not trusting all these with random names and only 40-50 feedback), so I'll be sure to check...

So the moral of this is to never buy used equipment?

I've ended up missing some of the parts for one of my Hyper 212-EVO coolers, rendering it unusable. The part I am missing specifically is one of the anchor bolts that the heatsink screws into. Since CoolerMaster doesn't sell the accessory kit anymore in the US, I wanted to see if anyone had...

So, the question to ask now is, Will you be able to install and activate Windows 10 with a Windows 11 license?

If AMD gets too focused on margins, they will repeat the error that plagued Intel for so many years. Insisting on having set margins resulted in higher prices for stagnant products, and an inflexibility that caused Intel to lose out on the mobile market. It appears that Intel is more flexible...

I found the article to be an entertaining rant, but it has little value over that. His arguments against UI change have some valid points, but his "set it and forget it" approach when it comes to UI assumes that Win95 was the pinnacle of UI design (IMO, it was not). Different people will have...

Is CivVI any good? I played a lot of Civ from 2-4, couldn't quite get that hooked into V, but for borderlands, bioshock, and Civ6, might be worth a few coin to me. Edit: Forget this question. I saw what charity they are benefiting and the description, and I'm in.

This is the conundrum for smaller IT systems - SMB's and such. I work for a large university, and we have quite the separation of duties, so no one person losing their phone prevents a reset. But for a home server or a business that has 1 IT guy or simply outsources it, you have to weigh the...

I came across this in my email today. Klara Systems has been one of the leading support companies for FreeBSD and ZFS solutions. I am particularly interested in the implementation of 2FA on my FreeBSD systems, but I figure that even if you don't use FreeBSD, this could be very informative to...

I usually install XFCE or KDE for my FreeBSD desktops. One of the first things I do is change the "start" button icon to a beastie logo. Only thing I haven't figured out is how to easily make that the default system wide for any users and not just my own profile.

Yesterday was FreeBSD Day, marking the birthday of FreeBSD. Since it was also Father's Day in the US, I was busy celebrating with family. However, in honor of FreeBSD day, I have posted up a few tutorials based on how I setup a FreeBSD desktop workstation. If you're interested in trying out...

Yes, maybe someone will actually finish Mankind Divided!

Is this just an Nvidia thing, or an X thing? Which version of Nvidia drivers are you using, and what card do you have?

I would be impressed if the 3070 was 30% faster than a 3090. But, since this is nVidia, I expect that the 4070 will cost the same as the 3090Ti once it is released!

Competition is good! With a W680 motherboard, I won't have to spend so much time researching what will or will not work with ECC. Many of these board are really what I want anyway, so this provides a great alternative to consider.

I find this quite interesting, as you can see the shift between mobile devices and traditional computing devices such as laptops and desktops.

Unfortunately, the laptop has only one drive connection available.

I'm working on the computer after the fact. Not my computer, it was given to me this way for repair. Just trying to see if there is any way I can recover the data for the customer, since the single drive is setup in a RAID system (Optane+SSD on one board) which cannot be read without the...

I'm working on an HP computer that has an Intel H10 Optane drive. It got updated to Windows 11, but the Intel RST driver apparently wasn't updated, and the version from HP for this computer isn't compatible with anything newer than Win 10 1909. Because the RST driver is required for the OS to...

This is good news indeed!