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I think this might actually be the issue. The house is old (1962) in an area prone to high winds and I do occasionally see my lights flicker. I got solar installed last year and I've been on the waiting list for Tesla Powerwall for a year now. I think I'll pick up a cheap UPS for now just to see.

Spoke too soon on the GPU issue The display manager not being able to draw to the screen bug is back (GPU crashing). Restarting /etc/init.d/display-manager works but it kills all my running programs so I might as well restart at that point. Back to the drawing board on that one.

It's a Corsair RM850x. I replaced it with the same one cause it made it easy not having to re-run all the cables what with the existing modular cable already being there. The swap out took all of 5 minutes. Actually not sure. It could have been the PSU. I've been running the desktop now for 24...

I was using Gentoo Linux which means I was compiling everything from scratch. I was completely recompiling things every time there was a version update which includes chromium, Firefox, the Linux kernel, I mean literally everything you'd expect to have on a Linux box. My machine has over 1500...

Boom. Replacement booted on the first try.

Unlikely as I gave this machine the white glove treatment. I even went ahead and replaced the power supply though I am not discounting the possibility that the old psu somehow damaged it. But like I said I already sent the motherboard in for an RMA and they do check it for things like that while...

Did you not read the article I linked? 2.9% failure rate for brand new DOA CPUs is atrocious. Who knows how high that number goes in the years after. Not everyone chooses to RMA and go through the hassle so we'll never know the real number. I suspect 5% is the real number. And who knows how many...

I used to run a LAN center where I built all the desktops by hand plus been in tech for 20 years myself and have built and worked on hundreds of servers over the years. This is the first CPU I've ever had fail on me. It's so incredibly rare that I'm in shock.

System Info Asus ROG Crosshair VIII Dark Hero w/ BIOS version 4006 [released 2022/03/10] G.SKILL Ripjaws V Series 32GB (2 x 16GB) XFX Speedster MERC319 AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT Black NZXT Kraken Z63 water cooling with excellent in-office ventilation I had actually purchased this CPU a full year...

I've been wanting to purchase a 5950x for quite a bit but since I'm in Hawaii I'd prefer to use Amazon Prime for shipping. I'm also an AMD share holder so this whole experience has been frustrating to say the least.

Yes, that's what I said. They outsource their production. TSMC announced they were gonna build a foundry in AZ but as of November it was "some time next year". Who knows when you'll be able to buy a fully american built AMD CPU or GPU if ever.

I actually work on my PC and need the GPU. If my 1080TI dies today I'm gonna have to shell out a ton of cash to get a replacement asap. Most of that money will probably end up in a foreign company's bank account. Meanwhile I'm competing with people who are buying them as a luxury good but also...

Just give me a black box and get the fuck off my lawn.

Anyone notice how the notch is there even though the screen doesn't even go all the way to the bottom like the iPhone? The iPhone only has a notch so they can have a front facing camera while using the entire screen. So basically they include a notch for no fucking reason now other than to...

I don't even have Netflix anymore cause I'm tired of spending money on shows that got broadcast over the air in the 90s. Recording said shows is/was legal when they aired so I don't even consider my private raid array worth of shows to even be piracy.

Every launch has been different. Some of the payloads have multiple satellites but not all. Some of them are just really large bus sized satellites. As for profit. Each launch is different. The orbit that is required, payload weight, and whether they are using a new or old rocket booster all...

Claiming that someone has to do something difficult when in-fact they can choose to do something easy instead is rhetorical bullshit of the highest order.

I'm not sure why the burden of providing statistics is on me. You will never change your mind. it is common knowledge that year after year there are more and more school shootings to the point where a parent has a higher than zero chance of finding their kids dead from a school shooting in the...

They could have been lying. Sure. Who knows? This was 10 years ago. I don't think much has changed. High school kids are getting their hands on semi-automatic firearms. Whether that's taking them from their parents or buying them on the streets it's happening at an alarming rate.

No one is infringing on your right to own firearms. I simply do not think the "personal sale" rule is good to keep around. You should not be able to sell your gun to anyone but a dealer or gun buy back. This is why you will all eventually lose way more of your rights. These kids are gonna end up...

Wanna know how all this written above is complete bullshit gun owners like to tell themselves? Go to any gun show and you can get an AK47 for a few hundred bucks from a private individual using the "personal sale" loop hole. No background check. No ID. When you pull up to a computer convention...

Lots of misinformation flying around here. First of all if you mine crypto the IRS considers that taxable income as regular income (approx 30% tax rate) and it is at the time of pay-out from mining pool so if you mined 1 BTC when it was worth $1 you owe income tax on that $1 however because...

That's the thing.... I really really really do not want to use the Plex format. Anime episodes generally contain the subtitle group and file CRC32 hash as part of the filename. I think they let you define an XML file with the episode to filename conversions though? It's been a couple years.

The most complicated part of setting up a Plex server is getting it to read & list the episode numbers correctly for my insanely large anime collection.

Plex in my experience is the cleanest just-in-time transcoder for basically any file format you can imagine. Combined with the Android and iOS apps you can watch your collection on your phone without worrying about file formats et all. I still store all my stuff as files on a RAID5 exposed to...

The police in this country are out of fucking control. Even in a so called liberal city like San Francisco. It's time to stop fucking around and it's time to start docking pensions and pay.

He didn't kill anyone. An overzealous cop did. This idiot was exploited the fucked up american police state that doesn't bother to check anything before they break through doors and kill people in their own homes.

When you realize he's gonna get out in 8-10 years on good behavior but the law and order types would rather he get out with zero life skills only to go back into crime. Criminal "justice" in 'merica.

Actually the gun in question wasn't even his. It was laying there and he picked it up to dispose of it, hand it in, etc but it happened to go off when he picked it up. There wasn't even any intent to commit a crime which is why he walked. In that case even manslaughter is a reach.

Damn you wrote ALL that but said very little. Like thanks for explaining what Scifi is about. The thing is I reject your premise right at the door. Science Fiction can be about exploring the human condition sure. But it's not always the case. Your assertion that Science Fiction isn't, and never...

Star Wars is okay but it's science fiction in name only. Basically magic in space. Now it's being designed by committee into cookie cutter money printing crap. Can we please get something that isn't insulting to the audience and is actually different? I don't hate the franchise. I just think...

Most of these dudes are just scared of being divorced and losing half their material possessions with a small minority avoiding it for financial tax related reasons.

Well for one Netflix is now bundled on all the Comcast set top boxes.

Oh what a silly assumption that all these connections are encrypted.

Some altcoins can't be mined with ASIC. ETH for example is designed to be "asic-proof".

Anyone who actually thinks that doesn't really understand how the internet works. The massive amount of money required to make a database of IPs attributed to one service or another means this will never happen. How do you know if any arbitrary IP address is someone's personal website, a VPN...

I did the whole mining thing back in the day. Originally when BTC was like $30 I got a $300 AMD card and made 12 BTC. A few years later when BTC hit $600 I got some ASIC miners for like 3 BTC and only ended up mining 1 BTC. (The other miners never made it. Thanks BFL!) So basically wasted my...

I don't get any of this. Growing up people flew models for fun and it was no big deal. Sometimes they were huge compared to drones. Where a drone can literally be one foot squared these things would have 5 foot wingspans and actually fly like a missile instead of hovering in place. I still...

I love how people are complaining about so called "privacy" when they didn't identify a single person by name. Next they'll be calling for Nelson ratings to not be used anymore because it violates the privacy of the millions watching the Super Bowl. Not just snowflakes but stupid snowflakes...

What is this? 2013? You can tell when a person has no idea what they are talking about when they think that Bitcoin mining is still done with GPUs (for profit). They MIGHT be mining etherium on it or another currently profitable currency but definitely not Bitcoin. It's Xmas! Cards are...