KillingTimeItself

ironically, i’ve found that razer has particularly good open community support on linux.

It’s actually pretty good. Works, unlike synapse, which is fucking malware that tries to reinstall itself repeatedly.

it’s going to be ret conned if you give it long enough, just like every part of the bible.

this entire thread is about software being dogshit? (this specific comment thread is about compression being moderately improved on one console, but that’s not really significant)

i have a better one, corsair ICUE. 4gb for a fucking png simulator.

uh, bad news for you.

All programming is done in software my guy.

uh, please do ask, why does opening a fucking glorified text and image processing app require 1 gigabyte of ram.

Who wrote this software? The guy from the bible who was the model for greed and gluttony? Jesus christ.

a lot of modern technology and software is built on the foundation of work built by the web browser industry, it’s not necessarily a bad thing, but it’s not necessarily a good thing either. Provides a lot of nice features, native integration into a web browser, industry standard security and encryption procedures.

That’s about it though, Outside of that, running a dedicated version of that app is almost always some bullshit built in electron, which is a horrible buggy mess with horrible performance. Nothing stops devs from integrating these features into a standalone application… But, they likely won’t since they’ve already developed a web browser version.

I also have some problems with the way web tech is generally built, it’s built with the expectation that you will host and treat it as a web app, which is fine, it works. But i prefer not to host services i use via anything web related as generally i find it both intrusive, and problematic, in the instance that a DNS server goes down for example. (it’s not very likely, i know, but still)

I also think a lot of the networking protocols are fairly bloated, but that’s not as big of a deal, it’s just annoying.

anyway, enough of my ranting. Matrix is actually a specification for a set of communication protocols based on the foundation of web tech, it’s highly universal, and inter-compatible, which is great. But it sort of stops there. There are several server implementations, and numerous front end implementations, none of which seem to be particularly, interesting. There’s numerous electron front ends, a few that aren’t (though they won’t support most features) etc, stuff like that, it’s just. Not clean.

mumble is great for VOIP.

Matrix seems interesting, but i think it might be a little bit too heavy handed, im not personally a fan of web tech, though there are other things like xmpp as well.

revolt is meh, apparently their dev team is hostile to self hosting, so there’s that. There’s also spacebar, which is a reverse engineered implementation of the discord API, could be interesting.

oh no they’re definitely stupid, that’s for sure. I’m just providing the two available scenarios in which they would be right lmao.

NVMEs will throttle if they are inadequately cooled. Pretty much only folks who are new at buiding computers and don’t adequately cool their NVMEs experience this.

yeah, but it shouldn’t be that significant though right? You’re talking like 10% slower speeds to anywhere probably like 50% of the speed, which for modern NVME ssds is basically perfectly usable in most cases. But i’m not up to speed on pcie 4.0 and 5.0 ssds, so idk the specifics.

if they wrote good code yeah, evidently they didn’t write good code if they’re struggling to process 60k lines of a database lmao.

They must either be O(n^10) complexity or something retarded like that for this to be the case. I wouldn’t put it past them.

Plus a lot of reads is nothing really, for basically all databases, unless you’re doing an unsmart thing with how you’re reading it (like scanning the whole database over and over). If you’re not processing the data, it’d be I/O bottlenecked.

again, i’m assuming they aren’t very smart, since this is an issue in the first place.

not personally, i may have seen a video or two of it happening, but it’s hard to tell whether the head is dragging against the platter, or it’s the bearing, either one of those makes horrendous noise.

If you’re worried about it happening on a drive you own, you should copy that data somewhere else as a backup, ideally sooner rather than later. If you’re curious about the health of the drive you do stuff like SMART tests as well.

Yeah, most drives are solid state now, unless you’re buying hdds for archival purposes, still cheaper and denser in most cases. It’s a low probability failure, until the drive meets EOL, in which case it’s a mechanical wear part, either the motor or the bearing fails. One of them will fail first, probably the bearing.

The bearing failing would likely result in the HDD overheating as a result. Assuming the platter still spins, but that’s the only scenario i can think of where that would happen, unless you dump a very specific amount of continuous current into the read arm coils. That might also cause it, but it’s not likely at all.

An ssd “overheating” is more likely, but it shouldn’t cause too many issues, maybe premature degradation over long term use, and slowing of read/write speeds, or in some cases, an improvement, but other than that it should be business as normal. You would have to hit it with like a heat gun, to get a hardware failure or something like that.

no. but generally spinning things that spin at several thousands of RPM that are spinning on a bearing, that no longer have a bearing usually sort of uh, tend to be VERY noisy.

thank god, i am going to be ok, i was worried it might be contagious (it’s not, he just has brain damage)

doesnt matter if you know how to program, john deere is just going to put some autistic encryption and ID locking on their shit, what needs to happen is for john deere to stop fucking doing this.

Most tractors are walking computers anyway, farmers are genuinely the most multi talented people you will ever meet in your life.

computers are a tool to anybody who uses them?

If you’re using a tool, it goes without saying, you should probably have at the very least, a cursory understanding of it’s function. Lest you injure yourself gravely.

no but a web dev should have some knowledge basis on what the ever living fuck their AIDs code fuelled by nothing but the cheapest source of caffeine and brain damage they have even does.

This is the entire reason why half of the internet is just broken, stupid developers who don’t know how anything works, but know how to code, making dogshit implementations of anything and everything they can get their hands on.

It doesn’t matter that the learning is segmented, you should STILL be learning about computer hardware and it’s architectural choices, it’s literally the reason why programming languages work the way that they do.

the only reason farmers are afloat financially is BECAUSE they can rebuild an engine if needed.

Just look at the john deere right to repair shit. It’s literally a huge problem.

dude is 100% talking about ssds. NVME ones at that, he’s just stupid.

it is, in the select event that your platter bearing fails, in which case it would be very, very obvious.