Recent content by Firestone

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    News Intel axes Clear Linux, the fastest distribution on the market — company ends support, effective immediately

    Wow this is sad. I never used it but I had several colleagues who were strong enthusiasts of Clear Linux for a long time and I always enjoyed hearing about the new innovations it was bringing.
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    News Intel's Xeon 7 'Diamond Rapids' to reportedly pack 192 cores, 16 memory channels, and 500 watts of power consumption

    Finally. It only took Intel ten years to make a real CPU. If you don't have at least 100 cores why bother
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    News Massive VRAM pools on AMD Instinct accelerators drown Linux's hibernation process — 1.5 TB of memory per server creates headaches

    I'm glad to see Linux continue to grow to support these common hardware configurations.
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    News Desperate PC DIYer appeals for help after spending $20,000 on a build that doesn't work despite returning multiple parts – misfortune began with a...

    You need to ask for help on Level 1 Techs, going to Reddit for a system like this is a waste of time
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    News Rubin telescope to collect up to 500,000 TB of data from 3,200-megapixel camera over ten years — each image is 6.4 GB, facility has its own data ce...

    Cool but let's stop pretending that 500PB of storage is a lot. It isn't. We had over 100PB more than a decade ago.
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    News RTX Pro 6000 crowned the ‘new gaming king’ — but its $10,000 price tag makes the all-gold Dhabab RTX 5090 seem cheap

    It's always funny to see "gamers" make shocked Pikachu face when they realize that no one gives a crap about their silly "gaming" hardware. RTX PRO 6000 is for professionals who will likely be making their company far more money in profit than the measley $10,000 USD price tag. This GPU is going...
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    News Zen 5 comes to small businesses: AMD unveils EPYC 4005-series processors

    "Official ECC support" is definitely a strange thing to tout when Ryzen has supported ECC since at least the 3000 series. I used it with the Ryzen 4000 series and I have it now with my 9900X
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    News Zen 5 comes to small businesses: AMD unveils EPYC 4005-series processors

    This sounds cool and all, but as someone who just made a new home server two months back built around a Ryzen 9900X which I got for $380 USD, I'm struggling to see what the appeal of these is meant to be. Something only business will really use? The features vs Ryzen 9000 looks identical. The...
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    News 64-core Ryzen Threadripper 9985WX spotted in shipping manifests — 16- and 12-core siblings also spotted

    Instead of imagining you could just tell us what these workloads are that people are using it for
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    News Ampere sneaks out a 192-core CPU with 12-channel DDR5 memory

    Very exciting times for ARM. Give it another decade and maybe I won't have any more x86 software I'm dependent on keeping me from jumping ship. For those who can already do full arm workloads this sounds great.
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    News 64-core Ryzen Threadripper 9985WX spotted in shipping manifests — 16- and 12-core siblings also spotted

    People obsessing over 3D Cache don't get the point of these chips
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    Question To clone or not to clone ?

    You don't need to download anything. Every piece of installed software should have it's .dmg or .pkg still in your drive from before. Cloning is bad because you will end up carrying over old outdated configs and similar system files. That's a terrible idea. Only carry over the files you need...