Recent content by mitch074

I did something like that for my Ubuntu machine, it's very easy too - define the directories you want to backup, point to a network share, define the periodicity for the backup, define your encryption key/password, and go. I think the most difficult to setup here would be Windows, actually - it...

Changing the paste is good and all, did you clean up the fans and made sure the grills are unobstructed too? You may want to check that the fans are turning properly. Also, the fan curves in BIOS could be set to run in 'silent', you may want them to be a bit more aggressive.

Yikes. Oh well - that'll just further cement AMD and ARM in the server space.

My reference RX480 8 Gb recently saw some use as backup card after I sold my RX6600XT and waited for my RX9060XT to arrive. It could still play Black Myth:Wukong and Expedition 33 in potato mode, which is nice for a 9 years old mid-range GPU. For BM:W, I had to run the shaders-based emulation...

Note that I ended my previous post on second-hand washing machines... I could go further with the folding@home cluster I built with computer parts going back to 2008, but then that might be overkill...?

Well, I'm not a pro, but I know enough of them that DO care that yes, there is a justification for a purely optical viewfinder. Most would use a DSLR for boring stuff like weddings or as backup, but switch to art or portrait, they pull out the reflex. Still, my point stand, those are exceptions...

Because manufacturing a perfect prism is oh so easy. What do you think the mirror is for ? It's to direct the light to the viewfinder until it's time to actually take a picture (then the mirror flips down to let the light reach the film/sensor). If you use a screen as a viewfinder, your...

Optics in reflex cameras were and are expensive, thus why these retain a high value. Hybrids and compacts are effective, but they don't allow the kinds of optical effects a reflex can make.

True - but then it may be a grid capacity problem, because A/C may be overworked during that time too, in which case you'd need to reduce clock speeds by quite a lot for it to be effective. Since those parts already run at lower clock speeds because they rely more on pure parallelism than max...

ReBAR on fully AMD system running Linux here. No problem whatsoever. Nvidia's drivers : the more intricate the plumbing, the easier it is to clog up the drain.

Is it ? Huawei do manufacture phones and now, being barred from using Android, are running their own mobile OS based on Linux (they only changed recently to a custom microkernel, but at the time they had a major stake in Linux).

I have to read further into it, but I wouldn't be surprised to find that it's nothing more than procedural generation running on shaders units... Slap an AI badge on it and you get the buzz. Still, if they could finally get that out the door, that would be fantastic.

Quad cores are no longer enough, as Windows 11 requires 2 cores to run all its telemetry and spyware. No, the problem with AM5 is that you can't find a cheap mobo, when AM4 allows you to plug a 5500X3D in a brand new €65 B450 mobo and call it a day. Edit : oopsie.

I wouldn't be surprises to learn that it's a wafer + yield problem : AMD are selling as many chips as they can churn out, true - they're also fully active chips running at a high voltage (they all undervolt quite massively). I wouldn't be surprised to see the market flooded with non-XT and/or...

It would require him to install 24.10 first then 25.04 - it's a bit long having to do it twice (it's possible to do a straight update by messing with the repo files but I don't recommend it), when doing a reinstall without squashing the /home directory is a fair bit faster and safer.