I ran some benchmarks the other day and I was amazed by just how powerful and efficient the M4 Max in my Mac Studio is vs the 9800x3d in my desktop. Not only did the entire system use 2/3 the power of the 9800, while scoring well over 1.5x more. And then the system goes to idle and uses less than 10 watts. Less than just the 9800 at idle.

They’re incredible feats of engineering, only hampered by apples fuck ass software.

3/4 posts surrounding this one were asking for help with Linux.

Also the linux community on lemmy is big enough go have its own dedicated help/support communities.

Chronic case of fanboyism. I don’t like it so therefore there’s nothing good about it.

Nothing is worse than waiting for sudo to time out. I forget how long it would take, but it always feels like ages.

These aren’t massive companies. They’re startups. (and some branches inside of massive companies acting like startups)

Is yours an i5 model or an i7? Mine is an i5 and it’s worthless as soon as it gets hot. But my friend got an i7 model and it’s amazing what a fan can do. Just having any cooling makes a huge difference.

There’s 3D models for clips to strap a fan to the back of the machine and let me tell ya, it does wonders. They should have never shipped one of these without a fan. They thankfully fixed that on the SP8 and up, but that doesn’t help us much.

For massive companies space is as costly as the price of the storage. Especially these AI companies don’t care much about the price of things.

Just like 10, windows 11 reserves a lot of ram, but it’s not really using it. When you need more ram it will unload a lot of things. It’s just sometimes too damn slow at it, especially on a device like a surface which has pretty pokey hardware. (Despite on paper it supposedly being much better)

You can try those de bloat scripts. Instead of waiting for windows to unload the shit you can just stop it from loading in the first place. On a VM of mine it made a pretty big difference, but on my SP7 it seemed to not work(?) it didn’t seem to do much. I’m generally not a fan of those though because they tend to break a lot of things. Like one of them turns off hibernation which is a huge no no on modern standby devices.

Are now? Haven’t they been using flash first?

Hard drives suck for that work load. Their seek times are huge, their throughput is awful, and they’re worse storage density than HDDs. You can fit 24 2.5" ssds into a 2u server. 16TB in a 2.5" > 24TB in 3.5" SSDs were first to skyrocket in price vs HDDs.

How does piefed treat them differently?

It really doesn’t matter. Proxies are usually configure at the application level while VPNs at the system level.

For torrenting I really don’t think “dns leaking” is really a problem. So as long as they both encrypt your torrenting traffic they’re both doing the same thing.

Wireguard + OpenVPN works well for me.

OpenVPN fully supports multiple simultaneous connections. But Wireguard is such a pain in the ass with this. But Wireguard dgaf about OpenVPN connections.

I’ve been looking at VPNs, but it feels weird, to route everything through my home IP

You don’t have to route all traffic through the VPN. Only traffic for your home network.

Who knew: watching your child doing meth will still get them hooked on doing meta. (Not sure why autocorrect changes it to meta but I’m leaving it)

I just leave my torrents until deluge starts crashing. If one thing is super popular I’m not gonna stop it from boosting my ratio. Most sit idle with almost no interest 95% of the time.

Yes, yes they do. And many are considering that they’re doing this.

A slower CPU sucks, but swapping sucks even more. Is the ram upgradeable? You can get 16gb ddr3 sticks of ram. Idk how much EOL/the ram pocalypse has affected their pricing though.

Why would that make you an asshole?

TPM is built into every 8th Gen. Intel and Ryzen 2000/3000 series CPUs.

7th Gen. and older machines are pretty dire by modern standards unless you had a top of the line i7, or an HEDT equivalent (did they still make those then?). 1st Gen. Ryzen suuucks for single core performance, but for video editing it’s probably ok. But you’d have to pick your codecs carefully. Even modern CPUs chug with certain codecs.

Even if it’s windows 11 that they meant then what are they doing professionally that runs at acceptable speeds?

If this is actually for work where you get paid money you’d probably be better off financing a new computer and doubling your output.