There was a thread yesterday where most people were choosing arch for their server, I didn’t get it either. Like you, I’d much rather Debian or something else with smoother updates.

Micro loans with Klarna? Duh, its like you haven’t been paying attention to how the new economy works… /S

Sounds like a developer who’s pissed they had to make this hack in the first place, not proud of it, and not the way they’d like to solve the problem. But the external factors they can’t control keep putting up road blocks, so this hack was all they could come up with to temporarily solve the issue for themselves.

Awesome, thanks for the answer!

Is this just specific motherboards, or is it a bug with the actual CPUs? I’m looking to upgrade my old server which is similar to OP, an old i7-4770 and probably going to be buying AMD for next upgrade, haven’t heard of this USB dropouts as I haven’t really been paying attention.

Right, you and I know that, but I worry most people just casually browse the headlines quickly, scanning the news highlights, and don’t put much thought into it. The way I worry it plays out is someone reads the headline, puts no thought into it, ends up in a social situation later where the topic comes up with and then person says “wait, wait I thought I just saw they said…[regurgitates headline lies]” and now the lies have spread and have some legitimacy to them in the social circle, muddying the waters of the topic and causing confusion on truth.

I don’t know much about the threadripper, but lol according to these benchmarks, yes, yes its worthwhile to upgrade, especially if you got it for free.

https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Core+i7-4790K+%40+4.00GHz

https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=AMD+Ryzen+Threadripper+1920X

Tldr: 8,000 vs 23,000 multithreaded benchmark score on cpumark

Well if he says it, it must be true. Why do people even bother posting these stories? Trump says…" “Patel says…” All it does is give credibility to their lies, by posting their lies in the freaking headline.

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Thanks for pointing this out. Its been a while since I’ve been to alternativeto.net and thought that’s what OP was linking to, even visiting the site I just figured ‘oh they did a redesign since last time I was here’ totally didn’t dawn on me it was a completely difference site.

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Well, I guess after looking it up, its actually ‘whaling on something’.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/usage-of-whale-wail-wale

I’ve got a fun one to share from my college programming professor. Similar situation, they had a machine that kept locking up, and this was back in the days of huge mainframes the size of rooms. So they call the repair tech from the manufacturer.

So the repair tech shows up to the office gets the run down on what’s been going on, and goes out to his car and brings in a huge piece of wood and just starts wailing on the thing as hard as he could. The whole office was freaking out thinking this guy had lost it, and he later explained that the memory was a grid of magnetic coils, and the coils would rust and the rust shavings would fall between the coils below, corrupting the memory bits. So he was shaking them loose by slamming the machine with this piece of wood. Lol wild times.

I know there’s a lot of legal areas open source apps have to stay out of, like the reason none of these open source maps have good points of interest databases is because they can’t just import in what google has, for legal reasons. But I feel like for reviews you should be able to click a checkbox that says ‘show google reviews’ or something for the end user, and just webscrapes it on demand for the business you’re looking at.

Even better, there should be an anonymous torrent or something of both POI databases and reviews that you can import into the apps as an end user. That way the app creators are legally protected ‘our app doesn’t directly give the end user google owned data’ but the end user just searches google finds the db file and imports it. Boom! Win/win

You forgot 5.

5. Everyone goes on social media (cough Lemmy!) and bitches about how it’s the democrats fault, thus giving Republicans more positive light, and democrats more negative light in the minds of other readers.

sigh its… Its a fun cycle.

I’ve been clinging to my 10 year old Logitech diNovo Mini, but when this thing kicks the bucket dunno how I’m gonna replace it. Trackpad has been pretty good, and I like the fact that it turns off and is protected when the clamshell is closed so I don’t accidentally press stuff when it gets lost in the couch. We really need an open source mini keyboard so people can make their own and customize buttons, etc.

True, I guess not. But piracy was big at that age group because we were kids who didn’t have our own money, so if our parents didn’t buy the games we wanted, people would try to download them instead. So I fell into learning this detail by necesssity instead of out of pure curiosity or desire to learn more about the computer. I wanted to download Neverwinter Nights or whatever game, and fat32 was standing in my way, haha

Haha at some point it did matter to regular folks though. I remember in Junior high when I would try to pirate games or software on Windows, I learned the big difference between fat32 and the new filesystem Microsoft released, NTFS because I couldn’t download files larger than 4GB on fat32.

Lol alright dude.

Person A: why are we arguing? This is stupid. I’m done arguing.

Person B: continues arguing

I’m gonna go listen to the Monty Python skit now.