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had the issue that they tied their chip designs to specific nodes.

In fairness to Intel, every modern semi design house has that same issue: a chip is designed and laid out for a specific node, so this isn't really a failing so much as a how-it-works.

Of course, Intel was being very, very, very risky when they were designing for a process that basically didn't exist assuming that hey, they'll have it done by the time the design work is complete and they're RTM.

couldnt just take the design and use it on a different node without a lot of effort

Which is what they had to do once they failed to ship newer nodes on schedule with the new CPU designs, and well, we see how that ultimately cost them a whole hell of a lot, if not ultimately their entire business.

Linux users don’t want to admit that a huge thing that makes people hate Linux is having to type in their password every time there’s updates

Hell, people get mad about having to hit a 'Cool, do that button', let alone something like a password. It's how we ended up with UAC v2, because people were steaming pissed about having to accept when a badly written app was doing something stupid that they just changed the scope of 'stupid' to be much less restrictive.

In fact it's even bled over to OS X, as people are SO mad about entering passwords they're angry at Apple over it, too.

Basically, any time a UI hops in front of you and goes 'Wait! This is important!' people get annoyed, and well, all OSes are moving towards more of that shit rather than less, as if they didn't know that was annoying or something. Glad I don't work in UX or I'd probably lose my mind at how much stupid hostile shit is being added constantly.

Quicksync

Yeah, it doesn't sound like you're transcoding in a way that'll show any particular benefit from Quicksync over AMF or anything else. My 'it's better' use case would be something like streaming to a cell phone at 3-5mbps, and not something local or just making a file to save on your device.

DDR4 and no ECC

That's what my build is: 128gb of Corsair whatever on a 10850k. I'm sure there's been some silent corruption somewhere in some video file or whatever, but, honestly, I don't care about the data enough to even bother with RAID, let alone ECC.

I will say, though, if you're going to delve into something like ZFS, you should probably consider ECC since there are a lot more 'well shits' that can happen than what I'm doing (mergerfs + snapraid).

power consumption

A $30 or whatever they are kill-a-watt plus something like s-tui running on the NAS itself to watch what the CPU is doing in terms of power states and usage. I've got a 8-drive i9-10850k under 60w at "idle" which is not super low power, but it's low enough that the cost of hardware to improve on it even a little bit (and it'd be a very little bit) has a ROI period of longer than I'd expect the hardware to last.

If you're going to be doing transcoding for remote users at lower bitrates, quicksync is still better than AMF, so I'd vote Team Intel.

If you're not, then buy whatever meets your power envelope desires and price point.

For Intel, anything 8th gen or newer should be able to natively do anything you need in Quicksync, so you don't need to head to Amazon and buy something new, unless you really want to.

Also, I'd consider hardware that has enough SATA ports for the number of drives you want so that you can avoid dealing with a HBA card: they inflate the power envelope of the system (if power usage is something you're concerned with), and even in IT mode, I've found them to be annoyingly goofy at times and am MUCH happier just using integrated SATA stuff.

I could be entirely thinking of some other Nap or something; I do know that even on battery it's not impossible for a Mac to wake up and get stuck awake because of a misbehaving app, though I'm probably wrong about which specific feature was responsible.

They're probably safe, since they don't emulate commercially viable platforms via EmulatorJS, but never hurts.

Well, I mostly was reading it as 'I put a new battery in, then tossed it back in the closet.' and was wanting to comment that adding the new battery isn't a great idea, heh.

Anecdotally, but the only leaky batteries I've had are ones that I replaced with new ones, which is why I'm on team no batteries if you're not using it and no batteries if it's not absolutely required to make the system work.

I'm assuming it's just a case of basically depreciated battery sizes being made by factories that aren't putting in the time to do as good of QA as you might get from a more first-tier manufacturer, but whatever it is, even a shiny new battery is a risk to vintage stuff at this point.

where we can’t trust their levels of education can protect them against capitalism run amok

I've been dealing with more zoomer-and-younger kids and uh, it's less that we can't trust that their education level will protect them from the evils of capitalism, but more that we can't even trust that their levels of education are sufficient for them to be able to both read and write, nevermind more complicated things like determining the accuracy of factual data and be able to make a reasonable decision based on you know, critical thinking and analysis.

It's shockingly dire in a lot of places, and it's unlikely to improve, at least in the US, since nobody values education and nobody wants to fund education, and we just elected a pile of geriatric rich white people that think we don't need to do anything but add more Jesus.

And yeah, as adults we've absolutely failed the two most recent generations, and are going to epically, epically fuck up the next one too.

Agree that you should probably replace the battery when you can, but you said this is only sometimes happening?

You might want to make sure that the laptop isn't waking up due to power nap or that there's not a process keeping it awake if it does.

I don't have a battery-powered mac sitting around right now, but google should probably end up giving you useful directions for both of those.

So uh, just a friendly suggestion: don't leave any battery in any computer stored anywhere for any length of time.

If you're storing anything (expecially if it's somewhere that's going to be subject to extreme heat/cold, or humidity or whatever) longer than a couple of months, you should probably be yanking the battery out, because even newly made ones will leak given the right circumstances and enough time.

It's repeatedly happened before; hell this would be the 3rd time this year (at least!).

Speed test from who?

I've got gigabit fiber from AT&T and Netflix's site is the only one that can reliably shove a full gigabit at me. (Or ,rather the 940mbps, which is "gigabit" according to Ma Bell.)

Maybe try fast.com and see if you get different reported speeds?

Maybe the router is just too weak? Well, I used iperf3 between two desktops that are both hardwired in and I got ~940 “Mbits/sec”.

Also this doesn't mean anything: switching is probably handled by an ASIC in the router, and routing is handled by the CPU to keep track of all the NAT table state stuff, so you 100% could have a device that'll pass gigabit on the lan, and only 10mbps on the wan.

The thermalright peerless assassin would be my first choice. Cheap, good, and works on either amd or intel chips. I’ve got two with no complaints.

New (7000 and 9000) ryzen CPUs have an iGPU that can transcode via AMF, so the 'equivalent' would just be buy a modern AMD CPU.

AMF isn't quite as good as Quicksync, but it's probably fine for most use cases for most people, though I can notice the image quality losses when you're doing something like transcoding to 1080p low(ish) bitrate for remote streaming, and so have a very big bias in favor of nvenc or quicksync.

Also, I'm in the more-ram-is-better camp, so buy as much as you want and/or the platform supports.

Not the OP, but capacity: there aren't 20TB 2.5 drives.

(Or 18, 16, 14, 12, or 10TB ones, for that matter....)

Kinda a dead-end product since laptops are all on SSDs, and enterprises have flocked to SSDs as well and that was essentially the entire market for that size of HDD.

Probably 75% of the web is powered by PHP.

And you forgot Wordpress, which literally is 50% of the web all by itself.

I am on the dislike-PHP side of this, but you can't deny that the whole web runs on PHP.

Yeah, I'm just using some cheap NFC stickers from Ali Express.

The thing is that I don't use the dashboard: not every action has a dashboard entry and even if there is one, the amount of time it takes to load the app, open the correct dashboard tab, and then click a button is like, 10x the time of 'tap your phone on the NFC tag, and thing happens'.

On Android anyway: iOS requires you endlessly tap 'Yes, yes I'm sure I meant to do that it's fine just do it already' for NFC triggered actions, and on Android, it just goes 'boink' and does it.

TLDR: it's super faster than hitting a button on the dashboard.

Honestly, I would have assumed 1080p was an acceptable default assumption.

Is this just a case of older hardware, or are there still laptops that don't have 1080p panels at this point?

A quick review of stuff on BestBuy indicates that $150 laptops have 1080p displays now, and anything more than that does as well, so uh, what devices are still using these?

MBAs? Oh my goodness no.

It was a couple of venture capitalists!