Posts by Steve Davies 3

Re: Nvidia do everything else?

AFAIK, NVIDIA and Linux do not play that well. Their drivers are very bloated. I've found that AMD graphics work a lot better OOTB.

I've just checked one of my systems and get the following

03:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Picasso/Raven 2 [Radeon Vega Series / Radeon Vega Mobile Series] (rev c5)

This is running AlmaLinux with a 4.18.0-425.13.1.el8_7.x86_64 kernel.

I've never had to fiddle with anything graphics related (as it should be)

As for 'It only took a day' to configure with Windows.... All I can say is WTF are you playing at. Oh wait, that is windows for you. Always has been half baked.

Re: 7mm????

If the EU puts its hand in their collective pockets then they MUST insiit that Intel bring their latest 1.8nm (or whatever it is called) FAB to Europe.

If not? Tell them to take a hike and get a company that will make cutting edge wafers especially for the Car Industry.

Re: it just doesn’t add up.

Perhaps it is slurping up all that lovely WiFi traffic and sending it to Bejing?

Avoid at all costs unless you want to do some PEN testing on an isolated network.

Re: allow them to be used as self-driving taxis when not in use

Don't forget the public liability insurance... (if you can get it that is)

Don't forget that the TaxMan will want a significant part of that income

Never mind, the Cultists will love it and that will be enough for the Emperor who seemed short of some new clothes this week

re: How About

Sorry but that ship has sailed.

If you take your statement to its logical conclusion then ALL touchscreens are headed for recycling. Almost all Mobile Phones, Tablets and a host of other gadgets are doomed for landfill.

It is not only touchscreens that are on the chopping block. My Hob, oven, dishwasher and washing machine all use touch sensitive controls.

Touch is here to stay.

While I hope that Apple does not make a Touchscreen Mac, if they do then I will try my hardest not use it. If I want to touch control something then my iPhone is right there. Keeping my screens free of fingerprints is hard enough as it is without the temptation that a touchscreen would present

The downvotes tell a story

that there are a good number of Tesla cult members active on this site.

Muskrat had really (IMHO) gone over to the dark side since moving to Texas and being best buds with No 45 and two deep red Governors.

Re: exceptional expenses

Yeah, all those 'C Suite' golden parachutes.

Re: Server boot time

How much of the year is spent rebooting a Linux Server... Come on now, what percentage is it? 0.000001% perhaps?

Unless it has crashed at a peak time 10 seconds or 1 minute does not make a hapeth of difference in the grand scheme of things.

That's why I've never really understood this fascination with boot times for servers.

I just want it to boot properly every time I need it too.

My own website is approaching 300 days of uptime. I will swap it over to the backup server over Easter just so that I can take the box apart and remove the accumulated dust and detritus from inside.

Barring a hardware failure (which is why the database is backed up to the backup server 4 times a day) it will function very well for years.

The only time an out of band reboot is done is when there is a zero day kernel vulnerability that needs to be patched.

Properly configured server run for months and months. But none of those beat the old VMS Cluster that I used to run. The cluster had not failed in more than 15 years. Nodes could come and go from the cluster with ease. All part of the design that was introduced in 1983. It is a pity that Linux has never really got that sort of thing going.

Re: fit for political use.

So that is who wrote the Resume of Representative George Santos (US House member). Full of lies on top of lies on top of lies.

He was a fund manager for a Ponzi Scheme. That makes him perfect to be a republican politician.

Re: Only 8 years old...

My late father bought me a very nice watch(Sekonda) as a graduation present way back in '75. I wore it for a month and it stopped. After letting it sit for a week, it started working again. worked for another month. Rinse and repeat until I simply gave up wearing a watch. I did replace the watch with a 'Half-hunter' that was made before WW1. That still works today. No batteries to run down.

Now I hate having something on my wrist.

Upgrading

I've just upgraded my mid 2015 15in MBP to an M1 16in MBP and the difference is dramatic. Work all day on battery power and no fans blasting away almost as soon as I open Photoshop.

After seven years of faithful service, the old one now runs AlmaLinux and serves as my wordpress dev system. It was well worth the money. YMMV naturally.

Re: Tesla has the same stability as bitcoin.

That is about the best comment on the matter that I have read.

I was in the market for an EV about the time of the "funding secured" text. I passed on a Tesla and nothing that he or the company has done since has convinced me otherwise.

Not selling spares to owners is also another big red flag.

People talk about the 'Apple Walled Garden'... El-Fruity has nothing on the mile high walls the Musk has put up around Tesla.