@jordiqui Here's the logo for the dark theme: it will look better than the official one: https://hardlimit.com/logo_tema_oscuro.png

And I'm going to try to push the English forum a bit.

Well, that's a good question. As a happy user of AMD both in graphics and processor, I must say that Nvidia has, as of today, the best gaming graphics card that exists and I'm not referring to the RTX5090, I'm referring to the RTX5080. The best graphics card from the competition, RX9070XT, competes with the RX5070TI and to be fair, the 5070 is faster although also much more expensive. I have the RX9070 and although it's a graphics card that blows your mind, it doesn't come close to Nvidia in terms of technology. And mind you, FSR 4.0 is amazing and a huge leap compared to FSR 3.0 and the performance in Ray Tracing is more than enough to be very enjoyable (unlike the RX6000 which was the graphics card I had before). But even so, Nvidia is ahead.

The only thing Nvidia sucks at is supporting its older graphics cards on Linux. When they move them to the Legacy driver, those graphics cards become almost obsolete (the support for Wayland on older graphics cards is non-existent and soon those graphics cards won't be usable on modern distros). And I, as a Linux user, rule out buying Nvidia for that reason. Nowadays, the use of the old GCN graphics cards continues to hold their own with Vulkan thanks to the support given to them on Linux by the community and because AMD publishes their drivers in open source under the MIT license.

I don't know, I think Nvidia takes advantage of the circumstances but it's still a giant that has CUDA under a proprietary license and has practically turned it into an industry standard and that gives them an advantage through a de facto monopoly. But they are still the best graphics cards, they still have the best technologies, the best software and the best implementation protocols in AI. That's a fact...

I'm putting an app for Android mobile phones:

P2Play

@garciaperales Well, the boards cost €300 including transport, about €25 for nails and screws, €20 for brackets, €10 for sandpaper, €5 for drills, €40 for varnish and brush, €10 for a saw, €30 for cables, boxes, power strips and other electrical elements and I think that's all.

In total about €450 for table and shelf with power strips in both the table and shelf. I still have to give the table a once over with fine sandpaper to polish it, but that won't be much.

I bought the boards from an online store, the hardware from a Big Mat near my house and the rest from neighborhood stores.

Now yes, how much has AI made the work of these things easier

@Clipper The source is good and I don't think you have something absurd like a 14900KS and a 3090TI...

@krampak said in The end of an Internet business model?:

BENDITOS MIS OJOS!!!! What a surprise to see you around here @quique

HEYYY!!!

The years go by, but we're still geeks! I'm still working in IT, so even though I left this forum, I've always been involved in the scene, and I've kept seeing some veterans around here, or I've run into them in other places (physical or virtual).

The truth is that it makes me a little sad to see the forums (this one or others) being a shadow of what they were in the two thousands, but I suppose that to a certain extent it was inevitable. Now it seems that the problems of social networks are getting out of hand, and the reaction is a return to the small: https://uxdesign.cc/small-is-the-new-big-in-social-1f2c9ab4ab43
I suppose everything is cyclical.

By the way, I still have two Abit NF7 that were yours before Now they're part of my retrocomputing collection

Best regards.

Happy New Year, a hug with a dick joke for everyone.

@pablogorean said in What day is today?:

@jordiqui the best are the corsair heatsinks jajajajaja

I just saw the quote. Well, the photo leaves the scientific evidence. Let's see who refutes it. heheheheheh.

Quality Hardlimit, listen.

@Clipper said in Black friday. I'll lie and do it again:

So that's it.
I'm looking at prices of certain PC components, and honestly.
They raise prices in a blatant way and then... Offers

Specifically, he talked about GPU and mn2 4
They took a hit and now a sudden rise.
And in 7 days... We're at black friday price meaning at least the price goes down...
And don't erase the price statistics.

They do the same thing every year xD

@krampak ups! It's true It would be great if @rul3s told us what happened to that PC, which I imagine has already been retired. And if he has made peace with SEUR

The last time I messed around with game servers was with Counter-Strike Source (of which I made a little guide), so I'm pretty out of date.

Power is what you need to have. In the end, any machine that meets the architecture and operating system will work. And if it's a relatively recent CPU, it will meet the performance needs.

In its time (2005-2006) the CS:S server needed a relatively demanding machine that, at the time, was an Athlon XP 2000+ with 512MB of RAM. At that time, the biggest bottleneck was the Internet connection because it only had 1Mbps upload, so you had to play a lot with the server's parametrization so that as many players as possible could enter. And that's not counting the ping that ADSL added (even if it was in fastpath mode). To this day, that limitation has completely disappeared.

Here the only question is whether it's worth it. I don't think a game server is especially parallelizable in terms of CPU, so unless you're going to run several servers simultaneously, it's possible that a machine with a dual Xeon will end up being too underutilized.

@jordiqui Set up all recovery measures and etcs, alternative rescue email, an alternative number (your wife's own) and whatever you can.
In the terminal it would also be good to set up something anti-theft, to be able to lock it, locate it, and more things.

Biometrics is now finally starting to be a standard for identification, that and the mobile through the ISP's infrastructure are the number one unofficial means of identification. Even banks are abandoning confirmation sms to do it also by biometric recognition.
So consider the mobile line and the mobile itself as if they were a master key.

Salu2.

Well a bit late, but Happy 2023 to everyone! What a joy to see that the old guard is still around.

regards!