@defaultuser That's why they stayed with the phrase from Blade runner:
You've shone with great intensity, it's time for your end.

I think they sell us speed not durability.
In all aspects...
CPU, GPU, RAM, SSD etc...
But of course, we have to have the most powerful PC possible because otherwise not even W11 "works"
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When the drive has already failed it only allows reads, and supposedly you can clone the system to a new drive. In the article they say they tried it with Samsung’s Data Migration soft, without success since it only works on a functional primary OS disk.

They also explain the whole process of updating the firmware, but they don’t clarify anything about what happens to those who are late and have lost their drive.

Most importantly, update as soon as possible. Salu2.

AMD's public relations people have jumped to say that what the CEO meant is that they are adapting to the excess inventory of minorities. They tell investors to look at how smart we are that we are squeezing our buyers to the last cent, but when it comes to light they have to go clean up the mess. They have been left embarrassed and on top of that this is today's bread and tomorrow's hunger.

In this case the market will provide. Since the pandemic, the sale of consumer electronics has skyrocketed due to lockdowns and excess savings. Now there are no lockdowns or excess savings and on top of that PC components no longer age as before. A very cold and very long winter awaits them. This strategy is a kick forward but sooner or later they will have to adapt prices to reality and reality is that people are well served with computers for a good season and there is less and less money for superfluous things.

During the first or second quarter of this year, 22 and 24 TB capacities will arrive with current technology.
For the third quarter, Seagate will launch its Heat-Assisted Magnetic Recording (HAMR) technology on a 30 TB disk for the first time. This technology will increase the capacity of future HDDs (5TB per platter in the lab) and in 2026 Seagate intends to sell capacities of 50TB and above in a single 3.5-inch HDD.

Considering the losses in the sector, we can assume that this technology will arrive in the consumer market after its first iterations and cost reduction.

well, I don't know about Clipper. Production cuts have a limit called economies of scale. Intel's poor results show that maintaining prices by cutting production is not synonymous with success. Removing shifts or having factories closed has a very high cost, something that only compensates if the drop in demand is slight. If the drop in demand is moderate, a manufacturer obtains more benefits by selling more quantity cheaper than less quantity more expensive. And as I said on another occasion, that's while maintaining the cartel of the 4 cats that manufacture each component. When they start to get into trouble and really start competing with each other, the panorama is going to get funny. Now they are holding out because the big shots agree on prices among themselves. When the shareholders start to get annoyed, you'll see how quickly they look for formulas to increase profits, and that goes through lowering prices to increase sales and improve economies of scale.

Current VR techniques still rely too much on tricking the senses and perception in general, I don't think its use will spread until other better techniques are developed.

However, Tony Stark's glasses would be a hit, and I think that could be done (even if Jarvis were the mobile in your pocket)

@cobito It is very good
Although I have the feeling that it may be a message inherited from the code of previous versions, since in practice I have put a later date and it does not affect it at all. It responds perfectly and can be manipulated further without exploding or freezing.

@defaultuser That's what I think, the message only pops up when you try to start the Player while the date is already past the year 2037 and it won't let you start it. But it has been proven that it still works after the deadline if it was open previously, it doesn't trigger a 2038 effect as such.

Best regards!

@cobito said in A SODIMM substitute appears:

@defaultuser I was one of those who thought Dell was trying to pull a fast one on us, but it seems not. This format reminds me a lot of the format Compaq used in their 486 laptops.

The RAM board is at the top right with 8 integrated:

Basically it was a board soldered in parallel with the motherboard through a connector whose name I don't know. In this case, it was a proprietary format, although at this time, laptop parts were generally quite poorly standardized.

Now there are two of us, one day adding an nvme ssd to a Dell I saw that memory module and I said...OMG! Thank goodness we had no intention of expanding the laptop's ram, otherwise my buddy and I would have been in for quite a surprise

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That is, both the software and the instruction set are open source, will it be interesting for IOT 2.0?

@cobito In the ram it's not about manufacturing, what happens is that the "units" where the bits are stored are basically capacitors, and apparently they tend to lose a little of their energy level when they are activated, hence the ram self-refreshes.
Already having ECC, it seems that outside of servers or workstations it's not worth it, it will pass like SDEs I suppose.

@cobito said in Hidden data errors:

The fact that they try to attack the problem of CPUs via software already gives an idea of how slippery the topic must be.

It goes unnoticed to absolutely everything except for specific analysis tools, imagine, maybe this phenomenon was discovered by theory and later verification? who knows.
The case is that it seems to be starting to have an incidence that is worth taking more seriously, between the smaller integration giving less precision of the finish, and the computer plant not stopping growing, it makes sense that at a certain point the control of this phenomenon is crucial.

they mention a tool, the Fire Tool, I haven't seen it but it's sure to be a mess.

@portada-hl @Xevipiu new need unlocked.

The one we could call the Linux task manager receives its 3.2.1 revision, its new features here

@clipper said in A cooler larger than the tower:

As a curiosity, it says that the water pump gives 750 liters per hour...
As far as I remember, in the good old days, in this same forum, pumps of 1500 liters per hour were recommended and I think they were 15 meters (we used bars) so I see it as a bit scarce.

Don't believe it, that's all very relative, it has to be treated as the hydraulic issue that it is and we would have to see exactly what pump it is, and several other aspects.

@clipper said in A cooler larger than the tower:

And speaking of good times...
Who doesn't remember that forum member who made the water block for the CPU cascade and the octopus block?

¿What?

I don't know if it's at a low point, I imagine there are logistical problems, raw materials, etc., but when looking for a Ryzen Zen 4 configuration, I see a Ryzen 7. The listing only mentions the Z760 chipset, I think, a basic liquid cooling kit and now comes the good part: GeForce RTX 4080 16GB. When I saw the prices I didn't understand how they could sell the pc at the price they sell it for, I was flabbergasted. I had only seen those prices years ago on professional-grade graphics cards, but not for gaming. But what are those graphics cards doing in games like Call of Duty?

@clipper What palotes says.
I've seen it in repairs of the ground clamp of arc welders, it welded to the cable very well, and it didn't last even half an electrode jjj.

At high currents the relative electrical resistance of the weld produces a hot spot, and the hotter it gets the more it increases the actual resistivity of the weld material (thereby causing more heating).
You may experience less power reaching you, or even that it melts and dances during the sessions depending on the weld material.
It depends on the sizing of the line, if it's just right as they say, this can happen.

A basic tip for users of those connectors is that carrying the board very hot favors this to happen, simply because the connector dissipates mostly through its legs across the board.
And the other is that having the connector in front of some air current can also take away a lot of heat, and it can be something simple to achieve.

Salu2.

@palotes said in Purges begin at Intel:

It was only a matter of time, and this crisis, like all previous ones, is due to a concentration of resources in the wrong places that has made the economy very inefficient. It is not normal for a country like the US, which has had full employment for a year, to be in a technical recession. How is it possible that a country of hardworking people like this, where everyone who can work is working, doesn't have the decency to grow the GDP? It has been in a technical recession since the summer and in a socio-economic recession starting next year, if not sooner.

It seems that one of the groups at Intel that will feel the impact is in marketing. And the reality is that they have done a terrible job. It is not normal that the A770 is being presented today and no one is noticing. We are talking about a milestone in the industry that consists of the sudden appearance of a third actor in a sector that has had a bipolarity for more than a decade. And no one is talking about it? What are these people doing? It is lamentable.

Then you hear things like that there are Google engineers who earn between 400,000 and 700,000 dollars a year who do nothing. They do nothing because they don't want to and their superiors know it, but the shameless ones don't care because they know they won't be fired. The bureaucracy to fire them is so messed up that their bosses prefer to have them in a corner without bothering anyone rather than doing the paperwork. And Google doesn't care about this whole situation because they are swimming in cash and prefer not to draw too much attention in case the federal government puts them in their place for some ethically questionable business tactics.

It is evident that such a brutally inefficient system cannot go very far and I am sure that the bleeding will end up leading to massive layoffs at other tech companies. According to some, very tough times are coming, a continuation of the disaster of 2008 for not having done our homework. A decade with interest rates at 0% has maintained an incredibly inefficient zombie economy. And it seems that the US tech sector will get the worst of it this time.

In the late 90s (Yes, I'm already a few years old), Intel released a graphic that passed without much fanfare, so Intel is not new to graphics, it has financial muscle, but maybe it doesn't put all its eggs in one basket or allocate many resources to try to take a big piece of the pie. Right now it is releasing graphics late and at a non-competitive price. What can motivate someone to buy an Intel graphic? Well, you release a product late and expensive... not a good future at least with this generation. We'll see later about the drivers, but something tells me they will age worse than the competition's graphics.

Regarding the rest, more than 20% of the dollars that were in circulation in 2020 were "printed" that year. There is an episode of the Uncle Gilito cartoons that the nephews, if I remember correctly, found a machine that made money... the consequence was what we expect. High inflation, high interest rates to bring it down, recession and pain. This is the future that awaits us in the short and medium term. But central banks have known this for a long time. Nothing is casual. The middle class is becoming less and less middle class. Nothing is casual, everything is studied.

Let's look on the bright side.
They will be very fresh
Best regards

Apparently, they are used quite a bit as Thin Clients. Then you have some practical applications beyond pure hobbyism like PiHole, LibreElec or P2P clients. Being small, low power and cheap, you can have multiple RPis doing their own thing.

Well, this unifies the topic a bit, away from proprietary technologies and towards extended application of the capabilities of the latest USB revisions, or at least as far as charging is concerned.
They want any charger to work for any device, and products to be sold without a charger.

What I haven't stopped to look into is whether this already applies to USB 4.

@_Neptunno_ Well indeed, 2021-1998=23. It is now corrected.

Thanks for the notice!