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[Mitch]

With zram, I could see a some nuance, but for files being written, it's pretty much guaranteed they'll be written far less frequently than read. This...

[Mitch]

I agree. I take it as a more scientific: "more data from the interested parties". It's just a concept of independent verification. When the...

[Mitch]

Is that the thing that responds to EPP or perf bias in the 6.6 kernel? The one you can pass a param and it tells the chip how we'd like it to behave?...

[Mitch]

Anux

I have not found that setting in the bios after looking for it. I've heard that a tool called Smokeless UMAF can set the TDP between...

[Mitch]

I haven't had that problem so far with the FW13 with 7840u, but I've only had the machine for a day. My Lenovo with a 6850u does have that problem, but...

[Mitch]

I have the same machine and similar config and I run on Fedora KDE Wayland and haven't really done much tuning. Idles are pretty good. I think I got close...

[Mitch]

When Linux 6.6 comes out to Fedora and other distros, I wonder if the performance / power profiles and daemons distros provide will use all the new knobs...

[Mitch]

I find it comical that their reply was longer than the article they didn't seem to read.
Not to knock the person. I'm guilty of similar things....

[Mitch]

According to Archwiki (link below), Firefox uses FFMPEG. Does this mean Firefox decoding will work better now? Doesn't FFMPEG still need the proper nonfree...

[Mitch]

Although there isn't much public data, I think zen4 is preferred core for core. However, a hybrid approach might be nice. If they could do 2 Zen 4 plus...

[Mitch]

Valve claims the OLED also uses less power here. They say the overall battery life is 30 to 50 percent better...

[Mitch]

IIRC, zen4 has a mixed lithography. The laptop ones do 4NM finfet while the desktop ones are 5 or 6 I believe.

Zen4 has big improvements...

[Mitch]

I work in IT and whenever the team across the hall would provision new computers, you'd hear nonstop, loud
"HIIIII!!!! IM CORTANA!!!"...

[Mitch]

It's probably largely for new buyers and possible converts from other handhelds. Someone can of course gift or resell a deck, but I don't think I'm in...