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A fools errand. It's less risky and more profitable to sell the shovels, than to dig for gold yourself....

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Why shouldn't it be? TX2 is king of the ARM boards, nothing else even comes close. In recent years AMD has hinted at wanting to advance the ARM platform,...

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This is awesome news for those of us who manage RHEL systems in their day jobs, and want the ability to tinker with RHEL at home (without paying the license...

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No kidding, I'm shocked by how Epyc utterly demolishes Xeon Gold in every benchmark. Seems AMD's claims hold true, that a single socket Epyc competes...

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Dunno. Considering the difference in price, I dont much care either. As good as VirtualBox has become, there aren't many reasons left to stick with...

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Have an Alix 2D13 myself running pfSense 2.3.1, so I'm not thrilled about the discontinuation. That said, the Alix platform is fairly old at this point,...

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Think about it, there is literally zero demand for Microsoft Windows. People want MS Office, and people want the latest AAA games, and thus they tolerate...

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All true, but this can be mitigated somewhat by adding this to root's crontab:

@reboot /sbin/tuned-adm profile latency-performance
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x2, gamers are not generally very technical. They can click through a GUI, but the moment you ask them to type something on the command line, you've...

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My day job back then was building supercomputers for DEC (later Compaq) customers. Specifically the two I was involved with were the supercomputers at...

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I remember eagerly compiling KDE 1.1 on my DEC Alpha in 1999. I think it took a week to finish. Good times.

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No not trivial, I agree it's not trivial at all from an engineering perspective. I said it's trivia. trivia != trivial. Confusingly similar English words....

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Don't forget microphones, speakers, joysticks and gamepads, printers, etc. There are a ton of USB devices that have very low bandwidth requirements....

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It's because intel had large volume OEM's that used the Pentiums and Celerons in embedded systems that use ECC. For example, I've opened up rack mount...

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Lynx is a perfectly capable web browser...

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Agree with everything you're saying, the performance per dollar is not that informative when comparing intel vs AMD. It's far more useful when comparing...

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Is there some other intel architecture you had in mind? Itanium, lol?


Not really, multi-core means "multiple cores per sock...

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You can say the same about their CPU's, until AMD forced their hand with Ryzen, Threadripper, and Epyc. Watch as intel magically decides to start beefing...

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In other words, "Thank you AMD"....

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Not sure what you're saying here. I've never known it to matter what the price of the board is vs. price of the CPU. Sometimes one is more, sometimes...