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There has been for some time now. "Love is love" and all that....

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CoC's create a welcoming environment just like Communism creates an economic utopia....

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Ugh, I sure hope not. It's bad enough that most new cars come with touch screens within reach of the driver. Sure they look spiffy and modern, but the...

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Ok, so with "some vendors" hitting 64 TiB of physical memory, that must mean either 14 sockets of latest Xeon Platinum, or 32 sockets of EPYC....

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I probably don't understand how OS paging works here, but why do we need to increase from 256 TiB limit, when today, Xeon can only do 768 GiB and EPYC...

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Interesting, didn't realize this was a thing. I guess it's pretty new then....

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HDMI is a living room interface for content consumption devices. Not the preferred connectivity for a desktop computer. I'm not aware of any Television...

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It was a joke, lol....

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Biggest changes to the ISA since 1965, woah, I had no idea intel iGPU's have been around for so long!

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Makes sense, that probably is their intent. But it kind of takes the "universal" out of universal serial bus. These devices only work in these...

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That's a good point. Not only do you pay more to get less performance than Ryzen, but also have to budget +$60 more for a high end cooler. No thanks....

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This has been the trend lately in the Linux kernel world. Linux used to be a choice OS for re-purposing old hardware. Not so much any more. Probably NetBSD...

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Yes I read your entire long post, and very much agree with. You're one of the few around here that has an accurate view of these global issues....

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You underestimate the business world. I have customers with Compaq DL380 G2 servers, circa 2004, still in production service. We're talking Pentium 3...

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Man, intel really needs to step up their game in iGPU's. Seems like they've been stagnant in this area for years now. The new Ryzen 3200G and 3400G...

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It is not uncommon for different technologies to share existing layer 1 cabling and connectors. It makes sense. Why re-invent when an existing cable...

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This is accurate. When I was building DEC Alpha supercomputers at DEC/Compaq in the late 1990's, those machines all had Gigabit Ethernet cards. They...

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Yes but only if you use the proper certified cables. They look the same as non-certified cables, but don't worry, nobody will be confused by this. And...

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So it is NOT backwards compatible with USB 1.0/1.1? That's a pretty glaring omission. There are tons of older HID devices, printers, label printers,...

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This discussion thread is so.... lol. Just lol.