Posts by GraXXoR

Another open source project dies of neglect, leaving thousands scrambling

Re: Yeah, right

Oh you sweet traditionalist, you!

Cheaper 1 GB Raspberry Pi 5 lands as memory costs go through the roof

Re: But just think

Yeah, but that's assuming we'll still have jobs and enough residual wealth to buy anything beyond subsistence.

Re: Ouch

Mainstream branded DDR5 RAM prices have exploded... Take this 32 GIG of Corsair PC5-44800 (16x2) just reached 100,000 yen in Akihabara's Yodobashi Camera, the largest electronics and appliance store in Japan. I purchased that in September for 22,000.. That's close to 500% what my school purchased it for 3 months ago.

That's $US 640 for 32GB which it $US 20 per GB...

The last time RAM was this expensive was around 2003.

AI has literally set RAM prices back 22 years.

Senators propose to let users sue tech giants for harmful algos

Re: Welcome to the digital petri dish: where childhood goes to Mutate

mentioning mushroom... ladies in the White House shuffle nervously.

Nvidia pushes out hotfix after Windows 11 October update tanks gaming performance

"Flagship" operating system...

I believe the whippersnappers would say "flagship" is doing some heavy lifting here.

Cloudflare coughs, half the internet catches a cold

Re: Let me guess ... DNS

more like Clownflare at this point.

GPU goliaths are devouring supercomputing – and legacy storage can't feed the beast

Idle cycles are burning cash? Yeah but not burning cash nearly as fast as active cycles used to generate titty pics.

Why Elon Musk won't ever realize the shareholder-approved Tesla payout

Re: What's next?

And that's not even taking into account that BYD are eating their lunch.

Re: Insulting half of humanity

I clearly remember seeing the photo of a woman holding that sign up giving Trump a warm welcome to Scotland.

Memory boom-bust cycle booms again as Samsung reportedly jacks memory prices 60%

Re: I lucked out

That would cost anywhere up to $400 from a major electronics retailer (Yodobashi Camera, BIC Canera, Sofmap) in Japan at the moment!

Funny how a 60% price rise ends up nearly tripling the cost of "premium" RAM in Japan.

Here is an entry from kakaku.com link, a popular tech price tracker in Japan for the most popular RAM tracked at the top 50 local retailers on and offline.

Shows price of 2 x 16GB crucial PC5-44800 sticks has gone from 15,000 Yen ($100) to 45,000 Yen $300 in the space of 6 weeks.

https://kakaku.com/item/K0001540697/pricehistory/

$300 for 32Gb is hitting $10 per GB again... Like backin 2005, around the time when I first saw RAM fall below $10 per GB!

Ubuntu Unity hanging by a thread as wunderkind maintainer gets busy with life

Re: Forced Child Labor in the Linux Mines

THAT was your takeaway? Welp, we found the Edgelord.

I'm actually kinda worried what will happen to the Linux kernel when Torvalds steps down/dies.

AI investment is the only thing keeping the US out of recession

Re: They have a Plan B.

Hi there, I’ve been reading in the local newspapers (I live in Japan) that this weekend just gone, new Japanese Prime Minister has backtracked along with her finance minister saying that it was only a proposition rather than a binding contract, and that the 500 billion would not be under Trump‘s control as to where it is invested after all, or whether it would actually be invested. Even if it is invested, they say that it would take a decade or so to disburse the investments.

This comment came out soon after Trump boasted about the US keeping 90% of the profits from all investments to themselves while only returning 10% to Japan.

Korea on Sunday also got on board and basically use the same playbook to backtrack their $350 billion proposed investment in the US also. They have a stronger case though since the debacle with 300 odd Korean workers being imprisoned and deported..

I’ve been saying that about bitcoin for years, but it just keeps going up and up.

Windows 11 update breaks localhost, prompting mass uninstall workaround

Reminds me of an episode of Fringe where Walter attempts to lobotomise himself.

Re: Of course we all know the permanent fix

I love Notepad++.

It’s somehow both “no nonsense” and “do anything” at the same time.

Re: Of course we all know the permanent fix

Quite different to my experience.

I installed Linux and it immediately recognized :

Gfx card

Sound card

USB AUDIO DAC.

Roland Keyboard

Gamepad

Analogue joystick

And what blew me away was it recognized

Epson B500D network printer circa 2008

And

2 x 8000U 8” USB-Mini (not even micro) displays from the same year.

Which not even Windows or MacOS recognizes without proprietary drivers.

These last two devices were the final reason I was holding on to a Windows 11 install.

I guess you were trying to build an Arch install or Gentoo or something.

Re: Of course we all know the permanent fix

I reread that but can’t put my finger on what point youre trying to make.

Leak suggests US government is fibbing over FEMA security failings

Props at least for not using the grossly overused “gaslighting”

Hardware inspector fired for spotting an error he wasn't trained to find

Re: RE: I'm just trying to imagine the mess

It’s like you met my wife…

Windows 11 update leaves Blu-ray and TV apps stuttering

Re: There is a workaround

The retarded, less efficient cousin of Bin Laden.

US senator warns 'China is cheering' for proposed NASA budget cuts

Re: China is cheering... every day

While cutting space x is obviously a bad move. The US could avert money by. Oh I don’t n ow, actually generating taxes from their rapidly growing numbers of deci-triillionaires, their billionaire partners and their companies.

Both Haiku and Linux get new FOSS Nvidia drivers

That interesting. I’m daily driving Haiku on my 4770 based Thinkcentre Micro M93 (?) with 16GB RAM and an SSD replacement for the HDD and it has been fine for what I use it for. It runs EDSM star map and EDAstro web apps while I play Elite Dangerous and plays my network shared music.

It’s fine for casual use.

It’s have also installed it on

Atom 160. Atom 330(?) thin clients with built in touch monitors.

Ion graphics based AMD thin client

Dell based SIS chipset (!!!) Celeron thin client.

Intel 3770 based Thinkcentre micro

4970k Intel X97 chipset(?) mobo PC from 2012.

8th gen intel Thinkcentre micro.

Fujitsu i3 9th gen laptop.

I love the UI because it’s perfect for mini monitors such as 800x640 and 1200x1024… and low power machines.

Only bug I notice with mine that iceweasel has a distracting square around the cursor when you move it.

Haiku Beta 5 has really started to push the stability and usability as well as decent improvements in network speed over Beta 4.

I really hope Haiku dev work continues!

Type-safe C-killer Delphi hits 30, but a replacement has risen

Re: A colleague of mine uses Delphi/Lazarus

IIRC that was called single pass compiling and was one reason why my pascal compiled so much quicker than C back in the day.

Here's the ugliest global-warming chart you'll ever need to see

Re: Just another alarmist global warming rant

And when they focus on specific regions, you people then say "But you're disregarding the rest of the data" or "You're just cherry picking the hottest places."

There's no way to have an actual scientific discussion with people who abandon science the first moment they see Trump's glistening rod.

Re: Just another alarmist global warming rant

He literally (in a non Gen-Z sense) said "Drill baby Drill!"

Re: Just another alarmist global warming rant

And yet somehow drilling for oil and fracking making a whole group of influential billionaires much wealthier as an impetus for saying climate change being fake is somehow a non issue..

but no, it's the scientists who'll apprently lose their jobs just because... or if they somehow disagree with.... who exactly.... that are the real liars.

Pretty pathetic argument...

Re: Just another alarmist global warming rant

jesus, you sound like my wife...

You lost any shred of respect with "Pandemic".. You probably use words like MSM, too.

Next you'll be saying vaccines have microchips in them.. and Adrenochrome exists... and the world is 6000 years old.

National Science Foundation staff axed by Trump fear for US scientific future

Re: Relax already

34% ... ketchup?

Re: Bad for the US I suppose

Wow... talk about uninformed.. Bernie has literally (and in a non Gen-Z sense) been pushing for workers rights for decades.

Haiku Beta 5 / In tests it's (Fire)foxier / It pleases us well

I have had it running on my old 4770k ex gaming rig as a side monitor to my main gaming rig for viewing web pages etc. since B5 came out.

I also have a copy running on an old i3 8th gen intel CPU laptop with a SSD and it’s startlingly fast to boot up and get to the desktop. Like really, really fast.

I finally also have an 8 inch Atom based industrial touch screen AIO pc with an 8GB Compact Flash card and 1GB of RAM from a lab where it used to be an autoclave control panel which is actually finally usable. And it’s also really funny to see just how little system resources it uses in the background.

Haiku is now properly in use daily by me at least and I can’t wait for at least intel drivers for video playback or 3D

Microsoft adds another problem to the Windows 11 24H2 naughty list

Popped another issue in the sock.

Wifey got annoyed at me last time I popped an issue in a sock.

Also, your nasty AI thumbnails with janky hands should be on the naughty list.

AI hiring bias? Men with Anglo-Saxon names score lower in tech interviews

Re: You can't add arbitrary data to remove bias.

I still remember my university days when the photographer was trying to make the new website images of our lab and told us in no uncertain terms that we had to hire several people of colour (he did not use this as words exactly), two wheelchairs (“for a couple of actors”) and a “bunch of girls” from the art department to wear white coats and try not to look like a fool holding random pieces of equipment and wearing safety goggles.

Back in the early 90s our undergrad engineering department almost entirely comprised white males.

Re: You can't add arbitrary data to remove bias.

I don’t usually like car analogies, but this one is 100% spot-on.

Fedora 41: A vast assortment, but there's something for everyone

Re: Fedora here

Yeah. I’m the same. I’m pretty agnostic when it comes to distribution. But I assume it’s because I’m one of those more casual users who doesn’t know enough about Linux to really appreciate the subtleties and has to do a “google +reddit” search for most solutions anyway.

I currently have Linux on a dozen bare metal machines (from two full workstations to half a dozen thinkstation Tinys to brace of RPis in a mix of Mint, Debian, ELive and Suse Tumbleweed) but still know very little about, say, the difference between snap and flatpak.

Re: If I ruled the world...

Was that 49” a Samsung “Oddity” G9 by any chance?

Mine’s been generally a good boy over the past two years apart from 1px checkboard grids occasionally triggering the display to dim noticeably.

But online Reddit post horror stories tell many sordid tales of light leaks, dot marching, dead backlight zones and signal compatibility problems and bad firmware updates.

The Register takes AMD's Ryzen 9800X3D for a spin

Re: Sold out

If you read the comments on any of the tech tubers review videos, that is pretty much the gist of it. Many said “waiting for X3D”.

This! 100%.

I run a school classroom with iMacs for the students.

It runs everything I need. Vs code arduino IDE, Creative Suite etc.

Homebrew for python etc.

But Gaming? You need Windows or Console.

That’s why I have gaming machine with a 49” ultrawidescreen and a 4090 in the corner of the lab as well.

To put the education edition Mac Mini inter pespective:

Mac mini with 16gb RAM 256gb SSD : $500

Double the RAM and SSD : $1100

You could buy TWO MACHINES for cheaper than doubling the RAM and SSD.

It is 25% more expensive to add 16GB RAM and 256GB of SSD alone than it is to buy an ENTIRE MACHINE with 16Gb RAM and a 256GB SSD.

Former SK hynix chip engineer gets 1.5 years in prison for IP theft

Flaunting doesn’t mean what you think it means.

You mean flouting.

Top 10 billionaires make nearly $64B in post-Trump election stock surge

I see you’re a shareholder in KY.

Re: The only good news we'll get this week

That’s not counting the billions that were diverted to Kuntschner since 2016 to deflect attention from Trump.

Buckle up, admins – Windows Server 2025 officially hits GA

I just realized the list time I used Windows Server was WS2005. Holy smokes: that’s two decades ago.

Mind blown how quickly I got old.

AMD teases its GPU biz 'approaching the scale' of CPU operations

I can’t help but feel this “AI” boom is turning just a wee bit bubbly.

What is all this money actually doing? Is it generating real profits and driving efficiencies?

I guess I’m just too old to really understand why MMLs a.k.a. AI is absolutely dominating the entire marketing landscape right now.

Apple quietly admits 8GB isn't enough in 2024, M4 iMac to ship with 16GB as standard

Re: And what about our friend Linux.

When you say “Americans” are you applying this blanket statement to all of them or just the ones in the US?

Re: And what about our friend Linux.

I would have loved to have had an Archemedes for 199 quid. Was that educational price or white van price?

macOS HM Surf vuln might already be under exploit by major malware family

That bug has existed since well before sequoia. I noticed it as far back as Catalina at least where certain USB drives of mine ( not all of them, strangely) would just disconnect randomly on my main Mac or transfer data at some ridiculously low speed, throw random errors or just lock the machine up.

You could argue that there’s a problem with the affected USB cases’ interface, but none of my High Sierra Macs or even my Windows PCs have any problems.

Anyway, this has nothing to do with the article so not entirely sure why you brought it up.

Linus Torvalds affirms expulsion of Russian maintainers

After reading this thread for 20 minutes I had to scroll back to the top to remember what the initial article was about. lol.

Arm reportedly warns Qualcomm it will cancel its licenses

Re: I can guess where this is leading

Methinks you don’t know your ARM from your elbow. J/k.

There are multiple ARM architectures *currently* in production and widely used.

Not to mention all the coprocessors and SOCs based on those chips with wildly different capabilities.