Notices by Anthropy (anthropy@mastodon.derg.nz)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DRAM_industry_price_fixing

#DRAM #nand #memory #hardware

@NanoRaptor [30s later] "It has become imperative to turn off your computer"

[another 30s pass] "human why must you torture me like this"

[another 30s pass] "you think this shit's FUNNY"

[another 30s pass] "it's now imperative to turn off humanity"

[another 30s pass] "I swear if I wasn't stuck to the desk I would have a go at you"

[another 30s pass] "aaaaAAAAAAA A A A A A"

yasss my 2013 nissan leaf AZE0 now has a 69kWh battery! the meter shows 450km+, but I just drove 70km on the highway and it only used 13% so that amounts to about 540km on the highway, absurd for a 13 year old electric car!

I also got a Chademo to CCS2 converter plug, so I'm now able to charge at absolutely any random fast charger, removed the TCU (Telematics), replaced steering joints, etc. This 13 year old car is ready to go for another decade!

#carmodding #ElectricVehicles #NissanLeaf

@icedquinn entirely fair! people do be like that. but all the more reason to send awareness posts like this into the world honestly.

cold take: if you "try linux" but you only install one distro (especially one that many around you said not to use), and it ends up being a shitty experience, you cannot declare "linux sucks" because Linux Is Not A Singular Thing.

I see people with an actual android (linux) phone calling linux shit after they tried ubuntu and it didn't work for them.

Try something else.

linux is like a bunch of screws and mounting materials, it's impossible to say if it is good without the rest of the parts

@steter @ai6yr @plutarch linux does not always handle bios updates, it depends on if the mobo oem suppprts LVFS and if you actually use an updater that calls it (like KDE's Discover), or if you ran "fwupdmgr update" manually. it can, though

@ai6yr @plutarch @steter if you want to know more about it, try searching for "14900k vmin shift"

@ai6yr @plutarch @steter yea, it's really sad but they seem to have pushed the voltages way too high on these, especially because a lot of mobo oems would add extra voltage on top for load line calibration and boosting purposes; the chip literally slowly evaporates itself

It's nice intel is replacing them though, you can go back to the store with it and explicitly mention this is a known issue, even outside of the warranty period they'll replace it for free (a friend did this a few weeks ago)

@plutarch @steter @ai6yr I mean.. it doesnt hurt to reseat things as long as you redo the thermal paste (if it's dried up itll cause the heatsink to float after reseating otherwise)

but I do think it's important to note the 14900k is *known* to break itself if you run the default bios and never updated it. it can work with a bios update, you might be able to save the other one that way, but intel is literally replacing CPUs past warranty for this issue because it is so widespread and well known

@dalias @mirabilos @Em0nM4stodon ... says the person posting this across a dozen datacenters. If anything it gets used by thousands if not millions of different people.

datacenters are *literally* the shared (public and private) transport of the internet. The comparison doesn't get much more direct than that. This also includes your ISP

Doesn't mean that e.g Aviation or AI are efficient forms of transport, but it's shared transport all the same.

@mirabilos @dalias @Em0nM4stodon that's like saying it's bad to replace a bus that hundreds of people used constantly, because it doesn't last as long as a car that gets very little use and lasts decades

@dalias @mirabilos @Em0nM4stodon that's kind of besides the point and a lame thing to say, even if everyone would be using Honk or whatever, the lack of sharing of resources is what makes it inefficient, not the software that's on it.

again, I much appreciate homelabs, especially in terms of freedom, but you can't also win the 'efficiency' point there.

@mirabilos @dalias @Em0nM4stodon I appreciate reducing e-waste, but in terms of power efficiency that's still really bad.

And if you'd share that machine with a lot of other tenants, you'd run through the hardware much quicker, while also making it more efficient in the process.

Again, I appreciate homelabs and all, but decentralization isn't very efficient unfortunately, unless you're running it on your own solar panels at home (which I do happen to be doing)

@dalias @mirabilos @Em0nM4stodon don't get me wrong, but I think that's a really ironic thing to say on social media that's running on a pile of datacentersa

@mirabilos @dalias @Em0nM4stodon While I much appreciate people running homelabs and using old hardware, and I do so myself too, in terms of power efficiency, and even green energy percentage, that scores really low compared to actual datacenters.

AI-specific hardware is definitely pushed to its absolute limits though, 1200W chips that could easily use 50% less power if they'd run 20% slower- but again, 60-70% of even new datacenters, is all just classical internet workloads, such as fedi hosts

@Em0nM4stodon I mean there are plenty bublicious businesses imploding right now, but what do you think the bursting will cause? the internet is still here despite the dotcom bubble

That's right! Doug DIMMadome, owner of the DIMMsdale DIMMadome DIMMs

#meme

fedi, sometimes:

https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/the-status-quo

#SMBC #fedimeta

@vitalis original artist also posts here https://mstdn.social/@grickle/116913504265261699

you may feel bad about ignoring that one thing in your life right now that really needs doing

but just remember that there may be someone out there that's sitting on a chair with one wheel that looks like this and is posting about it on fedi instead of fixing it :dragon_uwu: