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I’m using an AMD system as an OBS Studio streaming system, and Linux was not great. I first set it up with a Ryzen 5 3600 and Radeon HD 6750, running Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, because I th…

In short, Apple does things in non-standard ways without explaining how to get another OS to work. Apple doesn’t prioritize lack of binary blobs. The EFI firmware is all proprietar…

It’s Wired.co.uk. British humor is less reverent than what’s practiced in the US.

To expand on that: The design challenge of high-performance CPUs today is heat. Too much heat induces throttling. Putting low-priority stuff onto efficiency cores reserves the powe…

My impression was more than a little regionalism. KDE came from Europe. GNOME came from America. Most distros that I know come from America. In addition, Richard Stallman made lawy…

Those negative effects were not necessarily linked. Prop 13 was written by a lobbyist for commercial landlords, and corporations have always benefited the most from it. https://www…

It’s not the will of the market because the people with power pass laws to funnel resources even more to people with power. https://www.epi.org/publication/the-color-of-law-a-forgo…

Difficult? Yes, a billion times yes. Most of the stress on land comes from exclusionary laws. People with power don’t want poorer people (and especially people of another race) to …

> Also, doing burnouts and donuts on public streets sounds fun but it leaves the road covered in tire rubber and I imagine it smells awful while they’re doing it. It indeed does sm…

There’s a very good chance that the MacBook is outdated or otherwise broken by the time the SSD fails. I’ve been using SSDs for about 10 years, and I’m not the heaviest user, but s…

The mortgage interest deduction was an accidental side-effect of pro-business regulation, and it doesn’t advance any reasonable societal goals. It’s effectively a regressive tax br…

That’s sort of a broken window fallacy. A direct stimulus doesn't take away people’s time and materials producing things that nobody wants.

My knee-jerk reaction is this doesn’t seem like a great idea. I’m pretty sure Android would never have gotten so big without Google’s cash infusion, and even so they depended on Mi…

It’s not just a California issue. Pretty much all of post-war (World War II) American development is functionally insolvent. Actually, not having enough residents per square mile i…

One difference, as highlighted by the YIMBY Action lawsuit against the California Department of Housing and Community Development, is that both Beverly Hills and San Bernardino are…

7-Zip. It does a lot more than just 7z archives. I don’t want to see adware naggy WinRAR ever again.

Correct, you don’t need to care. But the commons only needs to be a tragedy if you let it be a tragedy. Just because others behave badly or worse doesn’t give you the moral right t…

…So it can route 2.5 Gbps, by cutting out Linux’s entire networking stack and rebuilding the minimum necessary in eBPF. Not slowed down by NAT or TC yet. How do you do the I/O? As …

I would not have guessed SuperH, but I did not use Dreamcast or Jornada. 32-bit CPU with 16-bit instructions seems weird. VLIW had a lot of hype. DSPs had already proven it, and It…

In terms of raw data rate, each byte of data on 802.11g takes the airtime of about 3 bytes on 802.11n. Since 2.4 GHz WiFi penetrates obstacles so well, that’s airtime that you’re e…

We thought the US was not stupid, and then we elected Trump. Never underestimate emotional motivations. P.S., not saying that China will attack Taiwan, just not ruling it out.

In addition, NVIDIA is the GPU to get for gaming, not AMD. NVIDIA and AMD trade blows in terms of price for performance throughout the product range, but there are no scenarios whe…

For me, it’s primarily because this device has stood still while faster, cheaper, more powerful devices with lower power consumption and more fully open-source firmwares have enter…

I have one of their dual-channel mini routers, the GL-AR750. The preinstalled OS is a fork of OpenWRT that comes bundled with Wireguard, Samba, and several other useful programs, b…