Appreciate it! Like others I probably won’t use this in practice, but its nice to know how if I wanted to.

You got any guides for running the ARM docker containers with root? I already got a rooted phone.

There was a thread yesterday where most people were choosing arch for their server, I didn’t get it either. Like you, I’d much rather Debian or something else with smoother updates.

Micro loans with Klarna? Duh, its like you haven’t been paying attention to how the new economy works… /S

cough Linux Mint cough

Wat. I didn’t say nuttin’.

Sounds like a developer who’s pissed they had to make this hack in the first place, not proud of it, and not the way they’d like to solve the problem. But the external factors they can’t control keep putting up road blocks, so this hack was all they could come up with to temporarily solve the issue for themselves.

Awesome, thanks for the answer!

Is this just specific motherboards, or is it a bug with the actual CPUs? I’m looking to upgrade my old server which is similar to OP, an old i7-4770 and probably going to be buying AMD for next upgrade, haven’t heard of this USB dropouts as I haven’t really been paying attention.

I don’t know much about the threadripper, but lol according to these benchmarks, yes, yes its worthwhile to upgrade, especially if you got it for free.

https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Core+i7-4790K+%40+4.00GHz

https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=AMD+Ryzen+Threadripper+1920X

Tldr: 8,000 vs 23,000 multithreaded benchmark score on cpumark

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Thanks for pointing this out. Its been a while since I’ve been to alternativeto.net and thought that’s what OP was linking to, even visiting the site I just figured ‘oh they did a redesign since last time I was here’ totally didn’t dawn on me it was a completely difference site.

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Well, I guess after looking it up, its actually ‘whaling on something’.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/usage-of-whale-wail-wale

I’ve got a fun one to share from my college programming professor. Similar situation, they had a machine that kept locking up, and this was back in the days of huge mainframes the size of rooms. So they call the repair tech from the manufacturer.

So the repair tech shows up to the office gets the run down on what’s been going on, and goes out to his car and brings in a huge piece of wood and just starts wailing on the thing as hard as he could. The whole office was freaking out thinking this guy had lost it, and he later explained that the memory was a grid of magnetic coils, and the coils would rust and the rust shavings would fall between the coils below, corrupting the memory bits. So he was shaking them loose by slamming the machine with this piece of wood. Lol wild times.

I’ve been clinging to my 10 year old Logitech diNovo Mini, but when this thing kicks the bucket dunno how I’m gonna replace it. Trackpad has been pretty good, and I like the fact that it turns off and is protected when the clamshell is closed so I don’t accidentally press stuff when it gets lost in the couch. We really need an open source mini keyboard so people can make their own and customize buttons, etc.

True, I guess not. But piracy was big at that age group because we were kids who didn’t have our own money, so if our parents didn’t buy the games we wanted, people would try to download them instead. So I fell into learning this detail by necesssity instead of out of pure curiosity or desire to learn more about the computer. I wanted to download Neverwinter Nights or whatever game, and fat32 was standing in my way, haha

Haha at some point it did matter to regular folks though. I remember in Junior high when I would try to pirate games or software on Windows, I learned the big difference between fat32 and the new filesystem Microsoft released, NTFS because I couldn’t download files larger than 4GB on fat32.

I mean, I always buy used business line laptops for about $400 each when I upgrade, but if I plopped down new $1500 pricing for a new laptop, I’d be a little upset if I broke the USB power port. Guess that’s just me though. I don’t like planned obselence, most people don’t seem to really think about that much I guess.

Am I the only one that thinks that USB-C power delivery is a con?

Having the option to charge with usb-c in a pinch is a really nice feature, but for longterm use I’d really rather usb-c plus a seperate barrel jack for power.

The barrel jacks on business line laptops are usually a separate module that if it breaks from catching the cord with your foot and ripping it out of the laptop, you can replace the module. I’m not sure I’ve really seen replaceable usb-c power jacks very commonly, they’re usually part of the motherboard because it’s a combined power delivery/thunderbolt port or something. Now if you rip the cord out the jack is totally fucked And you have to solder a new one on.

How’s the performance for media on that thing? I was eying up the surface go line to replace an android tablet that I mostly use for playing movies and TV shows I’ve downloaded. Think it would do okay playing back 1080p and higher content?