This subject is boring and frequently misinterpreted, and I have doubts.
People couch their doubts in History-of-the-world stuff, let's not go into it.
Once a drive has been told to come collect the garbage, when does it actually come collecting it?
I was told when you were all kids that it could only happen when the disk was totally idle, and it's *never* idle except maybe in safe-mode command prompt, or a high level of sleep.
I bought a program all those years ago (for SSD's, the pancake-sized ones) to force Trim, and you could see it happening. The whole system would grind to a halt.
But the program refuses to work on modern SSD's and NVME-M.2's.
We're back where we started, does the drive ever really TRIM ?
See, cuz, a drive slows down, supposedly, when it runs out of pristine space.
Pristine-space being empty+ trimmed (o nevermind)
If this were a new wifi unit I'd be blathering on about frequencies, a cable, the length.
So yeah, boring stuff that comes up every few years and is dropped
(Because everyone's got an asshole-opinion, and doubtless controllers all work a little differently)
People couch their doubts in History-of-the-world stuff, let's not go into it.
Once a drive has been told to come collect the garbage, when does it actually come collecting it?
I was told when you were all kids that it could only happen when the disk was totally idle, and it's *never* idle except maybe in safe-mode command prompt, or a high level of sleep.
I bought a program all those years ago (for SSD's, the pancake-sized ones) to force Trim, and you could see it happening. The whole system would grind to a halt.
But the program refuses to work on modern SSD's and NVME-M.2's.
We're back where we started, does the drive ever really TRIM ?
See, cuz, a drive slows down, supposedly, when it runs out of pristine space.
Pristine-space being empty+ trimmed (o nevermind)
If this were a new wifi unit I'd be blathering on about frequencies, a cable, the length.
So yeah, boring stuff that comes up every few years and is dropped
(Because everyone's got an asshole-opinion, and doubtless controllers all work a little differently)
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I've got time, I can rant....
Imagine you went to a medieval prison, like the one in Skyrim (I *think* it's skyrim.)
The prison was abandoned long ago but some of the cells still have ghosts who never wanted to leave.
Data in windows can be left to rot as soon as windows cuts off its head, but never really touches the actual data, which sits there, for eternity.
Trim (yada harrumph folderol) and the drive is prepared for the next file, which shouldn't have to clean and change the linens beforehand.
Yes the room is marked empty, but it's clean and neat, cells empty, bathroom sanitized, in preparation for the next guest.
Is the maid so surreptitious that she works invisibly, or does she knock loudly at odd hours ("HOUSEKEEPING!!")
You, the tourist, are supposed to be at the zoo, not laying in bed at 10AM.
OK back to TRIM, half the people you ask will say it's surreptitious and invisible.
Half misinterpret what Trim actually is,
half get pissed off
Someone wants to ban you
and you're accused of being a rabble rouser and not agreeing that
"Google is your friend" (full of cracker-barrel tinhorns like the guy who said that)
You wouldn't praise a person waiting on the street for their nice suit, man or woman, they'd think you were an underhanded salesman or look at your rags and say something snarky.
"Congratulations on saving that dog from a bus,"
"You're a hero" (based upon your uniform) would be more appropriate.
In other words, praise the person, not how they look, society dictates.
Even though how they look is of paramount importance (ignore that dustin hoffman movie entitled "Hero")
And so an article that insistently blocks itself
to get you to give your email,
to subscribe, is no longer worth reading, no matter the content. (it's a depressing POV about Taiwan, Covid and um, oh yeah "TSMC")
But it has a real nice picture.
"Nice eyes" is probably the wrong thing to say worldwide.
"Nice uniform"
"You're a hero", yada blah etc.
(Nice eyes)
TLDR TSMC's future seemed bright, until everyone got sick, and now no one really knows (Says the article)
I'll choose to differ with their outlook.
TSMC is so big they can import whoever from wherever,
and raise their prices high like oil companies, they're worshipped from afar, let's face it.
A machine makes chips.
Train someone to run the machine, and make tons
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| Don't cry for me argentina |
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| I misread their headline; it isn't saying anything about a second wave, it's acknowledging that one more single employee got sick. (an employee that no longer works there because he's sick.) I want my video card!! Will I ever get one? Sorry about the sick guy. |
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| I wonder if they sell T-Shirts? |
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| AMD is making Epyc, is making Ryzen 8000's, they're just not saying much (anything) about Video cards |
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| https://www.techpowerup.com/282692/amd-ryzen-8000-series-processors-based-on-zen-5-architecture-reportedly-codenamed-granite-ridge |
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| Fockin a! We are in hell. (and any other depressing quotes you wanna add) |
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| I'm no dog, quit teasing me!! (pant-pant) I'd say that in Taiwanese but it might come out wrong |
Speaking of underhanded salesmen (see my 'lousy' intro), "Piperine" is a fancy way of saying "Black pepper" and whoever told you about Turmeric should have also mentioned Piperine.
What I don't understand is why the expensive version of Turmeric has no piperine, maybe that's from a different company?
Anyhow, my local drug store doesn't seem to sell piperine, but I'm pretty sure they have salt and pepper, and I need both anyway.
This is a note to myself, to buy salt and pepper/piperine.
Today's news is so unbelievably depressing I can't really say much about it.
And Meat was hacked.
Prices may skyrocket (like they didn't already).
And the facebook false-thingy (different can of worms, down, sit, stay)
That box on top of google's front page has some inane political story (go look) while below, death and destruction reign.
and god only knows what the hell you read and declare to be fact.
I'm editing this as I type and it still makes no sense.
Bah.
I want my video card!
Certificate for local system with Thumbprint (yada)4a 86 ca 1a 40 a8 00 e6 80 d0 is about to expire or already expired.
"But questions have to be asked as to how Microsoft’s security certificate for xboxlive.com managed to leak onto the internet in the first place.
This is information that should be treated like the Crown Jewels, heavily defended from unauthorised access because of the potential for serious harm to be caused.
We have to be thankful that remediating the problem is as simple as updating the list of trusted certificates, but you really would hope that a software giant like Microsoft would have such important security certificates under tighter guard than this."
This inscrutable subject is a matter of profit vs everything else. Pissant game musn't be pirated and run by anyone else, musn't be hosted and authorized by any other website.
It has little to do with security (yours), you buy "smart locks" for security.
Trump has many investors, think about it. if all those investors can claim antifa vs qanon, (think tide raising all boats).
"Security is a red herring"
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DIY Infrastructure
Low profit Margin
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