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TwoNineAon Onboarding with an M1

I got 2 LG 4k monitors plugged into my Mac Mini M1, one USB-C (43 inch), and one HDMI (27 inch rotated). In both cases the Mac runs them at 60 hz, the 43 inch slightly scaled and the 27 inch around 1440p scaling. If I put them at full resolution (unscaled) they still run at 60hz.

TwoNineAon Cockpit – Integrated, glanceable, web-based interface for servers

I prefer virt-manager to Cockpit's VM management, way more feature complete.

TwoNineAon Nvidia announces mining GPUs, cuts the hash rate of RTX-3060 in half

Yup, there are laptop mining farms in China. Anything with 30?0 GPU in it is instant buy for them.

TwoNineAon Creating my awesome Windows 10 dev setup

I've been running 2 Ubuntu servers running 3 gaming VMs. I agree to a certain extent that hardware choice is key. I got burned by AMD GPUs not resetting so switched to NVidia GPUs.

Didn't have issues for almost a year.

Rule of the thumb for me is: AMD GPU for host, NVidia for guests. I use AMD GPUs for host because open source drivers are awesome and makes kernel/version updating easy. NVidia for guests is no brainer since they don't have PCIe reset issues. For motherboard, pick one that has good IOMMU groupings, usually x<3|4|5>70 for AM4 or x299 for Intel, or go Threadripper.

TwoNineAon Creating my awesome Windows 10 dev setup

Nothing stops anyone from using a Linux desktop as their workhorse and gaming in a VM with GPU passthrough.

With tools like Looking Glass (https://looking-glass.io/) you don't even have to leave the Ubuntu Desktop environment.

TwoNineAon U.S. Capitol Locked Down Amid Escalating Protests

Fuck you, I won't do what you tell me!

TwoNineAon Apple Preps Next Mac Chips with Aim to Outclass Highest-End PCs

Never tried, some people had success with NVidia GPUs. However, if you are willing to put your host in sleep and wake it up, then it should be much easier. Sleep usually resets the GPU and lets host drivers grab it.

TwoNineAon Apple Preps Next Mac Chips with Aim to Outclass Highest-End PCs

Should handle gaming fine, you can even pin VMs on specific cores (I didn't bother). My kids play No Man's Sky with me and the 12 core 2920X handles it no issues whatsoever even though the game is atrocious optimization wise. Should have gotten a 16 core so we all three could play on same box.

X<3|4|5>70 boards should allow 2 GPUs in separate IOMMU groups. My old system was a 1700X on ASUS Prime x370 Pro with 2 gaming VMs. Only issue with x?70 boards is the IOMMU groups for USB controllers. On the Prime x370 Pro, only one USB controller is in its own IOMMU group, so second VM needed a USB passthrough.

On the Threadripper, due to the vast amount of PCIe lanes, on the Asrock Taichi x399, I got two USB controllers in their own IOMMU groups and each of the 4 PCIex16 slots it's in its own IOMMU group. It's a dream virtualization motherboard.

TwoNineAon Apple Preps Next Mac Chips with Aim to Outclass Highest-End PCs

I got really burned by AMD GPUs, had a 5700 XT for myself and rx 580 and 570 for my kids. None of them reset properly, had to build special kernel, and even sometimes then they just froze the host. Sold them all, got NVidia cards, never had issues since (7+ months).

TwoNineAon Apple Preps Next Mac Chips with Aim to Outclass Highest-End PCs

Yup, el cheapo GT 710 for OS, and 970 GTX and 1050 Ti for gaming GPUs.

TwoNineAon Apple Preps Next Mac Chips with Aim to Outclass Highest-End PCs

https://mathiashueber.com/pci-passthrough-ubuntu-2004-virtua...

I use NVidia video cards for VMs, AMD cards (other than BigNavi) have VM reboot issues.

TwoNineAon Apple Preps Next Mac Chips with Aim to Outclass Highest-End PCs

> Threadripper is NOT a CPU for gaming.

I run two gaming VMs for my kids on my Threadripper server.

TwoNineAon 72% of smart TVs and 46% of game consoles hardcode DNS settings

Maybe they don't want you to block spying/ads on them.

TwoNineAon 2020 Mac Mini – Putting Apple Silicon M1 To The Test

> the Apple M1 here is using 7-8W total device active power.

Anandtech showed almost 27W power draw under full load for the M1 Mini.

TwoNineAon Black Screen After MacBook Pro Update to macOS Big Sur

> There's probably a few tens of thousands of stressed out freelancers right now who can't pay their rent this month because their only machine just got bricked by the Big Sur update

I opened my late 2013 MBP, unplugged the IO board's cable, rebooted, OS finished upgrading. I left it unplugged for now (lost WiFi/BT, HDMI and one USB) not an issue for me, was using TB to displayport and gigabit lan adapter anyways. System works and reboots fine without IO board being plugged in. Ordered a 14$ replacement board from eBay.

Do steps 17 and 18 of this:

https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/MacBook+Pro+13-Inch+Retina+Disp...

TwoNineAon AMD Zen 3/Ryzen 5000 announcement [video]

The latest BIOS for ASUS Prime X370 Pro has ECC explicitly as a configuration option. Seems to work in Linux. I am using 2x8R ECC 2666Mhz RAM from Kingston.

TwoNineAon 27-inch iMac gets a major update

I thought iMacs have an easy way to upgrade the RAM no?

TwoNineAon Reddit and LinkedIn apps also caught copying and pasting clipboard contents

I paid for Apollo (3d party Reddit app), one of my best iOS app store purchases.

TwoNineAon The World Doesn’t Need a New Gigantic Particle Collider

"First, I don't expect anything relevant to society at large when it comes to doing research on the fundamental nature of reality"

This is an extremely narrowminded view. Lasers, MRI, X-Ray machines, etc ... are all made by engineers after physicists tried to understand the fundamental nature of reality. One would argue that modern electronics are possible because research was done about Quantum Physics, a fundamental nature of reality.

TwoNineAon Microsoft removes manual deferrals from Windows Update 'to prevent confusion'

As far as I can tell, yes I can download them and apply them but it's at my control when/if.

TwoNineAon Microsoft removes manual deferrals from Windows Update 'to prevent confusion'

After my GPU drivers were force updated by MS and caused blue screens, after my local admin account was disabled by an update, I decided to switch my network connection type to metered in windows settings. Now I am in full control of updates.

TwoNineAon Docker install and upgrade guide – CentOS and Ubuntu

Looks like blogspam. Basic docker documentation already has the instructions. This page offers nothing extra.

Edit: Yup, user is spamming his own blog, often posting more than once the same article.

TwoNineAon Ask HN: How do you RSS?

Self host FreshRSS and use Reeder on iOS.

TwoNineAon Apple Doubles the Price of RAM Upgrade on Entry-Level 13-Inch MacBook Pro

My question to Apple (and others) would be:

Why is in 2020 a "Pro" laptop coming with only 8 GB of RAM?

TwoNineAon Linus Torvalds has switched to AMD

Core count is not that important for games.

TwoNineAon Dow falls 2,200 points, trading halted, as rate cut fails to calm markets

Let's not forget, he called the pandemic a "Democrat hoax".