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thulle··on ZFS 2.1.6
There was some discussion about waiting for 6.0 in the pull request for 2.1.6, but they chose to ship this and instantly open a branch for 2.1.7 pull requests.

https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/pull/13886

thulle··on Sony Android TVs waste 25W in standby due to built-in Google Chromecast
> If it is a class A amplifier, I think that would make sense.

The much more standard class AB still uses 25% with no output, 100 W idle would be a stereo 200 W amplifier. Or a 5x 80 W surround amplifier.

thulle··on GCC's new fortification level: The gains and costs
> I believe Gentoo either already has or is in the process of doing it.

There's a bug with the patch to enable it, tracking issues in other packages, so they seem to be in the process.

thulle··on EVGA terminates Nvidia partnership [video]
Yeah, I'd much rather have some screaming plastic in a case where it can't be seen than a screaming fan that's heard in the next room.
thulle··on Amazon fails to overturn New York City union election
Does the calculation include losses due to people avoiding them?

Many boycott them here in Sweden, in part due to their views on unions. And while they often have the lowest price in comparisons, they are not doing to good economically last I heard.

thulle··on EPB launches America’s first community-wide 25 gig internet service
Detail? Derail?
thulle··on Acoustic Fields: How to Build a Diaphragmatic Absorber (2019)
Double Bass Arrays might be an interesting rabbit hole :)
thulle··on New NAND flash paves the way for super cheap, extra large SSDs – TechRadar
Nowhere does it say that this actually would be cheaper.
thulle··on Ford CEO Had Enough: Dealers Raising Prices Need to Stop or Else [video]
> ERP

Enterprise Resource Planning apparently, not Erotic Role-Play.

thulle··on Vaccine Rejectionism and the Left (2021)
> Then they can explain why they're so happy with these not-vaccines that don't prevent transmission or infection.

Is this even a question? They prevent massive amounts of death.

thulle··on 200TB SSDs could come soon thanks to Micron's new chip
Quad bits to triple bits is 4/3=1.33. Taking your way of counting to the extreme: if I have a cell that can handle 1 million bits, I can't just add an extra bit of storage for another 1 million bits of storage. I have to actually add the full megabit of storage.
thulle··on A looming copper crunch and why recycling can’t fix it
How does a 50 Hz system frequency result in railroads running at 1000/60 Hz?
thulle··on EFF: Twitter Has a New Owner. Here’s What He Should Do
Saudi investors with 5% share is pretty far from "complete control" though?
thulle··on A severe heat wave is gripping India
Article:

> Portions of northern and western India, especially areas near the borders with Pakistan and Nepal, may endure the most extreme heat.

Wikipedia:

> Summer in northwestern India starts from April and ends in July, and in the rest of the country from March to May. [...] > The hottest month for the western and southern regions of the country is April; for most of North India, it is May. - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_of_India

Seems to align fairly well?

thulle··on Nickel Blowup Made a Lot of Trouble
> (It’s never going to be worth more than a dollar.)

Yeah, about that.. https://mobile.twitter.com/Bitfinexed/status/150262605519403...

thulle··on Audiophile Linux
Abandoned? It still links to Google plus.
thulle··on Does superdeterminism save quantum mechanics?
> there's no more free will here than a plant turning to follow the sun

That's a bold claim without presenting anything really backing it up?

thulle··on Chinese tennis star recants sexual assault allegations against CCP vice-premier
This occurs regularly you know? And to most of the people involved she's just another prisoner.
thulle··on Intel updates mysterious ‘software-defined silicon’ code in the Linux kernel
> OC'ing ECC is generally a terrible idea, if that's what you're doing.

How so? For example I can see when the higher summer temperatures becomes an issue and reduce my timings, then tighten them again as it gets colder. No more random crashes where I wonder if it's my RAM or something else.

Currently doing 3333MT/s CL14 on 4x16GB of 2666MT/s ECC. I use CL16 in the summer. Since the memory sticks barely are affected by the heat, and that ECC errors occur on the same slot of the motherboard regardless of which stick is in there, I assume its the memory controller on the CPU in combination with four sticks of memory that's the limiting factor here.

thulle··on The Yamaha DX7 synthesizer's clever exponential circuit, reverse-engineered
A while after OpenZFS implememted ZSTD compression I started using it for backups, opting for the highest level of compression and scheduling it very early in the morning so it'd run when I wasn't by the PC when it ran. Occasionally I'd be awake around then anyway, and I would experience 5-30second UI-freezes.

After fiddling around a bit I decided to try the MuQSS CPU scheduler and was blown away. Not only was the scheduled backup unnoticeable, on top of that I could throw a 16 thread compilation job on my 8core/16thread CPU and I'd not notice the system being under load. I might've lost a few frames per secone when occasionally playing some FPS games, but possibly lowered throughput be damned, this was bliss.

Unfortunately it seems to not be updated anymore. So I tried the newcomers on the block, BMQ and PDS. With BMQ I would start dropping iSCSI connections since my PC wouldn't manage to reply to a ping in five seconds. PDS fit better. While MuQSS could handle a load of 40-45 before I started noticing UI-latency, PDS tops off at around 20. And when it starts to stutter, it's worse than with MuQSS, but since it's not that often that I'm at those loads I'm quite OK with the current situation.

All this with untuned schedulers, they might behave very differently with some tuning.

thulle··on TikTok overtakes YouTube for average watch time in US and UK
If I'm not missing anything it seems to have about the same features as NewPipe, which additionally supports downloading video/audio for later consumption. Any particular reason to switch?
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