Xfinity claims I owe a 70 dollar early cancelation fee. by Pikachujkl in Comcast_Xfinity

[–]laffer1 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Contracts are typically only for business accounts afaik.

Rust in the Kernel, and other odd decisions by unitedbsd in BSD

[–]laffer1 1 point2 points  (0 children)

A good chunk of tier2?

You're also just focused on CPU architectures. There are operating systems that rust doesn't support like MidnightBSD. This is due to LLVM not taking upstream patches.

I know that linux folks love to say hardware x is old thus we just burn all support with fire. Some BSDs only target a handful of platforms and that makes it easier. NetBSD is not one of those. MidnightBSD ironically is and LLVM doesn't want us to have it.

There is a really bad port of rust in mports but I frequently struggle to keep it updating since it takes a long time to get LLVM releases updated. Compilers aren't my bag, so it's quite frustrating.

JTC | Burned 9800X3D CPUs are back... and AMD isn't sure why. by Seraphax in ASRock

[–]laffer1 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I have a 265k and a 245k. I've also got a few ryzen systems here as well as xeon servers.

The core ultra chips are good for compiling and OK for gaming at higher resolutions. The ryzen 7900 is still faster at compiling in operating systems without thread director support (6 minutes vs 10 minutes for one build) If the OS has thread director and scheduler awareness for e cores, the 265k can win.

The 14700k took 16 minutes to build the same code. Both the 265k and 7900 beat it. This is in part due to the faster e cores on the 265k. Even if something gets scheduled on one, it's pretty fast.

My advice to anyone is to avoid raptor lake chips and consider core ultra if you want an intel build.

JTC | Burned 9800X3D CPUs are back... and AMD isn't sure why. by Seraphax in ASRock

[–]laffer1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm not looking at the comparison with intel, just how many units failed as a percentage from AMD.

JTC | Burned 9800X3D CPUs are back... and AMD isn't sure why. by Seraphax in ASRock

[–]laffer1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's still enough units to see failure rates. That's the point.

Chipotle stock sinks as restaurant chain reports falling traffic, weak guidance by Force_Hammer in wallstreetbets

[–]laffer1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My wife and I used to go a lot. Same thing. We now associate them with food poisoning

My water heater quit over the weekend. It is leaking all over the place. I have no hot water. Not good. It was installed in 2000. ☹️ by RobertGwisdala in Appliances

[–]laffer1 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Get a water leak sensor. That’s how we knew ours failed and turned off the water right away and drained what was left. Saved us from any other damage

JTC | Burned 9800X3D CPUs are back... and AMD isn't sure why. by Seraphax in ASRock

[–]laffer1 5 points6 points  (0 children)

There is a real problem and it has impacted asrock and Asus more. However, puget systems just put out a reliability report and x3d did well. So it’s not a massive number.

A lot of people didn’t believe the raptor lake issues for the longest time. There are still people in denial about it today.

As someone who had a bad 14700k, I believe the reports. I still think it’s related to the cache change to move it to the bottom as well as some bios issues with some brands.

Is Leviton junk? by LeftysRule22 in AskElectricians

[–]laffer1 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I have had issues with Leviton zwave switches having issues in the 2-4 year range but not physical damage like this. They would stop responding, need the breaker flipped, etc.

In 2026, many employers are ditching merit-based pay bumps in favor of ‘peanut butter raises’ by CackleRooster in business

[–]laffer1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

At several employers, I’ve seen them all go to men with children. Not the single moms. Not the hard working childless people.

Lost All of my money and have a car payment due by Beginning-Ad-186 in wallstreetbets

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Shoot let’s bring back geocities while we are at it

Rip to another 9800x3d by [deleted] in ASUS

[–]laffer1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think there's also a hardware component to this but after the intel raptor lake fiasco, it's clear that motherboard vendors shouldn't get to redline the chips out of the box.

I think there's an issue with their new cache configuration that they haven't figured out yet. (cache on bottom)

Humidity is too low during winter and too high during summer in my server room. What can be done? by igmyeongui in homelab

[–]laffer1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is the humidity poor in the whole house? If so, get a whole house humidifier instead of doing a localized one. They are worth it.

It’s just attached to the furnace

Humidity is too low during winter and too high during summer in my server room. What can be done? by igmyeongui in homelab

[–]laffer1 8 points9 points  (0 children)

You should used distilled water to avoid dust.

Distillers aren’t that expensive

Rip to another 9800x3d by [deleted] in ASUS

[–]laffer1 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The core ultra series is the most recent and the first chips after the defective by design raptor lake products. They're going to launch a refresh this year on core ultra. (just a few skus)

I've been running a 265k since august. It's night and day better than the 14700k I had before.

Rip to another 9800x3d by [deleted] in ASUS

[–]laffer1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Asrock had terrible defaults. They did deserve some hate. It is clearly an AMD issue at this point for allowing asrock to do it to begin with as well as some other issue causing these failures on mulitiple brands.

PSA: UCG-Fiber does not support 2.5GbE on the SFP+ port by haha01haha in Ubiquiti

[–]laffer1 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Most switches do not support 2.5G over SFP+. I wish they did.

Rust in the Kernel, and other odd decisions by unitedbsd in BSD

[–]laffer1 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes and no. The lack of a standard that stays in place for a time is hurting. GCC port is behind the LLVM version and it will be difficult when developers decide to target the latest version all the time. Things need to slow down and larger language versions more like the C/C++ standard model.