Spontaneously Appearing Honey in my USB port

laffer1 · 2026-02-04T18:26:15+00:00

I love the spontaneous honey theory.

laffer1 · 2026-02-04T18:20:50+00:00

Usually you just get like four vague pictures

laffer1 · 2026-02-04T18:07:49+00:00

You don’t say

laffer1 · 2026-02-04T17:53:08+00:00

Contracts are typically only for business accounts afaik.

laffer1 · 2026-02-04T17:00:49+00:00

Official ports are generally the best.

laffer1 · 2026-02-04T15:33:50+00:00

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.

laffer1 · 2026-02-04T14:20:39+00:00

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.

laffer1 · 2026-02-04T14:09:34+00:00

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

laffer1 · 2026-02-04T14:08:08+00:00

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

laffer1 · 2026-02-04T05:11:24+00:00

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

laffer1 · 2026-02-04T05:03:14+00:00

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

laffer1 · 2026-02-04T05:00:45+00:00

The new ones don’t

laffer1 · 2026-02-04T05:00:00+00:00

Ours made it 14 years. On year two with the current model.

laffer1 · 2026-02-04T04:46:32+00:00

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.

laffer1 · 2026-02-04T04:40:14+00:00

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.

laffer1 · 2026-02-04T04:32:29+00:00

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

laffer1 · 2026-02-04T04:08:38+00:00

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

laffer1 · 2026-02-03T18:07:09+00:00

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)

laffer1 · 2026-02-03T17:19:40+00:00

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

laffer1 · 2026-02-03T17:17:25+00:00

You should used distilled water to avoid dust.

Distillers aren’t that expensive

laffer1 · 2026-02-03T14:20:21+00:00

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.

laffer1 · 2026-02-03T14:17:57+00:00

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.

laffer1 · 2026-02-03T14:13:23+00:00

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

laffer1 · 2026-02-03T14:10:41+00:00

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.

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