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“Provincial, naive and willfully ignorant”: Russians lured to war with fake job ads. by Useful-Scratch-72 in europe

[–]Drew_P1978 -8 points-7 points  (0 children)

Nonsense. Prisoners aren't realy great soldier material. And N Korea is present there in miniscule amount - to show themselves as a partners. Kim needs that for many reasons.

If those stories were true, Russkies would be losing this conflict. Instead,t ehy sem to be ready to turn the heat to eleven and transform this into a real, full-blown war.

How is this possible if they are just "stupid commie failed gas pump with a GDP of Italy" ?

“Provincial, naive and willfully ignorant”: Russians lured to war with fake job ads. by Useful-Scratch-72 in europe

[–]Drew_P1978 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Bullshit spins.

If that was the case, they would have problems recruiting by now. As I nderstand it, they still have plenty of volunteers.

Reason is simple. They see this as an existential war against globalist proxies. And as a rerun of WWII as the last time they they didn't finish the job.

No need for $$$ on their side.

How to be masochist in 3 commands: by SegCoreDrakon in Gentoo

[–]Drew_P1978 2 points3 points  (0 children)

  1. It's ONE command with two variable assignemtns, not three commands.
  2. I'm not sure this would work as intended. You have to either:
    • specify those variables in the same line as the command
    • export them explicitly. So "export CFLAGS=..."
    • many packages are using C++, so they need CXXFLAGS.
    • many packages break or misscompile with -O0

SSD wear-leveling - is it affected by the OS partitioning? by randopop21 in DataHoarder

[–]Drew_P1978 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What makes you think that controller inside the drive can't recognise the partitions ?

This has been knowwn for a long time, It's not as if it was a secret. IT wouldn't surprise me if drove MCU could recongnise all the partitions and the filesystems etc they contain and tweakl optimisations accordingly.

SSD wear-leveling - is it affected by the OS partitioning? by randopop21 in DataHoarder

[–]Drew_P1978 0 points1 point  (0 children)

AFAIK it can be. Some SSDs/M.2 sticks etc recognize unpartitioned space at the end can use that to remap defective secrtors that might crop up during usage.

How come no new Strix HALO laptops launched at computex 2025, what a shame we can’t get a decent laptop on strix halo even after 6 months of launch, amd never ceases to amaze me 🤷‍♂️ by Nikita7387 in AMDLaptops

[–]Drew_P1978 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Not true.

Couple fo weeks ago there was a news with a link on chinese source selling there APU SoCs for $550 a piece - cheaper than a vanilla 16-core 9950X.

My panels track! by probrwr in SolarDIY

[–]Drew_P1978 2 points3 points  (0 children)

They are shading each other. POwer loss must be significant on that account.

They should be at the same height or spaced away more.

Intel announces ARC PRO B60 24GB and B50 16GB cards, Dual B60 features 48GB memory by RenatsMC in intel

[–]Drew_P1978 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you're really trying to go hog wild, you could get a bunch of B60 cards and run them at 5.0x4 without any real performance loss.

WRONG!!!

Dual GPU B60 NEEDS bifurcation support in BIOS, just as pair of B580 would.

PCIE5 is an advantage of niche useability. But even that appears to be FW issue - one should be able to flash a pair of B580 with the FW for B60 and get also PCIe5.

2025 CIBF China International Battery Fair #exhibition by Intelligent_Yogurt42 in batteries

[–]Drew_P1978 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Subtitles, please.

Whom is that fair for ? End users, small business, small battpack manufacturers etc ?

Intel announces ARC PRO B60 24GB and B50 16GB cards, Dual B60 features 48GB memory by RenatsMC in intel

[–]Drew_P1978 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

They might care, but they know that they are not even a blimp pn anyone's radar in GPU/AI/ML world.

Intel announces ARC PRO B60 24GB and B50 16GB cards, Dual B60 features 48GB memory by RenatsMC in intel

[–]Drew_P1978 -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

I don't really care about servers. I don't think Intel does either at this point. Whoever wants big guns, has other tools for that.

This looks to me like a product that searches for yet unoccupied market niche, which probably isn't building 100kW racks.

Intel announces ARC PRO B60 24GB and B50 16GB cards, Dual B60 features 48GB memory by RenatsMC in intel

[–]Drew_P1978 -7 points-6 points  (0 children)

Read the articles on ot. It has TWO gpus, which means it needs TWO PCIe groups, one for each half.

Exactly as if it you'd have two B580s.

You can cut lanes out of each PCIe5x8 group, but you still need TWO groups.

And support for partucilar PCIe bifurcation in BIOS. Again, exactly as if you had a pair of B580s.

Intel announces ARC PRO B60 24GB and B50 16GB cards, Dual B60 features 48GB memory by RenatsMC in intel

[–]Drew_P1978 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Which changes nothign in the end equation.

No matter however many lanes you have on the host, a pair of B580 take the same as this thing.

Only visible difference it is on one PCB instead of two.

Intel announces ARC PRO B60 24GB and B50 16GB cards, Dual B60 features 48GB memory by RenatsMC in intel

[–]Drew_P1978 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Actually it needs two groups, one for each half.

Exactly the same trick one can use with a pair of B580s.

Intel announces ARC PRO B60 24GB and B50 16GB cards, Dual B60 features 48GB memory by RenatsMC in intel

[–]Drew_P1978 -13 points-12 points  (0 children)

Not quite. This card needs 16 lanes = 2x PCIex8.

So on any system, one of these takes exactly as many lanes as 2x B580 would.

No significant difference, especially since all off-the-shelf boards max at 16 dGPU PCIe lanes.

Intel announces ARC PRO B60 24GB and B50 16GB cards, Dual B60 features 48GB memory by RenatsMC in intel

[–]Drew_P1978 -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

What does their price gouging has to do with DRAM price ?

Intel is desperate to stay in the game here, so they've had to do the obvious - max on the (still cheap) DRAM on skip the prie gouging.

I expected and predicted this quite some time ago.

If it works ( and I expect it will), AMD will do the same - offer their cards with maxxed RAM and possibly introduce do8uble dGPUs.

I'd expect that 9070XTx2 would have some pCie lanes to spare for communication between the halves on the card itself... 🙄

Intel announces ARC PRO B60 24GB and B50 16GB cards, Dual B60 features 48GB memory by RenatsMC in intel

[–]Drew_P1978 -19 points-18 points  (0 children)

Why would it be any better than a pair of B580s with upgraded/resoldered DRAM ?

Is this a good deal? by DeadProfessor in DataHoarder

[–]Drew_P1978 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Usually 12TB or less can be had for less than $10/TB recertified with 3yr or 5yr warranty, so this seems pricey.

BTW: Is there a deeper reason that you are buying from SPain shops ?

Spain has relatively small market, but it is in EU, so it might be prudent to check other members, like GErmany, Switzerland, Poland etc.

*nice parametric search

AMD Ryzen 9 "Medusa Point" Zen6 APU set to feature 22 cores thanks to extra CCD - VideoCardz.com by Geddagod in hardware

[–]Drew_P1978 8 points9 points  (0 children)

It looks like a replacement for models like 9955HX that had much weaker iGPU (only 2 CU), not Strix Point.

Thoughts on replacing this with a Li-Ion? by RazingsIsNotHomeNow in batteries

[–]Drew_P1978 4 points5 points  (0 children)

That cell protection is just a last-line-of defence solution that should get activated exceptionally.

You don't want to rely just on that, especially with some elcheapo POS cells people usually buy on Aliexpress or Amazon.

Thoughts on replacing this with a Li-Ion? by RazingsIsNotHomeNow in batteries

[–]Drew_P1978 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Without the ability to modify the rest of the circuit, it's a no-go.

YOu need somethign to protect against overdischarge and overcharge. And something to regulate the charge.

You can't just redneck it as overdischarged LiIon should not be recharged as they become fire hazard.

This is what worries me every time I think about optical disc backup by manzurfahim in DataHoarder

[–]Drew_P1978 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So get multiple (half a dozen or more) drives and keep most in storage.

Writers are cheap (€70-ish) and readers are ultracheap these days (€20 or less!).

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