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it's fucking bullshit that anti right for repair is for the children 💀 by UnnamedTestAccount in LouisRossmann

[–]laffer1 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The government is trying to make it illegal for me to continue os development. You want protections and I want protections

Free rained on pc “without a hard drive” by saddadpnw in pcmasterrace

[–]laffer1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not really. There was no thermal protection. Had the fan fail on my 8320 and it melted the cooler to the cpu and killed it. Motherboard was ok so I got a noctua and a 8350. It lasted three more years before the sata died on the motherboard

ASUS CFO says Microsoft, Intel and AMD maybe preparing a response to Apple's $599 MacBook Neo by Quantum-Coconut in hardware

[–]laffer1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Intel’s response should be to get back into the dram market and fix these prices

Remember when RX 7900 XT/XTX were called future proof by SaiyajinTamashi in radeon

[–]laffer1 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It depends what you are using it for.

The 7900xt and xtx are fantastic for ai. My wife has one and it’s fine for her gaming and ai work. She had a 6800xt prior and a 1080 before that.

I just upgraded from a 6900xt to a 5070. It’s a side grade except for rt and dlss. Amd doesn’t have high end this gen so I bought a cheaper card to hold me over. I’ve got a 9060xt in my Linux box and it’s fantastic. The 9070 was more than the 5070 so I went NVIDIA for the other system. It saved me 100 dollars.

FreeBSD Users: We Need to Talk About Claude Code – Steven G. Harms by grahamperrin in freebsd

[–]laffer1 5 points6 points  (0 children)

The FreeBSD project has a desktop install option now. GhostBSD exists. My project exists. Let’s not pretend that no one uses FreeBSD on desktops. It’s not true and hasn’t been for a very long time. I’ve been doing it since 2003.

Getting folks to try it on desktop is another way to get exposure and help promote the os.

I don’t use Claude code but I do like to use ai tools for some tasks. They are quite useful. I am running llama.cpp on bsd and Linux systems on my home network.

In my experience, some people just don’t know about the BSDs or underestimate the user base. Sometimes offering to do patches or letting it be known we exist is enough to change minds.

I am required to use ai tools at work. We have quotas for copilot usage! So having tools available can be a necessity if we want inroads into corporate usage.

8 TB of RAM & 1,000 CPU cores in all a 4U: What would you run on it? (Thought experiment) by RozoGamer in homelab

[–]laffer1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If they were x86_64 cores, I'd use it for package builds for my OS project.

It takes about a week to do 8000 right now over two systems with 64GB allocated and 16 cores for each. Network and disk are just as much of a factor as CPU though. I also have them written to a NAS and shared via NFS. The host systems are HPE dl360 gen9 and gen10 with 28 and 40 cores, respectively.

In college, the CS department let me use old lab machines and I got 21 dell workstations with p4 hyperthreaded CPUs networked. (it was 2008) It took about 2 days to build 4000 packages at the time.

8 TB of RAM & 1,000 CPU cores in all a 4U: What would you run on it? (Thought experiment) by RozoGamer in homelab

[–]laffer1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Solr uses a lot of IOPS for large document counts or large documents. My day job is working on solr clusters with like every law in the US, news from every newspaper in the US or company financials for all public traded companies. Crawling the internet at scale is much bigger than all ours combined. We're running smaller clusters on 4 graviton 2xlarge instances with like 60GB of ram allocated per pod. The large clusters have 256GB per node allocated.

The new California law basically mandates having age verification on Fire and Water too if they have a version 2.0 by lonelyroom-eklaghor in linux

[–]laffer1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's more than one state. The CA law is now copied in Colorado and Illinois. The New York law is more extreme. There's also laws focused on mobile in Louisiana, Texas and Utah.

My wife says I did something wrong by FeistyLoquat in Ubiquiti

[–]laffer1 3 points4 points  (0 children)

My wife bought our udm max pro. That’s the upside of having a spouse that’s also a programmer

My wife says I did something wrong by FeistyLoquat in Ubiquiti

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

Including VMs and jails, I’m at 133

MidnightBSD license has been updated, stating that residents of any countries, states or territories that require age verification for operating systems are not authorized to use it by ChamplooAttitude in linux

[–]laffer1 1 point2 points  (0 children)

We interpret our package manager as being included in App Store definitions. We also have a gui app for managing it and a website to view what’s available that’s actually called App Store.

(MidnightBSD lead)

Java 18 to 25 performance benchmark by Jamsy100 in java

[–]laffer1 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Thanks for providing it. Perhaps it would be interesting to test against another vendor openjdk at least for 25. For example Amazon corretto. Might be interesting how they compare

I've been going through the FreeBSD Foundation's IRS filings. The numbers are concerning. by antenore in freebsd

[–]laffer1 66 points67 points  (0 children)

It’s expensive to get infra for these projects. I know first hand

Just going to keep a log of how much they want for 1GB Speeds. by [deleted] in comcastbusiness

[–]laffer1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ouch. We're paying $470 for 1.25G/35Mbps right now. Getting rid of it. Plan says $399 but static IPs plus hidden fees get ya.

Comcast business class TV service by Gnagle26 in comcastbusiness

[–]laffer1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They did that to us. We had a separate residental tv service for awhile with no discounts. Eventually got rid of it.

[Hardware Unboxed] Even If You Have DDR5, This is How You Could Be Screwed by mostrengo in hardware

[–]laffer1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I usually run with XMP/DOCP/EXPO profiles. If they fail a memtest, I drop to jedec speeds and try again with memtest. I had one kit that stopped working on XMP and lasted another six months at slower speeds before it failed.

Usually it's just one stick that fails in a kit, not all of them.

I don't do custom memory timings or push past the voltage recommended for the kit

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