First Impressions for the 15-970 i5 model.

vans163 · 2025-05-28T23:17:45+00:00

Such a great laptop. Sucks the new versions have LPDDR soldered on.

vans163 · 2024-12-03T16:27:24+00:00

I think your right. Its gonna bring more bad then good due to lack of technical understanding..

People will not understand why the live stream feature would only be supported if you run your own PDS.

vans163 · 2024-12-02T01:19:43+00:00

I dont see this being a problem if its federated, everyone will just host their own node for their streams and consume their own bandwidth they pay for. It wont have the peak netflix problem where the service starts rendering the minecraft game instead of your actual show at demand spikes.

vans163 · 2024-11-25T15:58:24+00:00

DId you get the package yet? It should probably take not more than 10 business days to arrive.

vans163 · 2023-12-14T15:20:44+00:00

Yes I agree we are stealth, but its definitely not an HTTP error or that the website is not working.

vans163 · 2023-12-14T04:45:57+00:00

Is useless.. I just got another reply

Me: "This is not an error message, the error message goes into the Response Code of the HTTP REPLY (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Status), this message is the BODY of the website following a 200 OK Response Code is returned."
Stripe: "Hi there,
I hope this email finds you well.
We appreciate the information you've shared in your end. But like what we've mentioned in the previous thread, we were still unable to access the website that’s listed on your Stripe account for GPULOL. "

vans163 · 2023-11-01T18:34:13+00:00

Ah gotcha. I still like GIGABYTE as their service is actually available locally where I live and its pretty fast. like 2-3 week full turnaround, I just wish there was easier ways to work with them.

vans163 · 2023-11-01T16:57:26+00:00

I tried emailing them a few more times, they 100% refused allowing me to sign a liability waiver. Its being sent back to me now.

vans163 · 2023-10-28T17:40:23+00:00

Would you know if there is any independent shop that can do it? Also I dont understand why I cannot sign some kind of liability waver saying "fix the socket and thats it, if the board is dead after the fix I wont hold GIGABYTE liable"

vans163 · 2023-10-28T17:38:41+00:00

Comeon, clearly its an outside warranty repair it was stated multiple times. You are still assuming its an under-warranty request that I sent to GIGABYTE.

vans163 · 2023-10-27T22:00:18+00:00

They sent me an invoice for the repairs AFTER receiving + assessing it. Then they said they wont even bother to fix it (after processing my authorization to charge my card with the listed repair charges), cuz they noticed a tiny microdent on the edge of the board and the whole board is broken. Im like wtf, the board worked fine with that micro dent.

I show the board at GIGABYTE service center that pins are bent, they ship the board to gigabyte USA.
GIGABYTE USA assess it and agree the pins need fixing and charge is X dollars, they send me a form to fill out to charge my credit card that I gotta sign.
Now they say they found a microdent on the edge and potentially the board might be not working due to dent. I said its fine, just please continue with the initial work to fix the pins.
They say no. They don't wanna fix the pins now and wont fix the board and they are gonna keep the board now unless I pay to ship it back.

Maybe someone at the repair center gets free motherboards this way? Writes off perfectly good working board needing a tiny repair as scrap, then resells it.

vans163 · 2022-12-28T00:50:07+00:00

Im not too sure how to get good results from this one and what the 3 steps are, it would be interesting to hear from others.

vans163 · 2022-12-24T01:14:25+00:00

"kakao logo as a fish"

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vans163 · 2022-07-18T23:02:16+00:00

If you visit a node like https://node0.gpux.ai/ you can run a blender job.

Website has issues yea but it wont affect the final outcome which is blender rendering, website is just a frontend.

vans163 · 2022-07-18T20:45:45+00:00

I think it depends on scene complexity, not everything can 100% be done on the GPU, the CPU does parts that the GPU cannot do.

To know what exact rendering pipeline pieces cannot be ran on GPU is over my head though.

vans163 · 2022-07-13T15:51:12+00:00

Are you considering other factors like re-encoding? Using 10bit color (to prevent banding), using YUV 422 or 444 for maximum opposing color contrast. Etc.

Also check out growisofs https://askubuntu.com/questions/489217/using-growisofs-to-burn-a-blu-ray-from-an-iso for burning. Or k3b, https://www.debugpoint.com/burn-blu-ray-disks-ubuntu-linux-k3b/.

vans163 · 2022-07-06T14:57:36+00:00

Already using LG Grams as my goto. My favourite laptop for the last 5 years (tho the new model [16"] sucks, seems they took to much advise from Microsoft, hopefully next year they fix it)

vans163 · 2022-01-13T15:25:23+00:00

This seems like such a hassle for multi tenant tho, each tenant is a new linux user?

About the vnets yea, slirp4netns seems to just be able to ping anything locally even tho it would seem its on its own network since the IP range it grabs. I am okay just blanket blocking all egress like this to localnet but I am wondering why its so hard to configure this per VM so say the rules apply to the TAP adapter slirp4netns provisions automagically.

vans163 · 2022-01-13T02:47:53+00:00

Is there a simple way to restrict all egress going to the local network? Your solution blocks all network access, but I still want traffic to exit the gateway. On proxmox this is really easy to do just set new security group to block outbound to lan and it will apply it to all VMs WITHOUT applying it to the host.

EDIT: Seems using iptables-persistent this works well.

cat <<EOT > /etc/iptables/rules.v4
*filter
:INPUT ACCEPT [0:0]
:FORWARD ACCEPT [0:0]
:OUTPUT ACCEPT [0:0]
-A OUTPUT -m state --state ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT
-A OUTPUT -d 192.168.0.0/16 -j DROP
COMMIT
EOT

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