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Yep, and there's a shocking number of them to pick from: https://www.qemu.org/docs/master/system/qemu-cpu-models.html

So, this is a ~15 year old laptop?

The first two things that immediately come to mind when you're kernel panicing is bad ram, and bad cpu temperatures.

Thermal paste doesn't last forever, and it's worth checking if your CPU or GPU are overheating, and repasting if so.

And, as always, a memtest is a quick and easy step to rule that out - I'd say half the "weird crashes" I've ever seen ends up being bad ram and well, at least it's cheap and easy to replace?

Listen, nothing bad has ever come from someone randomly pushing buttons that are blinking, glowing, or happen to be red.

Never, not once, in the history of mankind has there ever been any regret from doing so, either.

Push ALL the buttons, occasionally repeatedly just in case it missed what you wanted to do the first time.

As with all things in America, it's only illegal if a normal person does it.

If you're rich or politically connected (or are the actual government), anything goes.

Wonder how much a pipe and sideways M costs from a marketing firm these days?

More or less than seven figures, you think?

I just select the files I want from the bigger torrents, and then proceed to not touch it ever again, unless I want to add more stuff to the downloaded files.

I also don't move things around - I'm on Linux so all the torrents live in one place with symlinks pointing to where I need/want the data to be as I figured out yeeeears ago that trying to manage a couple thousand active torrents while having the data spread everywhere is a quick trip to migrane town.

Yeah, and so?

If I had that kind of power there's no got dang way I'd leave a family member in the tender hands of a group of unhinged political opponents, given the current state of things here.

Like a (R) DOJ wouldn't try to literally crucify Hunter as soon as they had the chance? Please.

Of all the things Biden did and/or did not do, this one isn't even on my list of things to be even a little bit upset over.

Indeed.

It's to the point that even legitimate sites look like those dark-pattern fake scam ecommerce sites with all the popups, fake "deals", and timers and shit.

Windows of course feels much the same way - recently replaced a failed mac with a new Mini and holy crap is MacOS so fucking zen.

I logged into my apple account and then was assaulted by... fucking nothing. No ads, no popups, no upsells, no candy crush, no enabling AI shit. I just landed on the desktop to do whatever the hell it was I was going to be doing.

had the issue that they tied their chip designs to specific nodes.

In fairness to Intel, every modern semi design house has that same issue: a chip is designed and laid out for a specific node, so this isn't really a failing so much as a how-it-works.

Of course, Intel was being very, very, very risky when they were designing for a process that basically didn't exist assuming that hey, they'll have it done by the time the design work is complete and they're RTM.

couldnt just take the design and use it on a different node without a lot of effort

Which is what they had to do once they failed to ship newer nodes on schedule with the new CPU designs, and well, we see how that ultimately cost them a whole hell of a lot, if not ultimately their entire business.

UnitedHealthcare is the largest U.S. health insurer, providing benefits to tens of millions of Americans, who pay more for healthcare than in any other country.

"Based on the evidence we have so far, it does appear that the victim was specifically targeted, but at this point, we do not know why," Kenny said.

You know, I think I can probably figure out why someone would shoot the UHC CEO.

Linux users don’t want to admit that a huge thing that makes people hate Linux is having to type in their password every time there’s updates

Hell, people get mad about having to hit a 'Cool, do that button', let alone something like a password. It's how we ended up with UAC v2, because people were steaming pissed about having to accept when a badly written app was doing something stupid that they just changed the scope of 'stupid' to be much less restrictive.

In fact it's even bled over to OS X, as people are SO mad about entering passwords they're angry at Apple over it, too.

Basically, any time a UI hops in front of you and goes 'Wait! This is important!' people get annoyed, and well, all OSes are moving towards more of that shit rather than less, as if they didn't know that was annoying or something. Glad I don't work in UX or I'd probably lose my mind at how much stupid hostile shit is being added constantly.

Even the fake cops fall into ACAB, which I somehow am both amused and very confused by.

I wonder if cop strippers also land in ACAB territory, or if they're the cool cops.

Quicksync

Yeah, it doesn't sound like you're transcoding in a way that'll show any particular benefit from Quicksync over AMF or anything else. My 'it's better' use case would be something like streaming to a cell phone at 3-5mbps, and not something local or just making a file to save on your device.

DDR4 and no ECC

That's what my build is: 128gb of Corsair whatever on a 10850k. I'm sure there's been some silent corruption somewhere in some video file or whatever, but, honestly, I don't care about the data enough to even bother with RAID, let alone ECC.

I will say, though, if you're going to delve into something like ZFS, you should probably consider ECC since there are a lot more 'well shits' that can happen than what I'm doing (mergerfs + snapraid).

power consumption

A $30 or whatever they are kill-a-watt plus something like s-tui running on the NAS itself to watch what the CPU is doing in terms of power states and usage. I've got a 8-drive i9-10850k under 60w at "idle" which is not super low power, but it's low enough that the cost of hardware to improve on it even a little bit (and it'd be a very little bit) has a ROI period of longer than I'd expect the hardware to last.

If you're going to be doing transcoding for remote users at lower bitrates, quicksync is still better than AMF, so I'd vote Team Intel.

If you're not, then buy whatever meets your power envelope desires and price point.

For Intel, anything 8th gen or newer should be able to natively do anything you need in Quicksync, so you don't need to head to Amazon and buy something new, unless you really want to.

Also, I'd consider hardware that has enough SATA ports for the number of drives you want so that you can avoid dealing with a HBA card: they inflate the power envelope of the system (if power usage is something you're concerned with), and even in IT mode, I've found them to be annoyingly goofy at times and am MUCH happier just using integrated SATA stuff.

I could be entirely thinking of some other Nap or something; I do know that even on battery it's not impossible for a Mac to wake up and get stuck awake because of a misbehaving app, though I'm probably wrong about which specific feature was responsible.

They're probably safe, since they don't emulate commercially viable platforms via EmulatorJS, but never hurts.

where we can’t trust their levels of education can protect them against capitalism run amok

I've been dealing with more zoomer-and-younger kids and uh, it's less that we can't trust that their education level will protect them from the evils of capitalism, but more that we can't even trust that their levels of education are sufficient for them to be able to both read and write, nevermind more complicated things like determining the accuracy of factual data and be able to make a reasonable decision based on you know, critical thinking and analysis.

It's shockingly dire in a lot of places, and it's unlikely to improve, at least in the US, since nobody values education and nobody wants to fund education, and we just elected a pile of geriatric rich white people that think we don't need to do anything but add more Jesus.

And yeah, as adults we've absolutely failed the two most recent generations, and are going to epically, epically fuck up the next one too.

Agree that you should probably replace the battery when you can, but you said this is only sometimes happening?

You might want to make sure that the laptop isn't waking up due to power nap or that there's not a process keeping it awake if it does.

I don't have a battery-powered mac sitting around right now, but google should probably end up giving you useful directions for both of those.

It's repeatedly happened before; hell this would be the 3rd time this year (at least!).