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by kasabali 5y ago
There's wimboot mode [1], but it's only for the initial install, updates are still file based. [1] https://www.howtogeek.com/196416/wimboot-explained-how-windo...
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by kasabali 5y ago
That's Phoronix benchmarks in a nutshell.
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by kasabali 5y ago
> So if only one app runs You answered yourself.
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by kasabali 5y ago
not that I've heard of anyone popping out a DIMM over time, but I'd rather pop it back in rather than having to ship it to a repair shop with BGA workstation to replace if a DRAM chip develops fault over time.
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by kasabali 5y ago
That isn't "less components", that's same components but soldered so customers can't replace it.
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by kasabali 5y ago
It is the OS saying “unused memory is wasted memory”, and then every other application thinking they're OS and doing the same.
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by kasabali 5y ago
We're talking past each other, I don't think we'll reach anywhere. You say hg sucked thus bitbucket dropped it. I say bitbucket sucked, regardless of hg, thus nobody adopted bitbucket, went with Github instead, indirectly ad
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by kasabali 5y ago
> If anything you have come up with a vague claim mentioning HG is better on a git thread No, I didn't. Can you please point out to us where I did that? > If HG truly shines I don’t know why people would choose Git over it Git ha
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by kasabali 5y ago
I don't know, could it be million other factors than "majority of people found git better"? This is such a vague and baseless claim.
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by kasabali 5y ago
Majority of people haven't heard of hg. Majority of people haven't even heard of git, but GitHub.
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by kasabali 5y ago
> honestly it looks like a regular intel laptop That'd be true for laptops from 3-4 years ago. That's also what I thought about framework until I saw the recent crap Lenovo etc. are pushing in consumer segment. They have basi
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by kasabali 5y ago
It may not be the reason but it sure is used as a justification.
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by kasabali 5y ago
For those who can't find brand name blue light blocking glasses in their region, yellow or orange tinted plastic safety glasses are available everywhere and they work just as well.
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by kasabali 5y ago
Doesn't good old uncompressed swap partition also have the same problem? Page is swapped out but it has to be paged in before the process owning it can evaluate what's where and release the junk?
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by kasabali 5y ago
or, god forbid, Larry Ellison
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by kasabali 5y ago
Updates are mandatory in Home edition. Sure you can brute-force your way around it but that hardly counts as disabling it.
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by kasabali 5y ago
> the chip's custom integrated GPU with 36 RDNA2-based compute units (CUs) is disabled What a waste. They should've at least left 1 or 2 for getting a basic display output, instead of bundling it with a discrete gpu.
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by kasabali 5y ago
> doesn’t do any of the auto install and restart crap That's misleading. LTSC version does everything regular versions do exactl wrt automatic updates and wakeups. Only difference is you can disable these with group policy in enterp
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by kasabali 5y ago
Except Mozilla
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by kasabali 5y ago
They could, but picture quality would suffer significantly and they'd have to compensate with bandwidth.
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by kasabali 5y ago
Nobody remembers "The Git Parable"? https://tom.preston-werner.com/2009/05/19/the-git-parable.ht...
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by kasabali 5y ago
I said relatively . Relative to inception of iOS and Android, which is since when iPhones has got away with shipping less RAM compared to Android flagships.
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by kasabali 5y ago
> You forgot CPU that's light-years ahead of anything that Qualcomm or Samsung have That's a relatively recent development. iOS's lower memory usage compared to Android, however, has been forever .
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by kasabali 5y ago
> youtube-dl is a 10 year old project. Where are all the great qt gui-s for it Here: https://github.com/MrS0m30n3/youtube-dl-gui or here: https://github.com/jeanslack/Videomass
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by kasabali 5y ago
Youtube throttles download speeds.
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by kasabali 5y ago
If there are vertical lines most likely Cof or T-Con board failure. Unfortunately it isn't an easy repair. (Although some YouTube videos show you can work around some minor cof failures by isolating broken lines with a tape)
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by kasabali 5y ago
They do, it's just that Windows runs defrag automatically as a background task nowadays so you don't notice.
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by kasabali 5y ago
ext4 also has a defrag tool - e4defrag (8)
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by kasabali 5y ago
Technological bottleneck might be passed but HDD manufacturers intend to keep prices up [1]: > Value-based pricing > This led Sivaram to discuss pricing; “Disk capacities are scaling beautifully. We want to move towards value pricing.
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by kasabali 5y ago
All Hitachis operate like that. Another cool thing is they don't require a custom tool for that, a standard ATA formst command is enough, and as a last bonus it'll also merge reallocated sector list into factory bad sector list. T

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