The Official Status Thread
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Status: Speaking of SSDs, I think this one is a little fuckered for some reason...
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
therefore, blue.
There, there. It will be all right...
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
until I get some spinning rust and/or a significantly bigger SSD.
Status: Acquired (application of DDF pending) 4TB of WD Black spinning rust and 2TB of WD Blue SSD. Would have preferred Black for both, but WD only seems to make Black SSD in M.2 or PCIe card, but I don't have any ports available and the add-in cards are ridiculously expensive, so unless I want to rebuild my boot disk, I need SATA; therefore, blue.
I got an M.2 to PCIe adapter for less than ÂŁ15 from Amazon and it works perfectly with a WD Black NVMe SSD.
I do also have 2x 1TB WD Blue SATA SSDs. They're about as fast as you can expect SATA SSDs to be so not sure how much faster a Black SATA SSD would be even if they made them (which is I assume why they don't).
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
a little fuckered for some reason...
Hrm, maybe it's some kind of cache issue?
Just formatted and ran a trim on the whole thing (and waited about 10 minutes just to be safe), so in theory it should be all hunky with Dory, AND YET.....
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@loopback0 said in The Official Status Thread:
I got an M.2 to PCIe adapter
Hmm, I never even thought of that. I'm not sure how well that would work for me, as I only have x1 and x2 slots available. It's a small motherboard, at least as far as the number of expansion slots, and the only wide slot is occupied by the graphics card.
not sure how much faster a Black SATA SSD would be even if they made them (which is I assume why they don't).
My preference for Black is based mostly on the reputation they have (at least in my mind, based on previous posts here) for reliability, rather than speed (though that's certainly nice, too).
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My ability to interpret a stacktrace is apparently deep dark magic to others on this phone call.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
Hmm, I never even thought of that. I'm not sure how well that would work for me, as I only have x1 and x2 slots available.
Probably not fast enough without PCIe x4.
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@error If I had a dime for every time someone sent me a screenshot of a stack trace where the interesting bit is juuust outside of view, I'd be asking for euros instead.
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Status: Sitting on a bench in the park. The Slav next to me is doing the internet meme slav squat thing, while having a beer with his pals. (Out of a can, didnât know they still sell those.)
Iâm jealous of his knees, Iâd keel over after one minute.
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
My ability to interpret a stacktrace is apparently deep dark magic to others on this phone call.
You must be using so many keyboards...
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@Zecc said in The Official Status Thread:
@error If I had a dime for every time someone sent me a screenshot of a stack trace where the interesting bit is juuust outside of view, I'd be asking for euros instead.
I strongly considered steganographing key identifiers into the branding graphics at one point.
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Great that this month's "Free With PS Plus" games are being released just after the long weekend.
Actually kind of looking forward to playing Hitman 2. I like the puzzle aspect of finding the optimal assassination plan.
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Status: Utility company is tearing up the street across from my house, and making quite a lot of noise. They've been at it since late yesterday afternoon, quitting around 23:00 and starting again around 09:00. Because it's the gas company, I'm not sure I really want to be here if the backhoe operator makes an oops. OTOH, because they're the gas company, they may be a little more careful to make sure an oops doesn't happen than another utility might be.
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@HardwareGeek A backhoe operator doesn't have to be from the gas company to do an oops that could impact the gas lines. Does that help assuage your worries?
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@HardwareGeek I forget, did you move back out of Texas? Because they have a thing about exploding fertilizer plants. The gas company should be more careful but...
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@hungrier said in The Official Status Thread:
@HardwareGeek A backhoe operator doesn't have to be from the gas company to do an oops that could impact the gas lines. Does that help assuage your worries?
Your statement is certainly true, and the answer to your question is, "Of course not." However, their trucks are all plainly marked "Texas Gas Service", so one hopes they know what they're doing when working on a gas main.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@hungrier said in The Official Status Thread:
@HardwareGeek A backhoe operator doesn't have to be from the gas company to do an oops that could impact the gas lines. Does that help assuage your worries?
Your statement is certainly true, and the answer to your question is, "Of course not." However, their trucks are all plainly marked "Texas Gas Service", so one hopes they know what they're doing when working on a gas main.
Hold on.
This makes them the dreaded government employee, quite possibly there to help.
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@HardwareGeek Status addendum: The backhoe operator seems to have confused his backhoe for a jackhammer. Much of the noise comes from repeatedly slamming the teeth of the bucket into the {ground|pavement|curb|something} to break it into smallish pieces.
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@hungrier said in The Official Status Thread:
A backhoe operator doesn't have to be from the gas company to do an oops that could impact the gas lines. Does that help assuage your worries?
Had that happen at work (about 15 years ago or so, when they were tearing down and replacing a large building next door to mine with an even larger building with even more architectural flaws). Fortunately the leak never ignited. Unfortunately, they discovered that the evacuation procedure for the building was completely inadequate when one of the main evac routes is closed (along with several assembly points) because of a gas leakâŚ
Also, there's always some people who, having just left a building, feel that now is a great time for a smoke. That goes very well with leaking gas.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
the teeth of the bucket
When all you have is a bucket?...
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
That goes very well with leaking gas.
And with Darwinian evolution. Unfortunately, it may take out some innocent bystanders in the process.
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Status: They just love closing roads here. All the water from the storm went away and they're still closing roads for non-construction reasons. I think I've driven twice as many miles as I needed to in the last few days over this.
Also I think hair color in pictures is a lie. I was thinking about dying where it's turning grey from stress. But then I'm looking at two boxes that have two clearly different colors labeled as the same color.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
a little fuckered for some reason...
Hrm, maybe it's some kind of cache issue?
Just formatted and ran a trim on the whole thing (and waited about 10 minutes just to be safe), so in theory it should be all hunky with Dory, AND YET.....
Status: Swapped out with a Samsung 870 QVO. Seems to be better.
Well, at the very least it has a bigger SLC cache and still maintains 150 MB/s write...
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@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
I was thinking about dying where it's turning grey
Somber thoughts.
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@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
Also I think hair color in pictures is a lie. I was thinking about dying where it's turning grey from stress. But then I'm looking at two boxes that have two clearly different colors labeled as the same color.
Ah, that must be hair colouring for Real Men, who don't have any truck with made up colours like fuchsia and salmon; those are things, not colours!
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I don't know any man who calls purple, violet. Unless it's ultraviolet.
Also, those poor browns and blacks are ignored once again. Same for whites and greys.
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@Zecc said in The Official Status Thread:
Also, those poor browns and blacks are ignored once again. Same for whites and greys.
Everything is racist is .
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@Zecc said in The Official Status Thread:
I don't know any man who calls purple, violet
WHERE IS YOUR GOD NOW @KAZITOR? thread is
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@Applied-Mediocrity I could have sworn that happened over a year ago.
My time perception is completely shot.
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@Applied-Mediocrity
As established within the first post, I do not call purple âvioletâ either.
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@kazitor said in The Official Status Thread:
@Applied-Mediocrity
As established within the first post, I do not call purple âvioletâ either.
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Bah. Ryzen doesn't have the transactional memory extensions, and apparently Intel nuked them from newer CPUs too. Those were fun ... and occasionally even useful. :-(
Maybe they'll make a comeback with Sapphire Rapids, but that's not a desktop CPU.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
until I get some spinning rust and/or a significantly bigger SSD.
Status: Acquired (application of DDF pending) 4TB of WD Black spinning rust and 2TB of WD Blue SSD. Would have preferred Black for both, but WD only seems to make Black SSD in M.2 or PCIe card, but I don't have any ports available and the add-in cards are ridiculously expensive, so unless I want to rebuild my boot disk, I need SATA; therefore, blue.
DDF Status: Spinning rust (and a DP cable) are in transit from PRC and should be here by Wednesday. SSD is in transit from the Kingdom of DeSantis and should be here by Tuesday. (Should being the operative word in both cases; we'll see how theory and reality differ next week.)
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@HardwareGeek Have you considered getting a 20TB drive?
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@Zecc Nice, but no. I just don't need that much storage. I have a 4TB USB HDD (currently still connected to my old computer), and it's only ~1/4 full. I bought it primarily for a specific project, so I haven't moved a lot of stuff to it that I could move to free space on my nearly-full C drive, but that wouldn't come close to filling it. (If I could ever find the old family movies I want to digitize, that would use another chunk of it, but still not close to full.) I'm not really sure what I'm going to do with what I just bought. At work, yeah; we're constantly running out of space on a 100+TB storage array. But at home, no; 4TB is (probably â famous last words) more than I'll ever use.
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Status: I figured out why the C drive in my new computer is filling up so rapidly when I've put hardly anything except Windows itself and a few FOSS applications on it. Lots of memory and small disk full disk. pagefile.sys alone is using 10% of the disk. Together with hiberfile.sys, they make up almost half of the in-use space.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
4TB is (probably â famous last words) more than I'll ever use.
I guess you don't play a lot of AAA games? Although with 4TB ... you might last for another release cycle, assuming you don't need to store anything other than your one game on that drive.
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I like those volume names.
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@Zecc said in The Official Status Thread:
I don't know any man who calls purple, violet.
But that's just because purple is called violet in French.
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@cvi said in The Official Status Thread:
@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
4TB is (probably â famous last words) more than I'll ever use.
I guess you don't play a lot of AAA games? Although with 4TB ... you might last for another release cycle, assuming you don't need to store anything other than your one game on that drive.
My Steam library is using about 640GB, and I found another 230GB of non-Steam content scattered about. I own a bunch of other Steam games that I don't have installed, but none of them are AAA. I'm guessing I might get up to somewhat over 1TB, maybe 1.5TB, total, if I installed everything I own and everything on my wish list.
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@Zerosquare said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zecc said in The Official Status Thread:
I don't know any man who calls purple, violet.
But that's just because purple is called violet in French.Of course it is. Already using
lavender
for something else?
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: I figured out why the C drive in my new computer is filling up so rapidly when I've put hardly anything except Windows itself and a few FOSS applications on it. Lots of memory and small disk full disk. pagefile.sys alone is using 10% of the disk. Together with hiberfile.sys, they make up almost half of the in-use space.
I've had the same problem. I had put the page file on D but the part that had to stay on C just ballooned until I was forced to impose a limit. And that's around when this out of memory bullshit really kicked into high gear. It's like old versions of Android that only let you move some apps to the SDcard and it's never the problem children.
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pagefiles
On my home desktop, I have the virtual memory set to a fixed size on my boot SSD. The C drive still fills up with crap, but at least the page file doesn't grow out of control.
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@hungrier said in The Official Status Thread:
On my home desktop
I solved the problem by downloading more RAM. The current 120gb boot drive is nearly full and I just can't afford the space waste.
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@HardwareGeek Not that you need all that for the trip, but once you get locked into a serious
druggame collection, the tendency is to push it as far as you can.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
I solved the problem by downloading more RAM. The current 120gb boot drive is nearly full and I just can't afford the space waste.
Wouldn't downloading more RAM make the problem worse because your page file etc also gets larger?
Edit: I run without swap on Linux. 32GB are enough for everything (and when they aren't the OS can always kill firefox to free up some space).
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@cvi I think that only applies to the hibernation file.
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@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: ... C ...
... D
C
problem children.
Windows is weird.