If Google had a baby she would drop it on its head spike it at the ground

Carefully-calculated trace lengths and signal pathing have left the chat

As someone that works writing firmware for SAS devices… it’s happened all too many times

Thank you! That makes much more sense.

ELI5…?

I’ve got 3D pipes running on my spare Win10 machine :) fills me with nostalgia every time I see it, even still

It would certainly be interesting. But instead, they keep targeting lesser-privileged people and leaking all of their data, ruining lives, etc.

Gotta love it 🤷‍♂️

Hmm, that might actually go pretty well. I’d say Forza Horizon is probably in my top ten games of all time… I absolutely loved that game

We need more OPs like this, kudos

the fitness gram pacer test is a multistage…

I’ll let you guess if that was my most or my least favorite

I’ve tried out FreeCAD and it’s decent - but it’s really tough to get a hang of. Ondsel has a bit of a better interface imo and is based directly off of FreeCAD. Maybe give either of those a shot?

Shitty k8s cluster/space heater?

True, he is sitting at a terminal - but it appears to be connected to an IBM 5150 or similar. So maybe not so dumb!

Looking at the rest of things more carefully - very likely a 5150, if not definitely. Iconic and hugely popular PC for its era, so it would make sense for sure.

…absolutely, positively, super false. I work in a sector where we’re constantly dealing with huge capacity enterprise SSDs - 15 and 30 terabytes at times. Always using RAID. It’s not even a question. Not only can you have controller malfunctions, but even though you’ve got what’s known as “over provisioning” on the SSDs, you still need to watch out for total disk failures!

Retro problem? All of our monitors at work use VGA… not to mention pretty much all servers

ELI5 what does this mean for the average Linux user? I run a few Ubuntu 22.04 systems (yeah yeah, I know, canonical schmanonical) - but they aren’t bleeding edge, so they shouldn’t exhibit this vulnerability, right?

Appreciate the response! After many, many hours of research, I came to the same conclusion. I tried a whole multitude of solutions that worked for others and none of them seemed to work - except for a weird hacky “solution” to just permanently set the power state of the GPU to max. Unfortunately, that means it consumes ~50 watts idle instead of the 5-10 it managed beforehand… but the fact that it fixed the system lockups made it worth it. I think the issue was something having to do with the GPU not properly waking up from lower power modes - so I super appreciate the advice :)

Off to a fairly rough start, unfortunately :/

Spent seven hours today trying and failing to get docker to work with our Jenkins deployment at work, and on top of that, my brand new GPU keeps “falling off the bus” (Ubuntu, 4070 Ti Super, randomly screen freezes and need a reboot to fix - but PC still runs so I can SSH in & check dmesg and whatnot). Sometimes it’s every 12 hours or so, or even more, but sometimes (today, for instance), it feels like it’s every ten minutes. Which … sucks.

Side note… if anybody knows how the heck to fix a GPU falling off the bus… please let me know, lol. It only happens when I’m using the PC (as in, if it’s on but the mouse ain’t moving, it doesn’t seem to happen), and I’m running the latest & greatest NVIDIA 550 drivers. Ubuntu 22.04. Reseated GPU, running a 1000W EVGA PSU and the Kill-a-watt attached to it never goes above 450 or so. And the crash never seems to happen when it’s under a huge amount of load, like doing AI stuff… only ever seems to happen when I’m browsing files and such. Anyone ever run into this before?? All of the google answers seem to say it’s a bad PSU or similar, but the PSU has been working just fine & dandy in other PCs, and this system wasn’t doing this at all with my old NVIDIA GPU (swapped last week)…

On the Pentalobe screw front, albeit somewhat random, I do know that all Samsung SATA & SAS 2.5” SSDs use Pentalobe screws to hold them together. Unsure if there are other Samsung products that use them as well but I deal with their drives on a weekly basis.

If you’re not running with a battery, the maximum wattage of the charging brick should be shown on the brick itself. Either that or you can calculate it with P=I*V (amps * volts). That won’t give you what the laptop draws on average (likely much less than the calculated value) but it will give you a maximum.