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Comment Re:Lowest common denominator (Score 2) 70

s/done/sometimes done/
Try attaching any monitor above 1920x1080 via HDMI. So if the cable is known to be good, the computers in question have all "HDMI 2.0 4k" in big letters in their specs, all should work, right? Mwahahaha.

The particular case on my disk right now: EDID and DDC properly report 1920x1200 (native), 1920x1080, 1600x1200, etc., yet it fails to work in the first mode. 1920x1200 needs HDMI 1.4 bandwidth, the two other HDMI 1.3. The same monitor, the same cable work with some computers, fail with others. Hrm.

My low-res monitors are DVI, which is supposed to be carried over HDMI (same protocol), but guess what? It's also random which computers they work with.

Meanwhile, in the DP land, I have yet to see my first failure. But sometimes I need HDMI for $REASON. :/

Comment Re:Really looking forward to seeing (Score 1) 17

Likewise with PCI 4.0 cards in a PCI 3.0 motherboard:
[ 0.768734] [ T1] pci 0000:43:00.0: 126.016 Gb/s available PCIe bandwidth, limited by 8.0 GT/s PCIe x16 link at 0000:40:03.1 (capable of 252.048 Gb/s with 16.0 GT/s PCIe x16 link)
or in a physically-x16-really-x4 slot:
[ 0.777737][ T1] pci 0000:09:00.0: 31.504 Gb/s available PCIe bandwidth, limited by 8.0 GT/s PCIe x4 link at 0000:00:03.1 (capable of 126.024 Gb/s with 16.0 GT/s PCIe x8 link)

The second card has same problem as yours, when in a real x16 slot it'd use only 8 lanes despite physically having the connectors.

Comment Re:Want self-sufficiency? (Score 1) 43

Where did I claim that only capitalism and socialism exists? And while you're right that other massive ecological disasters exist, ruining the whole of Central Asia with a single megaproject is, by far, the biggest damage done by a single instance of human ignorance. Not even greed, just pure stupidity: after soviets ended Lysenkoism (which cost them decades of research and lives of thousands of scientists), they moved to their next political idea. And this kind of agricultural project was one of favourite pasttimes of communism, see eg. Four Pests Campaign that lasted just 4 years but was so disastrous that the instant famine offed tens of millions.

But, if you love socialism so much, please explain to me: could you give me even ONE upside of it? All I see is north of 200M dead (~11% national, the rest reds). If an idea has been tried in 100+ countries, and every time has resulted in concentration camps (well, Grenada had "only" disorganized killing, but it's a microstate where communists got spanked after 4 years) -- perhaps the idea is not that good after all?

Even religions which claim Jesus as a prophet haven't managed so high a number, but as they got quite close (~100M christianity + ~75M islam), it's not for a lack of trying.

Comment Re:They could just ... (Score 1) 73

Not block, that just makes the bot herders come from a new set of IPs and with a slightly different method to ward off detection. And instead of a single article, give them endless content they so crave. Be it AI-generated to match current fads, or dissociated press generated as we used to do in the previous millenium.

Comment Re:Want self-sufficiency? (Score 1) 43

very few people posting here are in any position to criticise Indonesia or Indonesians in ecological terms. Corporatism / Capitalism and our conspicuous consumption are far more 'worthy' targets for that.

Sorry but it's socialism that has done the worst ecological disasters. The Aral Sea is now the Aral Desert, the rivers that provided Central Asia fertile steppes are now small polluted streams, and the land is too salty for any productive use.

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