Well, a couple weeks or so back they were talking about a new antibiotic molecule that kills drug-resistant bacteria.

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They have not removed CUDA cores.

If you follow the benchmark results link it goes to an image posted on twitter, and in that discussion they clarify that the section in question is part of the decoder. We can all move along now.

Been using unRAID for quite a few years now, and I am very happy with it. I've currently got 12 drives in it, with space for a couple more. I have two of them set as parity drives, so there's some redundant safety net. That'll keep it going if a drive or two die, and will only lose data if a third happens to die at the same time. Of course it is not the same as having multiple backups, I am aware. But it is enough of a safety net for my not-really-worth-anything file backups at home. I like how it only powers up drives that are in use, versus having to have all drives in the array running at the same time. And the fact that they're actually just solo drives you can individually pop into any machine and read its contents, versus having to have a fully functioning array to read conventional RAID drives. Which basically means if I *did* actually have a third drive fail all at once I would still be able to read the fully intact files that exist on all the drives that did not fail. If that happened it wouldn't suck as bad as a conventional RAID setup having a similar failure, as the entirety would be basically useless.

unRAID isn't perfect, but it works very well for a home gamer NAS setup. At least, it does everything I want it to do, and I like the way it does it. When I have had drives die over the years it is quite nice to just pop in a new one and continue on as if nothing happened. That part isn't unique to unRAID, exactly, but I like how it does everything, including how it does that.

It's built with leftover hardware from one of my gaming PCs from many, many years ago. AMD Phenom II X4 965, a very old quad-core CPU, with just 8 GB of DDR2 RAM, most of which is just disk cache. I think it only ever uses about 1/3 of that for non-cache usage. An old ADATA 480 GB SATA SSD as a cache drive sitting in front of the platter array to speed things up a bit. And the 12 platter drives behind that, connected to the motherboard SATA and an SAS9211-8I 8PORT Int 6GB Sata+sas Pcie 2.0 controller. I imagine there are cheaper/better controllers around these days, too. Looks like I threw that together back at the end of 2017, and it is still going. If anything major dies, another nice thing is unRAID just boots off a USB thumb drive. All the drives could simply be moved to a new motherboard and controller without having to do anything else besides swap everything over and plug that thumb drive into it and boot. It doesn't seem to want to die on me yet, though, haha. I may swap to something newer that's dirt cheap just to gain some efficiency one day, but I have sort of just been waiting for something to die before doing so. And so far, other than an old drive every now and then, it just keeps running.

Oh, that's another thing. Your drives can be any capacity, and if an old 2 TB drive finally bites the dust you can swap in a new 10 TB or whatever, and just use it. The only limitation is that your data drives need to be the same size or smaller than your parity drives. In a pinch you could use a data drive that is larger, but it will limit its usable size to the size of parity, so at some point you'd also want to upgrade your parity drives accordingly. You're not limited to the smallest drive in the array like conventional RAID.

I sure miss having nothing but a drop-down-style hierarchal menu for the start menu. Having a nested tree of my own liking with the stuff where I wanted it was so much faster and convenient. Ever since they started screwing around with that things have just gotten worse and worse. The worst change was forcing you to scroll through it like a window pane and clicking through each branch to see what's under it. At least, it was the worst change until they figured out how to make even that look desirable and gave us the ludicrous crap we have now. Finding new ways to go beyond even that is just insane.

It's already been discussed and reported on many times over the years. Li-ion batteries aren't exactly new. Limit charging to around 80% and discharging to around 20% unless you know you'll need more than that on occasion. Charge more slowly after you pass 80%, and when below 20%. Phones and practically everything else already do this for you. Again, this post was practically pointless. The devices already do the thing.

I much prefer mockery. This isn't something that should ever have seen the light of day on slashdot, as this isn't a website for ignorant newbs. Practically everyone here is here because they're interested in and more informed about the things we typically see here compared to the average person. That's what makes slashdot, slashdot. "How should I charge my phone?" is an ignorant-consumer fluff piece. And it is 100% worth pointing out the fact that it should never have been posted here, since basically nobody on slashdot meets that criteria. This is barely one step above the websites that take a TikTok video and describe every little detail that happens in the video before embedding the video. It doesn't belong here.

I know. I've been here since pretty close to the beginning. Nobody picking stories to greenlight should've picked this. It's inane for slashdot.

Sheesh.

Trackball Explorers still go for hundreds of dollars a piece on eBay to this day. And there's an open source project called Ploopy that aims to replicate it, though not quite as well as I'd hoped. It would be great if they started making the Trackball Explorer again. The plastic on them is starting to get brittle enough that simply taking them apart to mix and match good parts is a risk now, as they may not even go back together again. Even the screw hole posts are breaking just from age. The market for them may not be huge, but I feel they'd be pretty loyal, considering the eBay throughput on these things. I'd also love a new Natural Keyboard v1 design.

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Still said Valve right on the product right from day one regardless of whether or not you remember properly if the Valve intro video was in the first release. The point is, Valve made the game, so buddy couldn't have paid full price for the game before Valve existed.

You paid full price before Valve even existed? That's quite the feat.

The option of obtaining a refund when an event significantly changes (such as a key band member getting sick or injured and needing a substitute) is higher on my priority list than this. Most people won't care and will still go and enjoy the show. In some cases I'd rather have the option of returning the tickets due to a show no longer being what I paid for, especially since reselling is a gamble. Spending $400 on tickets I no longer want but am stuck with, which would require another $600 in travel and acommodations in order to use even though I no longer want to use them, is a bit of a kick in the nuts. Frankly, refunds should be allowed for any reason. If I don't want them anymore, I don't want them anymore. *You* sell them to someone else, as they're tickets to your show. Shouldn't be my burden to find someone else to take them off my hands.

I've had WinRAR's recovery volumes save my data at least a few times over the many years I used it. 7zip's interface could learn a few lessons from WinRAR's, too. 7zip typically gets a better compression ratio, but WinRAR's no slouch. With how cheap storage is this has kind of become moot, anyway, but still. hehe.