You are totally right, I was just whining.Muirium wrote: ↑
I much prefer USB to the lunatic mess of shitey random ports that preceded it.
USB cleaned up a lot of physical mess.
One thing I'm used to with screwed cable is either being able to pick up the tower by the cable or the cable ripping the port off the expansion cards\motherboard. One downside I see with USB is when it breaks off it still tends to screw up both the computer and cable side.002 wrote: ↑I'm sure I read somewhere that most cables these days are purposely not lock in because of the drama caused when some gumby bastard tripped or walked through locked in cables and dragged all the hardware off the desk?
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Swap: 0 0 0::shudder::SL89 wrote: ↑I wanted to like it but it's really rather poor performing even on hardware under 6mos old.
That's a very broad statement.Halvar wrote: ↑If you aren't happy with the performance and especially energy consumption of Windows 10 on modern hardware I don't think that using Linux will help you much.
Fortunately the employer pays that electric bill. 
yes - even with a floating wm my normal RAM usage with 10-15 tabs of icecat, 4-7 urxvt windows and sometimes mpd is usually under 2GB, and that includes my window manager, lemonbar, pretty compositing and all daemons running behind the scenes. my cpu is usually around 10-20% per core (and usually only 1 core at a time above 15%). if i was running gnome or KDE it would probably be at least another GB on top of that just to be doing things i dont need, or doing those things i DO need in an ineficcient, gui-happy way.XMIT wrote: ↑That's a very broad statement.Halvar wrote: ↑If you aren't happy with the performance and especially energy consumption of Windows 10 on modern hardware I don't think that using Linux will help you much.
Linux systems allow one to go in with a scalpel and remove anything that isn't important. My workstation uses a tiling window manager and many services are disabled. There is very little between applications and the CPU. If anything I get higher performance on Linux systems thanks to the kernel's aggressive use of a RAM cache for disk accesses.
On a laptop the largest consumers of power are the display, CPU, and wireless subsystem. Modern kernels have quite good for modern CPUs and their power states. Power consumption should be quite good as well.
I'll leave it to AnandTech, etc. to compare power consumption. Using a dual socketed workstation this frankly isn't a concern. I can't go much under 100W at idle.
Yes, you're right, too broad a statement in its generality, but the context here was this:XMIT wrote: ↑That's a very broad statement.
This is definitely not normal, and it should be as easy/hard to find out what causes this as it would be with a similar problem on Linux (open process manager and have a look). Especially, I wouldn't expect it to be something that can't be turned off (if it's something unwanted).Also despite having 8gb of ram on this system my usage is constantly at about 25% and its all system stuff like windows and Intel things.
Nope. I'd love to see Google adopt Apple's privacy policy!SL89 wrote: ↑Apple, Microsoft and Google are all in the same arena with regards to privacy.
Nope. The Surface is a flawed concept not because of its hardware but because of its software. Trying to be all things to all men is the very definition of compromise. In a world where we're all already using multiple devices, in the form of phones! I'd like to see them get the reason for its ongoing flop, and to do something else entirely. But that's a tall order for a software empire that's still only dabbling in hardware. So much easier to keep tweaking the form factor, while the platform never takes off.SL89 wrote: ↑That being said MS just dropped this: https://www.microsoft.com/surface/en-us ... rface-book
Even Mr.Mu can probably get behind that shiny new toy.
Apple is best at PR and the hippest of the lot. Apple is the best at making you Apple users believe your data is 100% safe and that you`re buying the best hardware and need to pay top $$$ bucks for it. Microsoft seems clumsy and dorky like a old bunch of nerds too obsessed with their own software to keep up with Apples smooth PR. Google is the combination plus the ultimate joker; the biggest single data collection in the world and they don`t give a fuck cause you`re either taking part or you`re Apple because M$ is too lame like some old uncle although they do release good software. Google will never adopt anything from anyone anymore, they`re way over that point in a bad way. Google is like a giant snowball full of data and profit going downhill...but it still keeps going and getting bigger.Muirium wrote: ↑Nope. I'd love to see Google adopt Apple's privacy policy!
http://techcrunch.com/2015/09/29/apple- ... cy-policy/
Compgeke wrote: ↑I upgraded my desktop, spare laptop I use for OBD II testing, brother's desktop and brother's laptop and none had issues other than video drives needing to be reinstalled on the nVidia graphics. Might just be luck, but I've had no issues at all.
One thing I'm used to with screwed cable is either being able to pick up the tower by the cable or the cable ripping the port off the expansion cards\motherboard. One downside I see with USB is when it breaks off it still tends to screw up both the computer and cable side.002 wrote: ↑I'm sure I read somewhere that most cables these days are purposely not lock in because of the drama caused when some gumby bastard tripped or walked through locked in cables and dragged all the hardware off the desk?
If you really want locking USB though, you could invest in a POS machine. I know the IBM (now Toshiba) machines have a locking USB port used for scanners\cash drawers\etc. You can even pull 12 or 24V power from 'em.
yeesh, that 'hinge'SL89 wrote: ↑Apple, Microsoft and Google are all in the same arena with regards to privacy.
That being said MS just dropped this: https://www.microsoft.com/surface/en-us ... rface-book
Even Mr.Mu can probably get behind that shiny new toy.
