Windows and Linux don’t feel fundamentally different these days

Try Windows 11 vs. Linux on a shitty old laptop with a budget 2-core processor and 2GB of RAM. Then tell me Windows and Linux don’t feel any different.

When you become one with the penguin, though … then you can begin to feel how much faster modern hardware is.

Hell, I’ve got a 2016 budget-model chromebook that still feels quick and snappy that way.

and it had Turbo button, which did absolutely nothing

These old ‘turbo’ buttons actually did do something – they limited your CPU clock speed.

Because some old games (and perhaps other software) relied on counting CPU cycles for timing the game. The faster your CPU, the faster the game would run, and the faster things in the game would happen. When CPUs got too fast for this, such games became unplayable because everything was happening in such fast-forward speed that the player could never hope to keep up. The counter-intuitively named ‘turbo’ button would bridge a jumper on the motherboard and change your CPU clock speed to a lower value, slowing it down so these old style games could still run at a reasonable, playable pace.

Ironically enough, the ‘turbo’ button made your PC slower.

(Personally, I think turbo buttons are due for a comeback, but as fan control options. Use a ‘turbo’ button to switch between fan control profiles – turbo off for quiet profile, turbo on for maximum performance profile.)

Neither. While violent resistance to Israel’s abuses is very understandable and maybe even commendable, deliberately targeting civilians is not the way.

I’m also under no illusion that Hamas would be any less abusive if they were the ones with the power. If they had the ability to do so, they’d gladly commit genocide as well.

They’re also, to some degree, themselves a tool of Israel, propped up by Netanyahu’s regime in order to justify Israel’s continued aggression, oppression, and war.

Sorry, I just wanted more RAM.

Use with caution.

Back in the day, I used this multiple times. It was all good fun at first, but after a few dozen times, something went wrong involving a black hole and the destruction of the universe. And what’s worse, after I rebooted the universe, I still had issues. Harambe got killed and then humanity was shunted to the bad timeline. Still looking for a fix.

Just FYI, don’t double your RAM too many times in a row without taking into account the mass-energy content of all that RAM.

How much control does the average worker have over the state? Practically none.

Out of curiosity who do you think controls the state in China?

Not the workers.

Sure buddy, sure.

Take it this way, then:

Socialism is when the workers are in control of the means of production. Supposedly, socialist countries accomplish this by the state being in control of the means of production and the workers supposedly in control of the state. But in reality, the workers are not in control of the state, so the workers are not in control of the means of production, and it’s not socialism.

State capitalism is not socialism, and it is not a friend of the working class.

Technically, this is just a second prefix.

Nah. Being attacked by evil doesn’t make you good.

You’ve got to stop with this black-and-white thinking.

In my youth I was taught that democracy meant that the government served the people.

In your youth, your teachers lied to you.

True true, and their ‘justifications’ for war are entirely bogus.

But I just caution against over-correcting. Just because someone is an enemy of the US doesn’t mean they’re perfect. Or even good.

But also … just because something is used by the US as propaganda doesn’t necessarily mean it’s untrue.

They care if a rich person dies. My friend Luigi proved that.

I don’t get my mobo splash screen or bios display when booting

That already basically eliminates all possible software issues, so there’s no point in booting into a different OS.

550W is woefully inadequate for a 9070XT

I think people generally overestimate how much PSU they actually need, though.

Since I’m running a 3090 and a 32-core Threadripper, among other things, I picked a 1000W power supply. Reasonable enough.

But I also have it plugged into a UPS that shows current power usage, and the total input power of the PC is ~250W at idle, ~650W at full load, and I’ve never seen it go above 700W at all, ever. And that’s including accessories that aren’t going through the PSU at all. An 800W power supply would (in theory at least) be more than enough for even my ridiculously overbuilt and power-hungry system.

Maybe there’s something to be said for having an under-stressed PSU with significantly more capacity than you’ll ever use? It won’t have as much heat stress. Maybe it will run more efficiently at a lower percentage of its maximum load. If it for some reason loses some of its capacity over time, you’ll still have some wiggle room left. And, of course, it’s always nice to have a bigger PSU if you’re doing upgrades later, making it less likely that you’ll need to replace your PSU to do those upgrades. But still, I think a lot of home-built PCs out there are using a much bigger PSU than they actually need.

Still, you’ll want to try all other possibilities before writing it off as a hardware failure. Because hardware failures are expensive, and other fixes are cheap or free.

Hm… Yeah, unfortunately, that’s sounding more and more like a hardware failure.