unRAID gets my vote for home use, at least. As the name suggests, it isn't actually RAID, but provides some of the same benefits while remaining more flexible. You can pool your drives. You can have no parity where if you lose a drive it is the same as it always was, you lose a drive and its data. You can have single parity, where a single drive failure is tolerated and is recovered from by simply replacing the dead drive and rebuilding from parity. And double parity gives you the same, but tolerates two drives failing at once. My non-critical home use data is kind of safe on it due to the redundancy, but I'd like to set up another unRAID machine with similar space to mirror it so I actually have a backup, even though next to none of it really matters if it would be lost. For the small amount of stuff I would not like to use, putting it on a couple different cloud storage sites is plenty for me. Even if I had a lot of data that I didn't want to lose I would feel comfortable with it on an unRAID box, and again, preferably with another similar machine to mirror it for backup purposes.

Read their article? wtf? I thought this was slashdot. ;)

"It's not showing 19% IPC improvements over the last gen like Intel says it does. But at least it is showing 19% IPC improvements over the last gen like Intel says it does." Okay, then.

If it did, why do I get a sunburn so quickly now compared to 20 years ago? Something else missing that also helped divert UV? As a kid in the 70s and teenager in the 80s it was actually difficult to get a sunburn playing/being outside all damn day, every day, all bloody summer. Now I go wash and clean the car for an hour, or cut the grass, or whatever else and my head, face, and arms are beet red.

Now if only they'd update the FB app so it doesn't consume all available free space until I have to go help my mom so she can take pictures of her supper for her friends to see again. 6+ GB (however much space is on the iPhone/iPad, actually) of temporary cache that will not go away without deleting and reinstalling the app is a bit much. Why would they not cap this kind of usage, FIFO style?

Seriously, why is this on slashdot?

all you'll need is the Space Force.

While there obviously is a huge business/budget PC market that will benefit from having an integrated GPU, there is also a considerable market that does not care about it or want it in there as it will never be used. Yields make such a big impact on their bottom line it is a wonder why they've never bothered to make a second line that omits the GPU entirely, not merely using defective units by disabling the GPU, so as to get a much higher unit count from every wafer. Actually get rid of the GPU from the die altogether so that exactly zero silicon is used for it so that they can get many more CPUs from each wafer.

QuickSync encoding quality is so horrible when using actually-sane bitrates. Software encoding with x264/x265 is always going to be better because the people adding these QuickSync/NVENC features don't actually care about making quality encodes. They just want another marketing checkbox to fill in. If any features like this would actually work as quickly as they do and also give quality that's comparable to a reasonable target, such as x264/x265's medium preset or better, then they would actually be useful. Most especially if it matched medium or better at streamable bitrates. But their quality at streamable bitrates is so bad. So, so bad.

If they were smart, they'd do a limited run of such a CPU without a GPU even existing on it just to see how it would actually sell. Sell something equivalent to the 9900K sans GPU, and price it with a discount compared to the 9900K that relates directly to the percentage of silicon saved per die/wafer. Does it make the CPU die 20% smaller? Sell it for 20% less. I think they'd be surprised at just how many they sold. Rather, how quickly it would sell out.

As I stated above, taking a BtG time and adding 30 seconds is generally accepted as a decent rough estimate of a full-lap lap time. Bikes aren't fast around tracks compared to cars. Red Bull's staggered start promo videos comparing bikes and cars confirm this, with the bike being the first to start because it is slowest and all the cars in the test will catch it.

Motorcycle record for "bridge to gantry" is 7:10, which is not the same as a full lap. A rough estimate of what a full lap time might be based on a BtG time is to add 30 seconds. So, yes, this means that a rough estimate of the fastest motorcycle lap time of the Nurburgring is in the neighbourhood of 7:40. Sorry, motorcycle fans, while motorcyles are fast at accelerating, factor in cornering and braking and the overall picture changes quite a bit. Cars are faster.

If you don't like something and you buy it anyway, that's your own damn fault. And you're just ensuring the design will continue by voting that you actually like it with your dollars. You can't possibly be this thick. "I like Mac OS so I'm going to accept crap that comes with it." That is what you're saying. You're saying you like their OS so much that you don't care what piece of crap computer they put it on, you'll still buy it. The only way you'll ever get their OS on a computer you actually want to use is if you stop buying the ones you don't want to use and tell them why you don't want to use it. Duh.

You can't be this blind. One YouTuber I watch is a man with a mechanical engineering degree that makes videos where he explains the engineering behind many different things, usually to do with the automotive field. He's pretty successful at it, and it isn't like he wasn't successful in his engineer career already. He just found it more enjoyable and fulfilling to do what he's doing now, compared to working at one previous job at a forklift company doing engineering work for them. He's no ne'er do well. And he's got skills he is plenty capable of marketing successfully.

Another I watch is a man up here in Canada who retains a fair bit of anonymity, but seems as though he may be a millwright or something similar. He makes a ton of videos, typically tearing down power tools to see how they're constructed, which ones are built with quality and which ones are crap, where they're good or bad, etc. Occasionally he'll be showing how to construct this or that on the lathe or milling machine, or even a CNC milling machine he purchased with the intent of giving viewers a way to build their prototypes, etc. He's a successful guy at his real job. And he's a successful guy with his YouTube channel, too. Not to mention a family guy who loves his wife and kids, and enjoys having the kids in the workshop teaching them how to do this and that every now and then.

Both of these people are fine examples of people that are/were successful in other areas of life but decided to take a stab at making some money via videos on YouTube, and are doing quite well at it. And they're just two examples in a very large pond over there at YouTube. You really have no idea what you're talking about, nor the kind of dough that's available to grab if you play your cards right. Sorry.

As an aside: Just so you know, you're using apostrophes incorrectly.

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Yup. 60 fps should be the minimum now. Low framerates suck. I leave motion interpolation on on my TV because the interpolation to a higher framerate is more pleasing to my eye than low framerate jittery, stuttering, blurry crap. Movies are supposed to put you in another reality, supposed to put you in the story. Well, the higher the framerate, the more convincing/realistic that view into the other universe should be. When I saw The Hobbit movies in the theatre at 48 fps it was glorious. If it were 60 fps so we could see the same thing at home that would've been even better. I would love to have the 48 fps version at home so I could interpolate it to 60 fps on my big TV. And I hope in the near future 60 fps becomes the de facto standard and nobody ever goes below that.

You can't get excited about 120 Hz phone displays and also think movies should be 24 fps. Not that you should be watching movies on your phone, but you should be excited about 120 Hz displays.