I'm about done with NVIDIA. Here's to hoping Intel improves their Linux driver support... They step up their game, and I could be convinced to switch. But right now.... It's all crap.

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I don't actually know. My desktop runs Linux. I patch it a couple times a month perhaps, and grab a cup of coffee while it reboots.

But to the point of "Why hasn't it gotten faster", you have to understand what its doing. Servers have entire subsystems to inventory & boot, a modern Dell server has at least 3 OS'es (4 if you have an expander backplane) hiding under the hood before the one you see boots. So servers have a bit more stuff. But the fundamentals are the same for desktops & laptops. RAM and DDR training. Yes, PC's have gotten a lot faster. RAM has gotten a lot bigger, and more to the point we keep juicing more speed out of it. Getting DDR5 to hold on to the bus and emit a usable signal at 4800Mhz with signal integrity to travel 1 meter to the socket take a little bit of tuning.

Enjoy the cup of coffee.

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The BSD's use something called Bhyve. I was pretty stable on TrueNAS Core when I used it, but not very feature rich. I only ran Linux VM's, so don't consider this an endorsement.

https://bhyve.org/

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Clearing caches, ok... But... And maybe its because I'm just a BIND 9.x guy... How do I lower the TTL for a Microslop hosted record? Even for records I host, changing the TTL doesn't force the remote caches to expire early.

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The bulk of the money that airlines make today is from loyalty programs and co-branded credit cards. If interest rates are capped then credit card rewards will go away and airlines won't have that propping them up, anymore.

I run my own DNS. Google is not one of my forwarders, or even involved. If my server isn't authoritative, it goes to the root servers for the TLD, and tracks it down from there. Frogs can go surrender to my house dynamic IP. I'll accept Nouvelle-Aquitaine with land & titles, and let them keep Paris.

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Sitting here staring at the pile of DDR3 DIMM's/SODIMM'd/UDIMM's in my ewaste recycle pile... Has to be like 512Gb at least...

No low ballers! I know what I have! :)

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Most companies with less that 100k employees have outsourced their email. Even those above that head count have strong incentive to outsource. Email is actually kind of difficult to do right at scale. The people that know how have their own little community. Much of the software that used to be used to implement email at massive scale is no longer publicly available, or was always private (Yahoo & Gmail). MS Exchange used to have trouble breaking 1M inboxes, requiring hundreds of hosts. Sun's Comms suite was once the telco standard, hosting 100's of thousands of inboxes per server, has now been subsumed into Oracle Cloud as their messaging service.

There's been a distinct lack of innovation too. Most of the major innovators are now dead or well past 70. Core RFC's have languished for years and even decades. John Postel has been gone since the 90's, Ned Freed, who created much of the MIME extensions passed in the early 2020's. The other big names, Eric Allman, Wietse Venema, William Yeager, are all in their 70's & 80's. The protocols are considered mature, work well with the occasional hairball, and powerful interests have built walled gardens, and are content to print money with them.

Honestly, the whole Internet email ecosystem is ripe for someone to come along and disrupt things.

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Satya,

You misspelled "evil".

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I appreciate the tip. I've been self-hosting Gitea for three or four years, and have spent the last year wondering about some of the changes.

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While you techies ramble away about your favorite political motivations... Consider...

TCE used to be used in bulk by mainframe and mini operators as tape head cleaner. My Dad brought home a quart can from work with a stack of patches for my sister and I to use to clean our walkman's. (I know dating myself here...) And no he didn't wear gloves in his DC, and neither did we. It was believed to be completely harmless.

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I don't have to think about it, I'm 15 months into it... :-/

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Most people don't realize how much of a pig LLM's actually are. All the focus is on the big AI machines PSU's, multi kW fan boards, GPU's, etc... Most of them have maybe 8 2.5" disk slots. They're not storage beasts. But what they do have is HBM processors with multiple Tb's of registered ECC DDR5. The OS boots locally, and then the RAM receives the training data from a remote data lake. It gets loaded into RAM and stays there. Multiple Tb's per node.

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News for nerds? Just because of Insta?

While it was good info back in the day, I've used it myself. That blog is almost a decade out of date at this point. It has some updates, but it kind of needs a complete rewrite. Fully a 1/3 of the ciphers, MACs, etc... have been deprecated & replaced.

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