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  • Intel has always been a two cookie company

    Intel sat on 4 cores with exceptionally high power usage for a decade while everyone was screaming for more. This resulted in Apple starting up their own damn chip business, and AMD smashing through the wall with 6, 8, 12, and 16-core chips available to the masses; and core counts requiring a third damn digit if you go server. Furthermore, Intel’s process node is woefully behind TSMC’s.

    Intel sat on their laurels and are getting shat on from all angles now.






  • If you have your encryption key backed up, you have a chance to decrypt it still. It’s also possible, but unlikely, the key somehow survived the ISO write and it was written elsewhere on the drive, allowing the key to be recovered. I would only trust such with a professional. (There is basically a smaller encrypted section that your typed-in password decrypts, that section contains the encryption key the rest of the drive uses.)

    Honestly though, if you have your stuff backed up (you do have your stuff backed up elsewhere?!?), just restore from your backup and call this a loss.


    If you don’t have a backup, this was your wakeup call. Always have a backup going forward.



  • BombOmOm@lemmy.worldtoAsklemmy@lemmy.mlRoad trip tips
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    • Bring lots of audio entertainment pre-loaded on your phone (don’t rely on internet) or burnt to a CD. Podcast, audiobook, w/e. Boredom is the mind killer.
    • Bring snacks that don’t leave your hands dirty.
    • Bring a sandwich, it’s much cheaper than buying one.
    • Bring a refrigerated and a frozen water bottle. The latter will still be cold for the second half of the trip.
    • When you stop to pee/get gas, make sure you walk around for a few minutes. Your legs get tired just sitting.
    • Both Google and Apple maps supports pre-downloading maps. This is very helpful if you need to set a route and you don’t have service where you happen to be.




  • BombOmOm@lemmy.worldtoLinux@lemmy.mlLinux gaming hardware/software
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    Those are both solid pieces of hardware. However, I would suggest getting a Ryzen 5600 for a notable per-core CPU buff over the 3600x, which should help quite a bit with games like Civ’s AI turn time. And since that CPU, Motherboard socket isn’t latest-gen either, you can buy used for cheap still.

    Ryzen 3600x vs Ryzen 5600.

    On a slightly different note: The 7k series Ryzen CPUs get you on the latest slot, AM5. This will get you future upgradability if you want it, but it will also come with higher costs as AM5 is the newest socket, so people aren’t unloading them onto the used market in quantity. Such cost considerations are best determined by you. Both are a solid choice though.


    For the GPU, I think the Radeon 6600 is a good choice. Radeon stuff works better in linux and that particular one is plenty strong for what you listed.


    I highly, highly recommend PassMark’s benchmarks for comparing hardware. They are the first place I look to get relative numbers. And from there I determine what I need/want.

    Single-thread CPU chart

    GPU Chart



  • Since it is something with the computer itself and not the OS, some things to try:

    • Check for any motherboard status lights.
    • Reseat your RAM.
    • Run a memtest. Let it do a full pass, takes ~3 hours. If you see anything more than a single error, it’s the RAM.
    • Reset your BIOS to factory settings.
    • Update your BIOS.
    • Reset your CMOS.
    • As redxef said, unplug from the wall, hit the power button a few times to fully drain the system, then plug back in.
    • Unplug everything you possibly can. Leave just a single monitor, a single stick of RAM, the cpu, and the power cable plugged in. Literally nothing else, not even a keyboard. (You will need to keep your graphics card plugged in as the 2700x doesn’t have onboard graphics)
    • Swap to a different single stick of RAM and put it in a different slot.
    • Visually inspect for any exploded or bulging capacitors.
    • If you have gotten to here, swap in any spare parts you have from the prior list. Different graphics card, different ram stick, different monitor, different cpu or mobo if you have one.
    • Unplug/replug your internal power cables, and unplug any unnecessary internal cables (fans, rgb, etc) (Is it this? Probably not, but we are getting to the desperate part of the list.)
    • Reseat your CPU (don’t forget to clean off and re-apply thermal paste)
    • Cry a little

    The goal is to narrow down which piece of hardware is failing.