Email has been “dying” for 20+ years. I’ll believe it when I see it.

David Rudin, I guess? It says which company each person is from under their name. (The page defaults to the “Leadership” tab, so you gotta click on the “Board of directors” tab to see the correct list of people.)

[Though other people investigating the url seem to be pretty sure the images don’t have a per user url, so this theory probably doesn’t hold]

…yet.

If they send an image with a unique URL to each Lemmy user, they could link the IP to your account.

And to paraphrase Michael Bolton from Office Space, why should we be the ones who have to move? The corporations are the ones who suck!

Huh interesting. Are these displays all the exact same model?

Yep. I like me some symmetry.

I’m not sure if this is expanded further with RDNA 4 but I can try to find out.

Thanks very much; I would love to have all three displays freesyncing!

Display setup is 3x 1440p 100Hz.

I can’t give you any new readings because I just took the computer apart to do upgrades. This one is getting a 9070 XT, and the Vega is getting handed down to my home server for (hopefully, if it’s capable of it) Jellyfin transcoding and local LLM duty.

That means I’ll still be very interested in making sure it idles properly since it’ll be doing so almost 24/7, but it’ll have to wait a minute because getting it installed isn’t my priority.

(The desktop upgrade is complicated because the new card is too wide to fit in my old case, which sent me down a rabbit hole of picking out a new SFF case and replacing supporting components like the PSU and CPU cooler…)

I killed Firefox and waited a while, and now I’m seeing 17-19W.

I think it’s basically just bittorrent.

So I’m still on kernel 6.8, and my Vega 56 is running at 20-30W while posting this and watching Youtube. Not sure if that’s normal for that older card, or if I’ve been wasting energy for a really long time.

I don’t like to be told what I have to do and don’t agree to “FOSS projects, which should always be preferred to corporate software”. My pc, my LAN, my rules.

…he said, without a hint of irony.

Meanwhile, “my PC, my LAN, my rules” is precisely the reason I do agree with always preferring FOSS to corporate software.

.World not being hosted in the US is news to me (as an American member of it, no less). It’s definitely welcome news, though!

Well, let’s see:

• You no longer have to set jumpers to “master” or “slave” on your hard drives, both because we don’t put two drives on the same ribbon cable anymore and because the terminology is considered kinda offensive.

• Speaking of jumpers, there’s a distinct lack of them on motherboards these days compared to the ones you’re familiar with: everything’s got to be configured in firmware instead.

• There’s a thing called “plug 'n play” now, so you don’t have to worry about IRQ conflicts etc.

• Make sure your power supply is “ATX”, not just “AT”. The computer has a soft on/off switch controlled through the motherboard now – the hard switch on the PSU itself can just normally stay on.

• Cooling is a much bigger deal than it was last time you built a PC. CPUs require not just heat sinks now, but fans too! You’re even going to want some extra fans to cool the inside of the case instead of relying on the PSU fan to do it.

• A lot more functionality is integrated onto motherboards these days, so you don’t need nearly as big a case or as many expansion slots as you used to. In fact, you could probably get by without any ISA slots at all!