Well... seeing that my phone got Android 9, I feel like I want to hold off a bit longer with the phone upgrade...

Wait until 5G is deployed over a reasonably large portion of New York, then get a 5G device.

Instead of getting something like the OnePlus 6T or Galaxy S10 and missing out on 5G for another one to two years.

Besides, my OnePlus 3T is still holding up well, battery wear notwithstanding.

And I'm still getting great LTE network performance. Even if it doesn't support newer bands, more devices using new bands and continued upgrades to network capacity on all supported bands means that overall performance has improved and will continue to improve over the coming years.

I'm probably better off trying to stretch the phone's service life to a full three years before replacing it.

(and portable power banks do dramatically ease the need for long battery life on a charge)

OnePlus is apparently still working on delivering an official Android Pie update for devices as old as the original OnePlus 3, but LineageOS got there first.

(cinebench benchmark)

@JourneymanGeek Congrats. That's in line with expectations for the i9-9900K on Cinebench R20 (from what I can find thus far).

(Astaroth, with Ryzen 7 1800X at 3.95 GHz and 32 GB of DDR4-2933 memory, scored 3836)

@bwDraco that said... the top two processors listed are... insane... ;p

Those are dual-socket servers.

@bwDraco even then....

I need to see if the old PC is more stable post cleanup at some point.

and figure out where to stash it

I would not be surprised if you could get a 5000 cb score if you overclocked it. Cinebench R20 uses AVX instructions, and the processor is very likely throttling down a bit because AVX instructions require more power to execute.

What cooler?

@bwDraco the big thing for now is its quieter (there's no spinning storage onn it) and it starts a lot of the time

thermaltake thermaltake.com/products-model.aspx?id=C_00003120

Hmm... 240mm liquid cooler. You should be able to overclock it to around 5 GHz.

ya. frustratingly I've not really had time to play around with it much

and the liquid cooler is actually there for easier cleaning

Ryzen, at least up to the second-generation chips, isn't as fast with AVX instructions, but conversely doesn't require clocking down or use as much power when executing them; the upcoming third-gen processors will have beefier FPUs that can execute AVX2 code twice as fast but we don't yet know how they behave under these workloads.

Build specs?

could have sworn I'd shared those

one moment

speccy.piriform.com/results/dBhiP0mhCuEnEpCl1Kh5nQN

The Evo's likely to get popped into a future machine or used elsewhere. They didn't have the 512gb version of the pro in stock locally

Hmm... so you're reusing your old 980 Ti?

the WD was on clearance

for now

Its a decent card - feels like waiting for Raytracing to sink or swim is a good idea

if I was building a whole new machine I'd consider a 1660

Real-time ray-tracing is really only a matter of time. The technology simply isn't mature yet.

On the short term - it was the (second) newest part of my system and all it really needed was to be blown out with some canned air

@bwDraco and there's three possible approaches to it so...

Intel's been playing with just throwing a ton of cores at it for years. Amusingly, they have the most experience with practical raytracing.

AMD seems to think if their cards are fast enough, they can muscle through it

I really don't have a significant stock of old parts to work with. Astaroth was my first fully-custom PC build, and while I have a bunch of old drives (both solid-state and electromechanical) that are being reused in external storage roles as backup or I/O offloading/acceleration devices, I don't have much reasonably-current hardware to reuse.

Nvidia's specific instructions is bold simply because they probably control neither common standard

@bwDraco my old PC has no discrete GPU

I'm personally waiting for new 7nm parts to come out before I begin my first major round of hardware upgrades for the Demon.

I literally built it so that at some point, I could switch it to running on the integrated GPU and convert it to a server, or other fun stuff

And I don't currently have a significant use for another PC, even an old or slow one.

which is fine

Don't forget I'm a hardware hobbyist first

You might have your own fun thing

I'm actually more curious about how high-speed external solid-state storage could be used to accelerate complex workloads or augment PCs in consumer environments, even if it's already equipped with solid-state storage inside.

@bwDraco the bottleneck's probably the interface unless you're using USB C or tbolt

I personally love the idea of using portable SSDs to handle I/O intensive tasks. They're easily interchangeable, can be used to add space to laptops with more constrained storage, can be set up to divert write-heavy workloads away from hard-to-replace internal storage on modern ultraportable systems, speed up systems with slow eMMC or electromechanical storage, and so much more.

The modularity is the big draw here.

If I can't take a screwdriver to it, its boring ;p

If the system isn't designed to be opened up by the end user, I'd prefer not to. I care about not breaking my hardware or losing my warranty.

pfft ;p

(actually at some point, I need to stick a SSD on my dad's dell)

though, that machine seems to work a little disappointingly well

Modular, external storage is simple and can do most of the things that internal storage can do, and in some cases, things that internal storage can't do, like expand storage or accelerate a system with slow eMMC.

Not every system has readily-replaceable internal drives. If I already have some old SSDs lying around, why not use them to get more out of existing hardware?

I've put 26.3 TBW on my 850 PRO and it's only a third into its warranty period; why not take advantage of the remaining 273 TBW or 6 years 9 months of warranty coverage?

Ok.. this is strange...

so.. I decided to give the epic games client a poke. Apparently someone used my email to sign up?

I did a password reset... and it had a bunch of stuff prepoulated and not what I'd normally randomly input

Contact Epic Games. Perhaps someone has been using random email addresses to create accounts?

(not unheard of)

lol, meh, I have control of it, no money was spent.

Meh

I'm not saying that there's an actual compromise, but rather a bot-created account...

and its entirely harmless

and silly

also, anyone here use chrome?

does it have a password manager now?

Not me.

As for the SSD, all it takes is a ~$30 USB 3.1 Gen 2 enclosure to turn it into a portable high-speed storage device.

noticed vivaldi did and its awesome

techrepublic.com/article/…

Intel is so big that a processor shortage can substantially affect demand of other PC components.

The same had happened for NAND. Now it's DRAM's turn to see big price drops.

I must be getting old

I'm sure I wrote something years ago that interacted with the Facebook API, but I can't remember what it did or when I wrote it

Not even sure how I would track it down as I'd like to find out

give me teh codez

@JourneymanGeek I use Chromium and it has the ability to save passwords aye, but I don't use it well enough to know if it has the ability to do the other password-manager stuff like a master password, backups and the like

@JourneymanGeek browsers have had "password managers" of varying complexity and completeness for about ... two decades?

@Bob @bertieb master password here is based off the system password,

also this will recommend a strong random password on new sign up or password reset

so proper password managerlike things

@JourneymanGeek that gets you maybe halfway there, yea

based off system password is generally bad

@Bob a little

but it makes it "easy"

random password generation is good. better if it's properly configurable

laziness keeps me from using a password manager ;p

(also been setting up game client accounts soooo... its nice to have them on a random password and have it recoverable)

also.. I need to reset passwords for time sheet logins every month...

._.

@bwDraco lol @ you thinking anything will come out of 5G tech in the next couple years

@JourneymanGeek took me half an hour maybe to switch to LastPass. Switch now! It's worth it!

More that I switch between systems a lot

@JourneymanGeek LastPass is synced between devices

Enpass >>>> Lastpass

has built-in TOTP so you don't lose it when you factory reset your phone

@allquixotic what's totp

Oh thattt

Top of the Pops

roar

lol @ GitHub's HTTP 500 page

I have made a dumb thing.

:49388312 /me rips his Journeyman Geek fan-club card in half

@ThatBrazilianGuy NUKE IT FROM ORBIT!

@ThatBrazilianGuy kept

wait. I have a fan club? WITH ACTUAL CARDS?

@JourneymanGeek Yes! To activate these cards please provide us your DOB and SSN. :-)

... I don't have an SSN.

I probably have a doggie licence...

@JourneymanGeek What's "kept"? Some sort of "person will remember this" game message?

@ThatBrazilianGuy well I have a password manager of sorts now!

Its built into my browser

!!s/I have made a dumb thing/I am dumb/

@DavidPostill I am dumb. (source)

!!facepalm

so... my dad got one of those "we haxxed your computer" emails...

didn't even have an old password...

"So dad, you don't watch porn right?"

"And you do realise that none of your computers have cameras right?"

"And this dosen't even have a old password! They are not even trying!"

@DavidPostill At least I'm not the only person doing dumb stuff here...

@JourneymanGeek Saving passwords on the browser? I hope it's unimportant stuff and you have 2FA turned on.

@ThatBrazilianGuy yes and yes

I use a yubikey U2F for now

waiting on a solo/solo tap

that said the point here is unique hard to guess passwords

I wanted one but (1) IIRC it's Chrome-only (my main browser is FF), and (2) it's a bit too expensive and shipping is quite expensive

@JourneymanGeek A what?

@ThatBrazilianGuy solokeys.com/en/start

Solo Solo Tap sounds like the name of a weird anime.

Weird anime is a pleonasm.

Ordered a regular one and a NFC enabled one

@ThatBrazilianGuy yeah, that's a thing

I actually had my U2F key for a while before I switched to vivaldi

and only realised it worked a few weeks ago

@JourneymanGeek Google "journeyman geek fan club" and look at the 3rd image :)

Oo

There is your fan club :)

I personally really want to use my old, el-cheapo Lenovo netbook more, but there's two things holding it back: 1) it can't charge from USB, and 2) the processor is way too slow. 2 GB RAM is something I can get around using zram and portable SSD swap, but the processor is the main limiting factor. Better usage ideas?

It's a 2C Apollo Lake Celeron. A 4C processor would be a lot more usable, even if the clock frequency wasn't any higher.

It's just compute-bound the majority of time. The main limiting factor isn't the eMMC or even the 2 GB of LPDDR3.

I mean, the processor is usually at or near 100% on both cores under even the lightest loads, even when it's swapping (meaning it's not even saturating the dedicated swap SSD's bandwidth).

Umm...

lol

Glasses?

(Google results are personalized)

I too get them so I think that has nothing to do with personalization

@NordlysJeger I need to get someone outside the SE-sphere to test

hmm

wait a sec

@ThatBrazilianGuy It was the picture of Ash that was 3rd in my search.

:)

And now it's 6th. Someones popularity is going down ;)

must be all the people tearing up the fan club cards

The three others I got are basically the same and all are from people/IPs which don't use SE

ah

@DavidPostill 1st for me, Google knows I love geeks.

@JourneymanGeek Gotta leave love declarations on your blog to counter it

hothardware.com/reviews/samsung-galaxy-s10-plus-review?page=3

> Samsung's Ultra-Wide Angle lens on board the Galaxy S10 series is downright impressive and a real game-changer. [...] 123-degree 16MP Ultra Wide camera [...]

Wow. 123° FOV is equivalent to a 10mm lens on a 35mm full frame camera, or 7mm on APS-C.