There was a lot more to it than just the fab failures.

Full disclosure, never worked there, have shared many beers with fantastically interesting (and proudly deranged) hardware engineers and architects who did.

Intel had transitioned from an engineering company to a company of managers, spreadsheets, and economic forecasting. They completely stagnated from a technology perspective, not just in the fab but also in the actual design and implementation. A Core 2 Duo was basically their last gasp of real innovation- after that even the business class cpus were basically stuck at the same core counts, same thread architecture, same memory architecture. They were just slowly shaving minuscule IPC, increasing minuscule clock, and adding small amounts of cache… but from a Wall Street perspective they were still posting good profits since the market was cornered and so engineering cuts kept coming, despite staff and principal engineers leaving in droves and yelling that the end was nigh.

The basic fault was that they decided to build their engineering, economics, and strategies around Moore’s Law. The law that famously was a fun observation stupid people started taking seriously. ‘When will get 12nm, Johnson?’ ‘Forecasted for next Q2 boss!’ but, you know, without the fab architects actually having a clue how to get there without a moonshot project.

Ryzen was a rude awakening for a company that had become an MBA zombie, slowly shambling towards the next quarter. Since that moment they’ve decapitated basically their entire management suite. And of course replaced them all with new managers. But they actually have managed (heh) to play decent catch up on the engineering side. But as it goes in the industry, 6 years later is 7 years too late. It’s AMD’s game to lose now.

Yep exactly. ASA for strength and/or outdoor use, PETG for everything else.

I don’t proxy the port, I proxy the routes needed for auth and interface. This isn’t that hard.

EDIT: ah I see what you’re saying, you’re talking about the app surface rather than the raw admin API. The risk is small enough with the remaining attack surface that I’m not particularly worried, though obviously I’d like it to be better.

Just use a reverse proxy. Everything goes over https.

This is a concern if you just port forward through a router. This isn’t a problem if you simply use a reverse proxy, which is standard and normal and expected and not difficult at all.

This is a balanced take. If anyone doubts, you should read up on the scrubbing/cleaning NASA has to do on their rovers before sending them to Mars.

You know how that bottle of alcohol-based sanitizer says it kills ‘99.9%’ of all bacteria? Well 99.9% still leaves billions of the bastards behind. It’s the same for the UV treatment they do. And the ionic plasma jet. And the 8 or 9 other steps they take. And they’re really still not convinced every time they detect an organic on the surface of Mars we didn’t bring it with us by accident, have them make it through the vacuum of space and the hard radiation for the 18 month trip, and just release a handful of still living super resistant bacteria onto the surface.

EDIT: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/this-microscopic-fungus-survived-nasas-sterilization-protocols-and-is-hardy-enough-to-potentially-contaminate-mars-180988728/

Oh man, all sorts. F1, Ghost of Tsushima, Hades 1 & 2, Planet Crafters, Powerwash Simulator, Stray, etc.

Oh wow weird! No haven’t had any issues with my TT or my ES, and I’ve had the ES for 2 years of heavy use now.

I used ps5 controllers. Both developed stick drift within a year of light use. They’re beautiful and so nice to hold and use, but don’t waste your money.

I recommend Gulikit TT Pro.

Good ergonomics. Repairable (made by the company who got famous selling replacement Hall effect sticks for Nintendo switch controllers). Built like tanks with proper microswitches and Hall effect sticks. Inexpensive too, especially compared to the controllers that have similar features.

Best of all, work out of the box on Linux.

TACO Tuesday! Amazing his handlers even let him out of bed on Tuesdays anymore.

I respect your perspective and personal experience, and I’m not trying to convince you (I’m not even downvoting you, as it’s not a disagreement button). I’m trying to convince whoever might come along and read this that the small extra price is worth it if their computer is going to hold data dear to them and be running 24x7.

ECC is extremely good at covering cosmic ray bitflips, which happen with extreme regularity on software that runs and modifies data on the fly- server software. Yes, even home run stuff. That’s just playing Russian roulette, it probably won’t break anything, but why take the risk at least 10 times every day?

It’s also great at catching failing RAM sticks and preventing them from doing horrible things to every bit of data running through them. This is the failure ECC caught for me at home twice.

I have only 2.5 decades in the enterprise server and software space, I won’t claim to your 4. But I know I wouldn’t take that risk at work, and I value my home data more rather than less.

I’m not a researcher or even a particularly well practiced rhetorician, so here’s probably a much more convincing argument.

Or this perhaps.

I’ll strongly disagree. Anyone who cares about the data they store in their server should care about ECC. There’s a specific reason it’s used so widely by servers, not just financial databases or whatever.

There’s also a ton of misinformation on the Internet about it, so don’t buy into the “ZFS write hole” or whatever. But ECC is very important in my experience. It’s saved my bacon in a material way twice now, and in ways that normal RAM would have just silently continued breaking things. Really that’s not much of a price premium if you’re willing to buy used, so it’s more a question of why not?

There are many computers (especially business line computers including low power SFF) that will take ECC or even ship with it from ebay or whatever. Or you can build rigs with ECC, I’ve done this route twice and had good results.

Agreed though, when they work they’re comfortable, responsive, intuitive. At their best they’re the best controller I’ve used.

But for $80+ these days they should have hall effect sticks and mechanical switches. I’ve started buying https://www.gulikit.com/ controllers, which have both and are much cheaper, but not as comfy or responsive.

I have serious stick drift on Dualsense controllers after using them on and off for just a year. 3 controllers, all with the same issue.

To be fair the values are ambiguous and not at all coherent or consistent page to page, and interpretations have managed to somehow adapt to the mindset of the ruling class for over 1500 years.

Such a loud picture.

The education in those places is a huge part of the problem. They have probably never heard the ideas of these uprisings and massacres, and they were never taught to be intellectually curious enough to look into it themselves. It might’ve had a paragraph in the textbook about “labor rights” movement.

Gotta remember that the textbooks for basically the entire US are determined by an extremely conservative group based in Texas.

This is my choice too. I love it.

I worked at Best Buy corporate offices for a minute. We nicknamed the 4 wings sandcrawler 1-4.

You have to understand that in the pre-classical era, Roman people had minor god cults throughout their small villages, and the Greeks did the same thing. The cults beliefs did some traveling over time, and reasonable people slowly began piecing together a shared mythos.

Over time, as the Greeks pulled together their culture into a power structure of loosely associated city-states, their religious cults from dozens and dozens of villages all were glued together into a more cohesive pantheon.

Romans then adopted and ‘latinized’ the Greek pantheon, mixing in several of their own superstitions and cults.

This means you will have a God of creation and a God of that pond over there, which might have later been rationalized into a nymph.

EDIT:

It’s much the same in the Abrahamic religions. Yahweh was the god of storms/thunder, sort of second or third in command to El, had a wife etc. Later he was given domain over war and then later promoted to the one true God.

You can see small remnants of this in the Bible, in the conflicts with Baal (another diety of the pantheon) especially (theorized to be some of the oldest stories in the Bible). Yahweh often uses thunder and lightning in his signs, and in older records mention is made of his wife/children etc.

Before things were commonly written down and literacy was common Religious beliefs were messy, constantly adapting and re-adapting to changing times, rulers, and encounters with other systems of belief.