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I heard something about a Boeing whistleblower, but didn't get the meme because I hadn't heard about the murder.

I'm sure it was just a coincidence.

I tried a build of firefox with -march=alderlake (and "-C target-cpu=alderlake" for rust). It was the same deal as with nehalem for the firefox 123 cycle, the first stage compiled and profiled and the second stage got almost to the end and the linker segfaulted on the failure, during LTO l...

I'm using XFCE for non gaming, and my trusty IceWM for gaming. This way I can use gaming-adverse settings like focus follows mouse, and workspace switching at screen edges etc. for XFCE. It's better for workflow. I haven't finished populating my panel, and I have some broken icons that no longer jib...

That's probably about as good as you're going to get with air, from what I was reading.

That's a bit better than mine, but still pretty toasty. How many jobs did you start?

I wasn't thinking about voltages, but I knew that the turbo timings curve was aggressive (I also mentioned that Linux frequency governor is aggressive with that too). It won't harm the CPU though, and if it gets throttled, it doesn't matter. You could set less aggressive settings, but then you're wa...

I got my LFS set up now. I blasted the tarball to the partition, dropped in my kernel from Arch, edited fstab, networking files... the only thing I forgot was my udev rule, wrong MAC address. Then once the system was up I recompiled my kernel (slightly different config on my LFS) It actually boots u...

That's good shipping. I wouldn't get anything that fast because I live in bumfuckville.

Corsair was the first for the 10 year PSU warranty and others followed. Hell, I've got two antecs that lasted near 15 years (and they had 5 year warranties I think).

I've been playing that Deadspace remake from EA, now that I can. Well, I could, sort of, before on medium settings but there were period where it would freeze for several seconds when entering a new area (loading textures, shader compiles etc.) and after the first chapter I got rid of it. Now I'm pl...

Life is not over at level 99. I noticed an XP bar, but didn't know what was going to happen when it filled. I've seen games give you one more bar and then stop. But this one keeps giving you skill points. It calls it "Mastery Levels" now, like what you already get post level 50 to put skil...

As I often say, I think I've been had. This isn't bad grounding, it's bad "faraday caging". The only thing that makes sense here is that I'm generating EM interference when I'm all charged up like that and touch the case and its disrupting a signal (or sending a spurious one). It's less li...

I'm a chicken with my head cut off. I go to install my new LLVM packages, and pacman didn't prompt me to remove the Arch packages despite my provides= and conflicts= lines. I'm all WTF, making sure my LLVM installation is OK and then I remembered. I already replaced the distro's LLVM with mine (buil...

Yeah, the temps aren't as bad now with the top of the case covered. That would have been just taking in air and blowing it everywhere and not doing much cooling. I'm doing a sustained compile (compiling LLVM with LLVM... need to ditch the distro packages for that... I build mine differently) and it'...

Another thing I was grandfathered into having was python2. Arch ditched that probably a year ago. (I still need it for some builds and older software) That was an old distro package and I didn't even have a PKGBUILD for it, so I went to AUR and they had one (with patches from gentoo even... it's an ...

Another thing about this. I have aggressive motherboard settings, "XMP Profile 1" which affects CPU clock and memory speed. (I want my memory running at 3200 MHz). It reports a 5 GHz processor. Now... LINUX, is VERY aggressive (at least with only "performance" governors etc.). It...

coretemp-isa-0000 Adapter: ISA adapter Package id 0: +32.0°C (high = +80.0°C, crit = +100.0°C) Core 0: +27.0°C (high = +80.0°C, crit = +100.0°C) Core 4: +30.0°C (high = +80.0°C, crit = +100.0°C) Core 8: +26.0°C (high = +80.0°C, crit = +100.0°C) Core 12: +32.0°C (high = +80.0°C, crit = +100.0°C) Cor...

While it didn't help with the static touch (maybe I'm really some sort of Marvel villain and I don't know it yet lol), covering the top like that did help with air flow in the case. I just did a mesa build (ninja -j24) and while I wouldn't say the temps were good, cores were only spiking up to 100C,...

Sonofabitch... does static ever travel. I got some rubber carpet underlay and tested it with my multitester. It is non conductive, even with the probes a millimeter apart, and pressed on either side of it. It didn't work. OK, not thick enough, so I put two, and three pieces (just for testing). Nope,...

Fuck... so even water cooling would only keep the temps around 88C for these CPUs while compiling ("heavy content creation workloads"), from what I just read. I guess I'll just compile with -j8 or something so cores can juggle more (still have to fix the cooling though).

The cooler is working, just too poorly for my uses (I think I can remount it without taking the board out of the case, as long as I can get at the fan clips with my hands). I didn't even realize I had a problem because it idles with the cores between about 37C and 42C and it comes down instantly whe...

It has feet on it, I don't know if they are rubber. It's on a wooden table top though (just the frame is metal... it's a folding office table. Yes, that does seem like a shitty CPU fan. It's a big housing, too.Though no matter what you get, it's a shitty clip mounting system on the radiator that wou...

I ordered this PSU tester https://www.amazon.ca/Supply-Tester-Computer-Connectors-Screen/dp/B0CK61ZSZN/ We'll see if it's any good. It should make it easier. I also ordered an 8g tube of Arctic MX4. I would have gone with MX6, but I'm not in the mood to try anything new. (and the MX4 comes with a ni...

I've got a big black, tall, ugly Antec case I might try to use. The computer that used to be on the other desk (also X58 board and nehalem corei7). I could take the guts out and use that... ugly, but practical if the motherboard mounting works out (should... it's a full tower case). My good old syst...

This case has some issues for me. I didn't think they were serious, but I noticed some things that are dire. Firstly, the board doesn't really go in the case quite right. It fits up and mounts properly, but the rear i/o ports are too far forward (inside the case) to get the i/o shield on. I don't ca...

Oh your bios wouldn't know about your display setup, "init display first" is for the graphics adapter. (all the same, it should be set right). The only reason I have "multi monitor" setting is because it's the built in Intel graphics, and the multi monitor keeps it enabled so you...

A lot of wine games seem to hit this split lock condition: [ 903.944945] x86/split lock detection: #AC: CJobMgr::m_Work/3307 took a split_lock trap at address: 0xf324f47f [ 1067.699846] x86/split lock detection: #AC: FarCry6.exe/4064 took a split_lock trap at address: 0x6ffff4d97b97 [ 1074.084396] x...

Fucking PSU's these days... suffering Hell. I'm going to order a power supply tester of some sort, it's not that easy to swap them out for testing anymore with all those connections. Pretty much any time I touch hardware I get more than I was expecting. So you get nothing until X starts on a cold bo...

Huh, I was getting a nasty oops type warning (kernel tainting) like RIP: 0010:prefill_possible_map on CPU0 with a bunch of call trace oops spaghetti. It was during initializing CPUs, but it went on to do the right thing after, enabling 24 CPUs (only 8 of mine have hyperthreading) so I was pretty sur...

New kernel option:
Definitely need to say Y here, or things like fsck at boot time wouldn't be able to work.

It's live on kernel.org now (I had to refresh my browser to see it)

I guess I'll do that right now.