jolan
Apple trade-in value is currently $565 for the base 16GB/256GB M4 mini. (up from $480 a couple weeks ago)
https://i.imgur.com/9qgKSZd.png
I paid $500 for it. Why would I sell it to you for $300?
I think we will continue to see some performance improvements for both systems over the next coming months.
It works great if you turn the BC-250 on, play games, and turn it off.
By jank, I mean it's not a streamlined console experience like the Steam Machine. There's no suspend/resume and the idle power is quite high. If you want wifi/bluetooth, you'll have to pick a chipset well supported by Linux. (I use ethernet and a steam controller). If you want USB ports and a power button in the front like a console would have, you'll have to pick a solution for those. Carefully read over the options for power and cooling. They're very important if you're going for max performance. All the little extras add to the over-all cost as well.
https://mosfet.party/ sells a bunch of BC-250 add-ons to give you an idea of price and options.
I paid ~$186 shipped for the board on eBay 5 weeks ago. I use an ATX power supply and NVMe that I had laying around and I printed a big case for it[0].
I seem to have gotten a good one as it has no problems after unlocking the extra CPU/GPU cores.
I run vanilla Arch on mine configured to boot into Steam. The jank factor is pretty high but it does trade blows with the Steam Machine for a fraction of the price.[1]
I did end up going through with the purchase of a 512GB Steam Machine for $1160 w/tax and swapped in a 2TB NVMe. It is definitely a more polished/living room-ready product and I'm happy with the hardware but it's definitely a questionable value.
It's worth reading over the docs[2] first before committing. There are lots of options for cooling, storage, and power supplies. Just depends on what you want to get out of it and how much time you want to invest in it. There are pre-made images so you don't necessarily need to be a Linux expert but it would help if you want to stay on top of the latest developments. There is still on-going work to get even more performance[3]
- [0] https://www.printables.com/model/1789618-bc-250-atx-case-dua...
- [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Sw1SdU9buQ
- [2] https://elektricm.github.io/amd-bc250-docs/
- [3] https://github.com/lonewolf0622/BC250-Native-Mesh-Shaders-
Thank you for maintaining this, I do use it every few months at $DAYJOB and it's quite useful for my capacity/deployment planning.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeFzfl0Q8rQUOHwFNOMTu...
He goes into the practicalities of owning/maintaining/repairing as well as the engineering.
Intel has a good write up here:
https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/gaming/resources/wif...
[1] https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/products-eurostat-news/-/D...
Google's stressapptest runs fine for long durations, building a kernel with make -j32 succeeds (and can boot it), every parallelized archiver like 7z,pbzip2,pigz,xz is ok, and even gaming on a Windows VM using 8c/16t + GPU passthrough works well.
This is my first Ryzen system so I chalked it up to a possible carry over of DDR4 issues from earlier generations. I didn't investigate further since the 3950x had just been released and I couldn't find any other reports of prime95-only instability until now. And just to reiterate, it is perfectly stable otherwise.
Heavy AVX2 workload breaking things fits better so will have to try to collect more data.
"telemetry.enableCrashReporter": false,
"code-runner.enableAppInsights": false,
"update.channel": "none",
"extensions.autoUpdate": false,
"extensions.ignoreRecommendations": true,
"workbench.settings.enableNaturalLanguageSearch": falseBotched micro code updates, Intel engineers arguing with each other on the linux kernel mailing list, etc. Intel's best and brightest have had 6+ months to work on proper mitigations in secret and this is the result.
https://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=151559244214217&w=2 https://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=151559367514704&w=2
AMD's Linux team is in the middle of a big push to modernize the driver and software stack. It seems they consider it a mostly working preliminary version.
You can choose-your-own-adventure with the totally open amdgpu+mesa stack or use the proprietary AMDGPU-PRO. You can follow development of the open source parts on this mailing list:
https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/amd-gfx/
I do agree with others that NVIDIA is a better choice if you want something that just works and you don't care about proprietary vs. open source.
Not 100% true, your server's IP will be banned along side the IPs of exit nodes. It seems a lot of blacklists don't bother to make the distinction.
https://www.reddit.com/r/TOR/comments/2abne1/hulu_blocked_af...
https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/org/doc/ListOf...
> I've really loved listening to SoundCloud over the past couple years since mainstream radio sucks, for the same reasons that mainstream TV used to (needing to target the lowest common denominator so as to not upset advertisers.)
Boohoo, now my favorite sites are going mainstream since I spend hours on their sites/consuming their bandwidth and they need to cover costs.
Alexa time on site:
facebook: 21:23 reddit: 18:30 youtube: 17:52 tumblr: 12:46 twitter: 7:41 soundcloud: 4:24
That's an hour and a half of a person's day.
> There have to be business models that allow the creativity of sites like XKCD, Reddit, SoundCloud, and Tumblr, to flourish. There has to be a way to save the walled garden of bland banality that the internet is becoming.
But you're still going to these sites despite the banality.
> Who's doing this to my internet?
You are.
> But most importantly, who will solve it?
Consider nominating yourself.