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by etbe 2mo ago
Why is taxing non-ECC RAM instead of ECC RAM more of a problem in this regard than the thousands of other taxes? The government imposed a 12% GST on all computer gear just because they felt like it. Would making ECC RAM GST exempt satisfy y
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by etbe 2mo ago
But no-one here has advocated banning anything. Please read before replying.
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by etbe 2mo ago
I respect the time of my readers by accurately presenting my claims. It seems that everyone other than you was able to understand "My experience of memory errors".
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by etbe 2mo ago
If it's none of your business why are you getting so involved in this discussion?
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by etbe 2mo ago
Good point. Some googling suggests that plastic may be better than metal as hydrogen absorbs high energy protons without generating secondary radiation.
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by etbe 2mo ago
The people designing RAM and motherboards and the people working at JEDEC will of course know more about these things than almost everyone who reads hacker news. But I'd still prefer not to just blindly trust that they do the best thin
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by etbe 2mo ago
How do YOU propose doing this when most computer "experts" have never used ECC RAM and when it's only available in high end specialist systems that aren't on sale in regular computer stores? I think my knowledge of the t
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by etbe 2mo ago
The original IBM PC/XT had parity RAM. In the early PC/XT and PC/AT clones you had banks of 9 DIP sockets for memory chips with the 9th being for parity. The DDR4 ECC RAM has 72 bits total and 64bits of data which means the s
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by etbe 2mo ago
I'm planning some RAM purchases for the end of this year, I expect the crash to happen in a few months.
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by etbe 2mo ago
BTRFS has checksums on all metadata. It isn't designed to cope with bad RAM but has been shown to be somewhat resistant to it to the degree that BTRFS developers can recognise symptoms in problem reports. Whether a filesystem could be
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by etbe 2mo ago
No-one ever proposed making non-ECC RAM illegal, that's a straw-man. Restricting risky items is standard practice for all governments. All the "use by" dates on food etc are from government regulation. The current experiments
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by etbe 2mo ago
I can only report what I have seen. Feel free to write your own blog post reporting what you have seen.
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by etbe 2mo ago
Yes a kernel taint is a really good idea!
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by etbe 2mo ago
For second hand gear RDIMMs are significantly cheaper than UDIMMs. As all RDIMMs have ECC that means generally ECC is cheaper for second hand systems. Aliexpress had $50 single socket motherboards for Xeon E5-26xx CPUs and $150 dual socket
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by etbe 2mo ago
I have a HP Z640 that only has 3/4 DIMM slots working. Reseating the CPU didn't help and the same CPU works perfectly in another Z640. I never found out the cause. It was sold as "unknown condition for parts" so $50 for
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by etbe 2mo ago
A very large portion of people who go from working on consumer grade systems to getting enterprise grade stuff for their home lab make a mistake like that, I did some similar things, my biggest mistake was spending $300 on non-refundable EC
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by etbe 2mo ago
https://www.theregister.com/on-prem/2021/06/04/fyi-todays-co... Google and Facebook report a few unreliable CPU cores out of thousands of systems. Meaning maybe a 1/10,000 rate of repeatable CPU err
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by etbe 2mo ago
People outside the US have a significant lack of Internet functionality when there are problems with submarine cables, but it hardly ever fails. Apart from when certain countries sabotage things. If you only need 100M deep water then you do
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by etbe 2mo ago
Companies making DRAM have no incentive to make the best products theoretically possible, they just want them good enough to not get many returns and avoid the risk of a class action lawsuit if a significant pattern of problems appears. Avo
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by etbe 2mo ago
Does this imply that the all plastic gamer PCs (that are more designed to be art projects than serious computers) are bad and that everyone should be using systems with solid steel cases to block radiation?
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by etbe 2mo ago
The majority of storage errors I've seen since using BTRFS and ZFS everywhere have shown up only as the storage returning corrupt data and claiming it to be good. I've seen drives and SSDs return dozens of errors per month for mon
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by etbe 2mo ago
Systems with "consumer amounts of RAM" are often run with what you might call "consumer amounts of sysadmin knowledge" and not notice the errors. One time I took a working workstation from my home to my parents' hom
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by etbe 1y ago
I know a guy who uses old rack mount servers as workstations and he gets that. I guess it's a good option if you like wearing hearing protection at your desk as he does.
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by etbe 4y ago
That sort of thing seems like a good idea. There are X programs (and presumably Wayland programs) that do similar things (like web browsers stopping things when switching to a different tab or minimising the window). But we could probably d
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by etbe 4y ago
By default qtwayland5 is not installed, should this be considered a bug?
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by etbe 4y ago
https://puri.sm/posts/my-first-year-of-librem-5-convergence/ The Purism CSO has been running a Librem 5 as his primary desktop PC for over a year. When Plasma was first released I was probably running hardware slo
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by etbe 4y ago
Web sites review phones based on weight. Phones are designed for review as a higher priority than being designed for use.
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by etbe 4y ago
Do you know of a good web site explaining how this works? My Android phone used to kill my Jabber client all the time until I got to using Conversations which has a notification all the time which seems to be the way to avoid being killed w
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by etbe 4y ago
My first Android phone was a Sony Ericsson Xperia x10i. With that phone I could go to sleep while playing music from the SD card and wake up 8 hours later with plenty of battery left. The same phone however would run out faster if doing stu
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by etbe 4y ago
All programs on the Librem5 appear to be in Debian packages and most of them seem to be identical to the ones in Debian. The document you cited has procedures for getting packages in PureOS independently of Debian, but it seems that most of

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