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  • I picked up an old Dell server some time ago and wound up finding firmware that made the RAID card passthrough so that TrueNAS could have direct access to disks for ZFS

    That server was all SATA based so I’m not sure what options you’ll have, but it’s worth looking into.

    Ultimately, my thinking is that just because there’s something “better” out there doesn’t mean you shouldn’t work with what you have.


  • I’m also white and have also technically benefited from colonialism, lol.

    The problem with yours and @fishos@lemmy.world line of thinking is that you are looking at that 90USD / 30USD through the lens of your own earning and buying power.

    For someone in your hypothetical “poor African country”, that may well be days or weeks of income.

    Both of you seem to be having a strong reaction to that statement, I get the impression I’ve struck a nerve and that you might be facing (and rejecting) an inconvenient truth.

    I’m sorry if it came across as an ‘attack’, that was not my intention. I’m not here to massage anyone’s feelings, and hopefully you’ll be able to take some time for reflection and personal growth.

    Ultimately, y’all in here simping for corps by excusing 100GB of inefficiency while getting down on “the poors” and it’s not a pretty look.








  • The KB5066835 Windows Update, left untreated, sliced AC Shadows frame-rates from 33 percent to over 50 percent. Determining exactly which other games have been affected is not easy or obvious, mostly because Nvidia has opted not to broadcast its own findings for us to test and confirm

    But this scenario certainly has us scratching our heads as far as what kind of testing regimen and communication with GPU makers take place on at Microsoft these days. Did Microsoft’s October update expose a huge flaw in GPU drivers that OEMs needed to fix? If so, why was Microsoft unable to steward that information more responsibly to companies like AMD and Nvidia with weeks of woeful performance existing in the wild?

    It doesn’t seem realistic to me for testing to include every possible hardware configuration with every single piece software in existence, let alone varying levels of function within those software.


  • The KB5066835 Windows Update, left untreated, sliced AC Shadows frame-rates from 33 percent to over 50 percent. Determining exactly which other games have been affected is not easy or obvious, mostly because Nvidia has opted not to broadcast its own findings for us to test and confirm

    But this scenario certainly has us scratching our heads as far as what kind of testing regimen and communication with GPU makers take place on at Microsoft these days. Did Microsoft’s October update expose a huge flaw in GPU drivers that OEMs needed to fix? If so, why was Microsoft unable to steward that information more responsibly to companies like AMD and Nvidia with weeks of woeful performance existing in the wild?

    It doesn’t seem realistic to me for testing to include every possible hardware configuration with every single piece software in existence, let alone varying levels of function within those software.






  • That’s quite a headline they’ve got there!

    After provisioning a PC with a Windows 11, version 24H2 monthly cumulative update released on or after July 2025 [KB5062553], various apps such as StartMenuExperiencehost, Search, SystemSettings, Taskbar or Explorer might experience difficulties.

    This will occur for the following: First time user logon after a cumulative update was applied. All user logons to a non-persistent OS installation such as a virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) or equivalent as application packages must be installed each logon in such scenarios.

    If you are wondering, provisioning essentially is the way admins configure devices as they automatically deploy various settings and policies on a client PC. So while the issue is in office PCs, considering a huge number of enterprise PCs are Windows, this is probably a very big problem.



  • 👋 Repair shop owner

    Between the three issues you mentioned, charge port are the most common I see with Acer whereas hinge issues are actually on the rarer side compared to other manufacturers.

    With Acer, charge ports are pretty memorable since they’re soldered to the mainboard rather than being on an easy to replace daughterboard or cable.

    Ultimately, charge ports issues are usually a user problem rather than a quality issue. There should always be extra slack on the cable when charging, the systems should be on a flat level surface, and the device should never be transported with the charger connected to the port.

    Someone who has had repeat problems related to their laptop’s charge port is going to have a real bad time if they switch to a system that uses Type C ports.