Vic20 is my oldest machine. After that is either my dead C64 or OG macintosh.

What does Ubuntu Pro get you besides extended support after the normal OS EOL?

How does the vGPU compare to running it on the bare metal? Last I tried things were painful but technically usable.

You can buy .xyz domains from places other than gen.xyz. I have mine from namecheap and I haven’t had any issues in like 10 years with them.

Also some GPUs support running without the external power connectors/not all of them. My old GTX 1080 ran for about 3 months off of just the PCIe slots power because I forgot to plug them in. Newer GPUs are FAR more power hungry though and not all newer cards support that. Plus I’ve never tried yoinking the power cables while it’s on. That can’t be good.

My 11950H (and all other “full power” Intel mobile CPUs) have a PL1 of >100 watts (109 for mine), and mine a PL2 of 139 watts. This laptop is about an inch thick.

Nothing about this laptop sips power, I’ve gotten as bad as 30 minutes of battery life out of a 90 watt hour battery not playing games.

The lower power 486s didn’t even need a heatsink. The P3 was the first to take a heasink resembling what we have today, but damn did the P4s need some serious cooling.

It’s kinda funny how we think the 100 watts of a desktop P4 was insane when now the TDP of a high end laptop CPU is more than that.

I had one of those, but it was just called putting something on the calculator key.

See also: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvDK8tMyCic

Try decompiling it.

Computers in 97 didn’t need much in the way of cooling. A large passive heatsink was plenty for those CPUs. They’re not the 300+ watt behemoths we have today.

Depends on how much you value your data and how much redundancy you have. I bought a 20tb “manufacturer certified” drive from SPD the other day and it tests fine, but I’m not going to put valuable data on it. Maybe if this drive outlives my shucked easy stores I’ll buy more. But for now my main raid array is new drives only that I’ve throughly tested before installing.

This is why I’ve gone back to windows on the machines I care about and don’t plan on going back. Open source software is cool, but it also kinda sucks. I’ll use Linux all day on servers. But my primary desktop is windows and my secondary desktop is Mac OS and I doubt that’s changing any time soon.

It would be good for playing old XP era games or hardware. But for modern tasks?

Yeah no, that P4 wastes way too much power to be useful for anything.

You could be a douche and get a .io domain.

I’d just peruse your preferred domain registrar’s cheap domains and find one that tickles your fancy. Odds are the domain will cost more than what you’d get in donations unless people REALLY like your service and it gets popular.

bifurcation Is the keyword you’ll want to be looking for. And before you look into it any further make sure your motherboard even supports it on that slot. Bifurcation has existed since like pcie2 or something, but just like rebar hasn’t supported on consumer platforms until pretty recently.

That said I can’t actually help you because I don’t know of anything to do this. I can only imagine it doesn’t exist because there’s not enough space on one M.2 slot to fit two M.2 ssds. Traces take up space, connectors take up space, and you’d have to somehow double stack SSDs on top of each other and they already get too hot for their own good.

Oh don’t worry, if this isn’t already in 10 I’m sure they’ll be bringing it over shortly.

If you have actual work to do then I would HIGHLY suggest not doing it on your main machine. Give it a month on a secondary machine before giving up. If you install it on a Friday night and come Sunday night it’s still not working fully you’re gonna go back to Windows and never go back.

That’s what makes it a joke. Does anyone here unironcally think the human eye can only see 60 fps or that more than 4 gigs of ram is just marketing?

I go over 16 gigs regularly browsing the internet.