Comments by "Winnetou17" (@Winnetou17) on "ExplainingComputers" channel.

Well, Apple kind of does. It's when it does it at the expense of customer choice or right to repair or other common-sense things that it's triggering people like me. However this transition to ARM is a perfectly normal decision. It's already looking to be another one of the "the right decision at the right time" ones.
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@zackaboy1236 Nice bait mate. But still a low level troll.
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@kurnma3776 Also, fun fact. Intel Core chips since Skylake (6th gen) already have these "TPM chips" integrated into the CPU die! You just have to enable it on the BIOS
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Jeff Geerling in his video said that 3.0 is supported, but not certified, so you have to enable it manually.
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"Here you can see the lion charging at the gazelle, as he's going to eat .... very soon".
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While I support the idea, I don't think it relates to e-waste anymore. 32bit systems are, by now, so old that they're basically unusable as a normal computer. If you value your time, that is. So I think that 32 bit systems are mostly just for niche segments now, enthusiasts and geeks having them for retro purposes. And, frankly, they could all simply still use Debian 11, that's why I say the e-waste is a non argument in this case, these systems are not being thrown away anyway, Debian 12 support or not. And the machines that would be e-waste without proper software support are 64 bit by now. Still, like I said, I really like the 32 bit support and backwards support in general. Maybe you want to simply have a partition with 32bit OS+apps that you can run "natively" so to speak, while your main OS can stay 64 bit.
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Fortunately, the error had the decency to be quite harmless, so don't stress about it. Cheers!
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Truly off-topic, but I just have to comment: seeing 2724 comments (which, sadly, means it's impossible to read even half of them) and then seeing that the video has only 76390 (yes, 76 thousand) views... This amount of engament surely is among the top. Of course, being something known and that makes you angry help greatly (there's studies that show that online people react the most to things that anger you. Which perpetually fuels click bait, polarisation, echo chambers and such. Oh well). Anyway, really stunned at the comments to views ratio. Outstanding! I think that Mr. Barnatt can put this to his resume. Cheers!
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@chrisr7597 Classic Christopher is nice, but how would Quantum Christopher sound ?
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Our friend, glue! He won't let you down ... because you're glued to the ceiling 😁
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@davidgomez79 Tell me you're a hater without telling me you're a hater. And where did you find that at $99 ? It seems to be $129.
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* "Acorn RISC Machine" (not risk, lol)
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@aqmohra4 Historically speaking, many, many, well, most connectors were not done to accept either way (lacking the specific word...). Anyway, in this case I'd say it's the people using the connectors who are more stupid than those who designed them.
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What project ? Is it going good ? Making progress ?
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I third that!
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Agree, now it's the norm to include lots of stuff, for a fraction of what they offer. And what's worse (and why it's not easy for the developers to fix this) is that if you want to NOT use an off-the-shelf solution, everybody jumps on you that you "want to reinvent the wheel", then bury you in insults and make you have trainings so you learn what code reuse is and how much more efficient and maintainable is. I know, not reinventing the wheel is a perfectly fine advice. Somehow some creatures that have more buzzwords than common sense decided that it's not an advice or guideline, but gospel, and it will be the better solution in all aspects 100% of the time. God forbit for you to actually use your brain a bit, exercise some barebones JS and write 2-10 lines of code, instead of getting YetAnotherPlugin. Same for code reuse. If you have 2 lines of code that are the same in your code base, you must stop working on actual useful stuff and refactor your application (adding 10-100 lines of code, maybe a couple of files) so that one line is not doubled anymore. Just great /s Not to mention how souless, disgusting and mind-numbing is to simply search, install, configure and maybe tweak a bit (mostly so they fit together) modules only. That's not programming. And, while more economical in some to most situations, it creates people who programmed too little and are not proper seniors. Sigh
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This certainly looks nice for those looking for jumping ship, or for you to install to your (grand)parents, without much worry that they'll struggle :) I have to ask (every OS video has somebody like this, right?) Have you checked SerenityOS ? It's not ready for daily driving, but is very interesting and, dare-I-say-it, appealing. Also, I know it's much more "hardcore", which might be out of the scope for this channel, but maybe a Gentoo video some day ? Maybe just to showcase a minimalistic setup and very customized apps, with a more streamlined installation (as compared to manually compiling). Even if few would ever use it, knowing that it exists and knowing what's possible should be good education.
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Question: don't you have to completely reinstall it, in order to upgrade it from one major version to another (say, 40 to 41) ?
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@Herby-1620 Ok, that's good to know, thanks!
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They're still overly greedy. And it's not my problem that the made their entire business model around being excessively predatory, unethical and greedy. There are websites which can do just fine to simply showing you the cookie consent on a bar at the bottom of the page, without an overlay/block for the rest of the page. So you CAN use the site before giving the consent.
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@davidgomez79 Well, hating stupidity is totally normal. I hate Apple cultists too. But I wanted to say/highlight that you hate unreasonably much the RPI 5 & the foundation. And on Jeff by proxy.
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Wow, by 90% ? Would you say that the "before" figure was vastly inefficient, even by an average Joe who doesn't care at all about energy consumption ? Because it seems so much. I'd like to know more details.
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That is an excellent video topic. In case there isn't a video soon, or at all here are some tips for switching to Linux: - some things continue to be a hard NO on Linux. To my knowledge the biggest are: Adobe Photoshop and I think their whole creation suite and games with anticheat (some work, but most don't). If you have to use/play these, just stick with Windows, at least for the foreseeable (1 year+) future. Things evolve pretty fast nowadays, so if Linux isn't viable today, trying again in one year you might find that a lot of issues are solved (not guaranteed, of course). - be prepared that Linux is different and still has some things lacking, for many different reasons: some hardware simply don't have drivers made for Linux, as the manufacturers didn't put the effort to (justifyable or not) and might work subpar or not at all. Or if something just got launched, the drivers for Linux might arrive several months later. In general stuff works, with the only important stuff that might be a blocker being some Wi-Fi cards. The rest is more peripheral or niche products. Same with software, like I said above. Some things have to be done differently. In general, if you search online or on YT, you can find what works and not, and if something doesn't work for you, how to do it. But try to use recent sources when you can. - if the above aren't a big concern (or not at all), the first thing to try would be to make a bootable USB stick (easy to do) and reboot your computer into that Linux and see how it is. Check if all the hardware works, especially Wi-Fi if you're on a laptop. Graphic card drivers might be a nuisance depending on the distro, so if that doesn't work that well, don't give up yet. Then try to install the browser(s) you usually use and then the applications / programs / games you need and use often - that being said, here are some Linux distros worh mentioning. Before that, a Linux distro (short for distribution) is a fully working operating system (OS) that uses the Linux kernel (yes, technically Linux is just the OS kernel. A distro comes with many things on top: how it looks and how it can be customized, what package manager it uses (a package manager is basically the App Store / Google Play you have on a smartphone, you can use it directly to install all/most of the software you use and to keep them updated easily), how it general works and feels. So, here they are: - Linux Mint - stable (doesn't change often, focused on things working and not crashing, is slow/delayed to adopt new things), user & begginer and non-technical friendly. My recommandation to try first - Ubuntu - the OG begginer friendly distro, now fallen a bit out of favor in the community. Still very capable and compatible with many hardware and software, as it was the de-facto most used Linux distro for many years, most hardware and softare devs made sure their stuff works on Ubuntu first (and probably only there). Still, it has some caveats, if something doesn't work, do try other distros. Also pretty stable - Fedora - focused on being quite cutting edge, sleek and for work/workstation usage. Not a personal fan of, but it's also a very popular distro that should work very well in most cases, so it's also worth a try - Pop_OS! and TuxedoOS - made by Linux computer manufacturers. Pretty ok/decent, I'd say similar with Linux Mint. Also worth a try - Manjaro, EndeavorOS - more cutting edge, somewhat less stable, but that doesn't automatically mean your system will crash daily or something. Pretty good as beginner distros - Nobarra, CachyOS - gaming optimized distros, also fairly beginner friendly - ZorinOS - focused on having a very Windows-like look and feel. Solid, but I didn't put it as the first option as I feel it's a bit behind now - Debian - very stable, which also means it sometimes is way behind the latest versions of software and drivers. Not my choice for a beginner, though it's used in many situations, good to know about - Arch - advanced distro, skip it for now (also here would be Gentoo if you hear about it) - NixOS - can't say if it's beginner friendly or not - the rest I either forgot or don't recommend for a beginner. If you're technical you can try the more advanced (aka, any distro after all) ones, preferably in a virtual machine first.
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@ I do :))
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@OpenGL4even: you know you can play Dota2 on Linux, right ?
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@OpenGL4ever Sorry, I errored a bit. I thought that since there is a version where the antihack mechanisms couldn't possible work like you described, then it can totally work on ReactOS just the same. Except that the game will think it's on windows, so it will use those anti-hack measures. It took a bit to click. Mea culpa.
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@MatSmithLondon Regarding bounce - we mostly seen "good" cases here. For example, if the rainfall is severe, or maybe if the wind is very high, I can imagine the water coming in weird ways down and then the ... balancer thing starts to tip, if the water it holds isn't static, it can "evacuate" faster / earlier and the coming water from above might come with force, and the tip from one side to another might not finish before it tips back again.
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Right! A great video, indeed. This also poses the question of how you can optimize the workload you have. For example, I'm curious how much extra processing power that spreadsheet loading&writing is taking. That could surely been made more efficient by simply appending to a CSV file (using barebones OS functions of open() and write() ) the current uptime, a comma, uptime in hours and a line ending. Or, even better, simply "touch start_time" and "touch time_a; touch time_b" (to have the same "backup") which are simply OS functions which should provide minimal processing. The uptime could then be computed manually by seeing the latest modified time between time_a and time_b and substracting the modified time of start_time. Since this is a test, it doesn't matter that much, you can say that the workload was simply heavier. But for a real application, searching optimized code might provide a really big benefit.
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There were videos from some of the big(ish) YouTubers that have Raspberry Pi content, so I wouldn't call it stealth launch.
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I think that waiting for all the releases that this year has to offer in terms of CPU and GPU, and only then do a build video, that would be the way to go. For any type of build.
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Does NomadBSD have a load2ram on boot option ?
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This really makes you think. If things really get proper multithreading, imagine that for a high-end PC you could have an equivalent of 10 rPis, consuming 10-20 W, instead of big CPU. And if you could have like 1 rPi for the OS alone, 2 rPis for browsing and the rest for whatever game or workload. Of course this idea is kind of impossible now, as having multiple CPUs on a single motherboard is totally not a thing, except 2 CPUs for specific server-grade boards.
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SSDs existed for decades, but were mostly only used in military equipment. And 8GB is very little, even by 2008 standards.
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@AlfieLikesComputers Oh, right.
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I wouldn't be surprised if for the 4K stream it would use only 15W. Because it's using the hardware decoder, the CPU is barely used (certainly not in 100% as it is in sysbench)
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@Leslie Deana There's little thing that I see noone mentioned: it has internet connection (subscribtion?) included. And a decent one. Though I guess it varies wildly from where you are, if it's WOW or just meh. In any case, that's a non-trivial amount of that money.
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