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being a broke student. My intention is to buy the Orion and Hull E eventually as well, all depending on my future financial situation.
You should still gift the cat food to your nephew.
Good luck with the replacement.
I'm so glad Thork isn't my uncle.
a kick ass computer
I don't want to know. Its one of those things you are aware happened, but never want to learn the fine details. A bit like how one's mother lost her virginity.
It started with some gentle fingering on a swing at the local park with a boy in a leather jacket. She then led him to the small wooden fort. It was cold and muddy, but mommy was thirsty for it.
AMD's version can work on any hardware ... but you need to buy a license to do that. But they'll give you a free license if you use their platform. Seems fair.Plenty of third parties have solutions for this. Your preference for the "OS vendor" (oftentimes a loosely organised group of enthusiasts) being responsible for all the things is just that - a preference with no functional difference. A loosely organised collective of megacorps is doing the exact same thing, except they don't slap a singular badge on it.
There is a very clear functional difference, and that is whether the implementation works with all supported hardware or a subset of it. AMD's implementation of this requires that you use AMD hardware. Linux's implementation works on any hardware, even non-x86.
I bet the monitor specs will be lost on a 12 year old tbh but it's a nice monitor.Totally ... but I'm guessing he's still going to have that monitor when he's 16. Then he can thank me all over again.
I'd have gone for something half the price and got two for dual monitors.He likes FPS shooters. Dual displays is dreadful ... your cross-hair is right on the bezel where the two monitors meet. Its unplayable. Its triple screens or go home for gaming.
but I guess that's less for gaming at that point (apart from supreme commander and stuff). You're doing a good thing anyway, hate to sound like an old person but kids these days just dont have computers, my niece just sits on the coach like a blob of jelly staring at her ipad watching youtube videos and shes only 8, but her mum only encourages it but not trying to get her into technology in a better, healthier way. It makes me sad.When his dad was moaning to me that he keeps wanting a gaming PC ... a little bit of pride welled up inside of me. I was like ... this is happening. I'll get the monitor, tap up his granny (my mother) for a processor, here's the specs list, no we aren't scrimping on anything, no pre-builts; he's gonna build it himself on xmas day ... lol.
I admit I didn't know about this. Good to see AMD doing Microsoft's job of developing basic OS functionality for them.Yeah, AMD has tiered storage nailed down. Another reason to pick Ryzen at the moment.
Why would you want Linux to just shuffle around your program locations automatically? Yes, I know the file system is all one big linked thing but surely you don't want to find out that your ssd got full because your OS thought you wanted your favorite game on your ssd instead of your hdd?
And how does it manage such a cache? What makes it decide to move program X to your ssd vs keeping it where you put it?
The answer to both of these is the same.
It's a block-level cache. It doesn't decide where to put files or games, it decides where to put blocks, the small bits of data that make up files. If it puts a block into the cache, it evicts an old block that hasn't been used in a while. The cache can't "get full".
From the user's point of view, the SSD and HDD appear together as one filesystem, with the size of the HDD. The SSD just caches things from the HDD that get used often. It can't override where you "put" something because you can't choose which physical device to put it on. You put it on the virtual device and let the OS handle the rest.
Welcome to logical volume management, the great innovation of the '00s.
