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Rest in pizza.

Just ponied up for a new desktop, DIY.
Gonna see if my son wants to watch and help build it (gotta watch that static, though). Last time i switched parts into a new case, he watched me for a straight hour (he was very small at that time).
Wasn't exactly what i was wanting, but there was a sudden $60-70 drop in price (through pcpartpicker.com) and i pounced.
It's been a LONG time since i bought brand new and DIY and my knowledge of hardware has diminished, so i purchased what i THOUGHT was a good buy for the money i had, but who knows...
Here's what i bought, with my mind going towards increasing the memory this Christmas, possibly.

***Edited to add prices, all in CAD***

AMD Ryzen 3 3200G 3.6 GHz Quad-Core Processor $209.99 CAD
Asus TUF GAMING B450M-PLUS II Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard $139.19
2 x G.Skill Aegis 8 GB (1 x 8 GB) DDR4-2400 CL15 Memory $31.99 each stick
Seagate ST500LM021 500 GB 2.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive $30.99
ADATA SU635 480 GB 2.5" Solid State Drive $42.99
Deepcool MATREXX 55 MESH ATX Mid Tower Case $69.98
Thermaltake Smart 600 W 80+ Certified ATX Power Supply $54.99

Going to probably put Manjaro on it as the main OS, and then distro-hop like a fiend, looking at all teh non-systemd's and i hope to (again) explore LFS for the rush.
Might even try Slackware again!

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Benchmarked on Garuda linux Cinnamon

******Using sysbench*****

--CPU TEST

Running the test with following options:
Number of threads: 1
Initializing random number generator from current time

Prime numbers limit: 10000

Initializing worker threads...

Threads started!

CPU speed:
        events per second: 1922.81

General statistics:
        total time: 10.0004s
        total number of events: 19233

Latency (ms):
                  min: 0.50
                  avg: 0.52
                  max: 0.72
                  95th percentile: 0.53
                  sum: 9946.56

Threads fairness:
        events (avg/stddev): 19233.0000/0.00
        execution time (avg/stddev): 9.9466/0.00

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--MEMORY TEST

Running the test with following options:
Number of threads: 1
Initializing random number generator from current time

Running memory speed test with the following options:
    block size: 1KiB
    total size: 102400MiB
    operation: write
    scope: global

Initializing worker threads...

Threads started!

Total operations: 2414611 (241408.75 per second)

2358.02 MiB transferred (235.75 MiB/sec)

General statistics:
        total time: 10.0001s
        total number of events: 2414611

Latency (ms):
                  min: 0.00
                  avg: 0.00
                  max: 0.27
                  95th percentile: 0.00
                  sum: 3398.81

Threads fairness:
        events (avg/stddev): 2414611.0000/0.00
        execution time (avg/stddev): 3.3988/0.00

********************************************************************************
--FILE I/O

Running the test with following options:
Number of threads: 1
Initializing random number generator from current time

Extra file open flags: (none)
128 files, 16MiB each
2GiB total file size
Block size 16KiB
Periodic FSYNC enabled, calling fsync() each 100 requests.
Calling fsync() at the end of test, Enabled.
Using synchronous I/O mode
Doing sequential write (creation) test
Initializing worker threads...

Threads started!

File operations:
        reads/s: 0.00
        writes/s: 13746.41
        fsyncs/s: 17596.10

Throughput:
        read, MiB/s: 0.00
        written, MiB/s: 214.79

General statistics:
        total time: 10.0009s
        total number of events: 313379

Latency (ms):
                  min: 0.00
                  avg: 0.03
                  max: 23.63
                  95th percentile: 0.01
                  sum: 8894.69

Threads fairness:
        events (avg/stddev): 313379.0000/0.00
        execution time (avg/stddev): 8.8947/0.00

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Results of Passmark benchmark: looks bad (not many stars..)? And there's something about a graph, but none are there. I guess the stars are how i compare to other tests?
https://www.passmark.com/baselines/V10/display.php?id=502239247835

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I've gone, so far, with Garuda linux because it has some 'neat-o' things going on which I'm trying:

---zram swap in memory for fast swap

---btrfs file system with snapper taking snapshots: do something wrong, use install disk to just revert system to older snapshot (which excites me the most, cos i always screw something up with all the 'goofing with the system' i do, lol)

--linux-zen kernel

-----https://garudalinux.org/

How to Follow Webb's Next Steps

That was helpful, because it linked me to here:

JWST Weekly Observing Schedules

I was hoping to see more solar system targets. Looks like they took some more Jupiter (and Ganymede) images last week, and the PANSTARRS-C17K2 comet today.

National Chocolate Chip Cookie Day 2022: Insomnia, Potbelly Offering Free Cookies

Insomnia Cookies is celebrating National Chocolate Chip Cookie Day in a big way: From Thursday through Sunday, get a free chocolate chunk, vegan chocolate chunk or gluten-free vegan chocolate chip cookie with any in-store purchase or delivery order from any of the 220-plus Insomnia locations nationwide.

[...] In honor of National Chocolate Chip Cookie Day, this Greenpoint, Brooklyn, bistro is offering a special cocktail-and-cookie deal: From 4 p.m. ET until close on Thursday and Friday and 3 p.m. ET to close on Saturday and Sunday, get two free chocolate chip cookies -- made fresh daily with big gooey, chocolatey chunks and flaky sea salt -- with the purchase of a Lexington martini, Leroy's twist on a classic espresso martini made with rye, walnut, coffee and Espelette peppers.

[...] Potbelly Perks members get a free cookie of their choice with the purchase of any sandwich, whole salad or bowl of soup on National Chocolate Chip Cookie Day.

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Just resubscribed because things are so much better here, now.

Thanks @Janrinok(sp?) and all involved for all your hard work and for making Soylentnews more edible (see what i did there!?.... yeah, i have no life.)

In other news, my wife, son and I were going to head out to western Canada for a 3 week vacation: Got one days travel out, stopped at a hotel and tried to get my son to sleep. He just wouldn't and got really angry (he is non-verbal). While we tried to figure out what was going on, my wife noticed him hiding/protecting his thumb. His thumb was infected and inflamed.

Do we continue out west while trying to deal with lancing his thumb and soaking it in warm water and epsom salts and maybe having to get him antibiotics, or do we just go home again and deal with it there?

We went home and are dealing with it now: finally had to get him antibiotics.

Thinking maybe we'll do a trip to Santa's village and then go to Niagara Falls for a few days.

Another year of STAYCATION! Woooo!.................YEAH!

yeah

yeah.

"Burn the tapes!"

And the democrats' blame game continues:

Republicans block bill to shield people who travel out of state for abortions... Senate Democrats needed the support of at least 10 Republicans to stop a GOP filibuster of the bill

This is a lie. The democrats are supposed to use their majority status to kill the filibuster.

The Times, Places and Manner of holding Elections for Senators and Representatives, shall be prescribed in each State by the Legislature thereof; but the Congress may at any time by Law make or alter such Regulations, except as to the Places of chusing Senators...

Just a little reminder of who is responsible for protecting your voting rights (and of who is failing to do so). Feel free to resume your regular blame game

Reference for those who need one

It's the way you ride the trail that counts,
Here's a happy one for you...

...because the Law of Unintended Consequences is a biiiiiiiiitch.

Josh Hawley said the quiet part loud, AGAIN, when he opined that today's ruling would strengthen Republican presence in the electoral college, because by his logic, pro-choice people in red states would move elsewhere. Except...hey, asshole, do you think they wouldn't have already if they could have?! No, what this is going to do is produce very large blocks of very poor people who have a very obvious and well-known set of villains to blame for their misery. This, in other words, is a recipe for turning red states blue, NOT vice-versa. I am looking forward to the collective freakout when this moron realizes he's forbidden people from, essentially, aborting future Democrats :)

Exhibit B: Justice Clarence ("Uncle [Ruckus]") Thomas sees today's destruction of Roe vs. Wade as the thin end of the wedge to dismantling other recent rulings like marriage equality, and even not-so-recent ones like access to contraception. In other words, this is the full-steam-ahead signal for the hideous theocracy the Birchers and their ilk want to implement. This wholesale slaughter of precedent, however, is...let's say, extremely inadvisable. Why?

Simple: Loving vs. Virginina. Brown vs. Board of Ed. Hell, Plessy vs Ferguson! Maybe we can save time and money by trying these cases "separately but equally," hmm...? If Thomas really believes that his white colleagues won't throw him under the bus the instant it becomes convenient and he's no longer needed, he's an even bigger fool than I thought he was, and I already thought he was such a gigantic fool that he visibly bends light around himself with the sheer density of his malignant judicial incompetence.

Karma is a bitch. Don't say you've not been warned.

A RISC-V laptop or mini PC with Rockchip RK3588-class performance may be coming soon

Mark Himelstein, Chief Technology Officer, RISC-V International, and Dr. Philipp Tomsich, Chief Technologist & Founder, VRULL GmbH hinted that we may see a RISC-V laptop in 2022 in a presentation entitled “From Technology to Product – Maturing the RISC-V Ecosystem” with one of the slides showing what could be a RISC-V laptop prototype and The Register suspected it might come from the Institute of Software at the Chinese Academy of Sciences (ISCAS) since it was planning to build 2,000 RISC-V laptops by the end of 2022.

But there’s at least one more potential RISC-V laptop project coming our way with StarFive asking users to fill out a survey about a laptop, mini PC, or development board/SBC based on a RISC-V SoC with performance comparable to Rockchip RK3588 or MediaTek MT8192 octa-core Cortex-A76/Cortex-A55 processors.

The hardware and software specifications of the device will depend on the answers to the survey. First, it’s not sure we’ll get a RISC-V laptop since respondents will first be asked for the type of product, so we may end up with a fairly powerful RISC-V mini PC or/and SBC first instead.

[...] As a side note, they’ll select 5 winners from the respondents and send them one VisionFive RISC-V SBC with the results announced sometime in July on RVSpace community.