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USB Overload: Portwell Motherboard Has 20 USB Ports

Surprisingly, the PEB-9783G2AR supports all 20 of it's USB 3.2 Gen 1 ports natively. That means there are no fancy gizmos like splitters or hubs, so you'll get the full bandwidth of the USB 3.2 Gen 1 interface on all USB ports. Of course, there are compromises; both chipsets support up to eight USB 3.2 Gen 2 ports, two USB 3.2 Gen 1, and 4 USB 2.0 ports natively. Presumably, to get to 20 USB ports, Portwell used the chipset lanes dedicated to 6 of the SATA ports and repurposed them to USB ports (there are only two SATA3 ports available).

Portwell positions the motherboard for server and workstation workloads. As such, it comes with an Intel W480E or Q470E chipset that supports 10th Gen Core i7/i5/i3 CPUs, including the 10th Gen Xeon W family of CPUs. However, the board doesn't support all CPUs from the 10th Gen Core and Xeon W Family - you're limited to a peak of 10 cores and an 80W TDP.

This journal entry is shit, or at least about shit.

The whole fake Azuma Hazuki 2.0 thing crossed a few lines. Making a bogus account using the identity of one of the few women here, and trying to justify posting racist crap under that look-alike identity was unfortunately typical of what too often passes for thinking.

Trying to justify it as an attempt to "expose censorship" or some other nonsense, should have brought immediate censure. It didn't because to too many users it's "reasonable."

It's not going to get any better. Too many people like things as they are.

So why bother? That's what I've been increasingly asking myself, and the answer is that there is no reason. Turns out there is no reason.

I'd say thanks for all the fish, but not really.

I guess most Soylentils by now have their own schtick and perspective by now.

I don't have much to say, but I'm compelled to say it once again.

While it seems to me that the Republicans are far worse in the agenda they're pushing, the Democratic Party is incredibly corrupt and hypocritical.
Both parties are necrotic, rotting corpses of their former selves.

Republicans are the Party of Trump (tm), with no soul or agenda left of their own other than to suck Trumpy Wumpy's 2 inch Trump Tower with vigor, and are complacent and saturated in blame for the numerous abominations this administration has created.

Democrats are pushing an ideology of censorship and groupthink that is cancerous to any democracy, and they are shamefully weak against the greatest national security threat in recent memory: China.
How dare they pretend to care about freedom and liberty while allowing China's evil, black, sticky tentacles to penetrate the country's orifices?

The United States didn't learn from the failure of earlier democracies, mainly Athens. They were only destroyed because they were conquered,
they didn't rot from the inside like Rome did, on which the US is modeled.

I truly do believe that the United States will collapse soon. We have destroyed it.
Some of the founding fathers at least had the wisdom to oppose political parties, but we tossed their advice to the side and now we will suffer the consequences.

But it was doomed from the start, because we are a malevolent, stupid, selfish, irrational, and greedy species, and anything the few who manage to see the light build, will be torn down in time by the unwashed hordes.
I suppose you could fault entropy for that, it's definitely a deeper cause. But the species sure doesn't help.

We're all completely, totally, irrevocably fucked, doomed, screwed, boned.
Whatever party you belong to, you can probably sense it too, the sickening, thick feel that any hope you find for the USA's improvement is dreadfully misplaced.

If I had to choose the point of no return, I would say it happened as soon as Hillary vs Trump became the candidates on the ballot.

Pop open a bottle of Jim Beam and watch the mushroom cloud confetti as our wretched civilization unwinds. I know I'll be celebrating. I'm tired. I think most people are. Silence is the best music.

Belarus repeatedly interrupts at UN amid 'new iron curtain' warnings

Belarus and its allies have repeatedly tried to muzzle speakers at the UN amid warnings of a new iron curtain falling across Europe during an ill-tempered debate on alleged human rights violations.

The body’s 47-member human rights council voted by 23 votes to two with 22 abstentions to adopt a resolution condemning rights violations in Belarus and requesting the UN high commissioner on Human Rights to take up the issue and report back to the council.

The debate was repeatedly interrupted by the Belarus representative, backed by delegates from Russia, China and Venezuela, who tried to limit presentations – including from Alexander Lukashenko’s main election challenger, Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, on procedural grounds.

Tikhanovskaya’s short video message had barely begun when the Belarusian representative, Yuri Ambrazevich, demanded it be switched off. He repeatedly interrupted the screening, raising procedural objections and insisting her words had “no relevance on the substance ... on the events that are taking place today”.

He was overruled by the council president, Elisabeth Tichy-Fisslberger.

Some interesting facts:

The number 1 computing device is the smartphone.

There are almost 3 million apps in the Google Play App Store.

There are over 2 million apps in the Apple App Store

Almost all of these apps are closed source.

People are making money off writing closed source apps - either by sales to customers or via ads in free versions and paid downloadable content.

Open source simply will never get a toe-hold in this market. It's the same problem with open source games - low quality because investing in the time, resources, and talent for better quality is only sustainable if you keep the source closed.

Mobile apps are by far the largest market, but open source doesn't have what people want, so you won't see much there.

Besides, developers like getting paid. The days of "doing it to build up the open source community " are over. The community is now a backwater.

ESR framed it as a war between the Cathedral and the Bazaar . The bazaar won - but the bazaar is closed source app stores.

RMS said closed source was ethically wrong. In every other field of human endeavour it's ethical to get paid for your talent and labour. RMS is ethically wrong to claim that closed source is unethical, and by extension, the people who write it.

The open source bazaar is failing ; the closed source bazaar is flourishing.

The people have voted, and they don't want open source apps; not only that, but the majority of developers don't want to waste their time on them.

Open source has failed in the two largest markets - games and smartphone/tablet apps.

It's not like there haven't been open source tablets around - they've always been crappy low-spec holiday specials that end up getting returned because there's no "real" software for them. So retailers, after getting burned too many times, simply don't offer them.

Because it's the programs and applications that count, and open source can't compete in the two biggest arenas.

Same with business - there's always that one crucial piece of software that doesn't have a good open source equivalent. This was true in the 90s when everyone was crowing about the year of the Linux desktop being inevitable. It's more true now that nobody is saying it any more.

And all you hypocrites who say I'm wrong but still keep a Windows box or a proprietary game console for games, you know who you are. Stop lying to yourselves and making excuses.

Either fix the funding model for open source software in general or admit that ESR and RMS misled you. Because their bazaar is not the one you or anyone else is looking for … not really.

Posted from a 6-year-old iPhone - because it still works great and I can't be bothered to turn on the Linux laptop for the first time in months. Because the latest Opensuse Linux is clunky in comparison.

AMD Ryzen 4000 ‘Vermeer’ Zen 3 Desktop CPU Lineup Could Feature 10 Core Flavors, New Boost & Infinity Fabric Design

Does this level of granularity make sense in AMD's lineup? Previously, if you wanted more than 8 Zen cores, you went directly to 12.

Here's the Zen 2 launch prices + $1 (July 2019). All of these CPUs have two threads per core:

Ryzen 5 3600 - 6 cores, $200
Ryzen 5 3600X - 6 cores, $250
Ryzen 7 3700X - 8 cores, $330
Ryzen 7 3800X - 8 cores, $400
Ryzen 9 3900X - 12 cores, $500
Ryzen 9 3950X - 16 cores, $750

Two quad-cores, the Ryzen 3 3100 and 3300X, were added at $100 and $120 in April 2020.

One "problem" that AMD has is that TSMC yields are "too good". There aren't that many 8-core chiplets with 4 bad cores on them, so they disable perfectly acceptable cores. For lower-core count models, they can lower costs by using a single chiplet. So there's never any reason to make a 6-core with two chiplets, 3 cores enabled on each, because those chiplets could be used in more expensive CPUs with more cores enabled.

The 3300X was distinguished from the 3100 by including all of its 4 cores on a single CCX (half of the Zen 2 chiplet). That improves latency and performance somewhat. With Zen 3, the entire chiplet will be unified (to some extent). Enabling 5 cores on each chiplet may make more sense than it would have with Zen 2. So there's your possibility of a 10-core.

Here's some discussion about it, although it was a couple months before the surprise launch of the Zen 2 quad-cores, which showed that AMD is willing to disable half a chiplet.

If the rumor is correct, AMD can use the 10-core model to push down prices and/or "increase core counts" despite the top model continuing to sit at 16 cores. For example, AMD can slide the 10-core in at $400, knock out a superfluous 6 or 8-core, and lower those prices a bit, while keeping 12-core at $500 and 16-core at $750 (or slightly lower, like $700).

Previously: AMD 2021-2022 Roadmap: Zen 3 Refresh on AM5?

Board only exists on paper:

PicoRio Linux RISC-V SBC is an Open Source Alternative to Raspberry Pi Board

Linux capable RISC-V boards do exist but cost several hundred dollars or more with the likes of HiFive Unleashed and PolarFire SoC Icicle development kit. If only there was a RISC-V board similar to the Raspberry Pi board and with a similar price point… The good news is that the RISC-V International Open Source (RIOS) Laboratory is collaborating with Imagination technologies to bring PicoRio RISC-V SBC to market at a price point similar to Raspberry Pi.

From the comments:

I was compelled to comment after laughing hysterically at seeing “open source” and “Imagination Technologies” mentioned in the same breath.

Samsung Begins Mass Production of 16Gb LPDDR5 DRAM

Samsung is now manufacturing 16 Gb LPDDR5 DRAM chips, which it will use to make 16 GB packages, among others.

They were stacking 8x 12 Gb and 4x 8 Gb chips in their previous abominations. These ones are likely to be cheaper. It's also 16.3̅6̅% faster at 6,400 MT/s instead of 5,500 MT/s.

No word yet on 24 GB or 32 GB packages.

Previously: Samsung Announces Mass Production of 16 GB LPDDR5 DRAM Packages

How a designer used AI and Photoshop to bring ancient Roman emperors back to life

Photoreal Roman Emperor Project

Colorized statues

More Details about Alibaba XT910 64-bit RISC-V Core

No GPU! "Legal challenges for a high-performance core"!

Previously: Alibaba Announces a 16-Core RISC-V CPU
Alibaba Claims its RISC-V Core is Faster than ARM Cortex-A73