Mikoto Vista Ultimate

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2025-03-29 19:55:59

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must be a really garbage tier ssd to not support any of that, even the random cheap stuff I have has some sort of secure erase functionality

2025-03-19 02:23:53

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Finally the MSI
Pros:
- No lane sharing with the x16 PCIE slot
- New MSI BIOS looks pretty nice
- Has three USB C ports (2x USB4, and 1x 10 gbps)
- Wifi 7 is apparently a bit better than Gigabyte's; not that I would be able to take advantage of that
- Has 5 Gbps LAN (RTL8126) vs the Gigabyte (2.5G RTL8125B) or the Asus (2.5G i225)
- Uses a Nuvoton SuperIO that is well supported in Linux
Cons:
- Lane sharing with USB4 ports and one of the m.2 slots
- Green accents are a bit weird, coming from the grey X570 board I'm currently using
- Most expensive ($460 CAD)
- Some sporadic reports of instability with the X870 version of this board, unsure if this also extends to the X870E and to what extent
- Has the least USB-A ports available on top of having the same 4 USB 2.0 ports as the Gigabyte

2025-03-19 02:16:28

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Next the Gigabyte.
Pros:
- Cheaper than the MSI
- Has a post code display
- Not hearing about as many customer support complains as with ASUS
- Seems to have the most stable BIOS based on reports
- Has USB4 ports with 4 lanes allocated to them at all times
- Has WiFi 7
- Aorus styling is probably the best of the three IMO
Cons:
- Two of the M.2s share lanes with the main x16 slot, so using all of them will result in the GPU only having 8 lanes
- Less USB ports than the ASUS; with 4 being 2.0 only. I don't mind 2 ports being 2.0 for the mouse and KB, but 4 is a bit excessive
- ITE SuperIO chip might not be as well supported with lm-sensors in Linux (though it seems the it87 driver does support the specific chip this board uses so it might not be that bad)
- A bit more pricey than the ASUS ($425 CAD atm)

2025-03-19 02:11:02

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Starting with the ASUS.
Pros:
- Cheapest board of the three ATM ($370 CAD)
- Has the most USB-A ports, and most are 10 Gbps
- No lane sharing between M.2 and PCIe slots, GPU will have 16 lanes no matter what
Cons:
- No USB4
- Uses debug LEDs instead of a post code display
- Wifi 6E only (but to be fair I don't have a WiFi 7 network, plus I use Ethernet, speaking of which...)
- Uses the Intel i225 ethernet chipset, which has a history of stability issues. Not really clear if those have been fixed or not.
- ASUS warranty is also not the best from what I've heard so I'm probably on my own if this breaks it seems.

2025-03-19 02:06:20

Narrowed down my motherboard choices to these three models:
- [ASUS ROG Strix X670E-A Wifi](https://rog.asus.com/motherboards/rog-strix/rog-strix-x670e-a-gaming-wifi-model/)
- [GIGABYTE X870E AORUS Elite WIFI7](https://www.gigabyte.com/Motherboard/X870E-AORUS-ELITE-WIFI7-rev-10-11#kf)
- [MSI MAG X870E Tomahawk Wifi](https://www.msi.com/Motherboard/MAG-X870E-TOMAHAWK-WIFI/Overview)
Gonna make a post for each board detailing the pros/cons from my perspective.

2025-03-07 15:08:21

You know Canada's economy is whack when you are hearing about people stealing copper wires from telephone poles

2025-02-25 21:25:35

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that's what I've been wondering too
An interesting quote from an [Ars Technica article](https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/02/framework-known-for-upgradable-laptops-intros-not-particularly-upgradable-desktop/) covering the news:
> "To enable the massive 256GB/s memory bandwidth that Ryzen AI Max delivers, the LPDDR5x is soldered," writes Framework CEO Nirav Patel in a post about today's announcements. "We spent months working with AMD to explore ways around this but ultimately determined that it wasn’t technically feasible to land modular memory at high throughput with the 256-bit memory bus. Because the memory is non-upgradeable, we’re being deliberate in making memory pricing more reasonable than you might find with other brands."
Makes me wonder if the memory speed is the reason they weren't able to go with LPCAMM2 (since that currently seems to only reach ~7200 MT/s)

2025-02-25 20:16:49

the new framework mini pc thing honestly seems a bit weird in comparison to the rest of the rest of their lineup, like it's way less upgradable than everything else

2025-02-21 21:28:37

Reimu getting into the pizza business to raise funds for the shrine

2025-02-12 03:14:50

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not only you have to get the data back in place but also things like optimizer stats and indices have to be rebuilt as well

2025-02-12 03:14:20

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I'd say I'd definitely recommend it since that's when you're gonna do a lot of I/O, especially if it's a large DB

2025-02-12 03:08:43

@npub1326…gzqx @npub12nu…lwna pretty sure those are default options when you make an ext4 filesystem these days, doesn't hurt to check/set those with tune2fs

2025-02-12 03:01:27

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yeah, also zfs autotrim works the same as btrfs' async discard if you're using that

2025-02-12 02:52:30

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yeah you'll need to enable it then, I've linked a guide to that in an earlier reply

2025-02-12 02:43:41

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even those will have some sort of chipset to convert between sata and usb inside (you can see with `lsusb`)

2025-02-12 02:41:51

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yeah it really depends on the chipset, probably that's why it's disabled by default

2025-02-12 02:37:29

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yeah some enclosures might not be able to pass trim, some do however. Linux does disable trim on usb drives by default but you can enable it: https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2020/enabling-trim-on-external-ssd-on-raspberry-pi
I did have to upgrade the firmware on one of my usb to sata adapters to get that functionality, but as of right now all of my ssd enclosures have that feature.

2025-02-12 02:24:22

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sounds like you're using a sata to usb adapter, know which model or the chipset used with it?
In my experience they do tend to run to about ~400 MB/s sequential over a 5 Gbps connection and ~500 MB/s on a 10 Gbps connection, assuming the chip supports that speed. Random I/O can be slower though, but it should still be fairly quick

2025-01-12 22:30:41

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Also we've mostly hit the price floor when it comes to tech ages ago, so new tech isn't going to be noticeably cheaper than older stuff (and most of the time the opposite is true).

2025-01-12 22:29:09

I think the whole debate regarding bloat and old/new computers all comes from the fact that computing power over the last 15 or so years hasn't grown as fast as they have the 15 years before that.
Using a computer from 2005 in the year 2015 seems pretty absurd, but using a computer from 2015 in 2025 isn't as far fetched.

2025-01-11 19:17:01

no, thanks to ublock origin
https://media.akko.wtf/41e7d347fc9fee889434bbd922263cacc1e25e8180eca4a025b3786ca6eab9fb.png

2025-01-11 04:36:33

Interesting that I got a report from mastodon.social to another remote account (not on this instance)

2025-01-06 15:58:12

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yeah turns out writing fediverse software is more of a daunting task than it may seem at first, especially one that's actually resilient

2025-01-02 04:25:00

every time I see someone talk about tv tuners, I get a bit sad at how they never really reached their full potential due to cable companies' greed

2024-12-07 05:14:21

updated the wallpaper on my xp netbook
https://media.akko.wtf/86f53b853c8d40a24d4518f71ba72fd13c27f4422b31d6d29bd9ea2cac8f1f0c.png

2024-11-30 18:36:49

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when the channel infamous for sponsor segues becomes a sponsor itself

2024-11-09 21:42:41

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cde is pretty old and I guess it got open soured right before sf went poop

2024-11-09 21:01:20

you know something's super janky when you see this on the project's site
https://media.akko.wtf/media/212273a729a72e0fd9b459fe403440213af1bd798f820b7903ab085fc62cae71.png

2024-11-09 02:28:22

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Villainess Alyssa

2024-10-28 21:39:54

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red drunk miku

2024-10-25 02:55:34

https://x.com/death_rouser/status/1846550009254473870
https://media.akko.wtf/media/ebcd37b34f59398922b89ee2c4930c81b2b0e0ac72395a3642127794462ff47b.jpg

2024-10-25 00:10:54

Kikuri cosplaying as miku

2024-10-23 01:57:28

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like it has a table that tracks deliveries of objects, but why does that have to keep those entires after the delivery happens?

2024-10-23 01:54:25

man does the akkoma schema require tons of garbage collecting to keep it from going out of control, some of which isn't made into tasks

2024-10-22 00:57:14

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polycule time
https://media.akko.wtf/media/5db58ebd4844460918fe18bce3999d38b78df067b13ebbd7e711b211e553bc43.webp

2024-10-22 00:52:27

kinda fedi moment here
https://media.akko.wtf/media/f6dfe91deedc581e5288d8986c7dfbc8dad34b1088a4714a96a9c77cd263f875.webp

2024-10-19 21:12:56

tfw my friend group is spread across 4 chat platforms so I have my second monitor filled with 4 different chat windows

2023-09-09 21:34:42

I still have this edited screenshot on my laptop lol
https://media.akko.wtf/media/3e8c4b91e5c43e50dd38816e97d2fe7f71fc8afc388c36cd22f97e101f8ae1e1.jpeg