A Reddit Refugee. Zero ragrets.

Engineer, permanent pirate, lover of all things mechanical and on wheels

moved here from lemmy.one because there are no active admins on that instance.

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Cake day: December 22nd, 2023

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  • I have had exactly two isolated issues with my AMD drivers using an RDNA-3 based 7900XTX.

    (My use of an XTX card is notable as it is a special multichiplet architecture that is not replicated anywhere else in AMD’s lineup, and typically had more driver issues)

    One was in Space Engineers, where voxel textures would get scrambled and look super weird. That one eventually got fixed after a monthish (not sure if AMD or Keen fixed it).

    The other is an ongoing one where the card will use 100W to 150W doing nothing on the desktop whenever HDR is enabled on one or more displays. That’s more a fault of the XTX architecture not the drivers though, as it has to scale up the I/O memory die to high clocks for the number of bits required in HDR.

    Outside of those I have literally never even noticed I was running an AMD card. Ive streamed to Twitch, recorded live gameplay to AV1, encoded videos, and played maybe 30 other games as well as heavy engineering CAD software. Shit just works when Windows plays nice. every bad crash ive had has been Windows doing retarded shit that never happens in Linux. And it works natively in Linux without nvidia’s dumb fucking proprietary driver stack. It’s chill. The internet horror stories of AMD drivers is vastly overblown.





  • Well, m.2 slots (both sata and epcie) typically only provide 3.3 volt power. Standalone 2.5" sata SSD’s require a 5 volt supply. Obviously there’s a bit of a mismatch there. So you’ll likely need to find your power from a difference source like a USB port or the internal power supply.

    That adapter image is a data adapter, most likely for straight-thru msata connections, and is probably what you need. but 2.5" SSD’s also require the wide 15 pin power connector in addition to the small data connector and that power has to come from something that is not the m.2 slot.





  • This is an interesting conundrum.
    On one hand it would help locate foreign agent bots/bad faith actors faster and recognize vote manipulation by bot farms.
    On the other it will lead to even more account-stalking problems, user drama, and would further enable vote dogpiling if you see certain known users voted a certain way.

    I’m inclined to say no. They are already “public” if one wants to put in the effort to admin a standalone instance or run alts on multiple services they can see if they care- I personally don’t really care