Well, you see, Jane, when Netflix was $6 a month, nearly everyone stopped buying DVDs, and most slowed way down on piracy. Then, as Netflix grew greedier and decided to start its own production studio, it doubled the prices of its plans, limited its family plan to exclude college kids, and added ads to its cheapest plans. Then all the streaming companies started fighting for titles, and you can no longer figure out who streams your favorite shows. But most of the local places to buy DVDs are gone. So Piracy picked back up in a big way, and the server stores all the shows we watch on our phones and TVs.
I guess the first Ryzen was technically only 9 years ago, and sure there the X3D is kind of a leap but that's still resulted in comparatively marginal gains compared to what happened in the previous 10 years where it was easily a 5x delta. Meanwhile Intel is just cramming more and more E cores into things and pretending they're doing better.
For the average person I really doubt CPU speed from 10 years ago or today makes all that much difference if both systems run from an NVMe.
Sure you can run a perfectly useable machine from 10 years ago but there is a massive difference in performance between an ryzen 9600 based system and an ryzen 1600 system.
I do agree with you that performance increase are nowhere as fast as it used to be. But we were also stuck with 4 core intel cpu's for a decade before that.
Well if you believe the benchmarks it's about a 2x gain in pure compute, but only about 1.5x in actual speed when you consider cache and other bottlenecks. The X3D is similarly 2x as fast but adds another 25% on top of that given better cache locality. The transistor size density delta of 14 to 4nm would make me expect more of a 3-4x raw speed difference.
Sure the increase isn't as massive as it was but it is definetly a very noticeable increase in performance if you come fro m a 6700k but if you are running an Amd 5800 or an intel 12700, the performance increase is not worth the money.
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rumba@lemmy.zip · 66 pts · 179d
Well, you see, Jane, when Netflix was $6 a month, nearly everyone stopped buying DVDs, and most slowed way down on piracy. Then, as Netflix grew greedier and decided to start its own production studio, it doubled the prices of its plans, limited its family plan to exclude college kids, and added ads to its cheapest plans. Then all the streaming companies started fighting for titles, and you can no longer figure out who streams your favorite shows. But most of the local places to buy DVDs are gone. So Piracy picked back up in a big way, and the server stores all the shows we watch on our phones and TVs.
MnemonicBump@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 61 pts · 180d
"NOTE: This book was produced as a promotional item by Microsoft and HP."
Canuck@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 179d
I was wondering why it said Windows Home Server lol
DmMacniel@feddit.org · 5 pts · 179d
Oh, remember the strange era when Microsoft was selling private home servers?
Damage@feddit.it · 3 pts · 179d
Nah Microsoft sells cloud services
MnemonicBump@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 11 pts · 179d
Yeah, except my quote is real, and it was actually made as a promotional item by Microsoft and HP
homes@piefed.world · 32 pts · 180d
I love it when memes are real
BladeFederation@piefed.social · 19 pts · 180d
don't let your memes be dreams
Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works · 27 pts · 180d
I laughed so hard at this. I'm glad a few others here get it. Lemmy is a cool place.
Scrollone@feddit.it · 9 pts · 179d
You can actually buy the book 😂
SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org · 16 pts · 179d
Can't relate PC hardware got way to expensive.
InFerNo@lemmy.ml · 7 pts · 179d
My decade old hardware does what it needs to do. Alternatively, get an Odroid device. Relatively cheap SBCs you can use to host a host of services.
MoffKalast@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 179d
Regular performance really has improved so very little in the past decade, it's just been a focus on GPUs and power efficiency.
fenrasulfr@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 179d
I defintely has improved a lot since Amd became competitive with Intel.
MoffKalast@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 179d
I guess the first Ryzen was technically only 9 years ago, and sure there the X3D is kind of a leap but that's still resulted in comparatively marginal gains compared to what happened in the previous 10 years where it was easily a 5x delta. Meanwhile Intel is just cramming more and more E cores into things and pretending they're doing better.
For the average person I really doubt CPU speed from 10 years ago or today makes all that much difference if both systems run from an NVMe.
fenrasulfr@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 178d
Sure you can run a perfectly useable machine from 10 years ago but there is a massive difference in performance between an ryzen 9600 based system and an ryzen 1600 system. I do agree with you that performance increase are nowhere as fast as it used to be. But we were also stuck with 4 core intel cpu's for a decade before that.
MoffKalast@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 178d
Well if you believe the benchmarks it's about a 2x gain in pure compute, but only about 1.5x in actual speed when you consider cache and other bottlenecks. The X3D is similarly 2x as fast but adds another 25% on top of that given better cache locality. The transistor size density delta of 14 to 4nm would make me expect more of a 3-4x raw speed difference.
fenrasulfr@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 178d
Sure the increase isn't as massive as it was but it is definetly a very noticeable increase in performance if you come fro m a 6700k but if you are running an Amd 5800 or an intel 12700, the performance increase is not worth the money.
anonfopyapper@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 180d
Book link?
bisby@lemmy.world · 30 pts · 180d
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2824642-mommy-why-is-there-a-server-in-the-house
JohnWorks@sh.itjust.works · 28 pts · 180d
Lmfao I thought it was a meme but it’s real
chicocheco@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 180d
Ngl, that makes us two, haha
MoffKalast@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 180d
Wait what, it's real? And from 2007?
Dammit, Amazon has no preview for it. I bet each page of it is meme worthy.
curbstickle@anarchist.nexus · 12 pts · 180d
https://archive.org/details/mommybook
MoffKalast@lemmy.world · 29 pts · 180d
Lmaoooo, the book of personal attacks.
Dave@lemmy.nz · 14 pts · 180d
They had me up to Windows Home Server. I don't think I want one of those. It sounds dangerous, I wouldn't let that in my house.
hayvan@piefed.world · 2 pts · 177d
Yeah, I was enjoying the book until that page made me ragequit. Absolutely no Windows servers.
AmbidextrousWrench@piefed.ca · 11 pts · 180d
https://ia601600.us.archive.org/13/items/mommybook/mommybook.pdf
grue@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 180d
Can't link because of lemmy.world TOS, but if you DDG the title the second result is a direct .pdf link on archive.org.
ChicoSuave@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 180d
It's your new babysitter AGIMUS
ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one · 2 pts · 171d
“Mommy has a server cause I had to sell your sibling.”