1, I've been an SSD guy since the Intel G2 160GB, couldn't use a PC without them.
2, Maybe, I wish I had a tool to monitor the actual system cause for this, rather than assume. Perhaps there is one. I can say one thing, it's easily recreated.
3, They should park at 0.1% CPU use tabs idle over 60 seconds, would possibly solve issues.
4, That's done
5, I'm unsure if this would help, it might, I probably have no more than 5 videos open at any one time (bear in mind, PAUSED and or not even started) in background tabs. I only ever view a single video at once.
I'm an extreme browser, nothing short of EXTREME - but damnit why can't they make these things more robust?
I have 32GB of high clocked DDR4, I've got an unoverclocked, 4ghz, 6 core, 2017 intel processor. My machine is a couple of grades off the best 'normal' desktop PC you can buy.
Chrome will still stutter playing back video. I thought flash was the enemy? Why is chrome 'doing stuff' with it's other tabs in the background, impacting my video playback? I like the idea of multi-tasking, tabs doing some kind of loading / refreshing / whatever I've asked them to do, in the background, within reason. They should get 1 core for all the background tabs at no more than 50% of processing time or something.
Is it Windows? Is this a design thing? I'm very old. I recall people saying "linux doesn't have this" or "Amiga doesn't have that" or "Apple doesn't have this" in regards to how multi-tasking is handled, maybe it's interrupts, handles? Memory allocation? I don't know, I'm a half nerd but for goodness sakes, 6 cores, 32GB of memory, can my primary video playback tab, take ALL the resources it needs on earth, to damn well ensure, smooth video?
I'm not even watching 4k, it's 1080p youtube and it's 100% not a bandwidth issue.
Do I run a lot of plugins? heck yes I do. Should they be able to interrupt a video playing back? No.
I see many others posting about this, it's a common thing - video pauses / stutters *audio continues to play* it's like it can't keep up with the video processing aspect./ How long has this gone on? Funny you should ask, I've been seeing this for several years. Furthermore, I've seen the same thing on Firefox (yeah, I'm that guy, the one who used to whine about poor firefox performance)
I don't understand why it's like this, I just don't. Yeah I'm an edge case (I only have about 120 tabs open today, across 2 windows) but man can't the primary tab or video tab get priority?
Here's some code I'd implement, if I had a clue (I don't, sadly) #1 - primary tab gets a lot of processing power / memory. #2 - last used tab gets a mild amount of processing power / memory. #3 - tabs, to the left and right, of the current tab you're on, get a mild amount of processing power / memory (to ensure, if you want to switch to them it's virtually instant, when you hit CTRL-TAB)
I know it's all fine and dandy to sit on my high horse and complain, without coding skills. However surely this irks others? Surely what I ask is possible? Does what I ask simply not occur on different operating systems? Why can I not have a damn, damn good browsing experience. It's what I do with literally 80% of my PC using time.
(FWIW, both 'new' Firefox and Chrome are VASTLY better than Firefox before the change about 8 - 12 months back, that was, without a doubt a ghastly experience)
Wilderness survival. Cabin building. Water cleansing. Very Basic engineering / how to use your hands. Woodworking. AGRICULTURE. Animal husbandry. Basic medicine / biology. Basic weapons and self defence training. Sustainable energy generation. How to build a basic windmill / watermill. Oh and did I mention AGRICULTURE?
I *specifically* paid, up front for 10 years of Xmarks and 10 years of Lastpass at the same time, when I heard those Logmein bastards had purchased them.
That was, I think about 2 years ago. I've got somewhere between 7 and 8.5 years left (I can't recall) Now, if I recall the pricing model, I think it was 12$ each per year, discounted if you buy rolled together.
I want to know, am I going to get 7 MORE years of Lastpass on my account at the rates which I had previously paid, or are they going to refund the value of my time in cash, then re-purchase at the new Lastpass rate, which I believe is now much higher?
Does anyone here know? Reddit posts? Etc? I will not be pleased if my 7+ years remaining Xmarks ends up buying me 3 years more Lastpass. (I tried emailing support, explaining this to those wallies is impossible)
Then we get something which we seem to use a lot of (wood / paper) and it'll release oxygen to boot.
That being said I've seen people, on this very site, claiming that if you grow a tree that is absorbing carbon, when the tree dies it actually slowly releases a lot of this, into the atmosphere, more so than you'd think. What eventually seeps into the ground, hundreds / thousands of years later (?) is very little carbon.
I might be wrong on that quote and he might be wrong on the science, I'm not sure, but long story short, I would have thought more trees is better than rocks.
So now that you've got an approved messaging "safe space" section, can we assume that Youtube will stop pulling down any channels / demonetizing ones which are seemingly "wrong-think"? Maybe you can leave those alone since the kids are safe now, right? Right?
I own an Android phone but Google are _RETARDED_ with messaging apps. The amount they've made in the past decade and either modified or cancelled is UTTERLY mind boggling, it's fascinating, it's... it's incredible just how poor they've handled this.
I can't put in to words properly just how confusing and terrible it is. They have failed in every conceivable way. They just can NOT stop making new ones, killing old ones, damaging features. It's a total and utter disaster.
I use whatsapp and 'normal' SMS / text. I won't use Google Chat, Google Hangouts or Allo or anything because they WILL terminate / ruin it in time.
All they had to do was copy iMessage and have some kind of "SMS from your PC / ipad" functionality and they would've been golden, but nah, they decided to do an utterly, utterly miserable job.
We're utterly miles from even conceiving of this and it sounds to me like a potentially, totally dangerous precedent.
They are MACHINES, don't take this the wrong way but we can finally "have slaves" without feeling guilty. These are tools for us to use, that we create, without us being horrible people.
I can't possibly envision us getting to "is the machine a person" in any capacity until we're at some kind of Commander data level of machines. Does anyone see humanity achieving that even in the next 30 years? If not 100 years.
Everything I've read so far, indicates it's currently, insanely slow. If you thought 265 encoding was bad, this is significantly worse, by like a factor of 10.
The performance increase they could attain right now, even in the $600 US target simply would be very, very little.
As both Sony and MS use AMD tech (weak CPU, semi-decent GPU) the theory is the next one will move to a 'full' Zen desktop core (or close to it) and a more modern GPU design. Even then, the heat and cost would be high. They need 'true' 7nm to be up and running, I strongly suspect, before considering this.
On top of this game dev cycles are slower due to more complex games and console profitability generally comes towards the late stage in a console life, where they still make their 5 to 10$ per game but there's 70 to 150 million of the things in peoples hands. (ie: even 'crappy' games ship 2 million copies)
Furthermore, the industry appears to be considering the cell phone model of next gen stuff is going to be backwards compatible. (Hopefully) so a PS5 will likely ship, running your PS4 and PS4 Pro games even smoother, MAYBE PS5 games work on PS4 / PS4 Pro
Either way, as tech slows, the need to move to the next cycle is decreasing. If Xbox 360 got 7, PS3 got 8. I suspect we'll see at least similar figures for the next consoles. (2020 or so)
Oh and FWIW, having now got a console at launch, in the hype? Never again. The PS4 and Xbox One are now, worth considering, with a decent range of games and somewhat discounted consoles. Buying at launch you get stuck with a limited library (assuming no BC) and high prices. Just wait at least 24 months for bugs to be ironed out, better game library, potentially quieter models. Etc
A National Broadband Network rolled out, intended to be fibre and the neanderthals suggested "wireless will beat fibre in 10 years anyhow, you're wasting money!!"
I won't deny, 4G USB dongles, did end up doing better than I expected them ever capable, in both speed and download quota offered, but vs Fibre? Future proofing? These idiots opinions should be relegated to the trash sadly.
Unfortunately, everyone has an opinion on something, even those who aren't technically savvy.
Endless Trump bashing is the internet thing now. Regardless if he's at fault or not. (The man is an idiot, but the stuff people claim he's planning, conspiring or doing, is ridiculously, week on week)
Honestly it's become so bad, I'm embarrassed to admit I was a far lefty once.
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1, I've been an SSD guy since the Intel G2 160GB, couldn't use a PC without them.
2, Maybe, I wish I had a tool to monitor the actual system cause for this, rather than assume. Perhaps there is one. I can say one thing, it's easily recreated.
3, They should park at 0.1% CPU use tabs idle over 60 seconds, would possibly solve issues.
4, That's done
5, I'm unsure if this would help, it might, I probably have no more than 5 videos open at any one time (bear in mind, PAUSED and or not even started) in background tabs. I only ever view a single video at once.
6, That much is certain.
I'm an extreme browser, nothing short of EXTREME - but damnit why can't they make these things more robust?
I have 32GB of high clocked DDR4, I've got an unoverclocked, 4ghz, 6 core, 2017 intel processor. My machine is a couple of grades off the best 'normal' desktop PC you can buy.
Chrome will still stutter playing back video. I thought flash was the enemy? Why is chrome 'doing stuff' with it's other tabs in the background, impacting my video playback?
I like the idea of multi-tasking, tabs doing some kind of loading / refreshing / whatever I've asked them to do, in the background, within reason. They should get 1 core for all the background tabs at no more than 50% of processing time or something.
Is it Windows? Is this a design thing? I'm very old. I recall people saying "linux doesn't have this" or "Amiga doesn't have that" or "Apple doesn't have this" in regards to how multi-tasking is handled, maybe it's interrupts, handles? Memory allocation? I don't know, I'm a half nerd but for goodness sakes, 6 cores, 32GB of memory, can my primary video playback tab, take ALL the resources it needs on earth, to damn well ensure, smooth video?
I'm not even watching 4k, it's 1080p youtube and it's 100% not a bandwidth issue.
Do I run a lot of plugins? heck yes I do. Should they be able to interrupt a video playing back? No.
I see many others posting about this, it's a common thing - video pauses / stutters *audio continues to play* it's like it can't keep up with the video processing aspect./
How long has this gone on? Funny you should ask, I've been seeing this for several years. Furthermore, I've seen the same thing on Firefox (yeah, I'm that guy, the one who used to whine about poor firefox performance)
I don't understand why it's like this, I just don't. Yeah I'm an edge case (I only have about 120 tabs open today, across 2 windows) but man can't the primary tab or video tab get priority?
Here's some code I'd implement, if I had a clue (I don't, sadly)
#1 - primary tab gets a lot of processing power / memory.
#2 - last used tab gets a mild amount of processing power / memory.
#3 - tabs, to the left and right, of the current tab you're on, get a mild amount of processing power / memory (to ensure, if you want to switch to them it's virtually instant, when you hit CTRL-TAB)
I know it's all fine and dandy to sit on my high horse and complain, without coding skills. However surely this irks others? Surely what I ask is possible? Does what I ask simply not occur on different operating systems? Why can I not have a damn, damn good browsing experience. It's what I do with literally 80% of my PC using time.
(FWIW, both 'new' Firefox and Chrome are VASTLY better than Firefox before the change about 8 - 12 months back, that was, without a doubt a ghastly experience)
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Sigh?
Wilderness survival.
Cabin building.
Water cleansing.
Very Basic engineering / how to use your hands.
Woodworking.
AGRICULTURE.
Animal husbandry.
Basic medicine / biology.
Basic weapons and self defence training.
Sustainable energy generation.
How to build a basic windmill / watermill.
Oh and did I mention
AGRICULTURE?
I asked this a few weeks ago,
I *specifically* paid, up front for 10 years of Xmarks and 10 years of Lastpass at the same time, when I heard those Logmein bastards had purchased them.
That was, I think about 2 years ago. I've got somewhere between 7 and 8.5 years left (I can't recall)
Now, if I recall the pricing model, I think it was 12$ each per year, discounted if you buy rolled together.
I want to know, am I going to get 7 MORE years of Lastpass on my account at the rates which I had previously paid, or are they going to refund the value of my time in cash, then re-purchase at the new Lastpass rate, which I believe is now much higher?
Does anyone here know? Reddit posts? Etc? I will not be pleased if my 7+ years remaining Xmarks ends up buying me 3 years more Lastpass.
(I tried emailing support, explaining this to those wallies is impossible)
Then we get something which we seem to use a lot of (wood / paper) and it'll release oxygen to boot.
That being said I've seen people, on this very site, claiming that if you grow a tree that is absorbing carbon, when the tree dies it actually slowly releases a lot of this, into the atmosphere, more so than you'd think. What eventually seeps into the ground, hundreds / thousands of years later (?) is very little carbon.
I might be wrong on that quote and he might be wrong on the science, I'm not sure, but long story short, I would have thought more trees is better than rocks.
So now that you've got an approved messaging "safe space" section, can we assume that Youtube will stop pulling down any channels / demonetizing ones which are seemingly "wrong-think"?
Maybe you can leave those alone since the kids are safe now, right? Right?
INTERNATIONALLY
Christ the governments of Canada, New Zealand, Australia are retarded.
Selling the god damn locals out for profit.
Housing is insane in these 3 countries, immigration is insane in them, this needs to stop, it's ridiculous
Rather then use my points, please, someone mod this guy up, this is the problem, big big time.
Lifelong careers are finished, this is bad and getting worse.
WHY?
I own an Android phone but Google are _RETARDED_ with messaging apps. ... it's incredible just how poor they've handled this.
The amount they've made in the past decade and either modified or cancelled is UTTERLY mind boggling, it's fascinating, it's
I can't put in to words properly just how confusing and terrible it is. They have failed in every conceivable way. They just can NOT stop making new ones, killing old ones, damaging features. It's a total and utter disaster.
I use whatsapp and 'normal' SMS / text. I won't use Google Chat, Google Hangouts or Allo or anything because they WILL terminate / ruin it in time.
All they had to do was copy iMessage and have some kind of "SMS from your PC / ipad" functionality and they would've been golden, but nah, they decided to do an utterly, utterly miserable job.
Yep great moderation AMD fans / losers. This is a very, very relevant ongoing issue with the Ryzen series which is NOT resolved.
Children.
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/sh...
Always felt it to be highly invasive, potentially insecure. The LAST thing I want, is to sign in to bloody sites with Facebook credentials.
They already have. The girl who shot the place up was unhappy in a sudden major reduction in videos watched on her channel.
She was nuts, yes, 100% but they fucked with her, so she came for them.
We're utterly miles from even conceiving of this and it sounds to me like a potentially, totally dangerous precedent.
They are MACHINES, don't take this the wrong way but we can finally "have slaves" without feeling guilty. These are tools for us to use, that we create, without us being horrible people.
I can't possibly envision us getting to "is the machine a person" in any capacity until we're at some kind of Commander data level of machines. Does anyone see humanity achieving that even in the next 30 years? If not 100 years.
I don't have a huge issue with the service, my girl uses it and it is pretty simple and reliable.
I will say, I wish the darn comedy section could be split up from
Comedy : standup
Comedy : TV shows
Comedy : Indian Bollywood stuff.
Don't get me wrong, the occasionally Bollywood video is actually fun, as is stand up, but for goodness sakes they're so mashed together.
Also be nice to just have a Kodi style filter
Movie, over 6 IMDB, less than 10 years old, action / adventure / crime / thriller, etc
Some are getting less. It actually doesn't impact me but it does reduce my confidence using it on my next FreeNAS machine.
But have they fixed this yet? Their second bug in Linux?
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/sh...
Everything I've read so far, indicates it's currently, insanely slow.
If you thought 265 encoding was bad, this is significantly worse, by like a factor of 10.
Hopefully this is fixed over time.
That's not entirely the point of it. The point is to be as good or better than pretty much any codec out there, but entirely royalty free.
This is a generally good thing. Wish the internet / companies / people did more of this stuff for the betterment of everyone.
Hopefully, it works out, without dumb issues holding it back, as is always often the case, in too-good-to-be-true scenarios with hardware or software.
The performance increase they could attain right now, even in the $600 US target simply would be very, very little.
As both Sony and MS use AMD tech (weak CPU, semi-decent GPU) the theory is the next one will move to a 'full' Zen desktop core (or close to it) and a more modern GPU design. Even then, the heat and cost would be high. They need 'true' 7nm to be up and running, I strongly suspect, before considering this.
On top of this game dev cycles are slower due to more complex games and console profitability generally comes towards the late stage in a console life, where they still make their 5 to 10$ per game but there's 70 to 150 million of the things in peoples hands. (ie: even 'crappy' games ship 2 million copies)
Furthermore, the industry appears to be considering the cell phone model of next gen stuff is going to be backwards compatible. (Hopefully) so a PS5 will likely ship, running your PS4 and PS4 Pro games even smoother, MAYBE PS5 games work on PS4 / PS4 Pro
Either way, as tech slows, the need to move to the next cycle is decreasing. If Xbox 360 got 7, PS3 got 8. I suspect we'll see at least similar figures for the next consoles. (2020 or so)
Oh and FWIW, having now got a console at launch, in the hype? Never again. The PS4 and Xbox One are now, worth considering, with a decent range of games and somewhat discounted consoles. Buying at launch you get stuck with a limited library (assuming no BC) and high prices. Just wait at least 24 months for bugs to be ironed out, better game library, potentially quieter models. Etc
When civil war breaks out in France, which it almost certainly will in the next 20 to 30 years, hopefully they can rebuild shelter relatively quickly.
Money laundering is welcome in Canada and Australia for Chinese locusts, snapping up all available property.
We have those morons here in Australia.
A National Broadband Network rolled out, intended to be fibre and the neanderthals suggested "wireless will beat fibre in 10 years anyhow, you're wasting money!!"
I won't deny, 4G USB dongles, did end up doing better than I expected them ever capable, in both speed and download quota offered, but vs Fibre? Future proofing? These idiots opinions should be relegated to the trash sadly.
Unfortunately, everyone has an opinion on something, even those who aren't technically savvy.
Endless Trump bashing is the internet thing now. Regardless if he's at fault or not. (The man is an idiot, but the stuff people claim he's planning, conspiring or doing, is ridiculously, week on week)
Honestly it's become so bad, I'm embarrassed to admit I was a far lefty once.
Do we absoloutely have to always hate Microsoft here?
This is very obviously them doing something 'fun'
At least they aren't google, far, far more evil nowadays.