if you wanna do good multitasking and you dont debloat windows, 16gb is way faster

i got 18GB on my desktop XD

only 8GB on my laptop, since it really doesnt need more than that just for document editing and playing minecraft while browsing

Yeah, your "average" laptop is difficult to use outside of light gaming or light productivity

if you mean mine thats an understatement, its got an i7 in it but no gpu, so its completely useless for anything remotely modern in gaming

doesnt even have dx11

its an intel hd roughly equal to power of a Radeon HD 2600...

thats why i stick to my desktop for anything beyond minecraft or other pre 2010 games

I somehow don't understand that. I have 40ish and game on it. Sitting close to it and it is ok for me.

Depends on the resolution your eye sight and the content

Its 1080p

Oh man

40" 1080p

good lord

Must look like those large print texts the visually impaired read

It is actually a tv but i use it as a Monitor for my pc because I have a 70" 4kish (sonys own 4k or some shit) TV

@Stargatemaster96 any luck yet? I've been doing some searching myself but I'm not super certain what exactly I'm looking for

I was unable to locate any of the software I had used before that was free.

That said, GNU ddrescue looks like it could work. Your father would hopefully have experience with Linux and could understand this. The bottom also mentions some other software to try if you can get the bulk with GNU ddrescue but still have some corrupted files. The commands at the bottom also include some example command options you might use including "-r3" which means retry any it couldn't recover three times but tweek to what you think you need.

"ddrescue --help" will give you all the options so read through it. I check and Fedora has GNU ddrescue in the main repo but I imagine many others like Ubuntu and Debian also do so whatever distro you/your father prefer should work. You will need a drive larger then the dead drive to clone this all to during recovery. While it nay be possible to compress, at this point you just need to get the data off your drive ASAP.

https://www.linux.com/topic/desktop/gnu-ddrescue-best-damaged-drive-rescue/

Anyone here actually mining crypto?

Eth

Not hardcore been doing it on and off on me and my wife’s gaming computers

Gtx1080 and rtx 2070, would be lucky to clear $70 a month

I used to make a good amount of money mining a few years ago but it's just not profitable anymore last I checked.

Yeah it’s also inflating a bit from what I’ve heard(don’t quote me on that)

Considering there's a finite number of Bitcoin that will ever exist, I'm not sure it's really inflation in the sense that we normally know with currency where governments start printing money without it being backed by anything.

Yeah I guess that means that it’s harder to get Bitcoin and it’s gonna get harder.

The difficulty to get Bitcoin has been significantly increasing ever since its creation and will only continue to get more difficult. The reward for the increading difficulty halves every four years and in 2140 there will be no new bitcoins.

yes that will be good for the people who mined it early but not so much for the people that didn't do that

Yeah me too. Eth and RVN also just occasionally on my Gaming PC. Gtx 1660. Wanted to try out Monero but it doesnt really seem profitable. I am also going to buy an rtx 3080 when they are back in stock so I might try mining with it

I saw that nvidia's intentionally damaging mining performance with their 3000 series cards unless you buy their dedicated mining series.

oh

thanks

I wont try it then

surely its hackable

Probably if you want to custom firmware and decompile, modify, and recompile the drivers.

oh yeah and that would probably be more work than its worth

All of them? I was thinking it was just the newly released 3060 🤔

yep, it only keeps gamers from using the card in spare time, big mining farms will just find a way around it

Yes unfortunately

also apprently the mining gpus are based on last gen turing

at least the 30 and 40 ones