It’s hard to believe how insanely long it took, and still is taking to get a production-ready, solid ntfs driver in linux.

I’m in this picture and I don’t like it.

Cockroaches kill each other and eat each other…

Well, in PHP you cannot #define new words from some new language to mean basic language keywords.

Error correction and compression are usually at odds.

Not really. If your data compresses well, you can compress it by easily 60, 70%, then add Reed-Solomon forward error correction blocks at like 20% redundancy, and you’d still be up overall.

If any person actually typed that they aren’t sane at all.

That doesn’t actually rule out anything.

Except it’s also an important tool to ensure continued employment, and so people have taken to turning the public part of it into an unorganized sycophancy contest.

Probably because a lot of the “people” in the larger networks are literally not “real”. Many of them are secretly bots, and a lot of the rest are either sock puppets or meat puppets

“They’re a private company” (with a state-sponsored monopoly on an essential good).

I don’t know how anybody is surprised by this. Who do you think would buy a privatized municipal water supplier, other than people trying to squeeze as much money as possible from a population with no recourse and no say in the matter?

There is no wise way to use that information.

But the foolish ones could be entertaining.

Saying RAM can help because you can reencode the video to h.264 or h.265 to make use of hardware decoding is more than a bit of a stretch. You can just reencode it to the normal disk instead. Unless it’s the speed of the local block device that’s the bottleneck here (and there’s no indication that it is, and it would be extremely unlikely), using a ramdisk/tmpfs for any part of that is just pointless.

Modern CPUs (from like the last 20 years) will throttle down a lot before they actually shut down. Unless your cooling is completely inadequate or somehow broken, shutdowns because of high load just dont happen. I suspect there is something fundamentally wrong with your hardware.

A problem with cooling could also go some way to explaining your performance problems – but it could also just be that your system just doesn’t have the computing power to do what you want it to. The computing demands from video decoding go up dramatically when you go beyond 1080p. If I recall correctly, the Intel Core CPUs with the “U” at the end were the low-energy models (for longer battery life); of course that comes with compromises on the performance side.

The CPU model suggests that this is a laptop, and a fairly old one at that. I would look for things like blocked air ducts or broken fans if I were you. It’s also possible that the thermal compound between your CPU and the CPU cooler has dried out and needs replacing (although laptops of that power class should be using thermal contact solutions that do not dry out), or that contact has lessened for other reasons. Again, if your computer seriously powers down because of load, it’s borderline broken and in need of maintenance.

As for your other question, no RAM cannot help with that. It can hurt if you have too little of it, but once you have enough, the best it can do is not be a bottleneck.

* Edit: Also, make sure you are not setting down the laptop on anything soft, like a blanket, when using it. It will sink in and have its air intakes blocked if you do that.

You just gave me flashbacks to that abomination of a programming language they call sqf.

Hm, agree in principle, but it should also really be noted that a donation that is required to get an account (or arguably even smaller perks) does not count as a donation anymore. At that point, it’s a weasel-wordiy way to say “payment”. Which should, IMHO, not be supported.

Why does nobody mention the Discordian calendar? 5 days per week, 73 days per month, 5 months to a year (Chaos, Discord, Confusion, Bureaucracy and the Aftermath). On leap years, it adds one additional day (St. Tib’s day) with a name but no numerical date.

Who’s Rich? Did you mean Randall?

Files and directories starting with a dot are hiden by default. You are aksing for this stuff if you manually unhide them.

I can see it going both ways. Talking about execution times, this would be an exaggeration, but then, these memes always are.

und ich hab nichts gesagt.

Going by what OP thinks “Chaotic Evil” means for sysadmins, they have clearly never heard of BOFH.