• rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish
    15·
    16 days ago

    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.

    • InFerNo@lemmy.ml
      1·
      15 days ago

      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
        0·
        15 days ago

        Regular performance really has improved so very little in the past decade, it’s just been a focus on GPUs and power efficiency.

          • MoffKalast@lemmy.world
            0·
            15 days ago

            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·
              15 days ago

              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
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                14 days ago

                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
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                  14 days ago

                  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.