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The Picard Maneuver piefed.world The_Picard_Maneuver@piefed.world
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anonfopyapper lemmy.world anonfopyapper@lemmy.world
Joined: 2025-05-03
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Book link?

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bisby lemmy.world bisby@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-21
#3 · Quote Reply

Book link?

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2824642-mommy-why-is-there-a-server-in-the-house

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homes piefed.world homes@piefed.world
Joined: 2025-12-28
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I love it when memes are real

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JohnWorks sh.itjust.works JohnWorks@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2023-09-18
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https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2824642-mommy-why-is-there-a-server-in-the-house

Lmfao I thought it was a meme but it’s real

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MnemonicBump lemmy.dbzer0.com MnemonicBump@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Joined: 2025-05-11
#6 · Quote Reply

"NOTE: This book was produced as a promotional item by Microsoft and HP."

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chicocheco lemmy.world chicocheco@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-07-01
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Lmfao I thought it was a meme but it’s real

Ngl, that makes us two, haha

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MoffKalast lemmy.world MoffKalast@lemmy.world
Joined: 2026-01-02
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https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2824642-mommy-why-is-there-a-server-in-the-house

Wait what, it's real? And from 2007?

Dammit, Amazon has no preview for it. I bet each page of it is meme worthy.

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curbstickle anarchist.nexus curbstickle@anarchist.nexus
Joined: 2025-08-25
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Wait what, it's real? And from 2007? Dammit, Amazon has no preview for it. I bet each page of it is meme worthy.

https://archive.org/details/mommybook

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ChicoSuave lemmy.world ChicoSuave@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-08-12
#10 · Quote Reply

It's your new babysitter AGIMUS

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AmbidextrousWrench piefed.ca AmbidextrousWrench@piefed.ca
Joined: 2025-06-12
#11 · Quote Reply

Book link?

https://ia601600.us.archive.org/13/items/mommybook/mommybook.pdf

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grue lemmy.world grue@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-13
#12 · Quote Reply

Book link?

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.

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BladeFederation piefed.social BladeFederation@piefed.social
Joined: 2026-02-18
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I love it when memes are real

don't let your memes be dreams

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MoffKalast lemmy.world MoffKalast@lemmy.world
Joined: 2026-01-02
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https://archive.org/details/mommybook

Lmaoooo, the book of personal attacks.

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Dave lemmy.nz Dave@lemmy.nz
Joined: 2023-06-02
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https://archive.org/details/mommybook

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.

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Lucidlethargy sh.itjust.works Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2023-06-28
#16 · Quote Reply

I laughed so hard at this. I'm glad a few others here get it. Lemmy is a cool place.

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Damage feddit.it Damage@feddit.it
Joined: 2023-06-12
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"NOTE: This book was produced as a promotional item by Microsoft and HP."

Nah Microsoft sells cloud services

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macniel feddit.org DmMacniel@feddit.org
Joined: 2024-06-22
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"NOTE: This book was produced as a promotional item by Microsoft and HP."

Oh, remember the strange era when Microsoft was selling private home servers?

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SaharaMaleikuhm feddit.org SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org
Joined: 2024-07-23
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Can't relate PC hardware got way to expensive.

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MnemonicBump lemmy.dbzer0.com MnemonicBump@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Joined: 2025-05-11
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Nah Microsoft sells cloud services

Yeah, except my quote is real, and it was actually made as a promotional item by Microsoft and HP

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rumba lemmy.zip rumba@lemmy.zip
Joined: 2024-09-24
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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.

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Scrollone feddit.it Scrollone@feddit.it
Joined: 2023-06-03
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I laughed so hard at this. I'm glad a few others here get it. Lemmy is a cool place.

You can actually buy the book 😂

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Canuck sh.itjust.works Canuck@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2023-07-14
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"NOTE: This book was produced as a promotional item by Microsoft and HP."

I was wondering why it said Windows Home Server lol

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InFerNo lemmy.ml InFerNo@lemmy.ml
Joined: 2023-06-07
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Can't relate PC hardware got way to expensive.

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.

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MoffKalast lemmy.world MoffKalast@lemmy.world
Joined: 2026-01-02
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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.

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

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fenrasulfr lemmy.world fenrasulfr@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-17
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Regular performance really has improved so very little in the past decade, it's just been a focus on GPUs and power efficiency.

I defintely has improved a lot since Amd became competitive with Intel.

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MoffKalast lemmy.world MoffKalast@lemmy.world
Joined: 2026-01-02
#27 · (edited) Quote Reply

I defintely has improved a lot since Amd became competitive with Intel.

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.

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fenrasulfr lemmy.world fenrasulfr@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-17
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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 ...

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.

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MoffKalast lemmy.world MoffKalast@lemmy.world
Joined: 2026-01-02
#29 · (edited) Quote Reply

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.

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fenrasulfr lemmy.world fenrasulfr@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-17
#30 · (edited) Quote Reply

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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hayvan piefed.world hayvan@piefed.world
Joined: 2025-12-06
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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.

Yeah, I was enjoying the book until that page made me ragequit. Absolutely no Windows servers.

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ShaggySnacks lemmy.myserv.one ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one
Joined: 2023-08-17
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“Mommy has a server cause I had to sell your sibling.”

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