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  • People forget that life on earth has been around for an extremely long time. We believe that single cellular life first appeared around 3.5 billion years ago. We also believe that the universe is around 13.8 billion years old. That means life has been around and evolving for around 25% of the time the universe has existed. Life operates on a scale far beyond our comprehension.

    Another fun fact about life. We think that multicellular life only appeared around 600 million to 1.2 billion years ago. So life was probably single cellular for billions of years. The complexity of life has rapidly increased since then and will continue to do so.

    Edit: new research suggests that complex multicellular life may have appeared around 2.4 billion years ago.






  • It’s a relatively recent 1TB Samsung 980.

    rtctl 7.2 2020-12-30 r5155 [x86_64-linux-6.5.3-060503-generic] (local build)
    Copyright (C) 2002-20, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org
    
    === START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
    Model Number:                       Samsung SSD 980 1TB
    Serial Number:                      S64ANJ0RA44661N
    Firmware Version:                   1B4QFXO7
    PCI Vendor/Subsystem ID:            0x144d
    IEEE OUI Identifier:                0x002538
    Total NVM Capacity:                 1,000,204,886,016 [1.00 TB]
    Unallocated NVM Capacity:           0
    Controller ID:                      5
    NVMe Version:                       1.4
    Number of Namespaces:               1
    Namespace 1 Size/Capacity:          1,000,204,886,016 [1.00 TB]
    Namespace 1 Utilization:            553,282,572,288 [553 GB]
    Namespace 1 Formatted LBA Size:     512
    Namespace 1 IEEE EUI-64:            002538 da11440dac
    Local Time is:                      Thu Oct  5 13:48:48 2023 PDT
    Firmware Updates (0x16):            3 Slots, no Reset required
    Optional Admin Commands (0x0017):   Security Format Frmw_DL Self_Test
    Optional NVM Commands (0x0055):     Comp DS_Mngmt Sav/Sel_Feat Timestmp
    Log Page Attributes (0x0f):         S/H_per_NS Cmd_Eff_Lg Ext_Get_Lg Telmtry_Lg
    Maximum Data Transfer Size:         512 Pages
    Warning  Comp. Temp. Threshold:     82 Celsius
    Critical Comp. Temp. Threshold:     85 Celsius
    Namespace 1 Features (0x10):        NP_Fields
    
    Supported Power States
    St Op     Max   Active     Idle   RL RT WL WT  Ent_Lat  Ex_Lat
     0 +     5.24W       -        -    0  0  0  0        0       0
     1 +     4.49W       -        -    1  1  1  1        0       0
     2 +     2.19W       -        -    2  2  2  2        0     500
     3 -   0.0500W       -        -    3  3  3  3      210    1200
     4 -   0.0050W       -        -    4  4  4  4     1000    9000
    
    Supported LBA Sizes (NSID 0x1)
    Id Fmt  Data  Metadt  Rel_Perf
     0 +     512       0         0
    
    === START OF SMART DATA SECTION ===
    SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED
    
    SMART/Health Information (NVMe Log 0x02)
    Critical Warning:                   0x00
    Temperature:                        37 Celsius
    Available Spare:                    100%
    Available Spare Threshold:          10%
    Percentage Used:                    1%
    Data Units Read:                    8,707,548 [4.45 TB]
    Data Units Written:                 16,750,179 [8.57 TB]
    Host Read Commands:                 60,932,777
    Host Write Commands:                210,324,713
    Controller Busy Time:               348
    Power Cycles:                       802
    Power On Hours:                     384
    Unsafe Shutdowns:                   64
    Media and Data Integrity Errors:    1
    Error Information Log Entries:      1
    Warning  Comp. Temperature Time:    2470
    Critical Comp. Temperature Time:    0
    Temperature Sensor 1:               37 Celsius
    Temperature Sensor 2:               47 Celsius
    Thermal Temp. 2 Transition Count:   54637
    Thermal Temp. 2 Total Time:         114793
    
    Error Information (NVMe Log 0x01, 16 of 64 entries)
    No Errors Logged
    






  • sosodev@lemmy.worldtoLinux Gaming@lemmy.world93A1A71EABD6B6CD658458CC1F4
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    1 year ago

    I’ve found that it depends heavily on what game you’re playing. I wouldn’t say 20% loss is uncommon.

    You could try using a kernel tuned for gaming but it probably won’t make up the difference.

    Honestly you’re probably better off not comparing to Windows. You’ll often fall short performance and feature wise.

    Edit: I’ve also found that people tend to oversell Linux. We desperately want more users but exaggerations do more harm than good.