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I standardized on opnsense as an access platform a while back, because I got sick of dealing with everyone having something different, although part of that is that I'm the only person who really connects to each system as an end point, so switching up security certs is mostly only a headache...

Kinda. The GenZs live in some combination of Twitch and Youtube. Twitch in particular drives me nuts because a lot of it revolves around its god-awful chat interface. I did finally convince my partner to use SOundTV instead, which is an adblocking Twitch client that more or less only displays...

My partner shares her gaming accounts with her dad, basically because she's had them since she was little. Still, she's the fan of Shitty Todd Howard Games (TM), and having added up the numbers from Playstation, Xbox and Nintendo Switch, she's put something like 7% of all the hours she's been...

I actually use a combination of Hamachi and Zerotier for software defined VPNs (Hamachi is great for desktops and servers but it doesn't cope well with laptops and computers that go to sleep, hence use of both) and I also have OpenVPN running on opnsense on my router system, which is also on...

This thread is inspired by Handruin mentioning that he wanted a low-power replacement for an ancient Xeon server setup. What are we all doing with our server systems? I'm guessing I'm not the only person here who runs Plex or Jellyfin. I'm sure most of us know about containerized VMs and may...

I have a dislike of gamepads, so the handhelds aren't for me regardless. There's an Ayn Odin sitting around my place and it does get used quite a bit, but I've been messing with an RG35XX-H recently as well. At ~$50, it's pretty interesting just from the standpoint of what it can do as a...

AMD says both x670e and x870e have the same 44 total PCIe 5 lanes, but lots of boards do goofy things like run the second slot and third x16s at PCIe 4.0.

Play vanilla before you try War of the Chosen and don't add mod classes until you've done at least a few games with the base classes. Four of the same troop class going in on a drop is more or less always OP. A 99% chance to hit is not a guaranteed hit. A 1% chance to hit is not a guaranteed...

Setting the age conversation aside and to answer LM's question, the big thing other thing that was supposed to come with the x870(E) was supposed to be mandatory USB 4 support. Which is something for someone I guess, but USB adoption is always screwy and uneven and I just can't get excited about...

Phones purchased direct from Samsung have varying levels of protection plans. The most expensive plan includes loss and theft coverage. I think it's something like $12/month for up to three years. Samsung's insurance plan is serviced by ubreakifix, which has several hundred retail locations in...

Looking at forums where people talk about phones, Eurolanders bitch constantly about how lucky we Americans are to get Qualcomm SoCs in our S series Samsungs. It's not just that Exynos chipsets are a bit slower, they're also a lot hotter. There MAY be better battery life, but if the device is...

There's no way an 8TB m.2 PCIe 4+ SSD will be cool to the touch. My thinking was to get a single board computer with at least a 10Gb USB port and an internal m.2 so that you could copy either direct from camera or from a CFexpress reader to an m.2. It wouldn't need much of a display and the OS...

My favorite games are mostly turn based strategy. Battletech, X-Com and even Baldur's Gate are the way I like to play. My partner is for some reason playing Stellaris on Xbox. That is a game that should not ever be played with a gamepad. That game should not exist for consoles. Every third...

One ideal solution would be to have an automated card duplicator, but without a notebook, it would be hard to verify the copies, and even being able to duplicate the cards becomes a hassle when your camera uses. LM is also working with systems that use CFexpress, an NVMe storage format that...

Yes, but it's generationally off by about a year from whatever AMD is doing on the desktop. Zen 4 Threadrippers were released last winter. Epyc is on its own timeline as well. It's also very possible to find real deals on Threadripper workstation systems late in their lifecycle. Lenovo was...

For ASrock, the top PCIe slot can be configured as 4x4x4x4, so go ahead and pop in a dumb 16x4 u.2 or m.2 HBA. My 9950x currently has ~30TB of NVMe 3/4 storage attached, which is an amount I'd comfortably call "enough." dd tends to have one high-end system at a time, and even with only 4x SATA...

X-Com 2 is one of my favorite games, but it also stresses me the fuck out to play in spite of not being as difficult as the ancient DOS X-Com: UFO Defense. The paper doll aspect of keeping your squad looking cool and unique unfortunately leads to a level of attachment that is definitely...

That is exactly what I mean.

You might do better to isolate your GPU from your m.2 ports with a vertical PCIe mount and/or to switch to more easily cooled u.2 drives instead.

There was an AGESA update that supposedly caused the inter-CCX latencies to be reported correctly. There's also a Windows 11 update that improves performance by 3 - 5% but so far the new Ryzen 9s haven't had any special attention.

The first couple drives I looked at don't even list power usage on their standard spec sheets.

Probably Kodi, which has full audio passthrough and handles HDR content better than Plex at least. VLC might be in the same boat. It was last updated in June of 2024.

3rd party batteries are extremely hit or miss. Put a third party battery in a Thinkpad and it'll pause and force you to acknowledge that you don't have a proper replacement on every boot, but on the other hand I've also never found a replacement to work as well as the OEM ones. Dell Latitudes on...

Something I've learned about Ryzen Flashback updates is that motherboards are very picky about what drives can be used for them. Drives that are too big don't work and drives that are too slow don't work. Since I don't have any thumb drives smaller than 32GB any longer, I wound up using an 8GB...

It's only tangentially related to anything here but Be Quiet is sending me an almost complete set of internal plastic replacement parts for my Silent Base 801 after so much of it crumbled or sheared apart when I disassembled it for my AM5 build, and for free. I'm sure my case was on the upper...

We are literally overclocking our RAM. JEDEC has set official speeds and voltages for every generation of SD-RAM and technically the spec includes everything up to DDR5-8800, but anything over IIRC 5600 is an overclock, at least in AMD-land. In theory EXPO and XMS are intended to represent...

Here's somebody's Reddit post describing their tuning for 4x DDR5-6000, which seems to match the G. Skill modules I have.

Apparently, there are some obscenely patient people who have worked out manual timings to get specific memory kits running at full speed with all slots populated. Everything has to be set manually. As a fun side effect, with absolutely nothing in auto mode, these PCs typically boot faster as...

the RX 7900XTX and its associated SKUs are kind of shocking in what they're bringing to the table. It looks like you can get a card on Ebay for around $550 for unopened retail boxes vs $1k from usual retail suspects and these things are all in the RTX 4080-ish ballpark, performance-wise. I'd...

Actually upon further exploration, it's ~650GB for DOS games, ~160GB for extras like complete computer magazine articles and ~300GB for games that ran on 16 bit Windows, plus archives for educational titles, Apple II games and all the SCUMM stuff.

That's leaving PCIe lanes on the table and we can't have that!

Got 700GB of free disk space just sitting there doing nothing?

This thing will let me use 4x u.2 @ PCIe 4 speeds. Right now I only have a mix of Intel and Crucial PCIe 3.0 drives but all three of my x16 slots actually do seem to work at x16 if I only use two of the m.2 slots. That's a trade I'm happy to make.

I could only get 160GB G.Skill DDR5-6000 EXPO to post at 4800MHz. I guess I'm not surprised by this.

I will openly advocate for piracy from giant American media conglomerates but I also don't have a LinkedIn account. qbittorrent, Tor and Private Internet Access are great tastes that taste great together.

9950X is up and running. It took over five minutes for it to identify my RAM and boot, even longer than it did with the 7600X, but it's been fine since. I don't have a GPU running on it. I need to figure out a different way to mount all my drives because clearance with cards installed is a...

I ate an orange earlier so at least I probably won't have scurvy anytime soon.

Google won an antitrust appeal in the EU yesterday over its practices as they relate to search service, so it won't have to pay a $1.5B fine that was originally opposed on it. It is still facing charges in the US of holding a monopoly on advertising technologies, since it controls the market...

Our Flag Means Death was too great to live and the only thing with a remotely similar vibe, probably is "Time Bandits" the TV show, which isn't nearly as amusing. In any case, it is a day to embrace your inner pirate or at least committing billions of dollars in copyright violations with a...

And here's an incoming fix for inter-CCD latency reporting. No idea if it actually does anything. re: being rushed, we're talking about a CPU design that has been in development for probably years. It's possible or even likely that AMD has internal tools and idiosyncratic OS builds that we are...

I should finally have my 9950X running by the end of the week. For now, I am going to pair it with an A770 and an Arctic Liquid Freezer 3. I actually hope that I'll be able to undervolt it a bit and maintain its performance. Since it's going in another Be Silent Base 802, I'll be able to compare...

I use Blackplayer EX for local media on my phone, Spotify for streaming when I'm out of the house (the app is more responsive and someone else pays for my Spotify), Amazon Music if I'm streaming at home, Pocket Casts for Podcasts and I've done an absolute fuckton of work to make Plex see and...

Android has had some changes to permission structures in the last six years. Your card needs to be exFAT and you need to grant permission to the root of the SD card before you can use it. I'm 95% certain that VLC prompts you for that. I also had an S20 for a very long time. I used a 1TB card on...

I spent about $400 on a head unit to get wireless Android Auto in my 2011 Honda. I know not a single thing about cars and I still managed to install it about three hours. Before that, I used a $15 bluetooth to aux transceiver, which was great for me but didn't work well for my partner's iphone...

Hulu really isn't a monopoly since the overwhelming majority of its programming is just network television. ESPN might be, simply because of the number of exclusive contracts it has with various sportsing things. There are IPTV providers out in the world. They're easier to find outside the USA...

Google Meet is widely seen as better than Teams by people who get to use both. To be far, hemorrhoids are widely seen as better than Teams as well. All of them? Firefox and Vivaldi are two browsers I am more likely to use. I do make use of Chrome since I have ChromeOS devices, but one thing I...

Emphatically yes. I can access location for my devices and for those enrolled in Google Workspace administration. I can remote wipe them as well. I can do this from my phone or tablet or from the web. Samsung separately has its own version of this, although I've never bothered to mess with it. I...

I can't use iOS without chafing at its restrictions and stupid and unfixable UI. iOS is designed in such a way that even the concept of files us set outside user experience, and as a result, it doesn't have functional userland file browsing. There are many immutable defaults and Apple does not...

iOS should not be countenanced.

Gross.