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I've also been avoiding all the Baldur's Gate 3 stuff, but will immediately buy it and disappear for a while once it is ready to go.

The dicking stations can't be that old if they are 3.0, but hey, what a perk for the office.

Unlikely, but if anyone here is going to be in Reykjavik near the end of Sept, could be fun to meet up.

I ran a half-dozen Surface Books (the last generation of their laptop, with the removable hard keyboard) and was disappointed in the design quality. Keyboard failed to connect reliably and the power button got jammed in the frame a couple times. As the whole thing is epoxied together, the only...

I'll second Merc on the Lenovo units, they are great quality and do the thing. The next warning is true for any of these smaller PCs: be careful getting the top-spec unit and filling it with stuff. If you can use the i5 instead of the i7 and not put a 2.5" HDD in it, the noise and thermals are...

I've been alternating between Beelink and Minisforum, depending on whomever has the lastest CPU or connectivity. The NUCs are smaller than either, but I feel their thermal management was always compromised for my uses. The Beelink GTR6 is the most recent acquisition for a video wall/presentation...

NUCs were fun, but lately I've been buying other companies products in that space. And having an Intel board was really nice when the others were making crap, but things seem to be fairly good at the moment.

Composites expert does a story on Oceangate. It is fairly damning.

Yes, the old. I do forget every once in a while. Then I try to move without making some kind of sound, and the old returns ;) I've already had conversations with my daughter about information: That it spreads and cannot be taken down. Be very careful what you put out there. Notice I didn't tell...

Ouch. I must say it might be worthwhile to just not have a personal Snapchat account to avoid this. Also impressed that grandma knew how to take a screenshot ;)

I suspect it is due to the expected use cases. Sitting fully charged 99% of the time, with the occasional significant discharge spaced apart by months. It would be better if it wasn't, but likely a cost cutting measure.

I don't have any issues with M.2 as a form factor. The form factor beats 2.5 or 3.5" SSDs in every measurable way. Higher density, easier to manage interface, easy to cool, could be easy to install/remove depending on the housing. Using PCIe lanes as the protocol makes a lot of sense, and the...

I'm not sure this is a practical limitation for NAS-like applications these days. Probably hasn't been for a couple years. And my tech habit will have me upgrading again within 5 years anyway.

Yup, Chewy nailed it. Ours is 10, and at that age we trust her to keep her devices but only use them when appropriate. There is nothing preventing access, but the firewall logs everything so I can help her if her self-control starts failing. ;)

I have a couple CATL batteries in my workshop for an EV conversion project. They have very impressive capacity, but wouldn't fit in a PC rack ;) So far I just have the BMS wired in and managed over CAN bus, charging circuitry is next.

For me a single 10GbE connection is plenty. I do very little batch processing these days.

Yup, under 40TB. I'm considering filling one of these with 4TB M.2 drives to hold everything.

The last crazy thing I had happen was Dropbox suddenly decide to change from "online mode" to "sync everything locally" on my laptop. Didn't notice until my free space was gone. This is a really useful type of tool to identify such things quickly.

I haven't tried any of the data export stuff. Usually I just look at it once a month or so to make sure there isn't anything crazy going on.

Tons. Typically they have similar architecture to the gaming cards, but with more ram and "more reliable" firmware.

Nah, Finland is....weird. There is certainly some anti-immigration sentiment after letting in so many immigrants during the Ukrainian invasion. As a percentage of the countries population it is quite significant and the impact on culture and society is obvious and negative. But "Taking one for...

Some analysis I read showed nVidia selling anything that gamers don't buy to AI startups. The first time they overpriced the gaming market crypto bailed them out, now it is AI. They just don't need to care about the gaming market, especially not the price-sensitive end of the market where the...

When I lived in California we had a bit of that a few years back. Now the only concern I have is an Icelandic volcano....

Everything that isn't a program lives on a NAS and some cloud somewhere.

I was considering separate SSIDs, but decided against it. Not for technical reasons, but parenting reasons. Something something technical solutions to social problems have more negative consequences than they're worth something something.

And going into it without the information seems like an even worse decision.

WizTree is a free program you can install on your computer. It provides an easy to understand visual representation of the relative size of folders and their contents. It can also be downloaded in "portable" form where it doesn't need to be installed and can run direct from a thumbdrive or other...

Carbon Fiber is amazing in tension, I use it all the time for drones and such where that is the primary load. And it is the reason that it is the go-to for pressure tanks (check out the tech on "COPVs"). But if the pressure is all on the outside, that would put it mostly in compression? And the...

Power here is so reliable that even when battery systems are installed they don't normally install a standalone isolator switch. No spikes either. Everyone just plugs direct to the grid; apparently it has been years. Amazing what happens when you put all your power infrastructure underground in...

This is why I use RAID0. It is exactly as reliable as I expect it to be. ;)

Billionaires can afford to do things correctly. There are solutions to the technical challenges and testing methodologies to validate those solutions. Seems a few too many corners were cut.

My current ASUS board can do that (in my sig), and I think it has been a regular thing for quite some time.

Some sort of homebrew SAN sounds like the right play. Those cheap SSDs in large enough numbers with enough redundancy might be the best option?

Combined with heatsinks that weigh absurd amounts.

WizTree was all it took to get my kid to understand the concept. That functionality should be standard in all the things.

I suspect that the draw is shops that started with Apple when they were small, but still feel locked-in even after growth into a business case for more compute at any price. Or making the Apple-only creatives in their marketing department feel loved.

It does seem like the increased accessibility of basic technology has led to some regression on computer knowledge in general. The reason I learned how to build/configure computers is because if you didn't know how you could do nothing. The projects I'm working on these days are not cutting...

USB was my thought as well. I like to keep the antennas in a more exposed area, and the case does a pretty good job of blocking signals.

Just a heads-up, I had to do this on a server that had a number of things installed, including SQL and some industrial compute-specific RTOS VMs, and it BSODed so hard I gave up and reinstalled using the key at the beginning. My old practice was to always install as a trial and enter the keys...

Since Asrock split from ASUS 20+years ago I've preferred the direction Asrock has gone. I really like their industrial-type boards.

Happy to run benchmarks if anyone wants another point for comparison.

For myself I'd get an nVidia card because I really dislike having to worry about stability, drivers, and compatibility. That would mean a 3060ti in that price range I think. But for a build for someone else I'd probably feel obligated to go AMD, as nVidia is not a value proposition at the...

Fortunately I don't need it as primary storage for VMs as the server has a 2TB M.2 in it and that's overkill for my Factorio docker and sandbox. Backing up over SMB is fine. After doing so much work to quiet my office down, I can't have a spinning disk in here. At the moment my old Synology box...

I do lots of experimentation and general shenanigans with both my desktop and my home server. I want a thing to hold my stuff that I don't mess with. Just an appliance that I don't have to worry about. I have an online backup (AWS), so I'm not really worried about data loss, just downtime. I...

48TB of nearly silent storage with a 10Gb link and low power consumption for $3500 is very tempting for me at the moment. Would be nice to be able to have my local NAS in my office instead of buried in a distant closet.

That is better than I was expecting and I do appreciate you taking the time. One more that is probably in the "not really my thing" space, but maybe? Very talented musicians fooling around. And if you do like this, you need to go spend some time looking at ClownCore (the band, careful on that...

The board has 2.5g ethernet on-board. The only local drive is the 2TB M.2. The only card in the system is the GPU, and the only cables are power and front I/O. It is very easy to build a clean looking system these days. Also, it seems that XMP / EXPO "may" have been voiding your warranty the...

Having to have the memory re-calibrate every time really sucks. Mine is probably 10 seconds from power button to login screen?

Not sure how many times you did the reboot after the update, but I do know that DDR5 has a really long initialization on the first boot with a new config/BIOS/etc. I did a system with 128GB and it was 5min+. If it is still doing such a long boot every time, perhaps make sure you don't have...

It seems that that is the boilerplate language on all their beta BIOSes, they're in the process of removing that language from these BIOSes, and say they'll honor all warranty claims related to this issue. So that is something?