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If the direct cable is compatible with your power supply, 100% I'd go for that one. That's always going to be less sketchy than adapters.

Travel is by far too expensive for me to ever consider doing outside of having a really good reason (visiting family, reimbursed travel for work) at the very least for right now. I get anxious when I'm away from home, too, so it's not particularly great for my health either.

I wouldn't have either until I got a nice bookshelf and a place of my own. I hadn't thought of myself as sentimental over these things until then, but I've even bought some boxed hardware just to display the box since then, as well as show off the boxes of hardware I'm using. I guess it keeps...

For other news, I've been playing with a Cirrus Logic GD5428 card in the hopes of having a more compatible card for use with alternative operating systems since the VLB Trio64V+ is so weirdly rare (likely not meant to exist explicitly) that drivers only exist for Windows 3.x and 95, drying up in...

The MC server VM has 8GB allocated to it, with 7GB set as the minimum and maximum allocation for the JVM args, leaving a gigabyte or a bit less for the rest of the OS, which on anything but console Linux would be worrying, but Debian sits at 92MB used at a bash prompt for me, so... I'd like to...

Hm. I'm troubleshooting a huge issue I'm having with frankly ridiculous IO delay figures on the Proxmox server. Like, there are times where it'll just sit there with the CPU barely going used but IO delay is going completely nuts -- these VMs are running off of an NVMe SSD for pete's sake. In...

My 4K TV is 43" and there's just absolutely no possible way I could fit that on a desk or make it comfortable to use as a monitor. I already think I'm maxed out in terms of useful screen area with how I use and sit at my desk.

I don't pay attention to FOSS evangelists so I don't let any of that bother me. Frankly IMO most folks from the FSF are nutjobs not worthy of your respect or even acknowledgement. I just use what I like, open-source or proprietary. I have a healthy respect for what open-source software stands...

I personally don't like Ubuntu at all, its reliance on snaps makes my skin crawl, but for a beginner there really is no better option, as all the tutorials are written with it in mind first. You might try Mint, I haven't used it in any capacity since 2015, but as I understand it it's basically...

To be fair, I am trending upward. I went from a 19" screen, to a 21.5" screen, to a 23, to a 24, and now to a 27. But yeah, as Lunar said, if you start looking for anything bigger they want to sell you 4K, and I don't want to A. push that many pixels for no reason and B. have to resort to DPI...

I feel I should probably mention I'm not pushing 4K, myself, I upgraded to a 1440p monitor back in mid-2021 and that's what I'm running at 120Hz. It's a ViewSonic something or other, VK2768KP...? Anyway, I like it a lot, it's IPS, can do up to 144Hz (120 in 10bpc mode, which is what I'm running...

I don't know about seeing 120 FPS, but I can certainly perceive more than 60. Typically my floor for "buttery" FPS these days is around 90.

Yikes, I knew these chips run hot, but 92C on a good air cooler is a bit much. I guess you really are expected to liquid-cool these enthusiast-grade chips, I don't know of a commonly available air cooler that does any better than a D15.

Likely not for the kind of performance dd needs, and a new Mac doesn't even have the ability to natively run x64 Windows, so either way there's likely a learning curve. Me, I daily Linux outside of work, so I could probably prod anything into useful service of some kind, but the pricing is...

Probably just general overscheduling, as busy as dd is these days. As for me, yes, it is ADHD, actually, at least partially. I went off of my medicine when I turned 17, it was causing more harm than it was helping. I too have a hard time committing more than a an hour, maybe two, to a task at a...

I'm nowhere near a Microcenter, the closest one is a 4 hour trip one way. So if I'm going to one, the savings have to be enough to justify the gas and time expenditure. Mostly I find myself buying from Amazon and Newegg for a lack of other options.

I don't think I've watched an actual new movie in like, 5 years or so. They just don't interest me. Granted, I'm neither into Marvel nor DC characters, so seemingly 70% of the landscape is gone just on that alone.

I'm not exactly a fan of his either, but I figured if most of his information was flat out wrong he'd be out of business by now. I do feel like he focuses entirely too much on the high end.

I was intrigued in particular by the W3-2423. As Linus said, it's only MSRPing for 30 bucks more than the 13600K, and while that almost certainly beats it in raw CPU grunt, the extra PCI-E lanes and memory channels aren't anything to sneeze at, not at all. I expect the platform in general to be...

I'm not quite sure if the P8Z77-WS technically qualifies as a workstation platform, but it can take 1155 Xeons and ASUS calls it such, so I consider it one. It never performed its POST that slowly.

I had been toying with the idea of setting up a VM on my server to run an open-source smart-home device controller, but I don't even know what I'd want to use with it. Call me old-fashioned, I get jumpy when my printer makes an unfamiliar noise.

I think it may also be motherboard-specific, too -- my B450M Pro4 took, takes even, its sweet time getting to the splash screen. I once clocked it at well over a minute before I even got the UEFI sign-on screen. Meanwhile my Aorus X470 with the same CPU and more memory only takes about 10...

Ouch, Handy. Manual dishwashing until you get the part replaced, then? I don't have room in my place for a dishwasher, and I live alone, so I have no reason to really need one, but I remember them almost being more trouble than they were worth too. Merc, I have calls like that roughly monthly...

Believe you me, I've not only got NFS set up on my NAS (and prefer it, on UNIX-like guests), I've investigated the various alternative network file system solutions available for Windows 9x and early NT. Nothing integrated quite so flawlessly as SMB does, to my growing distress.

I just realized, I probably will need to split off Samba into its own restricted VM with an older version once the update lands where they yank SMBv1 support. Half my network still depends on that!

It's only 40 bucks until you add a couple transceivers and cables, by the way, then it jumps to 90 dollars. Then again, that's still surprisingly reasonable. I still think it's quite overkill for my uses though, when 2.5 or 5 would get me the full throughput of the RAID array anyway. (For...

Yeah, I'd have liked to get one of those for fooling around with, but my budget was as close to Zero Dollars as it got, the whole name of the game was reusing hardware I'd gotten for free. With the VM server now I'm easily covered if I ever do get smart home devices or decide to swap my current...

It's been a learning experience, working with Proxmox on the new VM server, but I've successfully retired my old NAS box at least. I currently can't pass through any PCI-E devices or, curiously, the whole machine seems to lock up, despite having the kernel modules and parameters configured...

I don't have anything that's so monumentally important here at home that anything more than a RAID5 is really needed -- I make regular backups to cold storage and more beyond that for the stuff that's actually important.

Don't those used enterprise drives have huge amounts of power-on hours? Granted, I usually look to power-on count for a sign of wear over hours, but I thought these came at such a high amount of hours that it was concerning. I'd really rather not spend the money on the drives only to turn around...

I personally can't think of a single use-case (relevant to me or our clients) where something that big (and expensive!) could be of use. None of our clients have storage needs that intensive, we don't, and I personally certainly don't, I'm agonizing over finding a group of 3 WD Red...

I've had COVID twice so far, I almost think I'd prefer still being unable to taste to the lingering shortness of breath I've got -- 90% sure it's all mental, my O2 saturation never drops below 95. No brain fog to report, though. That actually reminds me, I'm overdue for my booster.

Possibly, but nVidia's likely to price it such that no one looking for a mid-ranger will give it a second glance. Not everyone has 700 dollars US to spend on a GPU, I know I certainly didn't, plus at least for the next couple cycles nVidia's name is mud with me. Also bear in mind that with the...

After some (expected!) struggles getting the A770 to play nicely -- I had to build and install the 6.2-rc4 mainline kernel, and switch to Wayland -- I do have it working under Linux. For something that's only supposed to be getting, like, 70% of the performance that it is under Windows, it's a...

I mean, I do fine keeping my place if not spotless, then at least reasonably clean. Sometimes I drag my feet a little doing dishes but that's more because it's tough sometimes to get enough together to make doing them worthwhile, living alone. I don't live like a typical bachelor I guess.

Literally, they could probably sell it as a SOHO server chassis if they just put a couple more 3.5" internal bays in it! I don't feel like I'm asking for that much. Alas.

Oh, right, catch-up. I spent some years spinning my wheels in a retail job I hated, then moved to Florida in early 2021 -- no particular reason for Florida other than I had family to rely on down here -- and after a surprisingly short time spent spinning my wheels here (in the restaurant...

Okay, that's actually awesome and I'm angry I didn't know about it before. It sounds perfect for my home server. EDIT: Oh, but if it only had a couple more internal bays...

Yeah, I'm not really anything special and don't really have much prospect of becoming anything special, so I'm stuck in the US, probably forever. I don't have much interest in travel that isn't work-related, so I don't even have a passport, much less a path to a residence permit. The big problem...

The N400 specifically won't mount your D15 and still have the side panel close. I tried that and it's the reason why I moved to the Phanteks case in the first place.

Well, all of the options there have 5.25" bays to start with, since finding anything these days with even one external 3.5" bay is a chore at best.

I've actually been stockpiling older cases when I come across them in good shape. I too find the current situation rather disgusting. Handy, Lunar was asking about two external 3.5" bays I think. Now that is a rare bird indeed, but if you're okay with using 5.25" to 3.5" bay adapters the case...

Let me join the chorus! I thought you'd decided to leave permanently as well. It's good to hear from you and hopefully you all are holding up alright, but from the sound of things, you're doing at least okay. Here's hoping the real estate market is reasonable by the time I'm ready to plunk...

I don't really think suffering builds character. Call me an entitled millennial if you will (I'm not, I'm very early Gen Z) but I personally think suffering is just... suffering. I don't think it's that much to ask, that my place of living be adequately insulated and brought up to modern...

Moving that part of the discussion here as it'd gone a bit off the rails. Meanwhile, I have practically no insulation, so most of my energy is spent just keeping my place barely hospitable. I'm hot in the summer, cold on the actually cold days of winter. The only saving grace is that it usually...

I pay my own power bill, thank you. My AC is set to 78F, the heat to 60. That's ~26 and ~16C, for those more Celsius-inclined. I religiously turn off power strips I'm not using. I don't even like the idea of leaving my NAS on all the time, but I do it anyway because it also provides other...

If you bought a Stadia controller like I did (I got mine as part of a bundle with a Chromecast), as one of the swan-songs of the platform, the crew is going to be showing you how to unlock the bluetooth sometime next week. I really like the controller, but having to use it plugged in was the...

Frankly I almost want to remove the clips and be done with it -- they're probably not doing anything important when I've got the card mounted with two screws.

Yeah, AM4 machines already spent a worrying amount of time with a black screen before the UEFI sign-on, this just stands to make everything worse.

Well, tonight's been a rollercoaster. I get home from housesitting, go to install my new GPU, test-fit the dual-GPU setup I was wanting to go for, rip off my bottom PCI-E slot (!!)* but it's fine, I can't use that slot for my purpose anyway since putting GPUs in each slot there stifles the...