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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?

No worries, we're having a stomach flu go around the household at the moment. I'm the last one standing and may go down any minute. I'm also the type that totally doesn't take offense when my suggestions/advice/recommendations are not taken on just about anything. I just reserve the right to "I...

It seems that all the motherboards have firmware updates that better protect the CPUs now (just be sure to update to the latest BIOS). No word on whether it affects performance or not, but if it is giving it a lower power target I can't see how it couldn't.

Thanks for the playlist. I do like Debussy and Glass, and Mahler is nice to fall asleep to. Even Chopin and Tchaikovsky my head sorts into the same area as Gershwin which doesn't translate to "classical" the way that the older stuff does. A lot of the music I listen to falls into what my brain...

Newtun, you average one post every 2+ weeks, but they are always good ;)

That is entirely absurd, and his performance is amazing. While I've managed to develop a taste for single-malt scotch and even the Danish rugbrød, classical music and coffee still elude me. I agree that I am unsophisticated. But I do enjoy the more playful side of piano with Hiromi Uehara...

Firmware is certainly a concern, but the nightmare I saw was running wooden racks of GPUs in open-ended tents as a "solution" to the cooling issue. Those seemed to be corroding a bit.

2080Tis were good cards, that is what I ran before this, but the 3060 is probably pretty close performance wise and much better on power. That is what I'd pick. I suspect that my system right now is in that "local account" tied to MS account situation. Not a big deal because it works the way I...

I wasn't going to get a notification because I don't use their service, but I heard about it a month ago in the tech news. Users locked out for a full week while the investigation was underway.

If you do want to test on different hardware, you can remote into mine. Creative Cloud license is active and hardware in the sig.

All good. I'd consider it sitting there good for a year or two, but at that point it should be spun up, a consistency check run, and any drives that failed replaced and array rebuilt. That may be paranoid, but I don't like unknowns, and with it offline it feels like Schrödinger's hardware.

Putting it in storage isn't useless, but one of the advantages to having it powered up is that when failures do happen you can fix the system and get the redundancy back. In storage failures are less likely, but what is more likely is that enough failures will happen to overcome the redundancy...

20C lower temps on Ryzen 7000

Fun fact; if you use Rufus to build your bootable USB from the ISO downloaded from Microsoft, it has a checkbox during install to remove online account requirements along with other cool stuff.

Easily double, all in cans of diet coke (20-30 per day). The headache did clear up, and I sleep much better now.

Never developed a taste for coffee. Before I left the states caffeine consumption was becoming a problem for me (consuming way too much to keep up with work), so when I came here I cut it out entirely. Brutal headache and sleeping issues for a couple months, but now much better. I think I'll...

Indeed. Quite happy with the light and effective hands at the wheel here. Probably helps that we are a smaller, tighter group, but that is fine with me.

Has anyone noticed that our accounts here are (or just about) old enough to drink in the US? And that is without counting the time at SR...

I just use YouTube Music Premium (256kbps AAC). I know it is technically inferior to many of the competitors, but it still sounds quite nice on my gear (in my sig). My main reason for using it is just ease of use on my computer and Android, and that I'm already paying for YouTube anyway.

It does do a lot of things. So many things that, for my use cases, it would feel like overkill for any one of them. Very rarely is either a DAC or an amp with bluetooth support not the right answer for me.

The last version they sold a perpetual license to was CS6. In theory you might be able to buy a copy of that from someone (Adobe no longer sells it). Honestly the right play is paying their subscription and getting the new version all the time. I don't like it either, but it is what it is.

Not disagreeing with your reasoning Merc, but I went a different way that leads to a similar outcome. Only numbers I whitelist ring or ping or notify in any way. Everyone else is dumped to a voicemail that informs them to contact me via email and doesn't allow messages to be left.

I have about 10000 hours in Factorio, it is amazing.

It was on the short list, but DK won.

Everyone here speaks entirely fluent English. In my 6 months of interacting with people I've encountered two who had to speak slowly, out of hundreds. Anyone under 20 years of age has no accent; you wouldn't know they weren't from California. The cultural domination of YouTube cartoons is fairly...

I was thinking of long lenses. Once my stuff gets here from California the 100-400 with a 2x converter will no doubt outperform binoculars. I was even considering the Ubiquiti PTZ camera on the balcony. But the purpose of this isn't to capture stuff; it is to be sitting on the coffee table when...

With the view of the fjord and working docks from my living room, I'm thinking a good set of binoculars would help see all the things out there. My first instinct is the Canon 12x36 IS III. For sure I want image stabilization, and I think that is the right amount of magnification. The boat...

That sucks Lunar.