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I really do like the Sony mirrorless stuff. The autofocus for video is great, and the low-light is excellent. Considering the next gen of A7 whenever that comes out.

Dammit. I'd forgotten not to be drinking while reading a Merc post.....RIP keyboard.

One of my clients is a starting YouTuber. Managing their social media has been fun. We collaborate on her talking points and scripts, review and manage viewer engagement. They shoot the video and I do all the editing, production, uploading etc. 3x 20 minute videos and 4x shorts per week...

While scrolling through the news, waiting for the diagnostics on my workstation to complete, I discover an article talking about Samsung 980 Pro (particularly the 2TB variant) failing early. I was running diagnostics because my computer will no longer boot. It'll POST just fine, but once it...

I got you Lunar. Gone for years and still have the admin access ;)

For my purposes I consider Proxmox a direct replacement for ESXi with fewer paywalled features. I was able to get a multi-site cluster going within an hour, and migrate VMs across easily. There were some moments of frustration, mainly because I knew all I needed to know about ESXi and having to...

I just got my first Proxmox server running a couple weeks ago. Running Home Assistant and Docker (and Docker is being managed by Portainer). Pretty happy with the setup so far. Server is just one of those cheap low-powered units with a bunch of ethernet ports sold on Amazon as routers.

My understanding is that if you want low latency and built like a tank, the (now old and retired) Intel Optane drives are still hard to beat. Their capacity sucks though.

Nope, my mistake for not reading your question well enough. That card does need 16x and gives 4x 4x. Please disregard. It will work in non-ASUS boards though; I ran one in a supermicro for a while.

This card will get you 4 at very good speeds.

Reported health of the drives dropping significantly with very little usage.

Apparently people are having endurance issues with the 990.

Merc probably knows things I don't, but the concern as I understand it is about the arrays ability to rebuild in a reasonable amount of time after a failure, and the likelihood of another failure before that rebuild has completed. This is why I've been using fast drives if I need a larger...

So tasty.

My O2 was in the 80s for 3 days, can't be good for the brain.

It is unfortunate, but I feel like I'm missing 20 or so IQ points ever since, that seems worse. Still able to do all the things, it just seems harder.

In California I used 3 of these, fully integrated units.

My current plan is a Watercool MO-RA3 420.

Interesting. The first use that came to mind was re-purposing an old laptop as a small NAS.

That was 13 years ago in Palo Alto and in the thread "Presenting The Coffin" on here.

The radiator might have fans, or it could just be huge and passive (I have the whole size of the door for it). There really isn't a place outside the office to put the computer; it is at the end of a hallway. My monitor currently runs 4k@144hz HDR, and it is difficult to get that signal stable...

I'm on the other side of Denmark in a city called Horsens, but the country is small enough that it is a 2.5 hour drive. We were in Copenhagen between Christmas and New Years and the family did go to Tivoli. My wife loves glögg and has purchased a supply to carry her through until it is available...

The reason for water cooling is specifically to move the heat outside the room. I'm sorry I wasn't clear in the initial post. The PC is next to my desk, and the water blocks capture the heat from the main components. That loop then leaves the pc case, travels along the wall, onto the door next...

The 4090 and i9-13900KF have both been well documented to get most of their performance with less than half of the power consumption. I might just have to turn it down. That said, getting the heat out of this small room and into the larger hall/living space would at least slow down the process.

For the first time in nearly a decade I have a home office. It isn't big, but is a big step up from my corner of the bedroom in California. It is also incredibly well insulated. So much so that even in the middle of winter my PC drives the room temp beyond 30C quite quickly when gaming. I...

Yup. Knowing that someone is going to see my space every day certainly helps me keep it reasonable. And that someone is going to appreciate/call me out on my choices helps me think about them more. Doing the whole married with kid thing takes it to another level, but that core bit above has...

I agree, and that is why I have a wall of lenses for my 7DII, but the amount of content I see that is now just cell phones leads me to believe most people aren't bothering to learn photography or color science at all. Honestly the poor audio gets me more than the botched exposure.

Yesterday, showed up in Random. And I'd second Merc's recommendation of the NR600P. Or suggest you look for something that frees you of this requirement (like a toaster).

Learning to be comfortable alone totally sucks. Especially if (like me) you're the type to review your choices and let any sub-optimal play fester. For me travel actually made this easier; if I order food I can't eat and spill my drink and accidently insult the bartender, I can never to back to...

A) Even if you aren't leaving the US, you should get your passport. It is significantly easier to steal your identity by applying for the first time than them having to claim it was lost. B) Everyone is special with enough qualifications. In my case it was 20+ years of experience with a...

I recently built a budget rig using the Corsair Carbide 100R. For a cheap case it is well laid out and has the features you want. It does have a window, but it is plastic instead of glass so way lighter and less fragile.

I think the market for low-end (<$3k) cameras is disappearing quickly. As smartphones get better, there is less reason to get a cheap mirrorless or DSLR. And as the low end market shrinks, there is less reason for companies to R&D in that space, which means the cell phone manufacturers' massive...

I do apologize for the absence; there was a lot going on. Mostly my daughter who is now 9 and semi-autonomous for the first time thanks to the free-range kid culture here. That combined with a job of 100-hour work weeks and 24/7/365 on-call-ness just led to no time. That said, life here is...

Yeah, that was close. Also close was the house losing $250k+ of value since I sold it. Most of our clients are still in California, so we're getting plenty of billable hours talking people through troubleshooting generators and getting Starlink connections bootstrapped in the rain.

Amazon has a number of external USB 3.2 enclosures for M.2 NVMe drives. You will not get full performance from them, but if they are just laying about it is a reasonable use of them to just be super thumbdrives.

Hi all, it has been a while. Santilli reached out in a PM and I thought I'd reply here and say hi. My family sold everything in California, quit our jobs, and moved to Denmark about 3 months ago. We'd known we were interesting in living somewhere else for about 5 years, and had been looking...

If absolute performance is the goal, the new Titan still seems to be the thing?

I had an old, undersized unit that was an unusual size that I didn't want to mess with. I bought an in-line unit that I mounted to a rafter and wired it in parallel with the existing unit. Easy to do and very effective.

...and it looks like this car will not be getting a spot in the garage. And I'm not good at cleaning/maintaining this kind of thing. Did someone here do a ceramic coating of some kind at one point? Stereodude? I'm interested in suggestions for helping maintain the paint (don't care about...

I haven't put pictures there for years, but here is the full stream:| https://www.flickr.com/photos/ddrueding/

Nice work Snowhiker. I need to recover some of my old work from places on the internet. Lately all I do are pictures of the kid.

It goes, and as quickly as you like. Cars I've had in the past were fast, but only if you made the right preparations; downshift, put into sport mode, enable launch control, etc. This one is as fast as those but without the prep; as soon as you press your right foot. No clutch or torque...

More expensive, but I use the Nest cameras at home. Well built and my experience was better than the one Tea describes above.

I had solar city do the install at my place several years ago. I'm sure I did a thread about it here somewhere.

I bought. It is quite used. 2016 Model S 90D. Had 53k miles, but every option. Under $50k. I've had quick cars in the past, but this is a whole new level. You feel like Neo from The Matrix moving through traffic.

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Our 10-year old cellular black-outs are starting to show their age (not working all the time, some threads wearing). I'm now looking for one that I can automate using either the Insteon or Echo systems. Did you investigate those?

You'll be fine. I've run 35W+ wireless links on the end of 150' Cat5e STP cables without issue. I've never even had a cable get warm (could be because the STP I use has braided steel around it?

Indeed, the largest I could find were 2TB. And with that there are many options with MLC 3-layer.

I had to do something similar, ended up crossing my fingers and turning it off. Connected to an IDE-SATA adapter and imaged the drive to a file. Now runs as a virtual machine on newer hardware. In my case I felt it was worth it as they not only needed the data, but the software install (no disks...