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  • Mercutio
    Mercutio replied to the thread Laptop time?.
    Something I have just realized is that there really aren't contemporary, budget Intel notebooks any more. There are some Celeron-grade...
  • Santilli
    Carlsbad library kind of fits that description. DEI hiring at its finest. Not a man in site. We've found only one, really rude one, so...
  • sedrosken
    sedrosken replied to the thread Something Random.
    well, my fstab is more NFS shares than actual physical volumes anyway, so... A separate /home volume makes a lot more sense when there...
  • Mercutio
    Mercutio replied to the thread Something Random.
    It's easier to remote in to a session that's on a single coherent system than to try something like that. I've never had good luck with...
  • sedrosken
    sedrosken replied to the thread Something Random.
    I should probably qualify that statement: before, I've tried having /home on a microSD card or even a small USB drive. Bumping the sides...
  • Mercutio
    I picked up a Meike 35/2 lens for my A7iii for $160. I am actually shocked how well it works for such a low cost camera lens. It has an...
  • sedrosken
    sedrosken replied to the thread Something Random.
    This probably seems obvious to you all, but it just occurred to me that I can move my steam/wine folder in my /home to a microSD card...
  • Chewy509
    Chewy509 replied to the thread SSDs - State of the Product?.
    Thanks, sorry forgot to mention it’s mostly for gaming until next year when he is off to university, then it’ll be gaming, some more...
  • Mercutio
    Libraries are full of woke and thoughtcrime and if you can find a librarian under 50 who isn't at least secretly a blue-haired queer (he...
  • Mercutio
    Mercutio replied to the thread SSDs - State of the Product?.
    There's a giant "it depends" that's based on your expected workload. Do you need fast burst transfers or sustained IOPs? I bought 4x...
  • sedrosken
    sedrosken replied to the thread SSDs - State of the Product?.
    Something not super-ultra-high-end but with TLC NAND and a decent DRAM cache is what you're looking for. Last month the MSI Spatium M470...
  • Chewy509
    Chewy509 replied to the thread SSDs - State of the Product?.
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  • Chewy509
    Chewy509 replied to the thread SSDs - State of the Product?.
    Hi all, Just wondering what the current recommendations are for 1-2TB nvme ssds are these days. Need to replace the boot drive in my...
  • Santilli
    Library is looking better all the time...
  • Mercutio
    Mercutio reacted to sdbardwick's post in the thread Something Random with Like Like.
    I like having sed around. Keeps reminding me of all the stuff I used to know and keep updated in the grey matter, but no longer have to...
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