ascendings

I have around 100GB of various Linux and BSD ISOs from over the years that I haven’t cleaned out yet. Most of the ones I use today I just download as I need it and delete it after. Unless it’s for my VMs, I’ll keep those around so I can quickly get a new one built.

I’d say GIMP for photo editing would be a good one to learn. It’s come in handy in a pinch both at home and at work when I’ve needed something done up real quick.

Not much for me atm, though in a day or two I’m (finally) fixing a major problem with my VM storage array - I’m replacing the crappy Crucial BX500’s in my VM storage mirror with a couple refurbished 2TB Intel D3-S4510 SSDs I got from Server Part Deals. I’m very excited for this saga to be over, since I’ve been fighting horrible VM performance for over a year, and it was bad enough to where simply pushing changes to git repos or syncing a modest amount of data to my Nextcloud would hang the VMs for a few minutes!

Otherwise I’m just looking at maybe replacing my Puppet infra with SaltStack, and getting some new Packer images built for FreeBSD 15.1 and Almalinux 10 :)

+1 on the Fractal Define series. My Fractal Define 7 was a breeze to work in, even if it is a little expensive.

I want to believe this is a sign AI investment is drying up, but I know that’s just me being hopeful 🙃

I went to dinner at a fancy restaurant with my wife and our friends, and I got an $85 steak. Definitely worth it!

That’s insane it’s buried so deep in the settings. I get why, but that’s terrible

I mean to be fair I hate Android too, I just also hate iOS :)

I’ve been running MoCA in my home for the last ~5 years and it seems to be doing just fine. Even in my last house with older coax run I was able to get ~1Gbps to my endpoints. The latency difference hasn’t been a problem for me, even with 3-4 adapters in use.

It’s not quite as nice as having cat6 run everywhere, but unless you’re trying to like edit 4K video off a NAS or something that needs a ton of bandwidth it should do just fine.

FWIW, I use these adapters from GoCoax, but there are other good ones out there too: https://www.amazon.com/goCoax-Adapter-Ethernet-Bandwidth-existing/dp/B09RB1QYR9

I tend to stick Elegoo PLA/PLA+ and that usually works well for me - their dark blue looks fantastic IMO. Overture’s PLA seems to print well too, so did the roll of eSun I got.

Just avoid Creality Ender PLA at all costs. That stuff was awful!

Not at all! I was able to graduate at 22, but I knew plenty of people that graduated much older for various reasons (changing majors multiple times, taking a year or two to work and/or help the family, etc).

If anything, it’s more “embarrassing” to not graduate once you’ve started, but as long as you’re able to (at least try to) get a job and contribute to society, who cares?

I mean, like most reviewers they test their games at ultra/very high to isolate the GPU performance. But realistically you shouldn’t be expecting to run those settings at 1440p/4K for a budget card like this.

More 8GB cards sucks if that’s what gets released, but it’s not like you can’t game at all without more VRAM. Just turn down your settings till a better deal comes along.

If you haven’t yet, I would try disabling the XMPP/DOCP profile to see if that passes a test. This will tell you if the RAM is just dead or if it’s degraded a bit and can’t hit the same speeds as it did before. If it does pass, then re-enable that profile and try downclocking or loosening the timings a bit to see if that’ll work.

Failing that, you could try increasing the voltage slightly (like +0.05V, I wouldn’t go above 1.4V), but I’d be careful on this front to not cause anymore damage.

Sucks that this happened right now, but IMO it’d be better to sacrifice a slight hit in performance than to buy RAM by itself at these premiums.

This is actually kinda cool! Hopefully it eventually becomes a “default” of some sort or at least has an easy toggle in compatible configs.

oh gee, thanks! 🤣

If this is true, that’s a small win but I’ll take it :)

That’s very cool! I’ll have to make one for my wife :)

I can’t say I’m surprised. I can’t imagine too many scenarios where one would want to buy a motherboard without RAM and a CPU, barring the obvious replacement purchases and the occasion you might need a feature your board doesn’t have (like PCIe gen 4 to gen 5). Yet another hardware shortage definitely puts a damper on enthusiasm too…

Maybe we’ll see motherboards come down in price to drive sales? One can hope.