Recent content by sedrosken

The bubble is ripe for popping. My question is, when it does, will we see companies crawling back to the consumer market, or will they simply keep servicing the datacenters with the goal of keeping compute in the cloud where we'd have to rent it? I don't hold my breath on cheap used hardware...

Naw, the AI companies are just using their fake money they've been passing back and forth with nVidia to buy up literally entire production capacities for years at a time. They drove Micron out of the consumer sector entirely.

I don't have any suggestions there, just... lamenting, I suppose. Me personally, I kicked myself back to an Ivy Bridge box for the moment that's running DDR3 -- I'm hoarding my DDR4 very jealously indeed right now.

I know it's just the reality of the situation, but paying upwards of 400 dollars for a 32GB kit of RAM still strikes me as insane. I concur with Merc. Everything else is fine, for the most part, but I don't know that I'd trust even a good cooler like the Thermalright to keep that 9850X3D cool...

Ouch. At least in my case I only have the one domain to worry about and a relatively simple configuration (some MX records, a few TXT, a couple CNAMEs, one A, and a special DDNS A record tied to a subdomain). I'll have to remember that for bigger use-cases in future.

How did that shake out? Did you end up moving registrars? I'm STILL fighting with GoDaddy for that one client. My AC's drain line clogged last week and it was a fight to get it fixed and the water up from my carpet around it. The HVAC guy ended up putting a couple CO2 cartridges down one end...

I'm glad I got out when I learned I needed a pass to leverage hardware I already had for transcoding. Jellyfin may have its own problems with library management but at least I'm not paying for it.

That's a pretty big issue -- it shouldn't be marking config files that won't be referenced for cleanup, that would be a purge operation... at the very least, you'd think they'd make backups of configuration files and either leave them in the folder structure or copy them to the user's home...

Even the best case scenario so far I've seen is just using them as a domain registrar (we've had a couple companies that used to pay for GoDaddy to host their email -- a couple of disastrous M365 transitions have been the result) and even then they suck eggs. Me personally, my domains are...

Vaguely related to work stuff, but my dealings with GoDaddy have convinced me to never, ever, not EVER be their customer.

We're hitting the point where if they won't let us at least get them set up with Entra ID (which they're usually paying for as part of their M365 sub) we don't take them as clients or make them sign risk acceptance forms. I'd idly played around with the idea of setting up a domain controller in...

Since this seems more relevant here...

Where I'm at it hasn't been much over $4/gal but we had cheap gas to begin with, and it still went up almost 100% relative to what it was. My gas budget for the month has had to eat into my "everything else" budget. My old contacts from the truck stop have reported less traffic for trucks too...

Any strange happenings that you think could be caused by your SSD probably are. Their failure modes tend to look much more abrupt than a traditional hard drive, including being shunted to read-only operation, which very few if any operating systems in their default configuration will tolerate on...

Yeah, we're hitting on-season where we're at -- living in a tourist economy means EVERY field has an on-season because about now's when the money comes in and everyone wants stuff done, they tend to want to coast through the fall and winter -- and I'm just ridiculously busy.