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Immich is self-hosted media catalog that includes optional components for recognizing faces and locations. It can run on a Synology NAS. Sounds right up your alley. As far as removing equipment, almost all my data is on tapes that are kept both locally and at my parents' home. If I had to...

LM was definitely the Doogie Howitzer of convenient political target removals. While his early career largely revolved around single-targets that were avowed enemies of the Carter Administration and in support of British rule in southeast Africa, he quickly moved on to large-scale political...

Very carefully and with substantial restraint.

This is of course exactly what the point man for a deep state Globalist kill team operator would have us believe, that the civilian employee of a company that is related to other companies would have nothing to do with the goings-on of late-70s Rhodesia and collapse of leftist popular...

This is Indiana so that's a statistically probable guess.

Someone just asked me if I could "download a new screen" for their broken laptop.

I'd definitely isolate storage from services, but my home systems tend to be the leftovers from past workstations like my Threadripper. and in that case I most often have computers that have both a lot of CPU cores AND tons of available IO, because that's what I prioritize in my workstation systems.

For the most part, "Server" means running either Windows Server or some Linux, *BSD or Solaris-derived operating system. I guess Hackintoshes as well, but most people don't think of MacOS that way. Windows Server is technically expensive, but not really because key resellers are a thing. The...

It seems to me that motherboard OEMs aren't particularly motivated to break out PCIe lanes. My x670e has some of that, in only having one PCIe 5 m.2, but I don't see why we couldn't get MUCH more flexible x4 PCI 3 slots instead of borderline useless x1 PCIe 5 lanes. I suppose that's another form...

As I understand it, it's a giant joke for them and for their fans. But they're working stiffs who go out and tour in their... orc costumes? In 2019, I accidentally wound up seeing Hu at a show in Las Vegas. I just happened to be out wandering around with my camera and some dude offered me a...

The GOAT of keyboards was Swype with Dragon Naturallyspeaking, which had shortcuts for adding punctuation so that you could type proper sentences without stopping your flow. It also had the ability to back up your personal dictionary online and a very easy tool for adding new words as well as...

I firmly believe LM works for a three letter agency, something that definitely involves words like attaché. I think I'm on a roughly four year replacement cycle. Storage is what changes the most for me, mostly by what storage is cheapest and when.

I don't have a hard number. I like the idea of having a capable system and my professional life means I can accumulate hardware regardless.

From what she told me, they're all working class dudes from MA and they're a lot of fun.

We're spending money on computer parts. It's not like any of it going to appreciate like a Rolex or Antique Steinway.

"Archaic." It's like dd with his shitty 14900k. 😂

My all time favorite catch was wandering in to a random place off Bourbon Street to catch ~90something year old Andy Bey crooning. He's not a big name and he never really was, but my mother was a fan and I've known who he was since I was a kid. My partner has gotten to meet Wynton Marsalis and...

I swapped my Ryzen 5900X, 32GB RAM and motherboard for a Sapphire RX 6900XT. 1. This thing needs its own ZIP code 2. It'll run Resolve really well 3. Normal PSU connectors 4. It is surprisingly quiet. 5. The guy I got it from was only looking for $350. Even given the low regard AMD cards have...

There are some benchmarks and the rumored pricing basically suggests we'll see the X3Ds at roughly "one step up" pricing vs the the Xs, so a ~$600 9900X3D. I'm curious but not that interested.

Apparently, we're getting an updated DIMM standard, CUDIMMs, with Arrow Lake and probably eventually on AM5. The idea is that these modules will have their own clocking chips per module so they will always run at their rated speed. This should solve the 4-slot problem on desktop platforms and...

This chassis is a pretty interesting option; it allows for two ITX systems in 2U of space. It looks like your chosen HSF needs the extra clearance, although it'd probably be fine in a rack since there's no other major source of heat in that thing. What you have now is pretty interesting in a...

I think we brought that up as a low power NAS option but low-power Celerons don't do VM hosting so well.

My RTX 2080 died. I bought it basically launch day and other than having stupidly loud fans when it was actively running, it was a good guy for the six years I've been using it and it was FAR better behaved than any of the nVidia cards I had before it. It's not my oldest card, just the one...

This is the replacement for your Xeon system, right? Is this a PC you'll ever sit at? My first thought would be something like a Silverstone SST-CS351. You could run one of those 1-to-6 m.2 to SATA adapters and give your VMs their own drives plus a couple spinny boys for bulk storage needs...

I don't think anyone I work with even cares what I have. Mainly, there's an R6 and an R7. I have old bodies and action cams that mostly get used for fairly passive video recording. My partner just wants my R6 because she borrows it all the time anyway.

The list I saw for impacted models was the SN5000, 580 and 770. I'm assuming the 850 is in the clear, other than the questionable idea of using a WD drive for booting in the first place.

There's compromises for everyone. Fixing the overwhelming majority of rolling shutter and getting the AF improvements from the R3 would go a long way for me, even if I'm not 100% sold on buying a new camera body.

As I understand it, the bluescreens only happen on PCs with WD SN* drives as boot drives. Hopefully, they'll get around to rolling out the fix for 1TB SN580s soon, since those are the ones I actually have in my NUCs.

I'll just add that to the other $140 worth of cables I need to buy. I'm actually surprised at how reasonable fiber is now. I remember paying $75/m for ST-ST patch cables back in the day and here I am getting just over 60m of cables for not quite double that.

I found a working 24 port 7250 with the 10Gb ports on Ebay for under $80 shipped. I'll have to pick up some AOC cables (it's hard to find twinax longer than 7m) to really mess with it but I definitely have a few 10GbE cards already. I wouldn't mind being able to attach a few more computers to...

That looks like extremely specific R6iii rumors to me. 1/180th second sensor readout gets it into the same ballpark as the R3 and the Z8, and if that's a fix for rolling shutter, I'm here for it.

There is a fix available now, although it'll be almost a week before I can check it myself.

In the category of solution to a problem I didn't realize that I have, Komga is a really interesting tool. It's a media server for Ebooks, PDFs and comic book data formats. I've generally been content to toss the things I'm reading on to Google Play Books, but Play Books has a hard limit of...

Every distribution handles things a bit differently, but it's forced reboots don't happen very often. Things like web browsers that rely on updates let you know when they need to restart though. Basically you only HAVE to restart when your kernel gets upgraded. But there isn't much in the way...

I do think that almost all cases, there are plenty people willing to help if you need something. 99% of the tuning that Windows needs is day 1 setup nonsense and that's true of pretty much every Windows version. For that matter, I have to do a day of tuning for a personal-use Linux or MacOS...

It's not a hack? You are configuring the operating system to your liking. There may very well be people who want and like Recall or like the new context menu and center start menu, but you can change all those things if you don't like them. re: Linux, one of the biggest issues is that Linux has...

Here's my updated autounattend.xml adapted to kill Recall. Apparently, if you omit Recall from your Windows image entirely, it screws up the entire Windows 11 setup. It really has been made a dependency for Windows Explorer. You can still shut it off after Windows is installed, so I have dism...

First: the end user component of Recall simply doesn't show up on the current version of Windows 24H2. It *IS* enabled by default. There's a proper way to shut it off, which is to run dism /online /disable-feature /featurename: recall from an admin terminal session. Second, Windows 10 also has...

TrueNAS loves having lots of RAM and will cache a lot more with more RAM available, hence the insistence on getting pretty large amounts of RAM in the first place. Rack equipment does not have to be loud. Lenovo RD550s are extremely tolerable, like just above silent. even with the traditional...

What do you mean by safe? It's going to be able to run Windows 10 for as long as you feel like running it and if you want to give in and try Windows 11, I suggest starting from the autounattend.xml instructions I posted up thread to make a bullshit-free installation.

Consumer demand for monster sized drives isn't very high, although Arstechnica and the like seem to think we might see 50TB drives by the end of the decade.

Asus has that one all-m.2 NAS but it only has 4GB RAM and not much in the way of flexibility. I'd look at a $1500 Asrock Rack ALTRAD8UD-1L2T paired with a 40W Q32-17 (literally, 32 1.7GHz Ampere cores). I'd set it in a 2U rack enclosure or perhaps an older version of the Silverstone LaScala...

Is the goal low overall power, high capacity or fast capacity?

Every time I look at commercial NASes, I wind up running down what's available with goofy AliExpress hardware. I'd love to see something with 1 10GbE port, at least a x8 PCIe slot and a mix of SATA or MiniSAS + at least m.2 on an ITX package. It's not hard to find most of those but never all of...

Mechwarrior 5 Clans trailer just dropped. Battletech is the property that's most likely to get me to spend money, but Mechwarrior 5 Mercenaries had some really awful AI and never quite lived up to what it could've been. I still like seeing a new game, even if I prefer isometric turn based...

My sacrificial lamb systems, a Beelink Ser5 (R7 5800H, 16GB) and some or other Asus Vivobook with a 13500, don't even show the options for Windows Recall on 24H2. Apparently it's only present on computers that have an NPU and even then it's disabled by default. So we're all probably safe for...

That's an interesting device. I wonder if that thing will talk to ConnectX cards in ethernet mode over the QSFP+ ports. Edit: Dammit I was looking at the specs on the next model up.

Here's a 10 port Mikrotik SFP/SFP+ L3 switch that can handle 10GbE on 9 ports that consumes a very reasonable 20W under full load. Most rack mountable 10Gb switches are more like 200W and sound like dying wildebeests. It's $180 on Amazon.

I have ~80 classroom PCs I have to go and update, plus client systems at customer sites that are going to need to update, and this change is big enough that I'm going to want to shepherd it to completion myself. So I'm going to have to make an updated ISO plus updated drive images now. The...

24H2 is now the default release of Windows 11 that is available for download. Wave a tearful goodbye to Wordpad and PSR.exe and say hello to dumbass new labels on the standard context click and also dumbass Window Recall. If you want to make Wordpad work again on Windows 11, just put the three...