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Even the Intel N100 is a hell of a platform for low power appliances like NAS, routers, etc. 4 Alder E-cores in a 6W package? They perform roughly the same IPC-wise as Haswell, reportedly. I have one in a little router box I'm running pfSense on now -- the dual-LAN Shuttle mini PC with the...

I'll probably end up biting my tongue and just setting up an identical copy of Samba on the original NAS VM since NFS is being such a stinker for me. It's also just generally pretty terrible latency wise -- it really loves locking up my file explorer windows in ways my SMB shares never did. Part...

The way I have my server set up is that my SMB implementation is a separate VM accessing the shares on the original server through NFS**, so doing that adds considerable overhead and roughly halves network performance. That isn't an issue for a 1Gbps connection, but for 2.5, 5, or 10, it...

For context, primarily outside the US (PC was king even back then here, though the Commodore 64 and Apple ][ were also doing very well), during the mid-to-late-80s there was a bit of a platform holy war between users of the Atari ST and the Commodore Amiga. Humorously, by that point, Jack...

It's set to run at system startup under the SYSTEM user context. It isn't that it never mounts, it eventually does, but a thing I have set to run at startup is depending on some data living there and yells at me and makes me manually open the file if it isn't available when it starts. I could...

It's my professional and personal opinion that every platform has some critical flaw or another, and that you should use what works for you.

This is frankly rather bizarre. I've installed 11 to a separate drive in my main to see if the Arc drivers are any better on it, so I'm using my X540 10GbE LAN card. It may be worth noting that I had to forcibly install drivers meant for Windows 10 for it as the setup program Intel provides...

I'll defer to your experience on the images issue. I don't send them often enough to know, and when I do, they're usually either screenshots or not actually photos taken by my camera. I wouldn't know. The messaging thing is quite annoying I'll grant, but I think you overblow the color palette...

I can switch pretty seamlessly between either-or at this point, the iPhone is just what happened to be on promotion this time and it's more convenient for actually getting messages through to my folks. Most of my people don't have the qualifications to download Facebook messenger, much less...

Sidegraded to a Z Fold 4 for work. It's neat. The bigger screen would be useful for ultra-mobile remote desktop work, you know, if our RMM had that for an integration. I'll want to figure something out for that someday -- it would be very useful if I could just launch into a remote session to...

I can see locked channels and SNRs in my modem's interface but I have no clue what normal values are for that. The uncorrectable codewords field seems remarkably high on some channels, but seeing how I more or less manage what I'm rated for coming down (about 910 of the 1000Mbps offered) that's...

Cox had a promotional offer for me that was actually pretty good -- I paid around 50 bucks per month for 250/10 (I was getting 300/12 with my own equipment). For 25 bucks more I got an upgrade to 1000/100 with free unlimited data -- i.e. basically what every other cable co provides, so they're...

I have a variant of that switch -- seems there's one main design floating around and myriad chinese companies are using it. Mine is, for what it's worth, a Davuaz -- I paid 48 dollars shipped for mine a few weeks ago. I don't know about hitting the full 10Gb from the uplink SFP ports, but I'm...

5G is, mostly, at current, a marketing move. 5G UC or UW is what you want to see, yes -- that means it's using one of the higher bandwidth frequencies, usually one of the mmWave bands. "Regular" 5G, what you'll see most of the time, just means it's LTE under a different name, I believe, or the...

May she rest in peace. My sincerest condolences.

I don't care about running anything newer -- frankly, Monterey is already quite sluggish on a Broadwell-U chip with only 8GB RAM.

I'm replacing the SSD in my MBP (12,1) because I think the original might be dying, and I needed more space anyway. I have a 1TB m.2 drive arriving today and I already have the m.2 to proprietary whatever-connector adapter from Sintech. Supposedly I can't restore online using that drive, I'll...

To be fair, him having to talk to one specific person is likely because that one person is in charge of handling all the legacy plans carried forward from their Sprint acquisition. 30/mo was probably pretty much the going rate at that time, it's just considered a good rate now that phones are so...

This is the situation that simplifying has wrought -- believe it or not, with how many computers I use regularly, it absolutely is simpler for me to just store everything in a central location and fetch it as-needed. No sneakernetting stuff on flash drives and external hard drives like I used...

It seems like it'd be more annoying than anything -- needing to reset the clock, needing to reconfigure the boot order if the default one doesn't work, toggling options for peripherals you might have customized.

He's connecting to the same network as other T-Mobile customers. He has the same coverage as if he were a normal customer paying their full rate (full unlimited, like I have, is typically around 85 dollars per month). His plan is, if anything, likely better -- T-Mobile by default tracks and...

Sprint got bought by T-Mobile -- T-Mobile is bound to support their old contracts, at their old rates. So Merc is paying $30/mo on, I'm guessing, a grandfathered-in unlimited everything plan. You literally cannot get any better than that. Slowly but surely phones are moving to eSIMs --...

I'm on the S22 I got from my carrier on promotion for "free" so long as I stay with them until January 2025. When that day comes I want to see about going back to an MVNO, real carrier pricing on a single line is rather ridiculously high for my uses. I'm not one of those folks that really needs...

From what I understand, Idaho just effectively made it illegal to carry out an abortion even in the event of it being medically necessary to save the mother's life. The letter of the law might not say as much, but the chilling effect this will have on doctor-patient decision-making is the point...

Tape drives have pretty much always and forever been for the cost-no-object segment of the population, usually businesses who can use it for a tax write-off. That said, LTO5 is quite affordable as far as that technology goes. If you're serious about maintaining your backups, if your data is...

Another potential problem waiting for me if I go to the new platform -- E-cores. Apparently they kind of just screw everything up, scheduling-wise. I'm hoping there's a way I can tune the scheduler such that the hypervisor uses the E-cores to remain responsive while the P-cores are getting...

The SATA controller on the X470 board I had in my server has decided to bite it. I thought one of my drives was failing, but no -- the entire controller just disappears to the host, silently, after about 20 minutes. I have a four-port SATA card on the way so I can limp along until I can afford...

The man has flat out admitted he's planning to become a dictator. I don't care if you think he was joking or he misunderstood the question. He seems to think it's cute to say he'd be a dictator for day one, but there's no telling where it'd actually end. With Manchin bowing out of the Senate...

Wishing you luck as well David, six months sounds like a lot of time but I know full well given the constraints on exactly what you can take to satisfy the requirements makes it much more stressful. Happy new year everyone!

Lunar, most people don't edit content like that at all. That's how they watch these displays and think they're perfectly acceptable -- they don't need accuracy and frankly some don't want it either.

Welp, that was a harrowing procedure. I: - swapped drives/RAM/cards between the case/PSU/board/CPU of the main and server, giving the server much more workability, thermal headroom, and extra card space - tried to swap CPUs to give the server moar coars but for some reason, Proxmox throws a...

Most people don't even notice color problems. I'm actually one of them -- "good enough" is good enough. As long as it's running in full RGB mode instead of limited, it's fine for me -- heck, I can still get along mostly fine in 16-bit color mode, it's just that banding and dithering is very...

Yeah, I personally don't expect to hit much more than 300-400MB/s to my array even over 10GbE, but it seemed better to leapfrog 2.5 and 5GbE interfaces and just go directly to 10Gb so I have some room to grow.

Oh, I'm sure I could get it to work, but I have literally never had an Intel NIC let me down, and I haven't even heard of Mellanox before you mentioned them. I'm sure it's perfectly fine, but I'm nothing if not a critter of habit. That said, were I to do this over again, I would likely give them...

It's my understanding that -- and correct me if I'm wrong guys, I'm not terribly familiar with hardware RAID implementations -- one typically cannot bring a RAID up on a different kind of controller than what was used to create it. Unless you get lucky with trying to bring it up with, for...

I need at least 5m, probably closer to 6 for one of my runs, and I'd like an Intel chipset if I can get that at all as I've had much better luck with them and drivers for them exist for everything under the sun. The cards I bought are Intel X540-based. As I said, though, I've got what I got...

I frankly would not buy anything on the promise of future proofing or an upgrade path, because as Intel has proven several times, upgrade paths are a lie. Buy what you want now for the performance you can buy today, and treat anything else like a bonus. AM4 is an aberration, I believe, not where...

See, I would have just done fiber (as much as I hate terminating it) or copper direct attach like Lunar, but the cards at the other end are RJ45 and for some ungodly reason SFP seems to ratchet the price up on the cards by about 2-3x. I don't think it's necessarily a huge issue the way I have...

Hmm. 10Gb copper transceivers definitely don't run cool. Even linked at only 1Gbps (I don't have the 10Gb cards in yet) they're producing enough heat to burn me when I pull them from the switch. They do work fairly well though, even if the switch is a bit more finicky than I'd like -- usually...

Doing some upgrades to my network again. I bought a cheap 4-port 2.5GbE switch with dual 10Gb SFP ports and a couple of copper transceivers that should be able to do 10Gb over CAT5e under very short runs (the longest I'll be doing is around the room to my main desktop, which will be ~15ft or...

The problem with eliminating on-prem FS stuff is that a lot of the businesses I run into simply don't have the bandwidth to make using a cloud service across however many computers feasible. Whether that's because of their positioning and the lack of options from the area ISPs, or they just...

Oh, and regarding DDNS, I eventually just decided to abandon my old DDNS provider and go with one that was supported natively. I was using Dynu because I'd been using NoIP before this and got annoyed with needing to "confirm" my hostname every thirty days, and Dynu didn't need that. I was...

OpenVPN is just what I used first, know how to get running, and have clients configured for everywhere. I don't have the bandwidth at home for it to really matter either way, I'm working with 10mbps up and everything I have can saturate that easily. That and it looks like Wireguard would require...

Well. I just learned I don't qualify for the federal connectivity program that was partially subsidizing my cable bill anymore, so to lower it, I took my service down from 500/10 to 250/10. Which was plenty when I first moved in. I'm not sure precisely why or even when I upgraded. The main...

Well, I got pfSense going and it was only very annoying. The ISO won't boot from a Ventoy USB and I had to make a special USB just for it with a special USB-specific image, even. After some hiccups with the routing or something being dropped every couple minutes -- fixed with a reboot -- it...

Good to see you again Coug!

I do actually use the drill method to destroy data on drives from machines we take from customers for disposal. Drives are cheap and plentiful, no sense risking a lawsuit for saving them.

The Pismo and Wallstreet G3s were black. Apple had a black polycarbonate Macbook in 2006-7 I believe, though that may have just been a black display and white under-case.

Both of my B450 boards are ASRock. My X470 in my main now is a Gigabyte. My friends report issues on everything from ASUS to Gigabyte to Biostar/MSI to even some OEM machines, all the way from the B350 chipsets on up to X570. None of us own Zen4 yet -- those of us inclined to upgrade bought...

Ryzen was more the start of AMD and Intel actually trading blows vs AMD having total dominion over the market. Intel was caught with their pants down at first, sure, but Coffee Lake and especially Alder are actually quite good performers. Intel just took way too long to bring pricing back to...