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Knowing that we're looking at the "new" 5800X3D in about a week and a half, I should point out that the 5900X is around $250 and the 5900XT, a CPU that is only 18 months old, is $280. Both are considerably faster than the 5800X3D if you have any kind of non-gaming workload and fairly negligibly...

I've never, ever, ever had a fraud issue with G2A. If they're ripping off Microsoft or Google or Valve or anyone who makes the mistake of using Valve for distribution, that sounds like other people problems to me.

I paid $12 for 15 months of access to a Gemini Pro plan from G2A on a tertiary Google account I have after seeing how stupid cheap they are on G2A.com. I feel a little dirty about it, but I did want to know what it can do since people keep asking me about it. So far, I had to join a newly made...

I don't think we're getting vastly more efficient anything unless there's some staggering breakthrough in materials science. Germanium-based wafers or the like. We're already deep into diminishing returns; 5nm to 4nm didn't move the efficiency needle much for CPUs or GPUs, and I don't think...

"Crawling" might be a strong word. But what else will they do if rackmounted compute hardware isn't consuming every bit of capital expenditure in tech? Without OpenAI and Anthropic driving demand, why vastly overspecialize in high bandwidth memory? The bubble popping will be UGLY. Not just...

Microsoft, one of the most well financed and wealthy companies to ever exist on Earth, started charging for Copilot Code tokens at their actual monetary value yesterday instead of heavily subsidizing them on June 1, 2026. Today, many Copilot Code users have discovered that their day-one use of...

The Beelink Ex Mate is a $200 Direct-Attach USB 4 dock with 4x m.2 ports, 2.5GbE and even a decent Bluetooth speaker. Personally, having a network port that isn't at least 10Gb leaves me a little limp, but somebody stuck working full time on a laptop or mini-PC might see this thing as a...

When you create a site within a Reverse Tunnel Bridge on Cloudflare, you can specify an authentication method. You can assign usernames and passwords of your own or use something like a Google or Microsoft account. I think you can require an authenticator app as well, but that's more obnoxious...

I have Immich instances hosted in my home. I have access to them arbitrated by a Google sign in before Cloudflare allows traffic on to the relevant server, where they have to sign in a second time. There are traffic authorization rules you can set on reverse tunnels. I think they're very...

My company's developer laptops are a sore point right now for much the same reason, actually. RAM pricing just makes replacing what we have impossible. 10th Anniversary 5800X3D has a launch date, June 25th, and a $349 MSRP that will probably immediately be pushed up to $500 as stock vanishes...

I use mutiple Immich Instances that each have their own hostname in a Cloudflare reverse tunnel to arbitrate external access for the people who trust me to keep their photos private or things from my personal life separate from the work I do. Recently, I've been making use of MergerFS to gather...

AI companies more or less bought out the entire year's production DRAM production from Samsung, SK/Hynix and Micron, the NAND Flash production from everybody who does THAT (fuck you if you wanted a thumb drive or SD card, let alone a new SSD) and also every spinning drive from Seagate and WD...

I am currently thanking my lucky stars that I've been pulling RAM and SSDs out of e-waste systems any time I'm asked to dispose of things. It doesn't help for DDR5 but 2 or 4GB DDR4/2666 and 240GB 2.5" drives I have a'plenty. Mostly, if I need some of either, I probably have it in a bin in my...

As a follow-up, Namecheap does not allow me to edit TTLs on my records myself, even though I paid extra to be able to do so. Their DNS API will fetch no more than 50 records at a time and any update handled programatically is treated as a complete zone update. There's no way to set an index...

I'd have concerns about keeping the area around the 9850X3D cool. The Peerless Assassin is a fantastic HSF and it's rated to handle bigger thermal loads than a mere 8c12t CPU should drop, but there really isn't any such thing as a roomy and well ventilated ITX chassis, either. Especially not one...

My sites were down for about 14 hours between when I approved the transfer out and when Namecheap TOLD me they got whatever approval they need on their side, the whole time insisting that transfers can take up to a week. This is about 13.5 hours longer than I've seen any other name transfer take...

I have two sets of China now, because my mom somehow wound up with six. They're all still in the boxes I got them in, but the main reason I have them is because my mother didn't want her sister to get them. I agree that my aunt is multiple forms of evil, but I have no earthly idea what to do...

Some retailer in India apparently listed the 10th Anniversary 5800X3D for US ~$310. The 9700X is ~$350 and only 3 - 4% faster and obviously restrictive because of the platform requirement for DDR5. AMD could make an absolute killing if they return that chip to production. Gamer's Nexus posted a...

It definitely helps that most of the people I know have pickup truck/small U-Haul quantities of belongings rather than moving van amounts. But there's always a sofa or extra-firm mattress or something to make sure I know I'm not 25 any more. I will definitely say moving day is the moment I...

Also the Namecheap thing was kind of a debacle but at least it's over now.

It always seems weird to say happy Memorial Day, but if you're in the US, at least it's a day off work for most people. I spent my morning helping a friend move and now I'm going to proceed to the not-moving-until-someone-makes-me portion of the day.

Since the gaming thread is where I complain about Wayland, a client's system that was been upgraded to Ubuntu 26 and completely lost its entire GUI configuration, which was removed because it had been set up with Xorg in 25.whatever and the upgrade manager marked all the Xorg stuff for cleanup...

Not that it qualifies as "fun" but if you didn't fall all over yourself signing up for Plex Lifetime at $250, it's going up to $750 in July. Which makes me think maybe Plex won't be around much longer.

I'm dealing with this right now, actually: Namecheap supplies a bunch of wildcard SSL certs I have. The certs generally have between two and four years remaining. My normal name registrar doesn't support API access for updates and it doesn't support wildcard SSL at all, so I can't just set up my...

One of my co-workers had stuff on Godaddy. They were telling me all the shit they just can't do. All their stuff is on Dreamhost now.

Everything in my house is now running on Xorg. Rustdesk magically works. Displays stay the resolution I tell them. Bliss. Wayland can eat my entire ass. I've never complained about systemd even though it also occasionally pisses me off, but Wayland is dumb beyond words for dumb things and has...

After playing with it for a bit, Zentyal (I spelled it properly this time) is just some smartly-configured options on an Ubuntu 24 LTS base, or a package you can overlay on a Debian/Ubuntu system already in place. The DC config is just Samba, but it is REALLY easy to set it up as a DC. The...

The Aorus B650i isn't silent. It has one of those stupid chipset fans, but you'd never know over a fan noise from a midrange GPU at full blast. I built in a Fractal Terrra with a 9700X with a Be Quiet Purerock LP and an Asrock Radeon 9070, and honestly I'm giving serious thought to keeping it...

IIRC AMD has committed to AM5 for at least one more generation of desktop CPUs, so your Ryzen 10whatever should be an option on a motherboard you buy right now. If you haven't been keeping up, Intel really pulled off a coup with the Arrow Lake Plus refresh it released a month ago. If you're...

I have a couple customers who insist on buying home PCs from Costco or something instead of standardized client systems. These are the jerks I can never talk in to setting up anything else just so I can centralize authentication. I'm about to donate a couple old Lenovo mini PCs so I can quietly...

Just wait for the forthcoming MASSIVE FUCKING INFLATION because every single thing needs just in time delivery and Diesel is 33% higher than gas. For the most part, once prices on something go up, they generally don't come down. We should really be out with pitchforks and torches over all this.

Replacement Intel P4510 showed up just now. It's the only drive in a box meant to hold 24 2.5" SSDs, which is hysterically funny to me given that I shipped it out in in one thin layer of bubble wrap and a paper envelope. It took me just over a month to get back everything I shipped for...

I just found a particularly interesting Linux distro, Zentayl, which is made as a drop-in replacement for old-ass Windows AD or Small Business Server setups. It's Ubuntu-based and there is a free edition, although the paid system doesn't seem terribly expensive to me either. The sales pitch IMO...

I just BARELY remember the tail end of the 1970s,, but that also means that I do remember the '79 oil embargo, albeit mostly as something that was shown on the evening news. The Iranian embargo back then resulted in the loss of about 5% of the global oil supply and resulted in rationing and...

Microsoft has an internal Windows build focused on improving Windows 11 "pain points" including overall Explorer and GUI responsiveness and a de-emphasis on AI components. No, we can't see it. But they're working on it. Maybe it'll make its way to public testing. Maybe they'll turn the whole UI...

If you happen to have some old ass but not suspect SSD, maybe you could transition your Windows setup to run on that instead? You can always relocate your user folder to the dodgy Samsung.

I feel like motherboards are getting more affordable. That's probably not too surprising given how few people are building PCs right now, but my overall impression is that things are 15 - 20% cheaper than they were a year ago. I remember not seeing any AM5 ITX boards for less than $200 and I saw...

I was celebrating my first weekend of not having small human houseguests. June - early September, yes, I probably do have some intoxicated young ladies who might be in bikinis visit a couple times a week. This is definitely a point in favor of my beach-adjacent apartment. I actually spent...

Crucial got me back just fine. Teamgroup did get me a replacement 2TB drive. It's a newer model than I sent in that uses QLC, but at least I did get a drive back. Silicon Power has informed me that, while it cannot ship me a working drive, it is willing to refund me the pro-rated purchase price...

Samsung's normal failure mode is to make the drive read-only, which can result in lock-ups or other strange behavior. Even if Samsung Magician says the drive is OK when the software is being used, that's probably a drive that should be replaced.

Apparently, Microsoft is now saying that 32GB is the baseline for "worry free" Windows Gaming PCs. That does actually make sense, but I'm seeing NUC-type client systems shipping out with 4GB RAM than I did 10 years ago when that might've actually been acceptable.

KDE also has 'working' RDP. It just only actually works when you're using Xorg.

Regarding the White House Correspondents Dinner event, apparently, Homeland Security was notified by the shooter's family more than a day ahead of time, and nonetheless allowed him to travel by two trains and to stay overnight in a hotel in the DC area under his own name before letting him get...

OK new reason to bitch about Wayland: It seems to just ignore my directives to run at 1080p on 4k panels.. It's a lot easier for my game clients to run at 1080p, but seemingly no matter how I write config files or configure settings in KDE, it flips back to 4k every time I reboot. On either AMD...

As I mentioned in the Gaming thread over in the Pub, CachyOS is really fuss free, especially for something based on the normally extremely fussy Arch Linux. I had to do one entire thing to enable GoG, Epic and Amazon game support and controllers and bluetooth both worked out of the box on...

The steps to get CachyOS running were extremely straightforward. With the handheld edition, it boots to Steam Big Picture. Controllers just worked in that mode. I needed to do some nonstandard configuration to make things work, but if I just wanted to use Steam on Linux, it's done at that point...

I have a large main room that's meant to be a living and dining room, a very small kitchen, and two bedrooms with two walk in closets. The dining area normally hosts a desk for streaming and is typically the best-looking part of the house. My back bedroom is the tech room, where I do whatever...

Everyone's favorite of my cats, Hiro, was dumped right in front of me on December 22, 2006. Someone threw him out of a car. A nice car, even. A Lincoln or Caddy. The new guy is very friendly and entirely too talkative to not be someone's. The oldest of my cats might be eight years old, so I'll...

I had another stray enter my life. We've decided that his name shall be Ladle, although Soup was also a strong contender. Ladle was clearly someone's pet. He's entirely too affectionate to be feral, but around a week ago, he managed to get in my apartment building and he's been mooching door to...

Here we go: My place is about to be turned into a PC gaming cafe. One of my friends is in what I'm going to call a housing transition, which is to say she's couch surfing. She has three kids over five, and there's a 10 and 12 year old who also show up at my place regularly as well. One of...