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I don't encrypt my personal devices. If something goes wrong, I'd rather have a chance of data recovery. I do encrypt my work computer because work policy. And I encrypt my budget hosting drive because those guys are clowns and I don't trust them to wipe my drives when I'm done (but they're...

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Cat5e also tends to work for 10G-BaseT. If you're doing new wiring, it's reasonable to use something better, but if you've already got Cat5e in the walls, it's worth a try. The specs are for 100 meter runs, with most of that in dense conduit, and all of the cables running the same speed; most...

I think resilver follows the usual pattern of ZFS deprioritizing non-interactive use. If you're doing any sort of real reads and writes, the resilver will pause or at least limit concurrency while those are in progress (more or less). Scrub and resilver also got a big improvement in OpenZFS...

Well, there's always wired ethernet. Or usb wireless, maybe.

It depends on the generator. Mine is pretty big, so it's not that bad, but you can see the lights flicker, and when the HVAC kicks in, the output changes a bunch. But my little single cylinder portable generator would be much worse for a PC. Either way, maybe it makes the power supplies work a...

Cummings 35kW based on a Ford v6 with a 500 gallon propane tank. It's configured to start a few seconds after utility failure (because most of the time it comes right back on) and warm up a bit (but it's got a coolant heater so it starts fairly warm), and then takes over the load. One minute is...

I wish they'd make products specifically targetted for 1 minute. My utility outages are either a couple seconds (auto-recloser found the short was transitory), or long (tree on line is persistent or severed the line). And I've got a automatic generator for the last one. So I really just need to...

I got the fever to finally do a f***ing spinning pile driver a couple years ago, on a ps2 (dual shock). Finally got it, but also got a nasty blister and couldn't play for a week plus.

You're looking at probably 20-30 ms to go to Canada from the southern parts of the US. If it matters a lot or not, I dunno. Cloud vendors have stuff in Canada, but they've also got stuff all over the place. No big deal to have a couple datacenters in Canada when you have like 10 in the US. GCP...

Free cooling is nice, but extra latency to where the people are is kind of meh. And access to major existing networking. (Which is self reinforcing, but oh well)

You're gonna need to find a good auction source for your solar array... 1.7 MW is a lot of power.

Yeah, I buy way too much stupid stuff at my local auction. Not gonna go to Wyoming, thanks. Plus I don't do watercooling.

Historical interest. Newer would probably be more interesting, but they've released older stuff before. Microsoft has never been slow to license other people's code to use in their OS, and all that needs to be cleared or scrubbed, and it takes time. Older versions are smaller, and then you can...

I'm not sure if getting it hooked up to wifi will help if it doesn't work when wired. If you've got any spare access points, I'd do what everyone else says, give it a dedicated access point with wep/wpa1/no auth and see... If you don't gave any spare access points, congrats on not being a horder...

Yes those are always in hex, but the units are not always what they seem... I'm not 105% sure that's just percent. I'm not super familiar with smart for nvme.

Yeah, well VW got in trouble for running the engines hotter, at higher efficiency because it put out more NOx, because higher temperature + air from the atmosphere makes more NOx; well that and they didn't want to put in a DEF tank for small engines or a large enough one for big engines.

OK, that's fair (and I probably agree with you!), but it's important to note that you're not really asking for correct then :P

Dune (bought it on DVD, Blu-Ray, and a 4k from germany is on order; and I've got the 4k of the new one; I might have a problem), Logan's Run (dvd and blu-ray, not gonna get the 4k, cause you can see too much of the effects on the blu-ray already). Some of the Star Trek movies... Happy to have...

By my calculations, that's 105% used. So there's that.

I'm pretty sure upgrading my network just enabled me to spend more time messing with my network :p Still gotta do more tuning to get my iperf scores up.

Definitely. SSDs like to die as a brick too; they're supposed to fail as read-only, but they're also supposed to not fail.

This just means the partitions haven't shown errors yet and weren't unsafely unmounted. SMART can predict imminent failure, but disk manager doesn't check for that. Otoh, it matters what stat(s) are showing (pre)failure. If you're low on spare sectors, that's probably a good time to get a new...

Does the 1280T have a sub out? I don't see one in the manual? Otherwise, I don't think it would be a big deal to have one sub for low frequency audio in the front and another for low frequency audio that's mixed as a separate channel. When you're using a 5.1 mix, there shouldn't be much low...

I assume you're taking correct pronounciation from the books on tape Frank Herbert recorded in the before times. Not from anywhere else...

Yeah, your computer will be disgusting if you smoke near it. And nobody will want to work on it. Unless everyone in your country is smoking a lot, in which case; it's probably normal. It will clog up your heatsinks and fans with more or less sticky dust that will be hard to clean. I don't want...

Looks like your ssd is taking a smoke break between clumps of data. Personally, I don't trust Inland SSDs, because I've one of their SATA ssds that tests worse than a spinning drive. But it was cheap. Maybe make sure trim is working and you have a good amount of free space (20%+ preferred) Try...

Music has a backstop of mechanical licensing for certain uses (radio style play, covers) which means, worst case you listen to a radio style stream customized to be related songs to what you want to hear or even worse but possible, you listen to covers of your favorite songs by the streaming...

Convince George Lucas of that one...

Did you have a TI-8x graphing calculator? Most of those had a z80. (Not the TI-89 which was a 68k)

I could easily be wrong, but I'd assume a Netapp Disk Shelf is going to work with a Netapp Filer and that's it. If you want that many disks, I'd look for something supermicro, maybe hp/dell. They do make some with just a backplane and no server board, so don't buy that unless that's what you want.

Do you wear eyeglasses? Have you gotten new ones lately? I've had a couple sets with some terrible polycarbonite lenses and it's pretty ugh. Gotta spend more and get trivex or glass.

If you don't like Intel ME, that's fine, don't use a NIC that's wired for it. I think it's gotta be a motherboard NIC, but if you've got multiple NICs on the motherboard, probably only one will be wired up. Typically, you can disable PXE, both in your bios and on the card ... you might be able...

Yeah, the adapters go both ways, so pay attention.

Put the case under the desk / behind the monitor. Can't see it, it's not a problem.

AM4 was 24, AM5 is 28. There's an extra x4 for a second m.2 or a cpu direct slot. I don't think you can split it out to say 4 x1 slots though. I think I've seen a lot of newer designs where sata shares serdes pins, so you're picking a sata port or an pci-e lane. I guess you could probably have...

Double check that. Pretty sure it's PCIe 3.0. The first slot is a cpu direct slot, and the second is through the chipset. The chipset is on an x4 link to the cpu, so everything behind it is bottlenecked on that, but that's probably not a huge bottleneck unless you're using the scratch disk at...

Sweet, my budget server is now 3 branding cycles behind ;) (it's the last gen before the 26xx series)

Speaker placement is all about tradeoffs, and Atmos vertical mixing is going to be done with that in mind. Not many people are going to have perfect setups, and whatever you have is going to be ok. I wouldn't plan to move your front heights. Put them wherever and keep them there. You can put...

Even if Intel did get wound down, their patents would be sold, not abandoned. That said, patents are 20 years right? I think that gets you SSE3 as patent free, and that's around what you need for Windows 10?