I got an ASUS TUF F15 with an i7 two years ago and it can run anything. It’s only 1080p because Japan has remained 4k = 1000 more dollars. It can trace the rays and I don’t have to fiddle with it any more than any given modern computer has Strange Problems. Current: Emulator Programs take 70 seconds to load (???) think it is just my anti-virus software tipping into Bloatware.
As a fortnite player fortnite is very scalable. I agree if fortnite is case 1 then Xbox Series S.
anyone using lts windows for vidcons
think about it every couple of weeks when Outlook (New) and LinkedIn are reinstalled out of nowhere even though i’m pretty certain i set gpo to not do that
Yeah I have a Asus ROG laptop from 2020 and it’s a beast. My hundreds of hours of Elden Ring were all logged on that with the settings on high, and I’ve done a ton of video rendering on it. At the time it was discounted because it didn’t have a webcam.
god damn if anything i own ever “reinstalls” “linkedin” i’m turning into windom earle
our PCs are both on win10 LTS IoT and it’s been smooth sailing with the caveat that i haven’t tried getting the microsoft store/xbox app working. you can, and there are guides, i just can’t report that it’s all clear
when i installed windows terminal through powershell i had to grab another UI dependency off microsoft’s github but now it updates with windows update
we’ve played alan wake II and destiny 2 without issue so that covers most of the high end graphics and anti-cheat edge cases
can’t get over how they called their line of gaming laptops the HP Loser
(or i guess more charitably the HP Sustenance [for the gaming lifestyle])
nvidia changed their shit to the “nvidia app” which just crashes instantly so I can’t take screenshots til I figure this shit out, great
I’m really enjoyed my steam deck so far. Haven’t tried to mod it or install any launchers yet and most of the games I am playing are old, but it’s pretty rad and convenient so far. Mostly playing space marine on the couch while my gf watches love island Australia.
they weren’t kidding when they said zfs likes ram eh
Any file system should be using as much ram as possible for caching and surrender it to the os when there is memory pressure
Those hardware-cash-ins are slowly getting out of han—
Take My Moneyyyyy 
I know I’ve asked this before, but I’m currently really curious about making a NAS. I feel like there are a lot of ways to do it for cheap and a lot of ways to fuck it up, and I worry that I’m going to spend too much money for poor performance.
Is there anywhere more specific I can go to find more information about this rather than… a google search.
How much is cheap and do you want it to do anything other than just serve files on the network
On the super-cheap, minimalist, power-efficient end there’s the odroid HC4, which is really just an SBC with SATA ports and an open enclosure.
I see secondhand Synology and QNAP 2/4-bay prebuilt units offered on classifieds forums all the time for like half the cost of a comparable new model. ServeTheHome is a good place to look.
You can also look for Skylake-era Intel Atom and Xeon D embedded boards in friendly ITX & mATX form factors on forums and eBay. They’ll usually have a 45W CPU, 6 SATA ports, 4 DIMM slots, a x4 M.2 slot, and many have integrated 10GbE ports. There are newer AMD Epyc ITX boards that are good for NAS builds but they’re more expensive. Silverstone and Jonsbo make NAS-focused SFF PC cases.
For more info on this I’d definitely recommend the ServeTheHome forums as well as the TrueNAS forums for really deep ZFS stuff if you go that way.
TrueNAS has been good but in the next current release they are switching from a kubernetes based system to one that’s straight on top of docker which is actually probably better but sucks if you had anything custom set up before
Anyway what I’m saying is make sure you start with 24.10 and not 24.04 if truenas is interesting to you
To clarify I wasn’t recommending TrueNAS, just the forums because they have great ZFS documentation & discussions.
i just went the route of installing debian on some old hardware, tweaking a bunch of power management stuff and setting up zfs (not very difficult honestly) but would prob have gone truenas myself if i’d known they were getting something more docker friendly going
staring down my Pixel 6 and it’s dwindling battery health and mostly busted USB-C port and deciding that it’s time to suffer phone shopping again
I think I’m just going to grab a Pixel 8a for 400 Black Friday bucks unless someone can sell on paying 50-100% more for anything else (like everything Apple, I am open to the concept of an iPhone but not to its price) (also going to my carrier and getting a monthly dealie means dealing with unfreezing all my credit For Reasons and I am lazy)
you can get good deals if you’re willing to carrier hop around to prepaid land. mint has a year of their top plan + a pixel 9 for $480
Do people use tablets for anything other than entertaining kids and grandparents? If so, what is the least expensive decent tablet?