great idea. I would never use a numbered RAID unless I was being paid for my time. JBOD mode works fine for most every case, backups are a far better risk mitigation for data loss than RAID
itâs great how inconsistent the screensaver in windows seems to work for me, and that I have to type the words screen saver in the search bar all the time to even find the options for it and itâs the same window from windows 95 all of which seems to indicate they donât care about screensavers anymore, here in the age of oled monitors
also this started popping up on my windows libraries and when I click there to learn more all that comes up is this
and help just goes to a generic windows help website homepage, not even a specific article or explanation of anything
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my screensaver feels like it hasnât worked the way I expect since windows 7 at least
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Strongly considering buying a used Switch Lite and case modding it to be clear. Theyâre super cheap now.
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modern wifi is pretty fuckinâ good huh
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The main remaining problem with wifi is that meshing/roaming isnât as reliable as it could be. As I move around, clients tend to cling to tenuous signals from an almost-out-of-range router when there is now a much stronger one available. Apparently thatâs one of the things theyâre working on in Wifi 8
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Theyâre finally offering Google Fiber in my area (they trenched the fiber optic around my neighborhood months ago), and Iâm tempted to give it a go. Itâs cheaper than what weâve got now, and the hardware would be newer (and presumably faster). Not gonna say no to a mesh extender included with it.
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finance approved it
turns out this combination is weatherproof? can eventually retire it into the gardenâŚ
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I ended up getting a slightly different 5070 TI, the MSI Inspire:
I realized my dubious cooling setup probably wasnât going to cut it anymore with a 300W card, so I removed the top of my case and put a 140mm fan on it, surrounded by a 3d-printed piece of plastic sized to my case dimensions (someone else with the same problem had posted the STL file, and I ordered it on craftcloud):
I also replaced my power supply since my build was from 2023, ancient history in terms of GPU power supply standards apparently
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I now have a NAS set up. The next thing to tackle for me is to figure out what my workflow could be like for adding files downloaded through torrents to a library on my NAS. I am curious how some of you do this?
Right now, it seems like the easiest thing for me to do would be to continue to host files downloaded on my PC and then selectively migrate them to an organized library on the NAS. But are there other ways I should consider doing this?
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the Synology package manager actually has a torrent client built in and you can set it to have a watch directory that will automatically add and start torrents from any .torrent files saved in there, so I just mount that directory and save directly to it to kick off downloads
I wonder if UGREEN OS has a similar feature. Will investigate that as one option.
I use Transmission on the server and the remote GUI on whatever local machines I browse for torrents on. the remote GUI registers itself to handle .torrent files and automatically sends them to Transmission. once Transmission has done its thing, I manually move the files
if youâre not a sick twisted freak, Radarr et al. handle all this. or if youâre a different kind of weirdo, SABnzbd
looks like UGREEN OS can run Docker containers, so you have practically every option available
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I donât love the styling on their products and even I donât need this much high end hardware (I use a cheaper Cooler Master 4k160hz HDR monitor myself), but reading this review ASUS ROG Swift OLED PG27UCDM Review - RTINGS.com
it really drives home how much the ROG line is like, way out ahead for boutique PC hardware in good form factors right now. they already made the literal only AM5 ITX TB4/USB4/PCIe5 motherboard when I was building this machine 2.5 years ago, and when I checked almost a year ago they also made the only 14â laptop with a 16GB RTX GPU (not sure if this has gotten better since). though ofc thatâs if you donât count the M3 Max being a pretty close match for a 2080 Ti. turns out that ânot quite top end, but absolutely the best you can do in a reasonable form factorâ is a pretty small market. itâs been a long time since I felt like you could learn anything from paying attention to what one manufacturer puts out but itâs really getting there.
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thatâs the monitor I just got. not bright enough for the rolling scanline thing in retroarch but that seems kind of buggy anyway and makes screenshotting even more impossible and I appreciate itâs dimmer than the lcd it replaced every time I go to a white background website with no night mode
these asus monitors are all too tall on the stand they come with for my desk but I got a monitor stand off amazon thatâs just like a collar on a metal pipe and you have to use wrenches everytime you want to adjust it and I cut the pipe to fit precisely into the monitor space of my deskâs hutch I travelled across this god forsaken land to get
have we used banana republic of gamers as a thread title yet
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Please do it
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Thereâs a full 2990wx threadripper build on eBay with 128GB of memory and an rtx 2060 + rtx 4000 for $1100 buy it now. I really donât need it and I ainât gonna buy it but damn. Someone could probably take it apart and sell the components for profit or just get a sick budget workstation.
Now that I am getting into using my NAS for plex hosting and the like, and creating more p2p traffic than before. Iâm on private trackers (PTP, but IPTorrents too which hardly seems like it counts). Everyone seems to be trying to suggest a VPN in all these threads I read⌠but it also feels like someone trying to sell me something every time I see suggests like these.
Anyone got a succinct decision matrix or shorthand for determining if I really should be using a VPN or not?
if public tracker from your home ip then yes otherwise no
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And is it as simple as âif tracker requires invites, then tracker is not publicâ? IPTorrents you can just buy an invite to get in. Itâs where I tend to get TV stuff, but really nothing else.