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Feedback on my Workstation build?
  • I got a Noctua D12 cooler for my first computer eight years ago. I did a complete upgrade this year, including switching from Intel to AMD. I sent Noctua my receipt for the motherboard and the cooler itself, and the shipped me a brand new bracket for the cooler for free.

  • Help me decide?!
  • Portability/modularity/plus I have an Intel Arc GPU. The drivers just played nicer on Windows when it comes to transcoding (which you said wasn't an issue.) But most of my services are on separate barebones VMs because they're just easier to work with.

    I went with a "traditional" desktop because I already had a big ass Be Quiet! Dark Base 900 Pro. Also I don't trust hardware raid, and a regular desktop is infinitely more flexible.

    For instance: I threw two GPUs in there! Little one for transcoding, big one for gaming. So I can play a game while my girlfriend watches a movie in the other room. Plus I can keep shoving drives in there until I run of room. A dedicated NAS is much more limited

  • Help me decide?!
  • I'd say so. My buddy is into gaming, but I only have one computer. To get around anti-cheat, I tricked a Windows VM into thinking that it's running on bare metal. I pass through my GPU to it and I can play on medium quality settings just fine

  • Help me decide?!
  • Oh shit I may have advice. I have a setup similar to what you're shooting for! Proxmox is the absolute best thing ever. I used to just run plain Debian with some docker and random services. Now I have proxmox, and for my desktop I pass my GPU through to a VM that is my desktop.

    I've got half a dozen VMs, one of them has the arr stack hooked up to a raid 6 array (7 14 TB drives), and another VM running jellyfin (and I use Kodi to play stuff on my nvidia shield)

    First advice of the top of my head, gosuperhard and serverpartsdeals on eBay are amazing. They sell used industry drives for a fraction of the cost, just shoot for the ones that have warranties

  • When, if ever, would you call for law enforcement?
  • Ay fellow Pittsburgh person. Surprisingly good cop experiences here too. Obviously ACAB because fuck the system in general, but twice in the last couple years there were some domestic disturbance calls around here, and the cops deescalated some VERY loud and angry situations. I think it helps that they are smaller groups who tend to live here

  • Listen
  • Takei was put in American internment camps as a kid during WWII just because his parents were Japanese. And he's still a *proud American. He can do and say whatever the fuck he wants

  • How do I quit smoking?
  • Yo that is what I'm doing. I appreciate hearing that, it's heartening, I used to smoke a pack a day.

    I've been cutting my juice with plain VG/PG so I'm at half of the nicotine of the average juice.

  • Trump Is Telling Us What He Would Do. Believe Him.
  • And to clarify to you specifically and the three-ish people that upvoted me, on a weekly basis he helps a 40 year old dude with multiple sclerosis do history homework, and they were covering the second world war. He read the Wikipedia of fascism, and he literally said that he had no idea it was a right wing ideology.

    What can I glean from that? I have no fucking clue. Fuck Nazis, fuck republicans. I can only hope that there is a large group of people voting conservative who dont understand the consequence of this next election. Because if you're right than like 40% of the country are bigots, and even if the Democrats win, we're *still fast tracking to collapse

  • Trump Is Telling Us What He Would Do. Believe Him.
  • That's very not true. And it's honestly scarier. I work about ten minutes from Trump's first assassination attempt.

    My boss is a good Christian who didn't know that fascism is a far right ideology.

    They're in their own echo chamber, just like we are. They just don't understand that their echo chamber leads to a Hitler 2.0.

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