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That's fair: most probably don't.

I appreciate a 'this won't work in Linux no matter what you do' banner on things, though.

I went and whacked the scan library button on a 30tb library collection and it didn't read all that much data (looks like under 100gb) and seemed to be pretty quick - maybe 45 seconds. Local drives and all that, so the speed of the scan doesn't matter as much as the relatively small amount of data. If all you had was 1tb of media, I'd expect it to just be a couple of gigabytes, not huge amounts of data.

I'd probably double-check that however you've mounted the WebDAV share is supporting partial reads, since that really feels to me like the first place that something could be wrong that would cause excessive amounts of file transfers.

"As you can see, the computer clearly indicates I'm the winner of this discussion. Once you've talked to the AI and understand your failures, we can talk."

Sounds like he's a lot of fun.

I mean, WebDAV is basically just HTTP.

Accessing a file over WebDAV will result in the file being downloaded, so it makes sense that trying to scan terrabytes of files will result in terrabytes of downloads.

You probably want to use nfs/smb instead, since that's more designed for random-access type situations, though you'd STILL end up pulling all the data down since iirc jellyfin scans the entire file so you'd still be in the situation of having to download all the data even there.

Ooh and it's a giant yellow banner you probably won't miss, and not some two-shades-ligher-than-the-background nonsense.

Good job, Valve.

I'm going to get downvoted to hell for this but uh, I usually tell clients Squarespace is what they want these days.

Self-hosting something like Wordpress or Ghost or Drupal or Joomla or whatever CMS you care to name costs time: you have to patch it, back it up, and do a lot of babysitting to keep it up and secure and running. It's very much not a ship-and-forget - really, nothing selfhosting is.

I'm very firmly of the opinion that small business people should be focused on their business, not their email or website or whatever, because any time you spend fighting your tech stack is time you could have been actually making money. It's all a cost, it just depends if you value $20 a month or your time more.

If I had someone come to me asking to setup this stuff for their business, I'd absolutely tell them to use gSuite for email, file sharing, documents, and such and Squarespace for the website and then not worry about shit, because they're both reliable and do what they say on the tin.

too high TDP, using above the MAX rate of 250 Watt

Agreed. Intel's design philosophy seems to be 'space heater that does math' for some reason. That's been true since at least 10th gen, if not before then. I don't know if it's just chasing benchmark wins at any cost, or if they're firmly of the opinion that hot and loud is fine as long as it's fast and no customers will care - which I don't really think is true anymore - or what, but they've certainly invested heavily in CPUs that push the literal limits of physics while trying to cool them.

Intel always had the advantage of superior production

That really stopped being true in the Skylake era when TSMC leapfrogged them and Intel was doing their 14nm++++++++ dance. I mean they did a shockingly good job of keeping that node relevant and competitive, but the were really only relevant and competitive on it until AMD caught up and exceeded their IPC with Ryzen 3000.

about the same price

Yeah, if gaming is your use case there's exactly zero Intel products you should even be considering. There's nothing that's remotely competitive with a 7800x3d, and hell, for most people and games, even a 5800x3d is overkill.

And of course, those are both last-gen parts, so that's about to get even worse with the 9800x3d.

For productivity, I guess if you're mandated to use Intel or Intel cpus are the only validated ones it's a choice. But 'at the same price' is the problem: there's no case where I'd want to buy Intel over AMD if they cost the same and perform similarly, if for no other reason than I won't need something stupid like a 360mm AIO to cool the damn thing.

As I'm sure nobody will find surprising, it's Texas.

I just re-checked the local weather station I have in my back yard and I guess it's not actually 90, but 87 right now.

But I mean, that's more than close enough.

It was still in the mid-90s last week, which is just freaking bizarre since October is normally more like 60s and 50s and somewhat wet and you know, Fall-like. Trees still have all their leaves, and such.

No no, it's fine! Nothing is going on! It's all expected and normal.

Except, you know, it's 90f/33c outside. Two days before November.

That's probably not a harbinger of doom or anything.

They state the code will be released after the first orders ship, which makes a certain kind of sense given this is a competitive space suddenly.

Though, I 10000% agree that there's no reason to take a leap of faith when you can just wait like, uh, a month, and see what they do after release. It's not like they won't still be selling these or something.

If you kept the same case, I'd call it the same computer.

It's like a car: if you replace the seat covers, add a new air freshener, and replace the transmission, well, it's still the same car because the outside shell didn't change, just the bits inside it.

Right, but you're pulling way more power than the homeserver I'm running is, and at 10-15w it's doing frigate + openvino based (on the igpu) identification on 4 cameras, usually 2 jellyfin streams at any given time, 4 VMs, home assistant, and ~80 other containers plus a couple of on-host services for NAS duties (smb, nfs, ftp, afp, nginx, etc.)

I was just surprised that a Ryzen U-series chip would be worse re. power usage.

You know, I think I did the thing I always do and forget how bad the idle power for Ryzen cpus are due to how they're architected.

Like, my home server is a 10850k, which is a CPU known for using 200+w... except that, of course, at idle/normal background loads it's sitting at more like 8-15w. I did some tweaking to tell it to both respect it's TDP and also adjusting turbo boost to uh, don't, but still: it's shockingly efficient after fiddling.

I wouldn't have expected a 5500u to sit at 30w under normal loads, but I suppose that depends on the load?

It’s now almost 8 years since AMD revealed Ryzen, and Intel still can’t beat it.

That feels a slight bit unfair.

For non-gaming workloads, they're basically sitting on par or better because of the giant pile of e-cores, and for single-threaded performance (on p-cores) they're also on par to slightly ahead.

Sure, the x3d chips are the gaming kings and no argument here, but that's not moving volume - even AMD is all-in on the datacenter side because their gaming/consumer side sales have evaporated into nothingness.

Intel's problem isn't an inability to design CPUs that are competitive, it's an inability to create production-ready processes that are competitive with TSMC.

At some point they're going to have to decide if spending endless billions on processes that aren't competitive is the best use of their resources. Owning the ability to make your product is super important, but for certain market segments (client desktop and laptop) maybe going 'fuck it' and fabbing on the best process you can find so that your CPUs come out competitive is probably the way to go - and, honestly, is pretty much already what they've done with ARL.

I'd also maybe agree that the pricing is an issue: they're not industry-leading anymore but they've kept that pricing which almost immediately makes them less appealing than AMD if you don't need something Intel is offering you (like the accelerators in scalable Xeons or whatever). ARL immediately made me go 'How much? What the bleep?' when they announced pricing, because uh, they're way off on what they really should be asking.

Ryzen 7, so definitely not a low power

It's a laptop chip, and a 15w one at that so I wouldn't exactly say that's high-power.

I don't really think it's necessarily a deal breaker, but it's caused a lot of people a lot of nagging little issues and might be worth making sure you're not going to run into anything.

I'm super stoked at the appearance of the nas appliance form factor with hardware that's got performance that isn't rotten potato level.

Next rebuild I do is certainly going to be one of these things, though that's probably a billion years away since my current nas is hilariously overpowered.

I don't think a change in testing on YouTube for the last few days made any difference to the number of people who used PeerTube last month.

I like PeerTube and use it where I can, but it's still basically the content problem, which is to say there's no content on PeerTube from anyone I follow on Youtube with the exception of one dude. (Hi Jan Beta!)

I watch mostly tech/retro tech/retro gaming/random old crap Youtube stuff so it's a big overlap in user bases, but, well, no monetization means there's no incentive for people who do that as a job so there's still... nothing there.

Youtube won't make a critical screw up that'll tilt the scales meaningfully in the favor of other platforms unless they massacre payouts to the point that Patreon and sponsor funded creators no longer care about Google's pennies, and will be more receptive to at least parallel uploads to other platforms.

The user experience is unlikely to enshittify enough that creators decide to bail from the google money, no matter what they do.

Looks like it's a i226-v nic, which uh, has a reputation for being kinda shit.

It's not a universal problem, but it's probably something to keep in mind.

Mine's running just fine (along with about a dozen other things) on the A1/ARM instance you can get for free.

I wouldn't say performance is stunningly good - the Ampere cores aren't especially fast single threaded, and postgres is.... well, it's not the most threaded thing ever under really low loads - but it does what it's supposed to.

So don't take this as rude, but if none of you have experience running email for a business, you're probably better off contracting that part out.

It's a lot of work to get working, keep working, and is prone to exploding for no particular reason so if this is a business-critical component, it's worth the $20 a month to get it hosted where making your email actually deliver to people's inbox is someone else's problem.

Same for the business website: if it being down is going to cost money, a simple static page like that is hostable for literally free with cloudflare or netlify or any of a couple of other providers, and that's probably what I'd do. (And, frankly, is what I do with a lot of stuff I host.)

As for storing and accessing remote documents, if you pay for gsuite or office365, you'll get that included in the price, so like uh, that might be the best way to go.

I know this is literally not what you asked, but....