I’m guessing that a good chunk of that usage is coming from the TrueNAS VM.

Everyone is free to set their own priorities, but for me, I’ll just not purchase a thing at all, rather than buy it off Amazon. Most people buy too much crap they don’t actually need anyway.

The first thing I would do if I had a magic wand and could just change reality to see what happens, would be to get rid of Citizens United and whatever they called that decision that said money=speech. That’s the kind of thing that could actually happen without requiring wholesale societal change. Add in some strong campaign finance laws and maybe you could get some politicians who aren’t putting themselves up for auction to the highest bidder.

I’m definitely with you on that. I won’t buy any smart devices that require internet connections these days. And when looking to automate things, I’m much more likely to be buying a dumb device and a smart plug, rather than a smart device. That way I can still manually use the device if and when the automation side fails somewhere along the line.

I never understood why anyone would buy one in the first place. I like home automation where it makes sense (like having some of my bedroom lights and my coffee maker tied to my phone alarm in the morning) but why would anyone ever tie their fridge to the internet?

I used a hodge-podge of chinesium parts and leftover drives to create a DAS system that hooks up to an HBA via DAC. I’m actually kinda surprised how stable it’s all been.

There’s nothing more true than Occam’s razor. And stupid is by definition simple.

Unfortunately, when you apply Occam’s razor along with the second law of thermodynamics to politics, you end up with the current mess.

It’s an HBO political-comedy talk show. As far as I know, that’s a category of 2. It doesn’t take a conspiracy to see how one would be constantly in the suggestions of the other.

You are underestimating how truly idiotic the corporate world actually is.

I wouldn’t even credit them with that much thought. It’s far more likely that it’s simply “you watched late-night political comedy talk show, so here’s another late night political “comedy” talk show.”

I’m confused. Is it Bill Maher or just the concept of “You may also like” in general that you take exception to?

That falls squarely under the “don’t ask questions you don’t want the answer to” category.

You’d have to declare it and pay any import taxes on it, same as you would have had to do before the tariffs.

Me too. I’m on the right side of the border and would happily order from this company if they sell something I need.

I went from a 1080ti to a 6900xt during the pandemic when I found EKWB selling cards at MSRP. With Nvidia’s pricing and availability issues, I don’t see myself going back anytime soon.

Are you committed to Nvidia? I just looked, and currently 7800XTs can be had for less than $100 more than the 4060ti. I can’t imagine that AMD is going to raise prices that much.

Maybe it’s kind of a double switch and it’s going to be a 24 GB model?

Measuring my server cluster

Personally, I just don’t ask questions I don’t want the answer to.

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