What exactly am I missing out on?

Oh no! If only there were easy ways around paywalls?

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Purely for the annoyance of the popups of X is playing a game or whatever. It’s also the laptop I (normally) do work on so I don’t the distraction.

I’ve never once considered the ram usage of steam. Any machine where ram is a concern is probably not a machine I’d want to play games on.

These cards are so specialized only the absolute enthusiasts would bother with them. They’re big, awkward, and very power hungry. Not suitable for any halfway sane person to just have sitting idle 80% of the time. The VAST majority of them will end up as ewaste.

On any machine that I’m regularly using steam I have it open on startup and never close it. The only exception is my laptop, but usually once it’s started I just leave it going until I reboot or the popups annoy me.

Ear buds

3 2 1 offsite backups typically happen a lot less often than local copies or local backups.

I also don’t really consider any machines data to be irreplaceable. If I lose my phone I want the latest backup. But taxes or photos I care for? Those are an entirely different backup, and those aren’t incremental. They’re just what they are.

Kinda depends on what it’s for. My server? IDK, 2 days. Maybe have a dedicated weekly/monthly backup left behind. PC? Honestly just the latest is fine.

But it’s a 10tb drive, so I’ve got months of backups even if they’re running continuously. It’s less a how comfortable I am and more a how much can I afford. (a lot more before the shortage)

I also explicitly purge stuff that’s constantly changing like logs. I don’t care for logs in my backups. Only on the live machine.

As long as I have space. My backups are on dedicated drives, and as they run out of space the old ones are deleted.

Just RTFM!!!

*reads the manual and there’s nothing about this*

…ok. Now what?

But enclosed in a box without much airflow and those temps are going to creep up over time. And take even longer to cool down. Hopefully there’s fans in the bottom or side. Because one exhaust is not great for even just the heat from those hard drives.

I think the best way to handle airflow out is to have a turn or two on the intake/exhausts for the noise to get trapped. I personally just put mine in my basement though. That limits the sound pretty well.

Gotta go fast. My WiFi can achieve > 1gbit, my internal network is already 10 gig. Why not support faster everywhere?

I was using an N100 based mini PC and it did fine at 1gbit. But now that I have 3, and it’s realistically closer to 4 or 5 it doesn’t cut the mustard.

Proper hardware based routers are also just so much more efficient. That N100 machine was constantly hot to the touch. My new UniFi router uses less power and does 10 gig easily.

I have yet to ran into anyone’s car, but I will say beep beep when I forget to say my (real) words and people do generally get the idea.

Why does it matter for a car like this? This isn’t even a car you’re supposed to drive. It’s a car you’re supposed to be driven in.

They’re connected to the internet so they can alert someone when they fail.

Inverter microwaves are amazing. 50% power is actually 50% power instead of 50% cycling on and off. So you’re far less likely to get food exploding at the end. Just consistent nuking until the end.

Also let your food sit for a bit before diving in. If the outside is hot but center cold then you need a lower power, or to let it sit for a minute or two and test again.

They do, they’re called servers. Ddr3 era servers are basically worthless. We have some old ddr3 servers at work that I can’t even give away short of dealing with the “free” section of Marketplace or CL. I ain’t dealing with that again.

The change in tdp doesn’t really change how the chip fundamentally acts. If you want a non furnace CPU then underclock it and power limit it. Maybe these new CPUs are 0.1% more power efficient as the manufacturing process has improved. But other than the core counts you can do the exact same thing with the existing chips.

We’re all able to use new technologies on old computer architectures…

Except we’re not? They’re still the same raptor lake CPUs. Maybe a bump in clock speed, maybe a change in core counts. But the underlying technology is still the exact same. The only new tech I’d expect on these boards is WiFi 7 instead of 6e. But most WiFi cards on desktop are M.2 and you can already swap them out.

The only mew thing is that they’re making them again, and making new versions of them. Otherwise it’s the same stuff. It’s just giving people a second chance to upgrade to this older stuff.