FWIW to anyone reading this and shopping for hardware, the card I’m using is an Intel 82599ES.

But I’ve had the same issues on a TrueNAS machine with a Mellanox ConnectX-3. I assume the limited speed was just due to the hardware, but after upgrading from TrueNAS CORE to TrueNAS SCALE, suddenly I was getting full 10 Gbit throughput.

When I got 10 Gbit internet at home I didn’t like the prices of any of the 10G routers for sale so I built my own out of a $80 used ThinkCentre Tiny, $7 PCIe riser, and $20 dual-10G Intel NIC. My APs are the Ubiquiti UniFi APs I was already using (The router I switched from was a Ubiquiti USG3)

Initially I tried opnSense (and pfSense) but no matter what I did I couldn’t get 10G throughput, so I switched to OpenWRT which has been working great. I feel like the Linux kernel will have better support than FreeBSD since it has a bigger user base.

For a 1G/2.5G network you can probably get a way with even cheaper hardware.

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The EU is still poorer than the US

The poor parts of Eastern Europe like Romania are awash in cheap, fast internet though

My SMB slowness has always been when copying a lot of files, the Finder does something really slow and weird when trying to figure out if the destination can be copied to (dunno if it’s checking for existing files with the same name or what). Once the actual transfer is going it’s fast, but then it hits the next file and pauses for several seconds while it’s doing something

$30/mo for 10 Gbit here in Japan. They just started offering 25 Gbit in parts of Tokyo this month for $200/mo

Hasn’t the Prius also generally used NiMh batteries rather than the Lithium-based chemistries?

No deduplication. Before replying I tried doing some research to find where the 1 TB/1 GB rule came from originally but couldn’t find any original source, and everything I found said that was without deduplication, for dedup its supposed to be more like 5 GB/TB (no idea how true that is either)

Yeah, TB, oops, edited thanks!

That whole “1 GB per TB of capacity” is some generic rule someone made up once that doesn’t really have anything backing it up. It depends completely on your use case. If it’s mostly media storage that is rarely accessed, I’m sure that 4 GB is plenty.

I run a beefy TrueNAS server for a friends video production company with a 170 TB ZFS array, right now ARC is using 40 GB of RAM with 34 GB free that it’s not even bothering to touch, I’m sure most of the ARC space is just wasted as well. That’s just one example of how 1 TB = 1 GB makes no sense.

Whoever inside of Netflix pushed for this, you’re fighting the good fight!

13 running on my little Synology.

Actually more than I expected, I would have guesses closer to 8

Laptops have all but taken over from desktops for everything but AAA gaming. New houses are still built with zero Ethernet because “the internet is Wi-Fi right?”

People are using their laptops to edit video off of a NAS, MacBooks can run 100 GB LLMs. Heck even non-AAA games are many gigabytes.

What happened to Second Life anyway? All the gooners are on VRChat now and they seem to be doing fine

I mean I’m a big fan of VR but it’s clearly been a money pit for meta, their massive investment in it is never going to pay back, they were betting on selling “metaverse” real estate rather than making money on the hardware

Windows 8 was where Microsoft went all-in on optimizing Windows to run on low-power tablets to compete with the iPad. It’s mostly remembered for the terrible tablet-first full-screen “start menu”, but also continued the work to trim away all the Vista bloat that had started with Windows 7 (where the motivation was to make it work on netbooks so they could finally stop shipping XP)

That’s not a solution. There is no other carrier that has the coverage I need.

The problem with eSIM as a concept is that it puts too much responsibility on the carrier, and there are way too many shitty carriers out there, and with the cost of building a network and the limited amount of spectrum, mobile carriers are not a functioning free market.

The screen died on my wife’s iPhone, fine I have other spare iPhones aplenty she can switch to. But at some point she had accepted a prompt on the iPhone to switch to eSIM so we couldn’t just move a physical SIM over, you had to go through the “transfer eSIM” menus, which we couldn’t do because the screen was dead. The only option the carrier gave us was going to a physical store.

I’m never switching my main carrier to eSIM, what a PITA for absolutely no upside.

(they’re great for throwaway travel SIMs though)

My parents came to visit my over xmas and installed Airalo to get a local SIM. Activation failed, the support AI bot re-issued the eSIM, activation failed again, it got escalated to human support, they asked for a refund, and 12 hours later randomly the phone popped up an “eSIM activated!” message. That would have sucked if you actually relied on needing the SIM on landing.

On my (OpenWrt) router, configured using the OpenWrt interface