Barbecue Cowboy

You can get x variants for under 100 too but you got to be more patient. Larger resellers don’t always understand the difference in models. You don’t have to go this in depth but look at the rear view for addons on the eBay listing. I usually don’t worry about buying ones with warranty/etc and I’ve only been burned once (probably water damage).

In my experience, if you’re wanting to use a USB Ethernet 2.5g or more, you may want to come up with at least a USB c port. I get that it should work with USB 3 but the speeds in practice just never worked out for me. I could have been facing those reliability issues you mentioned. Experiments in that area may eventually lead you back to scavenging for models that accommodate a riser card for 10g which is a very well weathered path. If you want Ceph, it’s not absolutely required but you’re probably going to end up there. I wouldn’t do Ceph again.

Somewhat similar on the CPU, I only discovered problems when I started experimenting with mass video re-encoding which is probably similar to the workload on Frigate. With the top on, I can only really use about half the cpus consistently. CPU upgrades are also mostly out.

Minor segue: If you haven’t checked out the servethehome forums, highly recommended. It’s probably the best source of knowledge on these.

That sounds terrifying for everyone. I don’t want to be the guy caught with the highly illegal content trying to explain that.

So, there’s also a 4 port Ethernet card fitted specifically for the m series tiny lines that you used to be able to get from Lenovo with a riser (your specific model may not have a riser). You can still get it on eBay, but AliExpress is probably your spot if you’re not a big spender.

Some specific revisions in the tiny lines won’t even have the spot where you’d plug a riser card into populated, I think the 910q may be one of the ones where it’s missing. The qs sometimes indicate the lowest spec but not always. The m910x will definitely have it and most specialty models in the m9xx(x) range will also have a riser slot. The cards come with a specially fitted bracket you can use though that will fit pretty seamlessly. The bracket is purchaseable separately pretty often and is repurposable with a bit of planning.

My purchases of used Lenovo hardware became problematic long ago. If you can spend the extra money on the x variants, you’ll also usually get a better heat sink which might let you actually use all of your CPU without having to leave the top of the case off. The heatsink is real rough to buy separately.

We can get around 15-20 but most aren’t interested in carriers that don’t have physical presences or aren’t “name brands”.

This is mostly what it’s designed for, peak capitalism. If it weren’t for the scam concerns presented by the fact that this is a spot in line and not actually a real product sale, eBay would want to have more of this.

I heard there was some new AI model that was so amazing for cyber security that they had to limit access to it. It’s just too bad Anthropic couldn’t use that.

Can you eat them? Or, can you eat them only once?

From experience, if you do, take a very long look at your neighbors. I almost ended up with what I now realize was suspiciously cheap land down the street from a cockfighting operation.

There’s a lot of companies thinking about it that are big enough that they don’t have to profit immediately. I think they’re mostly waiting to see Geforce Now raise prices and enshittify more. My prediction is we’ll have the various datacenter providers giving more deals on compute to make use of wasted cycles, maybe leading to various services renting that compute and dynamically tuning quality based on current cost. I.e., high performance gaming during off-peak hours and degraded performance during AI peak hours. Time limits will definitely become more frustrating.

Google might jump back in then if they didn’t have to run the service. For them, I think they exited because they established that they’d have to actually support the product if they wanted it to grow and there is nothing they hate more. Part of me feels like the dystopian future we’re heading to may be publisher based subscription passes similar to xbox game pass but more focused and providing drastically less value.

I think I’m out though, I don’t have to buy a battlepass for the chickens and if support ends I get to make curry.

Man, I feel ya there, I think I have Lenovo’s entire 2015 enterprise portfolio. There’s a channel called Hardware Haven on youtube and I realize I may have gone too far as whenever there’s a new video on old tech released it’s for something I already have in my basement.

LTT got a bit of a guess from Valve, the estimate is that the price was adjusted roughly in line with the recent Steam Deck increase.

Puts it about 850 or so for the base model if I’m estimating properly, but that is going from announcement to now, not all the way back to the beginning of all this mess.

You’re probably right…

As an optimist, I really hope this hardware crunch leads to a greater focus on polish and optimization. I feel like a lot of development studios have let specs inflate to cover being unwilling to focus on building their games efficiently. It can feel crazy when you start comparing specs on games from different studios.

As a realist, I imagine we’re just going to have a lot more cloud gaming services and that may just end up being the norm. I’m still waiting for a AAA publisher to start releasing their games exclusively to cloud platforms, probably first as a pre-release or early access bonus of some sort. I have my money on Ubisoft as the first big one if they manage to keep it together as a company.

As an anarchist, I’ve been looking into selling all my electronics and investing in some farmland.

It’s not the fastest solution, but the best answer for me almost always comes from spending an hour or so on the xda developers forum for whatever model phone I’m looking at.

Sometimes down votes are a sign that you’re saying things people don’t want to hear or the right things but on a crazy instance, but sometimes down votes are a chance for self reflection where you have to ask yourself “Am I the asshole?” and in the latter case yeah I’m probably just going to delete it. No apologies though, I’m not looking to be a saint here.

Around non-specifically 50% compared to as high as 29.999% doesn’t seem like a huge delta. I wonder what the real number on both is.

Edit: Looks like it was 52.4 and 29.1 respectively. The numbers on how much they trust the responses later in the article might be more worrying.

They also give you cool stickers with your laptop and that’s all I really want.