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I had an old UPS that lasted one bad surge. But it saved my hardware. My current cyberpower has lasted 5 years and numerous cycles, pretty good for the price point. We lose power pretty frequently and it gives me enough time to shut down my server and then run the WiFi for 90 minutes.

How do people feel about recycling drives & data privacy? I’m all for getting rid of ewaste properly, but get leery about secure disposal of storage.

Two days after I see this and I’m out for a walk and I notice a ‘house’ that I drive by every day is a substation. It was the hum and steel front door that gave it away.

I got a cheap sandy bridge celeron for my mini-ITX desktop years ago, anticipating an upgrade to a 3770k. That upgrade never happened and the memory is limited to a single 8GB dimm, but I’m still running it pretty happily.

They’re back/doubling down: https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2021-supermicro/

I’d just appropriate the laundry and the dryer outlet... (a clothes rack in the hot aisle would take care of the laundry too)

At this capacity I am tempted to mirror two and call it a day

Thanks, I ended up getting a ‘new’ GT1030 as it was somewhat time sensitive. There doesn’t seem to be a whole heap at the lower end of the market.

We’re looking at heading back to WFH, after a lengthy period back in the office. Since going back into the office I’ve moved to a 4K screen. But I’m running a haswell laptop and sandy bridge desktop at home... My question is aimed at a specific use case (and I may have missed the answer in all...

Radeon and RTX in the same box..? How well do the drivers play these days?

I hope that’s a dry heat

I see two components to this. As someone who doesn’t have much of a tech budget, there are times when I can’t justify the initially requested outlay, but a 20% drop might bring it down into my range. Or maybe even 10%. I’ve also seen some items hang around on the forums for months, gradually...

I just went private mode (I don’t often do it) and went to the main site via my forum bookmark and after clicking the first article I got redirected again.

Just happened again to me on the main site

heh, that latter page is my bookmark, so now I know why I was getting the news since I last visited’ still.

I’m 5’9” and under 190lb, at work I have a moderately priced - I think $100-$200 Staples chair (mesh back with a fabric seat) at home I have a similarly priced Office Depot chair (mesh with what I assume is a pleather seat) that I got on sale. Both are fine for my 8 hour day use.

On my phone I use safari with the Firefox focus content blocker, which is disabled for this site.

I’ve been seeing this sporadically for about two weeks.

I was going to expand my pools of 6TB reds. Oh well, guess I will just have to go with bigger drives...

Working harder than ever. Doing more non-digital (wood working etc) things in my downtime to stay sane.