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Now that it's finally cold out, I've been spinning up more systems to run Folding@home. I already have a 42u and a couple 12u server racks, so it makes sense to build a few rackmount rigs to better utilize space. This one is the combination of all the cheapest stuff I've acquired in the past year. Motherboard - Supermicro X12STL-IF $39.64 - This was miscategorized and listed in the watercooling section on ebay. Seemed to be BNIB. CPU - $34.98 - Pentium Gold G6500 Used ebay find. PSU1 - $34.98 - 1u HP 1200w platinum that came with the breakout board and some PCIe risers. (decommissioned mining system). PSU2 - $20.09 - Mean Well LRS-100-12 powering a PicoPSU that came with some board I bought to benchmark a couple years ago. GPU - $194 - RTX 4070 Ventus. Got lucky and snagged this from Microcenter. Typically I get decent deals on open box stuff there. This was actually a new card that was in the clearance section. I've seen a couple of times where a last gen GPU will pop up for for crazy cheap. Maybe they find a random box in the back and the SKU is so old that when they scan it in it instantly goes to super clearance pricing? Case - $7 RackChoice 2U. Appeared new and unused. Got from an auction place called BidFTA that has several warehouses around here. This is the 3rd rack case I've picked up cheap from there. Any other tidbits were things I already had in the spare parts bin. The V1 proof of concept using a 170w PSU I salvaged from the e-waste pile. The SATA to PCIe power adapter was a little too ghetto for my taste. Mocking up with an old Quadro. Finally found a home for the slime green 80mm Gelid fans that have been sitting in the OnlyFans pile for way to long. Finally decided to toss everything together and get it up and running. The look on the kids face when he saw what this rang up at was priceless. Realizing I bought it in July and am just now doing anything with it makes me want to quit my job even more. Being out of town for work all the time makes it hard to work on my computer projects. Nice thing about using a server board is it has IPMI so I can manage the thing headless. It's running Linux Mint XFCE because I'm not enough of a nerd to use CLI. I'll play around with LACT to dial in an undervolt. Already doing pretty decent.

You shouldn't have to employ workarounds to deliberately hostile anti-consumer acts by auto manufacturers who have engineered solutions to previously nonexistent problems. Parking brakes have worked for generations before this garbage. Anyone could have seen this coming after BMW tried to charge subscription fees for heated seats. The contemporary automotive industry is built on greed and attempted entrapment of consumers into the manufacturer's product and service ecosystem, as well as financial debt if you're crazy enough to take out a loan (I could just stop the sentence there, but in this case, a loan offered by the dealer). I realize I'm not contributing much with respect to the poll because I won't buy a car that phones home or has unnecessary bullshit systems to complicate functions that had been working fine previously for decades.

I have a whole bunch of 18V Makita cordless tools, since I switched over from Milwaukee 15ish years ago. In all that time the only tool that died was a compact drill that I abused for quite a few years. I also have some 10+ year old 2Ah and 3Ah batteries that refuse to die. I've been eyeballing the 12V wrenches and ratchets, but haven't decided if the compact size is worth it. This got me wondering how many Makita cordless tools I actually have, so here's the list: 1/4"/3/8" Ratchet 2x 3/8" Impact Wrench 1/2" Impact Wrench 1/4" Impact Driver 1/4" Sub-Compact Impact Driver 1/2" Hammer Driver-Drilll 2x 1/2" Sub-Compact Driver-Drill 6-1/2" Circular Saw 6-1/2" Sub-Compact Circular Saw 7-1/4" 36V Worm Drive Circular Saw 6-1/2" 36V Plunge Track Saw Jig Saw Reciprocating Saw Compact Reciprocating Saw 16" 36V Chain Saw 10" 36V Pole Saw Oscillating Multi-tool 3-1/4" Planer Compact Router 4-1/2"/5" Grinder 1/4" Die Grinder 16 Ga Nibbler 5" Orbital Sander 6" DA Polisher High Pressure Inflator Grease Gun Compact Vaccum 18 LED Flashlight LED Flashlight/Lantern Holy cow , I didn't realize I had that many Makita cordless tools.

On some level, the battery ecosystem plays a factor as well, or there's one particular tool by that brand standing out well above the competition that it justifies buying into the rest of the ecosystem. I bought into the Milwaukee M18 ecosystem, but the only tools I got new were a multi-tool that isn't even from their brushless Fuel line, and what Project Farm calls the "knockoff Milwaukee" handheld vacuum cleaner that outperformed the genuine Milwaukee in his shootout review. My Milwaukee Fuel hammer drill, impact wrench, and hatchet pruning saw were all bought lightly used at very sensible prices. I never would have bought any of those at full retail. I don't have any particular affinity for Milwaukee or its parent company TTI, which is notorious for being ass about honoring warranties. I think buying into the 18V battery ecosystem of one of the big three is more important than anything else so that you can also buy off-brand tools that use those batteries. Back when some folks were on here looking at USB air dusters, I checked to see if there was one that was compatible with M18 batteries, and indeed there was. Now Milwaukee has since made their own version at an exorbitant $180, but I'd gladly opt for the M18-compatible duster for a quarter of the price and more powerful than any USB-charged equivalent in that price range.

Spectrum wasn't 'forced' to do it, they just decided to be supportive of Disney They lost 6 months of revenue for it. I wonder how much Disney paid them, or if the payment was avoiding the legal fees that Cox is paying. 6 months of 1.5 mbps seems like cruel and unusual punishment. Google has weighed in with support for Cox. It's almost like Google is also an ISP... Seems like Youtube would be a bigger target that torrenting users. If that "Somebody" wasn't you, you should use a longer wifi password. Cracking passwords is suprisingly simple if they aren't very long.

Windows 11's latest update includes a free File Explorer flashbang bug for dark mode users wanting to relive their early Counter-Strike days | PC Gamer WWW.PCGAMER.COM Just remember, we're all Microsoft's QA testers now. This is hardly news with the way microsoft is, but the title was so good I couldn't help myself.

If this turns out to be true, I might have a lawsuit against Disney! Long story short - apparently SOMEBODY on my home network was torrenting some stupid Disney TV show. Spectrum shut off our internet service due to it. Still don't know who it was, or if it was even true since nobody in my house even watches that stupid show (I think it was Mandalorian). But yeah, Spectrum had cut me off from internet services for 6 months for that. And they were the ONLY broadband company here (still is). I can get CenturyLink DSL with 1.5 Mbps down / 256k up.

I was surprised when I ran across a video about this issue, then even more surprised when a story about the breaks and why they were safer and now being used on most cars wouldn't allow the comments section to open so I could post.

I don't own anything with an electronic parking brake and don't want to. I have three cars with manual transmissions and standard hand brakes. I do my own maintenance. I have a Cobb Accessport in the Mustang that can read/reset codes. If I need to change anything more advanced, I have a USB to OBD2 adapter and use a program called FORScan that can interface with just about every module in the car. Eventually when it gets too hard to find vehicles without all that crap, I guess I'll move somewhere that stays a bit warmer all year and go back to riding a motorcycle every day. Granted, even bikes are starting to get loaded up with extra fluff these days.

I just started to learn about OBD2 software and was suprised that electronic parking brake reset was a thing. I'm still using a mechanical park brake. E-brake reset tends to be offered with subscription software (about $60 a year), or more expensive obd2 readers for $120 (one time purchase), or so. There's a slew of obd2 readers and they all have their own marketing gimmicks. From what speed_demon on discord has been teaching me, the right software and a $25 obd2 to usb cable can do the reset. I haven't quite figured out what program is good, probably because my laptop isn't using linux and I haven't tried with a live boot image yet. From what I've read about the pin layout and data transfer; companies may have proprietary data transfer, but it's not encrypted. It just comes down to not having a set standard used across the industry. Manufactures may use a different pin/wire to transfer the data. Which in turn has become a way for companies to milk mechanics for more money. The whole system is a rabit hole that most guys changing brake pads don't want to deal with. But it's far from the anti-consumer standards set by apple who pair their phone cameras to only work with 1 phone. Let's not give them any ideas... Louis' example is a bit extreme because the guy asked the dealership what to do and they gave him the run around. "Buy this tool, use this software, oh that software hasn't been updated for 2025." Actual mechanic shops have probably figured it out already, but anyone else can lose a couple hours of their life trying to figure it out. Similarly any automobile parts shop could probably have reset it for free. (Wouldn't be the first guy fixing their car in an autozone parking lot). One of the 3 great lies is "It's on the computer it will just take a minute." In this situation, people aren't used to interacting with car computers. It's like using a keyboard without experience.

its an electric motor, just put a battery on it in the reverse direction.

I only wish and hope he's correct in some way. Pretty plain to see the circular path and reinvestment cycles; vapormoney while increasing stock assets. What a drag this modern era is in some ways. This whole ball of wax has to melt at some point.

https://openai.com/index/openai-amd-strategic-partnership/ Consider that a nuclear power plant puts out an average of 1 gigawatt of power and OpenAi is contracting for 6gigs total with 1 gigawatt in 2026 alone. Where is this power going to come from when the U.S. already suffers from rolling brown outs in the summer with storms effecting the power system? Before demands like this can even begin to be considered, the whole grid needs to be upgraded and stabilized!

Dude that's pretty cool that people are still developing on Bulldozer and Piledriver. The article is correct, they really do have a special spot in hardware history where they're still modern enough to work, but yet old enough to not require all the firmware level screwery that we have on modern AM4 / AM5 systems (and Intel).

I saw that video! Was actually not surprised seeing how well optimized BF6 appears to be. The FX series are still "capable" CPU's in modern terms, they're just really slow.

Let's hope that one day they consider the 4090 and 5090 obsolete, so we can buy them cheap from AI farms. NVIDIA’s Explosive AI Chip Demand Pushes TSMC to Boost 3nm Production by a ‘Whopping’ 50%, Preparing for Next-Gen Rubin Lineup WCCFTECH.COM NVIDIA's CEO is currently in Taiwan, and a key agenda of his meeting would be securing a 'massive chunk' of 3nm production.

Later years of the Cobalt SS were turbo which would be the most desirable if going that route. This will be the most different experience from what you already have. MX5/Miata for under $9k could get you into anything from first gen through early 3rd gen. NA or NB will be more like a go-cart than a car. The NC would have more overlap with your Camaro. Even with my bias of owning one and loving it, I wouldn't chose one as the daily driver. The Civic will be the best daily driver, but the least special feeling. If you just want to make it to work every day and not have to worry about tinkering with things the Civic is going to make the most sense. On the opposite end of the spectrum, the Cobalt SS will be the crappiest car on the list. They are just hopped up throw away economy cars and fairly old at this point. I thought they were pretty cool when they were new. I still wouldn't mine having one or an SRT4 to tool around in as a project but not a daily. Realistically, given that you already have a Camaro for the fun car, I'd be looking at something more practical as the daily. Honda Fit or Mazda3 hatch.