Fluxmaven

I'm sure they will have no problems flipping them all for a small profit. Enthusiasts like us don't really see the appeal of a laptop because we value performance over portability. General consumers don't want to be tied to a desk and don't really care about specs as long as it's reasonably responsive which these 8th gens with SSDs are perfectly snappy for general web browsing. I hate my work laptop too... Mines a heavy 17" touchscreen Dell. Unfortunately most of my work involves going out on site so a desktop isn't really an option.

I really don't get why people don't pick it up a bit when making a left across traffic... It was obvious that both you and the blue SUV in the lane next to you were approaching... Not sure why she would just casually pull out. She could have easily avoided the accident by just giving it a bit more gas and actually getting through the intersection in a timely fashion. I have to turn left across traffic every morning to jump on the highway and there's always some indecisive person that holds it up forever. Or worse, causes an accident like yours. Although the alternative route would involve a roundabout and dropping into downtown Cincinnati before jumping on the highway and I'm definitely never in the mood to deal with that BS first thing in the morning As far as speeding goes, less than 10 over is fine most of the time. As long as it's not residential or a school zone.

Always willing to help brother. I'm actually still figuring out the specifics of TrueNAS/FreeNAS myself. I'm more used to larger enterprise SAN setups from my days working in IT.

So my mom mentioned that if I had any extra computer stuff laying around she could really use a decent desktop PC for working from home since her work laptop is crap and her personal computer is a Macbook Air that won't run all the software she needs... She requested just using spare parts if I had some and not to go out of my way to buy anything... I can create a surplus of spare parts if I buy myself new parts for my rigs Decided I'll give her one of my ITX boards and an 11400. Hoping to get myself a Ryzen 7700x to replace it. I picked up a Louqe Raw s1 but decided it's maybe a bit too minimalist for her. Also picked up a Phanteks Evolv Shift which I think will work great. Sort of similar design but it's a bit bigger and IO is accessible from the top. Just wanted something relatively small that didn't have a "gamer" aesthetic. Thermals aren't an issue since it's not going to be doing anything super intensive. For my Sim rig update, I picked up a couple cases. An Asus Strix Helios and TUF GT501. I think the Strix looks nice, but I'm leaning towards the TUF since it has slightly better airflow and I want to run dual 360 rads. I'm going to have to have a yard sale at some point... The office is starting to look like a Microcenter storage room

I think there might be some confusion on what's going on when swapping boards, NICs, etc... All the actual data in ZFS is contained within the drives themselves. When you say "can't connect to the drive" I think you are referring to your SMB share that you have mapped in Windows. Breaking the share doesn't harm the actual data. If you go from a board with one kind of network controller to another, you would need to reconfigure your settings because the underlying device name changes ("em0" -> "igb0" for example), but the data will still be there. Also, Gigabit is fully saturated at 125MB/s. Even spinning rust can manage more than that in ZFS. I tested this myself by transferring the same folder with 31GB of video files across two different NICs to my NAS. Over gig it averaged around 110-115MB/s. Over 2.5G it was 280-285MB/s. At the end of the day, you have it up and running and it seems to meet your needs currently. So there's no big rush to change anything, I just like giving you a hard time

I must have just gotten lucky. My 2.5g NIC and LSI HBA card both worked flawlessly right out the gate. I'm on TrueNAS 13 though.

Sounds like just removing and reconnecting the share on Windows would have fixed it but a whole OS re-install never hurts I love the comical overkill of the i9 mixed with the mediocrity of the onboard 1G NIC.

Lol looking into the 24 hour average... We're all out here playing checkers and Firedfly is playing chess. Really though, It's all in good fun and nice to see a good turnout!

I'll definitely fold more when it's colder out. It's hard enough to keep the house cool in the summer without a bunch of PCs dumping extra heat into the room... Need to slip a folding rig or two into the server room at work

Unrelated to the thread, but just wanted to comment on the fact that we had very similar upgrade paths lol. My old main system was a 4790k + 980ti with an SSD + HDDs and now have a 5900X + 3090 with all SSD storage. Even use an OLED for a monitor! Basically, you have good taste in computer components fine sir.

Yup... Used to just be able to do a lil strange for some change to afford a new GPU. Now you gotta be a full time onlyfans model on top of a day job to keep up with the latest tech. On a more serious note, I am glad to see them pushing more VRAM. Helps keep cards relevant for much longer. I still have a Titan Black that I was actively using up until a year ago. The 780ti with only 3GB became a paperweight much sooner.

This looks like fun. I'm in the process of rebuilding my racing sim, but once I get it going I'd be down for a drive.

+1 for TrueNAS. Tried it for the first time recently and really like it.

Sure, I wouldn't mind helping out. Having projects with deadlines would motivate me to not leave my personal projects half finished since I'd need to keep the workbench tidy. That said, I don't have a dedicated test PC and all of mine have custom loops. So I might not have the quickest turn around if I need to pull a build apart to swap components.

in Fluxmaven Haru is also in. Folding = lots of heat coming from the PCs which he is fond of.

Congrats

I'm also completely self taught on working on cars. I initially started doing my own maintenance because it was cheaper. Now I do it because I know if I do it, it's done to a standard I'm happy with.

By turning off most of my systems and forgetting to participate at all

What you have probably is some variation of Tygon if you bought it from US Plastics. You just had some really thin wall stuff. Here's some pics of my B I G CHUNGUS 1/2x3/4" Tygon Norprene. It just says Norprene on the tubing itself, but it is Tygon A-60-G. The name is similar but Norprene ≠ Neoprene.

I moved up to a 4K monitor for productivity reasons when I transitioned to working from home when Covid hit. A good friend had 4x 1080p displays in a grid and it was awesome but I thought to myself, why not just get a single large 4k display and have essentially the same thing without the bezels. Picked up an Asus 43" Strix and loved it. Not long after I finally saw an OLED in person and had to have it. Picked up a CX48 that I still use currently. I think the 43" was better size for a PC monitor so I'll probably pick up the new C2 42" OLED and move the CX to my bedroom. With a 5900x and a 3090, I don't have any issue running games in full res, but since I sit relatively close, I often run games in a custom ultrawide resolution to make it a bit more manageable.

Recently built a racing sim setup and have been playing a lot of Assetto Corsa and Forza Horizon 5.

I'm also the "I know a guy" IT person. It rarely ends up being a good thing lol. I hate working on old consumer spec junk. Especially laptops. I also don't like sifting through old slow hard drives (assuming they even work). Whereas If someone showed up with an old custom rig in a TJ07 I'd be chomping at the bit to go over every inch of it and get it fired up.

I don't have any need for a prize but forgot to exclude myself. @Cerberus mentioned needing several SSDs, could you send them an extra on my behalf?

In Fluxmaven I'll try to remember to turn all my computers on this time

I used to rotate constantly because I was upgrading and flipping boards a lot. I actually prefer clicky boards but have settled on mostly using tactile boards as to not disturb the people I'm around. I recently changed careers and went from an IT sysadmin with a private office to being an AV engineer that's mostly out in the field. I have the Clueboard in my cube for the rare times when I'm actually in the office. In my shared home office I have been using the Kara, and in my bedroom I'm using the Realforce.