I’ve been using the same 10+ year old 128G SSD for transcoding, cache, and metadata storage for like 6 years now across multiple tiny servers (as I’ve upgraded) with limited RAM. My current one has 16G of RAM, which is more than enough for JF, but not enough to store a whole movie transcode, let alone multiple at once. Refycled small old SSDs are a lot cheaper and easier to come by than RAM these days, that’s all I’m saying. No hate of course, your setup makes sense for what you have, I’m just saying my way is cheaper and more than fast enough for people just building their servers now.

tmpfs is overkill. I just use a crappy old 128G SSD and it’s still way faster than needed for all of my transcodes combined.

Anyway just my 2 cents.

I’m still on there, primarily because a band I’m in uses it for events invites and uses Messenger for coordination group texts

Zorin and Mint are pretty similar, I wouldn’t stress about it as long as you’re happy with what you have

… You can use the Ubuntu installer. Mint is just Ubuntu with a more Windows-like desktop and some other tweaks that debatably make it more user friendly

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This is why I use international index funds primarily. Small cap is also a solid hedge

Open source models exist that can run on small devices for free. There are also some that need a chonky PC to run and have decent output quality. LLMs as a tool aren’t going to go away, but the AI industry is going to go through a massive contraction.

I too hoard a great deal of data and pray for the day ServerPartDeals has actual good deals again

For real. At best, we’re all going to become impromptu homesteaders/farmers. At worst, we starve before we can

It’s probably database performance related. There’s a massive PR undergoing round after round of reviews that, when merged, will be a change to 10.12 and will resolve all of the new database performance issues experienced in certain edge cases (book libraries, large music libraries, large collections, etc)

On the Nvidia Shield the MPV backend doesn’t really work, it has an issue with stuttering. Works great on my other TV, though. Besides that, just a few crashes early on, nothing recently, though.

I’ve been using it for a couple months. It’s been great, for the most part

Maybe don’t spout bullshit to make your point and people won’t call you on it?

Just a thought.

I mean you can keep being blatantly wrong and then being a big baby when called on it. It just makes you look like an over-emotional asshole.

Name one state with no EV chargers.

If you like to actually do your computing locally, it sucks. If you’re using it for web browsing, the specs are great.

They actually changed their policy on the heat of the coffee in the wake of the lawsuit. Also the lady only sued to have her medical bills covered but the judge awarded her a bunch of punitive damages.

They’re called DINOs

It does think, just not very logically.

To put it another way, it’s like we figured out how to give machines an intuition via Machine Learning. So you’ve got a machine with an intuition trained on all written text that is not literal gibberish, but by default all they know how to do is shoot from the hip with their intuition, and the only feedback they get for whether they said the right thing is whether the human they’re chatting with approves of what they say.

It’s a bullshitter to the extreme because that was how we built the incentive structure. And now they use the bullshitters to train better bullshitters.

Is it any surprise that business executives think that these are the ultimate in intelligence? All they do is bullshit.

Is it an assumption if there’s a complete lack of unit tests?