RetroFedeurodyne, eurodyne@piefed.world
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PC GamingJust for the sake of titillation, this is the oldest drive. I still have running on that server:
I’m pretty sure that this drive and the two other drives, which are in similarly terrible condition, could simply just die at any moment
And I am so poor, that I could, of course, not afford to replace any of them, especially considering hard drive prices at the moment.
Edit: if you know how to read Smart status output, you can clearly see that this hard drive is, for all intense and purposes, already quite dead. It’s a fucking miracle. I can read any data off of it at all. But it chugs along, as if it was brand new. Bless fucking Seagate.
You know it’s even more frustrating? Hoping you’re almost 15 year-old computer and almost 10 year-old storage array hosting your 20 y/o media library will continue to work because you’re too poor to replace any of that.
Times are tough
Edit: Seagate EXOS— worth every fucking penny. I’ve never had a Drive fail, and I have witnessed many drives work 24/7/365 perfectly well beyond 10 and even 12 years without losing a byte.
Ever seen a drive return a full bank of SMART diagnostics with “OLD AGE”? Yeah, that’s a thing.
Seagate EXOS Enterprise Hard Drives. There are no other others.
Why does a plex server need a GPU?
Transcoding and other sundry tasks. But, not really for much if one is conscientious about downloading files in the proper formats in the first place.
Couldn’t like the integrated GPU on a raspberry pi so the work for 1/100th the energy?
Today? Probably. But a GPU from 14 years ago isn’t remarkably more powerful than a raspberryPi’s integrated GPU from today. Time flies, buddy! 14 years is a very, very long time in terms of silicon.
I’m sure it wouldn’t be too much work for you to look up the specs and shove some more “I told you so” in my face, but I think I’ve made my point
Well bless all your fucking hearts.
You’re better people than I am
Yeah nah, the 8 gig would be fine with lower end applications. I’d be able to calc up a house on a low powered version of AutoCAD or the like, produce a dxf, go set the thing out and spit out the pdf and setout file. I had no dramas dong this on stuff far less powered than this.
Ah, yes, the halcyon days of the 00s, when nobody knew any better, and when ram and CPU cycles flowed like water from tap
I’d actually have no issues drawing up a few things.
Oh, buddy, 30 seconds in, you’d have a very quick change of attitude. This was an awesome machine back in 2012, but just try to render a few polygons now, and you’d be tearing your hair out.
Like I said, it’s great for some network-based video streaming, but, today, its limits are extremely well-defined, and for good reason.
Linux GamingSince they announced that they’re working towards GOG Galaxy on Apple Silicon, this seems like a natural progression.
Whoever these people are, they’re fucking amazing, and I love them
From my experience, I think you’re being a little hopeful here. For this machine to transcode even a single video stream is really pushing it. That’s why all video on the server is H265, so it can always direct play to my AppleTVs at the lowest bit rates possible, while still maintaining the highest quality and Atmos surround sound + HDR
During my monthly reboot, even starting it up is a monumental strain. It takes almost 15 minutes for it to fully get its shit together. I’m at the point where I have to stage docker to start up after everything else is already done starting up. I have nine containers in three stacks. no biggie for a modern computer, but I’m not running this on a modern computer.
There’s not an SSD in the machine at all. And not for lack of trying. But that’s a conversation for another time.
Altogether, when treated with a gentle hand, this machine performs as perfectly as when it was new.
When treated with a gentle hand… and I’m sure I can get another 14 years out of it. When treated with a gentle hand…
Oh, before you ask: I’m not cheap. I’m just poor.
Once they factor in the Time Machine to transport this video card 15 years into the past, it should be quite the deal!
It would be perfect to replace the failing Radeon 6970M video card in my 14 year-old Plex server (3 10 year-old Seagate EXOS dives included)! The only problem is that my entire 14 year-old Plex server is only worth about half the price of this video card, and I already have 8GB of VRAM!
Soooo… why would anyone buy this?
memes@lemmy.world
Only because Google actually worked as advertised (and only as advertised). Compared to what Google is now, that’s a matter of opinion.
All things considered, I’ll take the Google of yesteryear over the Google of today. I’ll also take a more privative and much goofier/glitchier YouTube.
Shit, I remember when having a Gmail account was a coveted thing that required an invite that people paid literally hundreds, even thousands of dollars for. I had five, and I sold one for $2k, and another for $4k. (These people were total twats). Decades later, I still use my fistname.lastname@gmail.com addy, while one is dead, and the other got married 2 months later and changed their name anyway. Idiots, lol. Weeks later, invite Scott bumped up to 50, then 250, then unlimited, then it got opened to the public.
Being impatient is expensive.
Grad school was a crazy time
Memes
memes@lemmy.world
possibly– Homer may have been an actual person, or the name may just refer to an amalgamation of people who compiled many myths and legends, passed down for generations through oral tradition, to paper, once and for all.
memes@lemmy.world
Unironically, that’s usually what most geocities pages were about
No Stupid QuestionsI have no obligations for the rest of the day. I’m currently vacillating between making coffee and not making coffee before I go and play cyberpunk 2077 for the rest of the day.
Update: I made coffee
memes@lemmy.world
It’s also uncertain whether Homer was even a real person himself.
People Twitter@sh.itjust.works
Considering how many children he has sired, I’d be surprised if he only had one kid who was trans
memes@lemmy.world
Eh, back when GeoCities was still a thing, most people were too busy actually having a life to regularly post about it online. Since this was before smartphones, updating a social media profile was a lot more complicated and time-consuming.
Having an active social media profile back then was often a red flag that a person was more “talk” than “walk“.
memes@lemmy.world
Back in my day, there were alternatives to Google
TechnologyAt least then, you are legitimately justified in telling them to “suck it”
Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world
That reminds me of a really awesome show I need to revisit.
Hey, baby ❤️
“We’d sue you, but we’re all secretly a trillion dollars in debt, and we all need to reach the End of Year showing “profits“ so we can all trigger our golden parachutes before we trigger the Great Global Economic Collapse of 2027!”
Recently switched to Fedora myself, and I could not be happier ❤️
I remember this post
The article
Word
Lmao fixed
I’m certainly home for at least two meals a day on most days, sometimes three.
And I still don’t get the hostility towards me just because you don’t make enough time to clean your kitchen, lol
One you just made up. It doesn’t take Superman to wipe a counter down with a wet sponge when you’re done making food. lol. Sorry you’re having such problems in your life that not living in a pigsty is a standard you consider “way too high”
Yikes
I do live a real life. I also prepare multiple meals a day, and if I didn’t clean my counters afterwards, they’d be disgusting.
I can’t imagine the state your kitchen must be in, or do you just eat out all the time?
I was referring to chromium forking from WebKit
Adblock plus was pretty good, but it could leak from time to time with YouTube ads. Sometimes needed a little extra to make sure you got everything on YouTube.
Yes, interesting. I see that it got forked a few years back into something called Blink. I didn’t realize that.
Hopefully, you clean your counters more than once a day, regardless of whether you have cats on there
Apple played it safe during this whole AI craze, and as a result, when the bubble pops, they’re gonna be sitting on a gigantic pile of cash that they didn’t gamble away.
Those are all just WebKit-based browsers, which is Safari, too. UBlock Origin Lite works just as well though.
I remember, like 15 years ago, you used to have to install a whole bunch of different extensions to filter them all out. Now it’s one extension, and it pretty much comes perfectly configured right out of the box. You don’t even need to fiddle with it.
And I think it’s a same extension for every browser
I’ve practically forgotten that ads exist to the point that, on the very, very rare occasion, I ever encounter one, I react like a vampire encountering sunlight
He should be allowed on the counter if he’s that adorable
Curious about that one too
Ew…
Exactly… And this is part of my bigger point: Trump thinks that he’s somehow gonna wait out the midterm elections and come out on the winning side by re-introducing Blanche’s nomination afterward, but it’s likely he’ll have even a worse chance of getting him confirmed then.