Avid tech and PC enthusiast. System Administrator by day, Dad by night.
370W average.
3 x Lenovo x3650 M5 (Proxmox Nodes)
TP Link TL-SG3428X switch
Raspberry Pi 3B+ (physical Pi-hole server)
Generic Mini PC Intel N3150 (OpenVPN client)
Dell Optiplex (OPNSense firewall)
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Maybe the pictures you were referencing weren’t very good but the switches aren’t covered by anything.
There’s a top plate that covers the PCB, but the switches are fully exposed and fit snugly against the top plate to prevent dust from going down onto the PCB.
I took a couple of pictures of my K8 Pro which is identical in construction to the K10 Pro. One with the keycap removed, and one with the switch pulled.
I know you mentioned Keychron seems low form factor, but that’s not my experience with the K10 Pro. I have been using this keyboard for a few months now and I love it. I got mine with Red switches.
Windows 2000 says hi to Windows 98
Elon probably unplugged a whole datacenter again.
https://futurism.com/elon-musk-moved-twitter-servers-himself
We just renewed support for our socket based perpetual licences for 3 years. This gives us plenty of time to find an alternative solution.
It’s how long it takes the system to render the next frame. High frame times are no good. Equates to lower average fps, and poor player experience. You also want stable frame times. This equates to smooth gameplay and less “stuttering”. Anything under 20ms is considered good. 10ms and less is great. Anything over 50ms will be perceived by the player in a negative way.
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I’m shocked
I highly doubt people are uninstalling their ad blockers. If anything they’ll just disable it on YouTube if it’s that big of an issue to them.
Firefox + uBlock still works for me on desktop. For my SmartTV and my phone I’m using other frontend applications to get around the ads.
Update the OS and all installed applications using a single command.
Pretty sure they’re not transporting kids in that vehicle, but the OP spotted this vehicle while taking the kids to school.
This.
I just went from Arch to Debian 12 Bookworm. Running the stable branch, but so far most of the packages are rather recent. Kernel is 6.1 instead of 6.4, but I could switch to the Testing or Unstable branch to get the “bleeding edge” packages/kernels if I need to. But honestly so far it’s been a real pleasure to use. Everything is just working and is stable.
The only time I’ve experienced a AAA game not working at launch or shortly after launch is when the developer explicitly goes out of the way to block usage on Linux.
Looking at you Bungie.
I don’t have a Steam Deck, but I just made the transition to fully running Arch on my gaming rig. So far everything just works.
Not saying you have to or anything, and I can understand and respect using something like MX Linux to save time on the customization. Just know that because it’s based on Debian, any core OS updates will be delayed while the MX team rebases them into their fork.
Honest question, but why not just install Debian with the Xfce DE? Why rely on a fork for updates?
From what I can tell both by testing MX Linux and by reading about it, it’s nothing more than Debian with a few pre-installed packages and some customization. All of which could be done on Debian directly without much trouble.
Thanks. Lots of hard work, blood, sweat, and tears went into this “final form”.
I kind of hear what you’re saying, but other than the GPU, and it’s waterblock, the rest of the system is not new. I originally bought the motherboard in 2019 with a 3900X when the X570 AM4 platform and the Ryzen 3000 series CPU’s came out. Then upgraded the CPU to a 5800X3D just over a year ago.
Why the 5800X3D? 1) Because at the time I bought it, it was THE fastest gaming CPU. It’s still an incredible CPU that has a ton of performance. 2) I got the 5800X3D because I primarily play games on my PC. I don’t do any video editing, streaming, or productivity work. My rig is custom built for gaming, and only gaming. Even going as far as running a customized Windows 10 install with a bunch of background processes and analytics bloat stripped out. This is what the 5800X3D was made for. You look at benchmarks and reviews of the 5800X3D and it was beating or matching the 12900K, for less money, and most importantly, for less power draw. Performs better, runs cooler, costs less. I see that as a no brainer, not a compromise. There was nothing budget friendly about any of this platform when the parts were bought.
If I was buying the platform now, new, yes… then I could see why you’d think that. Honestly at this point, I’d have to go to the AM5 platform, and the 7800X3D to get any better performance than I have already. Since the AM5 platform is brand new, I’ll give it a year and wait till the Ryzen 8000 series chips launch and look at the X3D variants then. I went bleeding edge with my X570 and the Ryzen 3900X and there was definitely early adopter pains. I get more than enough performance from my system, in the games I play. I judge my happiness based on how the games feel to me. If the games load fast, feel smooth, and perform well then I’m happy. I don’t look too closely at framerates, it’s just about the experience for me.
Honestly, if Intel launched a platform and a CPU that had the better performance per $ with less power draw, and better thermals than AMD, then I’d probably buy that platform, but as it stands that hasn’t been the case, for a while now. If the 13900K beats my 5800X3D by 10% in a game, but the difference is 270FPS vs 300FPS, I honestly see that as a null win for Intel. Because those extra 30FPS will never ever be noticed or seen. Especially when I cap my FPS to my monitor’s refresh rate. Anything above that is just wasted electricity.
That’s for everything listed above. This is measured straight from my UPS which everything is connected to.