Depends on if you are space constrained or not.

If not any GPU can be an M.2 GPU, so long as you don’t mind the 4x lanes.

Plenty of riser kits available from AliExpress or similar etailors. I’ve got an old HP all-in-one I’ve considered strapping a GPU to for some encoding tasks (plex / frigate) but also for shits and giggles.

Microsoft Windows be like

NM has been a marketing gimmick since Intel launched their long-standing 14nm node. Actual transistor density depending on which fab you compare to is shambles.

It’s now a title / name of a process and not representative of how small the transistors are.

I’ve not paid for a CPU upgrade since 2020, and before that I was using a 22nm CPU from 2014. The market isn’t exciting (to me anymore), I don’t even want to talk about the GPUs.

Back in the late 90s or early 2000s upgrades felt substantial and exciting, now it’s all same-same with some minor power efficiency gains.

I believe that functionality exists already if you are using Plex; via RSS sync.

Man, chill. Break the word down.

En - Into / Become Shit - Da poo poo Fication - The process of becoming

Really depends on what you want to do.

Same as any Linux system you don’t want applications to have root access all the time. However if I want to remove a system file or modify something that a normal user isn’t able to, something is going to require higher privileges than the standard user account has.

Granting blanket root to all programs on an android phone sure that’s a risk; but who the fuck does that on any system…

From memory individual apps would be able to request root which could be denied, approved once, approved always or ignored.

Aaaah pink eye!

In love with Syncthing. Does my keepass database across my servers / laptop / phone. Was using Bitwarden for that a while back but decided I’d rather self host and run my own backups, with blackjack and hookers.

Great for hosting roms on my server and pulling over to whatever device needs them.

Really depends on what you want out of the system, what you can spend and how much time you want to spend on it.

My old z390 itx system has a 16x PCIE to 4x m.2 card - leveraging an m.2 to 5x SATA adaptor with the built in SATA adaptors has given it plenty of space.

Considering I can grab m.2 to 6 SATA adaptors and fill the remainder of the slots that’s a decent chunk of drives from a single PCIE x16 slot.

Software is another kettle of fish and a good way to timesink, I’d rather not give too much of my personal experience as there are so many ways to skin that cat.

Unsure if the issue is fixed upstream in the kernel however there are a few topics going in depth about this issue with some reported fixes / workarounds.

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire/pipewire/-/issues/3182

https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/crackling-microphone/22173

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire/pipewire/-/issues/1569#note_1102615

Good luck with the issue, hopefully one of these links fixes that problem for you 🍻

Pipewire works fine on my Intel 5960x, Intel N3700, Intel 9900k, Intel 9700, AMD 4800HS and even my Intel ES Erying system. No pops or crackles from any inputs or outputs.

I’ve not tried with a dedicated sound card, just the onboard on all these systems.

Running KDE on one system along with Hyprland on another two with the remainder as headless systems.

You sure this issue isn’t somehow related to your hardware or something else?

I love my rear view mirror being able to auto dim, not sure if that feature is in most cars but it’s saved my eyes a number of times now.

Works great and has been for some time on my P7P.

Ensure you’ve allowed background usage and turn off manage app if unused.

Keep the notification on and allow notifications.

For Plex just unpin the default channels, and leave your local media libraries pinned.

PlanetSide 2 for me, easily 8k hours into that game. Around 5k on my steam account alone.

So sad to see it’s still slowly collapsing, but I’ve not been on since the AU servers shut down years ago and the hackers took over the Asia server.

And I’m having issues writing / completing the install to /boot

Files are written to boot by the nixos-infect script, then disappear after sometime… If the VM is shutdown / rebooted I get the previously displayed unrecoverable error screen.

Might be an easier way to achieve this.

It’s a VM

Man I feel I’d almost wiped the debian install and added NixOS (nix package manager works fine under debian) using nixos-infect

A clean install and a night’s sleep and I’ll probably forget I was attempting this, but looks promising.