Interesting idea. But half the benefit of the trackpoint is being in the middle of the keyboard. You don’t really have to move your hand to go from typing to nipppling. Also how well is that thing going to stay in place? If you’re moving the cursor fast you’re putting good pressure on the nipple. If it had a wrist rest it might not be so bad.
Is everything the way I want it? No, I could stand to lose a few pounds and be a bit stronger, make more money etc.
But I am comfortable and feel no angst.
Almost 190k on my explorer before I wrecked it. Never had any major mechanical issues, or even many minor ones.
The CPU may not use too much power, but the chipset and all the supporting circuitry will. Supporting 4/8channel memory aint free. And RAM can use a ton of power too.
Not with TrueNAS, ZFS is a RAM hog. They suggest 8gb minimum, and you really don’t want the minimum AND adding more stuff on top. That said 16gb isn’t too painful.
If you want a NAS on the cheap my preference is just get any cheap “normal” PC, a case with a good amount of HDD bays. Move the drives into the PC, and you have all the expand ability you could dream of. You can find plenty of DDR4 machines for cheap now. Then as ram prices come down you can go up to 128gb of ram as long as your board has 4 slots.
Anything on craigslist/FB marketplace will work.
Overhead isn’t everything. Windows just handles swapping better than Linux. More efficient swapping can mean better performance even with more ram usage.
https://www.kubuntu.org/alternative-downloads/
Kubuntu 24.06 LTS
lol. It downloads the right file at least.
Better than 8 I guess.
Yes.
Based on their claims multi threaded gains seems to be about on par (or maybe worse) than a 13th gen system vs 11th. The lack of E cores (and HT) really kills it. But I guess it should be efficient.
The models that the commercial AIs use are not at all usable on consumer grade hardware. The RTX pro 6000 has 96 gigs of vram, your GPU probably had 8.
I’ve played with the models that run on 16 gigs and it’s alright. But I wouldn’t even try fully vibe coding. Need some help with something small? Sure. But I wouldn’t have it try to make a finished product.
What whack ass setup so you think OP has? Dual 5090s? They’re running it on an i7.
There’s nothing magic about the M3 and newer machines stopping you from running Linux on them.
Asahi already has some early support for them.
If you’re repairing something it’s always worth it to spend more on good components. Saving 10 cents a product isn’t worth it when you do <100 a year.
Ideally see if you can do a battery charge limit. Lithium batteries are happiest around 40-60% charge. If you can limit it that low then you keep your built in UPS, don’t risk the CPU running at a crawl, and the battery is happy. Even just the normal 80% that good laptops offer will be sufficient.
Are you sure it’s the GPU causing the problem and not the CPU? Check the power limits and clock speeds for both before and after it freaks out.
What about a nice middle ground option? It has all the features that most sane people would want, but not the kitchen sink.
I hate diagnosing 3rd party jank so if I had to pick one or the other then I’d pick all in one. Oh you updated and now your whole ui is broken? Good fucking luck guessing what adon wasn’t updated for this change.
Motorsport runs passably on the steam deck. With the higher GPU requirements I’d be surprised if the steam deck can manage it.
Now directly mentioning the steam deck gets me a bit optimistic. Maybe they’re gonna try optimizing for it. Or maybe that was just a typo.
As with anything RISC V at the moment, it’s mostly for shits and giggles. Once it matures and hopefully gets actually performant it might be a nice alternative to ARM/x86. But for now it’s mostly a curiosity.