“Mr. D”, in a gay personal ad… Definitely a pseudonym.

Fun fact, most soaps are laxatives.

Literally the oldest profession.

Yeah the SFFs and uSFFs are great for consuming low power.

I’ve got a couple m910q’s that I bought for htpc purposes but honestly I might be better off putting the thick ones on htpc duty. Just gotta work out some kinks with how they handle suspend when hooked up to a TV.

They’ve really shot up in price…I bought two for 130 shipped (total) with i5-7500T and 16gb back around last Halloween. I’m seeing singles not specced as well for the same price

The tough thing about uSFF is that they usually don’t have any PCIe slots…so if you need a second NIC, or want to upgrade to mGig, you can’t, or they have to be over USB 3.

This.

I look for corporate desktops that are off-lease or EoL. Big fan of Lenovo M series. 6th/7th gen still have lots of life left in them and plenty of power for most homelab tasks.

Anything much newer than that will consume less power per core (usually) but will cost more up front and probably be more expensive to put upgrades into (i.e. DDR5). Anything much older than that won’t be worth the performance per watt. By the time you put a 7th gen through its paces, you’ll be ready to upgrade and have a much clearer look at what you want/need.

Right now I’ve got 3x M710s forming a kubernetes cluster, and another running opnsense only.

Kubernetes was built on top of VMs in proxmox, but I’m thinking I will move them to metal.

I also have what was my PC down in the basement, with proxmox, running a TrueNAS VM and a Bazzite VM for GPU passthrough and Sunshine, but I’m gonna reclaim those guts, put a spare 6th gen with DDR3 and run TrueNAS on metal. Then I’ll have my PC back.

Asking the real questions.

I think you’re the only one.

But it’s still a band and theyve done a few albums lately and had some bangers. Getting old sucks, but they’re still fun.

Also that cover album a couple years ago set me off on a whole pop-goes-punk phase, and I contend it’s still the best version of Flowers.

There’s nothing wrong with Ohio…except the snow and the rain.

I really like Drew Carey, and Id love to see the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.

Hey man I’m right there with you. When I was a kid I thought the elevator stayed in place and the building moved.

Detachable Penis covered by “They Might be Argonauts”

Alright so forgive me for never reading it…but Dracula went to England for fresh blood?

Wasn’t inbreeding like, the cool thing to do during Dracula’s time? Wouldn’t that make it kinda stale?

Not if her partner is black. I’ve heard there’s no going back once it’s had that.

When God gives you lemon you FIND A NEW GOD.

If life gives you melons, you may be dyslexic.

You know…my town is letting people borrow wheelchairs at Town Hall to ride to the library, to show off their accessible infrastructure changes.

It’s about a half mile between the two, but there’s a church on the way.

Apple’s following is cult like. Though they don’t usually have major issues like Windows does, there are a fair number of Apple apologists.

Microsoft’s following is more…stockholm-like.

MS did make some decent mice though. For a while, all I would buy was Intellimouses. Going back to like, balls. Not to mention my cool blue serial MS Home mouse. Then I was a Logitech guy for a while (especially after having to deal with their warranty process, like, one of the best, up there with Anker. At least, several years ago. Who knows what’s changed since).

Decent gamepads for the era too. Sidewinder Gamepad was top-notch. I played loads of Quake with that before I learned about WASD. This is pre-analog, and I was actually pretty decent with it, iirc. Not nearly as good as I got to be with WASD tho.

Nowadays I love my Elecom Huge and 8bitdo gamepads.

Or a good keyboard.

They can make a decent touchpad. They can do a pretty nice touch gui. They still make beautiful displays. But they can’t handle the essentials.

Also trackballs > mouse any day.

In shitpost, this took me a sec. Would hit harder as Programmer Humor.

That person is supposed to have FIVE fingers. Not four. Not six. Five.

Not me. Not Hermoine. YOU.