Barbecue Cowboy

The terms of service for the warranty on my first car after the first time I tried to use it.

It’s kinda surprising,

I know specifically where one of the big ones hosts its models and its not there, but I guess they could have infrastructure in there.

This was how I felt until the tinnitus started to get more noticeable. Variable soft sounds are great now.

DDR3 and DDR2 prices are also trending upwards. There was an article a month or two back about how used DDR2 was up 60%.

Pascal’s Roulette Wheel.

Definitely could be, but I think a lot of us also saw this picture at least a decade ago.

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMicm1213581

Mine was a bit farther back… would be measured in decades ago, I may turn to dust shortly, but maybe same area. It’s crazy how much the strength of tornadoes ramps up on the western half of the state.

There’s an odd greenish haze in the sky that I’ve never seen a camera properly capture and you don’t just hear the sound of the tornado with your ears, you can feel it in your bones first. All of those tiny hairs all across your body, it’s almost like they have an electric charge. When it gets close, the air gets odd and it starts to feel like there’s suddenly not enough of it.

Rationally, it’s a lot of contributing factors getting amped up by the biggest adrenaline rush you’ve ever had. It was my first season after moving a bit farther west than I’d ever been and I felt like I opened the front door to find myself within 100 feet of the thing, but it is hard to trust yourself to look back on something like that with a scientific mind. The feeling I got didn’t even feel like fear, it was just a feeling of ‘have to go’ and I’ve never felt it again. For the actual situation, everything my body was telling me was worthless and nothing I could have done would have done any good if my luck had failed me, but the Tornado was just passing by on it’s way to somewhere else.

Ignored the Tornado warning, shouldn’t have.

If there’s one thing that’ll get the Lizard Brain going… it’s the only time I’ve ever felt like something deeper was telling my brain that we had to get the fuck out of here.

Supposedly he has a rare brain condition that results in him being kinda flaky, frequently an asshole, and always late. It sounds like an exceptionally convenient excuse, but there is relatively convincing info that makes it seem like he even got brain surgery to try to address it.

Love is just a set of needs that another person meets for you. Sometimes those needs are deep and meaningful and let you be vulnerable and feel like someone really knows you and… sometimes it’s just chemicals, comfort and staving off loneliness. Both can be love, both are pretty great, it’s cheeseburgers vs fancy steak.

For me, woodworking for almost every question. There’s a reason it’s the stereotype.

Can you get a Styrofoam cooler and a bag of ice? Battery powered fan too if you can? Make yourself a cheap swamp cooler.

It sucks though, I hope they get your power going soon my friend.

You can get x variants for under 100 too but you got to be more patient. Larger resellers don’t always understand the difference in models. Man, to be honest, I don’t either. You don’t have to go this in depth but look at the rear view for addons on the eBay listing. I usually don’t worry about buying ones with warranty/etc and I’ve only been burned once (probably water damage).

In my experience, if you’re wanting to use a USB Ethernet 2.5g or more, you may want to come up with at least a USB c port. I get that it should work with USB 3 but the speeds in practice just never worked out for me. I could have been facing those reliability issues you mentioned. Experiments in that area may eventually lead you back to scavenging for models that accommodate a riser card for 10g which is a very well weathered path. If you want Ceph, it’s not absolutely required but you’re probably going to end up there. I wouldn’t do Ceph again.

Somewhat similar on the CPU, I only discovered problems when I started experimenting with mass video re-encoding which is probably similar to the workload on Frigate. With the top on, I can only really use about half the cpus consistently without facing slowdowns due to heat. CPU upgrades are also mostly out.

Minor segue: If you haven’t checked out the servethehome forums, highly recommended. It’s probably the best source of knowledge on these.

So, there’s also a 4 port Ethernet card fitted specifically for the m series tiny lines that you used to be able to get from Lenovo with a riser (your specific model may not have a riser). You can still get it on eBay, but AliExpress is probably your spot if you’re not a big spender.

Some specific revisions in the tiny lines won’t even have the spot where you’d plug a riser card into populated, I think the 910q may be one of the ones where it’s missing. The qs sometimes indicate the lowest spec but not always. The m910x will definitely have it and most specialty models in the m9xx(x) range will also have a riser slot. The cards come with a specially fitted bracket you can use though that will fit pretty seamlessly. The bracket is purchaseable separately pretty often and is repurposable with a bit of planning.

My purchases of used Lenovo hardware became problematic long ago. If you can spend the extra money on the x variants, you’ll also usually get a better heat sink which might let you actually use all of your CPU without having to leave the top of the case off. The heatsink is real rough to buy separately.

We can get around 15-20 but most aren’t interested in carriers that don’t have physical presences or aren’t “name brands”.

I heard there was some new AI model that was so amazing for cyber security that they had to limit access to it. It’s just too bad Anthropic couldn’t use that.

I love her so much

Having been there, disagree.

You might think you love her because it’s familiar and familiarity is comforting. You may also have a nostalgic idea you remember that you were rather fond of, but doesn’t feel like that idea is reality. We have all been in that trap and most of us were raised to try to persevere through the hard times but it sounds like you’re more of a roadblock than a person at this point.

You’ll realize more every day about how you should have stepped away earlier.

It’s not the fastest solution, but the best answer for me almost always comes from spending an hour or so on the xda developers forum for whatever model phone I’m looking at.

I’ve tried xteve and threadfin, seconding Dispatcharr, it’s my favorite. Threadfin definitely at the bottom, needs a lot of work.