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I got into Raspberry Pi computers, as PC's are just too expensive these days. One of them displays "holiday lights" depending on which holiday is next (e.g., pumpkin for Halloween, cornucopia for Thanksgiving).

Last summer, I found enough old parts (i7-9700, 32GB, 2TB, 1080tI) in my attic to assemble a nice PC for my grandmother's assisted living facility. Took a few weeks to teach the residents how -- and why -- to use a computer, but most of them got...

Have you looked at Open Media Vault?

After a 3 year hiatus, I figured it was time to resume my role as the unofficial [H] new year workstation thread starter. (y)

I'm betting on MESA will add it for 6000 series cards. Is AMD the first to implement Neural Texture Compression? Been hearing Nvidia doing it for some time now.

Yep, it's the classic storage vs compute trade-off in Computer Science 101. I invision that looking like shader caching when a game starts up. However, I could also see a downloaded game at 50GB exploding to 350GB after said texture...

No support planned for 6000 series cards. Gotta have 7000 or 9000 series.

I don't have LG, but they are all made in China. I connect my TV to ethernet on a separate IOT network, disable Wifi, and firewall it to hell so it cannot connect out anywhere. I see it trying to send telemetry to China on the deny logs, so if...

PC cases I try to get rid of ASAP, except one I'm saving for a special purpose. Raspberry Pi cases I have a bunch of, but they are not worth shipping anywhere. Free to anyone who asks, I suppose.

According to Apple, OpenAI poached employees (fine) and then coached them on how and what data to take from Apple before leaving. If Apple can prove this, it’s pretty much a slam dunk case. OpenAI brought in 400+ Apple employees BTW. Basically...

A dedicated graphics slot was called AGP. It's dead and gone for good reason.

Hard to choose... but as of this time in my life, my pick is Divinity Original Sin 2. Played thru at least 5 times @ 200 hrs each...