ShepherdPie

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[–] ShepherdPie@midwest.social 37 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Last time this account made it's rounds, someone found a pic they'd posted of a buttplug with an old, bald white man clearly reflecting back off of the shiny parts. The account immediately deleted the photo after that user pointed it out.

That doesn't answer what their intentions are but they're obviously not good.

[–] ShepherdPie@midwest.social 19 points 1 week ago

Exactly. It's not as if this tech is going in the dumpster, but all of these companies basing their multi-trillion-dollar market cap on it are in for a rude awakening. Kinda like how the 2008 housing market crash didn't mean that people no longer owned homes, but we all felt the effects of it.

[–] ShepherdPie@midwest.social 2 points 1 week ago

The casino takes them.

[–] ShepherdPie@midwest.social 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Important to consumers, yes. Important to OEMs? No, quite the opposite. I don't think that applies to screen size.

If you believe this then why even argue against us with this "the market decided" BS argument in the first place? You're arguing out of both sides of your mouth and contradicting your previous comments.

What did you even mean if not to imply that people weren't buying specifically large phones because they didn't include these anti-features?

I wasn't implying anything. I stated that manufacturers put things like a headphone jack into a phone that seems like it was built by Fisher Price and then point to it's lack of sales and claim "people don't want headphone jacks"

So then you agree consumers want bigger phones?

Uh, no, I'm saying that consumers don't always act rationally and make the best decisions which is why "market trends" can't just be taken at face value. 1/4lb is actually smaller than 1/3lb if you weren't aware, but consumers saw the bigger number and thought the smaller burger was the better value even though reality says otherwise.

[–] ShepherdPie@midwest.social 2 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I'll trade you as mine all seem to be made for someone several inches shorter than me.

[–] ShepherdPie@midwest.social 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

They're slowly upgrading our work machines and I'm not looking forward to finally being forced to use it.

[–] ShepherdPie@midwest.social 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Any smart TV can do that if you don't connect it to the internet.

[–] ShepherdPie@midwest.social 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

You gotta level strength and dexterity with the Firekeeper first. What did you pick as your starting class?

[–] ShepherdPie@midwest.social 1 points 1 week ago

It's pretty bad, though I do like the console and game library otherwise (and in spite of Nintendos shenanigans). Trying to play two player minecraft with my kid is a sure-fire way to get it to freeze completely.

[–] ShepherdPie@midwest.social 1 points 1 week ago

Wasn't the rest of that season them showing how the people lived after they left the island but before reaching the church? It has also been years for me.

[–] ShepherdPie@midwest.social 6 points 1 week ago

Let’s all meet at the church and kum ba yah.

As a character literally named "Christian Shephard" leads us into the gates of heaven. 🤮

[–] ShepherdPie@midwest.social 1 points 1 week ago (3 children)

You forget that all phones used to be small.

I haven't forgotten that. You may have forgotten that all phones came with swappable batteries, small screens, and headphone jacks and they sold millions of them for decades. That proves these are important features because they sold well, right?

Also all those examples you gave apply to all phones, not just small one

What does that even mean? All phones come with old hardware and are poorly built outside of a couple key features?

Apple sold a 13 Mini, which was nearly identical to the 13, as much as is physically possible, and it was a dud.

So identical that they were nearly the same price which could put a lot of buyers off if they feel like they're getting less value for their money. Consumers also think that 1/4lb burgers are better than 1/3lb burgers because they're bigger as A&W found out in the 1980s when trying to compete against McDonalds. "The market deciding" doesn't mean anything rational happened or that it reflects reality. You're simply cherrypicking the result you want and shaping it to fit your argument.

 

I'm looking for some advice or alternate perspectives on what I should do with my server.

I built it in 2018 with a Ryzen 2700X, X470 Taichi, 32GB RAM, 1080TI, and it's (now) up to around 100TB raw in storage space that I've been adding bit by bit in this Fractal Define R6 case. It hosts Plex, the *arr stack, Qbit, but also is used for my general purpose PC stuff like shitposting, 3d printing (CAD and slicers), retro gaming (roms and emulators), general NAS storage, etc and it all runs on Windows 10 (which is where the issue arises).

I knew long term that Windows would be an issue (but didn't and still don't have adequate knowledge of Linux), and it's now to the point that things are becoming a bit unstable and I would like to split the server stuff out from everything else and put it in a dedicated machine. In addition to the above services, I also have a Pi with HomeAssistant that I'd like to migrate to the new server along with setting up Frigate to gain some object recognition with my NVR camera setup

I am wanting to do this in the most efficient and economical way but I'm not sure what the best path to choose is.

Option A) Slap a Ryzen 5xxx into my current system and migrate to another OS like TrueNAS, build something small and lightweight for general PC stuff

Pros- Less stuff to buy

Cons- data migration out of Windows (SnapRAID + Drivepool) will be an issue as I'll need to have both the 'old' and 'new' server running at the same time to copy everything over

Option B) build a new server

Pros- can switch to Intel for the iGPU, newer hardware with more longevity and efficiency, data migration is easier

Cons- more cost, I'll want to reuse my case so I'll need to cobble together a solution during data migration, not sure what to do the current hardware that's leftover as I'm not big on Marketplace selling.

Option C) ??

I'm not exactly dead set on what to run on the server for an OS or hypervisor. I've briefly looked at Proxmox which would be nice for my dynamic interests but as I said I'm not exactly proficient in Linux for the media OS. I recently saw a video on TrueNAS which appeared easier to setup and manage, but it doesn't seem to be the right choice for VMs and whatnot.

And advice or suggestions are greatly appreciated!

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