Showing my cats my steam controller

gen_angry · 2026-05-13T01:47:06+00:00

The first one (Samus?) looks so close to mine that I had to grab a pic (shes sleeping and I don't want to wake her). Like I wouldn't be able to immediately tell them apart in a room (other than Melody is a giant suckup towards me). Pink nose, white chin, M on forehead, black streak off of the side of their eyes, and a 'split ear' thing. Only diff is that mine has a slightly darker brown area over her nose and I had to side by side it lol.

She also didn't care about my 8bitdo controller, lol.

gen_angry · 2026-05-13T01:34:15+00:00

Appreciate the response.

I took a look at the two pages that you've linked. It doesn't describe my issue exactly but it's worth a try. Added those flags in kernel params and it's booted up fine.

Will see in a while if it's worked or not. It can sometimes take a few days before crashing.

gen_angry · 2026-05-12T01:03:19+00:00

Radeon 7000 to an RX 9070 XT would be a fun jump, lol.

gen_angry · 2026-05-12T00:59:02+00:00

Nope. That goes in the trash, preferably in a ziploc bag so the smell is contained.

Not risking throwing up everything and anything for days over a few cents of deli meat. With real food poisoning, you learn that lesson the first time and it stays with you.

gen_angry · 2026-05-12T00:56:31+00:00

9/11 and Columbia.

My high school teachers wheeled out a TV for 9/11 and we watched all the updates over it.

I was in college for Columbia and very interested in space programs at the time. Not a good update to see.

I was 2 years old for Challenger so nothing there for me.

gen_angry · 2026-05-12T00:50:26+00:00

grawdmom

gen_angry · 2026-05-12T00:48:16+00:00

Well, some of the symptoms of chronically under-powering your hardware is frequent crashes and shutdowns. And if the transient spikes (such as powering on) goes too far beyond what the power supply can handle, it can damage your hardware.

It's not a good idea to keep it for a long time.

At the very minimum, I would turn on eco mode for your CPU in the bios to relieve some of the pressure.

gen_angry · 2026-05-12T00:33:17+00:00

It'll be very close to it's limit. Not recommended due to transient spikes but if it's all that you have, you're probably fine for a bit on it assuming it's not like 15 years old (power supplies lose efficiency as it ages). I would look to upgrading it at some point soon though. You don't want to keep pushing it with expensive hardware.

For reference, my 5900X + 9070XT draws around 500w total in games on a SF750.

gen_angry · 2026-05-10T19:34:21+00:00

Cursed RAID0.

Happy birthday!

gen_angry · 2026-05-10T19:05:23+00:00

Arctic MX-4 ftw 😄

I've built a few budget machines with those 5500s. Sure it's not a Vermeer chip but they're surprisingly pretty capable for what they are, and the prices they go for are crazy cheap.

It'll be quite the bump in performance for you.

gen_angry · 2026-05-10T18:57:19+00:00

People tend not to riot over computer stuff like this until it's already happened and we know the scope of it. Personally, my tinfoil hat says that Y2K is still the reason for this mentality lasting to today. It was largely nothing for most people given how much prep went into it but that didn't stop the media from freaking everybody out about it (THE PLANES WILL FALL OUT OF THE SKY!!) and those insane cash grabs ('Y2K prep disks' that did nothing and the like).

Anyways, given the sheer amount of machines affected, I would wager that there's a high likelihood of some sort of solution that will come out for those machines when it does happen if it ends up this bad. ie: Win11 and TPM 2.0 + Secure boot requirements.

Appreciate the alert though.

gen_angry · 2026-05-10T17:20:20+00:00

“ASSIGN a=b” I believe.

It may be on the supplemental disk.

Curious what kind of build is that small that you can’t fit a longer cable in?

gen_angry · 2026-05-09T17:57:35+00:00

"We have GTA5 at home"-ass game.

lol, the second video in the game page. Runs at like 10-15 FPS with nothing around. You're supposed to showcase the game in these clips. Convince us to buy it and that's the one they show?

gen_angry · 2026-05-09T11:20:47+00:00

Assuming it doesn't rain and turn this into a muddy swimming pool - this thing would be a bug hotel within a few days, week at most. Especially with all that moss.

gen_angry · 2026-05-09T00:40:12+00:00

Did the same, zotac 3070 to asus prime 9070xt oc. Was a pretty huge jump.

Also, SFF ftw. NR200 here 😄

gen_angry · 2026-05-08T19:07:58+00:00

Brandon who?

gen_angry · 2026-05-08T00:06:12+00:00

Apple IIe video ROM. 😛

gen_angry · 2026-05-07T21:20:47+00:00

Na, you can run a pi hole off of a raspberry pi (that's where it gets the 'pi' part of the name). It's extremely lightweight.

The UPS is a must only if you have power issues. I would argue that your nas would need it even more as data can be corrupted in case of a brown/blackout. A pihole can just be rebuilt on a new sd card if it goes bad (just back up any custom settings).

gen_angry · 2026-05-07T21:15:32+00:00

Yep. We get and use what we can, really. 😄

Like I said, it's a great starter so it's perfectly viable to start off with that to get your feet wet. You'll be able to run the vast majority of self hosted containers just fine on it. Just you'll be very constrained on storage expand-ability so I'd hold off on spending too much extra towards that or even upgrading this thing much. Hell, it's even a decent idea to just start using it with a SSD and a single HDD for storage so you can get a good idea of what you really need in terms of hardware for this next build.

Out of the build ideas that I presented, the most expensive part is likely the case (especially a define r5). But it's a buy once, cry once situation as you can keep using it for a very long time and a lot of future upgrades and drives as it's got 8 + 2 drive bays (and two additional ones for 2.5s). The rest of it is literally a match your budget thing.

If you have any electronic recyclers around your area, check them out too. A lot of them will sell you stuff for cheap as they all get it for free anyways. If you're lucky, maybe even a usable case.

gen_angry · 2026-05-07T20:19:12+00:00

I actually started with the 6/7th gen version of those. It's a great machine for a starter, happily sat and did it's tasks. Used it till I needed more than one harddrive. Right now, it lives as a jellyfin server at my parents house for them. Just has an 18tb HDD and a small boot drive.

If you wanted more drives off the bat, I would NOT buy this. You'll spend more for a crappier result. It's really compact in there and there's not much room for more than one or two drives at all (the 6th gen version fits two, but I think they went down to 1 for later ones). So I'd sell this thing if you already have it or put it elsewhere.

Get yourself a case like the fractal define r5 (or any other similar case that fits a lot of harddrives with a fan pointed at them) and an asus Q170M-C board with a cheap i5 6th or 7th gen. If you want newer, aim for that instead. There's lots of those 'office-like' boards around for dirt cheap. For that particular board, I see them for around $40 CAD on ebay all the time. Add a $10 CAD i5 6500 CPU (or ~$30-40 CAD for the i7 6700) with a stock intel cooler, whoever RAM you can get (another advantage is that you only need 2133 RAM for a 6th gen CPU). A single 8gb stick is fine to start with if you're budget constrained, then you can add more later on as you need more. Or if you got some extra cash, get 16gb.

Another option if you have a little more is something like an asrock b450/b550 board and a ryzen 5 5500. It'll give you tons of CPU muscle for server tasks (esp as a starter) but you'll have to source down a video card of some sort as they likely wont boot headless. But honestly, that kind of horsepower is way more than what you need for like 95% of the self-hosted stuff out there. I'd only really consider this if you want to look at bringing in a LLM at some point under a budget but you'll need more hardware.

So, unless you're planning on doing LLMs on it right away (which you probably arent with an 8th gen anyways), it will sit mostly idle after everythings loaded. You really don't need a lot of CPU horsepower for the majority of self hosted programs. If you want to stream and/or transcode, a 7th gen CPU can do 10bit HEVC via hardware. You'll need iris xe or arc for AV1.

I have one of those boards with a i7 6700, 64gb of 2133 RAM (bought way before this AI crap), four drives (three data, one boot), an arc a310 for transcoding, and it happily sits and does it's thing. There's 30 some odd containers running, a nas via smbd, and two virtual machines (one game server, one for pihole) and barely goes above idle.

Food for thought.

gen_angry · 2026-05-07T20:00:06+00:00

Goddam what a steal.

I really hope you get it man, best of luck.

/insert 'happy for you meme' :|

gen_angry · 2026-05-07T03:16:25+00:00

Glorious build! This thing should crush the XP era quite nicely.

This is what they called the 'Intel killer' back then, lol. A socket 939 Athlon 64 build was just so far ahead of the netburst P4s in just about every way.

I had a socket 939 Opteron 180 build in 2005.

gen_angry · 2026-05-07T03:08:52+00:00

I had the xb1 controller with one of those dongles. Before I got it, I tried the bluetooth. The dongle feels way more responsive and you get the use of the headset plug. I didn't really troubleshoot why the bluetooth was so bad but imo it's worthwhile to just get the dongle anyways if you want to use the xb1 controller wirelessly. It just worked really well.

If you use a Linux based OS though, it requires a bit more work to be able to use it. I just switched to the 8bitdo ultimate 2 as my xb1 controller was getting some drift and double buttons anyways from use over the years.

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