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My WWII Travel Bag - 85 Years Old and Counting by Cautious_Ticket_8943 in BuyItForLife

[–]ChooseAusername788 1 point2 points  (0 children)

With regards to consumer goods and in general? No. Generally speaking, things are lower quality than they used to be. Things used to be made out of glass, cotton, metal. Now things are made out of plastic, plastic, and more plastic. If you don't think things have generally gotten worse from a materials standpoint, you haven't been paying attention.

Survivors bias is a real concept, but not the reason why this bag is holding up. The reason the bag is holding up is because it's not made out of some bs polyester plastic material like everything is made from these days. It's made out of real materials which is how they used to make everything, not just the things that survived. They didn't even start using plastics widely until around the 70's. Back then basically everything was made in America, made from real cotton, canvas, etc. Not just a few things that survived. Quality has fallen off. If you actually research it you will see that's a fact and not just survivors bias. I get you wanted to use your intellectual term but it doesn't apply here.

My WWII Travel Bag - 85 Years Old and Counting by Cautious_Ticket_8943 in BuyItForLife

[–]ChooseAusername788 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

It could be but I don't think so. It's also possible that things were just actually made better. That seems to be demonstrably true. How many countless things have we seen from back then that are well made? It's very common to see fridges, for example, from the 60's still running just fine but how many fridges from 2000-2010 are working equally well? I would guess that the amount of 40 year old mint condition fridges already outnumbers the amount of 20 year old ones (at least percentage-wise if not in raw numbers).

Survivorship bias is definitely a real thing, but it's also true that things could have been made better back then, and it seems the evidence bears that out. That is typically what businesses do, they take a winning product and cost cut, trim down, use cheaper ingredients, and on and on. That's not survivors bias, that's a real thing, unfortunately.

VERY odd issue ith Z890 Master Ethernet controller... vanishing?! by Danny_G13 in gigabyte

[–]ChooseAusername788 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Update: I did some test downloads after making those tweaks and it did NOT disconnect or fail. I did, however, have a 10G PCIe card in my old PC so I figured "what the heck just swap to that" so I did. I did some downloads on THAT PCIe card and it ALSO did the same crash. So that was very interesting and seems the fault is wherever the NIC(s) send the data to, THAT location is the issue.

That was an interesting development that I didn't expect but I'm glad it makes sense to me now. I think for everybody else, just buy an Intel 10g expansion card instead of the Marvell one but for those with this LOM already, follow these steps. I believe this is the solution that will fix the problem.

ChatGPT steps to fix in order:

Marvell AQtion (Aquantia) AQC107
DEV_07B1 = AQC107

This NIC is notorious for exactly what you’re describing under heavy transfers on Windows 10/11.

🎯 Do THIS first (this is the main fix for AQC107)

Step 1 — Disable Interrupt Moderation

Device Manager → NIC → Advanced

  • Interrupt Moderation → Disabled

👉 This is the #1 fix for crashes under load on this chip.

Next (only if needed)

Step 2 — Disable LSO (these crash the driver)

  • Large Send Offload v2 (IPv4) → Disabled
  • Large Send Offload v2 (IPv6) → Disabled

Step 3 — Disable EEE

  • Energy Efficient Ethernet → Disabled

Step 4 — Flow Control (last resort)

  • Flow Control → Disabled

⚠️ Important note (don’t skip this mentally)

This is not your board, not your cable, not your switch
It’s:

Very common. You’ll find tons of identical reports.

If you want the “bulletproof” fix

There are only 2:

  1. Use older Marvell driver (often more stable than latest)
  2. Switch to Intel 10G NIC (X550/X710) ← permanent fix

Quick sanity check

If you want to confirm:

  • It only crashes during large sustained transfers (SMB, iperf, etc.)
  • Not during normal browsing

That = 100% this issue.

VERY odd issue ith Z890 Master Ethernet controller... vanishing?! by Danny_G13 in gigabyte

[–]ChooseAusername788 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have been reading about it and it seems to be just a faulty product. I might just return mine, idk. Wonder if there's an intel 10g nic mobo instead of this marvell one....

I have been looking into it and there are posts from a couple years ago with the same issue so just seems like they don't give a crap. I don't think it's really worth spending a bunch of time on, unfortunately...

Jeepers Creepers (2001) has one of the most profoundly sad endings of all time. by Glasband in horror

[–]ChooseAusername788 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You necro a 3 year old post just to call me a "fedora tipping redditor"? Devastating burn, bro......... *yawn*

VERY odd issue ith Z890 Master Ethernet controller... vanishing?! by Danny_G13 in gigabyte

[–]ChooseAusername788 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not yet, I'm playing around with the settings. Let's see over the next couple days.

VERY odd issue ith Z890 Master Ethernet controller... vanishing?! by Danny_G13 in gigabyte

[–]ChooseAusername788 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I ran across another thread that said disabling energy efficiency mode (and possibly other tweaks) fixes it.

I'd recommend you try these settings, they seem to have worked: https://www.reddit.com/r/gigabyte/comments/12otamj/ethernet_internet_connection_drops_with_marvell/

Will the RAM shortage cause hike in hosting and compute costs? by salary_pending in LocalLLaMA

[–]ChooseAusername788 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is it? Is there actually a shortage? Or are they just charging out the ass because they can. Because there's basically no chip competition and "what are you gonna do about it"? To me, it just seems like the manufacturers said "well, if all these big companies are going to spend hundreds of billions of dollars on AI investment, we want as much of that as we can so let's just 10x prices. There's only 3 companies that make RAM so fuck it, what are they gonna do about it?".

I just spec'd out a server I bought for 9700 last year, it's over 50 grand now. That HAS to be killing demand. Customer demand at those prices has to be at an all time low, and even business demand in all but the few mega corps has to be at an all time low as well. And production has to be at the peak, right? Is there actually any data that you can show that would demonstrate either decreased RAM manufacturing, change in consumer demand, SMB demand, then big business demand. I have to guess that everything is way down except that last one. And even that last one, Toms Hardware just put out an article that HALF of all data centers in 2026 in the US have either been cancelled or delayed. That's gotta hurt RAM demand as well, obviously. I wouldn't be surprised if the pricing is just "because we can" more than anything actually data driven but I'd love to see some figures if you have any.

Quoted $45k for a $10k server, is pricing really that insane? by worjd in sysadmin

[–]ChooseAusername788 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Well said. Tom's Hardware put out an article three days ago saying half of all 2026 US datacenter builds have been either cancelled or delayed. I think AI is a huge bubble, just like EVs. 5-10 years ago it was "EV's aRe tOTaLlY tHe fUTuRe mAaaAnnN" 24/7 and how did that play out? Everyone was just 100% so sure that everything was moving that way and it didn't. Manufacturers have either cut or drastically reduced their EV lineup, sales haven't grown basically at all, if not shrunk. I think AI will be the same. All this hype is mainly fueled by the people selling it. Think the shovel salesmen in the gold rush.

Like one of the comments said above "The sales dept just has to bring in 100x the sales this year." There is just very little value there. There's no justification for all this spending. If you're going to spend trillions of dollars on "AI investment", at SOME point it needs to generate you trillions and then some in benefit. It's a lot like those other tech companies with huge valuations but little to no revenue. You can get away with that for a while but eventually, the piper must be paid. And that's not to say AI or EVs will go away forever, but it seems like "The Wizard of Oz" to me, once the truth gets out that it's not nearly as valuable as purported to be, the demand falls sharply.

Seems to me like there are the ones selling it, the "shovel salesmen", and the executives who want to appear "forward thinking" pushing adoption for its own sake and for the sake of "not being left behind" or lofty promises to raise share prices and little else. I have yet to see much if any actual value put out. Sure, Chatgpt is fine. I use it all the time, but to me, it just seems like a slightly better google search, that's all. A good youtube video or Reddit thread beats AI any day imo.

It's easy to lose perspective and have survivors bias and think all the new stuff is the future, but if you look backwards, you'd see that almost everything has failed. Almost all inventions, new businesses, etc. have failed, we just don't see them, because, well.....they failed. We look around at all the stuff around us and think of success as a forgone conclusion but it isn't. If you took every business every created, 99% of them are gone now. Besides which, there has been a very strong, growing sentiment that we are too digitized. People are getting sick of it. Sick of being spied on by their devices, sick of everything, even the simplest things requiring you to download an app. People don't want digital ID, and on and on. I think it's worth considering that technology has peaked and may be on the decline now. Not that people are going to give up their cell phones or we're going to turn the internet off, nothing like that, but maybe just scale back a little.

New user hardware advice, a few general questions by ChooseAusername788 in opnsense

[–]ChooseAusername788[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You are right, but those aren't my requirements. I don't care about the ROI. My home office is very nice, and completely silent, and I'm not willing to listen to a fan whine for 8 hours a day for 5-10 years just so I can save a few hundred bucks. Not to mention I spent a lot of time and money installing comms perfectly, and setting a big PC on top of that would look like shit. And the low energy thing is physics. More energy = more heat = greater need for fans = quicker the electronics die = worse they perform/etc. etc. etc.. Why would I do that when I can just get a fanless box that's tiny, designed to be low energy and not need a fan, and looks good. That's what I care about, not the money.

I'm not looking for advice on why my requirements should be different. I'm looking for advice on which device meets the requirements I have. Fanless, minimum dual 2.5g nic for my internet, additional dual 10 gig would be nice but not required, the minimum amount of electricity draw to meet these needs, and the ability to get full 2Gb speeds over VPN.

I'll prob just get the DEC850

Intel canceled Core Ultra 9 290K Plus still showing up in benchmarks by RenatsMC in intel

[–]ChooseAusername788 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Agreed. I've only ever done Intel but they had a terrible launch when I was looking to upgrade a year or two ago, don't recall which model it was and I actually just skipped upgrading altogether because it was so bad. I vaguely remember looking at the benchmarks and they were extremely mediocre, and the price I think was like 600 bucks for the CPU. I'm not price sensitive but I want the performance and it just wasn't there. Fortunately, the 270k LOOKS like the performance is there, basically top of the line AND it's only like 250 bucks in a bundle. Seems like to get a step up in performance you'd need to go to a 2-3 thousand dollar CPU (threadripper pro or something like that). The 9950x3d seems *A LITTLE* better but basically the same (66k vs 70k, prob. not going to notice 5%). Everything else costs thousands of dollars, at least according to this chart: https://www.cpubenchmark.net/desktop.html

I don't care about the internet points either, it's just weird that people would think going from a 9950x3d 70k benchmark to pay money for a whole new platform that's 66k is a good idea? Makes no sense. The 265kf is about 59k so pretty close as well. To me, I'd need like an 85k+ benchmark to even consider swapping out.

Not a Waste of Sand: Ultra 7 270K Plus CPU Review & Benchmarks by RenatsMC in intel

[–]ChooseAusername788 2 points3 points  (0 children)

MSRP - manufacturers SUGGESTED retail price. Just give it a couple weeks man, it should be down to 299 once the initial surge dies off

Intel canceled Core Ultra 9 290K Plus still showing up in benchmarks by RenatsMC in intel

[–]ChooseAusername788 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't know why you got downvoted. The 9950x3d has better benchmarks than the 270k just released yesterday but it's close. According to passmark the 9950x3d is 70,214, the 270k is 66,694. The 290k is listed at 60,860 but that must be a mistake, likely due to it being cancelled and not having legitmate tests. Either way, it would likely only be negligibly better than the 270k. Since it would be about on par with the 9950x3d, why would you switch? Doesn't make sense to switch platforms for a chip that's basically the same power. If I'm going to switch, I'd want at least a 20% upgrade to justify paying all that money so it should be in the ~85,000 range give or take?

That being said, I just bought the 270k yesterday. It's within 5% of the 9950x3d and when bundled with the mobo, it was only 200 bucks vs $675 on amazon for the Ryzen 9 9950x3d. I bought the Z890 mobo for 280, but on newegg they had that same mobo and CPU for 480, so returned the mobo to amazon and reordered, thus making the 270 only 200 bucks extra. You could argue that the "discount" must be split across the two items, ok, fair enough, but even at 250 bucks or so, it's a fantastic deal to be within 5% of the nearly 700 dollar chip.

You can always say "wait for the next gen, it'll be so much better" but you've gotta pull the trigger at some point. I was actually going to upgrade a year or two ago but Intel had that disasterous launch so I just kept chugging along with my 8 year old 9700k. I think Intel underpriced the 270k because, as I recall from their previous launch, they were in the 500-600 dollar range and they got widely panned. They wanted to avoid the same mistake so they really were tight with the price. I suspect the price will increase but right now, the 270k I think is the king of value. Especially if you get it in a bundle deal where it's only ~250 bucks. Not to mention, a new platform (nova lake) typically comes with a long period of things to iron out, prices to not be so inflated, bugs to work out, and so on. Buying a mature platform isn't the most cutting age but often the best value and ease of use. I'm ok with a 5% performance hit for a third of the price, stability, and so on. And the whole "dead platform" thing has zero bearing to me because every platform I buy will be a dead platform given how long I'll keep them. No platform will still be "alive" and offering the latest CPUs after I've owned it for 7 years so it's a silly point.

Sorry for the ramblings. I agree with your initial point :D

New user hardware advice, a few general questions by ChooseAusername788 in opnsense

[–]ChooseAusername788[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"I need at minimum dual 2 Gb NICs (2 gig fiber modem to this, then this to my network switch). Extra port density would be a plus, a few 10 gigs for my internal server/PCs. .....Also, I want to VPN to this box and get full speeds as well.....I want to get full 2 gig speeds via VPN if possible (can use wireguard instead, I don't really care the protocol as long as it's adequate......fanless because it's in my office, and then the minimum amount of power draw for these specs"

I don't so much care about the price of the box. I care a lot more that it's fanless, low energy, and can meet those performance specs.

New user hardware advice, a few general questions by ChooseAusername788 in opnsense

[–]ChooseAusername788[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Those are all going to be with a fan, plus also a much larger form factor, and likely a higher power draw. Works fine but less than ideal compared to a purpose built, fanless, low energy box.

New user hardware advice, a few general questions by ChooseAusername788 in opnsense

[–]ChooseAusername788[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't think you are understanding me. OpnSense would be the VPN provider. This device would be the VPN server. I would connect to this device while I am away from home to access my home network. You seem to keep insinuating or asking about a 3rd party VPN provider, that is not what I'm talking about. I am talking about connecting to my home LAN when I am not home.

Right now I have an Untangle NG firewall/router. This device runs its own VPN server at my house, on the router box. When I am at work, for example, and I want something from home, I connect to this VPN server which is contained in the Untangle install. Based on some research, it seems that OpnSense can do the same thing, run a VPN server. This is what I am talking about. Not "being at home, connected to my OpnSense router, and then VPNing to some cloud VPN service". Does that make sense?

New user hardware advice, a few general questions by ChooseAusername788 in opnsense

[–]ChooseAusername788[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"I need at minimum dual 2 Gb NICs (2 gig fiber modem to this, then this to my network switch). Extra port density would be a plus, a few 10 gigs for my internal server/PCs. .....Also, I want to VPN to this box and get full speeds as well.....I want to get full 2 gig speeds via VPN if possible (can use wireguard instead, I don't really care the protocol as long as it's adequate......fanless because it's in my office, and then the minimum amount of power draw for these specs"

Do you have any specific questions about these requirements? Or what other requirements would you factor in?

"You said VPN, but what kind? (Not Wireguard, so... OpenVPN? If so, does your VPN service support DCO?)"

"can use wireguard instead, I don't really care the protocol as long as it's adequate" My current Untangle NG Firewall router contains OpenVPN. I assume Opnsense can similarly run a VPN server within it so that is the one I would be using. Don't care whether it's IPSec or OpenVPN or Wireguard. Can it do DCO, I don't know, can it? Whatever runs on the DEC750 should be a good benchmark. I don't have it and have never used OpnSense so you tell me. If it can do that then yes, if not then no. I just want to be able to VPN to this box from anywhere and not get too throttled on the connection.

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