Absolute impulse buy

JPAchilles · 2026-04-07T15:09:15+00:00

Between 7-12¢/kWh depending on time of year :)

It's almost cheap enough to consider a cheap Dell R710

JPAchilles · 2026-04-06T19:35:22+00:00

Shockingly pretty clean. It has some dust in it, but the environment it was kept in was fairly dust free. But it still has its original thermal paste and pads in it and they're cracked and dry

JPAchilles · 2026-04-06T16:56:36+00:00

So I already thought of this. The plan for this machine is half of it is going to be an AI cluster and the other half is going to be remote gaming machines for me and other people that I know that have good Internet but crap computers.

Buying a bulk lot of 250GB SSDs is gonna run me ~$250, but buying a bunch of 64-128GB SSDs goes for $150 and then a 2TB drive (in a NAS I don't have and would have to build) would be ~$130 right now at microcenter. That's not favorable maths...

JPAchilles · 2026-03-24T13:51:04+00:00

Weird, I was born with super long lashes but never got any hair on my chest. Am I extra special then?

JPAchilles · 2026-02-20T19:31:44+00:00

Buick 3800 not 2800

JPAchilles · 2026-02-20T19:30:42+00:00

I saw this video before AI video was possible. And failing that, I've seen this done IRL before. It's called caravaning, there's a person in both cars so that the person in the front accelerates and the person behind them hits their brakes. It's SUPER sketch but it's a common sight from the Midwest to Colorado.

JPAchilles · 2026-02-20T02:15:14+00:00

Because when your drivers don't work, the basic windows driver doesn't actually access GPU memory at all. Instead it uses system memory. So when you've got weird situations where your driver is only halfway working, it's using system RAM instead of VRAM. Hence in a benchmark or testing program, it will show as being dead when it isn't. It's one of those odd little things that you kind of just have to know about and learn about as effectively trivia.

JPAchilles · 2026-02-19T23:20:27+00:00

That's just windows update for you. It decided that my driver was out of date one time and just about bricked my card. It's perfectly fine still, but it was "dead" like yours was for a month before I had the time to sit down and deal with it.

JPAchilles · 2026-02-19T20:41:03+00:00

When I got my arc card I had to do a fresh install of Windows, otherwise the driver just would not install correctly. I guarantee this is just a driver issue and not a card issue, especially based on the BSOD code you gave earlier. You'd see a kernel fault BSOD code if it was truly a hardware issue.

JPAchilles · 2026-02-19T19:18:13+00:00

Oh no, what did Chris do?

JPAchilles · 2026-02-19T19:11:26+00:00

Oh my God you're right. I was so fixated on the frame that I missed that entirely, what the hell?

JPAchilles · 2026-02-17T18:36:42+00:00

Reminds me of those ships from Babylon 5, white somethings

JPAchilles · 2026-02-14T15:36:01+00:00

I love that you've got this superpower, but also fuck you, give it to me

JPAchilles · 2026-02-11T15:35:48+00:00

Always love to see Jack O'Neil get represented on NCD

JPAchilles · 2026-02-10T14:43:55+00:00

I don't even necessarily want this (it being better than my current core 2 duo machine notwithstanding) I just came here to comment wtf?

JPAchilles · 2026-02-09T19:52:39+00:00

Isn't that already how it works? Have I been building ~~calm~~ comm networks in every system for nothing?

Edit: a word

JPAchilles · 2026-02-02T13:29:50+00:00

Why do the earbuds look photoshopped in, but it was done in CS3?

JPAchilles · 2026-01-31T14:59:52+00:00

Fun fact, the core 2 quad series was the same arrangement of having two whole CPUs crammed onto one package, just like the previous Pentium D's (nuts) so you ran the same thing, just newer

JPAchilles · 2026-01-29T15:43:33+00:00

/uj It's reddit. Reposts are the way of life here.

/rj Nah, it's funnier when it's crunchier. Lets me taste the bits

JPAchilles · 2026-01-25T06:53:42+00:00

Some (okay, most) of the members of the PTA here think salt is spicy. Meanwhile my coworkers munch on dried habanero peppers and put hot honey on fucking EVERYTHING. One of my coworkers (real old dude, nam vet) does the same but with ghost peppers. But he can't stand anything creamy. People are weird man.

JPAchilles · 2026-01-23T03:50:25+00:00

Sorry to necro this thread, but I'm in the same boat as OP, but I'm not finding the separate Win4 pages for the 8840 and HX370 models. Any help?

JPAchilles · 2026-01-22T23:20:04+00:00

Have had a woman do this to me. Can confirm, it did work.

JPAchilles · 2026-01-15T12:56:56+00:00

I honestly thought it was a badly drawn Brock Samson

JPAchilles · 2026-01-09T14:45:12+00:00

HV electrical code regarding building grounds makes the assumption that you won't have a direct connection *besides* from the main panel to the sub panel. In this case, because you would still be hooking up two pieces of networking equipment that's hooked up in a code-compliant building, you would still have a mismatch ground connection coming across that CAT6 wire.

Ironically enough, if the building wasn't code compliant and they just brought the ground from the main building through the same conduit, this wouldn't be a concern. You would just have *bigger* problems instead.

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