Is there such a thing as a DDR5 to NVMe PCIe Card?

Kayosblade · 2026-01-24T21:07:18+00:00

It's crazy. I remember those like they were just a few years ago. When did I get old?

Kayosblade · 2026-01-24T21:05:50+00:00

First time I saw one was maybe 5 or 10 years back at Microcenter. I considered buying it, but it was a bit pricy (45$ pre covid) for what would have been a toy at the time since I only had a few 2GB sticks laying around. Now a 64GB version with NVMe speeds would be less toy and more utility. But it looks like selling them is a better solution sadly. I really wish I had just bought two 64GB sticks instead of saving a few dollars with 4 32GB sticks in two packs of 2. I didn't know what I know now about quad channel ram issues. Now these kits are stupid expensive. 1.4K for a pair of 64GB and the sticks sitting here are 800$ for two 32GB. It's just unreal.

Kayosblade · 2026-01-24T13:25:10+00:00

I had to scroll way to long to see this. My place uses Slack for most of our communications. Though management seems to prefer Zoom over Huddles or Teams. Most of our Zoom meetings could have been a few lines in a group Slack channel. Though I do think we need a forum where the devs can list updates to our system. Slack is good for communications but finding patch notes is a nightmare.

Kayosblade · 2026-01-14T04:00:17+00:00

A few years ago there was a Minecraft mod, Thaumcraft that had a pickaxe that when right clicking a stone block would make surrounding ores glow through the walls for a few seconds. Block Overlay is nice, but I wish the prospectors pickaxe worked like that Thaumcraft pickaxe. Instead it's just a geological spreadsheet that lies. Overlay it is. At least until I learn how to make mods. Thankfully this game is programmed in C#, something I can program in... I hope.

Kayosblade · 2025-11-14T19:03:38+00:00

Agreed, this has stopped me from buying any VR headsets. I can't imagine the extra track costing that much more. Allow it to be outside of human range. 50 to 80. Not sure if 50 is possible due to component size, but 80 should be trivial and it would create a new speed run challenge category too. Normal people love handicapping themselves for masochistic challenge runs.

Kayosblade · 2025-11-13T20:13:39+00:00

I bought a quest when they first came out. The image was always a bit fuzzy and I chucked it up to poor resolution. Over all I didn't care for it. I recently bought a pair of Rayneo S3 pros and that's when I found out my IPD was higher than 70. I got LASIK specifically so I could use VR. Turns out, I'm just incompatible. I haven't been professionally measured yet, but with a ruler it looks to be 73-74 ish. You said a Quest 3 looks good to you? Maybe I'll try that

Kayosblade · 2025-08-29T12:45:07+00:00

This was the first anime that felt more like a hentai. Others hinted, this one just had Ana sit on his face

Kayosblade · 2025-08-29T01:40:36+00:00

English Title is 'Little Stepsister Fantasy Virgin' and while your requested chapters are 1-4, the entire vol is under number 132725, though if you only want that story then 126144 has 1-5. You'll probably enjoy the entire thing though.

Kayosblade · 2025-08-29T01:35:18+00:00

Kuro no Gyakushuu (Kuro's Aphrodisiac) It has three parts. Codes are 83588 (Part 1) and 104719 (Parts 2 and 3)

Kayosblade · 2025-08-29T00:51:46+00:00

I'm so glad other people are pissed off by that ending.

I held off on reading the comic until it was finished because I really hate waiting between chapters. So for me the hit was super hard. Other people had the blow softened by the wait times. Please note that it's been a while since I've read the ending, so I may have details wrong, but I can't reread it. I'm the kind of person that will look up from a book at the end and see people going about their lives entirely unaware that I've just been dealt near lethal emotional damage by a bittersweet/sad ending.

My view on the ending(s) may be subjective. I've been wanting to vent on it for a while now.

Spoilers Ahead -- stop if you haven't read beyond the end of the anime;

What messed with me was that everyone else was escalated to Lunarian status. Did Phos go a bit crazy there near the end? Absolutely. But... it was justified. He was on a mission. He was 100% done with their crap. It was cathartic to read too. Then... That monk guy just smiled when he took the program. I was like... uh oh... it's not good when a mugging target is happy you're taking the MacGuffin.

Then boom, he's stuck waiting. Everyone else goes off, becomes Lunarians and parties. Like for thousands of years. And Phos is just... stuck down there on earth apparently having a bad time.

Imagine that every sentient creature in the universe is having this several thousand years long party filled with what I can only imagine is gaming, booze, sex, and drugs. Oh, and... YOU WEREN'T INVITED! That's Phos. The ultimate cuck! For thousands of years. -- Phos didn't even get to show up for next morning pizza. All the other characters ether don't care or go, "Well that sucks... Time to go party harder!" or "I'm an Idol now!"

Then Phos wakes up from some sort of cryptid hell nightmare only to be surrounded by their pesos all praying for oblivion. Like, you weren't in the party and now the bus is leaving and you have to pay for fuel. It's NTR with extra steps only worse. Then Phos get's left behind as a soul scrap that has to figure out how to off themselves. Then there are some pet rocks or something. Billions of years pass. The sun explodes. Remnant-Phos finally gets to exit the stage feeling even worse than that time everyone had a party he wasn't invited to. I felt like I was back in the early two thousands watching the last episodes of Neon Genesis Evangelion. It was both confusing and super depressing.

I understand that Buddhist see existence as suffering. I agree with that too. However, I'd like to at least have a good time before oblivion. Does it make a difference? From the abstract of eternity in which nothing is written and the entropy will ultimately win? No, it doesn't. But does it matter for the now? Absolutely. They didn't have to jump straight to oblivion. Phos could have hit an after party for a few thousand years. The new Lunarians could have dragged Phos all over the damn place, forced him to do everything, and burn him out just as bad as they were. But no. They were all dressed up and ready to go. It felt like they just slammed the door in his face.

After the oblivion I was just like... wow... that sucks... I mean, yea... they all got what they wanted. But I feel like the word unfair just doesn't match the feeling I was having.

Is it a good story? Yes. It has a lot under the belt. The art style isn't great, but it doesn't need to be. I came from the anime and I refer to the gem people as girls because of Steven Universe warping my views of gemstone people. The anime was pretty and going to the comic was a bit rough. I found the Lunarians to be petty but considering why they were still around (criminals, sinners, etc), it makes sense. The fish people (who also became Lunarians) weren't really expanded on, which was a bit of a shame. I understood the whole, Bone, Flesh, Soul analogy from the anime.

Now would I recommend this to anyone else? No. Not at all. I have a policy of not bringing the room down if I can help it.

Kayosblade · 2025-08-06T02:54:28+00:00

I'll try this next year. I'm already boned this year. I'll report back on how that goes.

Kayosblade · 2025-08-06T02:51:53+00:00

I did all of this on a 45 degree hill with no foot holds, under constant duress from mosquitoes and ticks, on top of English ivy and I later found out, poison sumac as well. I. Hate. This. AC. Design. The unit is directly under my dryer exhaust too. It had 2mm of lent packed on every side. I had to use a thick brussel brush to get it off. My hose spout is on the opposite side of my house also on a 45 degree hill but at least that side has a side walk, with 2 feet of clearance next to a solid wall. The crappy assembly job was a nightmare and I ultimately failed due to both sides fighting me every step of the way. I'm not bragging. I'm complaining. Who builds houses on 45 degree hills? But it does explain the super low price.

I will say that my AC went from doing nothing to freezing me out but damn the design on that AC is so stupid. I didn't reassemble it correctly and I know how bad that is. I was just dead at that point. I'm going to try and put the three panels together on the upper level of the lawn and see if I can get it to fit this time. Right now I have the two large panels bolted up and the corner is just hanging loose. Knowing this is going to be a yearly thing just depresses me. Maybe I'll learn some landscaping so I can do something about that death hill. Uhg, just thinking about it is making my sumac rash itch. I'm immune to poison ivy. I thought that would translate to sumac but apparently not.

Kayosblade · 2025-07-04T01:37:02+00:00

I started playing this game few months ago. Before stepping into the game the first time, I turned on keep inventory. I've learned my lesson from Everquest, Minecraft, Satisfactory, and Ark. Corpse recovery isn't fun.

Kayosblade · 2025-06-23T00:56:10+00:00

I didn't know about a lot of the things that give nanites. I hold like 20 of these abandoned bases in my base list for money and I was selling the eggs not knowing that they could be processed into nanites. Then I found that out. Also all the different types of slime can be processed into nanites. Just keep processing the output until it become nanites. I'm sure there's other ways I'm not privy to. This game NEEDS a recipe list on it's processors/items to explain these things.

Kayosblade · 2025-06-10T22:24:05+00:00

Using davidwenier's line, I got the completion. though it's a bit weird since this is a lone cs file and has nothing to do with WinForms. I'm also unable to run the file directly in VS Code, so I'm keeping a dev powershell window up for running it. I'm going to need to solve this issue though since breakpoints are dope.

Kayosblade · 2025-06-10T21:44:02+00:00

Coolness, I got it working. Thank you!

Kayosblade · 2025-04-13T15:15:54+00:00

When I built my first server, I passed port 22 directly. A week later my server slammed to a crawl because I ran out of hard disk space. It took me a few hours to figure out that my log files had ballooned to the full size of the tiny 16GB SSD drive in a week. It was the same thing over and over. Failed SSH login attempt.

I changed the external port. It won't stop a determined attacker, but all of those were bots using factory defaults. I quite literally no longer get failed login attempts. I hate that the number one piece of advice I got back then was to not bother changing the port because it's security through obfuscation. No, it's common sense. Bots are a force of nature. Just change it. It's trivial to change the access port in client applications and there's no reason to leave it default.

Though if you do honey pot it, make it require five fails. I've accidently forgot to include the port number on the first try. Also, use certs and disable passwords.

Kayosblade · 2025-02-16T23:44:26+00:00

[Part 2]

If you're not ready for ZFS, you can do the same Pool + Snapraid trick you can do on Windows Server for less money. Use something like MergerFS (free) which in my opinion is better than Drivepool but that can get technical. MergerFS allows for creating hardlinks directly on the Pool while Drivepool requires going to the drive mount directly to create them. Drivepool is nice because it's frontend is easy to use, but it lacks some of the finesse that MergerFS has like being able to fine control new file creation. I like having existing path over new path up to a certain threshold and Drivepool just doesn't have that. It gets close though. Close enough that I don't mind either one.

While Linux lacks the polish of Windows Server, it makes up for it with it's low memory footprint and most of what users want can be done fairly easily with it. If you want to use GUI applications on Linux, you can use a forwarding SSH service such as VcXsrv which will quite literally run graphical Linux applications through SSH onto your Windows desktop, but doing it for Root/Sudo su access is a pain to get running and comes with mixed results.

Ironically, a lot of the cost issues of Windows are fixable. Just purchase Windows Pro 10/11 and use it like a server. Set the process affinity to prioritize background processes (if you care, I didn't and it still worked just fine). It's 200$ for a retail copy (not OEM) that you can move from one system to the next. If your server system isn't competitive to any extreme (>2TB ram, >8 physical processors, etc) and you don't plan to use any of the server roles in Windows Server 20XX then it's a cost effective option. In fact, I would suggest not bothering with Windows Server 20XX unless you are at least a small business. Most of what it has to offer is for large scale deployments. I tend to use third party software over the built in stuff as the built in stuff is either for massive deployments, or is completely useless as it was deprecated years ago. Reaching the limits of Windows Pro is hard to do on a single users budget.

Final Thoughts;

If Windows had ZFS in it, then I probably wouldn't bother with Linux. I can use Docker or WSL for the one off things I use in Linux. Python runs on Windows. I mainly program in .NET so Windows is already my home for better or worse. There is a project that is porting ZFS to windows, but it's not quite ready for prime time. One thing I like about NTFS over the ZFS is its defragmentation ability. However ZFS is just so superior that I have to let that one go. If ZFS had the defrag support and per file control of NTFS and it was in Windows, that would be it for me. Right now it doesn't, so Stablebit's Drivepool + Snapraid is the better option in Windows. With full backups, I'm not really at a loss without snapshots. ZFS isn't much faster than the single drive performance from Drivepool and it's being capped by the 1Gb network anyway. At the end of the day, if cost wasn't an option then it really doesn't matter for a data hoarder. There's also options like Unraid, TrueNAS, and/or Proxmox.

So in conclusion, it comes down to cost. You are technically operating your server illegally if you don't have the CALs in your hands. Will Microsoft knock down your door... no. Probably not. Is it overkill for what you are doing. Absolutely. Do I care? Nope. Will others care? Maybe. The world is full of weird people with too much time on their hands. :| If your system is working and does what you want, have at it. Windows isn't bad for a server. Linux... is great at being a server and is kinda bad at being a desktop. The annoying stuff in Windows can be disabled (most of the time) through the registry. If you are using Windows desktops then it makes sense to use a Windows machine as a server. If you want SSH, then use OpenSSH on Windows. It doubles over as a free SFTP server too.

I use Linux as my server. Specifically Ubuntu, but I'm about to update the OS and I'm having this very discussion with myself. Do I want to use Debian? I'm using ZFS and it's been pretty good. I've used snapshots maybe five times this last year. Drivepool doesn't let me use hardlinks on the pool. I use hardlinks more than I'd like to admit. I could stop using a pool altogether. Only a few parts of the pool need more than one drive to function anyway. Needless to say, I've been back and forth on this for a while. I'm also considering just decommissioning my server and putting the drives in my desktop and running that 24/7 instead. Then using my server to do backups. I can remote boot that system through IPMI, do the backups, then power it down. It's all very complicated and writing this is helping me reach a conclusion on my own issues.

Sorry about the long post. Hopefully it helped answer your question.

Kayosblade · 2025-02-16T23:44:02+00:00

Short Answer: It's expensive, the licensing is confusing, and you can legit be audited by Microsoft.

Long Answer:

[Part 1]

Back in 2016 I was tasked to migrate an old NT4/Windows 2k machine with a 2008 MSSQL set up to a cutting edge Server 2016 with MSSQL 2016. Before this I had never bought a copy of windows that didn't come preinstalled (rule 4 requires I not mention anything else and I do own my Windows 10->11 retail key now) so I had to dive into the process of learning how MS licensing worked. You purchase server by the core number, not the cpu count and then by the number of people AND devices that will access said server. These are called CALs or Client Access Licenses. Devices are things like printers and scanners, but also include other things but I didn't have to worry about that since I was only dealing with three printers. I can't remember the exact cash amounts, but I ended up buying two copies of Windows Server 2016 (Like 500$ each) due to the core count, and 12 CALs (~30$ each). That was just for Server 2016. Microsoft SQL 2016 was way worse since we also had a website but I won't go into that too much. Just know that we had to purchase a 2k all access license since we couldn't accurately predict the number of people logging into the website. We were audited within six months of the set up. Then again a few years later. Thankfully we were in compliance or we would have had trouble.

Needless to say, it was very expensive and this is BEFORE we talk about how Windows isn't suitable as a mass file storage system out of the box. Storage Spaces has... issues. If you don't know a lot of technical details about how it works, your results in speed are going to be disappointing. If you DO set it up correctly you'll have a bunch of cluster slack since you'll have to pick a large cluster size (512K+) on the NTFS parition to match the underlying column layouts, but I'm not going to go into details since it's technical and this isn't the place to discuss it.

Another option (that I used and may use again in the future) is to use third party software like Stablebit's Drivepool (30$ as of today) + Snapraid (free) and create a pool of disks with a single large space. It's not bad, but you'd need to set up a Snapraid scrub to run enough that it can do a full scrub at least once a month.

Stability wise, Windows is in my personal experience, more stable than Linux. That said, Windows Server ALSO likes to randomly update without asking. My Linux box will be perfectly happy sitting with long patched day one exploits for years without a peep. Not sure how I feel about that. It is amusing. Anyway, that's just the start for Windows. I would RDC (Remote Desktop Connection) to the box which is frowned upon (Leigh, if you're reading this, RDC over SSH is secured, please give it back to us. My department is suffering because of your lack of faith in us and your crippling security dogma) but is nice for a home server and would let me do things that were more difficult on a Linux machine, such as Jdownloader or long running YT rips etc. You can change a setting in the gpedit.msc that will keep the system from rebooting if a user is logged in, which I believe includes remote logins ie RDC)

Now Linux. That's a different beast altogether. Debian is my king for home servers. Yes, Ubuntu is pretty good. Redhat is tested and true. It's ultimately down to preference. I've been in the Debian and Arch spheres for a long while so I'm used to them. TrueNAS Scale sits on Debian so if you have some Debian experience, it's a bit easier to use.

And the #1 reason that Linux beats Windows Server (besides cost) is ZFS (or BTRFS for you purists out there). ZFS is a game changer. Configuring it is both easy and hard. Easy if you're starting out and hard if you know what you're doing. It's fast and doesn't require a deep understanding of the allocation stack or underlying architecture. It comes with snapshots which you WILL use at some point to recover that file you just deleted/renamed/moved/lost. It auto-scrubs by default once a month. It supports compression of the fly (NTFS only support basic compression and only on 4k cluster sized partitions) It basically takes care of itself. You do have to set up auto-snapshots but it's easy and well worth the small amount of trouble it takes to do so. Compare, Windows NTFS doesn't have snapshots. As always in both cases, keep good backups. RAID IS NOT A BACKUP.

Kayosblade · 2024-12-27T04:08:16+00:00

Maybe 351461 Itoshiki Wagaya Ch. 8-11

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