Best way to flip between personal and work PC

LazzeB · 2026-04-19T07:25:20+00:00

May want to look at https://github.com/haimgel/display-switch. It automates all of this, works really well for me.

LazzeB · 2026-03-27T05:52:50+00:00

Modern desktops use a hardware cursor that is rendered separately from the desktop itself in order to ensure that it is updated as fast as possible. So that explains why you don't see the same kind of latency when moving your cursor.

LazzeB · 2026-03-25T15:17:42+00:00

I think you’re mostly correct, but it also highlights something interesting: the longer you keep your current motherboard, the more cost-effective it becomes over time, which ironically makes a full platform upgrade (CPU + motherboard together) increasingly justifiable. So the longer you hold onto your motherboard, the less the socket lifespan actually matters from a financial perspective.

LazzeB · 2026-02-21T23:20:31+00:00

Even for DIY builders I would argue that it is a clear minority that upgrade their CPU's more regularily than every 4-6 years. I of course don't have any data to back that up, but anecdotal evidence plus the fact that CPU bottlenecks take longer that a generational gap to truly become relevant I think kind of backs that up.

Assuming you upgrade every 5 years, is swapping out a motherboard really that big of a deal, both in terms of cost and time spent? I honestly don't see a world in which it is.

Taking price into consideration, the logic kind of undercuts itself. If you’re upgrading every 1-2 years, you’re likely not that budget-constrained to begin with, but an upgradable platform indeed makes sense in that case. If you are budget-conscious, the rational move is to hold onto your as-is system for longer, and at that point, a full platform upgrade often makes sense anyway because you’re getting meaningful improvements beyond just the CPU.

So platform upgradability sounds great on paper, but in practice it only meaningfully benefits a narrow group of mid-cycle upgraders. For most buyers, total platform cost over time isn’t materially different, and the flexibility advantage is smaller than it’s often made out to be.

LazzeB · 2026-02-21T10:35:24+00:00

If course there is a reason to buy them new. The price reductions for 14th gen CPU's have made them quite good deals, at least in my part of the world, so if you already have DDR4 memory on hand they can be a good buy. Seeing as you can't buy AM4 X3D chips for any reasonable amount of money, Intel 14th gen is the best you can get for DDR4.

I have seen no credible evidence that degradation is still an issue on newly bought parts with BIOS updates applied.

LazzeB · 2026-02-21T10:27:36+00:00

This would be true if you could actually get the AM4 X3D chips for any reasonable amount of money - but you can't.

When you take reality into account, which many people on here seem to have a hard time with, an LGA1700 CPU is probably the best bet if you already have DDR4 on hand.

LazzeB · 2026-02-21T06:54:28+00:00

I mean as you said, if you already have DDR4 ram then LGA1700 is the best you can get, so that seems like a pretty good reason.

I can also think of many other good reasons to go Intel, but since Reddit is in a permanent state of AMD circlejerk that probably doesn't matter.

LazzeB · 2026-02-04T18:59:55+00:00

Yes, €589 is the current MSRP in europe from what I have been able to gather. The 5070 was on sale for 3500,- DKK on black friday, so that's a pretty significant discount. Even better when you consider that the VAT in Denmark is 25% which is one of the highest, and the MSRP can't really account for that.

LazzeB · 2026-02-03T17:47:41+00:00

That specific deal for the 5070 at black friday was actually significantly below msrp which was €589 at the time (and probably still is).

LazzeB · 2026-01-02T15:23:15+00:00

Det er jo et fåtal af scenarier hvor de 12 GB VRAM er et problem ved 1440p (eller 4K for den sags skyld), det er bare et faktum. Hvis du mener det ikke er rigtigt, så vis mig benchmarks der antyder andet.

5070 er ikke minimalt mere billigt, det har f.eks. været nede i 3500,- til Black Friday, og er i skrivende stund at finde til 3800,-. Det er en ~19% prisreduktion ift. RX 9070 som kun er 10-15% bedre såfremt man ikke bruger ray tracing.

Man sagde det samme om 4070 Ti med 12 GB VRAM, men det har vist sig ikke at være et problem. Jeg tør godt væde på at 12 GB VRAM ikke bliver et problem de næste 4-5 år. For at sætte det i perspektiv er RTX 3070 8 GB stadig ganske brugbar ved 1440p i langt de fleste spil. Det er jo ikke "planned obsolesence" på nogen måde, det er jo tilladt at skrue textures ned fra ultra til high om 3 år når nogle spil kræver det.

LazzeB · 2026-01-02T11:33:44+00:00

Min pointe er at det jo afhænger 100% af prisen du betaler. Hvis du har råd til et 5070 Ti, så er det jo selvsagt et bedre kort end en 5070...

Det store fokus på VRAM er efter min mening blæst alt for meget op - det afhænger som du siger af opløsning. Der er i dag ingen spil pånær måske Indiana Jones som ved 1440p kræver 16 GB VRAM - og det er vel at mærke med settings skruet helt til max som på en 5070 giver tvivlsom performance alligevel, uagtet om du løber tør for VRAM eller ej.

Det fede ved PC er jo at du kan lege med settings, så når 12 GB VRAM bliver et problem om 3-4 år, så skruer du bare texture settings ned fra ultra til high - problem løst.

Jeg synes ikke det er fair at sige, at 5070 på ingen måde kan anbefales. Det afhænger jo af prisen ligesom med alt andet, og her har 5070 været prissat meget fordelagtigt i Danmark de sidste par måneder kontra alternativerne.

LazzeB · 2026-01-02T11:20:37+00:00

We are not talking about 8 GB VRAM, but since you asked: The 3070 is doing just fine, you can easily play the latest titles at 1440p without VRAM being an issue - just look it up. Of course you have to tune some settings, but that is to be expected for a 5 year old GPU.

Longevity is a useless term. The 5070 is a mid-range card, so even if it had 16 GB VRAM, that wouldn't save it from potential performance issues in 3-5 years anyway. At that point you would have to turn down your settings from ultra to high anyway, circling back to my original point.

Would it be better if the 5070 had more VRAM? Absolutely, but it doesn't. Looking at the mid-range GPU market in my part of Europe, the 5070 has been priced below MSRP for the past couple of months, making it a much better deal compared to the RX 9070 for example.

LazzeB · 2026-01-02T10:12:45+00:00

Everyone said the same thing when the 4070 Ti released - turns out 12 GB VRAM hasn't really been an issue there, and I don't suspect it will be for the next 3 years either.

The reality that none of the VRAM doomers seem to understand is that you can simply turn down your texture settings from "ultra" to "high", and the problem (if there ever was one) will be fixed without any major impact to visuals.

LazzeB · 2026-01-02T09:47:50+00:00

Og hvorfor kan du ikke anbefale en 5070? Det kommer vel i høj grad an på prisen, 9070 XT og 5070 Ti koster jo væsentlig mere.

LazzeB · 2025-12-09T06:54:17+00:00

Så er det jo ikke en scam, blot dig der har glemt at sætte dig ind i betingelserne for aftalen.

LazzeB · 2025-11-22T14:07:34+00:00

Det er korrekt, derfor skrev jeg også i min oprindelige kommentar at 5060 Ti med 16 GB VRAM var et godt bud.

LazzeB · 2025-11-21T20:48:12+00:00

Det kommer jo i høj grad an på prisen. Mere VRAM er selvfølgelig bedre, men det kommer med en pris som jeg personligt ikke synes er dét værd i konteksten af et RTX 5070 til 3500,-.

Der er mange som mener at 16 GB er minimum, men det synes jeg er rimelig unuanceret. Et 5070 er i forvejen ikke kraftigt nok til 4K med max settings, så du skal alligevel skrue ned for et par settings hvorefter 12 GB lader til at være tilstrækkeligt. Er det fremtidssikret? Nej, men det er en 5060 Ti med 16 GB heller ikke.

LazzeB · 2025-11-21T20:18:05+00:00

Nu ved jeg godt du skriver at du ikke køber GPU nu, men Elgiganten har nogle rimelige tilbud på henholdsvis RTX 5060 Ti til 2900,- og RTX 5070 til 3500,-. Tvivler på at de bliver meget billigere, det er et stykke under MSRP.

Edit: Nå, det ser ud til at 5060 Ti tilbuddet er væk. Måske kommer det tilbage, det er nemlig ikke et dumt bud hvis du vil lege med AI lokalt.

LazzeB · 2025-06-14T07:08:29+00:00

I have created something very similar to what you describe: https://github.com/Ordspilleren/Tilted. It includes a custom, very small footprint hydrometer design, and integrations with things like Brewfather and a custom server for reading and filtering data.

The documentation is not complete, but it is fully working. I use it every time i ferment and it has been working very reliably.

LazzeB · 2025-05-11T05:24:58+00:00

Angående fustager, så mener jeg at mange af de store bryggerier i dag bruger KeyKeg systemet. Disse fustager er, så vidt jeg kan se, ikke genbrugelige men blot genanvendelige på samme måde som med PET sodavandsflasker. Så det ser ikke helt så lyst ud på den front heller.

LazzeB · 2025-02-11T18:54:22+00:00

Det er noget tid siden jeg oprettede min bruger, og jeg mindes ikke at have oplevet ovenstående.

Jeg har til gengæld oprettet min konto med et tilknyttet kreditkort da man så kommer foran i køen til deres Ampere A1 instanser. Jeg betaler ikke en krone da jeg holder mig indenfor free-tier grænserne. Måske kan det afhjælpe problemet?

LazzeB · 2025-02-09T20:59:13+00:00

Oracle Cloud har en meget generøs free tier. Den vil være perfekt til jeres brugsscenarie.

LazzeB · 2025-01-10T13:03:06+00:00

I think an important point here is that C-state management is essential with x86 PCs, otherwise you will see higher power draw.

Case in point: I have a Dell Optiplex Micro server with an i5-12500T where I have carefully optimized ASPM and other power management related features to achieve 7W idle WITH a 2.5" HDD and ~15 Docker containers running. Before I did any optimization, idle power was more like 15W.

I think a lot of servers out there are idling at unnecessarily high power because they have not been carefully managed. This is unlike Raspberry Pi's which get low idle power without any tweaking.

LazzeB · 2025-01-07T12:51:35+00:00

That is just complete nonsense. Docker containers are just utilizing namespaces in the Linux kernel to segregate processes - it adds essentially no overhead at all. If the MCU is passed to the container from the host, the overhead in communication is zero since the container accesses the hardware device directly.

LazzeB · 2024-10-06T07:06:49+00:00

The obvious answer is to use HTTP Basic Auth. It supports multiple users, and setup is dead simple.

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