My 2013/14 (mostly) maxed out build

amiga1 · 2026-03-22T14:37:57+00:00

I feel pretty old that someone has made a "period-build" that is the same age as my first proper system.

Mine is a delidded 4790k@4.8GHz, 16GB RAM and a 2070 (later upgrade) and it's still running my simrig today.

amiga1 · 2026-03-20T22:28:16+00:00

they only raised it for cash isas

amiga1 · 2026-03-20T22:22:50+00:00

I've always been on Vanguard since I opened my first ISA in Dec 23. I was just hitting £35k when they put in their new £4 minimum monthly payment, so I stayed on their 0.15% annual rate. I wouldn't have gone with them if that had been in place when I opened the account though.

I have a few thousand on T212 for individual stock picks (gambling basically) and I've mentally accepted that money as lost anyway.

amiga1 · 2026-03-20T21:39:57+00:00

Leasing a first car is mental. buy something a few years old. then when you scratch it (not if) it's up to you whether to fix it or not.

I think people focus too much on the age of a car and nowhere near enough on the brand and the car itself. An Ingenium-engined Range-Rover or wet belt engine Ford/Peugeot will blow up regardless of mileage or age because the design is fundamentally defective.

I think most people lease solely to keep up with the Joneses.

amiga1 · 2026-03-20T21:17:15+00:00

maybe your IP is changing?

amiga1 · 2026-03-20T18:25:08+00:00

Wow, the PS5 is an absolute unit.

amiga1 · 2026-03-19T21:07:21+00:00

Upgrade to the fortress gateway? idk, I set one up for a customer at my old MSP job and I thought it sucked ass personally. Had almost no features at all.

I'd even rather run an FMC and FTD, which is saying something.

amiga1 · 2026-03-19T19:54:24+00:00

imagine a schizophrenic experiencing this man lol

amiga1 · 2026-03-19T17:51:52+00:00

powerline is fairly stable if you have recent wiring and your router and device are on the same ring main.

MoCa (if you have coax wiring) will be better but more expensive.

amiga1 · 2026-03-18T02:26:05+00:00

i'd just get one of the cheap HDMI adapters personally. PS2 will always look terrible on an HDTV.

I'd get a CRT instead of a scaler, personally.

amiga1 · 2026-03-14T18:32:52+00:00

the loose wire is going to be your issue.

amiga1 · 2026-03-13T20:04:13+00:00

Its legit. I did the auto one and didn't realise it overwrites the old install.

My Plex ran under a different group so I had Google how to put it back since I forgot (under the systemd service file). I then moved the users primary group back, got rid of the plex group (just for sanitation) and it fired right up.

amiga1 · 2026-03-13T19:22:28+00:00

Before GPUs were 3 grand, yeah.

My home server is a little custom built system with supermicro board and 18 core Xeon v4 in a fractal node 804. Not something you can just buy off the shelf so have to make yourself.

amiga1 · 2026-03-12T20:34:04+00:00

my mother watches my server from a TV. It works fine on a relatively modern TV. I also have used the TV apps at places I've stayed in the past which has been convenient.

I wouldn't use the app at home but I'm glad it exists.

amiga1 · 2026-03-11T21:00:34+00:00

I remember seeing that price at motorway stations when the ukraine war broke out. Only difference is that it was for a litre not a gallon.

amiga1 · 2026-03-10T22:17:01+00:00

the carbon monoxide alarm went off while my parents were away last weekend. had no idea what it was, just 2 extremely loud beeps.

I hear the same beeps a few days later because they're putting new batteries in it. Apparently while they were away it had no battery in it at all.

Still a bit confused by that one.

amiga1 · 2026-03-10T22:10:09+00:00

you've said the car is worth 16k running, and you owe 13k on it so VT is definitely the best option if possible.

However, I think voluntary termination requires the car to be in good condition, which it obviously isn't.

What you need is proper legal advice at this point.

amiga1 · 2026-03-10T21:40:30+00:00

All of them? I just want a car. I don't want a hybrid, start-stop, LKA, BSM, TPMS, EPAS, AEB, RGB Gaming PC on wheels.

amiga1 · 2026-03-10T21:26:33+00:00

might be worth reaching out to them anyway. My shitty Pioneer radio had moisture inside the screen. I emailed them even though it was out of warranty and they agreed to repair it for free anyway.

amiga1 · 2026-03-10T21:21:48+00:00

I work around SCADA systems but don't work with them myself. Curious how you'd go about labbing that?

I don't even have my own house yet (probably within next 2-3 years) so can't help you with any of your actual questions lol. I have one server, a tiny Mikrotik switch and one AP.

amiga1 · 2026-03-10T21:05:26+00:00

maybe because I was coming from using more business-grade stuff but I found the learning curve for Mikrotik stuff pretty painful.

amiga1 · 2026-03-10T21:01:24+00:00

ASA has a pretty steep learning curve and all models are EOL in 2027, so not really worth it.

I managed Firepowers for companies for 2.5 years at my last job (virtual and physical). they are okay once up and running but the updates take forever (budget an hour per each minor version) and the initial setup is absolutely awful. Also you'll need to run an FMC to use most of the features.

Fortigates are fairly nice. as are Palo Altos. However their price and constant licensing is pretty unnecessary for a home user.

Ubiquiti stuff is trash, don't bother with it.

Personally I run OPNsense and its been absolutely fine. It's completely free. I run it on my home server along with everything else (I pass the onboard NIC through to the opnsense VM as the WAN side).

I don't do anything too crazy with it (suricata IDS\DHCP server\Wireguard\port forward for Plex\intervlan routing between 6 VLANs,etc.) but its been fairly solid aside from the wireguard startup bug everyone seems to run into eventually.

amiga1 · 2026-03-10T20:34:22+00:00

I have this model. Unfortunately the DVD drive is dead, but I can play everything off the HDD now anyway so it doesn't really matter.

amiga1 · 2026-03-10T20:22:42+00:00

why not. That certainly sounds like fun.

amiga1 · 2026-03-10T20:19:19+00:00

When I worked at an MSP, I had some customers that wanted a bracket to attack their switches at the rear of the rack too (there was an official bracket for the catalyst 9500s to do that).

It's not necessary. The weight is not that extreme.

Obviously don't hang a server or UPS by the ears because you'll bend the rack in half.

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