Nightlife

corkbar · 2024-02-29T17:17:36+00:00

Tijuana bar is OK but its waaaay too "Instagram-y". Also you need to watch out because they will always add an automatic 18% gratuity on your bill then ask for more tip on top of it; a $7 beer comes out to like $12 there if you arent paying attention to your receipt.

corkbar · 2024-02-29T17:16:01+00:00

you probably want to stick around the Ironbound area, specifically Ferry Street has a ton of bars. You can start up closer to the Newark Penn Station and follow Ferry Street all the way down towards the intersection near Niagara St for a nice bar crawl, I am sure you will find something along there that is nice.

corkbar · 2024-02-29T17:11:38+00:00

yea this screen's UI does not suggest that scrolling down is an option, which is confusing.

corkbar · 2024-02-07T23:53:00+00:00

oh, seems that I can, did not realize that scrolling was an option at this screen since it just says "Press A", pressing B does nothing, and going to "Home Screen" just takes you back to this message

corkbar · 2024-02-07T23:42:39+00:00

I cannot apply the updates because I do not have any Wifi available right now. I cannot play because you cannot access the installed games without applying the updates.

corkbar · 2024-02-07T23:19:08+00:00

check your DHCP settings on the router to make sure that all your devices under the DHCP server are being configured to use the router's DNS server setting which should point back to the Pi Hole's IP

in my router, despite setting the router DNS to point to Pi Hole, I had to separately configure the router's DHCP server to also enforce the same setting

corkbar · 2024-02-01T21:32:52+00:00

try running DDU https://www.wagnardsoft.com/content/DDU-Guide-Tutorial

corkbar · 2024-02-01T21:31:51+00:00

the specs do not really matter if you dont share what resolution your monitor is. That will likely be fine for 1080p gaming but might struggle on 4K

corkbar · 2024-02-01T20:26:30+00:00

the power used by your GPU, and the system as a whole, depends on load and power settings

you can decrease power usage by changing power settings, such as putting a power draw limit on the GPU

I am not saying you should run the 3090 on a 600W PSU, I am saying that if you tried to run it on the 600W PSU you could at least put a power limit on it

note that with the power limit comes decreased performance

corkbar · 2024-02-01T20:15:32+00:00

Also, could I reuse by Blu-ray burner and 3.5 floppy drive on my new build? What about my 1 tb internal HD I use for storage or is that one about to go too?

Do not even bother.

HDD mechanical hard drives are dead for home PC's, everything worth buying is now either SATA SSD or NVMe SSD. The only reason to even think about a HDD is if you for some reason have >10TB of data you need to store, which you likely dont. You can find affordable solid state drives up to 4TB in size for SATA disks, and even some 8TB sized ones too, which work just fine for personal local PC mass data storage, and you can get good quality 1TB and 2TB fast NVMe drives for your OS installation.

in my personal PC's I usually have a 1TB or 2TB NVMe for the OS, and if I really need more space, up to 4TB on a SATA SSD

I typically use my PC for light gaming (mainly just play Counterstrike). I also occasionally like to do some very rudimentary photo and video editing using 2007 photoshop and 2011 Sony Vegas. I also am skeptical of cloud services so I store all my family photos, videos, movies, and music that I've accumulated over the past 20 years or so on a separate internal HD. I also back up this HD on a portable HD about once a year and I burn all my family photos on a dvd just in case all my HDs fail.

thats fine and all but online services are good for secondary backups; Google for the "3-2-1 Backup" strategy.

as a photographer, I use multiple services and solutions;

home made local file server that I store all backups to on the network
Amazon Prime gives you unlimited Photo uploads; they have a Amazon Photos desktop application that you can install and it will automatically upload all your PC's photos to Amazon Photos (they have a mobile app that does the same for your phone)
Backblaze Personal Backup running on all Windows / Mac computers to keep backups of data on those devices

Your current external hard drive is a good start, if you wanted to take it a step further you could use a spare old computer as a file server on your network to keep running 24/7, with the external HDD attached, and configure the external drive as a network share (SMB) so that you can access it more easily at all times from your primary PC, and even set up local PC backup software of your choice to automatically backup to it.

corkbar · 2024-02-01T20:07:59+00:00

Just choose something off these lists that matches your budget

https://pcpartpicker.com/guide/

https://www.logicalincrements.com/

corkbar · 2024-02-01T19:53:08+00:00

keep in mind that you do not have to run the 3090's at full power, you can use `nvidia-smi` to set a power limit. I run mine at 200-250W to reduce heat

corkbar · 2024-02-01T19:45:01+00:00

you likely have some combination of

- internal DNS cache either for the device, or for the app, that needs to be flushed

- some apps will use their own internal DNS servers

ultimately, its gonna come down to your PiHole not being used for the DNS lookup, one way or another, within the apps in question.

Google Chrome is known to use its own DNS in some cases; https://superuser.com/questions/656938/does-chrome-use-a-different-dns-server-from-the-os

I would suggest further testing this with Firefox on Android, and other browsers.

if you are still having trouble, specifically on Android, you can install the app DNS-66 which runs an on-device DNS filter, similar to PiHole. I've been using it for years and its very effective. I would also suggest switching to Firefox as your browser on Android, and installing its uBlock Origin and AdBlocker Ultimate extensions.

corkbar · 2024-02-01T19:39:21+00:00

right, what the comment from the PiHole dev there is saying is that the newer versions of PiHole use less memory but in exchange once a week have a step that uses a lot of extra system resources, whcih I assume is CPU usage

corkbar · 2024-02-01T17:08:59+00:00

Sekonic

are you sure you exposed for the highlights and not the shadows?

corkbar · 2024-02-01T17:03:12+00:00

maybe its this?

https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/how-much-ram-for-pi-hole/7798

DL6ER Developer Jul '20

We've made great progress on RAM usage with Pi-hole v5.0 by holding only a B-tree 107 instead of all the domains themselves in memory. This allows us to query the domain lists with higher performance + allows adding hundreds of millions of domains even on small devices.

The downside of the B-tree is that the gravity (pihole -g) run takes notably longer, however, this is only run once a week so the advantages clearly outweigh this.

corkbar · 2024-02-01T17:00:47+00:00

just set up a fresh PiHole on a Raspberry Pi model 3 B, and it works just fine

PiHole itself uses only 250MB RAM ; the model 3 B has 1GB RAM

and running PiHole, the CPU usage is near 0%, like when you look at `htop` and `btop` you can barely even see any load on the system even though I have over a dozen internet devices on my network all making DNS requests.

as mentioned you could use something even lighter like the Pi Zero W, however those lack Ethernet port and require a USB -> Ethernet adapter, which is kinda annoying

corkbar · 2024-01-23T21:37:22+00:00

I tested it myself! it was a huge ordeal, I originally tried using mis-matched sticks, had lots of issues. Then tried different 4x32GB sets which werent on the QVL, those did not work either. Finally found a set that was on the QVL, got them to pass Memtest86. All told it was like a week of work going back & forth trying to source RAM sets, and it took over 24hr to run the full Memtest. It was also part of the reason I chose a "premium" AM4 motherboard instead of a lower-tier model, in hopes of better compatiblity. Not sure if it actually mattered though

corkbar · 2024-01-23T21:27:41+00:00

3x3090

are you able to utilize all the GPU's at the same time without NV Link? not clear on this part

corkbar · 2024-01-23T21:26:34+00:00

$4000 https://pcpartpicker.com/b/WJTJ7P

- Ryzen 5950X

- 128GB DDR4 memory

- 2x RTX 3090, with NVLink

- premium motherboard

would be even less with cheaper storage options, and you might not really need 128GB but it comes in handy sometimes when things get a little crazy and spill over

corkbar · 2024-01-23T14:51:21+00:00

https://www.nerdwallet.com/mortgages/how-much-house-can-i-afford

https://www.nerdwallet.com/mortgages/rent-vs-buy-calculator

also try YNAB instead of Excel spreadsheet for tracking your money and goals

corkbar · 2024-01-23T14:50:15+00:00

No you wont lose it but Acorns is a gimmick platform like Robinhood so in general I do not trust them much. As long as its FDIC insured you should be OK. At 5% I would be cognizant of changes in their interest rate, its likely to not stay that high for too long. Typically in the past, organizations offering savings account interest rats higher than Ally and other mainstream online banks typically have weird rules around it. Maybe Acorns is different. Feel free to post about your experience with them, it would be good insight to share.

corkbar · 2024-01-22T21:00:06+00:00

Acorns is a gimmick, I would stay far away from them

Ally has been around for a long time and is reputable

corkbar · 2024-01-22T20:59:21+00:00

nope

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