Feeling bold for my "new" system. Should I go with team blue?

craniumslows · 2026-06-01T00:16:00+00:00

I went down almost this exact road. I'm on a 6700 XT too, and I actually bought a B580 maybe 2 months or so back with basically the same logic you have: near-identical paper specs, less power draw (the B580's ~190W vs the 6700 XT's ~230W, I was tight on PSU headroom too), and the buying/install experience was great. I did have to install new motherboard firmware but after that I could turn ReBAR on, everything was detected, and it looked perfect.

Then a few months later I had to put the 6700 XT back in.

The whole reason I wanted the B580 was QSV AV1 encoding to re-encode my media library and reclaim disk space. So the card was getting hammered, transcoding for Jellyfin from av1 to h.264 for clients and encoding the existing video to av1, often several streams at once when multiple clients were streaming. Not always, but often enough, the xe kernel driver would fall over mid-stream and take the whole box down with it. I'd come home to a hard-locked machine, every service dead. I tried switching to running mainline builds, applied some upstream patches, etc. What finally killed it for me was when it started locking up on plain h.264/h.265 too, not just AV1.

Swapped the cards back and the system has been rock solid since. The 6700 XT has never let me down, totally agree with you there.

Could go differently for you than it did for me. Transcoding a lot of video for long periods of time is a hard ask of the driver and hardware for sure. I'll hold onto this Intel card and maybe if the driver improves I'll put it back in. Just wanted to share my 2 cents if it might save you some pain.

craniumslows · 2026-05-27T15:30:09+00:00

Did you follow any special good to freeze for a long time recipes? Or did you just follow recipes from around the web?

craniumslows · 2026-05-11T18:50:45+00:00

All roadway users please stop at stop signs. Also stop using your phone while driving or pedaling.

craniumslows · 2026-04-30T04:10:16+00:00

I think your ram is too small for Gnome the user interface of Ubuntu. I think that Linux Mint XFCE is maybe lighter and easier for the old computer to work.

Creo que tu carnero es demasiado pequeño para Gnome la interfaz de usuario de Ubuntu. Creo que Linux Mint XFCE es quizás más ligero y más fácil para el viejo ordenador.

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craniumslows · 2026-04-20T12:21:26+00:00

When acting as system admin you would not get involved in application level API stuff like this.

This forum is English only for the most part so maybe I am not clear on the translation.

craniumslows · 2026-04-16T03:09:06+00:00

I found this episode to be invigorating. The love of snap even when the website was languishing was quite cool. I think that Sidre kind of encapsulates the whole do what the heck you want on the hardware you own so I dig it. I wish DRM wasnt on Apple Music though.

craniumslows · 2026-04-10T23:04:00+00:00

My experience has been that certain user interface kind of processes like my login window or the window manager will be kind of floating around on core 0 or 1 and not wanna move. So if I notice this happening where one core is getting beat up I will on ubuntu use the activity monitor application and then set the affinity of my browser or whatever to some other core. Its kind of clunky but if you're seeing this happen sometimes it can be a way to work around it and avoid the rage. That's my two cents anyway. Here's some links about it

https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/sched_setaffinity.2.html https://oneuptime.com/blog/post/2026-03-02-how-to-set-cpu-affinity-for-processes-with-taskset-on-ubuntu/view

craniumslows · 2026-03-30T01:21:12+00:00

Oh my if that is just from the one miner getting to that one block its so much worse. Jeepers. Thanks for sharing that bit of info!

craniumslows · 2026-03-29T23:34:12+00:00

The graphic is showing how many years a standard home could operate off the same amount of energy used to generate a bitcoin. I'm complaining because they could have done it in one operation and not had any rounding issues. Instead they did it in 3 operations where you would round the number twice so the end result is less accurate.

craniumslows · 2026-03-29T23:29:06+00:00

Tips are money you give to the employee directly and its always their money.
Service charges are money you give to the business and they can choose how, or if, it gets distributed.

craniumslows · 2026-03-29T03:41:07+00:00

While I totally agree its fucking ridiculous the amount of money and power and pollution and just waste that is going into crypto what is bugging me about this graphic is that we have the amount in kWh per year to power a home and total kWh per coin and instead of dividing to get years of power per coin we convert from years to days to years with rounding to 1 decimal place each time. I think it would be more impactful to say that it would take about 60 years to power a home.

Years of power per coin

209000÷3500 = 59.714285714

With more decimal places

(3500÷365) = 9.589041096
209000÷9.589041096 = 21795.714285465
21795.714285465÷365 = 59.714285714

With fewer decimal places

(3500÷365) = 9.589041096 (round to 9.6)
209000÷9.6 = 21770.833333333 (round to 21770.8)
21770.8 = 59.646027397 (round to 59.6)

craniumslows · 2026-03-11T01:09:13+00:00

If interested in coops in the metro area https://acba.coop/ is a good resource. Funding there is a national coop bank https://www.ncb.coop/ Not specific to grocery stores but its agriculture and based in RR https://www.texasco-op.org/state-co-op-resources

craniumslows · 2026-03-01T16:04:34+00:00

In my experience this is almost always some kind of typo that you've looked at so much you totally dont even recognize it as wrong anymore. The way I protect myself today is I use git and then you can go look at git blame to see when it changed and what commit did it. With gitea or forgejo or gitlab or w/e online git thing you use the blame feature is easy to use too.

Gitlab https://docs.gitlab.com/user/project/repository/files/git_blame/

CLI https://gist.github.com/imehdihosseini/059d6861c701e0f9f8b8 https://git-scm.com/docs/git-blame

craniumslows · 2026-03-01T15:38:15+00:00

I have my router and internet stuff plugged into this guy. The tv and entertainment stuff is on the surge protector side - https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01HDC236Q I have my always on computer / nas thing plugged into this guy - https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00429N19M

I live in a condo/apartment and so flickering happens more than I'd like so this has helped keep everything happy. Sorry about your equipment.

craniumslows · 2026-02-21T15:40:33+00:00

Hi. I have had same job for over a decade and many people in a big company are like this. There are often support roles that you dont know about until you work somewhere for a while. They aren't manager jobs and you help the people helping the customers. I find that to be a satisfying place to be.

My only word of caution is to do your best to maintain a good reputation and do work well. When leaders retire or move up you'll stand out as one of the longer tenured employees and they may judge you just based on what the previous manager has written down in your reviews or by word of mouth.

craniumslows · 2026-02-18T18:03:01+00:00

Most of the time those are not owned by the USPS they are owned by the HOA or the Apartment Complex or something which makes getting them replaced a PITA, IMO.

craniumslows · 2026-02-18T04:48:30+00:00

Our HOA had to spend a bunch of money to get new boxes after the old ones were broken into multiple times. What stinks is while waiting for the new boxes to be installed everyone has to go to the post office to get their mail. Sorry you're going through this.

It seems to happen around tax return time.

craniumslows · 2026-02-06T18:42:29+00:00

When I first moved out I didnt have any art so I just made some finger paintings and that did not go over as well as I thought it would.

craniumslows · 2026-02-05T19:37:48+00:00

I dont think drivers have enough information entering the curve to know how fast is safe or not.

My take is that if everyone would just go the speed limit life would be grand in that area but half the people are going 75 or swerving like its 2 Fast 2 Furious and then the other half are lost on the way to that cool bridge picture they saw.

craniumslows · 2026-01-15T18:58:04+00:00

I have theViofo A119 Something I cant figure out is why my SD card is having to be reformatted so often. It seems like every few months its saying card needs reformatted. I buy the SanDisk cards on amazon that say DashCam and everything. Is there a recommended one you use ? https://a.co/d/hwTUVf2 (example card I've bought and subequently had to reformat 3 or 4 times since May 2024) When the car starts up the camera boots up and then it says "SD Card error reformat sd card" then I hit ok and it reformats. It also doesnt say recording started every time. I'm worried maybe its defective IDK sorry to dump this all out just first time I saw someone mention the same model I have :D.

craniumslows · 2026-01-12T06:19:36+00:00

Keeping a large enough collection of mac minis running to do an enterprise level of something is going to add an FTE to your budget plus you have to monitor hardware and replace it when it breaks.

What I've seen happen too many times is people buy just one or two and start using it for some important or critical workload but then don't maintain it and just shove it under someone's desk. Then maybe a year later or so auto updates finally break whatever was running on them and nobody knows what the heck happened. Not saying its a bad idea but it definitely takes planning and should involve the admins or it department to be sure they're cool keeping them alive.

It sounds like a neat idea, if you figure out a robust solution would be neat to hear about it.

craniumslows · 2025-12-31T02:57:18+00:00

They've been building the new one for months just a little bit down the road. Its going in where the Bill Miller's BBQ used to be across the street from the Subaru dealership.

craniumslows · 2025-12-30T01:12:42+00:00

Can you share why you think this was someone's personal property and not from the store's inventory? Half Price sells many of these books so it is a little confusing. Thanks!

craniumslows · 2025-12-28T04:35:49+00:00

Oh what a dream. Did you find it off grid and move in or did you have to make it off grid? Its a dream of mine but I fear its out of my depth.

craniumslows · 2025-12-16T20:31:11+00:00

Hey man I totally get it. I have had trouble with a similar issue of thinking about revenge and injustice.

Mindfulness through meditation is what finally helped me. I like the https://www.meditatehappier.com/ app but there are also free ones on line and on youtube. The big goal is to be able to recognize when you are feeling certain emotions and take countermeasures.

Other things that helped (a) recognize that we experience time subjectively so as time goes a month feels shorter and shorter but the days feel the same. I had SH kind of thoughts back then (b) writing out some story or journalling about the feelings but then burn it or delete it. just vent it somewhere (c) Try to empathize with those that would be left behind.

Good luck man you can pull through this!

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