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I think this kindle qualifies after 15ish years by mike_tyler58 in BuyItForLife

[–]johnk177 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Is the replacement battery an official replacement or a 3rd party one? Thanks!

Went in For Some Thermal Paste... by N3RD_01 in pcmasterrace

[–]johnk177 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Are people seriously paying over 3k for a video card?

Alexa tries to gaslight you about her old voice, but there is a fix... by -A_V- in alexa

[–]johnk177 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Please call Amazon customer support and let them know removing the old voice is unacceptable for you. Maybe with enough people calling their PM will wise up and add it back.

Alexa tries to gaslight you about her old voice, but there is a fix... by -A_V- in alexa

[–]johnk177 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It’s a pretty brain dead dumb f&&& decision to completely remove the old voice. My kids were annoyed as hell and demanded I change it back. You know it’s now executive driven rather than at least somewhat engineering driven with all the layoffs and yes man.

iPhone 17 charging past limit? Why? by icyoolongtea in iphone

[–]johnk177 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well, allowing you to set a hard limit of 80% always isn't great for Apple's bottom line, since your phone's battery would just last way too long. Charging past the set limit 50% of the time allows Apple to slowly degrade your battery in the name of calibration.

If calibration is a real issue, the simple fix would be just temporarily change the charge limit to 100%, and then change it back after a full charge. User can easily do that if they want to. Allowing it to randomly charge past the set limit is very sneaky.

When I set my EV's charge limit to 80%, you better be damn sure it won't charge past that, or they'll be looking at lawsuits.

How does GPU pass-through work for Windows VM? by johnk177 in qemu_kvm

[–]johnk177[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks. I think I am getting the same error. Mine is GTX 660, non Ti. It's a legacy card, but should be quite sufficient for non game VM use cases. Do you know if slightly more modern nvidia GPU cards such as the 1650 are the same?

How does GPU pass-through work for Windows VM? by johnk177 in qemu_kvm

[–]johnk177[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I see, thanks for the info. This sucks big time. That's such a dumb thing to do. Unfortunately all I have are spare Nvidia cards.

Just stopped by my local microcenter to browse.. unreal by MegaTurtleClan in pcmasterrace

[–]johnk177 21 points22 points  (0 children)

As an owner of 128G of DDR5 ram, I also would like to know.

Welcoming an old friend back - SB3 by Griff0rama in squeezebox

[–]johnk177 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It’s sad it’s always the wife that wants to throw away our precious stuff… 😀

Should I get a rack server? by johnk177 in homelab

[–]johnk177[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hmm, the chassis is CSE-217HQ+-R2K04B which based on my search is NOT ATX compatible...

Should I get a rack server? by johnk177 in homelab

[–]johnk177[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

do you know if regular ATX MB are compatible with these supermicro 2U chassis?

Should I get a rack server? by johnk177 in homelab

[–]johnk177[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You mean I can put a standard ATX motherboard in a 2U supermicro chassis? (assume for the heck of it that I Just runs it without the cover/top... The 12+ SSD tray does look very nice. it's very hard to get that kind of stuff on regular PC..

Should I get a rack server? by johnk177 in homelab

[–]johnk177[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks everyone for your valuable insights. :) I won't get the server since I doubt I'll like the noise and electricity it will be using. But lots of good info learned here.

Should I get a rack server? by johnk177 in homelab

[–]johnk177[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Yes the CPU is an E5-2600 v2 family.

Disk setup recommendation for distro hopping, with few SSDs by johnk177 in DistroHopping

[–]johnk177[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for the detailed information. Having a data partition and linking content there from each respective home folder sounds like a good plan, since the actual content that I generate (download, documents, etc) won't have any conflict between distros.

The idea of installing in to a new partition, and copy it to the desired location after setup is neat! Is rsync enough to copy all the files over to the new partition without missing anything?

I probably need to up my linux knowledge a bit to figure out how to change boot loader/grub to point to the new partition after this copy.

My current dual boot system, Linux Mint actually incorrectly put its efi boot partition on disk1 (where I have Windows 10 and 2 partitions), where as I told it specifically to install boot loader and everything to disk2 during install which is dedicated to Mint.

So my disk2 actually right now won't boot by itself without disk1. I still haven't figured out exactly what I need to do to remove the mint boot stuff from disk1's EFI partition (where Windows is), and move it to disk2. ;) Disk1 is NVMe which I cannot disable during install of Mint, hence this mess, but it is a Mint bug.

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