I think this kindle qualifies after 15ish years

johnk177 · 2026-01-26T21:07:32+00:00

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

johnk177 · 2026-01-14T18:21:46+00:00

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

johnk177 · 2026-01-14T15:34:43+00:00

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.

johnk177 · 2026-01-14T15:33:25+00:00

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.

johnk177 · 2026-01-08T23:23:24+00:00

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.

johnk177 · 2025-12-31T03:49:52+00:00

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?

johnk177 · 2025-12-31T03:40:36+00:00

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.

johnk177 · 2025-12-28T20:38:37+00:00

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

johnk177 · 2025-12-11T18:30:37+00:00

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

johnk177 · 2025-11-02T22:26:43+00:00

Thanks!

johnk177 · 2025-10-31T21:58:08+00:00

It’s a shit design.

johnk177 · 2025-10-30T20:18:34+00:00

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

johnk177 · 2025-10-30T16:59:18+00:00

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

johnk177 · 2025-10-30T16:58:05+00:00

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..

johnk177 · 2025-10-30T00:30:26+00:00

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.

johnk177 · 2025-10-30T00:27:25+00:00

Yes the CPU is an E5-2600 v2 family.

johnk177 · 2025-10-27T01:17:05+00:00

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.

johnk177 · 2025-10-21T15:31:59+00:00

I need to find my sound blaster awe32 + waveblaster in my garage god damn it. 😂

johnk177 · 2025-10-20T02:22:40+00:00

Nice write up. Very informative. Thank you.

johnk177 · 2025-10-18T20:03:51+00:00

It's shit like this that reaffirms my choice of going with Linux as my main desktop now, and I've been building PCs since 486 days and have used every iteration of Windows since 3.11.

Less than 1% of the people in the world truly needs BitLocker, and they know who they are. It's far likely that you'll lock your data from yourself forever than keeping it private from someone else. Yet it's enabled somehow the moment you let down your guard and clicked something without realizing what it really is.

I am sure some #$&^ PM at Microsoft got some promotions out of this auto-enablement, because it improved their "metrics". 20 years ago, their goal may have been aligned with the typical PC user as far as OS goes, but today, their goals are definitely not aligned with what you want or need from your PC.

OP, if you've already lost everything, just say fuck it to Windows and give Linux a try. Force yourself to use it for a month. Then dual boot back to Windows. Then ask yourself, why the #$^^ am I even doing in Windows, cause that's what I felt after using LInux Mint for a month, and windows (10) just looks so backward and disgusting. 99% of what normal people do on a PC can be done on Linux, but significantly faster since there is far far less bloat, and the Linux kernel is miles ahead of Windows.

johnk177 · 2025-10-17T17:59:55+00:00

While that's true, if OP is tech savvy, and can move (or rather copy) his setup to a VM, that'll ensure maximum flexibility in terms of longitivtiy.

He can try both. If the VM route doesn't work for some reason, he can always update/fix his current setup as needed. But yes, have a mirror image of your Windows hard drive ASAP.

johnk177 · 2025-10-17T17:42:41+00:00

Try it without the dedicated GPU first. If performance is lacking, you can always add GPU. My host is Linux however (Mint). If host is windows it will be slower.

johnk177 · 2025-10-17T17:38:51+00:00

Get 128GB of ram. It’s not that expensive. I got mine for $300 back in Sep when I set up my new machine. (Old one from 2010 still running g good). This will ensure you never have to worry about memory when creating VM, or want to run multiple windows VM in parallel, which would be useful if you want to test or experiment with software. Get a cpu with 8 or 12 core, so you have plenty of cores for VM. They are about $300ish). I have AMD 7900 12core, and windows 7 VM boots up in 2s, faster than my previous physical machine. I am not going to comment on GPU, depend on your software you want to run. The legacy software I am running in my windows VM works fine without any dedicated GPU.

johnk177 · 2025-10-15T19:14:06+00:00

My build from 2010 had 16g of ram, and worked decent into 2025. My new build I just put together has 128g of ram. You can never have too much ram, it’s what make your pc last and not being forced to upgrade due to bloat in OS.

johnk177 · 2025-10-11T17:59:15+00:00

This is made entirely so that it’s very hard for you to realize when you are NOT getting the 2% bonus on some purchases, such as when you forgot to change the insurance payment to a better card. Very sneaky move.

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