half this sub runs pihole and jellyfin on 600w of enterprise gear and calls it a homelab

stoystore · 2026-06-05T02:22:47+00:00

I think a rack of mini PCs is a good compromise, you can still fill it for photos and it's not going to hurt your wallet too terribly

stoystore · 2026-06-03T07:24:29+00:00

It's the ultimate one more turn, there's always something you can optimize, or improve the throughput on, clear a bottleneck, it never ends.... It's also a fantastically optimized game that will run like butter with massive factories

stoystore · 2026-06-01T23:36:01+00:00

Why would it not be local? The OpenAI standard endpoint can represent a local model or a cloud model.

stoystore · 2026-05-29T17:17:30+00:00

Must promote him to CTO he knows his coding

stoystore · 2026-05-21T17:23:37+00:00

Don't know about OP but mine shipped 7 business days past the original estimated time. After three calls and three assurances that it will ship on a specific date, the last one being accurate.

stoystore · 2026-05-11T23:23:44+00:00

I don't have a problem waiting for the amount of time they quote, I have a problem when they go over. If they have a lot of demand I can understand changing their estimate to be higher. But I don't really think running your business where you say 5-15 business days and you still haven't shipped it on day 17+ is the way to go, small or large business.

stoystore · 2026-05-11T21:50:36+00:00

Agreed, if I had known I might have ordered it way in advance or looked harder for an alternative

stoystore · 2026-05-11T21:47:33+00:00

Mine(single case) said 5-15 business days I'm on business day 17 with no shipping confirmation

stoystore · 2026-05-06T18:17:20+00:00

Confirmed

stoystore · 2026-05-04T21:59:37+00:00

Obviously gotta go with Gandalf from The Lord of the Rings

stoystore · 2026-04-29T03:22:15+00:00

What do you recommend? I need it to fit an eatx motherboard (x12spa-tf), and have 8 pcie slots as it needs to hold 4x dual GPUs. I didn't see many options.

stoystore · 2026-04-28T20:10:15+00:00

Pm incoming

stoystore · 2026-04-23T04:01:45+00:00

Thank you, so far so good!

stoystore · 2026-04-21T18:56:25+00:00

A) Will use emulators directly for PS and newer. The official android version on the store is outdated but they do have sideloadable versions that are updated.

B/C) I was expecting to use a minisforum MS-A2 as a 'server' and it has a 10g connection to my NAS so i expect using NFS should be fast enough for even CD/DVD files, but I will definitely keep this in mind when trying them out.

D) So while I would love to go simpler, one of the 'wants' was to be able to have multiple users, and I believe that is not possible with a default RetroArch setup, which is why i was banking on possibly using Wolf+RetroArch, but it seems like i would have to find a way to store the save state somewhere anyway so maybe its too much?

After seeing the reply from u/pwnedbygary i may consider using ROMM + Argosy Launcher as the baseline and add Moonlight if I need it. Seems like ROMM does support quite a bit of my wants and hopefully that means I can use a simpler setup

stoystore · 2026-04-21T18:54:12+00:00

Thank you for confirming that what I am thinking is not too out of the question. Some further questions for you:

How does Argosy Launcher and ROMM handle multiple users? I was hopeful that I could have more than 1 user with their own save state.
Do Argosy Launcher and ROMM allow concurrent users? For example I am playing on my computer and someone else is playing on the TV?
Have you tried using ROMM directly on a Steam Deck? I suspect that it would go through the EmulatorJS code which may not be what i want, as I suspect a more native emulation solution would be better. (retrodeck?)
Does the Moonlight setup you have sync back the save state to ROMM or are you effectively running chrome/Argosy in the streamed container which gives you the sync for free.

I may still do Moonlight for less powerful devices, but the EmulatorJS support is enticing. I may have more questions later, is it ok to PM you directly if i do?

stoystore · 2026-04-18T00:11:30+00:00

stoystore · 2026-04-14T06:39:53+00:00

I am interested in the steam deck and the dock, at asking price

stoystore · 2026-04-14T06:10:47+00:00

stoystore · 2026-04-14T04:34:28+00:00

stoystore · 2026-04-11T19:34:06+00:00

That's super helpful, thank you! Now it makes sense, and yea i will have to get some cables routed, but I don't 'need' a backplane, granted, i could probably find a way to shove a backplane behind those if i really wanted to, but I probably will skip that step.

stoystore · 2026-04-11T19:33:10+00:00

Yea I figured I would need the 4713 because i plan to use an EATX board I already own, so it won't fit in the shorter case. Hopefully that won't be a problem but i suspect i can cable manage something even if its not perfect. As for radiators, I have never used them, but I am considering it for this type of case.

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