I’ve been running one for the past 6+ months with no issues.

“I was only following orders”

Only one device needs to be able to negotiate it.

Just about everything made in the last 20 years is capable of doing this.

There was a conversation the other day on this, but I forget the exact details.

Open sign up is nothing is required to let you sign up.

Closed is obviously invite only/manually must be accepted.

But there’s the middle ground that wasn’t technically open sign up, where the only requirements are filling out a captcha, and usually email verification.

If you don’t need a lot of GPU horsepower besides the AI stuff then you could just use the integrated graphics and have a dedicated GPU for the AI stuff.

Having multiple GPUs in your system isn’t really that special. Plug HDMI into GPU1 to make GPU1 drive your display/play games. Plug HDMI into GPU2 to have GPU2 do stuff. If you’re doing AI work then you don’t need anything connected to the GPU, the program just needs to know it’s there and to use it.

The only thing to look out for when using the iGPU and a dGPU is that the bios doesn’t turn off the iGPU if it detects the dGPU. If you have 2 dGPUs then it shouldn’t matter outside of maybe the bios wanting to use the first one.

It frees up sata slots for your massive array of hard drives.

Don’t just look at temperatures though, look at clock speed too. 95c+ is normal for modern high end CPUs (AMD 7000 series actively try to run at that temp under full load). What you want to make sure is that it’s not throttling.

If this is a server and you don’t want your thermal paste to be toast in a year then I’d suggest lowering the maximum temperature in the bios if it lets you.

And make sure it’s an actually good PSU too.

I know in gaming, possibly in other loads Nvidia 40 series, and especially 30 series love transient spikes which can easily exceed 2x the nominal power consumption. Make sure your PSU can handle those spikes both in terms of brevity, and current.

Whatever I feel like listening to that day. In that regard it’s no different than having a massive Spotify/Apple music library

Try making sure you’re looking for a DSL modem, and not a DSL modem router combo. If it’s just a modem then there is no bridge mode to enable because it’s always in bridge mode. You’ll have to supply your own separate router, but that gives you the freedom to run whatever you want on your router while the modem does it’s modemy things.

If you already have a server and don’t need more resources then just leave it. No need to waste more power “just because”.

That said you could hang onto it until you have a need. You never know when a machine will shit the bed and having a half top is useful.

Not with just firefox. Are you also using a VPN?

What makes you think that can’t happen to something just because it’s open source? And from all companies it’s from Canonical.

It’s “Selfhosted” not “SelfHostedOpenSourceFreeAsInFreedom/GNU”. Not everyone has drank the entire open source punch bowl.

why are you stuck with their questionable open-source and ass of a kernel

Because you don’t care about it being open source? Just working (and continuing to work) is a pretty big motivating factor to stay with what you have.

Any PC you build yourself?

I’d pay more money for a non raid enclosure.

For hard drives I’d never trust them used with data I care about. Especially big drives like that that would take AGES to rebuild.

For enterprise grade SSDs I’d kinda yolo it for a system I care a bit less for, or as a cache drive. But not HDDs.

And bumping up the RAM for caching makes a HUGE difference in performance on a RAM starved system. Going from 16 to 32 gigs almost doubled my read write performance for anything other than tiny files here and there. And overall I/O latency tanked.

What software are you planning on running? The N100 is a pretty stout chip for my router. Not all file systems need insane amounts of ram like ZFS

That said you may want a full sized pcie slot depending on what hard drives you’re running. At work our raid controllers are gimped by their PCIe interface. Even with regular ass hard drives they will out pace pcie 2.0@x1 speeds since most cheap HBAs are PCIe 2 or maybe 3.

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