Yeah. Had the 480 8GB and in December 2016 it was running 250. The 580 was basically the same GPU with some minor tweaks and changes plus faster clock speeds.

My stepson’s system was using it with ChimeraOS (similar to SteamOS) until there was some driver issues then upgraded it to a RX 7600. If they didn’t have the issue with the drivers it would probably still be chugging along.

It’s obviously not enough. Since someone already figured out how to undo part of what has been released.

In the humble words of Bender B Rodriguez, you could buy one 75.00 hookerbot or seventy-five 1.00 hookerbots.

That’s why they are so messed up… using incompetent volunteers with bad instructions. Someone has already un-redacted some of the files.

https://github.com/leedrake5/unredact?tab=readme-ov-file

And someone else gave it a gui

https://github.com/KingBarker/unredactGUI

My other half runs Facebook and that type of stuff. I handle most of YouTube stuff and two websites. There’re are plugins I use that allows me to email in posts to my website and any posts made are also sent to Facebook in shortened form.

I record video while scuba diving using a DJI Action 4. On the surface I use my S21 with a DJI Osmo Mobile 6 while recording audio with a cheap wireless lav mic that is usb c. To manage the social media’s i use my tablet and computer she has a Tab a9 for complete management of YouTube, email, Facebook, And whatever else she has setup.

Most of my stills are from video and only show remote underwater locations or where I am at. I do my best at home to keep views of structures to a minimum. Look up Imagepipe https://f-droid.org/packages/de.kaffeemitkoffein.imagepipe as you can use it to quickly strip tags and resize pictures.

I’ve never used them either. But I’ve seen pictures and as long as they are setup correctly the devices buttons are still able to be pressed and turned on manually.

I personally would just find something and add an esp32 in to augment control.

But a really simple solution would be to add a switchbot or something similar. Just be sure that whatever heater you pick up has a switch you can easily control.

Simple solution is to switch to Linux. Ubuntu Cinnamon 24.04LTS had worked great for me so far.

If you absolutely can’t or won’t switch look at openshell https://open-shell.github.io/Open-Shell-Menu/

Your good until your in a pine box or an urn.

Learning should never stop for any reason. However you do have to temper your expectations when learning a trade or skill you can’t use due to personal limitations. This needs to be taken into account but that is something an individual should weigh on their own with the people in their life.

There is nothing wrong with using toys with someone you love and want to give pleasure to. A toy alone works to make a person climax but they are so much better when you have another person there to share it with.

I look at toys as something that makes it a little bit easier to ring her bell. Sometimes it’s about her desire to orgasm while I am inside of her.

My late wife found it more and more difficult to climax at all before she passed and I still remember her last one riding me with a toy on her clitorous. If I had been intimidated by a toy I wouldn’t likely have that memory at all as it had been about a year before that when she had last climaxed which also included a similar toy. Being together was the most important part of it.

I keep a monitor in my server closet and bring a USB wireless mini keyboard if I need to physically access something but the majority of my hardware has KVM built in.

Older commercial hardware uses more power than a mini computer in a homelab but has many advantages like often coming with more ram, more powerful (and often multiple) CPU’s, SAS backplanes, plus empty PCIe slots that can support GPU’s and other devices.

Learning Russian could be useful in certain geographical areas near Russia, in the military, or translator position. It’s also possible that when hostilities end (or escalate) more position openings could occur. But to learn for personal life the use will be limited.

I don’t personally see how learning a language could be offensive, it’s knowledge not a lifestyle or way of supporting current hostilities. The hate people have is mainly towards the Russian government and policies, anyone who extends that to a language likely also have a lot of other issues they lump together and are being small minded.

The only person who can determine the need to learn the language is yourself. I doubt the world will be overrun by Russian speaking soldiers any time soon, Mandarin is more likely in that kind of a situation.

I don’t remember what all it was but part of the issue was that the long term residents had internet through AT&T so they figured that was good enough. They also insisted that new residents could get DSL because they had it even though that wasn’t true.

Beyond that there were going to be more boxes installed in front of a few houses and the complaints about property values being reduced. Along with the HOA president befitting a major jerk since he was in control of a whopping 17 houses.

All the wifi stuff like that is in the public spectrum in the us. Only regulatory requirements are for towers and things of that nature.

You can also setup repeaters in a similar fashion to make it work. An old radio tower from ebay or a telephone pole in a field with a couple units, a battery, and a solar panel creates the link just as easy. The WISP I worked for around 2010 did this to bounce a signal about 15 miles over some rough terrain and a military base. They provided free internet for the land owner to do it.

You have to escalate beyond the regular people. General support staff are basically trained script monkeys who don’t know or understand how things function or even have information that higher tier people have. If you get to a higher tier person who knows why service isn’t available it might be a simple we need to run a line in the area and if a couple more people want the service we will set it up kind of deal.

Or find a better way to make things work for you. More ISP’s have been created to cover the gaps that others leave than you can imagine.

Helped a guy with a similar issue. His HOA was denying access to an ISP in the area and AT&T was shutting down its DSL service in the HOA due to line issues (the previous owner had DSL but they refused to provide service.)

Anyway his parents place was basically in line of sight to his place so I helped him setup a long range point to point link vs using a Verizon mifi that would drop to 1 Mbps about a week into the month because the high speed data (10 Mbps at his location) was all used up. His parents connection was around 250 Mbps and he was able to get around 75 Mbps at his house. He used it for around a year before the HOA was told the easement was made for utilities and since the isp was classified as a utility they couldn’t deny access. Didn’t stop multiple people like the HOA president from pulling utility marker flags and putting up signs for no trespassing right at the road edge even though the easement was about 5 feet into their property.

https://ispdesign.ui.com/ is a good way to figure out if it will work for you to set something up. Just be sure that you buy equipment with the same frequency you are using in the configuration (the fresnel zone is different for different frequencies https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fresnel_zone) and most any brand equipment will work. If you have questions I will do my best to answer.

If you are tired of receiving the offers send them a cease and desist letter via registered mail.

https://legalclarity.org/how-to-legally-tell-someone-to-stop-contacting-you/

If they continue contacting after about 30 days it is harassment and you can file for a restraining order and sue them for damages.

When you go to send the letters be sure to keep a copy for yourself along with the receipts for the mailing and be sure to have a witness to the mailing. I would just ask the person at the post office to do this for proof that what you sent was the same as the copy you keep for yourself.

If you want the service then you need to find out why your neighbors have the service available and you don’t. That means escalating the call to a support person.

Yep. I’m using sata drives in a SAS backplane that has similar connectors soldered to a board.

The exact backplane I am using is: https://files.ekmcdn.com/itinstock/images/supermicro-sas846a-24-bay-3.5-lff-sas-sata-hdd-4u-backplane-bpn-sas-846a-4-93512-p.jpg

Oddly, nothing on vacation. 650 feet underground in a salt mine. On the roof of a ten story tall building while watching people in the mall parking lot. In the middle of town during the summer around 5 in the afternoon while waiting for a pizza delivery. On the tailgate of my pickup while on a gravel road in the middle of the day. In the backseat of a dodge neon traveling along the interstate at 75 mph. In the middle of a field on a 100 acre farm.

Top of my bucket list is 60 feet under water. That will kinda be a vacation one.

The cable connections don’t mean anything. SAS is multichannel and with expanders (expanders work like ethernet switches) one controller can interface with hundreds of drives.

The cable you have pictured is called a breakout cable that dedicates one of the cards individual channels to a drive. If you plug one drive into the cable and spin it up no big deal, add another later on same thing, move a dive from one cable to the other it’s all good. The cables are just electrical data connections to the controller. With ZFS you can even migrate compatible drives from SAS to SATA controllers (SAS only work on SAS, but sata works on either) in the system and they will still function just fine in a pool. For that matter I’ve heard of people mixing SAS, SATA, and USB drives in the same vDev (not generally recommended) and things worked.