postgres2electricboogaloo

windows isn’t the problem. it can and will run all day, every day.

your existing box isn’t a server. it’s a desktop pc that you’re doing ‘server things’ on. you want a server, make it one:

move the retro gaming, the ‘shitposting’, the 3d design work, and the random internet use that goes with those things, off to a different pc. doesn’t even need to be that much of a pc. enough for the 3d work and emulators, and a fast lan port or wifi for accessing your ‘server’.

leave the existing one with the *rrs, the storage, the drivepool and snapraid… get everything else off. disable any oc settings you have enabled. it’s a server. then leave it alone.

the antiunion/buy a console instead poster was delta airlines in 2019.

it all runs on Windows 10 (which is where the issue arises)

what ‘issue’? your hardware should ‘officially’ support win11.

the only 6bay lff cage for it i found online after a quick search was over $400usd.

as others mentioned, msa30 is scsi (yuk). along those lines, you’d want the msa60 which is sas/sata, plus somewhere on the server to connect it to. probably not cheap.

but i really don’t think it’s worth putting a whole lot of time or money into a 15 year box… at least not anything that can’t be used in or with newer stuff later.

i’d probably just grab some 2-5tb 2.5in hdd for media storage and use those before i bought something specific for that old hardware.

dl380-g7 is some really old stuff. 1st gen westmere. not very power efficient for the performance. there’s no hardware encoding (qsv with encoding started with some 2nd gen).

how well it can do software encoding would depend on the cpu. but don’t expect too much, and nothing more demanding than h264 avc at reasonable settings. you’d need a newer video card with hardware encoding for hevc, av1 or anything like that.

iirc there was a 6bay 3.5in option for those, and that cage/backplane might be available somewhere.

rare enough and spread out enough (both in time and space) that we may never encounter another ‘intelligent’ civilization, or evidence of one, during our own extremely minuscule window of existence in the grand history of time.

moral? hell ya.

smart? no. cameras. odds of a tesla owner, especially of the ‘truck’, reacting in a calm and rational manner is not low.

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i think the cult would call him ‘one of the good ones’

if the other ones are nasty dirty. sure. or if it’s the only one available.

but given a choice of equally-suitable poop receptacles, i’d choose the ‘regular’ one–especially if it sits lower than ada height

if you absolutely don’t want them online, then your ‘offsite’ part of 3-2-1 backup scheme is going to be something in a different city… far enough away that the same ‘disaster’ wouldn’t hit both there and your home. either a bank safe deposit box, or family member, or trusted friend.

i just use repurposed PCs. cost (or lack of, rather) is the prime factor.

the main playback ‘device’ is currently a 6th gen laptop that runs lid down (doesn’t support turbo boost, so heat isn’t an issue at all), and an old wireless kb/trackpad for a ‘remote’.

storage is a hodgepodge of usb hdd, 2.5in hdd, and desktop systems. usually only one of which is being used (powered on) at a time.

i just use a text dump out of ‘everything’ for my ‘catalog’ and have numerous vlc playlists saved. i looked into things like jellyfin but the work involved in normalizing directory structures and filenames would be nightmarish.

when i first started doing this years ago in the early versions of firefox, the back button was bigger than the rest.

but i’ve long since gotten used to it. and i like it a lot better in the middle than way tf over on the left side. it’s closer to all the other stuff up there (such as the extension buttons, which i use frequently) and to the scroll bars–which are largely unneeded with scroll wheels or touch these days, but i didn’t have a wheely mouse way back when.

the only thing that would take me up to the top left was the menu bar, but i don’t use that much anymore with the hamburger menu on the far right, so the menu bar is off (alt brings it back).

re-enabling the separate search box is significant. suggestions (the ones that transmit keystrokes to the search engine) are disabled in the address bar, but not the search box.

the button to bring-up the sidebar is logically placed–above where the sidebar appears.

the bookmark toolbar, which is not visible here because it’s set to only show on ‘newtab’ has the bookmark menu icon on its far left before the bookmarks themselves, and the ‘most visited’ smart boomkark is re-enabled up there too.

first thing i do on a new browser install is rearrange the toolbar a bit.

gamer: “worst game ever”

gamer: “i just wanna claw my eyes out”

gamer: “man, that game was so bad, i wish i could forget it.”

announcer: Well you can now! For only $99.99* you can forget those games you’d really rather not remember

gamers (in unison, on triple-split screen): worth it!!!

*(per game, plus $15 a month per game–forever)

we used to go back and forth all the time on fishing trips up north. even bring back produce (wild berries picked from the islands on the other side) without going through customs. we always did have both fishing licenses, though. catch both limits that way, regardless of where on the lake you got 'em.

A lot of jaywalking,

this is one i do not do. ever.

if i’m gonna get run over–and if i survive, i’m not working again. ever… not have it be ‘my fault’ and not get a dime.

windows drivers. i’ve been doing this work for decades: i quit chasing down every driver update from all the various manufacturers years ago. windows is actually really good at fleshing-out necessary drivers and putting them on, and has been for awhile. gamers and others that ‘need’ gpu driver updates, sure. get 'em from the source. same with things that windows didn’t have for some odd reason.

my own ‘gaming rig’ in use now (zen3, 3060, w11) is just using the gpu drivers from windows update. they work just fine. i’ve never even loaded nvidia’s control panel on that pc and accepted its eula so i could make what few adjustments it has (very limited compared to the ‘full’ driver pack). they’re actually more stable, even: when the system updated to w11, i did try the ‘latest and greatest’ but the system crashed daily. rolled back (ty, reflect) and kept the wu-supplied drivers, and been smooth sailing ever since.

it’d be easier with two hands. but in a pinch, you could do the whole set with just one.

i just dug around a little to see before seeing your post. apparently nothing happened yesterday in chicago.

so either it was too cold, or they realized there wasn’t enough ‘easy’ targets in that city to make a big enough media splash.