Thanks for the tips! I'm looking for something multi-purpose for LLM/stable diffusion messing about + transcoder for jellyfin - I'm guessing that there isn't really a sweet spot for those 3. I don't really have room or power budget for 2 cards, so I guess a P40 is probably the best bet?
Good on you for taking her in, but I'd suggest keeping her separated from your other cat until you can get a vet to look at her - there are a few nasties that feral cats tend to carry that you probably don't want your other cat to catch
Or, alternatively, coms management is important and formally declaring an incident is an important part of outage response - going from "hey Bob something isn't looking right can you check when you get a sec" to "ok, shits broken, everyone put down what you are working on and help with this. Jim is in charge of coordinating the technical people so we don't make things worse, and should feed updates to Mike who is going to handle comms to non-technical internal people and to externals" takes management input
As a software dev who has lost weeks of his life dealing with timezones, leap days, daylight savings time, date math and other associated nonsense I fully support this being the way the world is. I don't want to go through the transition to get there though
Kubernetes is awesome for self hosting, but tbh is superpower isn't multi-node/scalability/clustering shenanigans, it's that because every bit of configuration is just an object in the API, you can really easily version control everything - charts and config in git, tools like Helm make applying changes super easy, use Renovate to do automatic updates, use your CI tool of choice to deploy on commit, leverage your hobby into a DevOps role, profit
Digging into it a bit more, it seems like I might be better off getting a 12gb 3060 - similar price point, but much newer silicon