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@ Smokeydope @lemmy.world

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  • What are the modern design trends you hate most?

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  • The installed appification of everything riddled with trackers when a web browser + site will do. Dead simple minimalistic UI that a toddler can figure out how to use. Every product is designed to account for the lowest common denominators of human intelligence which encourages 'cant, wont, dont know how' brain rot instead of making the tech illiterate feel pressured to actually apply themselves to learn. Now we have entire generations of idiots who feel entitled to the pleasant convince of advanced technology but unwilling to understand whats actually going on under the hood or accept responsibility to learn how to use it properly/ethically.

    A society built entirely on dead simple convinence and instant gratification is one that fosters the destruction of individual critical thinking skills and mental robustness to troubleshoot/adapt when encountering a problem.

    So many people are proud of it, thats the worst part for me. Legitately bragging about making it through life with the bare minimum of braincell rubbing. As if just being an unthinking half-sentient ape with a learned helplessness complex is an ideal state of being worthy of pride.

  • Plex now want to SELL your personal data

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  • From what Ive seen in arguments about this, Plex generally is more accessible with QoL and easier to understand interface for non-techie people to share with family/friends. Something thats hard for nerdy people to understand is that average people are perfectly fine paying for digital goods and services. An older well off normie has far more money than sense and will happily pay premiums just to not have to rub two braincells together with setup or for a nicer quality of experience. If you figure out how to make a very useful plug-an-play service that works without the end user of average intelligence/domain knowledge stressing about how to set up, maintain, and navigate confusing layouts, you've created digital gold.

    This isn't the fault of open source services you can only expect so much polish from non-profit voulenteer. Its just the nature of consumer laziness/expectation for professional product standards and the path/product of least resistance.

  • Guess who is back

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  • Surely theres someone else on here who remembers the Delta Heavy - Ghost music video from like a decade ago featuring our boy doing just that? Surprised it wasn't mentioned already.

  • Advice for picking a PSU for server class GPUs? Also a question about adapter cable

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  • You are so cool! Thanks!! :) I don't want to bother you with more questions, the following is more me just talking and thinking to myself. I hope you have an excellent rest of your day.

    Another calculator I was recommended called pc part picker shows an approximate draw of 334W with my current desktop build. with the rx 560. newegg was saying around 600w would be good PSU range with curren but my current PSU in it came with is only rated at 450 so IDK. Adding 115W on top of that is my estimated difference between p100 max draw and rx550 running . The 1070ti I have in other desktop has an expected draw of 150W. Adding that on would probably be on the 800w side?.

    Theoretically my current 450w PSU could handle p100 maybe but 50w overhead is slim. guesstimated around 500-600watts, IDK I think 750 will be fine The nvidia provided manual shows this kind of adapter connection to power the tesla as an option

    Im just not sure if each of those pcie females on the adapter cable need their own connection to the power supply? I decided it might be worth a little more spend a little more on a name brand corsair that offers three of those pcie/cpu jacks. So does one outlet on the PSU go to CPU, another to the first female of that adapter, and the third slot to the second female of that adapter?

    I saw that this PSU gives two different 6+2 pcie outputting cords, I don't know what makes the 12v-2x6 to dual split cable different from the regular PCIE. Can I use that splitter cable to reduce the amount of PSU slots used to one cable?

  • Advice for picking a PSU for server class GPUs? Also a question about adapter cable

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  • Thank you! Putting the parts I have now into the pc part picker shows an approximate draw of 334W. Adding 65W on top of that to account for p100 max draw is 400w expected draw. The 1070ti I have has an expected draw of 150W adding that on would draw 550W which seems in range of 700W psu.

    Theoretically my current 450w PSU could handle p100 maybe but 50w overhead is slim.

    Budget is everything to me right now the 1050W PSU are like 150$ while that 700W psu is 50$. When things aren't so tight and if I get deep enough down the rabbit hole to chain multiple server class GPUs ill probably be in a better spot to afford an expensive psu along with a big batch of cards.

  • Im getting a new gpu, does my case hold full height or half height server brackets?

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  • "I don't need it. I definitely do not need it. I... don't need it..."

  • I miss those days

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  • Electromagnetism and a touch of devil-math from the STEM layer of hell, as is with most technology.

  • Im getting a new gpu, does my case hold full height or half height server brackets?

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  • Im going to clean the case. A few fingerprint smudges and a "smokeydope wuz here" drawn in should be enough dust removed

    In all seriousness yep I plan to give it a real cleaning.

  • Im getting a new gpu, does my case hold full height or half height server brackets?

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  • Gotcha! Thank you I thought it was wierd that there werent big blower motors fans and instead a heatsink. Ill make sure to set it up in the coldest part of the house and rig up a few more fans for much better airflow throughout the computer case.

  • Will the motherboard in my decade old desktop pc work with any new graphics card?

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  • Thank you for the great response! Yeah not quite a decade but were getting there. For some reason I think lots of people are still stuck in 2010s when they hear 10 year old computer parts they think subconsciously think of duo Pentiums from the early 2000s not intel i7s and AMD ryzens lol.

    I decided to get try a nvidia p100 instead. it was more in my price range + it allows cuda with the nvidia card I have in another desktop I could chain up. Thanks for looking up the ARC anyways! Though do you know why it says the p100 says a bus length of 4096 while most other cards are like 128? P100 specs

    Amd 580 specs

  • Im getting a new gpu, does my case hold full height or half height server brackets?

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  • Thank you for all your help remotelove you are awesome!! Here's a better shot of the space I'm working with. (Please dont yell at me about the dust its why I was heasitant to show I know how it looks lol)

    I don't think space/length of cardwill be an issue. While I still have your attention I wanted to ask. In as simple an explanation as you can muster, what do I need to connect multiple GPUs to one motherboard? I don't quite understand how pcie lanes and bridges and all that work but from what I read its possible and you can use different manufactuer GPUs together for the case I'm doing. But how?? Theres only one slot. I know some boards have 2 or even 4 but theres homlabs with like 10 p100s chained together

  • Im getting a new gpu, does my case hold full height or half height server brackets?

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  • I wanted to get an nvidia p100 Tesla 16gb for cheap vram and compute on a headless server. Some of the cards on eBay have the "full length" big bracket plate and some are ripped off because some PCs have a shorter plate system. I just want o make sure I don't have any problems but it looks like a full size jut wanted some confirmation. I don't know what a DIMMS is but if you mean the ram sticks, yes. I didnt know much about PCs when I installed them just kept putting them in for some reason installing a fourth made the system not run. I'll have to figure that situation out sometime.

  • Will the motherboard in my decade old desktop pc work with any new graphics card?

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  • The CPU in that motherboard is the amd ryzen 5 2600 6 core 12 thread 3.4ghz. The GPU is AMD RX 580 6GB. I would be buying more for computational work on a headless server than games, I've never had any issue with modern games because im old and okay living with 1080p + medium settings it all looks fine compared to the PS1 stuff I grew up with.

    Im only really concerned with bumping up VRAM GB and hopefully TFLOP speeds. I would really really like at least 16gb of vram but it doesn't come cheap in todays market, the intel arc stuff was a good deal compared to what nvidia and amd want for similar numbers. Ill be limited by pcie version 3 no matter what. Theres some older nvidia cards that also fit the bill that I saw thanks to some other user recommendations but maybe if im spending the money just get the newest GPU series and upgrade all the other parts later?

  • Will the motherboard in my decade old desktop pc work with any new graphics card?

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  • Here's some more info. This is the motherboard I have it says it's a 'generation 3' but duesnt say what gddr vram it supports. I would like to put in a Intel arc card with gddr6 gram

  • Will the motherboard in my decade old desktop pc work with any new graphics card?

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  • This is the motherboard I have it says it's a 'generation 3' but duesnt say what gddr vram it supports. I would like to put in a Intel arc card with gddr6 gram

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  • Redshift like screen reddening = piss filter

  • nyet

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  • Cool! Thank you for digging up that video I appreciate it :)

  • nyet

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  • I believe you may be mistaken on the claim he didnt make them. Theres a good few videos floating around of him blowing the glass on numberphile. The Wikipedia just says he keeps the stock in his house.

  • Uh, yeah. That rings a bell.

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  • Heres the full song parody from futurama on youtube

  • Math

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  • My favorite reference for what youve just described is 3blue1browns Binary, Hanoi, and sierpinski which is both fascinating and super acessable for the average non-nerd.

    The pressing point is that this recursive method of counting isn't just a good way of doing it, but basically the most efficient way that it can be done. There are no simpler or more efficient ways of counting.

    This allows the same 'steps' to show up in other unexpected areas that ask questions about the most efficient process to do a thing. This allows you to map the same binary counting pattern across both infinite paths of fractal geometry with sierpinskis arrowhead curve and solve logic problems like towers of Hanoi stacking. Its wild to think that on some abstract level these are all more or less equal processes.