Appreciate the context. I have the PDF of the short story, so I'll be reading that soon, and I may take a crack at the PC game as well. I just recall how much Gooseworx utilized the narrative of IHNMAIMS and plopped it into the world of C&A. Curious to see what these last two episodes bring. Ep7 was something.
Starting to think the VR one is a more macabre way to describe The Amazing Digital Circus and/or I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream (I really need to read the story). Trapped in a virtual world without any knowledge of the goings on in reality, including time dilation.
Thanks! Yeah, quite the rookie myself, but I wanted to go with Proxmox because it the awesome scripts database the community has created (RIP tteck), as there's one for each system I want to utilize. I suspect the unit I bought has some issues tho. I'm gonna keep tinkering for a few days before I consider returning it, if possible.
And of course I see this after I bought (and received) a miniPC. Picked up a"beefier" n305 unit with 16GB and a 256GB NVMe, as I wanted some headroom in case I have loftier goals. So far have have horrible luck with it in the first 3-4 hours of attempting install of some Linux flavor. Started with Proxmox, as I want to run LXCs and containers of HA, PiHole, and Jellyfin, and there are some boots where I can't even get past the installer. Booted up a LiveISO of Mint, and even that froze after a few minutes. Reading around about possible NIC driver issues, C-states, temperature throttling, etc... and what a headache so far. I can't be sure it's the device, me, or the images. /vent
EDIT: I've chosen the Beelink EQ14. It had the best "last-gen" specs, lowest price, and better hardware (BT 5.2 vs Pulcro's 4.2, as well as Wifi6 vs Wifi5). I also ruled out the Morefine because all of its reviews were paid, not very reassuring imho.
Alright, not sure how many will circle back, but I've narrowed down my choices, as they hit my current thresholds - N150 or equivalent/greater, 16GB RAM, 512GB NVMe, and Dual LAN connection.
1st place - Morefine M9S - This caught my eye, as although because to me it's a no-name brand, it has a beefiest specs still well within my price range ($270-ish)
2nd place - Pulcro.io TurnKey Two - These guys I just found, and they seem the most... professional? Same specs as the two below.
3rd place - BeeLink EQ14 - Weird that link has it as an N100, clearly shows N150 on the page...
I know some of those words, but with that said, thank you for those ideas! That's a lot more complicated than I was planning, but you gave me fodder for buying a beefier NUC! I think I'm close to settling with an n97 unit that has dual LAN for Pihole and such.
Would you know of any guides or such to set something as complex as what you've going, or was it more just time and tinkering? I'm still wrestling with which VM setup to use, but at least Mint was on my shortlist for OS choice.
I suppose I could have, but I'm still somewhat babystepping in Heliboard. I think if I give it a bit more time, it'll click better. I guess I was just so used to the seemingly solid prediction options for Google Keyboard way back. But having less of my info passing over to them, the better.
I was really loving Futo keyboard, but when companies are tied to any atrocities, or in this case, plain general evil, it's really tough to stick with. I jumped very briefly over to Sayboard before your post (saw it on F-Droid), but I'm hoping Whisper+ works better, as I think I'll simultaneously be using it for my upcoming HA voice assistant project.
Hah! That's why I said I was using Heliboard :P
As noted, not the greatest text prediction. e.g. I'll type "in" specifically starting over the I, and it still types "on", and it also doesn't like shorthand wording, like "gonna" which every time gets replaced with "Gibbs"
Still better than the Google keyboard with its billion all-seeing eyes on you.
Thanks for posting this. Just uninstalled Futo keyboard and its neighboring speech to text app. Gotta hunt around for a replacement on both, tho I've been using Heliboard, which is okay. Still really bad at swipe predictions.
Damn right. As much as I love my Pis, they have minimal headroom for what I'm looking at doing. This upgrade is great esp with the ability to consolidate all my stuff into one unit. As for power use, the lower the better as I'm guessing the setup will be idling majority of the time, and "vampire power" still sits in the back of my brain. In another comment I placed anything below 50w as a good limit.
As for my Pi4, I'm looking at possibly gifting to a friend as their primary devices don't handle x265 at all, but I have plenty of options to repurpose both it and even the Pi3. I do need to look into Zigbee stuff though. Still an alien term to me lol.
Thanks! Yeah I'm thinking I should get a higher RAM setup just for flexibility's sake and futureproofing so some extent. 16GB was my bare minimum, but I'm looking at some configs with 32GB and they aren't too much pricier. The soldered RAM is def iffy, as I like having the options to improve a build without too much headache, or no solid upgrade path whatsoever.
As for the Linux stuff, I've dabbled in it, and currently run ZorinOS on an old Thinkpad. It's not heavily used, but it's similar enough to Windows (as are many flavors), that the difficulty curve for me boils down to terminal stuff. I jump between Powershell, MacOS Terminal, and this on a roughly weekly basis, but by no means am I a scholar :P
Oh wow. Heavier hitter than my initial needs, but I wonder if more overhead would be worthwhile, or if the other NUCs I'm looking at will be "enough" for my current and future needs. I do have some card points to burn, so I could get something up this alley. Thanks for the rec!
I've been using Fennec and it's been pretty solid as a Firefox replacement. Librewolf on my home PC and Vivaldi on the work machine.