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Get a linux boot disk, open up GParted, and move the stuff to the right of the thing u wanna expand to the edge then expand that way. You can't expand something in the middle when theres another partition in the way. To my knowledge windows doesn't let you move existing partitions to the edge of the disk.

I fixed it For prosperity, go into the nvidia control panel via desktop right click, go to adjust desktop color settings, and change content type reported to the display to desktop programs.

I have a RTX 3080, when I start a video with hardware decoding (VLC, Discord, Youtube, Netflix, everything) my screen blacks out for a second before coming back and playing the video. How do I make it not do this?

Did I say I considered Rosewill a reputable brand? I said in a later post corsair, seasonic and superflower and to my knowledge both the corsair and superflower ones are on the A-tier of the tier list (though the seasonic one might be vaporware).

I've transported computers by car with a NH-D15 and GPU attached and it was fine. I'd suggest removing the cooler/GPU/any spinning rust (especially important) and it'll be fine.

I don't know about living things and electronics mixing. Is there a concern of bacteria or mold in an enclosed spaces? Or high humidity (which would be bad for exposed metal/electronics)? I don't deny it would be cool to have a hydroponics PC where you hook up the PSU to sun lamps, a built in filtration system and use the hydroponics in the PC cooling loop.

In my experience (and I'm sure there'll be other who disagree with me), desktop processors always feel smoother not just in games but also just general computer use (moving mouse around, opening 500 tabs, have 5 chat apps open, things like that). I think this is because of the severe power limit on laptops compared to Desktop chips. Most desktop chips are pushing 200W these days, while a really powerful laptop charger is only 200W for a gaming laptop and usually goes around 60-90W. That laptop power is for the entire machine not just the CPU while the 200W number on desktops is just for the CPU (whole machine is like 700Wish). From just the power alone, you can see laptops are severely limited and I think this power restriction cause it to turbo in a much restricted manner even if the CPU IPC, architecture, and max turbo is the same. If mobility is not a requirement I'd stay away from laptops in general (even gaming ones). BTW Certain tiny computers like the intel NUCs use laptop CPUs with external (laptop) power chargers, the restrictions also apply to those.

Mostly corsair, seasonic, superflower, and some other ones.

Honestly, any 1600W from a reputable brand will be reliable since these are the haloiest halo products. Good luck finding one in the mining craze though.

How's nicehash's rates though compared to doing like nanopool or whatever. I might be enticed to start mining as justification for not selling my GPU (that I got for MSRP from a lucky quick click). Will i have wallet lock out problems if I move all the btc out every week?

Oh that's alot higher. In the US, the TUF Plus is 200, and the pro is 220.

You wont be able to cool it properly in a regular PC case btw, it has no fans and relies on the front to back case cooling in a 4U rack mounted case. You probably have to strap a fan (not a regular fan, but a loud fan) on the back of it somehow, with a custom air funnel (kinda like this https://www.ebay.com/itm/GPU-Cooler-with-High-speed-Fan-for-Nvidia-Tesla-K80-P100-V100-Passive-Cooling-/124329274594).

The TUF Pro has all those features

Yeah I was wondering this throughout the video. Both my case and motherboard came with instructions on how to install everything. I wonder if it's because they pulled this stuff out of their warehouse instead of buying new (as witnessed by the pre-opened RAM clips), and whoever used that part for a build before she did didn't put the instructions back in the box.

It's possible to get a card at MSRP (though not guaranteed). You probably have to do a few hours of research for anecdotal experience, and sign up for stock alerts from websites (though I'm personally not making any recommendations)

Sort of... I'd still get an SSD at least for the boot drive but that cost is trivial. If you're virtualizing, your VM store needs to be on SSDs (and with a 16 core+ server you really should consider virtualizing to play around with different OSes and stuff). If you're just using a lower power (core count) SFF machine then make sure it supports 3.5in hard drives. I would say the only thing spinning rust are good for are: video (movies, TV, etc...) and backups/static files (photos, spreadsheets, word docs, low traffic websites, CAD stuff, etc...). I had trouble with long load times and lagg using networked spinning rust as the storage for game files. Some games will work just fine, some games will need a fast drive/NIC and some games just wont like having their files in a network location (regardless of how fast your drives/interconnects are) this is very much YMMV. If you have enclosed spaces in your apartment and you want to learn more about IT/linux stuff (on top of web dev stuff), then yeah the older generation servers make alot of sense, since it's a tremendous amount of power for pennies on the dollar (I don't like buying used stuff but used servers are OK because they spend their entire lives in what is basically a sterile datacenter, but buy your own new drives though), and you can have virtual clusters and things of that sort (try Proxmox). Another thing aside from noise is power and temperature. These things idle at 100-200W. So to do the math assuming 20c/kWh, it would cost $15-$30 to run them for a month just from the power bill alone. These rack servers can kick out quite a bit of heat and if you live in a place with no AC that's something to consider, and even if you do have AC, you basically double the power bill for the AC having to remove the heat from what is essentially a 100-200W heater in the room. Again if you don't need 16 cores, go for a SFF PC, but know you're basically paying the same for like 1/4 the number of cores and memory and storage slots. Edit: tbh if I was setting this up I'd probably get something with at least 8 cores (maybe even old consumer gear) and setup proxmox and put things in VMs. (like a NAS VM (make sure you can passthrough an entire HBA and not just disks), a VM or LXC container for each game server/website you want to run). But know you'd be doing this for the learning experience with linux and virtualization and and fun advanced (employable) things like Kubernetes.

Your price is way way wayyyyyyyyyyyyy higher than what you need to do with it. I'd set your budget at $400 for just a server and $700 if you include a complete networking overhaul. A good place to start is https://www.servethehome.com/introducing-project-tinyminimicro-home-lab-revolution/ Something else to keep in mind: You can buy a 16c/32t Sandy/Ivy bridge era Xeon server with 64+GB of RAM for like $300 on eBay (search for R720). I would personally get 1 generation above that (R730 with v3/v4 Xeons to just start with DDR4 memory since if you're going to upgrade later you can keep the memory). DDR3 RAM is about $1-1.5/GB and DDR4 RAM is like $5/GB (server RAM prices). These are also upgradable with PCIE slots. (whiteboxing is generally more expensive than getting a 2U but is more quiet/you get more customization). If you wanna mess with networking, you can also get a tiny pfsense box on eBay ($200 or so) and setup your own WAP with ubiquity or something (I use a cheap $20 travel router in AP mode). This next part is important: DO NOT buy 1U or 2U servers to keep in a space where you'll be at for an extended period of time (office/bedroom/living room). Even the modern quieter 1U/2U servers are annoyingly loud (jet engine loud) and will 100% be annoying (there are no noise cancelling headphones that can drown out the noise) and some 1U fans will damage your hearing over time. Edit: Oh I forgot, 8-10TB Seagate Exos drives are super cheap right now ($150-200, enterprise drives, they are designed to run 24/7 in RAID arrays, I'd get at least 2 and do RAID1 probably...)

Yeah but you're at a distinct disadvantage if you have to spend time googling whereas others can just do it from memory. And even with unlimited retries, each retry is going to take time and others will get ahead (which is not necessarily a bad thing by design, since the most seasoned "gamer memelords" will have an advantage which could be what they want). It sounds like from previous comments, it's basically a timed race of "who can remember the most gaming memelord information". Nah 2v2 teams vs. Linus + Luke in Anno 1800.

Sort of... if I receive a phone call while gloved, I just let it ring out and voicemail (so IM or email is better for urgent stuff). The reject and text is if I'm at work and I'm free to talk personal stuff but I really don't want to speak and let everyone overhear me and my personal stuff (even for something as simple as plane tickets or taxes or whatever). I will generally pick up calls from family if I'm just gaming or binge watching TV. But then I have to pause what I'm doing and we start the phone/video call with me slightly annoyed. I think I got all of family on board with IMs though. Setting up a group chat was pretty instrumental in having the older folk be willing to learn the technology. EDIT: I don't agree with letting the instigator choose the medium if you have restrictions (like not wanting to talk where others can hear) and they don't. I also explicitly tell people that call for personal reasons (if I do pick up) to text next time especially if the matter is trivial. Even without the restrictions, I think the instigator should respect the preferences of their counter parts since generally the caller is the one that wants something from the callee and not the other way around (i.e. it would be disrespectful for someone to say, I want this thing from you, and you're going to give it to me exactly at this time using a method of my choosing). I think things like Postmates or Doordash has somewhat standardized ordering menus for small restaurants and the places that have their own apps are capable of having their own apps (like national/global chains that can hire legit software engineers to make a good UI/UX). I don't have dietary restrictions and when ordering food for a large group (pre-pandemic) I bring around a computer and let everyone select their own stuff. I use ctrl-f for search, that generally works well. I also really dislike it when they just say "15. Rice with meatballs" with no description and no picture, but ultimately if a restaurant does their menus badly (in Doordash/Postmates or on their own website) it's kind of their own fault for having less customers. And regarding specials, I really don't like to order what I'm not going to want to eat, so if like the pizzas in a 2 pizza special is slightly more expensive than the 2 pizza + breadsticks special (or even if the specials are the same price i.e. free breadsticks), I'll generally only get 2 pizzas if I know I only want 2 pizzas. I can sort of understand the analysis paralysis when presented with the Cheesecake factory menu (100+ items) with no recommendations, but I feel like that was the experience for me physically at the restaurant anyways.

I sort of agree with parts of what you're saying and disagree with other parts. I'm mostly talking about disliking non-work related unscheduled calls. Yes a phone call/Zoom meeting is better at rapid fire Q/A than sending long IMs. I can't think of a situation where IM isn't concise enough for anything except for work. And for 90% of work communications IM is OK and for the rest, if I send off an IM with 7 bullet points, the other party generally will ask for a short 5 minute Zoom meeting and sort everyone out (on top of regular scheduled meetings). Regarding urgency, I've gotten to the point where emails and IMs will reach my brain faster than calling will. I generally read emails and IMs immediately after they arrive and will prioritize in my brain there and then how and when to respond. I wont pick up phone calls. Maybe it's just me but I work in an environment where to touch personal things (like a phone) I have to take off my gloves, do the thing, put on new gloves, and re-sterilize the hands before I can continue working for parts of the day. So I minimize having to touch anything while work is happening. An text message or email will pop up with a notification on the iPad besides me so I can immediately glance at the content preview instead of having to touch anything to get information, and if and only if its something I want to respond to immediately, do I go through with the glove shuffle (and this sort of mentality of you're annoying me without additional information if you cold call just carries on to the rest of life). Phone calls have their place, and that place for me is calling customer service (or HR or administration or someone who's job is to take my calls) (though if chat is available I'll generally use chat since I can do something else at the same time). I have multiple times rejected phone calls outright with a text message follow up asking what's going on (mainly for older family). I don't agree with the food ordering thing. Keying into an app/website is so much faster and more accurate than reading it to a human on the other side. The audio is shitty and the person at the other side is (most of the time) either slow and/or is not motivated to get your order right. Plus you don't have to talk to a stranger. I have never had this issue with apps.

https://www.servethehome.com/introducing-project-tinyminimicro-home-lab-revolution/ Probably a relevant read.

I too get irrationally angry at phone calls and I have it set on iPhone to automatically ignore any phone calls that are not from my contacts (and even then it gets annoying when someone calls on the work phone). A phone call is basically like an interrupt, like saying to someone "drop everything you're doing right now and serve me". Where as a text message is like a task queue "here's some stuff I'd like you to get to but do it on your time". So unless you literally pay me for my time, I will not take your phone call (ironically all colleagues don't use phones either, most communication is done via IM with the occasional scheduled meeting).

Yeah I'm sure they were doing the best they could (and a quiz is technically easy to implement and probably the most scalable). But some of the references could be obscure... Like I don't play 4/6 games the poster commented above and I don't know where allyourbasesarebelongtous came from (I know it from Warcraft 3 cheat code) and I don't know anything about and can't be bothered to learn about Atari. TBH I was expecting something like "insert this random string into your steam profile and make it public" and they'll just manually check 300 steam profiles (which can be done in 1 FTE work day).

If they're going to reuse questions sure don't post them but it's not a secret anymore since its already out there, I do think they should change the questions the next time around (cmon it's not that hard to do). Just wondering out loud what the questions were this time...

I have a 3080 so i don't need one (humble brag, but not that i would have gotten one anyways). However, I am curious as to whether if Linus considers me a gamer. So out of curiosity, is it possible to release the quiz and scoring mechanism for us to check our "gamer cred".