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@LinusTech Can I ask why you chose to use Tasmota and an MQTT broker (Mosquitto) instead of flashing your devices with ESPHome? This would have much easier configuration of the devices via its YAML and cut out the need for an MQTT broker. I could never go back to Tasmota after using ESPHome for a few years.

Thanks for the input guys — do you think it would be wise to go for a newer GPU and hopefully get as long as I did out of my 1080? Or is going for a last gen GPU going to be an issue in 2 or 3 years again? Normally all of this is a non-issue, but now that there's kids in the equation I just don't have disposable income like I used to so whatever I get/build needs to last me 4+ years at least. I don't mind stretching the budget a bit if it will make more economical sense in the long run. I'd love to try an AMD build, as the last motherboard I had was back in the late 00s and was an Asus Crosshair. The last AMD GPU i had was crossfire 5870s — a long time ago! How are last / new generation AMD boards and GPUs fairing out against their Intel counterparts?

Budget (including currency): €2000 Country: Ireland Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Battlefield, Warzone, Cyberpunk 2077, Hunt Showdown, Unreal Engine Other details: Currently on an i7 9700k, Gigabyte Z390 Aorus Pro, 32GB Vengeance 3000Mhz DDR4, 970 Evo 1TB, Corsair AX1200i, Noctua NHD15S, GTX 1080 Founders Edition in a Phanteks Enthoo Evolv X case. I've just been given wife approval to splurge on a GPU, and (if possible) any other components I would need, subject to budget limitations. My plan is to buy either an RX 7900XTX or RTX 4080 when they are released on the 13th December. I'm upgrading from a GTX 1080 that I've had for over 6 years now (which is amazing). I game on an AOC CU34G2X 34" Ultrawide (3440x1440) @ 144hz. In the last 2 years I've noticed how much my 1080 has struggled to keep up with games, especially at ultrawide resolutions. I stopped myself playing games like Cyberpunk because it would absolutely ruin the experience. Having to turn down visuals or use upscaling (FSR/NIS) with blurry performance is no fun. (No DLSS on my 1080). I'm hoping to get a GPU that would be a significant boost over my 1080 and allow me to play the latest games on high/max settings @ greater than 120fps. I'm also wondering if I get a new GPU will it be held back by the 9700k and, if so, do I also go and upgrade my main rig components too. If this is the case, do I go for a Ryzen 7 7700X and B650/X670 + DDR5 or an older Ryzen CPU and chipset? Do I go for 13th gen i7 or older 12th gen and motherboard? Will there be any issue with my current motherboards PCIe gen3 holding back a newer GPU too? I'm really conflicted as I'm a bit out of the loop in the last few years and I'm hoping to pick up some deals for components over the next few weeks. Any input would be very greatly appreciated.

It's macOS itself via kernel_task and not a 3rd party application.

So, I was doing a bit of housekeeping and decided to do a quick SMART check on my 1 year old M1 Mac Mini (8G/256GB). I use it every day as a daily driver for web development, nothing too stressful or resource hungry is ever running on it except Visual Studio Code and a browser with a handful of tabs open. So imagine my surprise when I see that the drive is at 50% of its lifetime writes after it has written a RIDICULOUS 823TB of data to the drive over 95 days of power on time. That is approx 8.5TB a day, every day. Now I know that the low RAM in this device is reported to have resulted in a lot of swap to the SSD but this is definitely a huge problem for these machines. At this rate my drive will most likely fail in the coming months and when it does it's the end of my Mac Mini as it has the RAM and SSD soldered to the board and can't be replaced. I have Samsung NVMe SSDs in my gaming rig that are years old and used every day and only have a few TBs of write cycles. I've been on to Apple support (absolutely useless when it comes to hardware issues) and my device is already out of it's one year warranty period. Anyone else in the same boat?

Interesting brief article about it: http://www.guru3d.com/news_story/ssds_lose_data_if_left_without_power_for_just_7_days.html

Just moved house so have had to bin everything