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is there any plastic burning smell? either way, you may not have, but is entirely possible that you did. only way is to test the parts fried a pair of GPU's once in a similar fashion without thinking. Had attempted to SLI a pair of 8800GTS. Ran all of once before I broke everything. It was up and running. Benchmarking. but the case was open and the PCI case plate covers on the back were off. Decided to put them back in while it was running. Hand slipped. the metal bar shorted the two cards to eachother and pPOOOOOF two dead 8800GTS... smelling of plastic and smoke.

Yes, I Too subscribe to the investment advice of buy high and sell low.

There's so much in here I would rant and correct you on. But given you're in Highschool, the important thing is yes, Don't do drugs. There is a good reason why Alcohol and Drug use laws are typically 18+ (and if we want to go by science, should be higher). However, don't generalize people who use Cannabis. As for your non-techie friend's lack of knowledge on how to use technical features of their device? There's always a first time someone learns something. Hopefully you helped him learn these features and he was grateful. I had a CEO who demanded we get them an iPhone and MacBook because "I'm an executive and need to loook it". But then when receiving it, immediately ran down to the IT area, and demanded a "cable guy" help her understand this fancy doodad. She not only didn't know what an iCloud account was, but didn't even know how to use the iPhone at all and this was her first phone and CEO job back in 15 years. the thing you will be shocked with in the world even after highschool is how absolutely ignorant the vast majority of the population actually is in technology. I have employees who are in their 50's, who have literally been sitting at the same desk for 30 years using a computer, and can't even understand what the word "reboot" means and still take photos, print them, than try to fax them.

One thing you can do to offset, is just turn it off when you're not using it. This will help lower it. you said it was using 70w when not actively being used, so, why not just shut it off? It won't help with the load when active, but will lower the average load.

Question 1: No clue. Not using Zwave lights myself. sorry. But the answer interests me so watching. Question 2: Yeah, Home Assistant runs fairly well on a Pi. Should make sure you have a 4gb model as 2gb can become slow depending on how many integrations and what kind of integrations you use. Question 3: Yes. Home assistant replaces the online service provider for controlling the lights. There are a couple ways of safely opening up access to your instance online. There's a cloud service by the makers of Home Assistant if you're not comfortable with your own network security and exposing a server to the internet. Question 4: Yes. The Pi will act as a central hub, controlling every device you integrate into it. There are even integrations to enable alexa to be used as a voice control for your Home Assistant instance. Warning: Home Assistant is massively powerful. But it can be massively frustrating and may require a little bit of trial and error, and editting configuration files in YAML. And you might find that not everything is well documented. HA has an integration for DuckDNS that will automatically update a public DNS you can create with their service. If I remember right (I don't use it), it'll regularly update DuckDNS with your IP and assign you a subdomain like something "PogBogsHA.DuckDNS.com". And I think it will also take care of any Certificates required via LetsEncrypt. Genuinely curious if any other HA user uses this integration though and can chime on it's reliability.

you're basically taking an old gaming computer and throwing some giant drives in it. There's not much anyone can really recommend diferently if all you're doing is being a file server as that hardware is significant overkill to just serve files on your network. ECC is important if the data you have in memory is critical or the random once a few years crash non-ecc might cause but if again, it's just handling file server duties, it might be an unnecessary expense. for server/NAS I am a fan of unRAID, but I recognise that it's not free. if you like the idea of tinkering yourself and just doing your own configuration, you could just go with a linux server variant and setup your own drive configuration. I'm not sure if you've got the RAM for FreeNAS with the drive sizes you've selected, but a FreeNAS expert might be able to chime in.

You didn't cleanly copy the drive and missed the EUFI partition. you cannot just copy the files over on C: to another drive and hope it works. There's far more to windows than that. Get a tool that will either clone the drive partitions fully, or re-install your OS onto the new drive to create a clean installation with a new partition scheme. You will not be able to boot from the new drive without it.

IIRC there IS another toggle in another menu on that BIOS. I believe i had the similar one on my B450 board running a 3600x. The option IIRC (I don't have the board right now) is in the AI/Tweaker area not here. In that section you can actually set the TPM version of the CPU. I believe the B350 era, there wasn't a TPM2 chip on the board, but the CPU itself will have it.

So this user was returning to work an got frustrated that they couldn't log in. Over and over and over again trying their password and insisting that no matter what the password didn't work After calling helpdesk, and repeating that he knows his account login, and that he's doing it correctly. He looked closer at his screen and realized he was using an old, deactivated account and not the one instructed to use. That user was me. I'm now a Luser.

It's the GPU. I find that Chrome and some games just... not friendly and I too have seen some performance loss, and a more "stuttery" behaviour. You can test this by disabling GPU acceleration in CHROME while you are gaming. See if it improves your gaming experience. Doesn't always happen, and tends to be far more noticeable while I've got 4k youtube playing on another screen.

Do you have another cable? test that first. Test the other port of the monitor if it has one. My guess is either the cable is bad, or you've damaged the connector on the monitor (or hopefully not GPU side)

1: UAT ! Do not do anything in production until you have tested the upgrade in UAT first! 2. This is an extensive project in any regards. Not a press a few buttons and voila, upgrade. Now, yes, from a technical side it MAY be that easy. But corporate projects need checks, balances and oversight to ensure that all thresholds set in the project goals are met, including any risk and what you're doing to mitigate any. 3. Snapshot, snapshot,snapshot. If it's in production. Backup, snapshot, backup. two copies. whatever. Don't fuck around if it's mission critical but ensure you have a back out plan in case it goes wrong. That could mean restoring a snapshot, or restoring from backup. But have the plan ready, and have something measurable that would kick off the execution of the back out plan. 4. User Apprehension is understandable, but cannot be a barrier to progress. I can attest to this from experience that constantly having to cave upgrades or innovation because of user sentiment, and you will never ever get anything done. Catching up from that far behind is signfiicantly harder, more expensive, and will be that much more oppositional. Get management buy in, With the plan above you'll be able to convince them that you're ready and know what you're doing. And if Management is in, The rest of the employees will fall in line or usually be shut up. 5. @sweaton posters are also completely correct. One app at a time, Vendors are not your friends and likely will not share enough to make the transitions perfectly smooth. Be prepared to either have to pay for support, or rely on your own skills. 6. Checklist the exact steps you are going to do in production before you ever touch it. "LIVE" day should be following your own tested checklist of events without the need to think. if you planned and tested right. "LIVE" should be a sleep walk. 7. Have a second person involved with live who is fully aware of the checklist and can swap in place should you become unavaialble, or even just to ensure that what you're doing with hands on keyboard is accurate and you're not dozing off accidentally typing rm -rf in the wrong folder 8. In place upgrade is your best bet, but if you hvae third party software that doesn't like it, you need to get that software installed from scratch. Migrating software (especially windows software, that uses proprietary code or engines) is ridiculously difficult and may have massive unforeseen repercussions. The only safe way is a proper, Full re-install from the vendor. Unless supported, you simply don't know what sort of behaviour you may encounter if proprietary software is not installed to the vendor specifications (I Know this as a former Vendor of proprietary software, AND sysadmin of proprietary software)

Recent full time convert from Windows to Linux for my desktop. Davinci Resolve works great. Don't know Black magic. Gaming is hit or miss but gettting much much better with a combination of proton for steam and Lutris. My games seem to all work great. (world of warcraft, Cities Skylines) Any Adobe is a no go. End of story. Don't even try. not worth it. UE5 should run via above gaming methods as well as blender if I'm not mistaken But yah, saddly, there's just a few things that are so tied into windows due to whatever reason that I keep my windows 10 instance on a drive ready to boot should I need to. Just need to turn the drive on in the bios.

It's not depressing. Not making your 40th lap is Depressing.

This is unpopular? Like, everyone should love dill pickles Now olives. Olives are literally poison.