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    Summary An ex-Ubiquiti engineer, Nickolas Sharp, was sentenced to six years in prison yesterday after pleading guilty in a New York court to stealing tens of gigabytes of confidential data, demanding a $1.9 million ransom from his former employer, and then publishing the data publicly when his demands were refused. Quotes My thoughts This was coming for him. More than this, he even tried to feed this fake breach info to Krebs on Security who wrote multiple articles defaming Ubiquiti causing their stock to tumble as per their own words. I remember this was discussed last year in WAN show when this came out, so I hope we get to see final thoughts of Linus and Luke on WAN show on this final news. Sources https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/05/ex-ubiquiti-engineer-behind-breathtaking-data-theft-gets-6-year-prison-term/
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    Hell no. $250 for a jacket?? Even Bag was a stretch for me, but I still bought it in a day. can't justify jacket at that price point.
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    I don't have any shady thing going on, so that's good. Only about 10% tax on total kWh usage x 0.1438.
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    Wow that’s rough. My teammates were quoting like 8-9 cents for their houses so I was thinking I’m paying more in apartment.
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    Yeah makes sense. My current rate is $0.1438/kWh in my apartment. Yeah it's bad compared to many places.
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    So these are the containers which are always on. And I have two VMs that I use infrequently, windows one to run specific software that doesn't run my m1 mac, and another linux VM to play around with. I have 96GB ddr3 in my server rn, looking at my RAM usage in unraid with all containers on, it's using about 12GB, before the cache usage, after which about ~2GB is free. Not much, that's why I chose motherboard with 8ish sata ports and 2.5G, won't be extending anything like that PCIe. It will only be used for up to 2 GPU if I decide that. Yeah that's a good point. I will be selling my R720 anyway if I do upgrade, so I will be getting back about ~$300ish I think, so i don't mind spending more necessarily, I was just planning on staying around $500. I can also just sell the A770 if I don't see the need for it, I haven't used it yet, it's still packed new. It's 96GB DDR3 ECC. About ~150W before any plex streams happens, and about 180W with 3-4 plex stream remote transcode. I supposed with newer efficient chips, better fan etc it should drop by at least half of that if not more.
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    Yeah I have two 750W PSU in that thing. I think the biggest contributer outside the main hardware use are those fans in R720, quite loud and running at high speed, but since it stays in my big closet(open), I don't want to lower it to increase the temp in there.
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    So my current SSD is SATA and it's quite old now so wanted to upgrade to M.2. I run a lot of docker containers via UnRaid and also thinking of running Windows VM so that's why I went more RAM, but yeah I could get the two 16GB dimms. I will continue using the Quadro M2000 for plex needs, should have clarified it more. A770 will be used for the VMs. i3 does look like a good product, but even 12400 is 60W only, so wasn't overly worried about that. Main reason for upgrading is my R720, chugs ~150W with my dockers running and no transcode happening. Gets up around ~$180 with couple of plex streams.
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    Budget (including currency): ~$500 Country: US Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Mostly as UnRaid server, plex main use. Might create couple of VMs. Other details (existing parts lists, whether any peripherals are needed, what you're upgrading from, when you're going to buy, what resolution and refresh rate you want to play at, etc): Current details below So currently, I have Dell R720 as my server, and I have 5x12 TB HDD (1 parity), 1x1 TB SSD for cache and Quadro M2000. The power draw is too much so thinking of upgrading it to make it more efficient. This is what I chose, please suggest any changes, make it cheaper? Hoping to get it under $500. I already have A770 so it's $0. https://pcpartpicker.com/list/wqgHH2
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    So currently, I have Dell R720 as my server, and I have 5x12 TB HDD, 1x1 TB SSD for cache and Quadro M2000, and I run UnRaid on it. The power draw is too much so thinking of upgrading it to make it more efficient. This is what I chose, please suggest any changes, make it cheaper? Hoping to get it under $500. I already have A770 so it's $0. https://pcpartpicker.com/list/wqgHH2
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    Summary Here are two HUGE new points Arm wants to do from 2025 onwards: • Arm will end TLAs (technology license agreements) with SoC vendors and go straight to OEMs. i.e. Sony will pay for the Arm license instead of Qualcomm • Arm will ban custom GPUs, custom NPUs, and custom ISPs if the SoC uses stock cores. i.e. no more Samsung’s Xclipse RDNA GPUs/AI Engine, Google’s Tensor NPU/ISP, MediaTek’s APU, HiSilicon’s Da Vinci NPU, Unisoc’s VDSP, … if stock Arm CPU cores are used. Arm is essentially doing what regulators feared Nvidia-owned Arm would do Quotes My thoughts I understand that ARM doesn’t make much money unlike their customers, but this is such a bad move, this feels like threats. I feel like, having lost that NVIDIA money, Softbank just want to squeeze as much money as they can get from Arm customers. Supposedly, Nvidia already has 20 year agreement for special use case, so they are not impacted but everyone else are like Samsung, Qualcomm, Mediatek, Google etc. Sources https://www.semianalysis.com/p/arm-changes-business-model-oem-partners
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    I'd pick up A380 for my Unraid server, but it seems linux drivers are only in kernel 6 onwards.
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    if that line from Ars article is true, that would be amazing.
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    Summary Intel is officially announcing pricing for its top Arc graphics card today. The top-of-the-line Arc A770 will arrive on October 12th, starting at $329. This price matches that of Nvidia’s RTX 3060, a card that the A770 is expected to comfortably outperform. Quotes My thoughts I think that's a great price to launch it at. Though, I hope they have enough inventory to actually make any difference. I personally would have bought it to try but I bought 3070 Ti is out of the return window. Sources https://www.theverge.com/2022/9/27/23374988/intel-arc-a770-price-release-date
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    @RONOTHAN## @LIGISTX Resolved! I was only touching the two power connectors with screwdriver and removing it as soon as fan spun. I kept touching it until it restarted 1-2 times. Now it's working great.
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    Hi, I'm building my first computer and I'm trying it via test bench just to make sure everything works but it's turning off immediately in 3-4 seconds as fans spin. Motherboard, cpu, gpu all are connected to psu. Confirmed it. I don't have case yet so I'm power jumping it to start.
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    Alright thanks. Will change order accordingly. @Somerandomtechyboi @Queen Chrysalis @Dukesilver27-
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    Sounds good. Chose Samsung because of its reputation in SSD field. Honestly don't mind $50-100 here there.
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    Budget (including currency): $1400 Country: US Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Mostly gaming, some coding practice etc Other details (existing parts lists, whether any peripherals are needed, what you're upgrading from, when you're going to buy, what resolution and refresh rate you want to play at, etc): PCpartpicker link: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/wgmKNc
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    Yes, I think I found a good deal on R720. 2x E5 2660 V2 with 64GB ram and H710 card, comes with 8 bay 3.5", 2 750W PSU. For about $350, is that a good deal? I am mostly going to run unRaid so I guess I won't have to flash RAID card but might still do it, just in case.
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    Dang that's a great deal. I do want at least 6 SATA connections so will look around.
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    Any specific brand do you have in mind?
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    Hi, I am thinking of building my first homelab server. It will be used as media server, pihole, and few VMs to practice. This is what I found on ebay. Was wondering if this is a good hardware deal? I will likely populate it with multiple WD Ultrastar DC HC550 16TB. Would this be a good hardware for my usecase? I will most likely install unraid so I can later add this harddrives as needed. Thanks! https://www.ebay.com/itm/284676372507?hash=item424808b81b:g:8kgAAOSwFxBiHjA5
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    Haha actually I know about both series. Issue is with not finding good deals on GPU right now. I can go ahead and build everything else for now and wait for a deal on GPU or just by prebuilt from somewhere.
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    Alright, I will think over my options. Thanks.
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