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That is awesome, I didn't think about extra AMD drivers coming from an intel system, and my system was glitchy and unstable, I thought WTH?? AMD then I realised oh...these drivers look important.
 
Happy it helped 🙂

So i just did that and hopped into a overwatch game and no crash so far but seemed to work thanks for the help :()

That is certainly a unique situation.
 
You could try and reach out in your local community to see if anyone has additional or unused drives they could donate to you. If you know people in the industry who might be willing to donate that would definitely be a good option. The expense of storage media is pocket change to bigger companies.
 
The only other suggestion I could make is to drop the bitrate to 720p until you have your storage solution sorted out.

I think we all had that moment in our lives when we have a bad day or week, we get home sit in front of our PC/Console and relax with our favourite game and after a few quests or blowing things up with friends, life doesn't seem so bad.
 
In March 2019 I was having a "bad day"
After fighting my wife's illness along side her for 20 years watching the medication that kept her alive slowly destroy her body we lost the fight in November of 2018 3 days after my birthday, not only was I broken apart by grief but also (undiagnosed at the time) Higher functioning Autism, Bi-polar type 2, ADHD and soon to come PTSD, the disability payments that helped pay the bills (my own issues meaning a full time job was impossible) were stopped the day she died, income went from 1300 to 500 per month, in one day without notice, mum finally entered end stage dementia and 7 days after my Wife died I was diagnosed with bowel cancer, spent Christmas of 2018 in hospital (same hospital my wife died 5 weeks before) having 40% of my Bowels removed, no cure for me either, CT scan every 6 months and blood works just because I developed nodules in my lungs which could go either way.
 
3 months later and no family visit, 5 consultants trying to keep me alive as quite rationally I didn't see the point of going on especially with PTSD kicking in which meant I had the happy fun addon of experiencing my Wife's death 3-6 times a day every day in full colour and sound while I rolled into a ball on the floor.
 
Pretty much a sucky day lasting 20 odd years with the last 30 mins being the worse.
 
No one would have blamed me for ending it, there is only so many days you can experience the death of your loved on before it wears you down to nothing especially with almost no support except  a few online friends keeping an eye on me.
 
March came around and I started to say goodbye to everyone, Doctors had me on suicide watch, Samaritans actually rang me each week to see if I was still alive, I had a plan and my last act was going to be watching End game then have my own end game.
 
My last act was going to be loading up all my Wife's and mine favourite games, the ones we played together, just take a last walk about, visit all the places we did.
 
Days away from the end I logged on to The Division and as I closed the client it came up with an advertisement for The Division 2, had nothing to loose nothing to do that night, so I bought the ultimate edition and logged in curious to see what changes they had made to a favourite game of ours in the sequel.
 
Something amazing happened, the next morning when I woke, I had the urge to log back on.
 
I did  a post on reddit that blew up when I thanked the developers for saving my live.
 
Well that post and the amazing support given to me, people convinced me to vlog and stream because even though I was enjoying TD2 it was triggering my ptsd and other issues badly.
But something about being online, about being focused on a camera actually helped.
I bought my first webcam and mic on the 23rd March 2019.
 
My consultants and Sr psychologist stopped expecting me to be dead by the next visits, I went down from Five different people to one and he wants to come visit me after covid to co-write a paper on using technology and games as an alternative therapy to medication and hospital stay.
 
Just over two years later, yes I may end up stuck in this house for the rest of my life but I am still here, todays streams and vlogs will take the count up to 2940 videos, oh I will always be a very minor person on Youtube and Twitch, 1050 people following me on YT 1200 on Twitch, but it doesn't even matter if no one watches one of my streams or vlogs they still get uploaded and someone will watch them one day. my content is uncut, unedited and very raw (my version of autism means I have no filter between my brain and mouth) on the plus side a few people seem to like my honesty and willingness to talk about anything, as I put it, what is the point in telling you I am having a good day if you don't get to know when I am wrecked and having a bad day, I variety stream because my brain can't lock into one game, and even if I have 500 hours in a game, I can still forget how to shoot or access inventory multiple times a game.
 
And some of the amazing things is when someone leaves a comment on a video letting me know I inspired them, when I do a live cooking video and someone says "hi I'm going to make this for a girl I like" or "after your talk about what really matters in life I won't be on tonight, taking my mum to the cinema"
 
If I have a really bad time then VR helps also.
 
Currently going through some "issues" but things will work out.
 
For some of us with disabilities, mental issues and other problems gaming and technology is more than a hobby, it is life support and I wouldn't be here without it. 
 
If anyone wants to know more about this or how specific types of technology or games help in different ways feel free to ask talking about these things is good.
 
 
 
 

dam good writing for having disabilities imo way better then what i can do...
 
a wise guy said to me one day you cant be happy and sad at the same time so pick one. its a chose to be sad.

I think we all had that moment in our lives when we have a bad day or week, we get home sit in front of our PC/Console and relax with our favourite game and after a few quests or blowing things up with friends, life doesn't seem so bad.
 
In March 2019 I was having a "bad day"
After fighting my wife's illness along side her for 20 years watching the medication that kept her alive slowly destroy her body we lost the fight in November of 2018 3 days after my birthday, not only was I broken apart by grief but also (undiagnosed at the time) Higher functioning Autism, Bi-polar type 2, ADHD and soon to come PTSD, the disability payments that helped pay the bills (my own issues meaning a full time job was impossible) were stopped the day she died, income went from 1300 to 500 per month, in one day without notice, mum finally entered end stage dementia and 7 days after my Wife died I was diagnosed with bowel cancer, spent Christmas of 2018 in hospital (same hospital my wife died 5 weeks before) having 40% of my Bowels removed, no cure for me either, CT scan every 6 months and blood works just because I developed nodules in my lungs which could go either way.
 
3 months later and no family visit, 5 consultants trying to keep me alive as quite rationally I didn't see the point of going on especially with PTSD kicking in which meant I had the happy fun addon of experiencing my Wife's death 3-6 times a day every day in full colour and sound while I rolled into a ball on the floor.
 
Pretty much a sucky day lasting 20 odd years with the last 30 mins being the worse.
 
No one would have blamed me for ending it, there is only so many days you can experience the death of your loved on before it wears you down to nothing especially with almost no support except  a few online friends keeping an eye on me.
 
March came around and I started to say goodbye to everyone, Doctors had me on suicide watch, Samaritans actually rang me each week to see if I was still alive, I had a plan and my last act was going to be watching End game then have my own end game.
 
My last act was going to be loading up all my Wife's and mine favourite games, the ones we played together, just take a last walk about, visit all the places we did.
 
Days away from the end I logged on to The Division and as I closed the client it came up with an advertisement for The Division 2, had nothing to loose nothing to do that night, so I bought the ultimate edition and logged in curious to see what changes they had made to a favourite game of ours in the sequel.
 
Something amazing happened, the next morning when I woke, I had the urge to log back on.
 
I did  a post on reddit that blew up when I thanked the developers for saving my live.
 
Well that post and the amazing support given to me, people convinced me to vlog and stream because even though I was enjoying TD2 it was triggering my ptsd and other issues badly.
But something about being online, about being focused on a camera actually helped.
I bought my first webcam and mic on the 23rd March 2019.
 
My consultants and Sr psychologist stopped expecting me to be dead by the next visits, I went down from Five different people to one and he wants to come visit me after covid to co-write a paper on using technology and games as an alternative therapy to medication and hospital stay.
 
Just over two years later, yes I may end up stuck in this house for the rest of my life but I am still here, todays streams and vlogs will take the count up to 2940 videos, oh I will always be a very minor person on Youtube and Twitch, 1050 people following me on YT 1200 on Twitch, but it doesn't even matter if no one watches one of my streams or vlogs they still get uploaded and someone will watch them one day. my content is uncut, unedited and very raw (my version of autism means I have no filter between my brain and mouth) on the plus side a few people seem to like my honesty and willingness to talk about anything, as I put it, what is the point in telling you I am having a good day if you don't get to know when I am wrecked and having a bad day, I variety stream because my brain can't lock into one game, and even if I have 500 hours in a game, I can still forget how to shoot or access inventory multiple times a game.
 
And some of the amazing things is when someone leaves a comment on a video letting me know I inspired them, when I do a live cooking video and someone says "hi I'm going to make this for a girl I like" or "after your talk about what really matters in life I won't be on tonight, taking my mum to the cinema"
 
If I have a really bad time then VR helps also.
 
Currently going through some "issues" but things will work out.
 
For some of us with disabilities, mental issues and other problems gaming and technology is more than a hobby, it is life support and I wouldn't be here without it. 
 
If anyone wants to know more about this or how specific types of technology or games help in different ways feel free to ask talking about these things is good.
 
 
 
 

I think we all had that moment in our lives when we have a bad day or week, we get home sit in front of our PC/Console and relax with our favourite game and after a few quests or blowing things up with friends, life doesn't seem so bad.
 
In March 2019 I was having a "bad day"
After fighting my wife's illness along side her for 20 years watching the medication that kept her alive slowly destroy her body we lost the fight in November of 2018 3 days after my birthday, not only was I broken apart by grief but also (undiagnosed at the time) Higher functioning Autism, Bi-polar type 2, ADHD and soon to come PTSD, the disability payments that helped pay the bills (my own issues meaning a full time job was impossible) were stopped the day she died, income went from 1300 to 500 per month, in one day without notice, mum finally entered end stage dementia and 7 days after my Wife died I was diagnosed with bowel cancer, spent Christmas of 2018 in hospital (same hospital my wife died 5 weeks before) having 40% of my Bowels removed, no cure for me either, CT scan every 6 months and blood works just because I developed nodules in my lungs which could go either way.
 
3 months later and no family visit, 5 consultants trying to keep me alive as quite rationally I didn't see the point of going on especially with PTSD kicking in which meant I had the happy fun addon of experiencing my Wife's death 3-6 times a day every day in full colour and sound while I rolled into a ball on the floor.
 
Pretty much a sucky day lasting 20 odd years with the last 30 mins being the worse.
 
No one would have blamed me for ending it, there is only so many days you can experience the death of your loved on before it wears you down to nothing especially with almost no support except  a few online friends keeping an eye on me.
 
March came around and I started to say goodbye to everyone, Doctors had me on suicide watch, Samaritans actually rang me each week to see if I was still alive, I had a plan and my last act was going to be watching End game then have my own end game.
 
My last act was going to be loading up all my Wife's and mine favourite games, the ones we played together, just take a last walk about, visit all the places we did.
 
Days away from the end I logged on to The Division and as I closed the client it came up with an advertisement for The Division 2, had nothing to loose nothing to do that night, so I bought the ultimate edition and logged in curious to see what changes they had made to a favourite game of ours in the sequel.
 
Something amazing happened, the next morning when I woke, I had the urge to log back on.
 
I did  a post on reddit that blew up when I thanked the developers for saving my live.
 
Well that post and the amazing support given to me, people convinced me to vlog and stream because even though I was enjoying TD2 it was triggering my ptsd and other issues badly.
But something about being online, about being focused on a camera actually helped.
I bought my first webcam and mic on the 23rd March 2019.
 
My consultants and Sr psychologist stopped expecting me to be dead by the next visits, I went down from Five different people to one and he wants to come visit me after covid to co-write a paper on using technology and games as an alternative therapy to medication and hospital stay.
 
Just over two years later, yes I may end up stuck in this house for the rest of my life but I am still here, todays streams and vlogs will take the count up to 2940 videos, oh I will always be a very minor person on Youtube and Twitch, 1050 people following me on YT 1200 on Twitch, but it doesn't even matter if no one watches one of my streams or vlogs they still get uploaded and someone will watch them one day. my content is uncut, unedited and very raw (my version of autism means I have no filter between my brain and mouth) on the plus side a few people seem to like my honesty and willingness to talk about anything, as I put it, what is the point in telling you I am having a good day if you don't get to know when I am wrecked and having a bad day, I variety stream because my brain can't lock into one game, and even if I have 500 hours in a game, I can still forget how to shoot or access inventory multiple times a game.
 
And some of the amazing things is when someone leaves a comment on a video letting me know I inspired them, when I do a live cooking video and someone says "hi I'm going to make this for a girl I like" or "after your talk about what really matters in life I won't be on tonight, taking my mum to the cinema"
 
If I have a really bad time then VR helps also.
 
Currently going through some "issues" but things will work out.
 
For some of us with disabilities, mental issues and other problems gaming and technology is more than a hobby, it is life support and I wouldn't be here without it. 
 
If anyone wants to know more about this or how specific types of technology or games help in different ways feel free to ask talking about these things is good.
 
 
 
 

It really shows how well things can take your mind off things like that 

I think we all had that moment in our lives when we have a bad day or week, we get home sit in front of our PC/Console and relax with our favourite game and after a few quests or blowing things up with friends, life doesn't seem so bad.
 
In March 2019 I was having a "bad day"
After fighting my wife's illness along side her for 20 years watching the medication that kept her alive slowly destroy her body we lost the fight in November of 2018 3 days after my birthday, not only was I broken apart by grief but also (undiagnosed at the time) Higher functioning Autism, Bi-polar type 2, ADHD and soon to come PTSD, the disability payments that helped pay the bills (my own issues meaning a full time job was impossible) were stopped the day she died, income went from 1300 to 500 per month, in one day without notice, mum finally entered end stage dementia and 7 days after my Wife died I was diagnosed with bowel cancer, spent Christmas of 2018 in hospital (same hospital my wife died 5 weeks before) having 40% of my Bowels removed, no cure for me either, CT scan every 6 months and blood works just because I developed nodules in my lungs which could go either way.
 
3 months later and no family visit, 5 consultants trying to keep me alive as quite rationally I didn't see the point of going on especially with PTSD kicking in which meant I had the happy fun addon of experiencing my Wife's death 3-6 times a day every day in full colour and sound while I rolled into a ball on the floor.
 
Pretty much a sucky day lasting 20 odd years with the last 30 mins being the worse.
 
No one would have blamed me for ending it, there is only so many days you can experience the death of your loved on before it wears you down to nothing especially with almost no support except  a few online friends keeping an eye on me.
 
March came around and I started to say goodbye to everyone, Doctors had me on suicide watch, Samaritans actually rang me each week to see if I was still alive, I had a plan and my last act was going to be watching End game then have my own end game.
 
My last act was going to be loading up all my Wife's and mine favourite games, the ones we played together, just take a last walk about, visit all the places we did.
 
Days away from the end I logged on to The Division and as I closed the client it came up with an advertisement for The Division 2, had nothing to loose nothing to do that night, so I bought the ultimate edition and logged in curious to see what changes they had made to a favourite game of ours in the sequel.
 
Something amazing happened, the next morning when I woke, I had the urge to log back on.
 
I did  a post on reddit that blew up when I thanked the developers for saving my live.
 
Well that post and the amazing support given to me, people convinced me to vlog and stream because even though I was enjoying TD2 it was triggering my ptsd and other issues badly.
But something about being online, about being focused on a camera actually helped.
I bought my first webcam and mic on the 23rd March 2019.
 
My consultants and Sr psychologist stopped expecting me to be dead by the next visits, I went down from Five different people to one and he wants to come visit me after covid to co-write a paper on using technology and games as an alternative therapy to medication and hospital stay.
 
Just over two years later, yes I may end up stuck in this house for the rest of my life but I am still here, todays streams and vlogs will take the count up to 2940 videos, oh I will always be a very minor person on Youtube and Twitch, 1050 people following me on YT 1200 on Twitch, but it doesn't even matter if no one watches one of my streams or vlogs they still get uploaded and someone will watch them one day. my content is uncut, unedited and very raw (my version of autism means I have no filter between my brain and mouth) on the plus side a few people seem to like my honesty and willingness to talk about anything, as I put it, what is the point in telling you I am having a good day if you don't get to know when I am wrecked and having a bad day, I variety stream because my brain can't lock into one game, and even if I have 500 hours in a game, I can still forget how to shoot or access inventory multiple times a game.
 
And some of the amazing things is when someone leaves a comment on a video letting me know I inspired them, when I do a live cooking video and someone says "hi I'm going to make this for a girl I like" or "after your talk about what really matters in life I won't be on tonight, taking my mum to the cinema"
 
If I have a really bad time then VR helps also.
 
Currently going through some "issues" but things will work out.
 
For some of us with disabilities, mental issues and other problems gaming and technology is more than a hobby, it is life support and I wouldn't be here without it. 
 
If anyone wants to know more about this or how specific types of technology or games help in different ways feel free to ask talking about these things is good.
 
 
 
 

Hello everyone, 
A couple of days ago I was watching one of your videos and realised you were one of the few people I hadn't yet thanked for the very real help you gave myself and wife, we started watching your channel long ago not only for entertainment but to help us plan out our lives.
 
You see 6 months after I met my GF who became my wife at 21, she was diagnosed with incurable cancer, either the cancer would kill her or the medication keeping it away would kill her, no possibility of cure, (She had a chromosome anomaly that turned a maybe 40% chance of beating it into 0%).
 
We were both gamers, I gave up my job in computers so I could become her 24/7 carer, we didn't have much money but I budgeted really well. Within a couple of months the medication took away her ability to walk and the online world became our life, this was back in 1998, I automated the house, build computers out of second hand stuff, by 2001 I started moving all our movies to HD so she could watch them in bed, computer controlled lighting, media servers, game servers, was one of the first people in the UK to have the BT home highway (usually only for business) Dual ISDN line. 
 
At one point we had 7 computers around the house, fast forward to 2007 and her illness was getting worse, damage being done to every part of her body, sleep only came 1-2 hours a night.
 
We started watching your channel, firstly together and then she would pick out shows that would interest me (I was spending most of my time looking after her) By 2015 she was no longer able to build her own PC but many time I woke up to her watching your shows and smiling.
 
Her kidney's failed in 2016 damage from the medication, and on 20th November 2018 (she was 42) her heart failed, she felt no pain, she was laying in a bed in the coronary care unit playing Minecraft on her phone and laughing with a nurse when she said my chest feels funny (her heart stopped a cardiac arrest, they brought her back once but her heart was only functioning at 14% before the cardiac arrest).
 
Linus you made my Wife smile at 4am in the morning when pain and insomnia kept her awake, you made her laugh and you inspired us both with Technology.
 
As for me? I am autistic (higher functioning) ADHD diagnosed, Bi-polar type 2 (diagnosed) and  PTSD, also 7 days after she died I was diagnosed with Bowel cancer and have 40% of my colon removed (it could have moved to my lungs, keeping an eye on it with CT scans every 5 months)  computers are my life now, they keep me going, I vlog and stuff will never be able to work but I get by.
 
I still watch all your videos.
 
Thank you.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Thank you and please say anything you want, it is always nice to talk to people, all we can do in this crazy world is look after those we care about and try to make people smile.

I don't know if this fits here but it is tech related and not off topic.
We all know a lot of companies do marketing, send out gifts to influencers, nothing wrong with that, it is good business sense. Here is my Wife's story (hope you will understand why I don't write it out again) https://imgur.com/gallery/JSggx0v
I myself am classed as severely disabled. I explained the situation here.
 
 
During the early part of Paola's illness we were featured in a local news paper and local car manufacture provided a car for us to go out on day trips, did a whole marketing thing around it, we quite soon stopped accepting help like that, knowing they are just profiting from my Wife's cancer.
 
But some companies do it differently.
 
These companies don't make a big thing of it, they won't even tell the community they just send you a PM, no gold stars with community, no announcement. Just helping for helpings sake without any angle.
 
The Makers of The Defiance game heard about Paola and contacted us via private message and sent Paola a collectors edition, letter from the developers and a huge plushy hellbug.
 
The Makers of Bloons Tower Defence game sent Paola a Ninja kiwi beanie and cards while she was ill in hospital.
 
Rebecca from Warframe contacted me via PM and the team sent us t-shirts, bandanna's and a letter.
 
When Valve heard about how VR was helping me cope with my multiple illness they messaged me and simply asked "would you like a Valve Index kit, no strings attached you don't even have to tell people it is from us, the team read your story and want to help"
 
The Devs behind Forza Horizons sent us a years gamepass for Xbox and press goody bag containing a lot of merch.
 
When your Wife is dying slowly of an incurable cancer, when no amount of money can change that, your goal becomes trying to make that amazing person smile every day and  companies like the above helped make her smile and make my life just a little better.
 
 

Congrats on your PC, enjoy!
 
You can maybe play around a bit with PBO. This can give you a few % more multithreaded performance, but can significantly increase temps. Otherwise if you don't plan on serious overclocking, you're pretty much good to go!

2 years ago I searched through most of the "bespoke" "custom" "oak" and all that jazz furniture stores for an item I needed, the price I got quoted was £2700 I was on a time table, my Wife was coming out of hospital about to start home dialysis and our living room was being turned into a bedroom for her, complete with full entertainment system and a 55" UHD TV at a range from her chair equivalent to a 28" monitor on a desk, I had Oculus rift, Xbox one X, Ps4 and a gaming computer I built, plus her crafting items, I managed to get a wall unit from Ikea that cost £399 fit a 5ft by 5ft wall alcove, including a set of cupboards for all her medical equipment. I built it in a night (2am by the time I finished).
 
Now three years later that unit is still behind me (you see it when I stream) the room is now my living room after my Wife died in 2018, it is still solid and now sits my LG 55" ps4, Xbox one X and gaming equipment.
 
The point of this story is that unit is NOT garbage and will probably outlast me, it is rigid in construction and very well designed.
 
 

Last AMD card I tried was the nano, so much grief with drivers and glitches compared to just being able to install an nvidia card + driver and get on with enjoying myself.
 
AMD CPU yes, AMD graphics card....hesitant.

A "Editing scratch drive" I am stealing that term and remembering it, sounds like a good idea time to check prices then budget. Thank you.

M.2 if a form factor. SATA and NVMe are the interface types. There are M.2 SATA drives, so M.2 alone doesn't mean anything. They're all SSDs.

I don't know if this fits here but it is tech related and not off topic.
We all know a lot of companies do marketing, send out gifts to influencers, nothing wrong with that, it is good business sense. Here is my Wife's story (hope you will understand why I don't write it out again) https://imgur.com/gallery/JSggx0v
I myself am classed as severely disabled. I explained the situation here.
 
 
During the early part of Paola's illness we were featured in a local news paper and local car manufacture provided a car for us to go out on day trips, did a whole marketing thing around it, we quite soon stopped accepting help like that, knowing they are just profiting from my Wife's cancer.
 
But some companies do it differently.
 
These companies don't make a big thing of it, they won't even tell the community they just send you a PM, no gold stars with community, no announcement. Just helping for helpings sake without any angle.
 
The Makers of The Defiance game heard about Paola and contacted us via private message and sent Paola a collectors edition, letter from the developers and a huge plushy hellbug.
 
The Makers of Bloons Tower Defence game sent Paola a Ninja kiwi beanie and cards while she was ill in hospital.
 
Rebecca from Warframe contacted me via PM and the team sent us t-shirts, bandanna's and a letter.
 
When Valve heard about how VR was helping me cope with my multiple illness they messaged me and simply asked "would you like a Valve Index kit, no strings attached you don't even have to tell people it is from us, the team read your story and want to help"
 
The Devs behind Forza Horizons sent us a years gamepass for Xbox and press goody bag containing a lot of merch.
 
When your Wife is dying slowly of an incurable cancer, when no amount of money can change that, your goal becomes trying to make that amazing person smile every day and  companies like the above helped make her smile and make my life just a little better.
 
 

I don't know if this fits here but it is tech related and not off topic.
We all know a lot of companies do marketing, send out gifts to influencers, nothing wrong with that, it is good business sense. Here is my Wife's story (hope you will understand why I don't write it out again) https://imgur.com/gallery/JSggx0v
I myself am classed as severely disabled. I explained the situation here.
 
 
During the early part of Paola's illness we were featured in a local news paper and local car manufacture provided a car for us to go out on day trips, did a whole marketing thing around it, we quite soon stopped accepting help like that, knowing they are just profiting from my Wife's cancer.
 
But some companies do it differently.
 
These companies don't make a big thing of it, they won't even tell the community they just send you a PM, no gold stars with community, no announcement. Just helping for helpings sake without any angle.
 
The Makers of The Defiance game heard about Paola and contacted us via private message and sent Paola a collectors edition, letter from the developers and a huge plushy hellbug.
 
The Makers of Bloons Tower Defence game sent Paola a Ninja kiwi beanie and cards while she was ill in hospital.
 
Rebecca from Warframe contacted me via PM and the team sent us t-shirts, bandanna's and a letter.
 
When Valve heard about how VR was helping me cope with my multiple illness they messaged me and simply asked "would you like a Valve Index kit, no strings attached you don't even have to tell people it is from us, the team read your story and want to help"
 
The Devs behind Forza Horizons sent us a years gamepass for Xbox and press goody bag containing a lot of merch.
 
When your Wife is dying slowly of an incurable cancer, when no amount of money can change that, your goal becomes trying to make that amazing person smile every day and  companies like the above helped make her smile and make my life just a little better.
 
 

Yup, as mentioned pretty much any phone that supports USB host will be able to connect to an Ethernet cable. You however will not be able to charge while using unless you use a recent one with USB-C and a dongle with charging input.
 
...but since you somehow refuse to tell us what it'd be used for while it can connect to Ethernet it might still not be an option to run whatever you want to run from it.
 
For the Pi you can jsut use a powerbank instead of a hat...

I don't know if this fits here but it is tech related and not off topic.
We all know a lot of companies do marketing, send out gifts to influencers, nothing wrong with that, it is good business sense. Here is my Wife's story (hope you will understand why I don't write it out again) https://imgur.com/gallery/JSggx0v
I myself am classed as severely disabled. I explained the situation here.
 
 
During the early part of Paola's illness we were featured in a local news paper and local car manufacture provided a car for us to go out on day trips, did a whole marketing thing around it, we quite soon stopped accepting help like that, knowing they are just profiting from my Wife's cancer.
 
But some companies do it differently.
 
These companies don't make a big thing of it, they won't even tell the community they just send you a PM, no gold stars with community, no announcement. Just helping for helpings sake without any angle.
 
The Makers of The Defiance game heard about Paola and contacted us via private message and sent Paola a collectors edition, letter from the developers and a huge plushy hellbug.
 
The Makers of Bloons Tower Defence game sent Paola a Ninja kiwi beanie and cards while she was ill in hospital.
 
Rebecca from Warframe contacted me via PM and the team sent us t-shirts, bandanna's and a letter.
 
When Valve heard about how VR was helping me cope with my multiple illness they messaged me and simply asked "would you like a Valve Index kit, no strings attached you don't even have to tell people it is from us, the team read your story and want to help"
 
The Devs behind Forza Horizons sent us a years gamepass for Xbox and press goody bag containing a lot of merch.
 
When your Wife is dying slowly of an incurable cancer, when no amount of money can change that, your goal becomes trying to make that amazing person smile every day and  companies like the above helped make her smile and make my life just a little better.
 
 

I just read your Imgur post and then the one on Reddit...
 
Holy moly man... That’s both very heavy and very inspirational at the same time. I’m sure there’s nothing I can say that isn’t cliche or something you haven’t heard 100 times already. But, thank you for taking your time to share your story. I’m sure that someone, somewhere, having similar thoughts and plans has seen it and found it helpful. You’re a good dude and I hope you continue to find meaning in the madness.

Volts times Amps is Watts.
So 12 Volts and 38 amps makes 456 Watts.
12 x 38 = 456

 

Did a test run, looks like laying the case flat on the desk with 2 thick face clothes underneath the MB against the back plate will keep the back plate in position both for removal of the default fitting and reattachment.
 
Moved my DVD Writer down in 5.25" cage to give a little more room.
 

Did a test run, looks like laying the case flat on the desk with 2 thick face clothes underneath the MB against the back plate will keep the back plate in position both for removal of the default fitting and reattachment.
 
Moved my DVD Writer down in 5.25" cage to give a little more room.