I have one of those minisforum amd hx 370 (the x1 ai pro). Those are very powerful awesome hardware. I use the mini pc as a work computer for 3D and dev on OpenSuse and lightweight low power gaming machine (like long haul Xplane12 flight during the night).

Everything is well made and beautifully built.

As for this NAS version, if money is not an issue I wouldn’t hesitate. 10Gbs, tons of ram, Amd hx 370. It sure is overkill for a NAS, it’s more tailored for a very beefy docker server and/or virtualization station while being a multimedia NAS at the same time.

I built my own synology replacement with second hand itx parts in a jonsbo n3 case, but if I hadn’t or just had plenty of cash to spare, I would definitely go for a server like this one (my use case is NAS + docker + virtualization + eventual game server all in one).

As a side note, the “AI” part is just communication for now, those chips are not yet supported for local LLM on Linux (Windows only atm), they need ROCm support for iGPU RDNA 3.5 and the new AMD NPU integration into those local frameworks (llama.ccp etc).

https://github.com/amd/gaia

It will come for sure, it’s just not ready yet.

Quitting my job for the end the year, a job that is making depressed and tired.

Opening my own business with blackjack and hookers (for real tho, opening a shop in my city).

I’m not anti extraction shooter. It’s just that when I read that I can’t stop thinking about"ok so bungie did a Ubi(soft)"

Meaning they made a game because it is trendy and they can keep it going as a live service, selling tons of battle passes and cosmetics. This reeks game being made out of C suits economic interests and not out of love for games.

And just like Ubi, they jumped on the hype train two years late, most probably because some corporate analysts said “there’s shit ton of money to make, that’s what the public wants”

Except that I’m fairly certain 75% of the players don’t want another live service extraction shooter, they would prefer a new IP born out of love for gaming.

Oh and of course it’s another extraction shooter.

Now they’ll blame their failure on that bad buzz instead of admitting it was only a cash grab attempt.

Ah thanks for the link! I was looking for that information but could not find it.

Over 400 seems a bit high to me but the size vs cost argument remains. Those external voice actors, animators, QA testers etc were all paid. Kepler Interactive even gave them money to have known actors for VA (they probably aren’t cheap).

So that’s very probably a several million budget (rumored to be between 5 and 25 mil according to non reliable source, thanks to Kepler and the early Gamepass contract).

Ok that’s not a 500 million budget, rather a 50 mil one (to be very large), but it’s definitely not a 500k budget.

And yet they sell it 45$.

Anyway, it just prove that you can build a Waguy steak alternative for cheaper while keeping the taste and without abusing your workforce.

80$ is a steal, yeah right…

(Screenshot from isthereanydeal just for simplicity, avoid grey market when possible)

PSA: You can still sign EU petitions even if you don’t live in the EU anymore.

There are two layers in the form. The first and the one that counts is your nationality, your passport. This one needs to be EU.

Then later your residency address can be outside of EU and you can select “other country” if you moved to UK, Switzerland, Thailand or whatever.

I can’t wait for it to be the next AAA failure getting wrecked by a smaller indie game two weeks after release.

I generally get my inspiration from https://forums.serverbuilds.net/ mainly the NAS killer posts (the website seems to be down at the moment of posting).

Then I adapt according to my local second hand market. Everything is bought from auction sites like eBay and some parts need patience to find a good price.

It’s like religion or something.

Well yeah, people putting money to buy several ships (instead of only 45$ for the basic game package) are buying into a dream. The dream of the perfect space sim, a sim where you can be anything you want. That dream has been growing since Elite in 84 and the X-wing games in the 90. So yeah, kinda religion for the space sim nerds.

Im certain they will deliver, no idea when, but they will achieve it so that’s cool for future gamers. If earth still exists that will be awesome as I will probably be near retirement and will have a shit ton of time to play.

PS: I only own a medium ship that I bought from the kickstarter funding back in 2010-ish ? I wanted it to be my flying space home.

No it doesn’t change anything for lifetime pass.

Maybe it will in a few years, but not today.

Maintenance day is when I log into my server once every 3 month because I forgot it (as everything is working fine).

But I just discovered OpenSuse microOS, while looking at the docs for my laptop Thumbleweed, and now I want to try it with no real reasons. Maybe it is just an excuse to buy a new Raspberry pi.

They opened 64bits servers instead of the older 32bits (that’ll stay open).

I don’t think I’ll transfer my account this time and just let it disappear and die one day.

Bonjour, yes it is. It’s 11am now so still way before the “Bonsoir” time which don’t really have an official time (it’s when it’s dark and we don’t have a good afternoon equivalent).

Ah a fellow 4h30 early bird!

Musk calling Wozniak a loser on shitter in 3, 2, 1…

We know it wasn’t in the US otherwise they would have felt threatened and shot you.

Sorry it happened to you.

I work on the apple ecosystem too, but it came from my tests of making an hackinstosh on an old Lenovo.

It then discovered that I could use the same tools with the same shell language, doing the same tiling WM etc etc, all of that on an always working OS that I didn’t need to debug when shit got wrong (I was using Arch, BTW).

From then on I always work on 2nd hand refurbished macs. My daily desk tool in an m2 Mac mini and this thing is amazing. Linux is now only present on my server and gaming PC.

But maps are on organic maps, not apple 😉

FFS, today when you look for something on start page or any search engine you get YouTube links or AI shit from non related websites.

• Video game solution? Check my 30 min video.
• Tech problems? YouTube and AI telling you to update drivers and reboot, on a website named sport-something.
• Error 26894? Fucking YouTube video again (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻

At the time you could put Reddit on your search but we all know that won’t be a solution anymore, plus, because of people like me most of Reddit results are now a chain of deleted - deleted - deleted messages 😄