• Rooty@lemmy.worldEnglish
    38·
    2 days ago

    I really like the jury-rigged, DIY nature of the Fediverse. It reminds me of the old times, when the internet was smaller but had more heart.

    • Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      14·
      3 days ago

      I mean… the enterprise zbooks are fairly nice, a used one ran me about $200-$300 on ebay. I’m pretty content with it.

      • rem26_art@fedia.io
        12·
        3 days ago

        I think usually enterprise stuff does have a good build quality, yeah, at least compared to consumer stuff

        • marduk@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
          10·
          3 days ago

          I experienced the same with Dell laptops. Consumer grade practically disintegrated and couldn’t be repaired; enterprise grade could be dropped or even thrown and likely still be repairable with readily available parts. That was 10 years ago though, so I can only imagine the enshittification current techs are dealing with

          • Trainguyrom@reddthat.comEnglish
            3·
            3 days ago

            Nahh that’s really the same deal on their current laptops. Consumer grade is disposable and fragile, meanwhile their corporate sub-brands are tanks

          • Damage@feddit.itEnglish
            1·
            2 days ago

            Eh, I was issued multiple ZBooks at work, but I travel for work, and it’s not fun carrying the weight of a mobile workstation on your back, plus everything else. At least I can put the power brick, which weighs about the same as an actual brick, in the checked luggage.

  • teuto@lemmy.teuto.icuEnglish
    39·
    3 days ago

    On one hand my instance is hosted on a mostly self-contained box, but it does have a GPU hanging out the back

      • teuto@lemmy.teuto.icuEnglish
        4·
        2 days ago

        There’s a correct way to solve the problem. You can get a GPU dock for like $100-300. Or you can get a long PCIE riser for like $20, and hook up an unused PSU and jump the start pins on the ATX cable with a paperclip. There’s a correct way to use multiple psus too, but I had a paperclip and didn’t have a jumper cable. Anyways it’s stable enough that uptime is at a year and it hasn’t started a fire yet.

        • MystikIncarnate@lemmy.caEnglish
          1·
          1 day ago

          I’m not saying I have a better solution or a better setup at home. I’m doing something extremely similar. I would 100% say that my solution sucks… But it works.

          There’s plenty of ways to do it.

          I wanted to get an x16 to dual oculink 8x connector card with a matching dock, so I wouldn’t have to give up any bandwidth while getting high end graphics going, but I can’t find anything that fits that bill. So I have a riser cable bodged together with the case of my system perpetually open.

          It works. I don’t love it, but I don’t have the time/money to find/buy what I feel would be more ideal. So this is what I’ve done.

          I don’t want to give up half the PCIe lanes and I can’t find a way to do that with anything that’s not a riser cable.

          So here I am.

    • Deebster@infosec.pubEnglish
      3·
      2 days ago

      Is the integrated graphics card broken or are you running something that needs more GPU? Graphics or AI?

      • teuto@lemmy.teuto.icuEnglish
        161·
        2 days ago

        No integrated graphics. The server has a pair of old E5-2695 v4 CPUs and I picked up an 3060 to run some local AI but it didn’t fit in the 2u chasis even though I had a spare PCI-E slot. Absolutely would not recommend a single part of this setup.