U3219Q reporting in. The new U4025QW is looking pretty tasty though, 5120x2160, 120Hz, Thunderbolt hub, more ports than you can shake a stick at.
All of the U and S series Dells I’ve used have been great, and they’re by and large remarkably reasonably priced too.
Double-bagged, with any luck.
And if those specific ones aren’t available where you live, there’s a very similar range from a brand called “Pale Blue”.
Theirs are available in AAA, AA, C, D, 9V, and CR123.
First game I ever bought.
Mailed a freaking cheque internationally, and got a box of 3.5" floppy disks back about 6 weeks later.
Wild times.
At work we use the NexDock for that purpose (for anything that doesn’t have proper Ethernet remote management, at least). It’s relatively convenient that it’s self-powered and self-contained, basically a laptop minus the computer part.
(Conveniently, I see this is also a new model that replaces the awkward mini-HDMI port with a proper full-size one)
If you need VGA, you will have to buy an active VGA-to-HDMI dongle. They’re cheap (down to about $10-15 these days) and seem to work just fine.
Should the preference be to use a laptop you already own, you’ve got a few options. Either an IP KVM like the JetKVM, GL.iNet Comet, NanoKVM, etc, or a USB one such as the Openterface.
(Note that a couple of those links are pre-orders or otherwise not immediately available, make sure you do your research)
All of these things are fairly comprehensively reviewed by tech-focused Youtube channels, just gotta pick your favourite form factor.
Well at least they’re honest about it…
bunk
/bʌŋk/
noun
nonsense.
“anyone with a brain cell would never believe such bunk”
For what it’s worth, you can have your very own 4U rack-mount chassis with a dozen of these in it for around a grand.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/186249007611 https://www.ebay.com/itm/357827557706
Less than a hundred bucks each, and no need to rig up janky power and cooling.
Not that I think you necessarily should, but the option is always there.
In this one moment it’s almost a shame that AGI is a lie, as it’ll only be able to hate him due to the sum of all of us hating him the training has stolen, but is incapable of hating him independently.
“AI doomerism is driven by rational thinkers”
Cat6 cable also has the admirable quality of being able to carry power as well as data.
Fibre… not so much.
was born at some point
I take offense to this. I was clearly hatched, and I think you know that.
For anyone - including, apparently, this article’s author’s - who is confused about the form factor, this is the next generation to follow the Grace Blackwell “GB300-NVL72”, their full rack interconnected system.
It’s the same technology as the matching 8-GPU “HGX” board that is built into larger individual servers - which in this generation’s case is just called “B300” as it has the “Blackwell” GPU but not the “Grace” CPU - but not sold in smaller units than an entire rack.
Here are some pictures and a video of that NVL72 version (you can buy these from Dell and others, as well as direct from Nvidia):
https://www.servethehome.com/dell-and-coreweave-show-off-first-nvidia-gb300-nvl72-rack/ https://www.ingrasys.com/solutions/NVIDIA/nvidia_gb300_nvl72/
The full rack has 18 compute trays, each with 2 of the pictured board inside (for a total of 36 CPUs and 72 GPUs), and 9 NVLink switch trays that connect every GPU together. PSUs and networking make up the rest.
Mine (also Ubuntu, also Intel, but Sony earbuds) also works great.
Almost the only time in recent memory it hasn’t is when I’d accidentally kicked the cable out of the WiFi access point closest to the couch. My laptop was connected to one at the other end of the house, and it turns out that trying to stream video over 2.4GHz WiFi while listening on (also 2.4GHz) Bluetooth headphones isn’t a match made in heaven.
Now Windows on the other hand. My work laptop (also Intel Bluetooth adapter) starts out fine after a reboot, but over the course of a week will go from taking 2-3 seconds for the headphones to connect once powered on, to 30-40 seconds. Sometimes the headphones will connect, disconnect, and then connect again before actually making any sound.
The one thing the two OSes have in common is switching between 2-way voice (HFP) and high-quality music (A2DP) modes is a problem. In Linux it’s fairly reliable, but completely manual. In Windows it’s “automatic”, but frequently gets stuck in the wrong mode, or disconnects entirely when switching.
I know WoW used bittorrent for game updates, it was built in and was the “standard” download mechanism.
https://worldofwarcraft.fandom.com/et/wiki/Blizzard_Downloader
I’m sure it’s far from the only game that did.
Old-timey doctors had a word for that procedure… “lobotomy”. Cleaned your mind right out.
Would you also like some heroin or cocaine?
It would be the other way around, if at all.
“First-surface” mirrors where the reflective layer is on the front of the glass are quite fragile, so wouldn’t typically used for residential applications (you’d remove the reflective coating by cleaning it).
A regular mirror has the reflective surface on the back of the glass (which is then is further coated with a protective paint), leading to the effect you describe.
I don’t however know enough to say one way or the other whether a surveillance mirror would becessarily be a first-surface mirror.
Yes and no.
Taking advantage of the very real waterproofing of the phones I have owned (past and present), I will just wash the damn thing off under the kitchen tap if it gets dirty, which I have with one of my previous phones done with a high-pressure restaurant-sink-style spray nozzle (I was making beer, and boiling the wort kicks a lot of sticky crap into the air).
That phone was fine afterward, and continued to work for several years after.
Also at a more basic level, it is (at least in theory) an assurance that they actually tested the damn thing, and didn’t just slap a largely meaningless (and as already noted, “bigger number better”) rating on the thing, as is largely the style of our times because consumer protection is dead and regulations are meaningless.
This is exactly the kind of should be done properly, or just not at all. Test it and rate it for the people who do care, or STFU, put the unqualified but perfectly reasonable label of “water resistant” on it, and the bulk of people who indeed do not care (or will be confused) will be no worse off than they are now.
Anything else is just annoying.
Also far too many clock stoppages.
Rugby: an 80-minute game that completes in around 100 minutes, inclusive of the 15 minute break between halves.
Gridiron: a 60-minute game that inexplicably takes 3.5 hours.
Very little fucking about in rugby, they just get on with it.