forgive me for i have sinned

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@kusuriya My ideal setup is what you could call "minimaxed"

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I trained myself out of fiddling around too much with Apple hardware, so a stable useful little box that I can install services on and know I won't destroy? Very interesting to me.

(Pi? Small-form PC? I will habitually reinstall Linux on it every month and / or unplug it to relocate get stuck pondering the perfect placement and forget about it in six weeks)

Spooky Lord Kusuriya :tower:

@randomgeek yeah I tried that for a while and just found it kept growing so now mine is what I call mixed. I have a small mid powered laptop, and if whatever Im doing outstrips what the laptop can do off to the monster vfio workhorse.
I like to call it the midlife crisis method. I have the ol jalopy commuter car in the driveway. But open the garage and here is the massive custom souped up hot rod that can do 0 - 60 in 5 seconds

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@kusuriya my favorite car is the Prius. My possible favorite computer is a choking hazard. I only drink specialty coffee and microbrews. I love typing on my split keyboard.

Honestly I am fifteen cliches in cargo shorts (had to give up the trenchcoat after moving to the desert)

Spooky Lord Kusuriya :tower:

@randomgeek Im about in the same boat except I should probably get a trench coat because the Seattle winter is upon me. I also had to switch to cargo pants, stupid seasons.
I also tend chickens because chickens.

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@kusuriya Ah yes, chickens.

I eat chickens. I am happy to let someone else handle the messy bits.

That is on the list of cliches that are conspicuous in their absence from my character sheet.

Also notable: I only drink specialty coffee, but in a basic home coffee maker. Brain decided not to retain prep trivia after I stopped running the coffee shop.

Sir Garbagetruck

@randomgeek

Same.
But I'm gonna wait til work gets me one.

If they don't, well, that's cool too.

I am, however, really struggling with the work laptop having lots of cores and my home machines don't have that many cores and I'm kinda wanting to buy a gaming nuc because I don't wanna run the big desktop thing cuz it uses lots of electricity.
Or I think it does.
I'm buying a checker so I can find out.

Before the Halloween sale ends for the AMD thing I am looking at. And the other AMD thing.
Cuz Wayland.

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@Truck oh no

Why did you have to make me aware of these?

Andrew

@randomgeek I’ve been waiting for this to use as a home server box and I guess I should pull the trigger

24GB ram is a little anemic though :blobgrimace:

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@cinebox I'm currently on MBP M1 Pro w/32GB RAM and honestly I'm only looking to update my stats sheet and fill in a few gaps (some games and maybe Logseq will start up quicker)

With that in mind I probably don't need the M4 Pro, so the base model would do fine.

Maxed out base, that is. I'm not willing to go for lower RAM.

Sir Garbagetruck

@randomgeek

oh cripes um I just assumed you knew because the've been around a while

Intel gave up the "NUC" concept to Asus, but they've allowed the general design to be used by others, and... well now there's tons of them. Mostly from Asian companies, and some have been reported to ship with Malware, but... others you can find reviews of and specs and all sorts of details.

So yeah, apologies. The good thing is that going down rabbit holes, sometimes you can actually find rabbits.

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@Truck BUNNY

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@Truck No but I'll probably stick with the Mac Mini focus currently.

But when I inevitably want a small-form device that I can let myself fiddle with, it's nice to have interesting options.

(wanders off pondering an array of NUCs lined up under the ultrawide)