Hmm. I used to volunteer with Free Geek in Portland OR. It was essentially that, an e-disposal site and we made refurbs for community organizations. But they did have a store for sale to the public.

I have so much computer junk. I got rid of most of it, but then I got a bunch more when we closed the company office. Got at least 10 monitors, 5 PCs, a mini, couple laptops … and a storage shelf to put it on.

Buy? That’s garbage. Look in garbage places. Used shops of any sort.
I like the college junk store suggestion. I used to do that.

You better watch it. You will shortly have a closet full of junk computer parts.

If you want enterprise gear on the cheap, yes. Ebay.
There are regular vendors on Ebay with thousands of verified sales. Go with those till you figure it all out.
You can definitely make bad choices, but even when I’ve gotten bad drives, the vendor just immediately refunded the money, like that day.

The video looked very like Serious Engine, so I downloaded it to see. Nope. Its Unity.

Comically long intro of a narrator and text. Ok, I’m a homeless traitor in Nazi Germany, trying to get my dog back.

Got out of the truck. Oh good. A box jumping obstacle. Hit the space bar. No jump. So I keep trying. And it knocks this box back into the corner, where I can see a mug of something floating there. Health or powerup or some shit. But I can’t get to it because I just kicked this box in the way.

I finally checked the controls. There’s no jump, just kick. You don’t jump in this game. Like old DOOM.

I gave up. I’m in this far. I’ll try it again later.

Is “Discard” the write caching you refer to?
Or are you talking about the actual Write Cache?

It looks like that part is a Mixed Use drive. Particularly in this 6gb interface, you’ll enjoy something with equal read/write, so that seems like a reasonable choice. If you are interested in comparing to their other drives, they have a great configurator on their page.
https://semiconductor.samsung.com/ssd/datacenter-ssd/pm893/

I know it’s irritating to watch your SSDs burn up, but with 1% used in a month … your current drives will last at least a couple years. You won’t have to make this decision for a while yet. I think the thing to do is check it occasionally, and plan ahead when it gets low. You may well decide that the cheaper drives are worth it in the end.

I never owned a Commodore. I didn’t know they had cartridge games. At the time, my family owned a TI 99/4a. I think it did have a cartridge, but the BASIC one just stayed in there. We didn’t have anything else. I hand-typed in games from Compute! magazine and saved em on tape drive. Lotsa debug involved.

I’m downloading it. Ya. Takes a minute.
I’m gonna give this thing a whirl. I know, its gonna just be another linux distro.
But it sure would be neat if I actually liked it …

Hey. I just don’t know much about the following. This is from the setup instructions.
What ROMs are we talking about here? Why does this matter?

Instructions on how to obtain and install legal Commodore ROMS can be found in the Commodore OS Settings manager by navigating menu: System --> Commodore OS --> Commodore OS Settings and selecting “Emulation Settings” and then “Cloanto Commodore ROM Setup” option.
NOTE: Whilst Commodore’s 8-bit ROMs cannot be included Cloanto does provide their C64 Forever package for free online and Commodore OS is capable of downloading and extracting the 8-bit system ROM files and games via the above process. It is suggested you perform this step even if you retain the valid ROMs yourself.

I’ll concur with mlfh, the constant Proxmox corosync writes and gawd knows what else have a reputation for ‘cutting through commercial ssds like a torch through tissue paper’ (that’s frequently dropped on their forum.)
Also, yes. Enterprise SSD. You get at least 10x the lifespan, depending on the type.

I think some folks just use LVM for the OS on SSD. I’ve done it myself in some circumstances, although I am a ZFS fan.

My homelab runs a zfs mirror raid for a secondary datastore (ie this is NOT the OS drive) on a pair of commercial grade lexar 790 NVMe. Both drives have 0% usage after most of a year in service, although it hosts several VMs that run 24/7.

Despite OP insisting otherwise, I’m gonna assume you are correct. I use a lot of flavors of linux for a lot of things, but I don’t have it on a laptop (other than as an alt boot in case of a crash), so it seems logical to me that’s why this joke went over my head.

Sorry. I was irritated w sombody else. Peace.

I read a good chunk of the paper. It was surreal.

Um … ya, thanks for that insightful advice. If you didn’t catch it, I’ve been around since CD lights were leaking data. And I know all about it. I aint new.

Remember the blinking light on the CD tray on your old PC? Early ones would leak data that way, the light could be decoded. While I was searching for that, I found a more recent attack where the light is repurposed to actually just transmit data. And I found another proof of concept that uses the RAM cycles to transmit data through the air.

Its a good thing I don’t have any secrets.

Grandma can’t see the pins anymore to take them out.
She made me a lovely quilt. I’m pretty sure I’ll never be done pulling pins out of it.

Treat that vest very carefully for a while. No sudden moves.

Mmm. Ya ya. No argument. But its iDRAC. I’ve had to sit through enough propaganda. I’m pretty sure about this.

I did not enjoy the mod. Perhaps I’ll try it again someday.

I hate it when my boss says that. Or he will call it “D-RAC”. Annoys the hell out of me.
It’s iDRAC.
Yes, there are components that are called RAC, but the Dell out of band management system is called iDRAC.
… but that’s not as dumb as when he calls the SuperMicro system “iLO”. That’s IPMI. We don’t even own any HPE. I’ve no idea why he’s stuck on iLO.

I keep a Windows 2008 w Java 6 VM on ice for administering old Java console shit like that.
The VM is unsafe as hell. Completely virgin unpatched. The only protection is that I don’t give it a gateway or dns, and I shut it down when its not in use.
And it works. Old Java shit can still be used.

VMware does this with its virtual networking. If a change takes it offline, it automatically rolls it back. It can be frustrating at times, but mostly its saved my ass.