Do you have an old raspberry pi or laptop? Netbootxyz will run on a potato with ethernet.

I have NetBoot.xyz on my network for ipxe booting. They have memtest as a boot image, ran that for a few days. I don’t remember if it found the stick that was bad or if I just started pulling and booting and process of elimination.

Have you made sure your ram modules are all good? Was getting funky behavior with truenas in a proxmox vm, come to find out one of my 32gb sticks was bad. Removed the stick, no funky behavior. Replaced with a different stick, been solid since, maybe a year and a half on now.

It states here that the 9300 is quicksync enabled, so should have no problem with nvec @4k. How many streams? I don’t know that one.

Yea, but soon we’ll have no states to vpn to, and we will have to start using the Quebec servers, then all the websites will be in French and I’ll have to learn a new language.

Everyone is mentioning nvidia, but amds rocm has improved tremendously in the last few years, making a 6900xt 16gb an attractive option for me. I currently have a 6700xt 12gb that works no problem with ollama and comfyui, and an instinct mi25 16gb that works with some fiddling as well. From what I understand, an mi50 32gb requires less fiddling. However the instinct line is passively cooled, so finding a way to cool it might be a reason to stay away from them.

Edit: I should add, my experience is on a few Linux distributions, I can not attest to the experience on windows.

Almost everything I have runs Debian or NixOS, so……… once a month? Except for VMs I’m playing around with, which usually get updated every time I log into them, or instal stuff.

I use proxmox because I am a tinkerer and VMs help me tinker without worrying about making major mistakes that might brick my server. If I want to try something new, just spin up a test VM and try it out, the rest of my stacks are safe and if I muck up the test VM I’m tinkering with, just delete it and start again.

I started with KVM-QEMU, which proxmox is based on, with virt-manager front end. Can do all the same things, but can be installed on most distros. Will let you get your feet wet with VMs without having to format and install proxmox.

Who will come invade us? All the allies are undergoing their own fascist makeovers themselves. There is no one to save us but us. Civil War II here we come

Tdarr is what I use to unify my media. It does a good job of converting my files to h265. Runs in the background with my tesla p4 transcoding 3 streams at a time. Ripped through my 30ish tb library in a few days. It can change bitrate and resolution as well, but I haven’t had the time to play around with that yet. Can watch you library for change and transcode automatically, or you can run it when you like.

That wall that pushed back, and then that flying head? Scary ass shit when you’re 6

Did you see him repressing me?

No regurts!

Second amendment?

“I bet she has tattoos!”

Why the HGtG towels?

Weak, pathetic little man baby. Tried to play chicken with the world economy. Now, not only did he blink, he shat himself as he ran away before the game had even started. What a pathetic loser.

I’m too busy living in a shotgun shack in another part of the world.

“Why, that would just make it look political”