Microsoft’s requirements for Windows 11 include a 1GHz or faster CPU with at least two cores, 4GB of RAM, 64GB of storage,

All of this is no problem and essentially any computer manufactured in the last couple decades can meet these requirements. They’re effectively irrelevant for this discussion.

IDK about you, but the Pentium 4 is not an ideal CPU for modern workloads. The absolute oldest hardware I would use today for anything is the Core2Duo with 8GB RAM. I know this because we have an A1276 MacBook Pro with the P8600 C2D, and it’s barely sufficient. You look at it and the cooling fan begins a launch sequence 😅 and that’s running Linux Mint. Windows 10/11 would grind it to a halt trying to run multiple tasks.

How could you tell??

Damn, that’s impressive. My rig idles at ~110W, but I’ve heard that the 5800X3D just…does that. Especially so with the fact that it has AMD’s beefiest GPU.

I made r/FUCKYOUINPARTICULAR what it is today. I took it from 150 subs in 2018 to over 1M subs by 2020. I was the one who initially implemented the “Banhammer bot”.

Looking back, all that work I put into building it up meant absolutely nothing to reddit besides getting them more users for their eventual IPO. I put up with a lot of shit, including an attempted coup by r/fatpeoplehate refugees and a stint where one of the posts made it to r/all somehow… That was a fun night. Luckily I was already up with my newborn before shit hit the fan completely haha

That truck weighs a whopping 10,000 lbs though.

Oh I love this!

That’s a fair point.

Brave never sat right with me, but I could never put my finger on it until last week. I know they had the “double dipping” and referral code issues, but then the CEO decided to go on a right wing nutjob rant which sealed the deal for me.

They deleted my account for me. Apparently being anti-Nazi is a bad thing there.

Me while cooking mac and cheese for the kids:
“Echo, set timer for 8 minutes”

Echo: “GOOD EVENING [me], SETTING TIMER FOR 8 MINUTES”

No, shut the fuck up and just set the goddamn timer without the extra fluff. I’ve seen Ex Machina, I know you have no empathy, so knock off the “nice” shit and do what I fucking ask without anything else.

Gotta let it take the W on that first answer, honestly.

“I’m not sure, but ChatGPT says…”

No, fuck off, go back to grade school.

Slap a few zigbee smart plugs into your setup, cluster them in Home Assistant, and measure the total power draw. That’s what I do. It’s eye-opening… I learned that my 5800X3D/7900XTX gaming PC is capable of pulling exponentially more power than my entire server cluster. I shut that thing off when I’m not using it now haha.

Even first gen i-series Intel CPUs support VT-d. I had an i7-870 that ran my entire setup under Proxmox for several years, until early 2023.

What you really need is RAM. In my case, ~32GB per node in a three-machine cluster is not quite enough, but a 4c/8t CPU is more than plenty.

I run 3x 7th gen Intel mini PCs in a Proxmox cluster, plus a 2014 Mac mini on a 4th gen i5 attached to 3x 4TB drives in RAID5 (my NAS), plus an 8TB backup drive. I also run Home Assistant on a Lenovo M710q Tiny (separate because I use Zigbee and don’t wanna deal with USB passthrough and migrating VMs and containers…). Total average draw is ~100W.

I’ve gone back to individual stores for various shit. My motorcycle needs some rubber bushings for its gas tank mount. They usually run about $11 each from Honda, but Amazon wants $20 each. And that’s with Prime. I think I’m done paying for Prime at this point.

Then don’t get it.

If you must have it, find something equivalent, maybe a bit cheaper and older, that isn’t ad-supported.

I’d rather not, thanks.

Though I would enjoy watching him fellate a cactus.

I think the operative word is “slaves”.

See you just need to have inside information. There’s absolutely no way these rich assfucks aren’t trading on insider info.