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Putty - a dramatically inferior implementation of WSL2 :D. Really that’s probably half of what I use WSL for - to command line ssh to servers and run shell scripts.

I have roughly 20 pis at home. None of them have attached monitors - I just ssh to them and run BOINC on them. I don’t even use a monitor for setup :). I just flash them with raspberry pi os lite, and setup ssh at that time

In around 25 years of using Linux, I’ve never really used any of the GUI options, so I wouldn’t call it critical for learning. Getting a raspberry pi and SSHing to it from wsl2 would be a potential way to learn a lot of things. I find I need a project to really get something done - my first...

Their customer service is amazing. I've had one of the original DH 15s forever - bought it on as part of a Black Friday build I did in 2014, as I don't like to water cool my NAS (I'm rarely in the same room as the system). I've gotten 2 different mounting brackets for it from customer service...

Oh no, not a website download! ;) I see no particular advantage to an App Store - I’m perfectly capable of installing without one. I get that Microsoft would like to skim off of every purchase as well as watch everything you use at a finer grain than they already could, but I don’t really see...

Baulder’s gate 3 is an excellent example of a single player game (even if it has a multi player option). The voice over work is something that isn’t well done by modders either, and i would have no problem buying a BG3 expansion. Doesn’t seem like that is in the cards though.

I’m building a new system when the 9950x3d releases, and I will be watercooling it, but to a lesser degree. I’m likely to pickup some of these new fans, though I likely won’t be splitting them 8 ways, I probably will split them 2 ways.

WSL is fine for all that, as long as you don't care about running a UI. You'll get all the terminal stuff you can handle. Do all your scripting from vim if you feel extra spicy.

I’m right there with you. The last time I wanted a platform for a specific game was a Sega Genesis for Sonic and mortal kombat. I did pickup a Wii to play a few games with the wife, and that was my only console purchase since the genesis. This year, according to Steam, I’ve played: Baulder’s...

On my typical work day, I’m Spending 75% of my time in a WSL terminal window using Oracle Linux 8.8. There are some things that don’t “work out of the box” like system d, but lots of stuff does. The file systems are mounted so you can access your Linux file system in windows, and your windows...

Are you talking WSL? I have ton of experience with that, and it’s awesome

does pihole drop the ads? Edit - if there was ever anything I wanted out of AI, it's AI for pihole to identify and drop more ads.

You really need a controller for something like street fighter or mortal combat. I bought one a long long time ago for my PC to Play fighter ports, but I never really kept up with it. I should really see if I there are better ports of games like that for PC…

When performance Epyc has more than 8 cores per CCD, that’s probably when we see it on the consumer side.

I’m ready to be at the leading edge of the video card cycle again. I got the 1080ti on release day and it was awesome. The 3080ti took forever to get, and by the time I got it it wasn’t that long until the 4000 series dropped. I should have just waited the extra 9 months and got a 4090

I eagerly await it being instantly sold out and scalped for 5k

If there is going to be a Titan slotted above the 5090, I wouldn’t be surprised to see 2 connectors. High power 5090s like the old EVGA Kingpin would be another candidate

Fusion is the future. I just wish we would chase it a little harder

In a cloud sense, it really means a multi Availability Zone deployment, and ideally a warm standby in another region. I can count on one hand the number of times I’ve worked with a company willing to spend that much for 5 9s of availability.

As far as I understand, many of the data centers are actually not owned by the big cloud providers. DC specific companies lease the space to the cloud providers and provide the staff to rack and stack. So, there is actually quite a bit of money in the data centers themselves.