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Only 500€ !!! @sillycat this out-budgets that brain that you need so much!
A 2GB notebook behaves like a 4GB notebook after this:
Newer or the latest isn't always better. I still use a 20-year-old laptop running XP to capture SD video. A few months ago I "upgraded" to an expensive BlackMagic device that worked via Thunderbolt. I found it dropped frames, pushed the picture up the screen by ten pixels for no reason and offered far less control over the contrast etc. Frankly it was like a piece of junk from Temu. I returned it for a refund.
Don't trust affiliate systems and lifetime things. They will kick you.
Resell everything resell resell re-sell
Documentation is just as important as actually doing the job!
I can not tell you how many times I've hated myself for not writing things down when something I did 15 years ago breaks and I have to fix it because I'm "the only one who knows how it works".
Never use those chinese X99 dual socket motherboards in production.
This is very accurate.
Amazon reviews for those X99 are good. What's wrong with them?
Purchased 4 combos from aliexpress.
1 died in 10m.
1 died in 1y 3m.
the other 2 are on testing/development duty now.
Yes, this!
Even my home network.. I keep trying Netbox but run into roadblocks each time I put effort into it, so I keep going back to an Excel workbook. Have a source of truth and keep it updated.. If I assign an IP to something, it is updated in the Excel workbook before it is assigned to the host..
If you refer to an 'important' resource on the internet to set something up, save an offline copy, not just bookmarked as next time you need it, it may no longer exist.
Jesus. 10m sounds like it would have been still under warranty at the time of death. How did they die? Primary suspect would be junk capacitors, which could be replaced for cheap.
I stopped buying any parts with electronics in them from AliExpress.. All crap, every single piece of gear I've gotten from there.. Either worked but the specs are more 'wishful thinking' than actual specs, or worked then died, if it worked at all.. Same as eBay shipped from Asia.. The amount of eWaste being shipped there from the rest of the world, one would think they would have the genuine parts, but no..
Strictly passive stuff, like 5.5mm x 2.1mm barrel power adapters, sure.. Actual components, no.. Something passive with wire, again, no. The '100% copper wiring inside' is just magically "tinned" if you call them out on their shit.
The ONLY exception I have to this is when a manufacturer has an official link to their store on AliExpress.. Just have to be careful not to click off their store and onto more counterfeiters crap.
@kevinds I still take the risk with electronics from AliExpress. Last week I bought a hot air soldering station, it's a piece of crap but not worse than what I expected despite the purple prose on the ad listing. It's all crap on AliExpress, but if you expect crap, the expectation can match 100% with the product.
Indeed, but I will do without until I can get something decent, or borrow what I need.
Wallabag is your friend. Every time I find something online that I think I will need in the future, I send it to my Wallabag.
Some people use a YaCy browser extension to automatically crawl and index all the pages they visit. Then these can be searched in full-text on a localhost search engine.
Neat.
I learnt that lesson myself when I went searching my bookmarks for something I needed, because I knew I would need it again, I bookmarked it.. Finding out the bookmark loaded a 'this domain is for sale' page..
Then I started weeding out my bookmarks, noticed I had over 2000 pages marked over the years.. Found many were dead.. Some I was able to find 'backups' for, some not.
aliexpress warranties are as good as no warranty (most of the times)
& It would cost an arm and a leg to ship it back to them.
Same.
@r3k how did those motherboards die? Long painful illness or sudden death syndrome?
And did they work properly before that? Or they always had a lil crash every now and then?
both of them just stopped working one day.. caps looked fine on both . i couldn't figure out what was wrong with it.. i tried swapping components & running with single cpu .. nothing worked.
While you're definitely right, if one ignores the "clickbatey" "non-existing", the other option would be having no friends (and of course no facebook but that's no big deal), unless you want to spend countless hours explaining stuff to people who don't care - plus, you'll become their personal tech support, even worse.