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  • Because reviewers started obsessing with zero bezels and thinness, so manufacturers had to also maximize those things.

    I saw a laptop review where there was a hole punch camera, so no mechanical shutter. The yt personality thought that was stupid, so they asked the manufacturer what they were thinking. “Our last product had the shutter but you gave it a poor review because the bezels were too big. We designed for smaller bezels to get a better review”



  • To piggyback on the permissions hissy fit-

    My aar stack, openmediavault, and transmission stack have different usernames mapped to the same uid and it is a pain in the ass. I “fixed it” by making a NAS group that catches them all, but by “fixed it” I really mean “got it working”

    So be aware of what uid will own a file and maybe change it to a uid in the 1100+ range to make NFS easier in the future.





  • You’ve watched Google,Facebook, and apple do it the last 20 years. If a good idea is spotted early enough, they buy the whole company before they can make it to market and grow to become a threat. It happens in any emerging tech and you’re watching it happen now in the LLM space. Companies burn cash, waiting for their competitors to make a mistake or run out of money. Then they buy out the struggling company, absorbing any tech they might have, maybe some branding, but more importantly- their customers. Now they can jack up prices once market forces are eliminated.
    If not for the threat of anti-trust laws, you would see single company rule in every single sector. That is the end goal of a company- a monopoly that crushes potential competition and squeezes consumers.
    Railroads, telephone, petroleum, internet, airlines, all ended up as regional monopolies.





  • I know you’re looking for non-intel solutions but here is my setup-

    Mobo r8169 is the management interface for proxmox.

    X710 4 port:
    3 ports passed as a a single vmbr for LAN:
    - 1 fiber optic to detached building
    - 1 DAC to core switch
    - 1 DAC to workstation
    1 port passed as vmbr for WAN

    That config was sorta inherited by trying to pass other non-intel nics as pcie and failing. I needed an sfp for the fiber run so I got that 4 port Intel card. It works well enough that I haven’t bothered to reconfigure it to pass the Intel as pcie.