Cool. Thanks for the info.
How much did you end up paying? Did you have to pay tax, customs fees etc? $200 sounds almost too good to be true. Do you run Linux on it? Any driver issues? I’m looking for a replacement for my NAS right now. On paper this one looks pretty good.
I’d go with a corporate hand me down just for sustainability. Those tend to be in decent shape and can be had for reasonable prices. Buying second hand is always a bit of a lottery but so is buying chinesium.
People generally recommend 8th gen or higher Intel chips for transcoding so I’d look at alternatives. I have a Dell with an 8th gen i5 and that works very well.
I got it to run before but then the 22 upgrade borked my system. I don’t know if it was because of ROCM or Pipewire. Then i reinstalled Mint and tried to install ROCM again, but that borked it again. So let’s see if it works this time.
Thanks, I’ll look into that.
I tried to install ROCM on my machine to run Stable Diffusion. So far I’ve managed to bork my system to the point of having to reinstall.
I think it’s trying to communicate.
I just hope they don’t bite off more than they can chew.
Do they have oil?
Gee, I wonder who put him up to that.
I’d recommend cycling or hiking. Great ways to combine touching grass with exercise. And both great for working through things you have in your mind.
After he found that formula for accurately and fairly assessing the impact an engineer makes, he should do anti-gravity next. Should be easy by comparison.
If you sell a Linux machine to consumers, Microsoft will screw you over on Windows licencing. No current OEM will risk that.
No major OEM will do a consumer Linux PC because MS will punish them with Windows licence pricing. You’d have to be a newcomer that’s not beholden to MS. At the same time, you’d need a shitload of cash to start a hardware business with enough volume to get into big box stores. That’s why it hasn’t happened yet
It would be a real leap forward, if Linux PCs were sold in big box stores. Which is why Microsoft will do anything they can to prevent that.
The big guys won’t sell Linux to consumers because of Microsoft’s anticompetitive practices. That’s the main thing that’s holding back Linux acceptance right now. But if some big player (e.g. Valve) would take the leap, things might get interesting.
What are you even talking about? Anyone can sell a PC with pre-installed Linux. There are already several companies today so just that.
From what I’ve heard that also applies to some South American countries. But in any developed country it’s basically unthinkable to do something like this without getting caught.