MalReynolds

QMK Keychron, MX Master 3, done. Perfect linux compatibility if you care.

You'll be fine, make sure it's a x16 card (vasty majority are), stick it in your x16 slot. Make sure you have enough power, some are pretty thirsty these days (it's usually on the specs sheet for the card and on your power supply in the case)

You can also upgrade the CPU to AMD Ryzen 3000 series (e.g. 3900X, pretty cheap second hand) by upgrading the BIOS here for a nice performance uplift. Get to at least 16Gb RAM (DDR4, also cheap).

Later, you can recycle this as a home sever or swap to a motherboard that supports Ryzen 5000 series (also cheap these days), which will take all your present hardware and enable CPU upgrade to say 5800X3D to make it a gaming beast (at least for a couple of years).

Dammit, negative results are gold, pretty close to the essence of science and it's just 'not enough clickbait, fuck your career'

know truth from fiction.

You jest, but...

You are aware that Netflix et.al. put compression on their streams (usually quite a bit in regards to bitrate) ? It is often the case that BluRay rips etc. are available better on the high seas...

While I generally agree and consider this insightful, it behooves us to remember the (actual, 1930s) Nazis did it with newspapers, radio and rallies (... in a cave, with a box of scraps).

Yeah, that's some bullshit, but the trend away from the duopoly has been ongoing for what, this century ?. That's just patching a leaky bucket with sand. They scared.

Hear hear, and manufacture drones (aerial, not just naval), lots of drones, just look how effective they are in Ukraine. As long as you keep AI out of it. Wow, that vid is 8 years old now, still effective. You could literally encircle the country in overlapping drone ranges for less than one sub I'll bet. Sure would be nice to lead instead of follow for once.

You can cycle the smaller drives to cold backup, that's not a waste. You do have backups, which RAID is not, right?

Sure, works fine for inference with tensor parallelism, USB4 / thunderbolt 4/5 is a better (40Gbit+ and already there) bet than ethernet (see distributed-llama). Trash for training / fine tuning, that needs higher inter GPU speed, or better a bigger GPU VRAM.

Seems like data integrity is your highest priority, and you're doing pretty well, the next step is keeping a copy offsite. It's the 3-2-1 backup strategy, 3 copies, 2 media (used to mean CDs etc but now think offline drives) 1 offsite (in case of fire, meteor strike etc), so look to that, stash a copy at a friends or something.

In your case I'd look at getting some online storage to fill the offsite role while you're overseas (paid probably, but a year of 1 or 2 Tb is quite reasonable) leaving you with no pressure on the selfhosting side, just tailscale in, muck around and have fun, and if something breaks, no harm done, data safe.

I've done it for what seems like forever and I'd still be worried about leaving a system out of physical control for any extended period of time, at the very least having someone to reboot it if connectivity or power fails will be invaluable, but talking them through a broken update is another thing entirely, and you shouldn't make that a critical necessity, too much stress.

Thing about windows is you can shatter them. Time to defenestrate neoliberalism right through the Overton Window.