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  What should I replace the GTX 1080s in my server with? As part of my Homelab, I have TrueNAS Community Edition running in a big case with a bunch of Frankenstein parts including two GTX 1080s. TrueNAS recently phased out support for these older cards and I’ve been having to go through and manually install working drivers, which seem to have gotten overwritten on the last update anyway. Since I’m not actually using anything for video output (and have onboard HDMI if needed). One of the cards...

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  There are a lot of angry, religiously brainwashed, abused, hurting, failed by the education system, willfully ignorant, racist, sexist, authoritarian, bandwagoning, sociopathic, narcissistic, confused, regressed, selfish people out there. That's why I don't think we'll fix our country without first fixing our relationships with our neighbors. Getting Grandma Geraldine to log off Facebook and touch grass is probably a good thing. But can we wake everyone up to the technofascist pla...

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  I worked for a company who always positioned themselves as way more important than they were and were hellbent on micromanaging everyone. It was all about image and corporate culture. I can play that game fairly well, but I wanted to minimize my time dealing with it. I was part of a small group of 3-5 subject matter experts who rank similarly to management, but didn't have to manage anyone. This tended to isolate us from the McJob environment as we worked things out between ourselves and...

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  We need a "right of retrieval" where,once encoded, it must be free to decode and play back. If we're going to allow proprietary media, all the prices should be clear and up front. No charging on the back end after everyone has already encoded their baby vids to avc; no changing prices after the fact.

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  I've started to realize that early gen products are often less enshittified, even if they are frequently rough around the edges, and can often be hacked into a useful state unlike the newest hardware. By a few gens in, nearly everything is a giant plastic paperweight that only wants to phone home, download "updates" all the time, and probably needs multiple SSO sign ins and a subscription just to work. I'll keep my old Kindle 4th gen with KOreader until it breaks.

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  There's a lot of people on the Mozilla hate train, and they do deserve a bit of ire for some of their more puzzling decisions. All I wanted from Firefox was a configurable browser with sane defaults, that lets me block ads and does all the normal browser things without being a total black box of corporate telemetry and profiling. To a large degree Firefox has been the best mainstream browser for people who can't dance with the devil and use Chrome. In many aspects, it has made better...