[jerick70]

Here are a couple more while we're going out want list.

 

[572217]

KEF Muon designed by Ross Lovegrove.



Well, if I ever wanted to go for a retirement speaker, this 0% WAF set by deVORE would be it: O/Reference.

 

[572217]

https://www.thefarside.com/2023/06/03/0


The birth of Jazz.

 

[groucho69]

Research Shows That Dogs Definitely Smile — Learn Why

 

[Whazzzup]

 

[572217]

WOW
My Tears Are Becoming A Sea . M83

 

[DBaldock9]

CPU upgrade on my Main-PC was successful this weekend.
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Got the Xeon E5-2687W v2 installed, and also modified the back of the quick swap (not hot swap) drive cage, to make it easier to connect the power & data cables. The case is a big old Thermaltake Core V71, which has 2x 5.25" bays on the front, and 8x 3.5" quick release plastic trays inside.
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The motherboard has 12x SATA ports, and I'm using all of them (two small 256GB SSDs are mounted on a metal plate, standing on-edge at the bottom of the case). Altogether, there are 5x 1TB SSD, 2x 960GB SSD, 1x 600GB (10K RPM Raptor), 2x 256GB SSD, and 2x Blu-ray RW drives. There's also the USB 2TB SSD that my audio is on, and a USB 18TB drive that I've been using for system backups.
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On the new Samsung 870 SSD, I installed Manjaro KDE Plasma, and I updated from Pulseaudio to Pipewire. JRiver MC31 works well, sending audio out to my new Cayin RU7. I still need to fiddle a bit with the settings, to get the Hi-Res audio files to output without any resampling.
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After my NAS is built, and all of the "important" data from the PC drives is deduplicated & backed up, I'll probably disconnect most of the drives.

EDIT: Adding - I was able to hibernate the PC last night, and then this morning, it woke up with all of the programs open and running just like they were. But, after about 5 - 10 minutes, the PC rebooted itself, and was stuck in a boot-loop. I'll have to try and troubleshoot tonight after work - may have to do with some USB "oddities" I was seeing yesterday.

 

[Podster]

Monday bonus

 

[Whazzzup]

Voted best guitar solo of the 21 st century. Got no dog in this but thought I’d pass along the result

 

[DBaldock9]

CPU upgrade on my Main-PC was successful this weekend.
.
Got the Xeon E5-2687W v2 installed, and also modified the back of the quick swap (not hot swap) drive cage, to make it easier to connect the power & data cables. The case is a big old Thermaltake Core V71, which has 2x 5.25" bays on the front, and 8x 3.5" quick release plastic trays inside.
.
The motherboard has 12x SATA ports, and I'm using all of them (two small 256GB SSDs are mounted on a metal plate, standing on-edge at the bottom of the case). Altogether, there are 5x 1TB SSD, 2x 960GB SSD, 1x 600GB (10K RPM Raptor), 2x 256GB SSD, and 2x Blu-ray RW drives. There's also the USB 2TB SSD that my audio is on, and a USB 18TB drive that I've been using for system backups.
.
On the new Samsung 870 SSD, I installed Manjaro KDE Plasma, and I updated from Pulseaudio to Pipewire. JRiver MC31 works well, sending audio out to my new Cayin RU7. I still need to fiddle a bit with the settings, to get the Hi-Res audio files to output without any resampling.
.
After my NAS is built, and all of the "important" data from the PC drives is deduplicated & backed up, I'll probably disconnect most of the drives.

EDIT: Adding - I was able to hibernate the PC last night, and then this morning, it woke up with all of the programs open and running just like they were. But, after about 5 - 10 minutes, the PC rebooted itself, and was stuck in a boot-loop. I'll have to try and troubleshoot tonight after work - may have to do with some USB "oddities" I was seeing yesterday.

I'm pretty sure I found the culprit for the USB issues - and hopefully for the booting issues.
It's a Rosewill USB 3.0 Multi-Card reader, that had been unplugged.

Since my Asus X79 Deluxe motherboard only has one USB 3.0 header (which was being used for the top case ports), I had run some extensions from the back panel, through a grommet (for water cooling lines), in to connect the Rosewill cable.
Sometime in the past, the ports on the back were needed, so I unplugged the Rosewill.
Recently, I installed a PCIe card that has faster USB 3.1 Gen 2 ports (10GB) on the back, and an internal USB 3.0 header - so I connected the top case ports to it, and reconnected the Rosewill unit to the motherboard header.
Once I disconnected the Rosewill this afternoon, the PC booted (without reporting any USB errors, like "Keyboard not found"), and I haven't had any problems for the last 4 hours.

The Rosewill card reader is a 3.5" bay device, mounted in a carrier that installs a 3.5" drive, and a thin laptop CD/DVD/Blu-Ray drive, in a 5.25" bay.

 

[Podster]

Thrashing Tears today







Cool down bonus

 

[groucho69]

'New' Beatles songs made by AI bring fans to tears

 

[groucho69]

 

[572217]

'New' Beatles songs made by AI bring fans to tears

I’m with Nick Cave on ‘creative’ AI:

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2...to-chatgpt-song-written-in-style-of-nick-cave

Also worth a read:

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/may/08/ai-machines-hallucinating-naomi-klein

And the best thinking piece I have found so far:

https://www.newyorker.com/science/annals-of-artificial-intelligence/will-ai-become-the-new-mckinsey

The history of intellectual property theft is long. Both Americans and Japanese did it after WWII. The Chinese do it on a whole other level today. And what went into these large language models must be the biggest heist of them all. And in the end we will pay through our nose for it. Plus get entertained and informed with goo. Great.

 

[Podster]

Been saving this bonus for last day to close out a great Wow



Oh crap, Bonus Bonus as I thought I posted it already but looking back my memory is not as good as it used to be