I can trip the measly 15 amp breaker by drawing 1.5kW on two servers + turning on an amplifier that is somehow on the same circuit despite being in a different room quite far from where my servers are lol.

On average though I only draw like 350W. The huge spike only happens if I run a miner/llm on both of my servers or the during the startup spike.

The 1kW chunk comes from some RTX Quadro 6000s which each eat 250W each when maxxed out.

EDIT: Want to mention that most machines report their power draw (from mobo) without IPMI, so you can use your favorite stats collector use it to form a rough estimate of kWh total in case you don’t have a proper meter that records usage.

“You can change the logo bruh”

Lol remember when they software locked LGA1511 to prevent 8th and 9th gen CPUs from working on existing 6th/7th gen motherboards, and then the modding community bypassed it with some BIOS mods and Teflon tape.

This whole time they could’ve actually been making old computers better than they are and make it so the consumer didn’t have to spend a fuck load on upgrades but waited till a chip shortage to do it…

This isn’t anything new in the component industry. Nvidia is even more guilty of this with their RTX ray tracing scam which now looks comically small next to their subsequent AI bubble.

I’ve personally preferred AMD for this reason because they actually thought ahead of Intel on several occasions like x64, multicore processors, more efficient laptop CPU power consumption, actually funding next gen hardware specs, etc.

In my eyes, the last time Intel was even “on top” of AMD was the skylake overclock era where single thread performance was still sought after heavily.

Hilariously though my servers are all Intel xeons because of their sheer production volume making used parts much cheaper than AMD.

I actually just did this recently with a BTRFS subvolume using a swap file and LUKS encryption.

The old Fedora magazine article has the overall steps required and someone also made a guide for secure boot on I think the spiceworks framework forum.

The catch is that secure boot will only allow signed images to be loaded which includes the hibernation swap image, meaning you have to use a customized kernel that allows unsigned hibernation images to load.

I’ll share both links when I get a chance.

EDIT:

Fedora Magazine guide: https://fedoramagazine.org/hibernation-in-fedora-36-workstation/

This is slightly outdated as Fedora now uses a proper zram.swap definition with systemd, so you can also do a systemctl edit to disable and enable zram0 with post/pre start on the hibernate service directly instead of using swapon/swapoff. I’ll make a second edit with my example I’ll have to dig out of some poorly documented notes lol.

https://community.frame.work/t/guide-fedora-36-hibernation-with-enabled-secure-boot-and-full-disk-encryption-fde-decrypting-over-tpm2/25474

This is the full forum post guide for FDE + TPM + secure boot. I’m not entirely sure of the kernel patch specific but it seems that the hibernate swap image is technicallly signed because if the bootloader process, but the kernel lockdown mode rejects it regardless by default because there’s no guarantee that the swap image was configured with FDE and not tampered with, which would be a vulnerability.

Quick glance at the kernel patch makes it seem like it’s just a flag check to allow hibernate in lockdown mode, so I assume the secure boot signature check is still completed.

lockdown_hibernate [HIBERNATION] Enable hibernation even if lockdown is enabled. Enable this only if your swap is encrypted and secured properly, as an attacker can modify the kernel offline during hibernation.

Don’t worry guys, we’ll get a RISC-V device that blows Apple ARM out of the water any second now.

Annnnyyy second now…

Passkeys and 1FA were always just a duct tape solution for users resuing basic passwords without having to set a stronger password requirement or relying on users to use a strong password.

I think Chrome and Firefox should have decided on making an API for their builtin password generation and filling functions, that way any password manager would be able to integrate with foolproof functionality out of box.

People already use browser auto gen passwords for the reason that its faster and usually has an account sync built in. Now it would work with any 3rd party solution as well which covers enterprise and security minded users as well.

Users won’t use a password manager if it means you have to manually make an entry everytime you make an account.

Nah, they’ll still somehow limp their way into the next generation because Sony is trying to one up MSFT in bad decisions.

If they just sat back and did nothing, then it’d would definitely be over lol.

I read the OP which is why I asked the question, not the entire thread just to figure out that you don’t want to use containers.

I don’t want to run a separate database or anything complex, so things like Immich or Photoprism are not an option.

Why not just use podman and let it handle itself? Unless you’re planning on hosting like maybe several million photos, I doubt you would ever need to manually set up a DB.

Just download the compose file, add your photo directory paths to it, and let it start and never think about it again until you feel like updating for some new feature months later.

It is a war crime to locate a military facility near civilians.

Have you been on basically any homeland military base ever?

Is there functionally anything different had they done the same thing without AI?

Its not like this is the first time the US bombed a bunch of civilians. I could easily see this headline slip into a DNC candidate promise to ban AI for military use as soem sort of “improvement”.