The currently existing infrastructure for standard datacenters with normal capacity for heating and cooling are just fine for basic compute and storage.

All the new outfits builds are being built very specifically for inference compute, which they are only doing because it’s less hassle than retrofitting existing facilities, and they think they can trick/screw taxpayers into footing the bill if new facilities are built.

It’s a scam from top to bottom.

Ban all new datacenters as fast as possible and shut this shit DOWN

LOL, OH NOOOOOO. “Let us absolutely rape your wallet, or else…”

No gaming distro outperforms any other distro by any measurable means a user would notice.

FEX has been an Open Source project for quite some time. Valve has a use-case for it, so has been contributing developer resources and funding for the project, but Valve themselves did not create it. It’s simply a useful tool in a pivot they want to make for their portable gaming devices and expansion.

If you’re launching via the WSL command line, it should show an error.

What error are you getting?

Did you install this? https://github.com/microsoft/wslg

Running GUI apps takes extra steps: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/tutorials/gui-apps

Tor is only as fast as the next hops and endpoint, meaning the slowest node is your max possible speed. It has nothing to do with YOUR connection speeds.

Example: if you have 1Gbps, but your next hop only does 20Mbps, and the next hop 10Mbps, and endpoint 1Gbps, the max speed you will get is still only 10Mbps because that is the slowest node in the connection chain.

5G was mostly about cramming more connections into the spectrum and expanding broadcast range (as well as some other things), but it wasn’t just about node speed on the network.

Fact

If you ever need more reasons to avoid Ubuntu…

Or set fire to delicate fabrics, wallpaper, or other potentially flammable surfaces a mosquito might be near or on.

In which case, an app on a phone is still much easier. Plenty of privacy-respecting apps out there that handle wake words, STT, and IFTTT actions. Just seems a much easier route than trying to shoehorn it via HA when that’s not even it’s general use-case.

A phone seems like an easier solution, but there are VOIP integrations for HA, as well as ways to stream audio through the media player to different devices. I’m not aware of any integration that specifically does paging as you describe, but it would be easy to do with an esp32 board with a speaker.

These spam accounts are getting old…

Super confused about the situation here. You bought a UPS without batteries? I would assume the side marked for batteries+surge would not operate properly if no batteries were present if this model isn’t hot-swappable.

Edit: the product page says this unit should be hot-swappable, BUT, it may require the batteriesnto be present first in order to engage the PDU to turn on power to each individual outlet, so mayyyybe getting batteries would make it work, but who knows.

I don’t think it could possibly be measured because it’s something like: (file size ÷ block size) * num_writes

So it entire depends on the types of files, how often you’re utilizing writes to disk…etc. I just wouldn’t worry about it. If you REALLY want to estimate the tax: use iostat to check the number of writes on the drive in the last 24 hours, THEN enable online defrag and check it again in 24 hours. See what the difference is.

It really doesn’t matter for HDD though. Barely probably matters for SSD.

It should be a default, but I can see why it would be disabled for SSDs to prevent using cycles unnecessarily. If you’re using HDDs, check and see if it’s enabled.

Either way, unless you’re REALLY needing some minor performance improvements out of your disks, it shouldn’t make a huge difference.