The C30 64GB kits are nearly impossible to buy now, so, well done. Got one in September '23 for ~$380 AUD, on the rare occasions it's available today it's been over $1600 AUD.

I upgraded my UPS to a sine interactive unit to minimise the risk of it dying to bad power while the market is so crazy...

Yup the 4090 and SoundBlaster ZXR in my AM5 7800X3D system would both like to upvote your reply.

Sound card works fine on USB2 (RME for example has cards on USB2 that can manage 30/30 io at 192khz without issue at low latency if you have the CPU to deal with the load)

With USB3 you have 94 i/o…

For years pci has not been mandatory for audio. UAD, Apogee, RME and other high end brands will push you to them. Or even only provide them as usb device… even Thunderbolt is not needed here.

And that’s been the case for a while! My Fireface UC from 15 years ago can deal with 16 channels at 96khz at 256 sample. On PC and Mac.

Personally, I'd love to see / read / hear more about the way RME do what they do. I know they basically update the fpga on the devices in lock step with the drivers, which allows them to do all sorts of magic (low CPU usage, zero latency recording of each raw channel being one of them) but I'd love an interview or article from some of the hardware and software people from RME. They have been rock solid and basically future proof for decades and I think the entire hardware and software industries could learn something from the way they do things.

Incredible products, definitely worth the premium.

Then they should start putting internal high powered USB ports inside the case where I can literally bolt this shit into place because my desk is a goddamn mess of cables and dongles and boxes that don't stack or interlock or interface at all and I am so so utterly tired of being gaslit into beliving that they're just as good as a fucking slot.

Sounds like a 9.5" mini rack could help with the stacking, see Geerling.

I have about 14 or 15 USB devices in addition to my 4 monitors, and whilst I'm sure you're right I'm very happy to have a high quality soundcard that is not part of that mix.

Compared to video data and the speed the CPU is running at, audio trickles in at a snails pace.

I use the speed chime in my Model 3 car to alert me if I'm more than 2 km/h over the posted speed limit, which it infers from its database with the autopilot camera providing overrides.

If I'm over that when passing a speed camera in Victoria, AUS, I'll be pinged with a decent fine to arrive shortly.

Imagine if instead of a chime I got fined every single time, everywhere? All this new monitoring makes it a bit like that, at an extreme. I don't want to live in such a society.

The idea discussed in the article was one of progressive overload; slowly make your body adapt to an ever increasing workload. Don't go straight for the 200kg deadlift when you are new to the gym, in other words.

The endpoint stuff kills laptop performance. I left my previous job and they let me keep my X1 Nano (1st gen; 16GB memory) which was performing abysmally towards the end.

Deleted all the partitions and did a 100% clean install (multi boot Win11/Fedora), and it's suddenly what feels like 2-4x as fast. Made sure to disable some of the Copilot and Internet content in search menu rubbish etc with a few registry tweaks (yay for having admin access to get rid of the bloat/junk).

Fedora/Wayland/Plasma still feels faster though - I just had some issues getting my video to work properly across all of Teams and Zoom.

Back in the times of Windows 95 and Windows XP, reinstalling the OS at least once per year made Windows noticeably faster. Then it degraded month by month. And yet I still remember how incredibly faster the same laptop was with Ubuntu 8.04. Faster than a newly installed Windows.

Would it kill them to let me specify my own username, as it appears in `c:\users\$username` ?

It's in the article, they let you now. And working on making it better.

I missed that - thanks!

MyUXG Max has DHCP, and for my attached devices if I specify a static IP I get the option to set a Local DNS record.

There's no central management of these records that I'm aware of though.

Absolutely love my Unifi setup, recently upgraded my USG to the UXG as the old was EOL and not performant enough for gigabit routing with SPI.

Yeah I like to take photos of my cast iron cooking with my S25U, on a black induction glass surface - and I find myself swapping to Pro mode all the time as the colour temperature is often way too warm and or oversaturated.

It's a great camera in automatic mode most of the time, but not for that scenario.

I started with PageStream on the Amiga then later went to Publisher on the PC; I used both of them heaps, primarily for print - got myself a HP LaserJet 4P which was just glorious. Did club newsletters, school works / assignments, cafe menus, everything. Great times.

I actually bought the boxed edition of PageStream with my paper boy money, even though I was just a high school student at the time. That's how much into it I was. :-)

(The skillsets picked up from this along with Assembly on the Amiga transitioned reasonably well into a career of web development and software engineering.)

Bit off topic, but if you ever travel into Australia never don't declare that package of chips.

It could easily turn into your most expensive bag ever.

All food items simply _must_ be declared. There's two lines, so join the "something to declare" one. You'll be waved through after a quick inspection, or asked to surrender any offending items. Super easy. The declare line is often quicker as well.

I was witness to someone doing this into New Zealand. It clearly states all food stuff, but someone failed to declare their half of a Subway sandwich. This was a sandwich bought in the departing airport in the US, and then sat at room temp for the entire flight to NZ. Like, why do you still have it on you, and not have trashed it already? Nice little fine for essentially trash because someone wasn’t paying attention.

The USA has this also. I once declared chocolate cake that my girlfriend (now wife) baked for me on a trip to the USA from China. I didn’t even get sent off to secondary, I just told them what I had when I handed in the form and they waved me through.