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Failed to connect to MySQL: (1203) User howardkn already has more than 'max_user_connections' active connectionsPath: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Paul Newsgroups: alt.comp.os.windows-10,comp.os.linux.advocacy Subject: Re: Microsoft to force new Outlook on Windows 10 PCs Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2025 12:10:33 -0500 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 70 Message-ID: References: <1VcgP.54962$XfF8.39289@fx04.iad> <6h1bojt7kdp4d5euq0f78rtuvqpg7edc3e@4ax.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2025 18:10:34 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="fa538bd1421207436cc03ef4b5aae205"; logging-data="3783477"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+4331k8kt5oAuCjtITHZUweJiS5rMumvQ=" User-Agent: Ratcatcher/2.0.0.25 (Windows/20130802) Cancel-Lock: sha1:4WaFihBkkTwdIwW53nn7kVNCdEA= Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: Bytes: 4094 On Thu, 1/16/2025 6:22 AM, -hh wrote: > > Of course.  Overall, a challenge with the DIY topic is differences in motivation:  is the DIY because money's tight?  Or is the motivation because tinkering with hardware is an entertaining hobby/pastime? > Both motivations can & do exist, and can get conflated in discussions. The motivation, is we don't want to buy shit. Do I want a Dell with a four phase VCore, when I can have a twenty four phase VCore on an expensive motherboard ? Do I want a 230W power supply on a Dell, when I can pick up an 850W power supply at Best Buy ? Now, I can plug in an RTX4090 when I want to. On the Dell, that's... impossible (even if you went out and bought the 850W supply, it probably would not fit in the small Dell case, neither would the Dell cooling system be adequate for the thermal load and there wouldn't even be a mounting location for a fan to be added). When you do a build, you control everything, and no screwing around or taking shortcuts. Let's take an example, Mr.LaptopMan. Take the lady in the computer store the other day, a salesman explaining to her that "the laptop with the 4070 is faster than the laptop with the 4060" for gaming. Well, what the salesman didn't tell the gaming lady, is that the owner will beat the piss out of the laptop and it will be knackered after only four years. While you are having a gaming experience, it won't last. Whereas, with a desktop, if I wear the keycaps off my keyboard playing Tetris, I just swap keyboards, takes about ten seconds. If the video cards burns the connector off, chuck it on the table, pop in another. And if I want four NVMe storage, I can pop in a board with four sleds on it, and boom, done. With this, I could install twenty four NVMe on six cards. "Asus Pro WS W790E-SAGE SE" https://dlcdnwebimgs.asus.com/gain/f8c9b3f4-1a07-4645-aa79-594c48bd4090/w692 (Note desktop I/O style on the left) https://dlcdnwebimgs.asus.com/files/media/35d86ad4-c99a-49d7-b8bb-09601ad49164/images/swiper_left.png Same idea with an AMD processor. For a while, only Lenovo made materials of this class, but now you can build them at home. https://shop.asus.com/ca-en/90mb1fw0-m0aay0-pro-ws-wrx90e-sage-se.html You're in control of the build. If something breaks, you're in control of the repair too. No returning a unit three times, hearing "no fault found", haranguing tech support for a replacement machine and so on. Think of the hair loss saved. I don't want to use anyones "warranty service". [Picture] https://i.postimg.cc/ry0VWG7J/home-build-what-you-want.gif Paul