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Cake day: October 15th, 2023

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  • I too joined when the API shenanigans started. But…

    Honestly, I have been using Lemmy since the Reddit API ordeal and …

    it’s good to know I’ve got a million and one people to ask questions when I finally make the switch. It’s inevitable. Honestly lack of free time (read home PC has not been prioritized) has been the only hurdle. I’ve dabbled over the years, just barely.

    I have an old Thinkpad tablet (X2___ or 4___ idk) that I want to switch over. It had a few offline duties w/ W7, but that’s all done now. I settled on OpenSUSE and made a live USB to start. Works on my desktop but haven’t gotten it to boot on the Thinkpad. I’ve found I need to go to the grub2 folder and can do so at the grub prompt (rescue, probably) but I still run into something about cannot validate cli…

    Yes, I’m chumming the waters while I’m stuck inline. Sorry to detour!






  • Hey I built a micro -atx epyc for work that has tons of pcie slots. Pretty sure it was an ASRock (or ASRack). I can find the details tomorrow if you’d like. Just let me know!

    E: well, it looks like I remembered wrong and it was an atx, not micro. I think it is ASRock Rack ROMED8-2T and it has 7 PCIe4.0 x16 (I needed a lot). Unfortunately I don’t think it’s sold anymore other than really high prices on eBay.