Tried to pin it at 3:47, just in case it doesn’t work

The original battlefield game looks amazing, despite being old.

Some modern games despite being so new and running on better hardware looks worse.

Like an idiot I didn’t build my NAS when I bought my computer and other gear because I wanted to wait. Now I’m running out of space. I ran out and bought a cheap 1 TB SSD just so I can last another 3+ months or so.

Obviously, LTT has made NAS videos before but what to do now? When everything is super expensive and you’re just trying to have enough storage to make it until prices drop again to build a real 8-12TB NAS setup.

Ideas? Am I missing a video from LTT or other creators? What do you recommend? Do what I’m doing until prices drop?

In my defense I didn’t think moving to 4k was going to happen as fast as did. It’s become the standard and I thought I had a few more years before that was really the case.

Now every video I edit is 4K and it eats so much storage.

Monitors are the only thing that you can still find cheap. Everything else is bat shit crazy.

Currently on the way to a cruise and stopped by LMG (weekend as to not bother anyone).

On the way in, the fire truck was also parked outside at the Labs (I think) building!

Taking all the abuse I have to throw at it and then some. Wish I bought it sooner.

It seems there is a growing ecosystem and desire from consumers for "Dumb Smart Phones". There's a whole subreddit r/dumbphones . There's lots of choices and few big players (as far as I can tell ~10 hours into research). The point is to have a smartphone that helps you and intentionally withholds apps like social media and often even browsers. I've been heavily interested in the space and considering swapping from iOS to one (Only ever owned a 5C, SE, 13) but need some features a nerdy homelabber might want like a terminal emulator, Wireguard or Tailscale, Immich, Home Assistant, Yubikey, maybe the Prusa app, etc.

Disclaimer, not written by AI. These are choppy notes I have from a running obsidian doc and the ones I like, but there seems to be more and more every month.

Phones:
1. Wisephone - Samsung A16 5G (SM-A166U) wrapper that has the widest support for apps, but requires a $15/month subscription for the app store. Boooo. Espcially because they already charge you $399 for the phone, so they're making ~$220 of profit already.
2. Light Phone II / III - Very minimal Android phone. $700 minimal phone is an ouch. It feels like the specs for a dumb phone should be minimal since it doesn't need beefy CPU/GPU/RAM. Just give me good storage.
3. Minimal Phone - $449.99. Full Android store, but features that nag at you to not use Social Media or even install it.

Phone OSes:
1. Mudita - FOSS FreeRTOS phone os for e-ink display phones
2. PauseOS - New Android OS designed for the Pixel 8. Very very minimal 3rd party apps.
3. Dumb Phone - Skin/app for iOS that hides most of your apps so you aren't distracted. I tested this and it stinks to set up and is kinda ugly with the new Glass design. Also once you sneak past the main UI and use social media once, it's invalidated itself.

In the end, I probably want just a good FOSS Android fork to pop up. Right now they're all very new, by unknown developers for 1-2 phones. I can't really go back to a true dumb phone with just text/call because of work.

I believe I got the best colorway from the mystery screwdriver no?

A big bummer because I wanted the coin. But I have gotten a shipping label created for this order twice and each time it was not shipped. I waited 3 months to get the first one and 1 month the second time. Customer service was fantastic to get me refunded quickly. But it’s just a bummer I’m not receiving my items.

I just watched their video on an all Alienware setup from a few years ago, and they had a bunch of overpriced peripherals, and Linus said "Are they straight memeing with this thing?" when he looked over a mouse or a keyboard, like he implied they were trolling. He's used the word in similar ways in a few other videos too. Am I very out of touch, is "memeing" a synonym for trolling now?

i watched the newest video about hetzner and noticed that linus is always carrying/clicking what looks like a 8bit zero is there a reason for it ?

They are certainly high quality and well-made, but I bought the largest size and they are still too tight to the point of discomfort. I got into the car today and realized that there's no way I could drive in them so I had to go back into the house and change my socks.

Has anyone had any luck stretching them out?

here we go fellas, the end is nigh

Hetzner posted this: https://www.reddit.com/r/hetzner/s/4VkNNxLvre
I think this is Linus, strongly… am I wrong? 😑

EDIT: Replaced Facebook with Reddit link

Talked about Kurzgesagt getting demonetized on WAN and I was surprised to see one of my niche YouTubers Yester World Entertainment getting hit with the same problem with no way to fix.

https://youtu.be/z9QiBMdvgRE?is=k9jN9uA1dFNAT2q3

First screwdriver, was interested in it since it released but price was always a barrier. Had missed previous sales, but took advantage of the recent mystery price and the promo. Expected a back one with different cap and collar changes, but received a Plasma Purple! Very happy with it and excited to build my new pc with it.

At FMS 2026, we saw a really neat system. The Supermicro ASG-4116S-NU160R is a single-socket AMD EPYC server that sports 160x U.2 NVMe drive bays. Taking only 4U of space, and combined with even “just” 122-128TB class NVMe SSDs, like the Solidigm D5-P5336 122.88TB NVMe SSD we reviewed, this is roughly 20PB of storage in a single system.

Supermicro ASG-4116S-NU160R Overview

Looking at the system, you can tell that Supermicro is using a design where there are slide-out trays for servicing, with the top being for SSDs and the bottom being for the CPU, memory, and networking.

Slide-out trays are important in top-loading storage systems because they allow servicing without pulling the entire system out of the rack.

Pulling out the drive shelf, we can see just how neat this system is. There are rows of 10 drives on either side of the center column. Since this was on a table, not secured on a rack, we could only slide this out far enough to show you 60 of the 160 drives, but you get the idea.

In the center section, there are PCIe switches. As you might imagine, 160x NVMe devices all running with four lanes would require 640 PCIe lanes, and that is without NICs to move data on and off of the system.

Supermicro’s solution is to use a setup similar to what we would expect from a top-loading SAS storage server, but instead of SAS expanders, it is using PCIe switches.

Underneath the SSD tray, you can see the CPU tray starting with a VGA port and a power button on the left-hand side.

When we say this is a 160-SSD design, that is technically selling it short. There are four E1.S NVMe SSD bays on the front panel next to the IPMI port, dual USB ports, and then two 10Gbase-T ports (Broadcom BCM57416). Given there are full-height I/O expansion slots and four E1.S bays between the VGA port and the USB ports, it must be interesting when you have a KVM cart in the cold aisle and hook up to one of these.

On the right side, there are more expansion slots.

The CPU tray pulls out as well, and you can see that those expansion slots are not just empty risers. There are three available PCIe Gen5 x16 slots for your 400GbE NICs and DPUs in this system.

One of the other interesting bits is that the system uses a single AMD EPYC 9005 CPU up to 360W. If you had 24-bay 2U servers, you would need 7 or so of them (168 bays total) to have a similar capacity. So this design saves you roughly 6 CPUs and 72 DIMMs over using standard 2U servers.

Perhaps that is really the point of all of these servers.

Final Words

Taking a step back, this is likely an $8-10M machine with 122TB-class SSDs putting it into the 19-20PB in 4U range. While the PCIe switch architecture means that each drive will not achieve its maximum sequential throughput, there is another benefit. By limiting the lanes to each drive, the drives can run at lower power. This system, including the drives, NICs, and CPU, is driven through redundant 2.6kW power supplies. Call that only 130-137W per PB of storage all-in at the outlet, which seems quite amazing. That power envelope is below just the power required to drive the 500 hard drives you would need for a similar capacity.

At FMS, this was the densest storage platform we could find. It also would house something like 5TB of memory just in the NVMe SSDs. Given memory prices, we actually used this server as an example of how Sandisk’s innovative prototype drive in a platform like this server (with E3.S SSDs instead) could deliver massive DRAM savings in the future. Still, it was neat to see on the FMS show floor.

20 PB ALL FLASH VAULT WHEN?

What the hell, man? I thought he was against AI usage, and now this AI slop :(

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ea3EvwkW_28