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I typically code a lot of back-end and processor intensive workloads. The issue I have with i5s is that they don’t seem to be as “snappy” as i7s. I’ve worked with both for good long periods of time. When I had an i5 laptop, I had to off-load a good majority of my development to the cloud because I couldn’t do containers and listen to music and run two monitors at the same time. I never had the same issue with i7 processors, even on a laptop.


Oooh, I had not considered that but thank you for the recommendation. The only thing I don’t like about these PCs is that they all have RGB lighting. I really don’t need this and I don’t get their appeal.


Are CUDAs something that I can select within pcpartpicker? Or is this like a cloud thing?


I actually did. And the quantum twin that succeeded is now solving global warming.

I am the twin that didn’t succeed.


I was really hoping to cannibalize the 32 GBs of DDR3 RAM but I couldn’t find a MoBo that supports it anymore. Then I saw DDR5 is the latest!

I don’t really do any gaming. If I wasn’t going to tinker with AI, I’d just need a card for dual DisplayPort output. I can support HDMI but…I prefer DP


I for one would not purchase any Intel hardware as long as AMD is around. Not that they’re bad or anything, but AMD gives me much Kore “bang for the buck”.

If you have a processor line in mind, let me know. Happy to give them another look, given my experience with AMD is 30 some years old.

And then there’s the cooling. I see you went with a radiator and fan, but I strongly suggest getting some type of liquid cooling. The prices are not that bad anymore (unlike about 10 years ago, which was insane).

I’m not tied to the cooling solution I picked. I just picked something that looked affordable and did what I wanted. I’d love to do liquid cooling so long as it isn’t a pain. I helped my friend back in high school do liquid cooling and it was a proper mess. We came close to shorting his entire rig.

As for the board, you’ll get all kinds of different suggestions. Some people swear by Asus, I’d rather go with Gigabyte (love the Aorus line), so it’ll come down to brand trust at the end of the day.

I have zero brand loyalty here. The boards I’m looking at right now all have embedded wifi with the annoying antenna…I really want bluetooth embedded so it seems like I’ll have to have wifi but just not use it.


Looking to build my first PC in almost 30 years; What should I be on the look out for?
It looks like !buildapc community isn't super active so I apologize for posting here. Mods, let me know if I should post there instead. I built my first PC when I was I think 10-11 years old. Built my next PC after that and then sort of moved toward pre-made HP/Dell/etc. My last PC's mobo just gave out and I'm looking to replace the whole thing. I've read over the last few years that prefabs from HP/Dell/etc. have gone to shit and don't really work like they used to. Since I'm looking to expand comfortably, I've been thinking of giving building my own again. I remember when I was a young lad, that there were two big pain points when putting the rig together: motherboard alignment with the case (I shorted two mobos by having it touch the bare metal of the grounded case; not sure how that happened but it did) and CPU pin alignment so you don't bend any pins when inserting into the socket. Since it's been several decades since my last build, what are some things I should be aware of? Things I should avoid? For example, I only recently learned what M.2 SSD are. My desktop has (had) SATA 3.5" drives, only one of which is an SSD. I'll admit I am a bit overwhelmed by some of my choices. I've spent some time on [pcpartpicker](https://pcpartpicker.com/list/n6wVRK) and feel very overwhelmed by some of the options. Most of my time is spent in code development (primarily containers and node). I am planning on installing Linux (Ubuntu, most likely) and I am hoping to tinker with some AI models, something I haven't been able to do with my now broken desktop due to it's age. For ML/AI, I know I'll need some sort of GPU, knowing only that NVIDIA cards require closed-source drivers. While I fully support FOSS, I'm not a OSS purist and fully accept that using a closed source drivers for linux may not be avoidable. Happy to take recommendations on GPUs! Since I also host a myriad of self hosted apps on my desktop, I know I'll need to beef up my RAM (I usually go the max or at least plan for the max). My main requirements: - Intel i7 processor (I've tried i5s and they can't keep up with what I code; I know i9s are the latest hotness but don't think the price is worth it; I've also tried AMD processors before and had terrible luck. I'm willing to try them again but I'd need a GOOD recommendation) - At least 3 SATA ports so that I can carry my drives over - At least one M.2 port (I cannibalized a laptop I recycled recently and grabbed the 1TB M.2 card) - On-board Ethernet/NIC (on-board wifi/bluetooth not required, but won't complain if they have them) - Support at least 32 GB of RAM - GPU that can support some sort of ML/AI with DisplayPort (preferred) Nice to haves: - MoBo with front USB 3 ports but will accept USB 2 (C vs A doesn't matter) - On-board sound (I typically use headphones or bluetooth headset so I don't need anything fancy. I mostly listen to music when I code and occasionally do video calls.) I threw together this list: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/n6wVRK It didn't matter to me if it was in stock; just wanted a place to start. Advice is very much appreciated! EDIT: WOW!! I am shocked and humbled by the great advice I've gotten here. And you've given me a boost in confidence in doing this myself. Thank you all and I'll keep replying as I can.
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Yeah I saw the Google sheets scraping tool and that looked promising but I don’t want to have to rely on Xpath since it could change.

Right now I’m leaning toward change detector but can’t get the reverse proxy to work.


App that tracks prices on websites?
Hello fellow self-hosters! I am looking for an app/tool/macro/etc that can screen-scrape or API ping various merchants to track prices on specific products. Think [camelcamelcamel](https://camelcamelcamel.com/) but for any merchant. I have to believe such a tool exists and I'm not the first person to think of it. In an ideal world, I'd like it to be able to dump the data into a spreadsheet so that I can track/graph it. But that's not a requirement. Does such a tool exist? Thanks!
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  1. I don’t encrypt before I push to S3. Probably bad practice on my part. I just rely on AWS encryption to secure my data. My backups are low-risk (imo). That said, I lock down the bucket so that only my account can access the objects. Compression I use tar cjf (bzip). Protip: Once the tar file is made, run tar ljf $archiveFile > archiveFile-ls.txt and store the resulting file along with the tar file in standard storage. That way you know what is in the archive.

  2. Both. Restore Requests is to copy the data out from Glacier into Standard storage. Note that I said copy. When you perform a restore, your original object stays in glacier and AWS creates a copy to somewhere in S3 that you specify. Once the restore is complete, you can then download the copied object like any S3 object, triggering the Outbound data transfer fee.


When you go to just about any web site, your browser sets up an encrypted connection between you and the server so that anything you do on the web site can’t be observed by sniffing the traffic.

Let’s Encrypt is a suite of software developed by the Electronic Frontier Foundation to bring this security to anyone with a website (or anyone with a webservice, really). What Let’s Encrypt provides you is a fully trusted certificate chain. As a result of making the certificate free for anyone (and I mean anyone) can use, the certificate is only valid for 90 days.

You can purchase a trusted certificate that lasts longer but renewal is so easy that unless you need a higher “reputation” cert, it’s not worth it. Fun fact: cia.gov uses LE certificates!

Not sure what KanIDM is but they are probably having you use an LE certificate to create a secure connection between clients and servers. It’s free and pretty easy to set up.

Optionally, if you’re technically savvy, you can set up your own Certificate Authority and distribute it on your own. This gives you full control over your certificate linage but my guess is you won’t get the benefits of it.