Mine are much smaller than Elon’s, but never explode, intentionally or otherwise. They don’t even fly, except on the networks. The next system ops phase at 5712 finally began a few days ago after a month of racking my brains on the latest Chinese Chipmaker debacle to ruin my day. Live and learn. Premium hardware for bargain dollars + my labor is a theme for me in other endeavors as well, but it comes at an intangible cost.
The old workstation (top) is running a beta test for the Onion folks. The new workstation (bottom) is running an AMD 7700 with all the latest fancy electronic bells and whistles. I’ve started doing data backup locally over USB, so a network upgrade talked about years ago is still on hold. One gig isn’t enough bandwidth for my data on this net. But with USB3/c, local net capacity is an insignificant storage factor now.
Externally-facing production Stuff sits in the entertainment center. The operational Onion will eventually be replaced in that cabinet, soon as Onion3 is ready for Prime Time. That old Dell XPS in the lower-left was only the second vendor-built PC I ever acquired in the UK while we were there. It underwent several upgrades over the years and ran for the last time yesterday, coming up with a dead nic. I installed a new one, but that was the last time it would ever fire up. It’s an inactive display in the PC museum here now.
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