Tbh those things are great little thin clients to leave near your couch, despite their age

DAS enclosures are super easy to set up. Disk won’t be a big issue if you go that route.

If you’re planning on running containers, tbh I would not. The required virtualization layer (due to macOS being BSD-based) is going to make containers WAY less efficient. You’re better off with a system you can easily slap proxmox (or whatever distro floats your boat) on.

Codeberg is pretty legit

There was a two-generation long lithography issue that they had not been able to solve. You are grossly understating the technical scope of the problem, as well as the trust issues Intel themselves created with the way they handled the whole debacle.

I’m not ever going to buy a 13/14 gen Intel core unless it’s at absolute bargain basement prices. In a professional IT context, nobody in purchasing departments should be buying the impacted SKUs in the affected date range (and practically, that means “they won’t buy those SKUs, full stop”).

…it’s a paid subscription service that the base os nags you to upgrade to?

Huh. That’s actually pretty cool. Not my favorite distro these days for several reasons, but that aside, it’s great to see more robust support on ARM laptops.

Huh, really? Is there that much of a perf hit using passthrough? I’d have assumed that the bottleneck isn’t actually the PCIE, so much as it is the beefiness of the GPU crunching the model.

Bro this is a community for sharing knowledge and increasing the technical aptitude of fellow users by doing said sharing. Maybe instead of shitting on a pretty solid digest of the fundamentals of setting up something like this, try adding to the body of knowledge instead.

Eh. Do they still have Ubuntu Pro ads in the update UI? If so: stop, then I’ll care.

Wtf are you talking about. PCIe passthrough exists.

I anticipate the used value for those gens is going to drop quicker than a Mercedes CL65AMG

Right? I feel like this has a lot of Old Internet vibes

Not to mention, iirc you should get a bit of a perf bump for the GPU due to AMD’s Infinity Cache, so long as you roll with (iirc) Zen2+ and RDNA2+

That all makes sense - I guess at this point, I’m simply trying to offer some constructive criticism about how to present nuanced problems that involve both hardware and software gremlins in a way that you’ll get the most productive conversation and interaction from the user base here.

Heh, we’re still on the X-Y problem to a degree.

I’d recommend another top-level reply to your post, or a new post, describing precisely how your hardware and ZFS pools are set up, alongside a description of the firmware/stability issues you’re seeing, and solutions you’ve tried already. We’re a bit far down a comment chain at the moment, so you’ll probably get more engagement that way. Not trying to be an ass - this actually sounds like an interesting (and, I’m sure, obnoxious) problem. Putting all the cards on the table will help people give you a more complete answer more quickly.

A bit of searching brought me here - would this suit your purposes?

Edit: amusingly, one of the replies to the original question also points out that this is yet another classical example of the X-Y problem

You are evidently missing the entire point of what the X-Y problem is.

What are you ACTUALLY trying to accomplish here? Why do (think) you need to throttle your USB speed by 50%?

Uh… are you not aware of the catastrophically bad lithography issues Intel has had lately across both the 13th and 14th gen, and the subsequent ass-tier fashion in which they handled it?

Do not buy a 13th or 14th gen Intel CPU.

Fair; I blame target fixation