Continuing my discussion with @tbelldesignco from the shoutbox, I felt this is a good topic to be extended to the community. 

What is your preferred OS, which is the one you use of the majority of your machines, and why?

For me, my preferred OS is CentOS and I use it on the majority of my machines. Now it is for a variety of reasons, I find it more professional than the other OS, I love it's UI (rather shell interface) and far more easy to configure and host applications on than other OS. Besides, I'm fond of the way CentOS enforces it's directory permissions (stricter than others).

People say that Ubuntu is more suitable for Linux newbies, but honestly I started with CentOS and still here. I like Debian though, compared to Ubuntu. 

Package manager being a bit dated on CentOS is definitely a concern, but with a couple years of experience in Linux now I find it better to alt compile whatever I need rather than switching OS. 

Would love to hear your views ... Cheers!

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Hello there, Hope everyone is doing fine in this ongoing pandemic.
Last year, I bought a OVH Singapore VPS last year for my TeamSpeak3 and my CSGO Server. The specs of the VPS is as follows.

• CPU : Intel Core Processor (Haswell, no TSX) @ 1 vCore
  
• RAM : 2GB
  
• HDD : 20GB SSD
  
• Network : 100MBps 
  
• Bandwidth : Unmetered
  
• Virtualization : KVM
  

My main focus of this VPS to host my TeamSpeak3 Server and to get minimal average ping. Pakistani players usually gets 80 Ping on SEA Servers. Bandwidth is unlimited and no matter how many DDoS attacks you face your VPS will not be suspended (duh i know its OVH just adding this sentence for someone whos gonna buy it)


SpeedTest :

Benchmark :


GeekBench:

DDoS Protection (Details): 

• I have been using this VPS for i believe 1-2 years now and it really gets my job time and my uptime most of the time is 100%, Last year i got ddosed which was really heavy which led to downtime of my TeamSpeak3 Server only, I have noticed whenever i get ddosed the game server gets down but the VPS itself works fine like the speed and everything and soon it comes back after sending the ticket to OVH (To which they replied like a week after), They did some updates to my VPS which they didn't disclosed it i'm not sure why but since then i didn't received a single ddos, I usually get emails that a DDoS Attack has been start on your IP and it is being mitigated, Nothing happens over the server. When i frist brought the server i thought 100m/bit is not gonna be enough but yes it is really enough now and it gets my job done. 
  
• I also have a Floating IP which cost me like 0$ now, The first charge is 2$ per IP, Then it only shows in the invoice but shows as 0$ so it's fairly good for me. There is no GAME Protection Available but it works fine for many games though and against many stressers/booters paid ones. Well how do i know this one of my rival actually disclosed which booter he was using and it was really strong but it didn't work on my VPS though. So recommendation for OVH
  

Pros:

• You get unlimited bandwidth.
  
• You get a really good uptime.
  
• You get a decent DDoS Protection.
  
• Multiple Images Available with latest Kernel.
  
• FailOver IPs Available for 2$ only first month.
  
• Solid Performance in Game Servers (Tested CSGO , Minecraft - Which really eats up CPU alot)
  

Cons:

• Support really sucks! (They really take an eternityto reply)
  
• Re-installing OS takes really long
  
• Rebooting takes really long
  

Rating:

• DDoS Protection : 8/10
  
• VPS Performance : 10/10
  
• Uptime : 10/10
  
• Control Panel : 6/10
  
• Support : 4/10
  

I hope you enjoyed reading this.

Regards,
sAmI

P.S : I literally wrote this thread in November 2020 and saved it as a draft i never ever got time to complete it xD

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Hello there,
So i decided to make this thread as i really wanna know what PC everyone here is owning at the moment. 

My current specs : 

• CPU: Intel® Core™ i5-4690 Processor (6M Cache, up to 3.90 GHz)
  
• Motherboard : Gigabyte GA-H87M-D3H
  
• RAM : HyperX Kingston FURY 16GB Kit (2x8G 1866MHz DDR3
  
• Power Supply : 500W Earthwatt Antec (I know its a bad supply gonna change it soon)
  
• GPU : NVIDIA GTX 1060 3GB
  
• Casing : A pretty old one cant really tell.
  
• LCD : Monoprice 27-inch WQHD 2560x1440p AHVA 144Hz Ultra Slim Aluminum Monitor with FreeSync Technology 
  
• LCD 2 : Viewsonic VX2268WM 120Hz
  

Gear: 

• Mouse : Logitech G102 Prodigy Gaming Mouse
  
• Keyboard : AZIO MGK-1 Backlit Mechanical Gaming Keyboard
  
• Headphones : Razer Kraken 7.1 Chroma
  

Usage :
So, I know it's fairly kinda a old build but it usually gets the job done for me. I'm a semi-professional CSGO and a VALORANT Player so high FPS is a priority because i also have a 144Hz Monitor. I also make like fragmovies so recording CSGO at 1440p 60FPS everything goes really smoothly, So many people says that my build can't really keepup but it runs most of the games smoothly and performs really well. i can if people are looking for a build they can go for a i7 4770K or 4790K today and they can get really amazing performance out of it.

I would liike to see everyone personal rig here!

Regards,
sAmI


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I want to open this discussion to investigate about the usage of VPS!

So, let's start, this specific thread is about the hardware specification:

• CPU vCore, tell us which is the optimal vcore count for you followed by a explanation (it can be technical or just an approximaiton)
  
• RAM, tell us which is the optimal RAM amount for you, general use speaking followed by a explanation (Don't think about a HIGH-END task like huge game servers! For that case-usage the answer is simple: A LOT!)
  
• Storage, tell us which is the optimal amount of storage and WHICH technology it should be for a general use followed by a explanation
  
• Network Speed, tell us how much the DL link and UP link should be for a general use followed by a explanation
  

Specification such as geo-location and bandwith/month are not related because it is a business-part not related to the bare hardware!

Please reply to the poll selection which parts matter the most for you! (You can select one or more)

It has been a decade since VLC has been my first choice of multimedia files... From windows xp to windows 10 but also on linux!

The UI has been always the same and right now it is a bit old for the newest system... but don't worry!

VLC has announce a new UI for VLC 4.0.0 and you CAN TEST IT NOW.

Just install the nightly, beta versions!, of the currently on development VLC to get a anticipation of what VLC is going to look!

You can find the latest nightly of VLC here:
VLC media player continuous nightly builds - VideoLAN

Did you read the latest news? No? Don't worry, read my summary!

So... I think everybody knows that right now the hardware market is suffering a huge short availability of the parts. For example, getting a Nvidia RTX 30 series is a nightmare.

Nvidia blames the miner community that is abusing of the market and buying every card to mine.
So what is doing Nvidia to solve the issue? Implementing a secure market where you need to be checked before buying a card? NO!

Nvidia has set a hash limiter to the RTX 3060 to make them less useful for miner and Nividia announced a NEW PRODUCT TOO: NVIDIA CMP CARDS.

What is a CMP card? Well, it is just s RTX 3060 without the hash limiter and without video outputs!

So:

• There is a low availability of silicon needed to create the cards
  
• Nvidia set a hash limiter to consumer RTX 3060, so a normal user can't mine at all (I mean what you gain is not enough to pay off the eletricity fee)
  
• Nvidia uses some of the LOW AVAILABILITY SILICON to produce CMP cards and sell them..
  

Nvidia is greedy as FK because it is using the already low availability silicon to produce cards to sell to miner, lowering the already low production of the consumer cards!

Nothing has been solved for regular customers... nvidia is just expanding is market, offering a proper mining card

Well, let's start this funny discussion about 3D printing.

Right now there are 2 types of 3D printer:

• 3D printer based on PLA-ABS-OtherStuff, where an extruder melt and place the material
  
• 3D printer based on resin, where a LCD screen uses its light to make the resin react on specific zones and so on
  

Both these types uses a special process called "Slicing" that takes as input a 3D model and outputs a set of instruction to "print" your model layer per layer for the extruder/LCD monitor.

You can 3D print almost everything: mechanical parts (using a polycarbonate), figures, cooking tools, furnitures and so on, there isn't a real limit, just your imagination.

There are a lot of chinese rip-off printers, there is the original Prusa, there are small and large printer. We can say that you can find for sure something suited for your needs.

So, are you going to own a 3D printer?
Do you have any sort of artistic skill to create your own models or are you going to use £D gallery such as Thingverse?

For example, I am only able to create CAD models: I can create mechanical parts or something similar because I have used CAD for some time now. Creating figures is almost impossible for me.

Hello All!

So over the past week I have been working on an app for my business and I finally have it to a point where I can show off the interface mockups. With this project, I really wanted to create a project that showed off my ability with UI/UX design, so I could better market this set of my skillset. This project started off as wireframes and has now progressed to this point of mockups using Adobe Prior to moving this project to Xcode to begin taking this from design to SwiftUI.

The goal of this project is integrate the app into my website powered by Wordpress, where using RestAPI, GraphQL and other technologies to integrate posts, user accounts, eCommerce and remote notifications. As this project progresses, I hope to start a fork to integrate TBCMS into this app where when my CMS is completed I can use that system to continue to power and feed data into my app. I would love to hear feedback on this UI design, I tried to use elements from my current web design, so hopefully there is continuity and things translate!