Mine was just a board in an anti-static bag. As bare bone as you can get.

Yeah, I like it after figuring out how to get it in the right modes. Bought it for playing emulators but works great with Steam.

eBay (US) like a week ago. I got it for $125 but they were going for under $100 before I heard about them.

I don’t think you can buy them new anymore. All the stock I’m aware of are from decommissioned crypto-mining rigs and being sold secondhand.

I included an eBay search link in the Resources (https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=bc-250) and just checked it. Looks like they jumped in price again and are $180+ now.

Assuming you’re in US or Canada, here’s the listing for the one I bought (same seller). It’s the least expensive at $165 with $16 shipping. Some listings include the SSD, so that may be why some cost more. Basically I think the cat is just out of the bag and now that people have found an easy way to repurpose these, demand and price is up.

Oh, nice! Yeah, I had yet to come across that project but will probably give it a try later.

Ooh, that might fit this. When I have time, I’m gonna look for a different case that’ll let me add more active cooling and incorporate something like that.

https://elektricm.github.io/amd-bc250-docs/system/40cu-unlock/#performance

I haven’t done it yet, but it seems to require a patched amdgpu kernel module and setting two values at build time. I’m content with it as-is but may explore that later. I’m also waiting until I have some more cooling before doing anything that will generate more heat. That’ll require a different case, and I just don’t feel like that right now (I’ve got games to play and all lol).

About one roll for $17-20. It used close to a full 1kg roll (half a roll of black, half a roll of red). So if you did it all in one color, you’d just need at most one roll (assuming no failed prints).

I didn’t factor that in since I already have a bunch I bought last year on sale and that money was already spent and waiting for a use.

Yep. You’ll need 25.1 (or higher) and a fairly recent kernel to have all of the drivers in mainline though it’s possible to build them for older distros if you really want to. Basically the guidance is to avoid LTS distros and use something more bleeding edge.

Bazzite has most/all you need already baked in. The only special consideration I had to make with Bazzite was installing the GPU governor. It’ll work fine without the governor, but it’s running full tilt the whole time even when it doesn’t need to.

Yep, it’s not the most energy efficient build but definitely affordable since it’s upcycling what would otherwise be e-waste. It’s not something I’m going to leave running 24/7 so I can deal with it eating some power (I’m pretty big on efficient computing since I’m installing a PV system).

A single 120mm fan is sufficient for gaming if you don’t unlock the extra CUs or overclock it, and you need to either use a shroud to direct the airflow through the heatsink fins or, like I did, 3D print a spreader tool and break the fins apart so more air can make contact with it.

If you’re gonna use it for LLM workloads or heavy sustained loads, you’re gonna need at least two fans and some airflow over the back where the VRAM is. I’ve seem some liquid cooled builds which look awesome but I can’t justify that expense haha.

It’s one of the “just bugs me” aspects of Trek in general, but they generally don’t make a distinction between sentience and sapience and use them interchangeably.

Basically, yeah, if you include all of their memories and experiences. The EMHs in the dilithium mines were EMH copies but weren’t The Doctor. I’ve also wondered if they were sentient or just good facsimiles. Part of The Doctor’s story arc was growing beyond his original EMH programming (plus B’Elanna expanding his matrix in some pretty hacky ways). So that leads me to believe that they weren’t sentient, though they had the potential to become so.

Anyway…

That said, the Doctor from “Living Witness” was, if I recall, the Backup EMH and had all of the The Doctor’s memories and was fully sentient as a result.

Essentially it would be the Will / Thomas Riker transporter accident equivalent for holographic beings.

But then what happens if you Ctrl+Z?

VOY S5E11: Latent Image

Jonathan Frakes just seems like an all-around great guy. Combine that with a well-written character, and it’s no wonder Riker is such an icon.

Sadly plausible :(

Appreciated. Right now I’m just happy to be playing at all. Gonna have to adjust my setup since the game UI isn’t really meant to be played from 7 feet away on the couch. I tried SteamLink play to my laptop and that worked better but still not ideal. I’ll get there.

Ooh, I dunno. I chose DSC so I’m still back in the 23rd century and haven’t joined the main game timeline yet.

I just used the same character I started forever ago on my first attempt. Wasn’t even sure it was going to work this time, so didn’t spend time making a new one and just jumped back in.

DSC Starfleet, Engineering specialty, on the Walker-class USS Janeway

That, and they’ve clearly never watched DS9. I think the (mostly) dark and seriousness of it is why I like it so much.

I was initially hesitant about DS9 because I was like “how are they, on a stationary space station, going to compete with the Federation flagship?” Was never so glad to be proven wrong.

I loved PIC S3 and definitely seeing Ro Laren again, but yeah, I did notice the makeup was a lot more subtle than in her TNG appearances.

Now I wonder if it was always supposed to be that subtle but had to be “exaggerated” a bit back then to show up on older TVs. Kind of like how the Addams Family set was mostly pink so it appeared correctly on old black and white TV sets.

At least there’s precedence for Vulcan selfishness. Gestures vaguely at ENT

I feel like Betazoids are in a bit of a glass house when it comes to throwing around rocks labeled “horny tantrum” lol

At least Vulcans don’t make everyone else join in.