Welcome to today’s daily kōrero!
Anyone can make the thread, first in first served. If you are here on a day and there’s no daily thread, feel free to create it!
Anyway, it’s just a chance to talk about your day, what you have planned, what you have done, etc.
So, how’s it going?
Yep, it’s pretty quiet. Not that I’ve run any serious loads on it yet, just a bunch of CLI apps + Firefox + a couple of VMs (RHEL + Rocky) in the background at the moment.
And yea a dedicated GPU will always be more powerful, but it also depends on your workload - so you really need all that GPU power? At least for the games I play, the onboard one is adequate for me. If not you could always go the Oculink route and get a dock or an eGPU like the GPD G1.
I thought mine might be old enough that integrated graphics might have come close, but I don’t really remember how old it is.
The GPU was for VR, but I’ve recently broken a lighthouse so can’t play anymore 🙁. I’ve been thinking I hardly play it these days anyway, too many kids not enough time (or energy). Probably will sell it.
I hardly play games on it anymore either. Just the multiplayer stuff with kids, Stardew Valley and the Lego Star Wars Skywalker Saga game. Maybe minecraft occasionally.
Without VR I guess I don’t need much GPU power anymore.
It’s still hard to justify a fancy new machine when the one I have works, though!