Depending on your budget and location, a whole house backup generator can be relatively inexpensive. My family lives in a very rural area in the central US, so we have a backup whole house generator that runs on propane. I chose propane because those motors seem to have less maintenance, plus we have propane for the grill, etc, already on site.
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Supposedly 220V is a little more efficient to step down than 110V? I've read a lot of articles about data mining where they run the mining rigs off of 220V in the USA instead of 110V and they gain something like 5% efficiency. They're doing it with entire shipping containers full of PCs though. On my single PC, I'm not sure I can tell the difference at all. But I'm an Electrical Engineer by trade, so it makes me feel better that I'm more power efficient and have my panel balanced. I was running the 220V for my server rack anyway, so it wasn't a lot of effort to pull one more circuit for my Desktop PC.
I've seen some things about maybe stick to a 6000 series for now until AMD gets their 7000 series drivers worked out? Do you have any experience with a 6000 series card?
I always tend to over size my power supplies. I ran my own wiring in my house, so I actually have access to 220V power there! I bought a LR-30 to C13 power cord a while back (https://www.amazon.com/NEMA-L6-30P-C13-Power-Cord/dp/B004WODG6A/) so I could run my PC on 220V. I'm not sure it actually saves me anything, but I like the idea of having my electrical panel balanced a little better.
My existing PC is old enough, it only has the SSD. I'm really looking forward to the NVMe drive after all the comments!
I have a Nextcloud server that I setup (before Immich was a thing. I'm also running it now, but not using it for photo backup). I have accounts for my immediate family and all of our phones are setup to use the Instant Upload feature to back up photos.
Thanks for the tip on the GPU! I live in an area where power is relatively cheap, so I'll probably go for the 3060. I really wish some of these would work better with AMD since their drivers seem to be more Linux-Friendly these days.
If I get something going, I'll share for sure!
My opinion is that your spouse will have to get rid of any other hobby related stuff. If you're a fisherman, she's going to have to find something to do with all the tackle, boat/s, gear.
I know a guy that was a woodworker who had a shop full of well over $20k worth of tools. Poor guy got cancer and died, and his wife had to try to get rid of all of it. Luckily she had some of his woodworking friends who helped her price and sell the stuff. (I got a pretty nice used planer out of the deal)
The free version of Otter.ai limits you to 30 minutes per conversation, 300 total monthly transcription minutes. "Pro" moves you up to 90 minutes per conversation with 1200 total minutes for $8.33/month (billed annually). "Business" is $20/month with 4 hours per conversation and 6000 total minutes. They have an "Enterprise" version, but it is one of those "call for a quote" things.
The Pro is somewhat reasonably prices, but the 90 minutes per meeting limit is a wall I would bounce up against pretty often. Hard to justify the $20/month for me when a couple years of service is about the same price as the GPU I've been wanting anyway. Plus, the GPU would be a business expense now, right? :)
Thank you! I'll make see if I can string together a few things to come up with my own homebrew version of these services. Honestly, for what they're charging I think I can justify a new dedicated GPU. I've got a few other dockers/services which could take advantage of it anyway, so maybe this is the excuse I've been needing to pull the trigger on that purchase.
Thanks for the heads up on Danswer!
I used to have this problem. I started pulling a version number (like 27) instead of "latest" so that I could just pull minor releases when I did updates, and then I manually step up the version in the docker-config file for major versions when I'm ready for them. (I don't like to pull a major release version until there's been 1 or 2 maintenance releases since my nextcloud is fairly critical for my family)