Sure but I meant small form factor stuff, which I haven't seen any board with more than two slots and thus 64 GB cap.

"I specced up an equivalent NUC and there wasn’t a lot of difference in price, and the M2 is really fast."

You must be putting a lot of stock in the CPU and 10G Ethernet. Because the pricing on storage and RAM, which are much more important resources in most self-hosting scenarios, differ an extreme amount since you can't upgrade the RAM in the M-chip Minis. They also cap out at 32 GB which isn't bad but half of what say AM4 can do. Power Efficiency is of course also great on the M-series chips which is worth something.

If we're purely talking Intel NUCs then the i7s and i9s do get expensive but so does the M2 pro. M2 is absolutely faster than i5 and i3 but I can't really imagine a use case where that would matter for self-hosting?

Quick search for a product that satisfies your use case that is available in my region:

https://www.westerndigital.com/products/mp3-players/sandisk-clip-sport-plus?sku=SDMX28-016G-G46B

There's bound to be a plethora of cheaper and more expensive alternatives. And probably a lot on the used market as well.

I think you're over thinking this a lot. Why not buy a cheap MP3 player with Bluetooth? It's bound to be infinitely more usable and stable for an older person. Physical buttons is king for the elderly.

100% agree. A dog is no smarter or more "special" than a pig.

So flat it's not even NSFW

Huh, now that you say so it does look like a molex connector. I haven't seen one of those in years. If it is then at worst a few case fans stopped working. I can't say I've ever seen anything important be attached to molex?

I think this makes a bit of sense though doesn't it? They wrote "guy". Given that training data is probably predominantly white "guy" would give you a white guy nine times out of ten without clarification of what the word means to the AI, i.e. ethnically ambiguous. Because that's what guy is, ethnically ambiguous. The spelling is because DALL-E suuuuucks at text, but slowly getting better at least.

But they should 100% tweak it so that when a defined character is asked for stuff like that gets dropped. I think the prompt structure is what makes this one slip through. Had they put quotes around "guy with swords pointed at him" to clearly mark that as it's own thing this wouldn't have happened.

Does it attach to the motherboard in one end? As in is one end still attached? If so is there any labels / text there? It looks like it could be a fan cable and if it is the end connected to the motherboard should have a label.

If not that I'd need more pictures, especially of the loose end and the connection point in the connected end.

I don't think this is related to your headphones not working though.

With an image and that spec then you could most likely source them from AliExpress or eBay. It will however be a lot of work changing the bulbs since I'm fairly certain from that spec that they're soldered on and thus not made to be replaced in a smooth fashion. Still very much doable but the amount of work involved, and the delivery time for the parts / tools you need and it might be a tough ask to squeeze in before Christmas. I'd probably just buy a new tree then if I end up with some free time repair it and sell it.

Yeah, shitposting has turned out to be something Lemmy does exceptionally well, the low total amount of content means even the shittiest content gets seen, which means the real shitposts get to the top and not high effort content disguised as shitposts which is the norm elsewhere.