Thank you good sir for the genuine laugh

Ah thanks for the info.

Oh boy, just wanted to get into it. Damn sad, not of course understandable, the developers are only humans as well

That can always happen, therefore I hate all locked in services, even if they are good at this moment. But so far it looks like steam is still interested in long-term goal, they didn’t go public yet after all.

I was there… 2000 years ago

Wow, we dodged a bullet there I guess

Particularly cats have a very difficult to read style of showing their affection. So your pet might care more than you think. All the best!

My cat is now eating his medicine out of my hand, because he knows he will get a treat afterwards. You just need to have something they really crave.

I’m very happy with my ASRock N100 (either m or DC). It has sufficient performance for my needs (proxmox with opnsense, jellyfin and various other services) while using very little power

I find it increasingly hard to find decent stuff without that.

Are you a Disney princess?

Nix is on my infinitely long list of stuff to get into, when I’m in better shape.

I really like the idea, but for my purpose an open case is a no-go. It’s for my Homeserver and I have two hyper active cats ;) but I was already thinking to get some kind of skeleton like this and put someone around. Is this applicable for micro ATX Mainboards?

ok, thanks. yes I noticed the realtek nic, but unfortunately I haven’t found a single MB with an intel chip below 200euro. So if this really causes issues, I’ll just get a PCIe NIC

they are a bit more pricy, but not much, so I changed that, thanks :)

what do you think about the ASRock B650M PG LIGHTNING, or the ASRock B650 PG LIGHTNING? latter is unfortunately not in stock, but besides the missing heatsink on top and the size I also do not really see a practical difference between the two

I went with .home and so far the problems are within reason

that is a good point, our flat is in an older house and feels like we need to vacuum every day… not speaking of the two meowing furrballs roaming around… that bringts me to another important case-related topic… I’ll never again buy a case in which the power buttons are on top… one of my cat was walking over the case and his paw was still small enough to press the power button… in the middle of a dota match… at least it lead to a good story

the one I listed checked all boxes, good thing to look for, for my last one I still needed to have an obsolete windows partition…

thanks for the clarification. I always thought those giant heat sinks, which one often find on gaming boards are snake oil to make it look cooler ;) but anyway… the CPU I am currently aiming for has a TDP of 65W, so that should be fine… GPU I don’t know yet, there I might reiterate. I’ll definitely keep it on my radar.