PC Community Thread

[Legend]

Nope, sorry.

I'd probably make a NAS.

Yeah maybe.

You use one for plex right?

[the-pi-guy]

Yeah maybe.

You use one for plex right?

Yeah. 

What kind of stuff are you syncing? 

[Legend]

Yeah.

What kind of stuff are you syncing?

All my game dev related stuff. My ideal scenario is having it just as seamless as remote desktop. Jump from laptop to desktop and desktop to laptop without losing a step. Except sometimes I'd want to leave one computer running calculations for a few hours while I work on the other.


Maybe the root of my problem is that I'm surprised how slow transferring files from SSD to SSD is. I thought local syncthing would be fine because ~800 mbps would transfer any daily changes pretty quickly but I was only getting ~30 mbps.

[the-pi-guy]

Maybe the root of my problem is that I'm surprised how slow transferring files from SSD to SSD is. I thought local syncthing would be fine because ~800 mbps would transfer any daily changes pretty quickly but I was only getting ~30 mbps.

How were you transferring the files from SSD to SSD? 

~30 MBps sounds like a connection issue to me, even HDD speeds are faster than that. I think I get that kind of speed when I'm transferring data through wifi. 
80 to 100 Mbps when transferring via ethernet. 

[Legend]

How were you transferring the files from SSD to SSD?

~30 MBps sounds like a connection issue to me, even HDD speeds are faster than that. I think I get that kind of speed when I'm transferring data through wifi.
80 to 100 Mbps when transferring via ethernet.

I assumed it was a bottleneck caused by thousands of small files because steam downloads over wifi an order of magnitude faster, but maybe it is the router.

My laptop has wifi 7 so a new router wouldn't be bad either way...

[the-pi-guy]

That'd still seem unusually slow. 

I'd try testing a few things. 

Move files to a HDD through USB, preferably 3.0
Try moving them back. 

[Legend]

I did an hdd backup and it was fast on big files but even slower on small. Then it crashed.

[Legend]

I did testing with syncthing and yeah it's an issue with thousands of small files. Transferring a single video file was as fast as local wifi could support.


Even an issue with deleting small files though. I deleted ~50 thousand on my desktop as a test and the network info was shared almost instantly, but then syncthing took ages to delete them all. It had to go through 1 by 1.

I'm still not sure what my setup will be going forward.

[the-pi-guy]

Fair enough. Still feels oddly slow. That's like an order of magnitude slower than HDD. Then again, I don't move a lot of small files. Only massive ones. My experience is very biased... 

Could be a lot of different causes. Slow cache on the SSD, CPU struggling to keep up. 

[the-pi-guy]

I finally had an opportunity to play Age of Empires IV for a few hours, a couple weeks ago.

And overall, I feel like it's a side grade from Age of Empires II. That might be a little generous.

The game is definitely great. The core gameplay is basically the same as AoE II.

The game tries to fix some issues with Age of Empires II. Like the fact that when you are upgrading your Age, your town center is basically locked down. So you can't create more villagers while advancing to the next age.  So AoE IV allows you to go to the next age by having your villagers build a monument. 

But the game also brings in some annoying quirks. For the Japanese, the house doubles as a mill. I had a villager building a bunch of houses next to a food source, and instead of continuing to build houses, they start gathering food. 

You also have a limit of 200 people, even though Age II has had a 500 pop limit for a while now. It also doesn't have anywhere near as many civs as Age II does. Which I guess Age II has 45 with all of the DLC? It has a bunch of DLC that add like 5 civs each. Whereas Age IV only has about 16 I believe. 

I feel like the game is overall great. But it feels like a good overhaul of the original Age II that came out 25 years ago. If you ignore the several expansion packs and other enhancements that Age of Empires II has gotten.


It's not the worst thing. Age of Empires II is so amazingly timeless. I still can sit down and play a few rounds and still have really good fun. 

At the same time, it doesn't do enough to justify it existing separately from Age II. 

[Legend]

Still trying to sync my laptop. So many random issues that pop up.

[Legend]

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Would not buy this today but in 10 years, maybe this will work pretty well. Would be crazy if you could have something like the switch and have it just be a pro controller in your pocket. Then you pull apart the joycons and a screen appears between them.

[kitler53]

as a PC i feel like it's rolling in the wrong direction.   everything i use is optimized for wide screen.  i guess it would help you watch poorly executed videos made on peoples phones but i don't want that junk.    ...and if i were to watch them i'd be watching them on my phone.


but yeah, i like your use case legend.  devices are too large these days, imo, so if it were possible to condense them when the device is put away i'd like that.