AMD has been open source since late 2017?

I use Alpine Linux for all my dockers, small and fast.

Thats what I did when win 7 support was ending, been very happy and there’s no way I’m going back to Windows.

Ah they sold boards with the bugged versions of the i225? Mine had the rev3 chip which is supposed to have fixed the issues with the older revisions.

I have a b650e-i

That’s not good, I actively try to avoid realtek cards since they are unreliable in linux. I have an asus board with an Intel nic but I haven’t had these issues.

Nope, you have to do the bypass

2.5" disks are SMR, you don’t want that in a raid.

Unless you have use case for that much horsepower I would suggest, like others here, buy a mini PC as a start and if you need more down the line buy a second one. They are cheap, fairly quiet and don’t use much power.

It’s called power supply idle control, worth a test.

There is an issue with ryzen and certain PSUs that when it goes to idle it pulls so little power that the psu thinks it’s off and kills the power, it can appear as a hang. there should be an option in the bios to change it to “typical power” or named something similar.

Yes it’s normal, I sometimes use that to disinfect my ears after diving and it sizzles a bit.

The newer ones usually have some smart stuff built in

Framework isn’t available where I am yet unfortunately.

Yes and it sucks, I would love one

I agree but many use it as if it’s actual power consumption

Afaik TDP isn’t power consumption, it’s more input to the manufacturers of the coolers and it’s not calculated the same between AMD and Intel.

Aren’t any AMD based ones? Seems to be very few laptops with AMD gfx overall.

Because they are just rebranding oem devices

Yeah I love dark humor as well but timing is everything.