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Cake day: June 16th, 2023

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  • Both yes and no. The store is part of a chain, and orders it’s supply from them, who send out trucks from central warehouses (some exceptions may apply, like local eggs/milk or produce/fruit, or frozen goods), with only what is needed at that time. They know when and how much they usually need (typical weekly, or annually for holidays and such), and what they will have room for. Due to order volumes of the chain and purchasing power at that volume, including attached contracts, this usually works out. If not, some shelves might be empty, it happens.

    Keep in mind that the warehouse aren’t days away, and do have supply. How quickly they can get stuff in depends, but might be “tomorrow” if needed. Also friends if a delivery is already scheduled and/or if it has room and so on.


  • I understand you’re trying to be helpful, but don’t assume others are in the same country as you. And don’t assume it’s the same everywhere as wherever you are.

    There are employees, but if it happens to be crowded, they are all at the registers (unavailable for questions). If they are not, they are stocking some shelves somewhere, but it’s 1 or at most 2 people in the whole store, so you can of course go find them, but you’ll walk through most of the store until you do. There is no “in the back” anymore for stores around here, as they have very little to no storage. Everything goes straight to the shop floor, with just a sort of staging area (people only go there for literally seconds).



  • Yes at some point you realize the frankly absurd amount of time of your life spent walking around looking for things in them. Then you’ve found some or most of them only for them to move them again and start the whole time eating cycle once more. Imagine the cumulative time lost by all their customers from just one supermarket rearranging things.













  • I disagree with those saying that you can’t do a build for that budget, but I would suggest looking into used parts, at least for some things, to improve the result significantly.

    Since your system goal doesn’t seem to be storage related, as nextcloud includes storage obviously, but typically isn’t used to house multi-terabyte data sets. So assuming you can make that work for the “future homelab projects” to with dual 500gig NVME as storage. Search for a used mITX board+CPU that can accommodate that (has the slots), and go from there. Things like CPU cooler, if not part of a possible mainboard+CPU bundle, should be selected after the case at that is the limiting factor for it. Didn’t skimp on RAM size if you can (new or used is fine, depends what you can get in your area).

    With this list you’re basically done to get it up and running.




  • You still need base CPU speed for a system to be usable. Try running a modern GPU on a 10 year old CPU. It’s even worse for some, where the GPU driver needs a relatively fast CPU for the GPU to run at full speed. Mostly Intel GPUs have this issue, which is sad cause they are the most affordable, but can’t be paired with an just an affordable CPU (or an older one).

    And we’re very far away with RISC-V from the kind of performance your need to run modern games, or even decade old games. Let alone fully utilizing a high end GPU.