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  • Since nobody seemed to actually answer your question: the answer is that ram is actually really simple electrically. Modern DDR5 is very difficult and expensive to manufacture at scale, but is very simple to design.

    If someone were to try and poison a memory package, it would be massively obvious by virtue of the package being larger, being very electrically noisy, or by sucking an order of magnitude more power to function.

    DRAM sockets are not generic pci busses, and cannot be used on a typical motherboard to load arbitrary hardware the way USB or PCIE can.

    Also, the way ram works, you really couldn’t do much more than read contents and relay via an on-dir radio, which would have to be super short range. Even something as “simple” as Bluetooth or wifi would be too big, too slow and take too much power to still function as a memory die.

    You should be way more scared of cloud services, appliances, or iot devices than a stick of DDR5.

    Tl/DR: it’d be prohibitively expensive and itd have nowhere to go, if it could even work at all without Corsair noticing.


  • People shit on it but there’s a lot of good open-source tooling that supports it.

    There are nist l1 profiles

    Tutorials and guides for everything

    etc

    Part of being a good sysadmin is knowing when not to reinvent the wheel. Ubuntu has a lot of options for vetted, hardened, “other people’s wheels.”

    Also, for posterity, the competent ones are running the headless, server version of Ubuntu. (As opposed to the bloated mess that is Ubuntu Desktop). The server version catches a lot of flack it doesn’t deserve.










  • Appreciate the recommended fixes. I did find similar and was able to work through some of the issues with CS2 but I did that on instinct, and it wasn’t until I was halfway through troubleshooting game 2 of 2 attempted that I realized it wasn’t where I needed it to be for a remote support hand-me-down.

    I did briefly entertain the idea of setting up rustdesk on it but the atomic nature + Wayland made unattended (read: “help I broke it and I can’t log in”) not really viable. By the time I got to “hrm, I could probably set up a reverse ssh tunnel into my homelab for persistent support?” I decided windows was probably the play here.



  • I just went to repurpose some old hardware for my nephew (4790k + 32gb ddr3 + rtx 3050) which I thought would make a very passable bazzite box. I put 2 drives in the test rig, one with bazzite Nvidia + kde and one with win11 running with the rufus tpm bypass hacks.

    CS2 ran at ~40fps in bazzite with no sound once you got in game, win11 ran at ~100

    Helldivers2 ran at ~50fps in bazzite with constant frame drops even after letting it precompile shaders. On windows it was a very playable 70fps.

    I mainline Linux myself and I wanted bazzite to be the set-and-forget answer but it really wasn’t. I can’t in good faith hand that build over to an 12 year old with bazzite and that was super disappointing.