Monday, October 28, 2024

Things to consider Buying a Mini PC/NUC

The name NUC is used by even Bee Keepers for their bee hives.

One should not rush to buy a Mini PC because of the bargain price.

 
There is a bewildering array of Mini Computers.
 
I begin to love the ones with Touch Screen facility.

I am not a gamer and my gaming is restricted to cellphone games.
 
Steam Drive and Dock is an option but one has to pay for each game. 
I supported Steam Drive, since at that time Linux lacked games. 
 
It has changed now and I do not support Steam at all.
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Steam deck cost around $375/= and it cannot be upgraded.
One can make a good gaming computer for $400/=.
 
I already have a NUC and it has 320GB SATA disk with 4 instances of Gnome of Debian.

My priorities go like this.

1. It should be Linux compatible.

I hate Microsoft Windows for many reasons and I have voiced them elsewhere on this blog site.

2. It should not have Windows installed where I can save a lot of dollars up front.

3. It should be under 200 dollars. 
I do not like to waste money. 
I already have a Big PC which is working fine.

4. It should not be bulky and I should be able to carry it abroad in my hand luggage
It should not increase the weight of my luggage.

5. It should have at least 8GB RAM.
Mind you the operating system always run on RAM. 
Linux runs well on 8GB and 4GB is the minimum.
 
If one is running Windows ask for at least 32GB RAM.

6. I prefer everything integrated to the motherboard including RAM. 
Low end Mini PC have integrated graphic card.

7. 500GB Mini SATA is enough for me
I already have two spare ones which I have collected over time before NVMe came into the market. 
I hate PCIe.
If you have SATA disks already in your attic, see whether the Mini PC can accommodate one.
If not go for NVMe and they come in two sizes one short and one long.
Look for one with two NVMe slots. 
One for the operating system and the other for DATA.

8. If one is a gamer one need a good graphic card.
It could be internal or external.
External is very cumbersome.
 
One can save a lot money by going for a less expensive graphic card. 
 
Depending on the graphic card one need a cooling system.

9. Last point is whether one considers upgrading the system when one's money supply improves.
 
In that case do not buy integrated system.

10. WiFi card is important and one should be able to add wireless mouse and keyboard and a even Touch Screen monitor on top of mini PC.


11. Do not ignore the ports available including Ethernet.

12. If you are simple guy go for Mini PC which has Touch Screen on top. Alternatively one can look for a Mini PC that comes with a compatible separate Touch Screen. 
If you do so, look for a design that had an incline surface or one which is hinged to the top and could be folded.

With so many on the market it not easy to decide which one to buy
For me price is the determining factor and no more upgrades in future.

Running Parallels with Proxy War in Ceylon and Ukraine

 Running Parallels with Proxy War in Ceylon and Ukraine

Let me be forthright from the very outset.

I am writing this as a simple Buddhist who is totally against any war anywhere on this Planet Earth.

Hatred begets hatred.

Loving kindness brings harmony.

In Ceylon we had over 35 years of political  hatred under JRJ(UNP) and Sirimovo (SLFP).

These two parties and their collateral, ruined Ceylon

The breakaway offshoot parties from these two parties still carry hatred in Ceylon including LSSP, CP and MEP.

There are 80 odd registered parties in Ceylon and one is headed by a monk. According to Buddha monks should not take part in politics or should not give advice to Kings, Queens and Presidents.

The latest in this development are Wira Wansa Associate Conglomerate and Champaka's new party of descent (Hate). These two are offshoots of the old JVP lead by Wije (Wira)Weera who started a armed revolution in this country when there was no need for such an action 

There was no racial animosity in this country for very long time in the modern history.

He started hating India to begin with.

It is believed North  Korea was instrumental  in creating this party of  descent who used killing of opponents in broad day light, as a political stunt and a tool. 

Less I talk about LTTE is better and it was a party of hate from its origin and it systematically  exterminated, all the other Moderate Tamil Party Leaders.

TNA is the remnant collateral.

I have nothing but admiration for Mr.Sampanthan for his political stamina. He is no more.

By the way, I do not understand how the Tamil political parties evolved in the North.

Muslim parties analogy is simple.

When two dogs fight, the small dog steals the flesh of politics.

Here is the entry point for CIA.

CIA used Indian RAW as its collateral in creating descent in Ceylon just like in Ukraine. India hated Ceylon and feared it would supersede Singapore as a power keg of the Indian Ocean.

USA was eyeing Ceylon as a military base.

I know it as first hand information since, I protected the satellite in the surgical theater as a piece of surgical equipment not willingly but unknowingly.        

It was hidden as a surgical equipment when the previous doctor in charge was the head of the clinical unit. This doctor fled to United Kingdom fearing recrimination from the DJVP.

I was hanging around without a job during trouble times and gladly filled in his place. 

India created DJVP (second RAW creation and the earlier creation was LTTE) in 1988-89 to scuttle the launch of this satellite. 

Indira Gandhi was the architect of the first but I am not sure of the second, may be Rajiv Gandhi.

Only difference in Ukraine was it armed the Neo Nazis and Bandera in Ukraine for over a decade (equivalents of JVP and DJVP).

Both Republicans and Democrats without exception helped to create Russophobia.

CIA and MIC (Military industrial Complex) were direct beneficiary but they have now met their nemesis called Russians who withstood Nazis, during the World War II.

I have sympathy for average Ukrainians who are refugees in Poland and EU countries.

Of course, historically Poland had to stomach the spill overs .

Coming to India and Indians they did not provide refugee status to Ceylonese Tamils. In fact,  there is step brotherly treatment of Tamils of Ceylon.

The typical Political Duplicity of Indians.

Currently, India while buying cheap Russian fuels and selling them back to EU countries 3 times the stock price and are asking for a seat in the Security Council.

It is the real Geopolitical Duplicity.

Pakistan and the rest of the neutral countries should oppose double dealing of Indians, and there should NOT be a place in the Security Council for India.

China obliterated Tibet and Dalai Lama is a lame duck. 

China fought two wars with India for a narrow stretch of land and should not be given a seat in the Security Council.

Instead, South Africa deserves a place in the Security Council.

WHO is a colossal waste and should be abolished for the reason allowing CIA to operate lethal viral labs in Ukraine to kill President Putin. There would have been over 22 experimental laboratories over there. When war broke out, the first thing Russians did was to take over these facilities with tell tale evidence and WHO is numb and dumb about these experimental laboratories which they have probably authorized, in the first instance.

One need not do anything to resurrect USA and UK personnel who suffer from radioactive injuries that they may have acquired while handling the Depleted Uranium. Let the guys/girls who masterminded these operations die of lethal cancers.

France should be allowed to have Nuclear Plants in every city but they should not be allowed to buy Uranium from outside sources, at all. They should dig and mines of Uranium in France and not in West Africa.

No gas and fuel from Russia or any other country to France and UK until all the Depleted Uranium is utilized in the War Zone of their choice. 

Above points are raised to show not only India but all except a few EU countries are Duplicity Giants.

This piece is not complete unless I make some references to Israel and Muslim conflict. Both religions are essentially similar, God based. One branch arise from a legitimate child and other branch from an illegitimate child from same father. The God I think was an intermediary by creating another hybrid child of humans and gods.         I am a guy who believes in, that the God has no relationship to human evolution.

If there was a hybrid child it would have been from an alien species who visited this planet millions of years ago, having had sex with an evolving primate species.

By the way, the age of this planet is not 7000 years as according to Bible and Quran but much more ancient and revising these texts according to at least Sumerian artifacts (if not scientific) is mandatory.

By the way, these two texts have many editions and are constantly changing with time.

Archaeologists and writers are born liars except for a few.

This comment applies to Bagawath Geetha, too.

I have a request for President Putin.

We took 35 years to end our war of attrition and we are totally bankrupt

He should end the War (attrition till next Presidential Election in USA is prudent) soon, on his own accord with a Strategic Bomb (ideally not Nuclear and that is how we finished the World War II in Japan. But here it is to avoid the World War III which is annihilation of all and sundry) near the border of Poland or on the head quarters of the Military Alliance of the EU, lest Russia too,          would go bankrupt with Esoteric Missiles of mass destruction.

MAD or Mutually Assured Destruction!

Postscript

Please note I am not in Ceylon currently and if I post this post in a local post I will be categorized as a terrorist.

All Ceylonese are by default terrorists, thanks to our robust constitution.

I think Ceylon should not have a constitution but let our monks deliberate Security Council Debates, on monthly basis in every village in Ceylon and the UNO should fund these rabid monks.

By doing so, (debating security) as rabid dogs,  fighting each other, they will exhaust their inbuilt anger and spent up steam, the rest of the citizens can exercise their free and democratic rights only in their residential domains, if they possess any of their own but not rented out.

According to proposed amendments to the constitution tenants are terrorists with no legal rights.

In the alternative each monk should be provided with a Steam Deck and Drive with a big overhead TV to play "War Games" in preparation of the Security Council Debates.

I have another proposal!

The rent for University Students should be raised by three times the local prices.

By doing so, we can reduce the number entering the Universities drastically and then having more dons than undergraduates in every University that fails to function with perennial strikes.

The dons themselves can create creativity  perpetually without students asking valid questions.