Opnsense. Switched to it right after the whole pfSense plus fiasco.

Title theme still gives me chills

Fr. They’re still feeling it with the series s and x.

Actually Sony got their act together by slashing the price and offering some of the best games that generation as exclusives. Red ring of death didn’t help (even though Sony had the PSN hack).

In the end, Sony barely won out compared to Xbox.

I’m convinced he kills alot of them and detective mode is just lying

I went from a 4670k -> 8500-> 5900X -> 5800X3D. Zen 3 has treated me pretty well aside from some bad RAM. However, if I was building now, I’d probably go Intel. 13700k is cheaper than the 7800X3D in most places. It gets close enough gaming performance while absolutely smoking it in productivity. Not to mention idle wattage is better on Intel, which is great for me since I spend more time working with my system.

Intel is my definitive choice for home servers thanks to quicksync, lower idle wattage, and higher core counts.

Why passthrough for opnsense? Shouldn’t bridges should be good enough?

A Pfsense/opnsense VM taught me how networking works. Before I set it up, all I knew about was port forwarding. I learned about firewall rules, LAN and WAN, VLANs, VPNs, DNS, Dynamic DNS, reverse proxies, bufferbloat, DHCP, etc.

I’m also learning how to make my own CI/CD pipelines with self hosted GitHub Actions as well as dockerizing applications.

If this becomes more widespread, Intel could regain the gaming crown.

Before the 7800X3D came around, that was the gaming CPU to recommend. It matched the 7700X in gaming and destroyed it in productivity performance.

It’s honestly still worth recommending if you want a more stable and balanced experience with your computer.