I ran similar dual processors, each with a single x4 connector, while waiting for a conversion kit to turn one of my PCIe connectors into another set of plugs. It ran fine, but it’s not officially recommended by my motherboard vendor, and I probably wouldn’t have done it long-term. All that is to say that YMMV.

Well shoot. :(

“I’d kill for an IDE on macOS that uses the native UI.” Possibly dumb question from someone who hasn’t used MacOS for ages: isn’t that what Xcode is?

No. From rural Oregon, early 20’s. My dad has been meaning to teach me with our old Ford Focus, but it hasn’t happened yet. :(

My humble used office desktop turned NAS quickly became a dual-processor, 64GB ECC machine with more storage and processing power than I’ll probably ever need.

This 💯. Syncthing is the holy grail of sync apps. Nothing else I’ve used comes close.

Bottles. Makes getting stuff working on WINE 10x easier.

I use my own NAS along with syncthing to backup and sync stuff across my phone, laptop, and desktop. Before that I was using mega.nz with its native Linux client, which worked fine sans a weird issue where it’d repeatedly transfer the same file forever.

Way back I also saw a paid 3rd party Linux-native app that supposedly works with all the major personal cloud carriers, though I never ended up using it and have long since forgotten what it’s even called.

I was rocking a revived Thinkpad W540 which probably cost me around that price after I upgraded everything I could. The only word of caution I’ll give you if searching the used market is that older NVIDIA cards are deprecated by newer drivers on top of NVIDIA Optimus being a royal pain in the ass on Linux.