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benjojo posted 25 Jul 2025 20:46 +0000

"Motherboard vendors don't mess up your pcie slot alignment" challenge (impossible)

2nd time I've done something like this, always uncomfortable

A photo of the camera looking towards the back of a server where the back plate of the network card does not exist and it is just free floating ports, in the background of the photo, you can see the bracket for the pcie card

krono@toot.berlin replied 26 Jul 2025 05:45 +0000
in reply to: https://benjojo.co.uk/u/benjojo/h/2wNzq2d26yMWv72rQk

@benjojo Shit's infuriating.

nblr@chaos.social replied 25 Jul 2025 22:27 +0000
in reply to: https://secluded.ch/users/jeroen/statuses/114916208920176240

@jeroen @benjojo
In this case you might even get away with using a non-flexible one like this:

pcie extender