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ad_on_is, 1 month ago

Any specific reason why you’d want to go with NVMEs for your storage, and not just 2.5 SSDs?

If it’s performance you’re concerned about. I have 3 SSDs in RAID (external USB 3.2 JBOD enclosure), and they perform way better than a single NVME.

For minipcs, have a look at aliexpress. They tend to have the branded options much cheaper than amazon. Trigkey, minisforum, Beelink, etc.

ad_on_is, 1 month ago

I’m running mine successfully for the past few months and never had an issue. The only thing to make sure, is, that it passes the serial number through. In case it goes bonkers, you can just swap it.

ad_on_is, 1 month ago

I run a trigkey (AMD 5700u) as my NAS (unraid) and homelab, and a CW p-5 (N305) as my router (opnsense), and have no problems at all. So they for sure boot Linux and FreeBSD, which is 90% the case.

Unlike some old second hand, new hardware is more powerful and energy efficient.

ad_on_is, 1 month ago

name a feature…

No need to, they both have their place for sure… I don’t know their features, and I probably don’t even use most of them. but openwrt is solid enough for potato hardware, whereas opnsense is not. Also, my point was to show that both operating systems run on the aliexpress hardware, counteracting your claim that some systems don’t boot.

ad_on_is, 1 month ago

I managed to get it somehow working, but it got rejected by Flathub, because they don’t want me to build webkit and use the network during build (which I need)

I’m working on resticity, a restic frontend.

ad_on_is, 1 month ago

but it works on my PC 😅

ad_on_is, 1 month ago

TBH I’m fairly new to this. Gnome 45 sandbox has webkit2-4.1, while my PC build uses webkit2-4.0. Now, Gnome 3.38 sandbox has webkit2-4.0, but it still doesn’t run, due to missing libs. And I don’t know how to put everything together, so it works without having to re-build everything.

ad_on_is, 1 month ago

Noice! I got a successfull build of a flatpak bundle (without webkit) using GitHub actions. the bundle can be downloaded and installed via flatpak install --user xxx.flatpak and it’s running.

Now I need to figure out, how to publish this to Flathub.

ad_on_is, 1 month ago

Bummer! Flathub doesn’t want me to use Gnome 3.38, since it’s EOL :-(

ad_on_is, 1 month ago

yes… since it’s way easier to distribute, amything, by anyone.

Speaking of which… I’m the official maintainer of all the crypto wallets out there… trust me, bro!

ad_on_is, 1 month ago

But what about the Hamas that’s hiding behind all the Humans, and not to mention the beheaded babies. Isn’t it a bit too early for a ceasefire, since Israel hasn’t gotten its vengeance?

Oh wait… it’s elections year. Got it!

/s obviously

ad_on_is, 2 months ago

I too swapped my HDDs to SSDs recently, and while they’re in an enclosure, connected via USB, with ZFS they perform way better than a single NVME.

ad_on_is, 2 months ago

I use the provided databases in the docker-compose file, since some services require a specific version and I’m too lazy to investigate whether it works on my existing service or not.

ad_on_is, 2 months ago

Oh man, just today I was messing around with flatpak, where I tried building webkit2, which took ages, or almost an hour (to be more specific).

And I was thinking to myself if that’s what Gentoo feels like.

ad_on_is, 2 months ago

would you mind elaborating on the benefits? like what does one actually gain in a real-world scenario by having the software tuned to a specific machine?

disk space aside, given the sheer amount of packages that come with a distro, are we talking about 30% less CPU and RAM usage (give or take), or is it more like squeezing out the last 5% of possible optimization?

ad_on_is, 2 months ago

I’m not interested in veering to the right

I wasn’t interested in smoking, until I lit up the first one with my friends

ad_on_is, 2 months ago

yeah, and I was educating myself on how people can get addicted to bad-smelling shit… and here we are.

ad_on_is, 2 months ago

But isn’t that exactly what right wingers do?

ad_on_is, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

This one here is for your co-worker only! Not for you, not for anyone else, just for him:

github.com/atuinsh/atuin

ad_on_is, 2 months ago

If you haven’t, get yourself familiar with Docker and docker compose, and then use portainer to manage all your stuff. It’s a lifesaver.

ad_on_is, 2 months ago

actually…Israeli Hitler would be more appropriate. Not all Jews support Ben (and Israel in that matter) … But most Israelis do seem to support Ben, otherwise they could’ve just just gathered around the gov building and demanded his step-down.

ad_on_is, 2 months ago

Alright…

I support free software, so anyone has easy access to great software and the opportunity to create amazing things and make another person’s life better.

I also support gun rights, so anyone has easy access to guns and the opportunity to end another person’s life.

ad_on_is, 2 months ago

couple of Pis are cheaper

Are they thou? In my region the 4Bs are selling at around 60 bucks (no case, no SD)… A “couple” of them (including some for backup and HA and Octoprint) would mean at least 4 of them, totalling at 240 bucks (or 300 with SD). For that money, one could get two (or even three) more-than-capable thin clients.