seaQueue

seaQueue, 21 days ago

Wow, it looks like Democrats are finally cottoning on to the judicial appointments the right has been ramming in for 25y

seaQueue, 21 days ago

Edit: get Elon Musk on the phone, he’s deranged enough to spend that much money on something like this while ignoring the ethical and moral implications /s

You joke but he’d probably traumatize a synthetic intelligence enough that it’d think 4chan user behavior is the baseline human standard

seaQueue, 23 days ago

Mastodon

seaQueue, 23 days ago

Gosh, it’s almost as if our under regulated factory farming practices lead to these outcomes every couple of years

seaQueue, 23 days ago

For RSS I like ReadYou, for feeds I like Mastodon with a variety of interests followed. There are a surprising number of orgs on Mastodon these days.

seaQueue, 23 days ago

Ad money machine didn’t go brrrrrr

seaQueue, 24 days ago

My intro to calculus came in the form of a battered copy of a 1979 historical calculus textbook by W.M. Priestley, it was significantly easier to understand than any of the usual intro to calculus textbooks that I’ve seen.

link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-1-4684-9349-8

Worth tracking down a copy if you’re planning to learn calculus, mine saw me through undergrad calc handily.

seaQueue, 24 days ago

Have you had issues with entire feeds spontaneously marking themselves unread? I finally uninstalled readyou after fighting with that one for a year - it’s not particularly good UX when the app decides that 80+ posts in a feed are new again and worthy of a notification.

seaQueue, 24 days ago

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/10a5d0ef-dc6b-479d-922d-654732c70ba9.png

seaQueue, 25 days ago (edited 22 days ago)

GNOME extensions pick up a lot of slack if you want a dock or other UI features, extensions.gnome.org has a whole host of useful customizations. I also use a quick search/run popup launcher (ulauncher) so I don’t have to dip into the overview unless I want to see all of my open windows or drag things between workspaces.

I’m not really into the whole “which DE is better” thing. I think if you like one or the other you should just use it and get on with your life - trying to prove that one or the other is outright better is a waste of time, DE choice is entirely down to preference.

That said, I really like GNOME - it largely just gets out of the way and allows you to focus on what you’re doing. The overview and workspace handling in GNOME is top notch IMO and everything I want to launch or find can be accessed quickly with hotkeys or other shortcuts. My main beef with KDE is that it’s both too customizable and yet not quite customizable enough, when I try it every couple of years I inevitably spend a couple of days configuring settings to suit, get annoyed that I can’t quite get it to do what I want and promptly relog into a GNOME session.

Speaking of - OP, if you want to compare the two just install KDE on Arch and start a KDE session from your login manager. You don’t have to pick one or the other, you can try both and compare them before you make your distro switch.

seaQueue, 25 days ago

I’m surprised the ATF hasn’t headhunted her yet, she’s a perfect fit

seaQueue, 25 days ago

Election integrity is when the GOP always wins /s

seaQueue, 26 days ago

iowait is indicative of storage not being able to keep up with the performance of the rest of the system. What hardware are you using for storage here?

seaQueue, 26 days ago (edited 25 days ago)

If I had to guess there was a code change in the PVE kernel or in their integrated ZFS module that led to a performance regression for your use case. I don’t really have any feedback there, PVE ships a modified version of an older kernel (6.2?) so something could have been backported into that tree that led to the regression. Same deal with ZFS, whichever version the PVE folks are shipping could have introduced a regression as well.

Your best bet is to raise an issue with the PVE folks after identifying which kernel version introduced the regression, you’ll want to do a binary search between now and the last known good time that this wasn’t occurring to determine exactly when the issue started - then you can open an issue describing the regression.

Or just throw a cheap SSD at the problem and move on, that’s what I’d do here. Something like this should outlast the machine you put it in.

Edit: the Samsung 863a also pops up cheaply from time to time, it has good endurance and PLP. Basically just search fleaBay for SATA drives with capacities of 400/480gb, 800/960gb, 1.6T/1.92T or 3.2T/3.84T and check their datasheets for endurance info and PLP capability. Anything in the 400/800/1600/3200Gb sequence is a model with more overprovisioning and higher endurance (usually refered to as mixed use) model. Those often have 3 DWPD or 5 DWPD ratings and are a safe bet if you have a write heavy workload.

seaQueue, 26 days ago

That’s what I’d do here, used enterprise SSDs are dirt cheap on fleaBay

seaQueue, 25 days ago (edited 25 days ago)

Depends on the SSD, the one I linked is fine for casual home server use. You’re unlikely to see enough of a write workload that endurance will be an issue. That’s an enterprise drive btw, it certainly wasn’t cheap when it was brand new and I doubt running a couple of VMs will wear it quickly. (I’ve had a few of those in service at home for 3-4y, no problems.)

Consumer drives have more issues, their write endurance is considerably lower than most enterprise parts. You can blow through a cheap consumer SSD’s endurance in mere months with a hypervisor workload so I’d strongly recommend using enterprise drives where possible.

It’s always worth taking a look at drive datasheets when you’re considering them and comparing the warranty lifespan to your expected usage too. The drive linked above has an expected endurance of like 2PB (~3 DWPD, OR 2TB/day, over 3y) so you shouldn’t have any problems there. See sandisk.com/…/cloudspeed-eco-genII-sata-ssd-datas…

Older gen retired or old stock parts are basically the only way I buy home server storage now, the value for your money is tremendous and most drives are lightly used at most.

Edit: some select consumer SSDs can work fairly well with ZFS too, but they tend to be higher endurance parts with more baked in over provisioning. It was popular to use Samsung 850 or 860 Pros for a while due to their tremendous endurance (the 512GB 850s often had an endurance lifespan of like 10PB+ before failure thanks to good old high endurance MLC flash) but it’s a lot safer to just buy retired enterprise parts now that they’re available cheaply. There are some gotchas that come along with using high endurance consumer drives, like poor sync write performance due to lack of PLP, but you’ll still see far better performance than an HDD.

seaQueue, 26 days ago

What are the boots for? When I did engineering field work in a previous life I swore by my Redbacks, they’re a popular choice with EMTs and firefighters here and they last forever.

Check out supportive insoles too, super feet green are helpful for people who think they have flat feet but in reality have just always worn shitty shoes and haven’t exercised much. A really good pair of walking shoes with supportive insoles will help a ton if this is you. I didn’t have properly supportive shoes until I was maybe 25 and they made a world of difference in my life. I too was told I had flat feet, but it turns out that a lifetime of poor shoes will do that to you. Most of my knee and posture problems resolved themselves after I brought supportive shoes and was able to walk comfortably. Check out Ecco if you’re looking for good walking shoes, my pairs usually last a good decade or so.

seaQueue, 26 days ago

I’m just here to watch Phony Stark continue to light money on fire.

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/0f65125b-d43d-47d9-a3b1-6f2195a63326.png

seaQueue, 26 days ago

Ayn Rand? You mean that miserable woman who died broke and alone because her groupies took her message seriously and acted in their own interest?

seaQueue, 26 days ago

Ayn Rand writes capitalist slash fic

seaQueue, 26 days ago

Webp has terrible image quality and was unsupported by many, many, tools for a long time

seaQueue, 27 days ago

Nvidia drivers are largely reliable these days. I’ve daily driven AMD/Nvidia hybrid setups since ~2020 and have only occasionally had Nvidia driver issues. I’ve actually had more breakage in amdgpu due to insufficient testing and code churn - I think I’ve reported close to two dozen regressions over the last 4y.

seaQueue, 27 days ago

AMD/Nvidia hybrid user here. I’ve had more breakage in the amdgpu driver than Nvidia by far. I think a more fair comment is “drivers break on Linux occasionally and it’s a good idea to learn how to roll back package versions.”

seaQueue, 26 days ago

+1 automate your backup rolling, setup your monitoring and alerting and then ignore everything until something actually goes wrong. I touch my lab a handful of times a year when it’s time for major updates, otherwise it basically runs itself.

seaQueue, 26 days ago

Still works for me, I think I’m either a moderator of some defunct sub or posting to my own u/ page at some point counts towards being a moderator.