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seaQueue , 4 days ago

This is v2 of the CAMM spec and it's awesome. They've solved all of the major issues that were causing laptop mfgrs to solder ram directly to the motherboard and they've nailed the biggest problem with v1 which was the ease of damaging the CAMM connector pins. Apparently you could wreck the v1 connector with compressed air if you weren't paying attention, which makes tool-free connector replacement in v2 a great addition.

seaQueue , 5 days ago (edited 2 days ago)

Check out You.com too, their search is far better than Google on a lot of the technical topics I've searched for.

Edit: ugh, it was good. Now they're shovelling LLM interaction front and center and the original search functionality is completely buried. If you can find their original search interface it might still be worth a look.

seaQueue , 5 days ago

But hey let's keep going full speed ahead with the policy because we can't possibly afford to let rich people's assets lose value

seaQueue , 5 days ago

Shhh, the NIMBYs might hear you

seaQueue , 6 days ago

I mean, gestures wildly at everything

Climate change, rampant (and increasing) income inequality, treating employees like disposable parts, govt handouts to the wealthy in the trillions over the last decade, healthcare costs, rent?

seaQueue , 4 days ago

I'm hopeful this is further developed and licensed out. I'd love to have one of these setup at home as part of a VR rig

seaQueue , 6 days ago

Board positions exist as a way to funnel wealth to the children, relatives and friends of the people startups are going to for their initial investment.

seaQueue , 4 days ago

Bing is even more heavily monetized and encrusted with garbage than Google is.

seaQueue , 4 days ago

Yeah, well PC LOAD LETTER

seaQueue , 6 days ago

Here? Not many, I sub to things I find interesting and browse my subscribed feed.

Reddit? Hundreds of subreddits if not more. If it's full of rage or engagement bait, intolerance or it's a community devoted to punching down I've probably blocked it.

seaQueue , 7 days ago

I'm going to uplift rock and give it the ability to think so it can shitpost for me

seaQueue , 8 days ago

The old "legalize, regulate and tax" routine tends to work better than just letting the problem fester in the background. Regulated gaming with proper oversight ensures that games are fair and not overtly predatory, and that the operators are inspected for compliance and pay their taxes.

seaQueue , 8 days ago

It's also worth getting them checked out by a gastroenterologist. Sometimes picky eating is a subconscious thing to avoid having the shits all the time.

seaQueue , 8 days ago

Just curious, what are you afraid someone would do with your dna results? The government in America already keeps dna results on all babies born in the 80’s and later.

Corporations aren't exactly known for being honest or fair, or following the law, when they have valuable data to sell. They might tell you that they'll delete your data but there's always a chance that they'll retain it and sell it under the table if someone makes a compelling offer. Or an employee could steal the data and sell it secretly, or they could have a security breach and someone could make off with it.

Why would any of that be bad? Because health insurance companies are salivating over new ways to deny your claims (or crank up your premiums) and genetic data that reveals an elevated risk of a serious condition is a damned good excuse for them to do just that.

seaQueue , 9 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 , 11 days ago

Mastodon

seaQueue , 11 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 , 11 days ago

Ad money machine didn't go brrrrrr

seaQueue , 11 days ago

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

seaQueue , 13 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 , 13 days ago (edited 12 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 , 13 days ago

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

seaQueue , 13 days ago (edited 13 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 https://www.sandisk.com/content/dam/sandisk-main/en_us/assets/resources/enterprise/data-sheets/cloudspeed-eco-genII-sata-ssd-datasheet.pdf

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 , 13 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 , 13 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 , 13 days ago

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

seaQueue , 14 days ago

Check out bazzite.gg - it's a gaming spin of Fedora atomic and I've heard nothing but good things.

Otherwise there's always Arch, or a derivative like EndeavourOS, that's where I do my steam gaming. I have, on occasion, had issues with the Nvidia dkms driver and have needed to fork the nvidia-dkms package to track a particular driver release to skip a buggy version. Aside from that it's been pretty smooth sailing. I use flatpak steam and ProtonPlus to pull Glorious Eggroll releases and everything I've played has worked well.

seaQueue , 14 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 , 14 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 , 13 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 , 16 days ago

Maybe just uninstall your bloatware?

seaQueue , 17 days ago (edited 15 days ago)

I'm waiting for them to offer a chassis to convert their laptop parts into USFF PCs. Reusing old parts after an upgrade is pretty attractive. I think they mentioned this a while back, I've been waiting for it to happen.

I'd also like to see a thunderbolt or oculink GPU bay part that would enable eGPU use with their machines.

And if we're wishlisting top facing speakers would be 🤌

seaQueue , 16 days ago

Ah, I guess they did - thanks!

seaQueue , 18 days ago

His only talent is convincing the wealthy to invest in his schemes. I don't understand how he does it, hearing him speak is painful.

That's not fair, he's also really good at making promises to the public to secure incentives and public funding and then fucking everyone over

seaQueue , 18 days ago

FOR ROADSIDE ASSISTANCE PLEASE DRINK VERIFICATION CAN

seaQueue , 18 days ago

Part of me is legitimately looking forward to rewatching all of my favorite movies and TV for the first time in my terminal years. I can't be the only one who wants to see The Return of the King again for the first time.

seaQueue , 19 days ago

Yup

seaQueue , 20 days ago (edited 19 days ago)

Distcc, maybe gluster. Run a docker swarm setup on pve or something.

Models like those are a little hard to exploit well because of limited network bandwidth between them. Other mini PC models that have a pcie slot are fun because you can jam high speed networking into them along with NVMe then do rapid fail over between machines with very little impact when one goes offline.

If you do want to bump your bandwidth per machine you might be able to repurpose the wlan m2 slot for a 2.5gbe port, but you'll likely have to hang the module out the back through a serial port or something. Aquantia USB modules work well too, those can provide 5gbe fairly stably.

Edit: Oh, you're talking about the larger desktop elitedesk g1, not the USFF tiny machines. Yeah, you can jam whatever hh cards into these you want - go wild.

seaQueue , 20 days ago

Yeah, you'll be fairly limited as far as GPU solutions go. I have a handful of hh AMD cards kicking around that were originally shipped in t740s and similar but they're really only good for hardware transcoding or hanging extra monitors off the machine - it's difficult to find a hh board with a useful amount of vram for ml/ai tasks.

seaQueue , 20 days ago

But can they run Crysis?

seaQueue , 22 days ago

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/a4ebb27a-2938-467b-a2ca-e4080a5373ac.webp

seaQueue , 28 days ago

If you really want to make his day give him a folded towel that overlaps part of the vent.

We had a folded bath mat covering half of the vent in our back bathroom to give better airflow in the room just before it and one of our cats used to spend half the winter sleeping on it.

seaQueue , 28 days ago

Oh hey, look. The cycle of AI ingesting garbage output from another AI model has begun. This can't possibly impact quality or reliability in any way /s

seaQueue , 1 month ago

Here's a tip about "AI" - it's just a probabilistic model trained on human behavior. If you think it's going to behave differently than how people behave right now you're in for disappointment.

seaQueue , 1 month ago

Twatter

seaQueue , 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago)

Bus issues usually. Having a disk (or 4) drop out of a ZFS filesystem regularly isn't a good time.

If you can find a combination of enclosure, driver/firmware and USB port that provides you with a reliable connection to the drive then USB is just another storage bus. It's generally not recommended because that combination (enclosure, chipset, firmware, driver, port) is so variable from situation to situation but if you know how to address the pitfalls it can usually work fine.

seaQueue , 1 month ago

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/34208896-5f0c-4212-87af-bbfcc6a7c5d0.jpeg

seaQueue , 29 days ago

Hey remember the time Desantis had the Florida state police raid that public health official's house at 2am because she dared to talk publicly about the covid positivity rates?