Hyacin (He/Him)

TWENTY YEARS TOO LATE!

Edit: lol @ downvotes - I was fighting with Firefox memory usage on Linux when most of you were fresh out of diapers. Blind and senseless dedication to a thing without scrutiny and a realistic perspective on the faults of thing is what make “fanbois” a derogatory term.

Whoops! I did miss that part, my bad!!

I’m loving the new Snapdragon laptops, especially if you don’t have any heavy (read: gaming) workloads!

Boxsprings are often overlooked and underrated too! They’re a critical part of a well built sleep system!

I mostly agree, and did the same with my second gen lab build - instead of shiny new NUCs like I had used round 1, I bought old off lease Dell Xeon boxes. SO MANY PROS -

• Got them up to 14c/28t each
• They can take GPUs and actually do heavy transcoding/ML work
• They can take up to like, 128GB of memory, which is GREAT when they’re all hypervisors

The downsides can’t be denied though -

• Even without the GPUs and beefed up CPUs, they are power hogs - the CPU alone uses more than an ENTIRE NUC
• They run HOT
• They run LOUD

The same holds true for off-lease SFF stuff, Lenovo and the likes …

So while reuse/repurpose is absolutely of the utmost importance, no question - when it comes to technology and how quickly it advances and miniaturizes, a thorough and logical pros/cons list is often required.

I’d add another option though - if you do need what a Pi brings to the table - do you really need a shiny new Pi 5? Is it possible a used Pi 3 or Pi 4 would do the trick, and check the reuse box?

Cloud backups, AWS, because they’ve feed me piles of credits (less so lately though) so it’s practically free.

I back very little up to the cloud though as it’s so expensive. Basically just the storage of my local Git server which has all the configs, app and microservices I’ve built for my home automations and lab. Syncs straight from my NAS where the Git server is hosted.

Proton, but I’ve been questioning that of late :-/

transmission in docker container on NAS, with dedicated IP that gets forced through VPN on my router

I’ve not tried to use it in games, but given the “scroll, lift, reset… scroll, lift, reset” x50 it takes to get across the Windows desktop, I would agree.

It does have “FPS mode”, which basically turns the right controller into a vertical mouse. I haven’t used that for basically anything either, but I’ve read rave reviews from some FPS players!

Great to hear it is a good drop-in replacement

DB compatibility breaks at a point though (7.x maybe? Going off fuzzy memory) … so if you’re migrating from that version it’s a little less “drop in” and more "oh shoot, this method doesn’t work either?!? :'( "

Very happy after the ‘migration’ though!

I won’t consider these new devices because they don’t have touch pads

Maybe we’re talking about different things… but, there is a touchpad on my Legion Go?

I’m waiting for a 2TB drive to arrive to upgrade the 512GB in my Legion Go and one of the first things I wanted to do was set up to dual boot Bazzite.

These little blurbs make me want to just blow away Windows right now though and go all in on Bazzite. Especially as I play literally zero “popular multiplayer shooting games”.

lol, saw title, came to say ffmpeg, read body, it’s your prime example!

I can’t remember what flag or feature it is I’ve more than once found myself having to build from source to enable, but there is one!

Personal?

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My homedir is a HUGE MESS.

Work?

~/src/<site>/<project>/<repo>

i.e. ~/src/github/mirantis/docker (not real I don’t imagine, just an example)

~/src/bitbucket/INTERNALPROJECTCODE/coolrepo

alias update='sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y && sudo apt dist-upgrade -y && sudo apt autoremove -y'
alias update-and-reboot='sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y && sudo apt dist-upgrade -y && sudo apt autoremove -y && sudo reboot'
alias update-and-poweroff='sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y && sudo apt dist-upgrade -y && sudo apt autoremove -y && sudo poweroff'

I’ve been very happy with my Monoprice “Blackbird 4K DisplayPort 1.4 USB 3.0 4x1 KVM Switch, 4K@60Hz, HDR, YCbCr 4:4:4, HDCP 2.2”. I run an ultrawide at 3840x1600 @ 144 Hz, or HDR at 120 Hz, G-Sync both, and it works wonderfully. It took some effort to get all the required devices using the same connections - went through quite a few “USB-C to DP” cables from Amazon that had to be returned because they couldn’t do the high refresh like they claimed … but once I got everything set up, it’s worked like a dream, 3+ years and counting now I think.

I learned about 16 years ago on a Solaris course that /usr wasn’t “user”, I still say “user”, but I’m happy to see the information spreading that that isn’t what it actually is.

Google “UltimaHoarder/UltimaScraper”