MalReynolds @ MalReynolds @slrpnk.net

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Until next week, sigh.

Huge kudos to Freetube, I love it. Just the opposite to Alphabet, go on, be evil again.

Seems like data integrity is your highest priority, and you're doing pretty well, the next step is keeping a copy offsite. It's the 3-2-1 backup strategy, 3 copies, 2 media (used to mean CDs etc but now think offline drives) 1 offsite (in case of fire, meteor strike etc), so look to that, stash a copy at a friends or something.

In your case I'd look at getting some online storage to fill the offsite role while you're overseas (paid probably, but a year of 1 or 2 Tb is quite reasonable) leaving you with no pressure on the selfhosting side, just tailscale in, muck around and have fun, and if something breaks, no harm done, data safe.

I've done it for what seems like forever and I'd still be worried about leaving a system out of physical control for any extended period of time, at the very least having someone to reboot it if connectivity or power fails will be invaluable, but talking them through a broken update is another thing entirely, and you shouldn't make that a critical necessity, too much stress.

I assume it's from S-Tier rating from gaming, goes S(uperior), A, B. C... F(ail) from best to worst if memory serves.

OP: I knew what I was wishing for...

Bastard.

Thing about windows is you can shatter them. Time to defenestrate neoliberalism right through the Overton Window.

I say go for the desktop for grunty work and pick up an older thinkpad for the mobile use case or just remote in with your macbook. I have a T580 (last of the dual batteries, infinite battery life baby), works an absolute treat on linux and next best build quality to a macbook but with a repair manual and massive upgradeability.

But the free market is more efficient than the public service, we need to privatize, while we're at it let's privatize some natural monopolies. /s

Experience has proved that neoliberalism was a lie (or if we're generous just wrong), can we fucking move on now ? Fucking Overton window.

Would've sworn Potatohead/Voldemort was a caretaker and they'd switch for the election. Instead the shit stain is neck and neck (according to Murdoch polls). Wtf is wrong with this country, we see Trump and go 'hold my beer'. May not be the worst timeline, but it ain't good.

Lovely. Seems (could be wrong) the title is actually Kinder than Man at which link those of us who hate bloody pictures of poems can have the text.

I run a gluetun docker (actually two, one local and one through Singapore) clientside which is generally regarded as pretty damn bulletproof kill switch wise. The arr stack etc uses this network exclusively. This means I can use foxyproxy to switch my browser up on the fly, bind things to tun0/tun1 etc, and still have direct connections as needed, it's pretty slick.

Thing is, the time for net-zero has passed, did you hear that whooshing sound?

To pull back from the brink, what is needed is net-negative, which ain't happening without capture (alongside massive reduction in emissions), economics be damned, it's an existential threat, it's about survival. Could be as simple as massive reforestation, could be fusion generators pulling CO2 out of the air, will probably be many different things, but learning what works, as soon as possible, is imperative.

I have exactly this (AM4, 7800XT, 3440x1440 monitor) running bazzite. Almost every game I have maxes 165Hz, works great for LLM inference too, really the nutso expensive stuff is only necessary for 4K+, which I find diminishing returns at present, LLM training (rent a GPU instead), and probably modern VR. Just to let you know you're barking up the right tree. :)

Oh, and the 7800XT idles / youtubes ~ 14-20W, 7 with the monitor off. I'm actually using it as a backup NAS / home server in down time, system pulls ~40-45W at the wall and I haven't even gone deep into power saving as it's a placeholder for a new homelab build that's underway.

IMO, same reason they have their own repo, which eventually feeds into Red Hat enterprise, to have a trustworthy, curated set of safe (ish) software that's had eyeballs on it. A worthy enough goal, but that said, it applies a lot less to flatpaks. I personally used to remove theirs because I didn't like having multiple sources, now I'm on Bazzite which ships with flathub.

Don't sleep on switching to nvme.

Well, that's all kinds of wrong.

Yeah, says as much in the article. This'll most likely, if it's not vaporware, have a 256 bus, which will be a damn shame for inference speed, just saying if they doubled the bus and sold for ≤ $1000 they'd eat the 5900 alive and generate a lot of goodwill in the influential local LLM community and probably get a lot of free ROCm development. It'd be a damn smart move, but how often can you accuse AMD of that?

it’s worth noting that RX 9070 cards will use 20 Gbps memory, much slower than the RTX 50 series, which features 28-30 Gbps GDDR7 variants.

Seeing, as the article notes, there are no 4Gb modules, they'll need to use twice as many chips, which could mean doubling the bus width (one can dream) to 512 bit (ala 5900), which would make it very tasty. It would be a bold move and get them some of the market share they need so badly.

The old adage is never use v x.0 of anything, which I'd expect to go double for data integrity. Is there any particular reason ZFS gets a pass here (speaking as someone who really wants this feature). TrueNAS isn't merging it for a couple of months yet, I believe.

Not to my mind, science requires a testable hypothesis and evidence. I would argue that merely refuting someone else's hypothesis without providing a new one doesn't meet the bar of doing science.

Sorry, I don't understand.