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thejevans,

Let’s also not forget that PCBs were supposed to be available, but Valve never released the calibration tools, so they were never offered.

thejevans,

Another data point: I have a Ryzen 5900x and an RTX 3080. In BG3 I average 80-90 fps with 1% lows over 60fps on a 4k screen with ultra settings and DLSS quality setting.

thejevans,

I have an Nvidia GPU and I use it with Linux, even with Wayland, but it’s still not quite there yet, and because all the fixes have to come from proprietary Nvidia driver changes, nobody really knows when/if everything will be fixed. AMD has been much better with support and switching to AMD for your next.card will save you a lot of headaches.

thejevans,

The feature is translation. Just say that, OMGUbuntu.

thejevans,

This is a great way to set this up. I’m moving over to this in a few days. I have a temporary setup with ZFS directly on Proxmox with an OMV VM for handling shares bc my B450 motherboard IOMMU groups won’t let me pass through my GPU and an HBA to separate VMs (note for OP: if you cannot pass through your HBA to a VM, this setup is not a good idea). I ordered an ASRock X570 Phantom Gaming motherboard as a replacement ($110 on Amazon right now. It’s a great deal.) that will have more separate IOMMU groups.

My old setup was similar but used ESXi instead of Proxmox. I also went nuts and virtualized pfSense on the same PC. It was surprisingly stable, but I’m keeping my gateway on a separate PC from now on.

thejevans,

TrueNAS has nice defaults for managing snapshots and the like that make it a bit safer, but yeah, as I said, I run ZFS directly on Proxmox right now.

thejevans,

Good to know!

thejevans,

I know it’s not nearly as nested as this, but nesting in Rust annoys the hell out of me.


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is something I’ve run into a few times

thejevans,

How does that change anything? Sorry if it wasn’t clear, this was assuming a function call in the for loop that returns either a Result or enum.

thejevans,

I definitely use that syntax whenever I can. One of the situations where I get stuck with the nested syntax that I shared is when the result of the function call in the for loop affects the inputs for that function call for the next item in the loop. Another is when I am using a heuristic to sort the iterator that I’m looping over such that most of the time I can break from the loop early, which is helpful if the function in the loop is heavy.

thejevans,

Thanks for this! I’ll see if I can work something like this in.

thejevans,

You can self host immich on a device as small as a raspberry pi. Waveshare sells a CM4 board + enclosure + power supply for $36. You can get a 1tb 2242 nvme ssd for $99. And you can get a 4gb CM4 + 32gb emmc from adafruit for $65 (currently out of stock there, but you can keep an eye on rpilocator. some capable boards are available in Germany, but they’re over $100). Not the cheapest setup, but if you’re worried about power draw, spinning hard drives, and portability, this would be a way to do it. You could also just host NextCloud on it, but it might be a bit slow.

Waveshare board + enclosure: www.waveshare.com/cm4-io-base-c.htm?sku=23743

thejevans,

If you’re in the US, I would go for this instead: divinikey.com/…/geon-unified-daughterboard?varian…

thejevans,

Shipping will be faster, and you’d be supporting people who make open hardware.

thejevans,

If I was going to do this today, I would probably get a GoWin R86S-N with the N100 or N305 cpu (since the 10G Fiber Jack has a 10GbE port, this should be fine. The NICs on this device can’t negotiate 2.5Gb or 5Gb links) and set it up with OPNSense. Since you’re not going to saturate the 10Gb links, you should be fine for most networking tasks. For wifi, I’d probably get the TP-Link Deco XE75 Pro.

thejevans,

I use the linuxserver.io SWAG container. It runs an nginx reverse proxy and does certificate management for you. It’s a pretty great minimal-config option.

thejevans,

Yesss! Immediately upgraded to duo unlimited for me and my partner.

thejevans,

It is not used for routing.

thejevans,

I recently switched to kagi, too. Couldn’t be happier.

thejevans,

Basically everything from charm.sh

thejevans,

What I worry about is the developer kneecapping the whole thing by not releasing design files and BOMs for 3D prints and PCBs under an open source license. The point of a device like this is going to be longevity, upgradability, and repairability. Having to rely on some dude to keep making a kit is completely antithetical to that. I love the idea of being able to repurpose my framework parts in different ways as I upgrade, but I won’t be jumping to buy a kit that I can’t trust to be available a year later.

thejevans,

It is a framework mainboard. The display is almost certainly connected via displayport on one of the framework usb-c ports, so that should be fine, and I’m pretty sure they mention the game pads are Bluetooth. There should be no issues running Linux on this.

thejevans,

Didn’t Anker/eufy have pretty much the same issue a.couple years ago?

Should I go with a prebuilt or custom built NAS to get into self hosting?

Hey all, I’ve been doing a bunch of research on selfhosting the last few weeks as I’d love to lean on more open source projects for my daily productivity & entertainment. My main goal is to backup all my personal documents, photos, and videos (around 1tb so far over ~5 years, so not too demanding) and host a few services to...

thejevans,

My R720xd is fully loaded with 12 HDDs, 2 SFP+ DACs, 2 SSDs, 2 SD cards, 128GB RAM, and 2 of the higher end CPUs available for the platform. Running ESXi with a bunch of VMs including TrueNAS, pfsense, and plex + arr stack, I average at about 250W-320W, and it’s loud as hell.

thejevans,

If power usage and/or noise are concerns, I would steer clear of enterprise gear.

I started out with a Synology NAS, which died and took my data with it because of their proprietary software raid. I think you don’t need to worry about that these days, but I haven’t looked into it much. I haven’t gone back to a pre built NAS since.

Currently, my production setup consists of a Dell R720xd that runs pretty much everything, and a Dell R710 that runs as a backup TrueNAS server. It’s loud, sucks back about 550W, produces a ton of heat, and takes up a good deal of space when you add in the rack mount switch and ups. I just moved pretty far, and I decided to move my homelab to my dad’s house instead of taking it with me.

My plan is to migrate to a more reasonable setup incrementally. I’m currently building a proxmox ve host out of my old gaming PC (ryzen 2700x + gtx1060). I added 2x 10TB drives, made a mirrored zfs pool, and I’m running an openmediavault VM to share it on the network. I have another VM for home assistant, another for matrix/jitsi/etherpad, another for jellyfin/arr stack/sabnzbd with the GPU passed through for transcoding, another for swag/paperless-ngx/immich, and a final one for the MASH Ansible playbook. And I have a small fanless AliExpress PC running pfsense as a router/gateway.

The “ideal” final setup is to basically build another machine to put TrueNAS onto that will replace my openmediavault setup. I’m aiming for total average power draw to be under 100W.

My suggestion given my experience with different hardware is to scrap together whatever you can for cheap, run proxmox with openmediavault, and build the VMs for services whose data you don’t care much about first, then build a dedicated NAS running TrueNAS. The NAS doesn’t have to be fancy. It doesn’t need ECC ram. You could probably build a competent, compact NAS for about $400 without HDDs. Once you have the NAS, then build out services like NextCloud, immich, and paperless-ngx, where losing the data would suck. And then think about a backup solution for that data.

thejevans,

My next project is going to be a terminal tool that takes lat-lon coordinates and a date, and converts both ways between angle of the sun relative to the horizon and time. I wrote a python script a while ago to get times for golden hour, twilight, etc., but I don’t like how slow it is, and I want to make more composable terminal tools that people can pipe together.

thejevans,

As long as the Molly version is greater than or equal to the Signal version, it will work. Molly updates usually trail behind signal updates, so you’ll have to either time it right or pause updates on you Signal app.

thejevans,

Many Miyazaki movies have solarpunk themes, but Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind is probably the best example.

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thejevans,

Yeah, that GT730 is worse than modern integrated graphics

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@AgreeableLandscape @nooter692 @MarcellusDrum

thejevans,

The home NAS case market is so frustrating. For my next build, I’m going to design a 3D printed interface to use an 8-bay supermicro backplane like the BPN-SAS-747TQ, build a simple aluminum box around it with 2x120mm fans in the rear, and just run SATA and power to a PC case sitting next to it. It would even be straightforward to have activity lights and everything. Good drive temps, low noise, cheap and replaceable backplane, cheap enclosure, and full freedom of PC case choice to optimize for size or cooling or whatever. Sure, it’ll be a bit bulky and a bit ugly, but I’d much rather take those downsides over noise, cost, or heat.

thejevans,

My issues are that I live in an apartment, so size, heat, and noise are large considerations, and that I want hotswap drive bays. What chassis did you get for £45? Does it use an ATX PSU or something else? What are the drive temps? Always under 30°C? 35°C? 40°C?

thejevans,

That’s a great case! Seems they don’t have a US reseller, so I doubt I’ll find any on my side of the Atlantic. Glad you got a gem!

thejevans,

I can totally understand your frustration! I wish there was a product available that could do everything I want, but there isn’t, and I have access to a 3D printer through my local makerspace. I will say that there are a bunch of ways to get prints made and shipped to you if you don’t have access to one. I also think that lots of people 3D print things when they don’t need to. When I make the enclosure that I mentioned, only the bare minimum will be 3D printed, and the rest of the enclosure will use off-the-shelf parts, a readily available backplane, and will be able to be built with simple tools.

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@AgreeableLandscape @Cloak @cat_programmer

thejevans,

Many streaming services don’t offer content at the same quality when played from a PC vs something like an Nvidia Shield, and the 4k upscaler on the Shield 2019 is very good. I can understand if these features aren’t things you care about, but if you have a modern 4k OLED and you want to take advantage of 4k HDR Dolby Vision content from various providers, doing that from a PC will prove difficult. Also, my partner is not very tech-savvy and I need to keep the TV usable for them, so running an HTPC is kinda out of the question for me, even if it had feature parity.

thejevans,

It’s not an argument I’ve seen in this conversation yet, but I’ll also head this off: gas ranges are not the best cooktop for ultimate temperature control either. If you cook sugar or temper chocolate a lot, a standalone induction cooktop like the Breville Control Freak will do a way better job, and you don’t need to change your permanent kitchen appliances to make that work. Combine that with an induction kettle like others have mentioned, and the broiler for peppers (I do this weekly having moved somewhere that doesn’t have gas) and there is literally no reason to choose gas in the kitchen.

thejevans,

It’s for sure a professional tool, but nobody else really needs those features anyway.

thejevans,

@AgreeableLandscape @cat_programmer @Cloak can we block this guy?

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OP deleted that post and a follow-up after making unsubstantiated claims and getting heavily downvoted.

What open source programs do you recommend for Windows? (Windows exclusive or not)

I am and all my life have been a Linux user, I have nothing against Windows or MacOS, I just like Linux, and lately I have been experimenting with Windows in a virtual machine and I don’t really know much open source software there apart from the one that is cross-platform like Firefox or Joplin....

thejevans,

BloatyNosy

Universal Debloater and PC Manager for the most up-to-date version of the Redmond OS (Windows 11)

github.com/builtbybel/BloatyNosy

sleek

an open-source (FOSS) todo manager based on the todo.txt syntax

github.com/ransome1/sleek

WinDirStat

a disk usage statistics viewer and cleanup tool for various versions of Microsoft Windows

github.com/windirstat/windirstat

MacType

Better font rendering for Windows

github.com/snowie2000/mactype

thejevans,

They’re both closed source.

thejevans,

Yeah, the documentation is very sparse. I think it was originally all in Simplified Chinese, but some things have been translated to English. Basically it gives you tools to fix subpixel font rendering issues on windows. Using a rotated monitor? An OLED monitor? A TV? All of these are examples of screens that don’t have standard subpixel layouts, so fonts tend to have weird color fringing as a result. MacType allows for a lot of tweaks to how fonts are rendered, but I tend to just switch to grayscale rendering, which works well.

This reddit thread walks through the process with some specific configs and they have pictures to show how it changes things.

reddit.com/…/better_text_rendering_for_oled_displ…

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thejevans,

A couple years ago I bought a 128GB 2016 iPhone SE for $90 and used it with Evermusic. It worked as a great little music/podcast/audiobook player, and as a viewfinder for some weird analog cameras I built. I gave it a data-only sim for occasional downloads, but it would have been very easy to run it as a wi-fi only device.

thejevans,

The biggest problem I can see with this digital back idea is that full frame sensors are hella expensive and require a lot more electronics than could fit in that space. This 20MP sensor, for instance, is $4000 by itself.

thejevans,

If you have a nextcloud instance, and you don’t need Keep’s collaboration features, Carnet is FOSS and is a decent solution

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github.com/mvgrimes/obsidian-todotxt-plugin

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For now, I use the 1.3.1 release of sleek because it has more features than the 2.0.0-dev8 pre-release build that solved my problem. As a temporary workaround, I create my todo.txt files as filename.todotxt in my obsidian vaults and manually hardlink those files to filename.txt in a todo_txt directory somewhere else on each machine I use sleek on. It works totally fine, it’s just a bit janky. I’ll be happy when sleek 2.0 comes out and I can get rid of the hardlinks.

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