scrubbles

scrubbles , 1 day ago

Choose a license is great, they did an amazing job. I'm personally a fan of gpl. Sorry Amazon/Microsoft/corpo world. If you want to use my stuff great, but then you have to share your stuff too.

scrubbles , 2 days ago

Great, now we can have traffic but on these old rails.

How about, and I know this is a radical idea, actually fixing up the old rail lines and putting trains on them instead of this gimmick?

scrubbles , 2 days ago

Depends on what you call a "whole ass train". Many of these routes could be easily service by a 1 or 2 car DMU like the rural routes in Scotland and Wales.

scrubbles , 2 days ago

I've used those request stops! Those sort of rural lines are exactly what we're missing here in the states, just bouncing back and forth on the line. You can see here Americans don't even know what they are, but they're the perfect solution for these lines going between little towns

scrubbles , 3 days ago

I've had horrible times with EA and steam together. However launching EA from lutris works well for me

scrubbles , 3 days ago

I've done a good chunk, but I haven't found a good source for tape drives. Mine I bought second hand and it overheats and I found that it actually fails it's testing, so be extremely weary on buying them. I did LTO-8, but I've been waiting for years now for them to drop in price. (I probably did the same comparisons as you, TB/$ pricing).

The biggest thing is to make sure you support LTFS. I've tried multiple softwares, even down to tar, but LTFS will make your life simpler. It acts as a simple mount in linux, you just copy and paste.

Tapes themselves are all pretty much the same. I buy them new, never used, just like HDDs, and they're cheap enough that who cares. Note that the compressed sizing will never be reached. Remember that most ISOs are already compressed, and most of your data is already compressed, you can't compress compressed data, so it's pretty much a straight shot.

Tape can be a great option, I keep mine in a safety deposit box, fully encrypted. However getting it all set up is a pain in the ass. If you find a good drive at a good price, let me know.

scrubbles , 3 days ago (edited 3 days ago)

I used an LSI 8i SAS card, with a standard SAS cable to my internal SAS tape drive. Then I just used plain ubuntu to get it up and running. The LSI cards are my go-to for anything SAS, used them for 10 years and never had a single one fail.

Edit @constantokra I remembered I had this saved, this saved me a ton of time setting up my drive last time, everything I needed: https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-hardware-18/lto-tape-drive-linux-experience-4175620090/

scrubbles , 3 days ago

In my experience? Minimal. Although when you buy a single drive for over $1k you're also not super into cracking it open and repairing things. From what I can tell, it's like a blu-ray drive, but more complex, and more delicate. Not to mention since it's tape you technically need a clean room, because dust can fuck up the heads.

If I could source decent drives for less than 10 grand I'd be a huge supporter of it, but us pro-sumers are pretty much left with ebay.

scrubbles , 3 days ago

I'd be interested to hear how it goes, I'm looking at replacing mine. If you get yours to work, please report back. I'm actively looking for a new LTO8 drive

scrubbles , 3 days ago

oh man, at least two, don't you think?

scrubbles , 6 days ago

Yeah that'd be a fun 8 months until they kill it

scrubbles , 6 days ago

We are all susceptible to propaganda, every one of us. I know I've caught myself a few times.

People on Facebook though.... They are VERY susceptible

scrubbles , 10 days ago

I am shocked.

scrubbles , 10 days ago

This really sucks, but we do know it's a cat and mouse game. AI/coded, doesn't matter, it's pattern recognition. It's only a matter of time until someone figured out how to change the pattern in a way that isn't detected.

scrubbles , 12 days ago

When Google fired all of those staffers last year there was a report that there was a huge bump in startups being formed. That's where actual innovation happens, not at large companies but the small startups. I see that happening now too. They'll eventually get bought up, but the cycle will repeat.

scrubbles , 12 days ago

Second for AMD. Team Red is bringing it right now anyway, the only card that doesn't have an AMD equivalent is the 4090, anything else you can get an AMD equivalent for basically half the price. I run the 7900XTX and I can't find anything that stalls this card.

Caveats, if you want to do AI/ML stuff, NVidia is the way to go. Ray tracing is also about a generation behind, but it's not really noticeable to me. Instead of 4000 series ray tracing you get 3000 series ray tracing (roughly). Even with those caveats, it's the best card I've ever owned.

scrubbles OP , 12 days ago

hindsight is 20/20 there, yeah, wish I hadn't done this. To others, this is the best approach, don't accept it in the first place

scrubbles OP , 12 days ago

I don't like hosting things I disagree with for others to view and consume

scrubbles OP , 12 days ago

Good level headed reply, I like this. Others have suggested that as well, I'll move the crud over to her own library, then it doesn't pollute my main library and I can hide it from the others.

scrubbles OP , 12 days ago

Blunt answer, but an honest one, appreciate it

scrubbles OP , 12 days ago

This is a good idea, and an approach I'm going to think about and probably take. Then it's away from everything else, and not polluting my actual good movies.

scrubbles OP , 12 days ago

Honestly I'd be fine if it were hallmark movies. This is pure christian propaganda - very clear jabs that if you aren't christian then you are not happy. Take the lame hallmark plots that are fine, but then add in that they finding jesus suddenly made them happy, they gave up all of their non christian friends, and renounced their old life type stuff. Face value it's fine, but the undertone is just vile to me.

scrubbles , 12 days ago

Yeah their head editors just left saying that they were being forced to write lower quality stories and things with agendas. I wouldn't trust Kotaku much anymore.

scrubbles , 12 days ago

Just as a heads up, when you post an article, unless otherwise stated, you are telling people that the source can be trusted. So, yes in a way you are asking us to trust them

scrubbles , 13 days ago

I'm looking at chimera. Mostly because I also want to use the same machine for gaming, and since chimera boots right to steam, then I could add an entry for jellyfin

scrubbles , 12 days ago

Yeah, definitely an issue. I'm slowly building up a new rig just for that, and I'm going team red for that build. Honestly the new AMD GPUs are just tanks, and they take on all but the most high end NVidia ones. Doesn't help if you already have a GPU, but if you're in the market I can tell you it's pretty dang awesome. I have looked into Bazzite too, Chimera seems a bit more synced with SteamOS which is why I like it.

scrubbles OP , 13 days ago

Thanks! Ill have to try it out to see what it takes to train, but their Numbers do look nice

scrubbles , 14 days ago

So will he just give up already and admit the fediverse is a pretty good idea?

scrubbles , 14 days ago

I run plenty of services in my lab on k3s. Most of them I had to manually build charts for and add them to my cluster. I doubt anyone has built charts for Lemmy, maybe mastodon. Anything that's dockerized like Lemmy can be put into kubernetes, but it's going to take some doing. Good luck out there, and of course if you get it working then I think the maintainers would be happy to get a helm chart merged into their repo.

scrubbles , 14 days ago

I start simple with mine. Start with the deployment, just getting the pod up and running, completely stateless. Get that stabilized, once that's happy then start moving onto the service, connecting to the UI. Then I finish anything else I can before adding in state - environment variables (first just in the deployment, then once that's done worry about a config map and secrets). (Adding volumes in just complicates it because then you have to reset those volumes if you want to go back to a clean state).

As a list:

• Deployment (stateless) - get to not crash
• Service - connect to it
• Environment variables, extracting out what can be
• Secrets, adding those to the chart
• Volumes, adding in state
• Move to a nice clean setup with a clean values.yaml.

Finally, once your happy, then make it conform to other standards. Getting it stood up in k8s is the hard part, then customizing can come after.

scrubbles , 14 days ago

I've done... an annoying amount of them now. I hope my trials help you.

Be ready, it's a very annoying and slow process, watching logs, figuring out why things are failing, debugging, githubs, everything. I just did one last week that was saying that it couldn't write to /etc/passXXXXX, and it took 2 hours to track down that there was an optional command I could pass in that would change the running user of the container I was running (separate from the kube user). It's a slog, but when you get it running it's a rush of endorphins.

Biggest thing - kubernetes is a read-only file system compared to docker. So, for good devs they minimize writes to the filesystem unless they have to, and keep them localized. For bad devs, they write everywhere - and that gets sticky fast. So, if you're getting write errors, know that there's probably another volume you need to attach. The kicker is knowing which ones can be an emptyDir scratch directory and which ones actually need to persist. If you have a docker-compose file it's a great place to start, just set all the volumes to emptyDir to start off with.

Good luck!

scrubbles , 14 days ago

If it's not killed by google, it's replaced with a crappier version. Having developed against many Google APIs, "deprecation" is a very frequent word they use. Most of the time there is no stated reason why an API had to be deprecated, just that it is being deprecated. They also give minimal time to switch over, the worst one I had was PubSub's API having a mandated migration we had to perform - in under 3 weeks. Very difficult for an already tasked team of engineers who had a mountain of other more pressing work. Why I actively push against working on GCP, or google products at all. I've successfully pushed 2 companies away from using Google cloud now.

Microsoft, as an example of the opposite, will have years long deprecation strategies, and usually go overboard with making sure engineers have a good replacement, and documentation on how to migrate. They have a lot to be hated for, but damn are they good with managing downstream engineers.

scrubbles , 16 days ago

Jesus when are stockholders going to realize what he's like at the helm and kick him out of CEO? This is the first thing I've heard about Musk doing anything with Tesla since Twitter happened. How do stockholders trust this man. Throwing away everything about him, this is an absent CEO who learned about one project that everyone was watching, he comes in, kicks down the door, and first response is to fire the whole team. To me, that says "this company is a shitshow"

scrubbles , 21 days ago

(If it's not failing, which would be the first thing I'd check)

Do you have any new VMs up and running. IO was the bane of my existence with proxmox, but realized it's just that VMs eat a ton of IO, especially with ZFS. A standard HDD won't cut it (unless you have one and only one VM using that disk). Even sata SSDs just didn't cut it over time, I had to build a full raid that would support 5-10 VMs on it before I saw IO wait drop enough.

scrubbles , 21 days ago

I had bad luck with ZFS on proxmox because of all of the overhead, I found with my tiny cluster it was better to do good old ext4 and then just do regular backups. ZFS actually killed quite a few of my drives because of it's heavyweight. Not saying that's your problem, but I wouldn't be surprised if it was

scrubbles , 22 days ago

Stopped reading at "Mastodon BDFL (Benevolent Dictator for Life) ".

Giant eyeroll. It even mentions there's a dozen forks already, just upset that none of the changes have been merged to the origin upstream.

Make an argument without devolving to namecalling in the first 2 paragraphs.

scrubbles , 22 days ago

So freaking tone-deaf lol. I was just getting into the article and agreeing with them and then the paywall showed up. THATS THE PROBLEM YO

scrubbles , 22 days ago

What, I'm shocked, the tech bros didn't think about sociological issues before "innovating"?

scrubbles , 23 days ago

They really did nothing to limit scalpers. I like to imagine scalpers with dozens of Xboxes sitting around because they all came back into stock. Not taking a stand against scalpers will probably hurt in the long run, they don't buy games or subscriptions

scrubbles , 25 days ago

highly recommend doing infrastructure-as-code, it makes it really easy to git commit and save a previously working state, so you can backtrack when something goes wrong

scrubbles , 26 days ago

I'll hop on this, a while back I was curious about hosting game wikis, like ripping from fandom and hosting myself. Any good ideas for that?

scrubbles , 26 days ago

Same here, fine first time, then error

scrubbles , 1 month ago

I have, I don't have my yml on hand today, but ping me later if I forget and I'll grab it for you. I do have one problem where the cache pvc continuously runs out of storage, but other than that it's been stable

scrubbles , 1 month ago

Oh no, here in America we have FREEDOM. the freedom to work! We have something called "right to work" which means we have the RIGHTS to work and quit a job with no contracts. We also gave up every single worker protection for these supposed rights, but since it was named right to work we are meant to believe it's good for us

scrubbles , 1 month ago

Yeah, 100% , had Mediacom years ago and they were migrating to docsis 3. I'd be very surprised if the lumbering slow Mediacom suddenly switched off.

scrubbles , 1 month ago

Best review I've seen so far