zlatko

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[–] zlatko@programming.dev 2 points 38 minutes ago (1 children)

I don't know what happened, but since 6.2 rolled out on Fedora a week ago, I've had several bugs. At the very day I updated, I had two outright crashes. It happened a few more times since. My keyboard shortcuts don't work any more. Window layout behaves...odd (haven't pinned it down yet).

Just all-around messy upgrade. Am I the only one with problems, though?

[–] zlatko@programming.dev 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That still doesn't look like a very heavy workload. My older box was older then your 6700k and was fine running such stuff.

Perhaps your limit isn't the CPU. What storage and ram setup do you have, did you look at that?

I'll be honest and say that when I replaced my old crap with 7900x I did feel improvements on occasion, mostly when I really burden the pc. Plus I think having 64 gigs of ram helps there, at my old system I hit the limits sometimes. Not often, but sometimes. Now my new box just laughs at anything I try to do to it.

[–] zlatko@programming.dev 3 points 1 week ago

I think a lot of the relevant stuff is written on the blog post:

https://deno.com/blog/v2.0

[–] zlatko@programming.dev 4 points 1 year ago

Since when do Unix tools output 3,000 word long usage info? Even GNU tools don’t even come close…

[zlatko@dilj ~/Projects/galactic-bloodshed]$ man grep | wc -w
4297
[zlatko@dilj ~/Projects/galactic-bloodshed]$ man man | wc -w
4697
[zlatko@dilj ~/Projects/galactic-bloodshed]$ 
[–] zlatko@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago

The article sure mentions 💩a lot.

[–] zlatko@programming.dev 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

01.01.1970. Timestamp zero for the win.

[–] zlatko@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago

No problem!

As an aside, I see we're bringing the strangers thing over from Reddit. I hope more of the fun and funny stuff gets over, I miss some of the light shitposting.

[–] zlatko@programming.dev 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why not just cd $XDG_DOWNLOAD_DIR in the first place?

[–] zlatko@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago

did you mean smuts?

[–] zlatko@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago

XDG specifies the capital names, but to be nitpickingly technically precise, linux systems don't do this. It mostly is done by the distribution maintainers, and the XDG specs. A base system does not usually have a notion of anything beyond your $HOME.

Try adding a user: sudo adduser basicuser. If you ls -al ~basicuser you will see it's almost empty, just the .bashrc (or in my fedora, there's some .mozilla crap in /etc/skel that also gets bootstrapped).

[–] zlatko@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

ln -s Downloads downloads FTW

[–] zlatko@programming.dev 8 points 1 year ago (4 children)

For bash, this is enough:

# Bash TAB-completition enhancements
# Case-insensitive
bind "set completion-ignore-case on"
# Treat - and _ as equivalent in tab-compl
bind "set completion-map-case on"
# Expand options on the _first_ TAB press.
bind "set show-all-if-ambiguous on"

If you also add e.g.CDPATH=~/Documents, it will also always autocomplete from your Documents no matter which directory you're on.

 

I'm building a NAS for the first time on my own, so I wanted to share the story so far here.

I'm not a stranger to custom builds, in fact I don't think I ever bought an assembled PC (not counting second hand 386 box a million years ago). But this is my first small, low power build, so it's not perfect, I already ran into a wall (more later).

I base the build on an AsRock mini-ITX board, the CPU is included, it's passively cooled, low power consumption but still powerful for a NAS. I'm sticking it into a Node 304 Fractal Design case. Here's the full list of parts I got:

  • AsRock J4125-ITX board with a Celeron 4125 (4-core CPU)
  • 8GB DDR4 RAM (a Crucial kit)
  • a 500GB NVMe SSD (which I can't use)
  • a couple of Seagate IronWolf 4TB drives
  • 90W PicoPSU and some no-name power brick
  • Fractal Design Node 304 mini-ITX case.

I planned to have an SSD for OS, these two disks for my photography and media, and then later on expand with more storage (preferably SSD, when I can afford it).

As mentioned, I messed up: the M2 slot on the motherboard is a "Key E" slot. I never bothered with these keys before, so I didn't know that a Key E slot does not have a SATA protocol, it won't take my SSD.

Another thing, the PicoPSU is a 20-pin power supply, and the board has a 24-pin slot. It should still be fine, the specs say that this is still okay, but I'll have to see. According to my back-of-the-napkin calculations, 90 Watts should be enough power for the mobo and CPU, the SSD and the two spinning disks.

Anyway I'll get a regular SATA SSD tomorrow and see how it's shaping up. Let me know if you want me to post more on my progress/end result or if you have any questions.

 

What would be a good investment now? I want no-frills Linux support, good CPU, lots of RAM, decent screen. If I'm actually working, I'm almost always docked, but when not, I would not mind a good battery as well. I want this primarily for personal use. I don't mind upgrading parts myself (if that's still possible), like getting a stronger SSD or something.

I used to own a T420 (and some other ThinkPads as well, but this one was used). It was an incredible investment at the time, used laptop price, build quality and feature on par with laptops 6, 7, 8 years younger. I wonder if this is still something you can get away with.

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