HelloRoot

joined 2 years ago
[–] HelloRoot@lemy.lol 3 points 15 hours ago

I imagine millions of $ yet I only get about 3K per month.

[–] HelloRoot@lemy.lol 1 points 1 day ago

idk man, I use grayjay without a google account and it just works.

[–] HelloRoot@lemy.lol 9 points 1 day ago

Clasic goomba funnel fallacy

[–] HelloRoot@lemy.lol 1 points 1 day ago

The only thing I cared about was RAM amount cause I have some beefier things I wanted to run (multiple game servers that need 8-16gb ram each etc.) and that was the most affordable option.

Without storage, maybe thats the reason for the cheaper price, but luckily I had some 1tb NVMEs hoarded from the before times.

It has some linux problems, like I couldn't make the NPU be usable, even though I used the ubuntu image that is supposed to support it, but those issues don't matter for my usecase

[–] HelloRoot@lemy.lol 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I don't think it's availabke anymore: minisforum ms-r1

[–] HelloRoot@lemy.lol 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Fluxer was mostly built before LLMs, but yeah they use it as part of development now.

[–] HelloRoot@lemy.lol 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It doesn't look like this at all for me. Maybe it's an issue of mobile web client? I went to the website and logged in. I don't see a plus like on discord to join servers or guilds so I assume there is nothing like that. I only saw the rooms I am in on matrix and it looked pretty much like the othet matrix clients I use.

Your screenshot looks way more like discord.

But so does fluxer and I found it less confusing and more immediately obvious to use compared to this.

[–] HelloRoot@lemy.lol 15 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (4 children)

I rarely put my linux to sleep because I had this experience in the past, but yesterday I've had my minisforum v3 laptop in sleep for 3 hours and it stayed fully charged at 100% battery. It made me think the battery percentage readout was broken, but no, it strarted draining after using it for a while.

No clue if it's something I did back then during install (arch linux btw) or whether it was like this out of the box, but it really surprised me. And I'm gonna try using it more in the future.

[–] HelloRoot@lemy.lol 9 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (5 children)

I've never had a good experience, nor a discord-like experience with anything matrix-related. Tried sable just now and it looks to me exactly like any other matrix client. Nothing that I care about in discord is there.

You say it's "feature complete" but from my POV it's fundamentally different enough to create constant friction and frustration. Discord communities/"servers" is a very different concept than a matrix room. Maybe my grandma would mistake the two as being same, but certainly not me.

Fluxer does not have that issue, it is a real 1 to 1 discord clone and was already closer to discord a year ago than matrix is now or ever will be due to core protocol design decisions.

[–] HelloRoot@lemy.lol 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Fair point.

My thinking was: if OPs screw is best screwed in with a philips screwdriver, I won't suggest a flathead one, just cause we're in the flathead sublemmy. But thinking about it now, I got my priorities mixed up here, privacy goes over convenience for the audience here including myself.

Here are some selfhosted solutions that would function similarely:

with api:

without api:

[–] HelloRoot@lemy.lol 6 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (3 children)

I honestly believe a well made spreadsheet would be best.

  • You can have it in "the cloud" for multiuser.
  • You can put some automation around it through an API if you use google sheets or onlyoffice or one of the many other spreadsheet providers that have an API. (Like for example phone notification when you need to water or fertilize a plant)
  • It's easy to get started.
  • And it's infinitely flexible to suit your exact needs.
  • You can probably even abuse a page and make a graphical layout map of your garden with clickable links to specific plant pages/sections.
 

For $600 the Minisforum MS-R1 gives you 64GB DDR5 ECC, 12 cores, dual 10GbE, a real PCIe 4.0 x8 slot, M.2 NVMe, Pi-compatible 40-pin GPIO, and actual UEFI boot. It runs Debian and Proxmox/KVM.

I've read that the CPU is trash compared to intel/amd in performance and in TDP, but you can't build a mini pc/server on intel/amd right now for thaf price with that amount of RAM.

Even just buying the 64GB ddr5 RAM as sticks will be like over 800$...

In the low budget range you can go with a Pi 5 16GB which is now ~$300. Add PSU, case, NVMe HAT, PCIe HAT and you're at $500+. It's way too expensive for what you get, compared to spending a bit more and going with minisforum.

Yeah you can get old used boxes with that amount of RAM for maybe the same price, but they'll such 200W and electricity is expensive where I live.

My current pine64 soquartz cluster over the past 5 years has been dying node by node and I can't run anything more demanding on it (like game servers or local AI). It cost me about 600$ back then with 5x blade + nvme + soquartz module, a poe switch and a case with fans. Kinda seems like a bad deal now, I'm stuck with all the docker swarm issues and the bad cpu cores and max 8gb ram per node. Oh and it draws 52W. If the minisforum 12W TDP is correct, I will save over 100$ per year on electricity costs alone.

Maybe i'm biased and trying to justify my own purchase ... let me know if I'm wrong about it being good value.

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