Moonrise2473

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[–] Moonrise2473@feddit.it 3 points 2 months ago

Wow that's an awesome project! Thanks for sharing, now I can get a camera that's inexpensive, has everything I want and doesn't require malware to be installed on my phone/network!

[–] Moonrise2473@feddit.it 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

i "fixed" the problem of those fucking bots by blocking everyone except my country

[–] Moonrise2473@feddit.it 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

LOL if 4gb of memory is pretty minimal I am curious to know that they think to be resource intensive.

The maximum memory I am willing to allocate to a lxc container dedicated to bookmark management (=something that I access twice a month) is 256mb

[–] Moonrise2473@feddit.it 2 points 3 months ago

This is an ad, so the computer pictured is not fictional, but it's the HP Mediasmart ex470 (I think this joke book was even bundled with the first units)

They used really shitty processors so it's ewaste, maybe it can be acquired for cheap and repurposed with some mini itx board

[–] Moonrise2473@feddit.it 2 points 3 months ago

I think it depends by the manufacturer and how they programmed the charger, I got two HP ProBook that almost exclusively got used when plugged in and after a decade they can still last over two hours, instead my Thinkpad t42 with the same usage pattern now just barely holds enough for shutting down the system

[–] Moonrise2473@feddit.it 14 points 3 months ago (2 children)

if you need to buy it, for that budget i'd choose something like an used Lenovo m910q tiny that banks and offices are throwing to the landfill because Microsoft said that everyone needs to buy a new PC. Half the price, similar power consumption (in idle, otherwise much more), much more powerful, comes with nvme and sata slots, hdmi and usb 3

[–] Moonrise2473@feddit.it 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

you can install dockge in truenas and then all your docker data is not "locked" inside their application data

[–] Moonrise2473@feddit.it 0 points 3 months ago

my HBA takes 20W at idle

[–] Moonrise2473@feddit.it 6 points 4 months ago

If the house was purchased before 2023, theoretically they get market value +15%

But still it's a waste as we all know from the beginning that the project will never ever be completed, it's from the 80s that's "will start soon"

[–] Moonrise2473@feddit.it 5 points 4 months ago (2 children)

scale, they got rid of the kvm emulator in the last release and i was devastated to see all my VM gone. The "migration" consists in you migrate the disk image to the new directory, then you make a new VM... IF you knew that BEFORE the update and took note of all the settings because the old VM menu is gone!

but also it's clear than core is on life support

[–] Moonrise2473@feddit.it 5 points 4 months ago (4 children)

Exactly, for example I missed the note that updating truenas to the latest version disables and hides all the virtual machines (theoretically they can get migrated to the new engine but it gave me some weird error. Luckily truenas can be downgraded easily.)

Now, 3 months after the First release of the update, those virtual machines aren't disabled and hidden anymore

[–] Moonrise2473@feddit.it 23 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Or ignore it and let Americans pay higher prices. 20% while the floor for any other country in the world is 15% is almost the same. Also, it's not like you can purchase those chips from somewhere else.

Otherwise they risk doing like Fuji that spent millions to move production of some cameras back to Japan just to let TACO to change mind after a few weeks and get a similar tariff applied. End result: customers pay more

 

TrueNAS systems with Apps should be upgraded immediately to 24.10.2.2, before June 1st! [...]

After June 1st, Cobia and Dragonfish users with Kubernetes Apps will need to manually back up and restore their application data and configuration to a new Electric Eel installation. The manual update process is more complex and should be avoided.

 

Some of the preferences are surprising for the CEO of Tesla, a company dedicated to sustainability. Apparently Musk isn’t “interested in conserving fuel” because he “wants to fly as quickly and as direct” as possible.

Surprising? It's 100% expected behavior from the richest asshole in the world

 

A decade ago I used BitTorrent Sync. Then it became Resilio Sync. Then with Resilio Sync 2 they nerfed the free app to a point that I just removed that from all my computers and switched to syncthing.

Yesterday I was watching my server struggling when syncthing was doing the periodic scan of a directory with hundreds of thousands of files and then i thought, "maybe Resilio Sync uses less resources or doesn't waste time reindexing a static directory for the nth time"

I went to see their website and now with the new version 3, all the features are back. The business plan now is to sell the app to enterprises at unaffordable prices rather to persuade consumers to pay a subscription to self host their syncing server

I wanted to try it but now they say docker version is discontinued, need to install the package to bare metal. Ugh... So I desisted and decided to stay with syncthing

Now with the news of the impending discontinuation of syncthing android app, everything changes. Without Android support, syncthing is no more irreplaceable for me.

So, has anyone tried Resilio Sync 3? Is it good?

 

And it failed spectacularly.

We only needed a simple form, but we wanted to be fancy, so we used "nextcloud forms".

The docker image automatically updated the install to nextcloud 30, but the forms app requires nextcloud 29 or lower. No warning whatsoever. It's an official app, couldn't they wait that it was ready for NC 30 before launching it? The newsletter boasts "NC hub 9 is the best thing after sliced bread" yet i don't see any difference both in visual or performance compared to NC hub 2

Conclusion: we made our business to rely on nextcloud forms as a signup form, but the only reason we were using it was disabled who knows how many weeks ago.

 

I've enough.

Last year the automatic updater was rebooting windows without any warning after the uac prompt. The problem continued for months before being fixed

This year I got an update a week. Very annoying to get the same "why u no reboot? I need updates" question every single time I turn on my PC.

Today when updating it kills explorer.exe without any confirmation and doesn't bring it back to life.

I don't think that their paid enterprise customers are doing the ~~beta~~ alpha testers like this. Is it really necessary to push nightlies to end users? It can't be tested casually for a couple of days then pushed?

I disabled the updates check and will update the nextcloud desktop client manually every 5 years if I can remember. Added an exception to Winget so it doesn't update it. I lost my patience.

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NFS or iSCSI? (feddit.it)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by Moonrise2473@feddit.it to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
 

So, i got persuaded to switch from a "server that is going to do everything" to "compute server + storage server"

The two are connected via a DAC on an intel x520 network card.

Compute is 10.0.0.1, Storage is 10.255.255.254 and i left the usable hosts in the middle for future expansion.

Before I start to use it, I'm wondering if i chose the right protocols to share data between them.

I set NFS and iSCSI.

With iSCSI i create an image, share that image on the compute server, format it as btrfs, use it as a native drive. Files are not accessible anywhere else.

With NFS i just mount the share and files can be accessed from another computer.

Speed:

I tried to time how long it takes to fill a dummy file with zeroes.

/iscsi# time sh -c "dd if=/dev/zero of=ddfile bs=8k count=250000 && sync"
250000+0 records in
250000+0 records out
2048000000 bytes (2.0 GB, 1.9 GiB) copied, 0.88393 s, 2.3 GB/s

real    0m2.796s
user    0m0.051s
sys     0m0.915s
/nfs# time sh -c "dd if=/dev/zero of=ddfile bs=8k count=250000 && sync"
250000+0 records in
250000+0 records out
2048000000 bytes (2.0 GB, 1.9 GiB) copied, 2.41414 s, 848 MB/s

real    0m3.539s
user    0m0.038s
sys     0m1.453s
/sata-smr-wd-green-drive-for-fun# time sh -c "dd if=/dev/zero of=ddfile bs=8k count=250000 && sync"
250000+0 records in
250000+0 records out
2048000000 bytes (2.0 GB, 1.9 GiB) copied, 10.1339 s, 202 MB/s

real    0m46.885s
user    0m0.132s
sys     0m2.423s

what i see from this results:

the sata slow drive goes at 1.6 gigabit/s but then for some reason the computer needs so much time to acknowledge the operation.

nfs transferred it at 6.8 gigabit/s which is what i expected from a nvme array. Same command on the storage server gives similar speed.

iscsi transfers at 18.4 gigabit/s which is not possible with my drives and the fiber connection. Probably is using some native file system trickery to detect "it's just a file full of zeroes, just tell the user it's done"

The biggest advantage of NFS is that I can share a whole directory and get direct access. Also sharing another disk image via iscsi requires a service restart which means i have to take down the compute server.

But with iscsi i am the owner of the disk so i can do whatever i want, don't need to worry about permissions, i am root, chown all the stuff

So... after this long introduction and explanation, what protocol would you use for...:

  • /var/lib/mysql - a database. Inside a disk image shared via iscsi or via nfs?

  • virtual machine images. Copy them inside another image that's then shared via iscsi? Maybe nfs is much better for this case. Otherwise with iscsi i would have a single giant disk image that contains other disk images...

  • lots of small files like WordPress. Maybe nfs would add too much overhead? But it would be much easier to backup if it was an NFS share instead of a disk image

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