filister

joined 2 years ago
[–] filister@lemmy.world 15 points 3 hours ago

r/worldnews is a complete echo chamber and every even vaguely criticism is being banned.

[–] filister@lemmy.world 19 points 2 days ago (2 children)

The whole fact that you can pay 1 M to dine with a president is troubling. I don't know your laws but isn't this unlawful?

I have been through many compliance training and all they say is not to accept large gifts or expensive dinners and now this? Are laws in this country applied selectively on who's on the receiving side?

[–] filister@lemmy.world -1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

BYD is not selling in the US.

[–] filister@lemmy.world 23 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Crazy that none of them is from Europe.

[–] filister@lemmy.world 9 points 3 days ago

The worst is that in a day or two the world would forget about this, the perpetrators won't get any effective sentences and everything will continue the same way. The world's hypocrisy is staggering.

[–] filister@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

About time for republicans to start voting with their wallets. In what universe does Trump think he can win waging trade war against the whole world? Plus the US economy is mostly driven by their service sector, so I think it is about time for the rest of the world to start tariffing their services and see how their economy collapses.

[–] filister@lemmy.world 6 points 4 days ago

That's golden.

[–] filister@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

That's actually better than I thought though. I am also tempted into a 16:10 aspect ratio, but that's only on the third gen which is unfortunate. Thanks for the link.

[–] filister@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago (2 children)

I found a good T14 gen 1 with Ryzen CPU and 400 nits low-power display, but I read that the 4650U CPUs don't support amd-pstate and only auto-cpufreq, meaning that it will affect negatively the battery life. The T14 gen 2 are unfortunately with the 300 nits display, which is quite mediocre. How much worse the battery would be on the gen1?

[–] filister@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

True that, and I generally prefer bigger screens. As I said what I don't like is the price.

[–] filister@lemmy.world 23 points 6 days ago

There is a reason why Israel is not allowing any international media to enter Gaza or the West Bank. They simply want to control the narrative there.

They are also against any independent international investigations and so far none of their investigations have led to effective sentences.

[–] filister@lemmy.world 43 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Keep in mind that a lot of things will become a lot more expensive for you in the next few months. It really depends on your financial situation and job security but I would say unless you have a big surplus and have built a comfortable emergency fund, do not spend extra on not essential stuff.

 

I would like to buy myself a second hand and install Linux on it. I was looking into ThinkPad T14 gen1 or gen2 devices because of their maintainability and repairability. I found one where I live with a Ryzen processor but it has the wrong keyboard. How easy and expensive would it be to swap this with US English? Are there any good alternatives to the ThinkPads? I fancy the X1 but don't like the fact that I cannot change or swap anything on it. The T14 looks very bulky and unattractive but at least can have the RAM upgraded and the battery changed.

I fancy the Framework laptops, but don't want to spend so much on a laptop. Especially the latest 16 inch with Ryzen AI CPUs.

The T14 G1 is at least cheap, like 350€ with the 400 nits low power display and the battery is at 99%. I guess with tlp installed and autocpugfreq I can get 5-6 hours out of it.

 

I am building a Proxmox server running on an SFF PC. Right now I have:

  • 1 x 250 GB Kingston A400 Sata SSD
  • 1 x 512 Gb Samsung NVMe 970 Evo Plus
  • 1 x 512 Gb Kingston NVMe KC3000
  • 1 x 12 Tb Seagate Ironwolf Re-certified disk

I plan to install Proxmox on the 250Gb Kingston disk using ext4 and use it only for Proxmox and nothing else.

I am thinking of configuring ZFS mirrored raid on the two NVMe disks. Here one disk is on my mobo, and the other is connected to the PCIe slot with an adapter, as I have only one M2 slot on the mobo. I plan to use this zpool for VMs and containers.

Finally, the re-certified 12 Tb disk is currently going through a long smarctl test to confirm that it is usable and it is supposed to be used primarily for storing media and non-critical data and VM snapshots, which I don't care much about it. I will in parallel most likely adopt the critical data to a cloud location as an additional way to protect my most important data.

My question is should I be really concerned about the lack of DRAM in the Kingston A400 SSD and its relatively low TBW endurance (85 TB) in case I would run it only to boot Proxmox from it and I think the wear out of the drive would be negligible.

  • I have the option to exchange the Proxmox boot drive with a proper SSD, like a Samsung 870 Evo (SATA SSD, using MLC NAND and having DRAM cache). I would of course need to pay around 60% more but I am just thinking that this might be an overkill.
  • Do you think that using ZFS pool for the two NVMe drives will wear them out very quickly? I will have 3-4 VMs and a bunch of containers.
  • Is the use of a slow Proxmox boot drive (SATA SSD) going to slow down the VMs and containers as they will run on much quicker NVMe SSDs, or it won't matter?
  • Shall I format the Seagate HDD in xfs to speed up the transfer of large files or shall I stick to ext4?
  • What other tests shall I run to confirm that the HDD is indeed fine and I can use it?
 

Is there any immutable distro that's based on Hyprland? I really like their approach to tiling, but at the same time I prefer to have a solid experience without worrying that the next update might break some dependencies.

 

I am fairly new to Tasker and I would like to hear about your clever automations. My automations are mostly location, WiFi and time based ones.

Additionally, I have the Google Play version of Tasker, which has some limitations about the Bluetooth, which are coming from the Play store policies.

Do you think there are any security drawbacks if I install it over GitHub?

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