Built a nice little PiKVM and deployed it in my NAS. The NAS is heavy and placed in a dark half-height place under the stairs so it’s awkward when things go wrong and you need hardware access....
I’m using a workstation board in my server. Asus Pro WS W680M-ACE SE along with a Core i5-13500. Intel support ECC for consumer CPUs but only when using workstation motherboards :/. The IPMI on this board works well though.
Why does Timeshift only support btrfs? Is it just a lack of developers? LVM supports snapshots too, even if you’re just using ext4. ZFS supports snapshots too.
Wow this article perfectly captures the early 2000s experience of trying to teach parents how to use the internet. Internet access wasn’t very widespread in Australia yet, and my parents weren’t really interested in it and thought it was too difficult to use.
Nextcloud seems to have a bad reputation around here regarding performance. It never really bothered me, but when a comment on a post here yesterday talked about huge speed gains to be had with Postgres, I got curious and spent a few hours researching and tweaking my setup....
Try MySQL instead of MariaDB. They have some performance tweaks in version 10 that aren’t present in MariaDB.
Also, tune your MySQL (or MariaDB) server. Make sure all tables use InnoDB. Enable the slow query log and analyze slow queries (there may be missing indices). If there’s a lot of unique queries, increase the query cache size.
The easy approach is to run MySQLTuner after the MySQL or MariaDB server has been up for at least a week, and go through its suggestions.
There shouldn’t be a significant difference in performance between PostgreSQL and MySQL/MariaDB if both have been optimized. Out-of-the-box config isn’t ideal for a production system.
Debian => stale packages (Really solid distro though but dated version of Gnome)
Did you try using the testing or unstable versions of Debian? Testing is still more stable than some other distros. Packages need to be in unstable with no major bug reports for 10 days before they migrate to testing.
Do people actually use LXD in production? All hosting services I’ve seen use LXC and not LXD for containers, as do UIs like Proxmox and Unraid, and you don’t have to use Snap for LXC.
It’s funny because the first time I read it, I thought it was serious and was just written by a tech-illiterate parent. Saying that Comet Cursor and Bonzi Buddy are hacker software kinda gives away that it’s just satire though.
oh I guess that’s also something that younger people may not know about… In the late 1990s / early 2000s, it wasn’t uncommon for people to install spyware to get things like custom mouse cursors, emoticons, and purple gorillas that help you navigate the web.
Anywhere that COBOL can be replaced with something more modern, it’s already underw
Rewrites are extremely risky though, and some companies don’t want to risk it. That COBOL code probably has 40 years worth of bug fixes and patches for every possible edge/corner case. A rewrite essentially restarts everything from scratch.
Do you know of a decent sized company that successfully migrated away from COBOL? I’d be interested in reading a whitepaper about how they did it, if such a thing exists.
There is a disproportionately large number of furries working as network admins though. Whenever you use the internet, there’s a good chance that your data is transiting via a network administered by furries.
I wish people wouldn’t downvote comments like this. The downvote button isn’t an “I disagree with you” button and downvoting people just because you disagree with their opinion is silly.
We wouldn’t have Safari (Webkit) or Chrome (Blink) today if it weren’t for Konqueror and KHTML! Webkit is a fork of KHTML, and Blink is a fork of Webkit.
It can really slow things down if your views start calling other views in since they’re not actually tables
They can be in some cases! There’s a type of view called an “indexed” or “materialized” view where the view data is stored on disk like a regular table. It’s automatically recomputed whenever the source tables change. Doesn’t work well for tables that are very frequently updated, though.
Having said that, if you’re doing a lot of data aggregation (especially if it’s a sproc that runs daily), you’d probably want to set up a separate OLAP database so that large analytical queries don’t slow down transactional queries. With open-source technologies, this is usually using Hive and Presto or Spark combined with Apache Airflow.
Also, if you have data that’s usually aggregated by column, then a column-based database like Clickhouse is usually way faster than a regular row-based database. These store data per-column rather than per-row, so aggregating one column across millions or even billions of rows (eg average page load time for all hits ever recorded) is fast.
I’m pretty familiar with Linux server management, but haven’t ran Linux on the desktop in a very long time (I still remember the days of XFree86, which was the predecessor to X.org). If I install a mainstream desktop distro today (Ubuntu, Mint, whatever is popular now), does it come with X11 or Wayland out-of-the-box?
In both Debian and Ubuntu, only the main repo gets official security updates for free. Ubuntu has a paid option for universe whereas Debian doesn’t have that option and relies on the package maintainer to provide any updates.
I’d still recommend Debian over Ubuntu though, for various reasons.
What does being federated mean in this case? Git is already distributed. Is it just for discovery, or do you mean for things like issues and discussions?
Or, asked another way, does systemd load the Linux kernel, and if not, what does?
Immediately after the BIOS/POST, the first thing that starts is the boot loader. This is usually a piece of software called GRUB. There’s a part of GRUB in the Master Boot Record on the drive, that the loads the rest of GRUB from /boot. /boot has to be a basic partition so that the MBR code can mount it, so for example if you use something a bit fancier (like LVM) then you’ll usually have a separate small ext2 or FAT partition just for /boot.
GRUB shows a list of available kernels, and other operating systems (if any are installed), based on a config in /boot.
Once you select a kernel to boot (or wait a few seconds for it to automatically choose the default option), it starts loading the kernel. There is a small disk image called the “initial ramdisk” in /boot, usually with a name like initrd or initramfs. This is a small ramdisk that contains all the drivers needed to mount your root partition - for example, drive drivers (NVMe, SATA, etc), file system drivers (ext4, ZFS, XFS, etc), LVM, RAID drivers if needed, and so on. If the root disk is on an NFS network share (not as common any more, but still doable), it also needs to contain network drivers for your network card. It also contains a few basic utilities, usually provided by BusyBox.
Some Linux distros (such as Debian) build a custom initramfs, whereas others (like Fedora) have a generic one containing all possible drivers.
The initial ramdisk then mounts the root partition and hands control over to the Linux kernel, which starts actually booting the OS. The very first process the kernel starts running is the init process, which these days is usually systemd but can be a different one like sysvinit or runit.
Create a separate partition for /home so you can change distro without having to backup and restore the files in your home directory. Just be sure to NOT format that partition in the installer for your new distro. Take a backup anyways.
Upgrading/tinkering doesn’t void your warranty. Explicitly.
This is generally true with everything in the USA (covered by the Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act) even though companies are sketchy about it and try to convince people that it’ll void their warranty. The manufacturer has to prove that your upgraded part was the direct cause of the issue you’re trying to claim under warranty.
Linkwarden - An open-source collaborative bookmark manager to collect, organize and preserve webpages (lemmy.world)
Greetings everyone! Daniel here, I’ve been working on Linkwarden part-time over the past few months....
PiKVM Build and Deploy (feddit.nu)
Built a nice little PiKVM and deployed it in my NAS. The NAS is heavy and placed in a dark half-height place under the stairs so it’s awkward when things go wrong and you need hardware access....
Friendly reminder
This is your annual reminder to do a snapshot (timeshift or whatever you prefer) before doing relatively minor changes to your system....
Your PC will thank you... (sopuli.xyz)
Nextcloud Performance Improvements
Nextcloud seems to have a bad reputation around here regarding performance. It never really bothered me, but when a comment on a post here yesterday talked about huge speed gains to be had with Postgres, I got curious and spent a few hours researching and tweaking my setup....
What distros have you tried and thought, "Nope, this one's not for me"?
I’ve been using Linux Mint since forever. I’ve never felt a reason to change. But I’m interested in what persuaded others to move.
LXD now re-licensed and under a CLA (stgraber.org)
Blog post from LXC’s project lead
Kernel 6.6.6 is out 😈 (cdn.kernel.org)
This is the update metalhead nerds have been waiting for.
18+ What the Fuck Amazon?! (lemmings.world)
An open-source, cross-platform terminal for seamless workflows (waveterm.dev)
Render anything inline. Save sessions and history. Powered by open web standards....
Not mocking cobol devs but yall are severely underpaid for keeping fintech alive (lemmy.world)
Repurposing your laptop trans rights style 😎🏳️⚧️ (discuss.tchncs.de)
the main differences!! (lemmy.world)
this is just a meme, I know that everyone is different and not all GNOME or KDE users are like that!!
I'll just be a quick 3h (sh.itjust.works)
So sad when it happens (lemmy.ml)
A response to the "Boycott Wayland" article
Link to article: gist.github.com/…/9feb7c20257af5dd915e3a9f2d1f227…...
Yes, Ubuntu Is Withholding Security Patches for Some Software (www.flu0r1ne.net)
A new pilot will investigate the use of Forgejo (A non profit FOSS alternative to github and gitea) in german schools (blog.codeberg.org)
Screw init wars, real OGs discriminate based on DE (lemmy.ml)
I use plasma, BTW
An unbiased comparison of linux distributions' setup (sh.itjust.works)
System76’s Lemur Pro Laptop Is Just a Really Nice Linux Laptop (www.wired.com)
The System76 Lemur Pro is light, thin, repairable, and upgradeable. It’s the best Linux laptop we’ve tested.