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just_another_person,

If you had the log level cranked up to 7, that is debug, and that is both wrong, and not the default. Don’t do that system-wide. Just leave it at INFO, and it’ll be fine. You’ll need it someday, and it doesn’t impact performance.

Adjusting the actual steps a service takes to boot is different than simply adjusting the output (which is one of the most basic and simplest things any running program can do). The pause in boot caused by your network service is an attempt by that service to get a DHCP address before it boots. You can disable that behavior and save a few seconds.

Videos stuttering across all applications

For a little over a month now, when playing videos on firefox, VLC, or any other application, I get infrequent stutters. This is with or without hardware accelleration. It’s as if the video pauses briefly. If multiple videos are playing, even across different applications, each of them will be effected at the same time....

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There are still a number of clock sync issues with the Zen4 chips. I’ve had issues on 6.4/5/6 with similar sounding audio/video that I’ve been able to somewhat mitigate by getting my amd_pstate settings to stop competing with other power tuning tools. Turn off EVERYTHING you have running dealing with cpufreq management, and just let the kernel amd_pstate do it’s thing. No TLP, no desktop tuning tools, just the upstate.

Also, double check that your memory frequencies aren’t bouncing all over the place, and consider under locking in the BIOS to exactly match the channel freq for CPU/mem.

See if that helps.

Considering Gentoo

I have an old iMac that I am planning to install some flavor of Linux on and while I was looking at various distros it occurred to me that it might be a good exercise to install Gentoo on it. Other than a separate machine for documentation and downloading the necessary packages, what else should I have set up to try this? Has...

just_another_person,

You can easily add Wifi with a USB dongle anyway. Hardly a hurdle.

just_another_person,

I think you just mean “declarative”. Highly configurable is literally any distro. I’d say NixOS is actually LESS configurable by design, but that is sort of the point: a repeatable image based on a template no matter what.

just_another_person,

Could have fooled me, because it’s certainly the default for things like brew, flatpak, mpm, and pip. Looks like npm and maven use it on certain Debian based distros as well. I’m betting more of the immutable distros use that directory as well vs something in /var/cache.

Thinkpads RE: Repairability/upgradability

I need to upgrade my laptop and one of the things I’m looking for is repairability/upgradability. I’ve been told thinkpads are good in this respect, how true is that? In terms of replacing batteries and memory, at least. I’m also looking at the frameworks, but those black friday deals are looking alright at lenovo....

just_another_person, (edited )

Correct. In the mission statement, Framework says they won’t be doing random sales, and prefer to keep prices consistent so customers know they are always getting the lowest price. I’m signed for an AMD 16", but those outlet prices are crazy good, so bought one of the 13" Intels as well to play with 😂

just_another_person,

Prediction on dictionary, and prediction in general is broken. You essentially can’t type out anything aside from the base diction without getting crazy suggestions. Kind of a deal breaker.

What should be used for anonymous usernames?

More often than not, the best way to hide is to simply blend in with the crowds – this also encompasses one’s choice for a username. It is relatively simple to make a single throwaway account – just come up with a username, and off you go – however, if one makes throwaway accounts often, the task of thinking of a unique,...

just_another_person,

Well, the same thing, but just not part of the BW server API is all.

just_another_person,

It’s not a public project. It was based on their docs to be compliant though, much the same as the vaultwarden project.

just_another_person,

Must be client side only. TIL

just_another_person,

Purge all, reinstall, turn on debug logging.

just_another_person,

You could just override your local DNS to do so, but you’ll end up breaking other sites that try to load it at some point. Maybe try only using a bookmark?

just_another_person,

SteamOS 3+ is built on Arch.

just_another_person,

Disable auto-off power management features for the port you have the device plugged into. Try the ‘Tunables’ menu in the powertop utility if you want to temporarily test to see if it works. Easiest thing I can think of for a beginner.

How to download ALL dependencies for an external .deb package (rescuezilla)?

Hi everyone! I’m trying to prepare a live iso with a USB stick including the additional rescuezilla package (or, alternatively, additional packages for a live rescuezilla .iso). Sadly rescuezilla does not support encryption, and so I’d like to be able to create/encrypt an image on one single live iso, not having to do a...

just_another_person,

This seems like a trick question, but app the repo to your apt sources first, then try to install. Step through for each unresolved dep if needed.

just_another_person,

pcspecialist.co.uk/…/boot-priority-clevos-insyde-…

just_another_person,

I’m not here to shoot down your comment in response, but you are confusing a few different things here. My point was just to demonstrate how the actual cost for streaming from a provider when you throw all the extra junk they do on top of it. You can have very reliable, distributed systems without all that mess, they just choose not to go that route. Selling a user subscription is just the beginning down a rabbit hole of upsells, price hikes, content lures, marketing gimmicks, data capture and sale programs, Ads (for a service you already pay for in most cases)…it’s expansive. Each one of those things has a team behind it making decent money.

If they just wanted to stream things they could with much less cost and effort, AND make money doing it. It’s been done before. They all just choose to go the route of squeezing their audience for every last ounce of possible monetization they can, which costs a ton of money.

just_another_person,

Hey, friend. No need to get mad. I’ve worked on these exact systems I’m describing for years, which is how I know these things. They suck. It’s not about k8s itself, you’re focused on the wrong part of what I’m saying.

You want to just stream files to people cheaply and quickly, these companies don’t do that anymore, and that’s the choice these companies have made. They’d rather scale their engineering resources to the microservices that nickle and dime the shit out of everyone. That’s just the facts.

just_another_person,

No, I’m saying that Netflix WAS a streaming service only, and then created a scenario where they constantly need more money and can’t support their own business practices by incurring an insane amount of debt by complicating the platform and spending a small country’s GDP in creating new content. They WERE making money, and then went off the rails and now need to constantly raise prices.

I’m not sure what you mean about the CDN, but aside from Amazon and Google, none of these streaming services are caching at edge for the actual video libraries. Instead, Netflix specifically has tiered replication of their entire library in various AZs around the world tailored to each regions most popular content. You can see this at work by watching your network traffic hit different endpoints for something like a popular new title versus an old and rarely watched title.

just_another_person, (edited )

Sorry to burst your bubble, but Netflix is $13b in debt. That is THIRTEEN BILLION USD IN DEBT. It’s a fact. The streaming arm of the company was the only profitable part for about two years when they first started it.

As far as their tech goes, and you can Google if you want, they would make more money per customer if they dropped the other bullshit, and just focused on streaming content.

just_another_person,

You’re just making my point.

just_another_person,

Well then you know what the problem is already, so I’d start digging into configuration settings related to audio, and see if there are any plugins for whatever your sound server is.

just_another_person,

I’d start googling or looking through their forums. Somebody else has surely solved this for you.

just_another_person,

Be careful with your solution. Ever other container you launch will attempt to access the Nvidia runtime, which gives access to the GPU. This may have unintended consequences, versus just running individual containers with Nvidia runtime set, and gpus=all set.

just_another_person,

Wot

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