Molecular0079 @ Molecular0079 @lemmy.world

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And also Firefox on mobile is kind of a hot mess. Videos regularly are unable to play and dark mode is wonky until you restart the app.

Yep! I was surprised at how power efficient the build was myself. It really pays to go with an APU both because it doesn't go ham with the core count and clocks and also because you don't need an external GPU. As long as you're just doing light to medium loads and not transcoding at maximum speed 24/7, your power usage will be fine.

The reader itself leaves a lot to be desired though. There's literally no UI besides the arrow keys and no way to configure font rendering etc. It's cool that the functionality is there, but it needs work.

It idles anywhere from 28-33W, but when its doing heavy processing it spikes up to the full power consumption of the CPU (max I've seen is like 120W according to my UPS). I run it in Balanced performance profile so there's essentially no limiter to the power consumption. I figured I spent all this money on a CPU, I might as well take advantage of its processing power when I need it.

Lately I've been running a 24/7 Palworld server, and that is constantly running at 65%-85% CPU (out of a possible 1200%). My UPS reports 45W.

If Palworld isn't running and someone watches movies off of my Jellyfin, usage is around 40W-50W when doing transcoding, and 35W when doing direct play.

I went with Arch Linux, mostly because I am the most familiar with it, how barebones I can make it, and how rolling updates are generally easier for me to deal with than large break-the-world distro upgrades. All my services are running in Podman containers so they're completely isolated from any library versioning issues.

DIY NAS all the way. I had a QNAP that had a known manufacturing defect in the Intel CPU and QNAP refused to provide any support or repair options despite knowing about the issue for a long time. I will never again bow down to silly corporate shenanigans when it comes to my data.

My DIY NAS is a bit...unconventional and definitely doesn't fit in your budget requirement, but I'll leave the parts list as an interesting thought experiment: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/Lm92Kp

...okay, look, I know its a bit crazy. No, its A LOT crazy. But I genuinely feel like it isn't worth dealing with HDDs anymore when it comes to building a NAS. Back when I was using the QNAP, I had to replace each HDD at least twice and I spent $90-$100 bucks per drive. A NVMe SSD can easily outlast two or 3 HDD drives and you can get the MSI Spatiums on sale for $180, so in the long-term the costs even out. But the speed at which an NVMe array performs during scrubs and rebuilds blows a regular HDD array out of the water. Yes, its a higher up front cost, but an immensely better experience and the costs even out in the long run. Plus, a PCIe bifurcation expansion card is a hell of a lot smaller than 4 HDD drives, so it opens up your case selection for more compact builds.

I got the NZXT H1 because it was easy to build, came with cooler and PSU and just made things simple. It also goes on sale for around $180. You can definitely go with something else entirely. My thought process was that if I ever wanted a compact PC, I could possibly repurpose this case. This is just for me, it is not a hard recommendation.

I picked Ryzen 5600G because it was relatively cheap, decently powerful, and has HW h265 and h264 decode and H264 encode, which is basically what you need for Jellyfin or Plex. Just be aware that it only supports up to x4x4x8 PCIe bifurcation, so if you do go with a NVMe expansion slot, you can only put 3 on there and will have to use a mobo slot for the 4th. That's how mine is currently setup and it works great.

Yeah, its crazy, and I am sure some people here will scoff at the build, but after using it for 3 years, I just can't go back to regular HDD performance. An NVMe array just makes all of the services you host fly.

I run Nextcloud and two Jellyfin instances behind Nginx Proxy Manager. I also run a Palworld server. All of them are running under podman. I do use cockpit for checking container status, logs, and viewing the console for each container. I also use docker-compose to create all of my containers (using podman-docker of course). Unfortunately, all of them are running rootful instead of rootless, mostly because most proxies require root and setting things up for rootless like enabling low ports for regular users and allowing processes to run after logout are a pain in the ass.

Man, it's insane how Larian has set up their business model to be so pro-consumer. Everyone needs to be looking at how they're doing things as a case study.

My DIY NAS runs Arch

• LTS kernel
• BTRFS snapshots on root fs
• 4 drive NVMe array using ZFS raidz1
• podman for my docker containers

It's been working fantastically so far.

I felt the exact same way. So many comments online told me that running Arch as a home NAS was insane, but after the Jupiter Broadcasting guys did it without much issue, I decided to give it a go and was pleasantly surprised. I think if most of your stuff is running in Docker and you have BTRFS snapshots for your root filesystem, the system's pretty much bullet proof. The rolling updates also mean you'll never have huge upgrade cycles that are a pain in the ass to migrate to. You're always just dealing with small manageable fires instead of large complicated ones and that's a plus.

550 works a lot better for me in Wayland. A ton of games work now and VRR works properly in both X11 and Wayland. Some games still show out of order frames or glitching though.

WINE NINE!

No shame, job market for tech is fucking tough right now, but it will improve. In the meantime, keep your skills fresh. Start some projects of your own that will help you pick up the necessary skills and stay relevant and do freelance jobs on Upwork and similar services.

I was in a very similar situation as you just a few months ago. Worked with several freelance clients and one of them hired me on full time. Pays well and full remote, and luckily in an area that's isolated from all the craziness happening right now.

You got this! A CSE bachelor's is way too valuable to stay a bum for long.

Does it work in Wayland?

The problem with ROCm is that its very unstable and a ton of applications break on it. Darktable only renders half an image on my Radeon 680M laptop. HIP in Blender is also much slower than Optix. We're still waiting on HIP-RT.

Yeah they aren't your friends, but they can be the enemy of your enemy, and that's exactly what's happening now. Plus you have to look at the end results of their actions. Yes Valve's Linux efforts may be self-serving, but it also benefits the community as a whole. You can't say the same about Microsoft. That's a big difference IMHO.

Lmao, yes I am an Arch user. Literally all Arch users will tell you to check the Arch news for package breakages or adjustments. Just the other day I had to choose between dbus-broker-unit and dbus-daemon-unit, and a few weeks back I had to fix an update issue with openjdk. Both of these were listed on the Arch news site.

A new Linux user will not know what to do in these situations, much less know what dbus-broker-unit and dbus-daemon-unit is.

No its not. It's Arch with a fancy installer. You still have to keep up with Arch news and fix package breakages yourself. There's really no difference between Arch installed via archinstall and EndeavourOS.

SP7 camera isn't going to be supported until we get IPU4 Linux drivers, so it isn't a libcamera issue.

https://github.com/linux-surface/linux-surface/wiki/Camera-Support

I don't think someone new to Linux should go with Arch right off the bat. It isn't as hard as everyone makes it sound, but it also isn't as easy or seamless for new Linux users.