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  • Figure out how much power your servers use on average with the help of a wattage meter, then enter that number and how many minutes battery backup you want in Eatons UPS Power Calculator to find a suitable unit. I'm sure other vendors have similar tools too.

  • I think Mediasonic still makes 8 bay DAS units, they're becoming a lot rarer.
    I would probably start looking at NAS units if I were you, or buy a bigger tower case and fit the disks internally instead.

  • As part of the transition of perpetual licensing to new subscription offerings, the VMware vSphere Hypervisor (Free Edition) has been marked as EOGA (End of General Availability). At this time, there is not an equivalent replacement product available.

    For further details regarding the affected products and this change, we encourage you to review the following blog post: https://blogs.vmware.com/cloud-foundation/2024/01/22/vmware-end-of-availability-of-perpetual-licensing-and-saas-services/

    • KVM/QEMU/Libvirt/virt-manager on a Debian 12 for minimal installation that allows you to choose backup tools and the like on your own.
    • Proxmox for a mature KVM-based virtualizer with built in tools for backups, clustering, etcetera. Also supports LXC. https://github.com/proxmox
    • Incus for LXC/KVM virtualization - younger solution than Proxmox and more focused on LXC. https://github.com/lxc/incus
  • Then it sounds like you can either wait for nvidia to fix their buggy drivers (have you tried the beta drivers too?) or sell your 2060 fe and buy an amd gpu that will play much nicer with kde wayland.

  • Muscle memory!
    As soon as I work in a terminal I use shift+ins instinctively, most programs still send the copy to both buffers if they have a "copy" button/function but some now only send to primary and you get some old text selection thrown into your terminal instead of the command the program helpfully copied for you.

  • I've tried finding a manager for this, Pano allows me to sync primary to selection but not selection to primary but I haven't found one that works the other way around. I'm currently running Fedora 38 with Gnome 44.
    While the shift+ins helps with pasting the wrong stuff it would be even better if I could get middle-click to sync up too.

  • I dislike wayland

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  • So the blog has these points listed:

    • Wayland's client API is gimped. Understandably, any piece of software has limits on its scope. I'm not criticizing that, but the limit on the scope of the Wayland ecosystem is way too small.
    • Wayland's lack of feature parity with Xorg cripples it. This brief section is now outdated and much to my surprise, the tearing protocol was actually merged thanks to Valve pushing hard for it. The text is left here for historical reasons.
    • Wayland's render loop design is ridiculous. If you build a client from ground up specifically with Wayland in mind, sure this is easy. But many applications are cross platform and internally driven.
      There's nothing wrong with an application managing how it should render internally. It's a natural choice for any program that operates in a cross-platform manner.
    • Wayland's Mesa implementations are leagues behind Xorg's. Both the EGL and Vulkan Mesa implementations are, quite frankly, bugged and lacking when compared to their Xorg DRI3 counterparts.
      In EGL's case, the spec isn't violated, but swap intervals greater than 1 are completely broken.
      Vulkan is more dire. The indefinite blocking behavior outright violates the Vulkan spec. Giving a timeout in AcquireImage does nothing in practice because the blocking is done in PresentQueue. Only two presentation modes on Wayland actually work: fifo (well this works by breaking the spec) and mailbox.
    • Wayland itself has bad core decisions. The big and obvious mistake to point out is fractional scaling. Update: The fractional scale protocol has been merged, and it's definitely a step forward.
    • Was it really worth it? We were told all along that Xorg is so bad and terrible that it needed to be started from scratch but at this point people need to be looking in the mirror and asking questions. If that 14 years of effort was instead focused onto solely improving Xorg, what would the result be? Surely, much more tangible results would have been gained at the end of the day. I'm not qualified to discuss render loop design or mesa implementations, but it seems 2/5 points has been rendered obsolete in the last 18 months. Progress! :)
  • I dislike wayland

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  • I'm looking forward to the Forgejo Federation to be completed.
    It will be nice to not have to choose between self hosting your repository and having your repository discoverable.

    Is forge federation ready to be used by developers around the world? Not yet.
    But the first Forgejo release with native federation implementation based on ForgeFed and F3 is expected next year.

    Info from June 2023: https://forgefriends.org/blog/2023/06/21/2023-06-state-forge-federation/