mwpmaybe

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by mwpmaybe 3d ago
Interesting. I use `--greedy` for casks but not regular formulae.
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by mwpmaybe 3d ago
So much of GNU et al is already in Homebrew that I wonder how close you are to being able to support Intel Macs using the Linux/amd64 branch (or backend or whatever you call it) of Homebrew or something close to it, possibly after inst
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by mwpmaybe 10d ago
Ahh, interesting. I have an issue today where my GitHub agentic workflows keep blowing through the context window that my local models can support; it ends up spending most of its runtime compacting over and over again. I've done all t
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by mwpmaybe 10d ago
I hope you don't mind me asking you some ELI5 questions because I'd like to understand how this fits in with everything else. I generally discourage my agents from storing memories locally because they don't travel; I'd
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by mwpmaybe 3mo ago
Add a PoE switch and PoE splitters for IP-KVMs that don't already have PoE-in?
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by mwpmaybe 3mo ago
I went with Sipeed NanoKVM (PCIe) units across my homelab as well and I've also been happy with them. For a while it's been the best value option (not to mention the most consistently available option) cf. GL.iNet, PiKVM, and JetK
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by mwpmaybe 3mo ago
Have you played around with OpenBMC or any of the open-sourced BMC firmware alternatives? ETA: specifically on older server/workstation boards instead of the stock firwmare
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by mwpmaybe 4mo ago
The memory controller is integrated into the CPU, so the motherboard chipset is irrelevant. There are some OEM-only v3/v4 parts with dual memory controllers, but the E5-2620 v4 is not one of them.
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by mwpmaybe 4mo ago
There are some OEM-only v3/v4 parts with dual memory controllers (because of a RAM supply crunch at the time, funnily enough), but the E5-2620 v4 is not one of them. The classic example is the very popular 12-core E5-2678 v3.
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by mwpmaybe 4mo ago
They've been stable for me but I'd be lying if I said I'd only heard good things. Looks like prices on the E810-XXVDA2 have come up since the last time I looked while prices on the ConnectX-6 Lx have come down, so that'd
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by mwpmaybe 4mo ago
You can't punch down twinax and the connectors are too big for keystones.
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by mwpmaybe 4mo ago
> Nowadays I'm not actually sure if DACs are cheaper than fibre now Yep still are, although fiber transceivers are surprisingly affordable, and of course you can usually re-use jumpers when you upgrade transceivers so TCO over a cou
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by mwpmaybe 4mo ago
> I'm getting a really bad taste in my mouth for 10GBASE-T RJ45 SFP+ modules mostly due to the god awful heat they pump out It's truly bananas especially in a homelab environment. Nearly every time I've thought to myself &
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by mwpmaybe 4mo ago
If you start doing bonded links with DACs or if you have a bunch of servers, the cable management situation gets ugly in a hurry, and the usual solutions like patch panels and keystones aren't applicable. Source: my basement
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by mwpmaybe 4mo ago
I've started buying E810s even for 10G links. PCIe Gen4, lower power draw, RDMA support, generally backward-compatible with SFP+ DACs and transceivers, and relatively inexpensive. Not nearly as dirt-cheap as the X520s but not crazy exp
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by mwpmaybe 4mo ago
I use UniFi for most of my home network so It Just Works™, but I've thought about mixing in Mikrotik for e.g. the compute rack so I can play around with 100G+ links and more esoteric stuff like VXLAN.
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by mwpmaybe 4mo ago
I've started buying Intel E810s for most purposes, even for 10G links. (SFP28 ports are generally backward-compatible with SFP+ DACs and transceivers.) The ones you can get on eBay for cheap typically run Dell firmware but it's se
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by mwpmaybe 4mo ago
My homelab has a 10G fabric (switched) for NFS, iSCSI, NVMe-OF, etc. and a 25G fabric (a mix of back-to-back and switched) for clustering (Ceph, DRDB, ZFS replication, migrating VMs). I spun up some iSCSI-backed SQL Server a few months ago
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by mwpmaybe 4mo ago
No. It's twin-axial. Think coaxial, but more axial.
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by mwpmaybe 4mo ago
Couldn't have said it better myself.
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by mwpmaybe 5mo ago
Holy carp.
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by mwpmaybe 7mo ago
Is that a squeaker, or a squirter?
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by mwpmaybe 8mo ago
Yes, I want these for my kids so very badly. They have Yotos (similar to Tonie) for bedtime, and iPads for school work, but those are not ideal for a number of reasons. I want them to be able to experience music like I was able to with an F
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by mwpmaybe 9mo ago
Unfortunately you had to run Windows NT, which was a leap for most folks and had poor support for games and some other software written for Windows 9x (e.g. software that required DOS mode and wasn't compatible with NTVDM). Windows 200
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by mwpmaybe 9mo ago
> The Celeron 300A was the one most folks would go after for this. Yes but they got hard to find in a hurry once word spread. I had two 366s in my BP6 overclocked to 550 but IIRC I had to buy a few to find two that were stable at this fr
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by mwpmaybe 9mo ago
They just renamed everything... the Pro Plus series is basically Latitude.
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by mwpmaybe 10mo ago
It's... not great. It's a dual-boot laptop that I take out into the field so I'd like to encrypt the Windows and Linux volumes with BitLocker and LUKS respectively, and ideally I would leave Secure Boot enabled for that extra
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by mwpmaybe 10mo ago
I scored an "open box" Dell Pro 14 Plus on eBay for about 600USD. It's got two USB-A ports, two USB4 ports, built-in Ethernet, 4G LTE, upgradeable storage, and decent Linux support (on Ubuntu LTS at least). The battery is fie
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by mwpmaybe 10mo ago
> Power management on Macbooks is unbeatable in my experience, both Windows and Linux have really serious issues dealing with sleep and low power modes. I've been dealing with this recently. Linux won't hibernate if you have Se
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by mwpmaybe 10mo ago
Yes, it's a race to the bottom for most. Lots of plastic and soldered, non-upgradeable components, and a lack of ports. The used market is tricky to navigate thanks to the proliferation of model names and numbers, so little to no salva

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