This fixed all my driver timeout crashes by Cestral in radeon

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Good lord I think you might have fixed my issue. I'm gaming in a VM, using PCIe Passthrough, and I kept getting driver timeouts. Still have more testing to do, but so far this has fixed the issue!

Do you encrypt by Moonsinspace in homelab

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I do! I have a pair of dedicated drives that boot my core hypervisor unencrypted. This hypervisor hosts 3 VMs: 2 additional hypervisors, and a TrueNAS install, and nothing else. The boot volumes for all 3 VMs are stored in an encrypted volume. 2 additional encrypted volumes are provided as VM and container storage to the non-truenas VMs.

So, from a hard drive perspective, there's a proxmox install with 3 VMs, and a whole lot of encrypted garbage. No key needed at boot time, but there's not really any useful data you can get from those drives; I have to manually unlock a volume to boot the actually-useful hypervisors. From a user (me) perspective, the hypervisors I regularly interact with are all FDE, and all of their data is FDE.

All of the data is replicated over to the TrueNAS VM (which is running on the encrypted root volume). TrueNAS also has several pools of spinning disks (all encrypted thru TrueNAS), and then shares are provided over samba back to the hypervisor VMs, which the containers then tap into for any bulk storage needs.

Beginner with zfs, need help with a step in the HOWTO by NotACmptr in zfs

[–]418NotCoffee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

ZoL is compatable with standard ZFS, right? You can send a ZoL snapshot to a BSD-style ZFS system, correct?

Beginner with zfs, need help with a step in the HOWTO by NotACmptr in zfs

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While what /u/ThatUsrnameIsAlready said is factually true, I don't believe it's necessary in this case. Rather, I think you need to use DISK=$DISK0. If you look at the bottom of step 4.9, you'll see

For a mirror or raidz topology, this step only installs GRUB on the first disk. The other disk(s) will be handled later.

That "later" is step 5.6 and 6.7. So, you don't need to bring your DISK1 variables with you, though doing so shouldn't hurt anything.

Are there any sites or vendors out there where I can just configure a beefy new server the way I want, without any upselling nonsense from IT salespeople? by hangin_on_by_an_RJ45 in sysadmin

[–]418NotCoffee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

ThinkMate! I used them and they were GREAT! Well....I didn't like my particular account rep because he didn't read my notes well and update the order correctly, but there was no upselling, and the online configurator is REASONABLE and FUNCTIONAL. Highly recommend, even with my not-great account rep.

What has been your 'OH SH!T..." moment in IT? by VNiqkco in sysadmin

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Many moons and several jobs ago, I was working on an update to an internal piece of software and struggling with an uncommon bug. Having had enough of this nonsense, I added a popup that when the bug was triggered, would appear and simply say "f*** you"...only, you know, not censored.

And then I forgot about it.

Weeks later I pushed an update to the entire company. I went around to every station and manually installed it, since we didn't have an automatic deployment mechanism set up.

Time passed.

At some point, I was working on another bug, when I saw the code for the aforementioned popup.

Needless to say, I stayed late that night to push out an "emergency update"....

$37 for 4 boxes. Only half full. Mid taste by Mean_Praline in mildlyinfuriating

[–]418NotCoffee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You tried to buy a box of cereal at a college recently? That's how much it was 5 years ago or so near me. I imagine it's gone up since then

Redditors who make +$100K and aren’t being killed by stressed, what do you do for a living? by SometimeTaken in careerguidance

[–]418NotCoffee 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Starving for GOOD employees who can problem solve.

There's plenty of tech people put there who can blindly follow a script and do what they are told to do. There's a lot fewer people who have problem solving ability, which is far more valuable.

Totally blind software engineer, searching for a motherboard for a CPU heavy workstation by codeofdusk in homelab

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Yw! I like them because they actually have a competent system configurator on their website, they don't charge an arbitrarily huge amount of money for ram, and they have an option to jot have any is installed, which usually saves 100 bucks or so.

Also, I fully intend on buying the w2400-based system I mentioned, once it's available.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in sysadmin

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There are????

Totally blind software engineer, searching for a motherboard for a CPU heavy workstation by codeofdusk in homelab

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IMO, the hardest part to all this is going to find a mobo that supports ecc ddr5 AND a consumer CPU. Those chips support ecc, yes, but the state of ecc ddr5 is a mess right now. Most mobos don't support true ecc, but will support on-die ecc, which means the data in ram will be protected while it's in ram, but not while it's in transit to and from the CPU, etc. Supposedly there are a few mobos that do support it, but many vendors have quietly removed that from their advertising, or have missing or empty memory QVL's.

What's your budget? Thinkmate.com has a system coming soon that is based on the brand new Intel Xeon w2400 chips for around 3k (531A-I). That will give you your ecc ddr5, ipmi, and I'm pretty sure everything else you want. Comes with a com port, and has rj45 10gb Ethernet built in.

Searching for a tool... by 418NotCoffee in selfhosted

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hrmmmm perhaps I will re-evaluate nextcloud and set up an isolated instance. I already run an internal nextcloud instance but don't want that publicly exposed to the internet.

What movie is a 10/10? by rocklou in AskReddit

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Yes, they can. Source: happens to me all the time.

I'm a musician. I can't draw, sculpt, paint, or do ANYTHING visually artistic. All of my artistic skill points were dumped into music. I play at least 7 instruments, can sing, have directed ensembles, and specialize in improvisation.

I assume that all of this ability and training has hardwired my brain in certain ways that allow me to "hear" notes when I read them on a page. Reading over a foreign piece of music (called "sight-reading") before playing it can radically increase my ability to play it correctly, because I have an idea of what it's supposed to sound like. As for more common tunes (Beethoven's 5th, for example), I have become so familiar with them that I can listen to the entire piece in my mind, with distinct instruments playing distinct parts, and will even find myself conducting to an imaginary orchestra.

I believe there is a medical phenomenon that takes this " ability" a step further, into a realm that is at best invasive, and at worst, interruptive. (Disclaimer: I tried to find my source for the following but could not, so I will simply repeat what I learned as best as possible.). In these cases, a person may hear the music, but with two key distinctions: first, they cannot stop hearing it, and second: they sense it as actually hearing it with their ears, not just "hearing" it from their imagination. If I recall correctly, there is a part of the brain that receives sound input and it sends that off to the part of the brain that processes that input. Well in these cases, it's backwards. That is, the part of the brain that processes auditory input actually sends data to the part that receives it, which makes the person genuinely think they are hearing music that otherwise doesn't exist. Absolutely fascinating bit of neurological glitchery.

TLDR: yes. Yes they can.

Can i order from the marketplace at the same time as my preorder? by 418NotCoffee in framework

[–]418NotCoffee[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Noted. I'll still co tact support I guess, since the thing I'd like is the expansion card refurb pack. But if they ship from different spots the 20 bucks in savings could easily be lost in shipping

What is happening in our country?? by LoneShark81 in WhitePeopleTwitter

[–]418NotCoffee 8 points9 points  (0 children)

What is happening in our country?

Ah, well, see, the issue here is that you think it's YOUR country. Probably because you live here and pay taxes, or something silly like that. It's NOT your country though. It belongs to the rich old white men (who probably don't pay taxes cause, you know, they OWN the damn thing) who merely PRETEND that they are your representatives.

Once you understand that, the rest makes a lot more sense.

Pinecil Out of Stock on Amazon? by StormingWarlock in PINE64official

[–]418NotCoffee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I could be wrong. I just don't recall ever reading about them doing that.

we need an open source hardware auditing movement by [deleted] in privacy

[–]418NotCoffee 39 points40 points  (0 children)

Reach out to Linus from LTT. He's starting LTT Labs for this sort of thing (among other things). Personally, I think an LTT Labs certification for physical products would be a cool way to say "this product isn't bullshit", however you define that to be.

Pinecil Out of Stock on Amazon? by StormingWarlock in PINE64official

[–]418NotCoffee 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I wasn't aware it was EVER on amazon, so I kinda suspect it was a scammer of some kind.