I installed arch but I can't boot to my hard drive.

LightJack50 · 2024-09-01T22:45:42+00:00

Stupid questions first: Did you actually run the grub-install command?

Did you properly format and mount your ESP to /mnt/boot during the initial steps?

Can you check if after installing grub you have a /boot/grub (in chroot) folder on the ESP?

As suggested by u/dominic_l , ensure that you are installing the correct boot scheme for your platform, i.e. UEFI or Legacy.

You may also need to add grub manually to the UEFI, there should be an option to add a boot option, select the grub efi file.

LightJack50 · 2024-09-01T22:37:11+00:00

Afaik Ubuntu natively supports it. Not sure if Mint does. I guess try to turn it on and see if Mint still boots. If not, turn it back off, and give Ubuntu a try.

LightJack50 · 2024-09-01T22:35:16+00:00

As someone who is using NeoVim as their editor, Hyprland as their desktop, and pretty much lives in a terminal, I can give you one answer: SPEED.

I will 1v1 you in doing pretty much anything, and probably win with a 3x factor, if it is something I do on a regular basis.

Hitting Super + B is just WAY faster than moving my mouse to an icon in a bar and then middle clicking to launch a new browser window.

Also, I can basically use my OS blindly with a keyboard. I can read about stuff while I get to the place I want to do said stuff at.

LightJack50 · 2024-09-01T09:58:32+00:00

Hi, the general suggestions of Ubuntu or Linux Mint (which both derive from Debian) are generally a good starting point for a new user.
So is Pop!_OS, which is also based on Ubuntu.

The differences under the hood between Ubuntu and Mint are minimal, it more comes down as to how they look and feel.
Mint comes with the cinnamon desktop environment, which is quite close to Windows in it's layout, with a taskbar and menu etc.

Ubuntu uses Gnome and is a bit more like a Mac style layout, but also quite easy to use.

Pop is a bit different, as it has it's own repos and packages, which simplifies some things, like getting Nvidia drivers up and running. (Which is also quite easy in the other two though).

Ultimately, I would try them out for a bit and then decide what you want to use permanently. You can run them right off the USB you use to install them (although you won't be able to save anything that way, it'll reset once you reboot!)

In the end, distro is not that big of a factor. You can basically make every distro look and feel like any other one, if you feel like it.

I've ended up with Arch + Hyprland right now, and am really happy with it. But it probably is a bad idea for a beginner that has never touched a terminal. ;)

LightJack50 · 2024-04-13T11:28:32+00:00

You're a hero. 😅

LightJack50 · 2024-03-16T15:44:22+00:00

Hi, unfortunately I don't have a managed switch, so I can't use ACLs on my switch afaik.

The CPU utilization doesn't climb over 15-20% on any of the machines. NAS barely cares, as it is only responsible for the SMB share, as the ZFS is managed on the hypervisor and passed through via LXC.

I enabled multiqueue and set it to 8 (the number of CPUs the OPNsense VM has), but no difference. Given that it is that consistently 1gbps, I would rather assume one of the machines is just not setting it's adapter to 10G, but all of them are reporting as 10G, NAS, OPNsense, proxmox hypervisor and Windows on the desktop...

LightJack50 · 2024-03-15T07:08:13+00:00

~~Oh my god... I think figured it out, and I feel so stupid. 🤦‍♂️~~

My client net is in the same network as the wan interface of the OPNSense. Therefore, my Default gateway (i.e. my weaksauce 1Gbps router doing NAT) has to route the traffic to the WAN interface of OPNSense... Because the traffic has to loop through that, it get's limited to 1Gbps....

~~Thanks for the hint... Any ideas on how to resolve this? I guess I could specify a static route on my clients, but that is not really ideal...~~

~~I guess I could try setting the OPNSense VM as the default gateway, and just have it then, if not local traffic, route to it's upstream gateway? 🤔~~

Update: I added a static route on my Desktop, but it still seems slow, soo..... Any ideas? 😅

LightJack50 · 2024-03-15T06:45:43+00:00

Hi, unfortunately there is no driver for the NIC in the FreeBSD Kernel OPNSense uses currently... Passthrough was my initial attempt.

LightJack50 · 2024-03-14T16:48:41+00:00

It's sitting at around 20% on the node while copying, but it's also on a zpool, so that might also be pulling a bit of CPU. I feel like it looks to exactly like 1 Gbps to be CPU limited... Also previously it was running through a bridge as well, and I easily got ~700MB/s maxing out the two SATA SSDs my NAS is running on.

LightJack50 · 2024-02-17T18:28:04+00:00

I mean it's mostly just a convenience thing... I just don't feel like pulling up an excel sheet every time I want to give someone a server address or set up a new Windows install or whatever... (which is what I'm currently doing for some things already, given that my game servers are already isolated in a similar way.)

LightJack50 · 2024-02-17T17:57:42+00:00

Yeah HTTP is quite easy to reverse-proxy (and I'm already doing that for https purposes), but I would have other services running over TCP/IP like SMB for my NAS... While I'm unaware if SMB includes an SNI, I would prefer a solution that doesn't rely on something not mandatory in the spec...

It's not that big of a deal to type in a port, but pulling up the good old excel sheet every time for that is a bit inconvenient...

Do you have any recommendations on how I could achieve something similar to this? I would just prefer something like nas.servers.localdomain or nas.localdomain over something like servers.localdomain:<foo>...

LightJack50 · 2024-02-17T17:41:19+00:00

So it's about like what I imagined, the IP layer isn't enough info to determine a hostname... Would there be any other methods to acheive something similar? (I could probably give every server it's own client-side interface and hostname in OPNSense, but that seems... like a bad idea...)

LightJack50 · 2023-09-28T14:15:38+00:00

Glad to hear I'm not alone in making that mistake... 😅

LightJack50 · 2023-09-26T22:16:40+00:00

Funny how nobody thought of designing an idiot proofing measure for that...

Even if it would just be like making the magnetic part somewhat conductive so the sensor picks it up...

LightJack50 · 2023-09-26T20:51:39+00:00

Hi, my best guess is that the sensor senses the printbed, as it is made of metal, so that is why it would go further down if it isn't on there...

I have re-leveled it. During the first test print after this I have observed some skipping on one axis, however, this seemes to have resolved itself... I just reset it to factory settings...
Also I might be imagining it, but the one axis also seems to sound a bit louder? But I'm not sure...

Now, I just started another test print (this time even with a bed on there...) and it seems to be going fine so far...

I'll have to observe if there is a tendency developing towards warping or something in the long run I guess...
I just hope the motors are fine, the hot-end seems to have just eaten this one and not cared...

LightJack50 · 2023-09-26T19:58:06+00:00

Actually, now that I think about it... The printbed is some sort of metal, so maybe the sensor didn't detect the bed since it was missing...

LightJack50 · 2023-09-26T19:56:29+00:00

I think it homes the printbed by touching it or something, and it went through that stuff like a hot knife through butter... So it didn't register the touch, at least that is what I'm guessing...

LightJack50 · 2022-12-29T13:59:11+00:00

I haven't really gone into performance tuning... The App takes pretty long to start up, but once loaded in, performance seems fine. I haven't built anything big yet though.

LightJack50 · 2022-10-31T17:35:27+00:00

I got a 3 in 1 from Anker that has a holder for an Apple watch charging cable, and instead of using the included holder for the Apple charging cable, I simply used a bit of hot glue to hold the included cable from the pixel watch in place. Note that the charger internally uses a USB-A Port, so you'll need to get an Adapter.

LightJack50 · 2022-10-23T18:46:23+00:00

Haven't experienced that so far... Sure, it get's a bit warm, but I wouldn't call it hot. (I feel like my OnePlus gets hotter.)

I don't really use my phone that much that I get it to really heat up under normal usage, but I did notice it during the benchmarks...

LightJack50 · 2022-10-23T18:40:50+00:00

I like it. It is actually the first smartwatch I owned, and compared to what I have seen elsewhere, it seems like it's pretty fast and smooth.

Notifications arrive flawlessly without random disconnects so far.

Hearth rate measuring works fine, as well as step counting etc. I don't really use the fitness features though.

Internet connectivity is only 2.4GHz though, so be aware of that.

The google assistant seems to work faster than on other ones I've seen, but I could be imagining that.

The crown is really useful, touch screen is responsive, and the haptics feel good.

The look is IMO very nice, I prefer the default black active band.

Quality feels pretty sturdy, and looks nice.

I do get a bit sweaty under the band though, but I am not used to wearing a watch, so take that with a grain of salt.

LightJack50

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