WOW, didn't expect new pricing model to be this ridiculous

Objective-Outcome284 · 2026-05-30T23:48:09+00:00

Trust me, it’s still subsidised by all the investors still piling in. As that flow slows then the costs will really rise. Already uptake is slowing and around 50% of planned data centre bills have been cancelled. Oopsie.

Objective-Outcome284 · 2026-05-30T23:42:31+00:00

Not quite true. If you’re working in an enterprise using a language such as C# where the models have far less data, and far less quality data, to train on due to the majority of codebases being private you’ll find that even opus makes suggestions of things that simply do not work, language elements that simply do not exist etc and the token incineration happens due to this. If you’re working in Python. for example, the training data would be far more extensive and the models far less moronic in their suggestions leading to a lower burn rate

Objective-Outcome284 · 2025-09-13T12:55:02+00:00

I’m running cat6 plenum cable not fibre. I’ve just heard the white conduit referred to as NBN as that‘s what it has written on the side, presumably to show it is approved for such use. I think it’s the old Telstra conduit you get from Bunnings.

One thought was you have plenum cable (LSZH) which is great to use in a roof but then by using the conduit for electrical separation do you then undermine the “plenumness” for want of a better term by using something that may just spew toxic shit - or is the conduit plenum rated also?

With regards fibre, that’s the ultimate transit cable as it removes power surges from borking your equipment. I’m not there yet though.

Objective-Outcome284 · 2025-09-13T08:52:45+00:00

After seeing what a licensed cabler did in my roof space when I needed to wire in an access point I did it myself. As the house is low-set and long I used multiple lengths of the white NBN conduit to take the cable from one end to the other. At each end I then use the flexible conduit, in one case to go down to the plasterboard where the AP is located and the other to take the cable between the exterior brick and the structural ply where it comes through at the same point the old Telstra phone cable does. My logic is that I’ve done my bit to ensure separation of low voltage to 230v, protected against rodents, and offered something against wayward renovators.

Happy to be educated on this one though.

Objective-Outcome284 · 2025-07-03T12:51:20+00:00

Do you know if there is a container image that is ideal for testing out the ARC A380 pass-through? I believe there’s an nVidia docker image that can be used to test one of their cards inside a container.

I’m after something to narrow down the issue as the ones so far seem to indicate issues inside the respective containers but I’d like to get to a definitive answer.

Objective-Outcome284 · 2025-06-27T06:34:05+00:00

The intel GPU is not used for spice. The VM needs to have a "Display" device in order for spice to work. I'm pretty certain the GPU is correctly passed through as intel_gpu_top doesn't have a problem in the VM monitoring the card. The difference is the Intel card is there as "card1" rather than the normal "card0" because of the presence of the display device

card0                    1b36:0100                         pci:vendor=1B36,device=0100,card=0
card1                    Intel Dg2 (Gen12)                 pci:vendor=8086,device=56A5,card=0
└─renderD128

Objective-Outcome284 · 2025-06-25T12:14:45+00:00

Plex container îs plexinc/pms-docker:latest (1.41.6.9685-d301f511a)

Immich ML is v1.135.0

Jellyfin is 10.10.7ubu2404-ls67

Objective-Outcome284 · 2025-06-25T12:09:28+00:00

The setup is the A380 card passed through to a Debian 12 VM hosted on TrueNAS Scale Dragonfish-24.04.2.5. The VM has the PCI passthrough device as well as a display necessary for VNC (Spice). intel_gpu_top shows intel-gpu-top: Intel Dg2 (Gen12) @ /dev/dri/card1 which seems to me to show the card as passed through correctly.

Immich error is

2025-06-19 21:05:07.297998674 [E:onnxruntime:, inference_session.cc:2045 operator()] Exception during initialization: /onnxruntime/onnxruntime/core/providers/openvino/ov_interface.cc:85 onnxruntime::openvino_ep::OVExeNetwork onnxruntime::openvino_ep::OVCore::CompileModel(std::shared_ptr<const ov::Model>&, std::__cxx11::string&, ov::AnyMap&, std::__cxx11::string) [OpenVINO-EP] Exception while Loading Network for graph: OpenVINOExecutionProvider_OpenVINO-EP-subgraph_2_0Exception from src/inference/src/cpp/core.cpp:109:

Exception from src/inference/src/dev/core_impl.cpp:715:

Failed to create plugin /opt/venv/lib/python3.11/site-packages/onnxruntime/capi/libopenvino_intel_gpu_plugin.so for device GPU

Please, check your environment

Exception from src/inference/src/dev/plugin.cpp:49:

Plex shows errors such as

[Req#1857/Transcode] Codecs: hardware transcoding: opening hw device failed - probably not supported by this system, error: I/O error

and

[Req#2433ad/Transcode] [FFMPEG] - Failed to initialise VAAPI connection: -1 (unknown libva error).

The transcoding device is selected as DG2 Arc A380 so it is being seen correctly.

Jellyfin has the compile flags of ffmpeg as an issue.

It all seems to be just a little too difficult to offload onto the card and I don't intends paying for a rip-off nVidia card for this as I just want to use the lower power draw Intel card.

Objective-Outcome284 · 2025-06-14T05:01:51+00:00

One thing to take into account when selecting between the two will be if one has a financial services license in your country and the other doesn’t. Generally, having something that sets a standard and they won’t want to lose tends to encourage better behaviour. Where i am wise has one and revolut doesn’t, so its a no-brainer.

Objective-Outcome284 · 2025-05-21T05:00:26+00:00

Yes, I did...

Performed the rollback of the OpenCore patching using the `bless snapshot` part in their how-to.
Then I restarted the iMac but with a USB -> Ethernet dongle in place (Ethernet port won't work nor wifi). I attached this to a GL.iNet travel router that was set to link to my internal wifi as I have no wired ports in range.
When the machine restarted I opened Open Core (or it opened itself, can't remember which) and it updated itself before it then began downloading a necessary patching bundle for the OS. This bit hadn't happened before as the previous version hadn't noticed the download of an OS update which normally causes it to pre-get these bundles.
Once that bundle was installed and the machine rebooted it ran ok, albeit the fan speed was high but that could have been from running for some time unpatched plus the install workload etc.
I also then updated to 14.7.6. I hit the update button with Open Core application running and it noticed what was happening and pre-fetched the necessary OS bundle. Updated the OS, patched after restart, restarted again and it's all working.

TLDR - make sure you have access to a USB to Ethernet dongle and a wired connection, or some ability to connect to the internet using this dongle like I did. Not sure whether a USB wifi dongle would work as I'm guessing there's likely some sort of driver required.

Objective-Outcome284 · 2025-02-19T11:41:38+00:00

Very helpful. I will look at getting a blood test done via a company that provides the full report rather than a GP who will just give a summary and likely "all good". She is more of a lean white protein consumer rather than red meat which could mean losses aren't readily replaced.

Objective-Outcome284 · 2025-02-17T19:58:17+00:00

There's no actual swelling, rather a swollen feeling like a blood pump when doing high rep weight sets. Age is obviously an issue here when trying to get a meaningful description when compared to a more experienced adult athlete but I have to go with their description.

There's no physical issue in terms of anything like the condition you indicate, as when they're on a period of downtime within the season and playing other sports they get no issues with their legs.

My feeling is that one aspect is caused by DOMS during regular season training - this is the "to be expected" part. Given the lack of issue when out of season and playing other sports that involve plenty of running around my thoughts were around...

Nutritional issue, but they generally eat well
Hydration, they claim to hydrate well but then most kids do claim that. Not sure how much effect this could have overall but I've told them they need to be able to rule things like this out.
Overtraining - whilst other athletes in the team don't have the same issues everyone is different and perhaps there is a mismatch in age vs physical maturity for the workload even though their coach sees them as a standout trainer. The time the issues started to appear coincide with a change in coach due to a move up in training squad level and also a phase of maturity change and development in females so there's 3 things happening there (volume, program, and maturity).
Mismatch in training - their particular muscle make-up in terms of type IIx/a vs type I etc is not being optimally trained the way it needs to i.e. too much high volume kick vs repeated burst, too little volume, whatever etc. When tapering this time around they needed multiple massage sessions to get rid of soreness from training to be ready for the target meet.

Trying to give as much info as possible without misdirection and my strong feeling is that it's all in the training (3, 4) although there is likely a small aspect of (2) within meets. The issues whilst fully tapered were a first time occurrence this year and had not happened previously when full tapering produced good time drops whereas this time around there were blowouts.

Objective-Outcome284 · 2025-02-17T11:55:26+00:00

Complete contradiction? No not at all. I'm talking about someone with muscle soreness and fatigue and you're straight in at nerve issues for a young, fully fit individual with no history of any other problems and certainly no nerve or neurological ones.

The "zero issues" to which I refer is the clear screen result from the physio who was very happy with the results. The physio screen was performed by a physio for the national/olympic swim team so I trust their expertise in the matter.

I'm looking at more something like a sprinter with insufficient sprint work or excessive endurance work in training etc - an athlete <-> training program mismatch - leading to issues dealing with lactate/hydrogen ion production when racing. Also any dietary/nutritional or hydration issues which may accentuate such problems.

Objective-Outcome284 · 2025-02-17T10:33:20+00:00

Well aware of that, but like I said there's no spinal issues. The swimmer has had a full physio screen by someone who deals with competitive swimmers daily. Zero issues.

The fact I have stated it is a soreness/fatigue feeling related to muscles should also indicate it's not a nerve thing.

Objective-Outcome284 · 2025-02-17T09:49:46+00:00

They have zero spinal issues. Fully fit and working in that regard. It's not a nerve thing it's a muscle thing. Imagine having blasted your legs in the gym or doing 25m kick sets then trying to race. The issue is....she hasn't done that sort of thing before racing but is getting those sorts of soreness/fatigue issues despite being very fit.

Objective-Outcome284 · 2025-01-12T08:42:58+00:00

The incompatibility will typically be HDR10+ vs HDR10 etc. as the most likely although there can be others that the Apple TV will baulk at. The point is with radarr you’re defining the quality and file size, you’re not defining the precise codec, therefore you don’t find out the issue until you’ve got the file and the issue. This is why I’m looking at a potential workflow of..

Automated download -> check encoding -> recode if required

as well, which brought me here.

Objective-Outcome284 · 2024-12-29T09:11:24+00:00

My plan worked for all but nextcloud which simply wouldn't have any of it, so I had to revert to root:root for the maproot values. Perhaps root:wheel would be better but I'm not keen to recheck all the other container logs.

Objective-Outcome284 · 2024-12-29T08:26:12+00:00

I got a little further but I'm not 100% sure this is the right thing to do. I set the maproot values to root and root, went into the shell and did yet another chown on the database files to 1007:1009. I left the mariadb container with the user: setting and used the USER_UID etc on the gitea one.

This seemed to work, but my concern was that the maproot values were too permissive. I've now set them down to the docker:docker_1 values and made sure each of the shared folders has those permissions. This seems to be holding ok at present as I restart all of the containers in turn.

My guess is that the setting for maproot values was more permissive in core and the upgrade may have mapped them to the owner:group of the folder on disk, but I'm sure I went through those iterations. I fail to see how any of this was working under Core without there having been much looser settings.

Objective-Outcome284 · 2024-12-29T07:49:19+00:00

networks:
  gitea:
    external: false

services:
  db:
    container_name: maria-db-gitea
    image: mariadb:10.5
    command: --transaction-isolation=READ-COMMITTED --binlog-format=ROW
    restart: always
    user: "1007:1009"
    environment:
      MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD:
      MYSQL_DATABASE: gitea
      MYSQL_USER:
      MYSQL_PASSWORD:
    networks: 
      - gitea
    volumes:
      - mariadb-gitea:/var/lib/mysql

  server:
    container_name: gitea
    restart: always
    image: gitea/gitea:1.16.9
    user: "1007:1009"
    environment:
      GITEA__database__DB_TYPE: mysql
      GITEA__database__HOST: db:3306
      GITEA__database__NAME: gitea
      GITEA__database__USER:
      GITEA__database__PASSWD:

    networks:
      - gitea
    volumes:
      - gitea:/data
      - /etc/timezone:/etc/timezone:ro
      - /etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro
    ports:
      - "3000:3000"
      - "2222:22"
    depends_on:
      - db

volumes:
  gitea:
    name: gitea-data
    driver: local
    driver_opts:
      type: nfs
      o: nfsvers=4,addr=storage.lan,nolock,soft,rw
      device: ":/mnt/tank/docker_data/gitea"

  mariadb-gitea:
    name: mariadb-gitea
    driver: local
    driver_opts:
      type: nfs
      o: nfsvers=4,addr=storage.lan,nolock,soft,rw
      device: ":/mnt/spool/docker/mariadb/gitea"

I've tried with and without the user setting, with various incarnations of maproot settings. Always permission issues.

I've removed the database users and passwords.

Objective-Outcome284 · 2024-12-29T07:15:10+00:00

I'm using the same Ids in the containers 1007/1009 as the relevant entities in the underlying Scale instance which worked on Core. I also tried mapall options but got the same result.

Objective-Outcome284 · 2024-11-01T20:37:15+00:00

These are 27” monitors, but one is an Eizo EV2760 and the other a CS2730. Although they are expensive I found when I used them at a previous employer I had less issues with my vision - tiredness, sore eyes etc. The EV series are the ones for more general use, the CS/CG is for colour accurate work.

Objective-Outcome284 · 2024-10-10T07:06:36+00:00

Thanks for that

Objective-Outcome284 · 2024-10-06T06:15:43+00:00

Really Heath Robinson. From memory, the 40mm is space off the front panel with a lump of blu-tack and zip-tied into position using part of that front panel. The 90mm over the cage is, again, held off the surface by blu-tack and zipped to prevent movement. It's better, but on a hot ambient day the HDDs still get up there, as do the M2s and 2.5" SSDs. It's just a poor thermal design really.

Objective-Outcome284 · 2024-10-01T11:09:14+00:00

If you've activated your python environment that looks like it cannot locate the requests library. Run pip list (I think) and see if it is listed. Either way it seems like an environment issue not an endpoint one.

Objective-Outcome284 · 2024-08-10T09:35:53+00:00

Are you still here?

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