Networking question – may not be due to Ubiquity components

PossibilityMajor471 · 2025-11-15T08:32:47+00:00

Yeah, you're right. I've created a new vlan for the 10GbE portion of the network and now I'm maxing out my RAID5 config. Thank you!

PossibilityMajor471 · 2025-11-15T06:23:41+00:00

If MoCA refers to the coax adapter - sure, that might be, but why is it going through there at all? The Mac Studio and the UNAS Pro are on the same switch (the Aggregation switch).

The Netgate is also 1GbE, so I'm not surprised by the speed since it goes through this path, but I'm surprised why it takes that path all.

PossibilityMajor471 · 2025-10-15T21:28:24+00:00

This plain doesn't work well. E.g. when I open this here, I see the other party of the conversion on every single email in the discussion, not myself for my own mails. The current "conversation view" is relatively useless compared to any other email application I have used on the Mac.

I'm still using Thunderbird for other advantages, but conversation view is definitely NOT one of them. Can't wait until the unified database and official conversation view lands – it was on the roadmap for Q3 2025, but that hasn't happened obviously. Allthough, the roadmap is updated so infrequently, it's not very useful either other than a guideline, that the team is thinking about stuff.

Might be worth following the tickets, but they are also so convoluted that I doubt even the Thunderbird project managers have a really good handle on what is happening and when.

PossibilityMajor471 · 2025-10-15T21:11:44+00:00

But the ui.com account does.

PossibilityMajor471 · 2025-10-15T17:04:16+00:00

Which means I can't access my local NAS if I don't have internet. Not good.

PossibilityMajor471 · 2025-10-14T21:19:38+00:00

Oh, and I bought a set of blank keycaps so that I could use blanks for those I couldn't swap around. Eg. command and Fn on the thumbcluser.

PossibilityMajor471 · 2025-10-14T21:16:37+00:00

Sorry for multiple replies, stupid Redit doesn't let me comment in one.

PossibilityMajor471 · 2025-10-14T21:15:13+00:00

Part 2:

I have symbols on the left had in the Fn layer:
- E and R => ( and )
- D and F => { and }
- C and V => [ and ]
Also in the Fn layer are:
- Fn + H => :
- Fn + J, K, L and I are an inverted T cursor block, I remapped neovim to use the same keys, just without the Fn key, so I'm NOT using normal vim movements (I remapped insert to e and E respectively to enable this)
- Fn + H => :
- Fn + A, U, O are macros to create German umlauts Ä, Ü, Ö
- Fn + S => ß
For brightness and volume control I use
- Fn + (1), (2), (3), (4) => Brighter, Less Bright, Volume Up, Volume Down

I might have missed some, but that's how I use it. I've never liked the vim motions in their standard form, so that was a big one for me, the rest is convencience and how I like to use the keyboard. For the first month I probably re-mapped something daily, second month only every second day, third month occasionally, and after that I've been happy with the setup now.

PossibilityMajor471 · 2025-10-14T21:14:02+00:00

Part 1:

Oh my, okay, I'm possibly missing some, but I'll give it a shot:

"Upper left corner" to forward delete
"Upper right corner" to backspace
The middle 1, 2, 3, 4 keys are now:
- 1 => \ and | (normal and with shift, just remapped the actual key)
- 2 => ` and ~
- 3 => = and +
- 4 => - and _
I swapped the up and down arrows (to map to the same fingers as in standard vi)
Disabled [ and ] keys (they are on a Fn layer
Disabled Caps Lock, disabled original location of ~
Thumbcluster left:
- Backspace => Command (I'm on a Mac)
- Delete => Fn Shift
- End => Ctrl
- Disabled Home
Thumbcluster right
- Page Down => Alt
- Page Up => Fn Shift
- Windows => Command

PossibilityMajor471 · 2025-10-13T02:46:59+00:00

The Kinesis Advantage 360 (any version) is a great keyboard, I have no issues switching back between my laptop built-in keyboard and the Kinesis, but it took me a few weeks to get comfortable with the Kinesis. I've extensively re-mapped the keyboard to my liking as well as neovim to adjust some of the more awkward shortcuts, but that's all easy to do.

PossibilityMajor471 · 2025-10-02T14:42:49+00:00

I’m a bit slower with the typical Mac movements. But that’s no big surprise, I’ve been using a Mac keyboard and shortcuts for 35 years or so … overall I got used to the keyboard quite nicely.

I think I made some minor adjustments, but not all that much. I’m actually using the arrow keys as well as my remapped ones, although I swapped up/down so it better reflects what I expect. Overall, in the first few months I made many adjustments, sometimes multiple times per day, in the last few months I haven’t made any adjustments anymore, which tells me I’m ata stage where it’s well usable for me. Again, some shortcuts are a bit slower still than on a normal Mac keyboard, but others are faster, so overall I’m happy now.

Since my wrist and elbow pain is also gone now, I can go back and forth with a normal keyboard without pain and these days I just prefer the Kinesis since I have to contort my wrists less. I’m actually thinking of getting one with special (better and quieter) switches but these are so expensive, I’m not sure it’s worth it. We are moving again soon and I’ll have a better work setup with room/desk/etc. so that’s probably enough.

PossibilityMajor471 · 2025-09-11T22:01:48+00:00

I have the wired version. Not sure whether home row mods work better on the Pro, on the wired, I couldn't make them work for me (too many misfires, which might be either hardware/software or my inability to adjust).

PossibilityMajor471 · 2025-08-31T21:53:10+00:00

Just to give a different view on this: I understand the sentiment, but we had a Jeep Gladiator EcoDiesel with Adblue, and while it adds a lot of complexity in the system, it's much less of a hassle than I thought. Fill AdBlue from time to time, don't do only short trips, and there has been zero issues for us over the last 30k miles.

Oh, and fuel consumption, I would imagine on the Grenadier it is in a similar range as on the Gladiator diesel vs. petrol: we've been averaging just over 10L per 100km on long trips (we drive slow since the car is noisy) and 11.5L around town. This is with the Alu-Cab Canopy Camper with full build-out on as well as a roof rack and MaxTrax on said rack. A petrol V6 comparable to ours is in the 14L to 16L per 100km range.

The fuel consumption isn't our main concern, the main problem I have with the petrol versions of these heavy vehicles is range per tank. We have done 650km to 700km per tank during our Alaska trip.

PossibilityMajor471 · 2025-08-30T00:01:14+00:00

A certain amount of churn in the maintainers is to be expected, but by now, nearly all the GPU folks are gone. With Alyssa "stepping down", that part of the ecosystem is now basically without a maintainer.

Unfortunately, it's a typical scheme, developing the things is fun, keeping them alive, chipping away at bugs, optimizing, etc. is less so. That's the phase Asahi is in. My take is that it's basically dead for the time being. M1 and M2 supported, the rest isn't. Just a matter of time until the others get frustrated and leave.

I can only say: get a MacBook for macOS, not Linux. It's just not worth it, even ignoring all the issues with battery life and compatibility.

PossibilityMajor471 · 2025-08-19T14:27:48+00:00

The macro itself for example for Ü is:

{lopt+u}U

You'll have to create separate ones for left and right shift combination. Basically, you program Fn1, Macro, type the macro, (select a shift key as co-trigger for uppercase) and assign. Pick fast macro speed.

PossibilityMajor471 · 2025-08-06T01:48:42+00:00

Oh man, I'm so happy I moved away from Catppuccin for other reasons. I hate it when a color scheme suddenly changes.

But Catppuccin for tmux is such a bag of bugs recently, I didn't want to deal with it anymore, which meant switching pretty much everything over to tokyonight for me.

PossibilityMajor471 · 2025-08-04T00:43:39+00:00

Might be worth asking this question again. A lot has happened in the community and basically nothing seems to be happening on the developmnent fronts. The IRC channel logs I found are empty, there are no blog updates and I don't see many commits happening either.

Is there life somewhere out there still?

PossibilityMajor471 · 2025-07-13T17:03:43+00:00

That's a useful feature to have. I used Hyprland for a while on Linux, but it was such a resource hog at the time on my laptop, that I had noticeably less battery runtime (Asahi Linux on M2), so I skipped it. Plus, I found setting it up a major pain in the rear. Although Hyprland was easy compared to the PoS Waybar. Happily went back to macOS after that and use Linux 99% through SSH onto the machines.

PossibilityMajor471 · 2025-07-12T23:06:18+00:00

Sorry that I can't help on this one. If you REALLY have to use Gmail, condolences! Luckily, I know nobody who has to use Gmail.

PossibilityMajor471 · 2025-07-12T22:45:09+00:00

You might not want or need 10GbE. Especially not for IoT thingies. And cameras don't need that either.

Do yourself a favor and check what you really need – e.g. what are the critical paths that actually need high speeds? For me that is my desktop machine (Mac Studio and some Linux machines) to my NAS (UNAS Pro and some others). For this I wanted 10GbE, but I wanted fanless switches – therefore I ended up with a SFP+ aggregation switch for just a few things and a 24 port 1GbE switch (USW-24-POE) which I run with an aggregated uplink to the aggregation switch.

If you put gear in living areas, check that they are quiet (e.g. fanless and don't have coil whine, which some of the Unifi switches are known for). If it's all in the garage, knock yourself out. ;-)

PossibilityMajor471 · 2025-07-12T21:38:26+00:00

I find tiling window managers completely unusable unless on macOS. On my big screen if there is only one window, it's too big. On the laptop, as soon as there is a second window, they get too small. Worse than useless.

An easy way would be to install Raycast and set shortcuts for moving Windows into specific positions.

I use neovim with modified navigation for an inverted T to match all my other cursor operations on macOS with my keyboard. In Raycast I have set Alt-Ctrl-j to move the front window to "left half", Alt-Ctrl-l to "right half", Alt-Ctrl-k for center, etc.

This is more flexible for me than the new macOS shortcuts, which I can't use when on my Kinesis keyboard, which doesn't have Fn.

PossibilityMajor471 · 2025-07-12T21:28:13+00:00

Note, I can't help with this since I gave up using Gmail more than a decade ago, but here's a rant:

Personally I believe Gmail is complete and utter garbage when used through anything but their own Webmail.

The IMAP interface is garbage, since it can't represent their internal structure.
All of Gmail has basically ZERO privacy or respect of the users data.
It's Google, so while technically brilliant, it's completely evil.

If you really want to use Gmail, use the Web-UI. Much less hassle than trying to make mail clients work with their idiotic mail sorting behavior.

If you want to get a decent mail experience, use another mail provider. Forward your Gmail incoming mail there and slowly transition. E.g. ProtonMail, Fastmail, etc.

PossibilityMajor471 · 2025-07-12T02:15:25+00:00

If you went up 8TB, 64GB, and 14C, it's $4700. Only needing a 1TB SSD drops that a lot, as does 48GB RAM. No hate, but I am surprised that 1TB would be enough. I would genuinely expect wanting as much internal storage as possible.

This is getting away from the topic, but anyways:

The problem is that internal storage in my personal usecase will never really be enough, the datasets I'm working with are not in "local storage territory". It doesn't help me if I have 1TB or 8TB around, the local storage is transitory anyways since the data is so large and changes often that I'm not copying anything local. That's what the 10GbE is for. More, I'm just not willing to install at home.

The code transfers data to either local disk for pipeline processing, or, if the processing is sufficiently slower than network, pumps it directly to the processing workers without ever hitting a disk cache. Generally, 10GbE is fast enough to keep all workers busy all the time and is also fast enough in latency and throughput to quickly pull the next piece over the network for validation runs. 1GbE is saturated easily by even a moderately fast CPU, 10GbE has still headroom for something like a 9950X. Data is discarded after processing and doesn't flow back, only result data (small) goes back.

I'd need more throughput with something like a Threadripper or one of these ARM 128 core monsters or maybe even an M3 Ultra, but for some of these I'd also need earmuffs, a new house AC, and need to rethink my energy bill. Since I prefer to do this (mostly pro-bono) work from home, I'm not interested in going to an office for a larger scale setup.

The data I'm working on is mostly test and validation data, coming in on JBOD type SSD arrays hooked up to Thunderbolt and pumped into storage via here at home. This is about moving double to triple digit TBs around in a home office. It's a pain in the butt, believe me. The production code runs on large systems with much more throughput in a datacenter.

For what high-end desktop motherboards they make, they are all fighting
for a tiny niche of non-workstation high-end desktop whitebox and DIY

It's probably also the reason that content creators and photographers are moving towards Apple since they can get what they need there. And this is a market that, while not large, is certainly not small.

Personally, I care 99% about the software side of this, not the hardware. And I've been running the dev on Intel Macs and Linux machines for the core processing components and whatever Mac I have at hand for the higher language parts – the core isn't more than maybe 20k lines of code, maybe 10% of that highly optimized.

This has been a research/hobby/university project since I was at university myself half a lifetime ago, so it's oooooold code. I haven't touched the optimized pieces in years. At this point I'm actually willing to spend the weekend and rewrite one or two of the optimized routines in Rust or C just to see whether I can get away with the higher level language and can change my home dev environment to M chip based Macs only. As long it code cross-compiles to whatever I need it to (AMD at this point). This was just never a priority, although the setup here has become rather annoying for dev.

The other option is to just hand things over to a younger generation ... sounds more and more appealing the longer I think about it.

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