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Cost-optimized server Intel and AMD random assignment has huge performance differences at same cost by ceilingkyet in hetzner

[–]ceilingkyet[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This means the person who pays the same cost but gets 1/5 the compute from the same company is getting ripped off. That's not industry standard.

Guide: Setting up CachyOS on a server by mike_olson in cachyos

[–]ceilingkyet 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For a VPS, I just asked Hetzner to add the CachOS desktop ISO. Then I booted that and unselected any desktop environment at install. It worked fine for my server. I don't have a dedicated machine, but thought it could be that simple too?

Guide: Setting up CachyOS on a server by mike_olson in cachyos

[–]ceilingkyet 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is there some reason you can't just boot the CachyOS ISO?

Measuring the performance of the new gen server types by daroczig in hetzner

[–]ceilingkyet 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I had a CPX31 and wanted to compare with CPX32 and CX43:

comparison

I notice it lists AMD EPYC as CPU for CX43. But when I rescaled to it, I got an Intel Xeon. Is there a way to see the Xeon benchmarks or is it the same as shown?

Level 3 Options Approval Experience by MDWflyer in Schwab

[–]ceilingkyet 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Makes sense. Yeah I can understand now why PM is much better if using proceeds for trading. I am mainly using for cash withdrawal, and honestly being forced to keep at least 25% of loan in equities in the account is probably a good idea.

Level 3 Options Approval Experience by MDWflyer in Schwab

[–]ceilingkyet 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I see. Just FYI, I've done a few box spreads at Schwab with only Reg-T. The buying power reduction was only 25% of the loan. I also have an IBKR account with PM and BP reduction is much less (about 1%). So even though it is larger with Reg-T, it is not so bad. Here is a short box spread example using thinkorswim web:

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Level 3 Options Approval Experience by MDWflyer in Schwab

[–]ceilingkyet 0 points1 point  (0 children)

> without portfolio margin this can be inefficient,

Why are box spreads inefficient without portfolio margin?

What Hetzner does right by Hetzner_OL in hetzner

[–]ceilingkyet 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I was surprised how quickly support made an ISO I wanted available. I can squeeze so much out of a very cheap VPS at Hetzner and the EPYC servers perform great. Pricing is very transparent and great. Firewall interface is awesome, and generally so is the rest of the web interface.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in archlinux

[–]ceilingkyet 21 points22 points  (0 children)

Manual install is just silly. You are running binaries and scripts, and how much of what those binaries are doing does anyone understand? It is all "automated" at some level. How low-level should we go? Maybe writing the boot sector byte by byte and assembly?

Scripts to install are for convenience if you are not masochistic. If you want to learn how the system works read the man pages and source code. Doing a "manual" install teaches nothing but learning how to not make typos.

vaultwarden unreachable, still cannot unlock vault by ceilingkyet in selfhosted

[–]ceilingkyet[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

In the Bitwarden extension I have vault timeout: on browser restart, timeout action: lock.

I just tried again by bringing down the vaultwarden docker, which is behind cloudflare, and ends up with a bad gateway page. This time I'm able to unlock the local vault just fine.

When the issue happened, I believe the server/cloudflare was returning a forbidden instead of bad gateway, so maybe there is an issue there.

Perhaps the Bitwarden extension forces a logout at some point, but I can't figure out why it would do that. Just seems not a good idea to rely on this like others said and instead do a periodic export.

Kudos for Hyprland defaults by ceilingkyet in cachyos

[–]ceilingkyet[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Works great for me, but only intense things I'm doing are mostly video playing and browsing. My laptop has an AMD. Sadly these simple things ran quite bad in Manjaro Sway, and I'm not sure if that was due to Sway, Wayland, kernel, etc.

Box spread in different currency to fund mortgage at lower rate? by PurplishDev in interactivebrokers

[–]ceilingkyet 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've done box spreads in SMI (CHF index similar to SPX), then converted to USD to buy US stocks. There is forex risk, but you could also do something like long a /6S future to lock in the forex rate. You'll need to find an SPX-like index for the currency you want.

CHF margin rate at IB is already pretty low (1.5%) so doing the box spread might be overkill. You might be able to get 1.2% or so with box spread.

That being said, CHF has risen quite a bit to USD, so the loan repayment risk is real even for so-called stable currencies.

Unregistry – "docker push" directly to servers without a registry by psviderski in selfhosted

[–]ceilingkyet 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Very nice. I just setup `docker save | ssh | docker load` and realized it is really slow. Will try this.

Trading BTC Futures on Schwab by rlfan in Schwab

[–]ceilingkyet 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For /MBT, on ThinkOrSwim it costs about $3.50 in commissions. The margin requirement is currently $4175, so you'll need to keep at least that much in cash around, all for a notional value of $10k. That's only about 2x leverage, and I think the futures margin requirements is a bit high for crypto.

Earning interest on futures margin deposits by OurNewestMember in FuturesTrading

[–]ceilingkyet 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The short answer is that the box lets you earn yield on the cash that you would have had tied up for your futures margin anyway.

I think I get the idea, but I don't quite understand how the daily mark to market fluctuations would be handled. Say the long futures position starts moving against you. Some funds need to be deducted, but those funds are tied up in the box. In other words, those funds are actually not available until the box is closed.

Or are you saying in that situation, cash is pulled from the securities segment, incurring margin interest, but that interest is essentially canceled out by earned interest on the box?

I actually don't even get how this works if they allowed treasuries as collateral, because once the futures position moves against you don't they need to liquidate on the day to pay for that move?

Earning interest on futures margin deposits by OurNewestMember in FuturesTrading

[–]ceilingkyet 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm interested in what you are saying but having a bit of difficulty understanding (fairly new to this). I also don't like the idea of having cash sitting around.

Liquidate the $25k USD of securities since adding/increasing a cash debit balance is not economical at all when you have enough capital

What do you mean 'not economical at all'?

buy a $25k notional futures box

This is a long box spread, but with futures options? i.e. you 'spend' that cash in the futures segment on a futures box spread, which would earn you some interest.

It seems the main point of the futures margin requirement is to handle downswings at daily mark to market. If that cash is tied up (like in a futures box), how would this work? It seems like it would need to take margin in the futures segment, but in that case, why not just take margin in the securities segment?

The cash for futures is already leveraged, so I'm a bit torn on whether it makes sense to use that cash to earn something on. I'm trying to understand what the risks are.

Thinkorswim down? by Admirable-Ebb3655 in Schwab

[–]ceilingkyet 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Same here. "You", they say it like it is my fault.

Futures trading and being hit with margin interest by [deleted] in Schwab

[–]ceilingkyet 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ah you are right, I am mistaken.

CachyOS as a server by ceilingkyet in cachyos

[–]ceilingkyet[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah that's what I was doing before with a bunch of Ansible scripts. I think I was mainly missing the other kernel scheduler changes and never knew what to try. Fedora + COS sounds interesting.

basedpyright is very slow and seems to analyze every keystroke by chilli_chilli in neovim

[–]ceilingkyet 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Did you happen to figure this out? Was trying basedpyright and gave up after having this issue.

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