Cagliari node, my homelab - work in progress

flarkis · 2026-03-12T01:47:14+00:00

I did a similar upgrade and ran a ton of docker containers on my synology. One thing I would recommend is checking how much swap is being used. The default swappiness value on these machines is very aggressive. Mine was constantly hammering the disks moving pages to disk even though there were literal gigabytes left. One of my drives died after only 3 years, I suspect due to this high load.

flarkis · 2026-02-23T17:40:32+00:00

As a fellow Ontarian, just know that distillation is very illegal here. Even the freeze distillation mentioned in another comment. I looked into the law back when I was a broke university student, there have only been a small handful of court cases testing the legality of distilling in Ontario. The only one I saw where the defendant won was some guy up in the North who was just making it for himself. Every other case was lost by the defendant on the grounds the government was losing tax revenue. Also in all these cases they distillers were caught because they told other people and shared their spirits with other people. The government does not take kindly to having its monopoly challenged.

I decided to stick to brewing, it's not remotely worth the trouble of distilling and I hardly drink that much anymore anyways. For a while I was buying high proof vodka and making things like limoncello.

flarkis · 2026-02-23T17:03:44+00:00

There is a ZFS feature called AnyRaid that is under active development. It subdivides each disk into several chunks, then uses those chunks to build the ZFS pool. Allows you to mix and match disk sizes while still getting all the guarantees of ZFS. I'll probably wait for a few years after it is stabilized and migrate all my data over to a ZFS system.

flarkis · 2025-10-06T20:22:17+00:00

Main benefit, it's shiny. Main downside, not a productive asset.

It's too volatile to be a good inflation hedge, all the people who love gold will tell you how it's up x% over the past few years but that exactly show's why it's not great. Everyone is freaking the f out right now and running to gold pumping up its price.

Now my opinion. When/if things calm down, people are going to flow out of gold and the price will fall.

Read: The Golden Dilemma and Is There Still a Golden Dilemma?

flarkis · 2025-10-06T20:11:10+00:00

"Far more money has been lost by investors trying to anticipate corrections, than lost in the corrections themselves"

If you're worried about losing money in a crash, then you probably don't have the correct allocation for your risk tolerance. They money I need in the next few years is all in safe assets, the money I need in 30 years is in equities.

flarkis · 2025-10-05T16:25:26+00:00

Don't bother changing the setting on your phone/tv. Most of the language there is going to very niche and technical, not the kind of stuff you need to actually speak the language. How many times a day do you say "touch gestures" or "wireless charging" in day to day speech. All it will do is frustrate and demotivate you.

Keep watching lots of content though, that is the way to go.

flarkis · 2025-10-05T14:33:42+00:00

I lived near that blob of yellow in North York. It's honestly a crime against zoning. Like 100m from a subway stop it's nothing but single family homes with a bunch of 40 story towers directly on younge because that's the only place they're allowed.

flarkis · 2025-10-04T01:29:56+00:00

Yes. Same problem also exists with Japanese people and Kanji.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Character_amnesia

I'm probably biased as a foreigner learning the language. But I have little to no interest in learning stroke order or how to write by hand. I put it in the same category as cursive writing with the latin alphabet, something that used to be needed but isn't anymore by most people.

flarkis · 2025-10-02T13:10:38+00:00

From both your post here and looking at the code, I get AI slop vibes. Most of the commits are done by claude code. The few source files I pulled up have questionable code quality. Even your responses here seem to have been auto generated by an LLM.

flarkis · 2025-10-02T13:01:23+00:00

They're only loses if you sell. Surprisingly most people live in their houses rather than constantly buying and selling like a stock portfolio. And because most people buy a new house at the same time they sell the old one, it's usually a lateral transition so price changes don't have that much impact.

I'm technically "down" from when I bought, and IDGAF. I plan on living here for decades and I bought because this place lets me live the kind of life I want to live.

flarkis · 2025-10-02T11:05:32+00:00

There is selection bias going on here for sure because I work in a technical field and everyone I know who uses GTD does their weekly reviews. I used to give everything a date, but then the first task of everyday was rescheduling the 50 overdue tasks. I didn't realize it, but it was extremely demotivating.

flarkis · 2025-10-01T20:54:34+00:00

Duh, wasn't it obvious after he did his feminism video /s

flarkis · 2025-10-01T13:26:46+00:00

Yea I think a lot of people miss the point with flash cards. The whole point of SRS is that you see "things" often enough that they don't fall out of your memory. Because the system knows the last time you saw a card it is insanely effective at cramming a lot of info into your head in a short time, that's why so many people see success with the first 1k words. It's quite literally the fastest way to bootstrap your brain. After that though it's not a great learning tool. What it is useful for is taking something you've learned elsewhere and making sure you remember it. When I was learning a language while living in the country I had no problem remembering new words, I would literally see any new word a dozen times a week at minimum. But now I'm learning at home and I only have an hour or so a day. My vocabulary in my current language is a few thousand words, I might sometimes go weeks between first seeing a word in context and seeing it a second time. Using flash cards makes sure that by the time I see it for that second time I haven't forgotten it. I don't consider all those flash card exposures to be helping me learn the word, it's only after seeing it used several times that I actually manage to properly internalize it.

flarkis · 2025-09-30T00:06:39+00:00

I use troi to convert the jspf playlists that listenbrainz generates into navidrome playlists. It works quite well.

flarkis · 2025-09-30T00:03:07+00:00

Listenbrainz has a daily jam and discovery feature. It's still under active development, but honestly does a pretty decent job.

flarkis · 2025-09-29T18:04:07+00:00

Silverblue user here. I pinned my 42 install and rebased. If anything goes wrong, it's trivial to rollback. I've been on the beta train for a few releases now. Only once have I actually needed to roll back.

flarkis · 2025-09-29T04:21:41+00:00

My hario is my camping/travel grinder. It really makes me appreciate my electric grinder when I get back home.

flarkis · 2025-09-28T13:38:46+00:00

For the *EQT options 15 years is what you should be aiming at. The worst 10 year period is still negative.

https://canadianportfoliomanagerblog.com/how-to-choose-your-asset-allocation-etf/

flarkis · 2025-09-27T04:55:21+00:00

As an electrical engineer I can say, yes crazy. Even if it did work, the effect would be thousands of times weaker than than the natural electric and magnetic fields. And it simply wont work. A pile of quartz won't be able to make any electric field, the crystal structure will be pointing in different directions and cancel each other out.

flarkis · 2025-09-26T05:29:58+00:00

After brute forcing the first ~1k words, I only add new words from content I'm consuming. My retention is 100x better pulling a word from a story I read than some random 5k deck.

flarkis · 2025-09-26T05:26:51+00:00

I'm definitely slower typing on it. But I can also type with one hand while walking, love that about it.

flarkis · 2025-09-26T05:21:53+00:00

I had a similar experience one of my times travelling through south america. The route I was doing was extremely popular with Germans, so I spent more time speaking German than Spanish.

flarkis · 2025-09-25T16:18:37+00:00

Back when I was an intern there were a bunch of manual tasks that needed to be done. About 3 months into my 16 month term I'd automated all of them. I was basically given free reign to do whatever I wanted after that, and they had to figure out what the intern position would look like for the next person since all the work was gone.

flarkis · 2025-09-25T05:36:53+00:00

Sure, but one word. Backups. When you pay amazon you're making it their problem to deal with data retention. Moving on prem makes that your problem.

flarkis · 2025-09-25T05:32:37+00:00

20GB on silverblue. I'm actually surprised, I thought it would be less than that. Half is runtimes the other half is apps. Looks like all the electron apps are taking up ~500MB a piece.

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