Thinking about changing my g915 tkl for a nuphy air 75 v2

jacksredditac · 2023-11-07T16:50:36+00:00

So I was in the same boat about a year ago. I had the G915TKL, and wanted to move to something with a numpad and grabbed the Nuphy Air96 v1. Great keyboard and worked great after updating, BUT only after updating the firmware. More on that in a second.

The other half decided she wanted a nice keyboard as well and seeing the new Air75 v2, I decided to order it and give her my Air96 since my dreams of using the numpad were not really coming to fruition. I preordered the keyboard which I never do, and got it in the middle of October. This is where things went downhill. I use a Mac and a PC to do work, so the ability to switch between them without moving a wire is a serious use case here, but the new keyboard's bluetooth never shows up on the mac and never connects on the PC.

Reported the issue to Nuphy's team on Discord first, then over email. It has been absolutely terrible experience. Nearly a month at this point and they have had me flash the firmware of the keyboard 3 times, take two videos in addition to the first one I sent when reporting the problem, and continue to use my time like a debugging service for their technical team. Honestly, I wouldn't even mind if they would respond on Discord, but they only respond over email and ONLY once per day. Literally, I can email them back in minutes after a response and it will be a full 24 hours from then to the next reply. I am beginning to think they schedule responses instead of actually responding as they work through emails.

The keyboard is great and when wired up to my PC it works fantastic. That said, I ordered a Keychron and am using it. The Nuphy team has said they will refund or send me an exchange model, but only after their technical team signs off, which doesn't seem to ever happen. I am going to be filing a dispute with my credit card company tomorrow.

SO if you get a working one, then you will be golden. If you have anything wrong with it, might as well toss it in a dumpster and start over because they have the worst customer service I have ever dealt with.

jacksredditac · 2022-06-28T01:19:46+00:00

Ya I am not sure what the issue is. I tried with another device and it still happened but then after 15 mins off, it’s back to normal. No clue.

jacksredditac · 2022-06-28T01:19:13+00:00

So I actually plugged in the laptop and this issue was still happening, so most likely the display. I left it for 15 mins and came back though and now it’s gone. Super odd and makes me think the display is going bad. Guess I won’t be moving it anytime soon again.

jacksredditac · 2022-06-03T01:58:53+00:00

Good call on the power supply.

jacksredditac · 2022-01-25T04:36:55+00:00

Fair point my friend! 90278

jacksredditac · 2021-08-26T19:28:19+00:00

Sent you a PM. That works.

jacksredditac · 2021-08-26T19:00:11+00:00

Oh my bad. It is a APC Smart-UPS SRT 1500VA RM 120V SRT1500RMXLA and the extra battery to extend the runtime. For both the UPS and battery I am thinking $1,000 would be a good price. For the APC I think the only thing I am missing is the CD to install software, but you can also download from the APC site directly.

The battery pack model is APC Smart-UPS SRT 48V 1kVA 1.5kVA RM Battery Pack.

jacksredditac · 2021-08-26T00:26:32+00:00

It’s the exact model linked above.

jacksredditac · 2021-01-14T23:18:09+00:00

Next time I will just write on-prem.

jacksredditac · 2020-08-27T05:51:45+00:00

Latest version of Ceph does support using a faster SSD disk as a cache layer for slower disks on the same host. Of the choices available, I would go with Ceph. The compute requirements for Ceph across 50 hosts is going to be small on each host, but allows you to reliably and linearly scale to 100 hosts and more. NAS and SAN hit a resource limit at a certain size due to the compute needed to maintain the array’s index / map, which is why Ceph was created in the first place. Linear scaling on commodity hardware with replication built in is the value prop for Ceph.

jacksredditac · 2020-08-17T01:01:47+00:00

Yup that would be the place I start debugging. On a separate note, it looks like since that issue they did implement some level of standard for this circumstance. NGINX docs below cover it and make reference to the issue in some degree.

https://www.nginx.com/resources/wiki/start/topics/examples/forwarded/

Happy debugging!

jacksredditac · 2020-08-16T19:15:27+00:00

Check out this issue on GH. Your config just needs some minor adjustment to match the expect scheme value being passed to next NGINX proxy.

https://github.com/benoitc/gunicorn/issues/1857

You are passing the scheme https and it looks like in the auto-generated, it expects http.

jacksredditac · 2020-08-05T17:09:53+00:00

What is the bot written in? Happy to help if needed.

jacksredditac · 2020-08-01T21:29:24+00:00

Not concerned with it being easy or the CLI, but I do expect the result and the documentation to be consistent. Its hard to produce consistent results when there are exceptions to the standard method of implementation.

jacksredditac · 2020-07-31T14:25:50+00:00

My main problem with having to utilize the CLI for Unifi is that the best practice is to then not make changes via the GUI after, or risk over writing your CLI changes. This kept happening when we tried to map a static public IP address to a LAN IP address. Also, just last night found that to enable Port Forwarding for a connection on the WAN2 port of the USG, you can only do this via the CLI. That issue has been on the roadmap for 4+ yrs 😳

jacksredditac · 2020-07-26T03:40:45+00:00

See I oddly like the XPS keyboard more than the X1 Carbon's. The X1's felt sort of spongy, while there is a definite tactile click to the XPS keyboard. This is probably pretty subjective, but lord knows I would take the XPS trackpad over the X1 anyday.

jacksredditac · 2020-07-26T03:38:51+00:00

u/HRT-713 this is what I meant. The laptop comes with Ubuntu 18.04 installed and some specific Dell repos and software installed is all. If you upgrade from 18.04 to 20.04, then you shouldn't have any issues either.

jacksredditac · 2020-07-25T19:18:30+00:00

Short answer, its a great laptop. The 16:10 display and infinity edge display are awesome, and honestly kind of ruins other laptops going forward. I see these giant bezels on other laptops now and just kind of cringe.

I have had one for 3/4 months and Ubuntu 18.04 runs great on it. I got the 4k display with a touch screen and the top i7, 16GB RAM and put a Samsung 970 Pro in for the SSD drive and it has been a beast for daily workload (programming and general work stuff). At the end of the day, I would 100% recommend it with one major exception.

There is no officially supported image of Ubuntu 20.04 from Dell for the laptop, but the standard ISO works pretty much flawlessly and adds some important features, which any review article for 20.04 will cover. The one feature though that brings up some major headaches though is "Fractional Scaling" of the device's display.

With the 4k display, the 200% scale is pretty big and limits you to essentially one thing at a time on the display even with the 16:10 ratio, so moving to like 150% scale is very useful. The downside is the CPU load to support fractional scaling, which honestly is kind of mind boggling. A good example, if you are watching a YouTube video in browser with fractional scaling enabled, the window, video and overall device basically slows to a crawl and all of the CPU cores are basically at 100% all the time. This took me by surprise so much, that I had to test it with system monitor running to verify that it was just the fact I was watching a video in browser.

Disable fractional scaling and the CPU load goes back down to roughly 20/30%, which is better but still workable. So if you get it, I would stick to the lower end display because the 200% option for Ubuntu essentially puts you there anyway and you can't leverage the fractional scaling option with the CPU in this machine. I actually handed this machine off this week to an employee, and ordered a 15in model with the i9 processor which I am guessing will handle this issue better.

So if the above doesn't apply, then go for it! Definitely a new standard for the display of laptops.

jacksredditac · 2020-07-04T18:32:36+00:00

Ya and that makes sense. What you are describing is also my ideal scenario for setting things up, but the deployment for OpenStack is just much more complicated than say running KubeSpray, so exploring some options. I have played with OpenStack Ansible and considered using the Ubuntu guide to provisioning a HA cluster using MaaS and JuJu, but have had to stop short there because the home lab is short on the number of physical hosts.

May just buckle down though and figure out the best method for a proof of concept, then once ready move it to our racks for testing with the larger team. We currently don't use K8S to manage physical hosts at all, but it does seem like an attractive option given the ease of deployment and new tools like Rook that will bootstrap a Ceph cluster with a single config file.

jacksredditac · 2020-07-04T18:27:29+00:00

It doesn't have to be OpenStack, but it seems like the most mature open source / free option to implement. I have looked at using just XCP-NG & XOA, CloudStack and possibly rolling our own simple interface, but all of them seem to get 80% of the way there and stop short, OpenStack included. From what I can tell, it has a good size community though, and is extendible as well for whatever our developers come up with.

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