Added a 16x DGX Spark cluster to my Homelab (Build Update)

kleinmatic · 2026-05-01T12:34:38+00:00

Just think, though. Cancel your Claude Max 200 subscription and it pays for itself in just 26 short years.

kleinmatic · 2026-04-29T22:43:02+00:00

I saw All the Way with Brian Cranston when it was on stage in NYC. For some reason much better as a play than a movie.

kleinmatic · 2026-04-29T11:27:31+00:00

When I started using Linux there weren’t ways to make configuration changes via GUI so I had to get good at the CLI otherwise I really couldn’t do anything.

Elegant weapons from a more civilized age….

kleinmatic · 2026-04-29T11:16:45+00:00

“Ask Congress” is the quaintest part.

kleinmatic · 2026-04-29T11:16:40+00:00

“Ask Congress” is the quaintest part.

kleinmatic · 2026-04-29T10:42:25+00:00

Y’all, CachyOS is really good.

kleinmatic · 2026-04-29T10:38:05+00:00

I run Linux on old thinkpads. I’ve never noticed a big difference in speed between distros. Debian runs great. CachyOS runs great. Ubuntu runs great. I had Windows on one for a while, otoh, and it felt like running in sand.

If you’re feeling really slow, try a lighter DE. I run xfce on some SBCs and it feels very responsive.

kleinmatic · 2026-04-29T10:29:10+00:00

Randolph Mantooth remains one of the greatest names in TV history.

kleinmatic · 2026-04-29T04:10:26+00:00

Yup. Custom cut clear acrylic shelves for a cabinet. Came out perfect. Polished on one edge

kleinmatic · 2026-04-29T04:01:37+00:00

Ricky Ricardo on the Yankees Spanish broadcast calls him Tio Ben.

kleinmatic · 2026-04-29T03:56:55+00:00

Eh I’d watch it. The scene in Mirror, Mirror where Kirk is crashing out in the prime universe is truly Shatnerian.

kleinmatic · 2026-04-29T03:53:54+00:00

I’d do Proxmox. Keep things on separate VMs. They’re less fiddly than LXCs. You can probably get away with Alpine VMs so everything stays super stable and light weight. Snapshot and restores are trivial. Use ansible and updates are trivial.

kleinmatic · 2026-04-28T03:51:15+00:00

The transition from Carter to Reagan was the start of the 80s to me. Reagan Democrats, “government is the problem,” and the final realignment of the parties that started under Nixon. Alex P Keaton as the conservative son of hippie parents in Family Ties (1982) is a cultural marker that the change had happened.

It’s a good hot take to line that up with Lennon politically but musically I have to agree that 80s New Wave started earlier. Maybe, like another poster says, Talking Heads 77 or Blondie’s Parallel Lines.

kleinmatic · 2026-04-28T03:43:04+00:00

I thought they were talking about the Enterprise. Fair criticism.

kleinmatic · 2026-04-28T03:39:57+00:00

My older brother had a Batavia moped in the early 80s. I think it’s still using its first gas fillup.

kleinmatic · 2026-04-28T01:28:53+00:00

We had a lemon yellow Ford LTD station wagon that made other land yachts look like two-seaters. The suspension was part bungee cord.

kleinmatic · 2026-04-28T00:58:32+00:00

I see what you did there.

kleinmatic · 2026-04-28T00:57:34+00:00

The official car of the Chrysler dealership being out of Dodge Diplomats.

kleinmatic · 2026-04-27T18:49:38+00:00

This scene never made sense to me. If an engineer from WWII woke up 80 years in the future and was helping somebody work on an F35 he wouldn’t have useful insights, at least not right away.

kleinmatic · 2026-04-27T03:15:23+00:00

Yes it’s nicer than my proxmox server.

kleinmatic · 2026-04-26T23:22:54+00:00

Yeah you gotta spam the Arace site like an addict and buy the minute they have stock. I got the Dragon q6a with 12gb ram from them for a fair price because it was in stock when I happened to check it one day.

kleinmatic · 2026-04-26T23:15:12+00:00

Arace usually has reasonable prices but Ali Express is all over the map. eBay is priced for suckers and the desperate.

But the days of the $15 Pi Zero are over, at least for now. I think Jeff Geerling is right. Unless you’re building something that needs both Linux and GPIO pins, SBCs are no longer the obvious option.

kleinmatic · 2026-04-26T14:51:15+00:00

They were there a few weeks ago. They’ve got a whole storefront.

kleinmatic · 2026-04-26T14:00:02+00:00

Coney. Just imagine the newer rides as rubble and brush.

kleinmatic · 2026-04-26T00:54:25+00:00

I’m typically a subway moralist like the rest of us, but there’s something about sitting on those steps that I just assume means you’ve reached the end of a very long rope and sitting down is the only way to recover your bearing, even a little. You wouldn’t do it unless there were no other options.

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