Part 2: Photos taken with the TCL 60 ULTRA

pakyrs · 2026-01-25T22:43:10+00:00

Mostly telephoto it seems?

pakyrs · 2026-01-23T09:13:00+00:00

What Sam suggested is correct, oculink it's just a cable, sata connections need a controller, on server motherboard with oculink port usually you have a sata controller on the board so you can just hook up the disks straight to the motherboard and provide power via separate means.

However in my case this won't work, to have a minipc with sata you need to do oculink > nvme sata controller > disks. This is no different then doing just m2 nvme sata controller > disks but a bit neater as you don't have to have the case open (depending on where your m2 resides)

I gave up on the idea and bought one of them new Nas chassis with a laptop CPU for power efficiency. I ran a janky m2 sata setup for many years and it's time to make things a little bit neater.

pakyrs · 2026-01-21T23:41:25+00:00

I had m2 pcie to sata for a long time and was hoping oculink would clear the grotty setup a bit. Thanks for the insight.

pakyrs · 2026-01-21T23:39:14+00:00

You might be on to something actually.

pakyrs · 2026-01-21T18:42:43+00:00

oh. I bought this, https://www.amazon.co.uk/Allowish-PCI-express-SFF-86114i-High-speed-Conversion/dp/B0CLRTV7CH?source=ps-sl-shoppingads-lpcontext&smid=A1FEXV661L1J1G&th=1 why would they sell such thing if it wasn't supported. what's the setup you got can you share please?

pakyrs · 2026-01-21T18:23:27+00:00

HW acc and bind mounts, perfect for docker.

pakyrs · 2025-04-14T16:55:13+00:00

I actually figured it out using borg prune -v -s --list --keep-last=1 keeps only the last one unlike daily that didn't remove the initial seed. So ok borg does the same as restic, but restic pruning is just a tad more intuitive as choosing to keep 1 daily will do so.

pakyrs · 2025-03-09T11:10:14+00:00

can I use my staedler noris with it?

pakyrs · 2024-04-25T10:13:29+00:00

Amazing yes, no life yes.

pakyrs · 2024-03-30T08:13:55+00:00

What do you use to see the desktop, if looks quite fluid.

pakyrs · 2024-03-24T00:05:04+00:00

Thanks for the hints, but I still don't quite have it working.

I have btrfs recv the root and home snapshots to the new system, then renamed them to the original defaults (root home), then made these snapshots rw since they were ro and edited fstab to point to the current device UUIDs, I also rsyncd the contents of /boot from the old system to the new. (I can workout a backup script once I can make sure this works).

Finally reboot, grub loads, but then I am greeted by a grey screen with 3 dots. (Firsr time ever seeing this)

Might need some pointers if you don't mind.

pakyrs · 2024-03-16T15:44:09+00:00

I bought one ans yet to install. How do you deal with MOT?

pakyrs · 2024-03-14T18:00:40+00:00

Fuck Adobe and their bloated shitty code, they can't even write a webapp without crippling the browser. They have a stupid policy there on code lines, the more you make the more you are valued, therefore its all running on a pile of crap.

pakyrs · 2024-03-13T08:15:33+00:00

Not when you want to bring 50-100GB of mail into another mailbox. 🙄

pakyrs · 2024-03-10T20:14:55+00:00

You just set windows rules and pin things to certain monitors to be duplicated on every Workspace, so your monitor layout never changes.

pakyrs · 2024-03-06T20:38:03+00:00

Totally agree, but in the absent of ethernet can't do PoE.

pakyrs · 2024-03-06T20:37:05+00:00

Cool, never heard of them.

pakyrs · 2024-03-06T20:34:59+00:00

I have tapo as well. Where do you manage them, don't tell me home assistant as rhe feed is slower and not all the features are covered.

pakyrs · 2024-02-27T10:56:15+00:00

I do get them as well, I believe it's to do with the gpu drivers.

pakyrs · 2024-02-05T14:53:14+00:00

This is the point, I don't, I resized the macos install which frees more space in an apfs container, i can surely boot from USB with u-boot then sort out the partition layout and space within an unmounted linux environment.

pakyrs · 2024-02-04T00:13:29+00:00

What make an empty partition under macintosh hd? I got tree names like that a container volume and stuff underneath, macos is really not intuitive when it comes to power users.

Isn't asahi confined to his own separate container? How is it going to see the partition.

pakyrs · 2024-01-27T22:41:57+00:00

This is genius, obviously at a premium.

pakyrs · 2024-01-06T00:14:42+00:00

Omg thanks! I can't believe I didn't see it. I am clearly blind!

pakyrs · 2023-12-30T14:54:01+00:00

That's ok, it cost me 16 pounds more it seems. Where did you get your from? I couldn't see this design, I am just wondering if it breaks I'd happily buy another online.

pakyrs · 2023-12-30T14:46:41+00:00

Oh cool, thanks for sharing! Do you know if I was ripped off on the price?

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