ky56

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[–] ky56@aussie.zone 2 points 3 weeks ago

And I was worried that it was the Australian Governments Digital ID shit that would be what gets in my way. You know what reddit, just do it. It would be the kick I need to completely drop reddit.

[–] ky56@aussie.zone 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It's hard to tell sometimes. Especially when it's such a sensitive issue where normies will parrot the same ignorant crap over and over again. I one went off on someone, not even considering it was in-jest, because is was so convincingly written.

The /s is important people. I know it slightly reduces the impact of the joke but some people believe that shit 110%.

[–] ky56@aussie.zone 1 points 7 months ago

Congratulations.

How does/can Australia stop the Under 16 Social Media ban? I suspect that this is the first step of many to undermine Australians.

[–] ky56@aussie.zone 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Not really. Even TrueNAS Core (ZFS) highly recommends ECC memory to mitigate this possibility from occurring. After reading more about filesystems in general and when money allowed, I took this advice as gospel when upgrading my server from junk I found laying around to a proper Supermicro ATX server mobo.

The difference I think is that BRTFS is more vulnerable to becoming unmountable whereas other filesystems have a better chance of still being mountable but contain missing or corrupted data. The latter usually being preferable.

For desktop use some people don't recommend ZFS as if the right memory corruption conditions are met, it can eat your data as well. It's why Linus Torvalds goes on a rant every now and then about how bullshit it is that Intel normalized paywalling ECC memory to servers only.

I disagree and think the benefits of ZFS on a desktop without ECC outweigh a rare possibility that can be mitigated with backups.

[–] ky56@aussie.zone 9 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Banana Pi R3 or R64 (OpenWRT). Some DIY assembly required but it will probably last you over a decade.

My favorite part about these is that they are unbrickable. There is no bootloader to permanently corrupt as the firmware that loads the flash chip is in mask memory and the firmware you load from OpenWRT is the bootloader + firmware. So even if the flash chip dies you can use the other flash chip on the board or with soldering skills replace it and re-flash it.

[–] ky56@aussie.zone 28 points 1 year ago (4 children)

So a republicans house is just this but every room is labeled guns?

[–] ky56@aussie.zone 3 points 1 year ago

I chose Manjaro KDE as one of the SteamVR requirements is KDE Plasma. It's required because it has a DRM function to allow SteamVR to take ownership of the DisplayPort.

A quick google search says that PopOS is Gnome based. But KDE can be installed over it? I might give it a go.

[–] ky56@aussie.zone 12 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Windows 10 LTSC FTW!!! I just installed it and wow is it snappier and devoid of nearly all of those annoyances. I have no idea if productivity apps are affected by its stripped down nature but for Steam gaming it's perfect. I get less lag spikes on steamVR.

I haven't trusted Windows in years. This is just for gaming. I have a physically separate hot swappable Optane SSDs for Linux and Windows Gaming.

For those who will winge at me for not just switching to Linux. During this process I gave a concerted effort to give Linux a go and chose Manjaro KDE to try for steamVR gaming. It sucked. Once I had worked out that it was a permissions issue (It's always a fucking permissions issue under Linux) and just ran it under the root account, there was extremely high latency for the VR compositor to HMD display. Completely unusable as it made me sick and that's usually very hard. I tried X11 and Wayland. Direct and Non Direct output modes. No success.

[–] ky56@aussie.zone 3 points 1 year ago

I'm both. Somehow. I apparently switch between them.

[–] ky56@aussie.zone 2 points 1 year ago

Isn't the Banana Pi R64/R3/R4 close enough to that?

[–] ky56@aussie.zone 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

FYI the open source OpenWRT based Banana Pi R3 AX 4x4 is a thing. Don't buy closed source Routers/APs on purpose.

[–] ky56@aussie.zone 5 points 1 year ago

Sound like another reason for the "free press" to get reforms about their accuracy reporting the "news". I am typically against such restrictive legislation but if the news holds that much power, they need to see some regulation put in place.

 

Is there any progress regarding buying a Framework without Intel Boot Guard or AMD PSB enabled?

There is a dead discussion on the framework community form where framework talked about

exploring the idea of shipping a version of the mainboard with boot guard disabled for those who want to run their own firmware

back in 2021 but nothing since.

https://community.frame.work/t/intel-boot-guard-coreboot/1178

 

Does lemmy have an even remotely thriving version of r/homelabsales?

I don't want to break my anti-reddit oath since June but this might do it.

 

cross-posted from: https://aussie.zone/post/2534398

The 10GBase-LR is 1310nm and the QSFP-40G-LR4 CWDM channels are 1271, 1291, 1311 and 1331 nm. Are the 1310nm and 3rd channel 1311nm technically compatible?

I have a 10Gb and (will eventually have) a 40Gb switch both fitted with basic LR (Q)SFP+ transceivers and want to know if I can directly connect them or will I have to use an adapter to fit an SFP+ in an QSFP+ port?

I'm looking at using the XQX2502 QSFP+.

EDIT: The goal of this exercise is I’m trying to work out if I can make an easily interoperable system where a singlemode fiber wall jack fed from a 40G switch can act as a both a 10G or 40G port as needed.

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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by ky56@aussie.zone to c/homelab@lemmy.ml
 

The 10GBase-LR is 1310nm and the QSFP-40G-LR4 CWDM channels are 1271, 1291, 1311 and 1331 nm. Are the 1310nm and 3rd channel 1311nm technically compatible?

I have a 10Gb and (will eventually have) a 40Gb switch both fitted with basic LR (Q)SFP+ transceivers and want to know if I can directly connect them or will I have to use an adapter to fit an SFP+ in an QSFP+ port?

I'm looking at using the XQX2502 QSFP+.

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