nickwitha_k (he/him)

I maintained a CEPH cluster a few years back. I can verify that speeds under 10GbE will cause a lot of weird issues. Ideally, you’ll even want a dedicated 10GbE purely for CEPH to do its automatic maintenance stuff and not impact storage clients.

The PGs is a separate issue. Each PG is like a disk partition. There’s some funky math and guidelines to calculate the ideal number for each pool, based upon disks, OSDs, capacity, replicas, etc. Basically, more PGs means that there are more (but smaller) places for CEPH to store data. This means that balancing over a larger number of nodes and drives is easier. It also means that there’s more metadata to track. So, really, it’s a bit of a balancing act.

Very understandable and valid. I find that Prometheus’ query language makes a lot of sense to me, so, I like it. Have you tried Cacti or Nagios?

What about switching to Prometheus for metrics and snagging some premade dashboards in Grafana? Since it’s pull-based, up is a freebie, especially if you expose the node_exporter via your reverse proxy.

For my use, I would still want the battery/portability. Just without an internal display because I use a 1080p HMD and like playing on the Deck in bed, etc. Add a capability like the joycons but symmetrical and with all of the Deck’s inputs, and I’d be quite happy.

I would actually rather like a Steam Deck without a display but with at least one full USB4 port and the ability to split it similar to a switch.

If it could use apple’s messages.app then i would be so happy.

That’s an Apple problem, not a Steam Deck or Linux problem. Apple refuses to allow support on non-Apple hardware.

In this case, I think “no distractions” is the goal. It’s running on an ESP32 microcontroller, not even a full-blown SBC computer like a Raspberry Pi. It’s probably a good choice for such a device but I also don’t feel terribly blown away by the price. But, thinking about it, it is a mechanical keyboard with a display that runs about $90, so, not an unfair price, but, certainly not low-cost.

The only reason that I tend to use it is because of the included webserver. It’s not bad but the paywalling of functionality needed for it to be a proper LB left a bad taste in my mouth. That and HAProxy blows out of the water in all tests that I’ve done over the years where availability is at all a concern. HAProxy also is much more useful when routing TCP.

Honestly, from your description, I’d go with Debian, likely with btrfs. Would be better if you had 3 slots so that you can swap a bad drive but, 2 will work.

If you want to get adventurous, you can see about a Fedora Atomic distro.

Previously, I’ve recommended Proxmox but, not sure that I still can at the moment, if they haven’t fixed their kernel funkiness. Right now, I’m back to libvirt.

Both Heroic and Lutris have the capability, iirc.

I’ve played non-Steam games no bother. Heroic Launcher and Lutris are your friends and can handle everything from downloading and installing to tweaking settings and adding it to Game Mode.

Most games that I play after pretty old so ymmv. Check any games in ProtonDB - if they are well-rated you’ll be fine.

It’s set for release in H2 of this year. This should be an actual desktop-class processor, performance-wise. Mini-ITX form factor too! The RISC-V processors are going through generations blazingly fast. Probably partly because we hobbyists get to do some QA.

I would caution though that this is still likely in the territory of “dev board”. Probably not going to be mainstream-ready and will have plenty of quirks. But, it’s a really big step forward.

I’m intending to use an Oasis for a NAS and virtualization host. If it plays nice, maybe put together a cluster.

I’ve been using some much smaller CH32V305 based keyboard controllers for a while, recently built a fightstick aroubd the platform. Now if only I fidn’t suck at joystick games, having grown up on gamepads.

Right there with you. I didn’t have a console as a kid so, I’m pretty bad at fighting games. Have been holding back a bit in the MCUs as well but, mainly due to time constraints and waiting for my new hobby dev system to arrive. But, have a good number of plans for MCUs and other things - hopefully the SG2380 gets a bare chip release, like the SG2000/2002 because I want to try making a motherboard/SOM to move towards a fully FOSHW computer (pretty sure that the SG2380 isn’t going to be OSHW initially but, being fully-compliant should be a good place to start).

Currently, waiting for the Milk-V Oasis. Looking forward to a fully-compliant implementation in the SG2380. Should make for better mainline support.

Try a traceroute to something like 9.9.9.9 and google’s IP. You’re able to resolve things ok. So, not DNS. Need to find out where the traffic is going to die.

Also, try a curl https://google.com -vvv. This should give some more info on what is happening to TCP traffic.

In some games, using the trackpad is super useful. Like if mouse-aiming in X3TC.

the trackpads being an actually usable alternative to using a mouse to move a cursor.

I have to say, I loathe trackpads as input devices almost universally. Somehow, Valve’s hardware designers managed to implement trackpads that I actually like. It’s impressive.

Thank you for making this effort, by the way. The community on Lemmy versus the other platform we all know about is night and day because of people like you.

Thank you too for that bit of positivity. I found myself being negatively impacted, psychologically and emotionally on corporate social media. Life is just too short to engage in that sort of unhealthy behavior. And I know that I’m not the only one who has experienced such - it’s pretty well established in research data.

So, while it certainly makes me feel a bit better, more important to me is the fact that engaging positively with people and encouraging them gives them more opportunities to feel better about themselves (we all need that sometimes, some more than others), grow, and, I hope, be more inclined to spread it about (and make quality shitposts and *nix porn). The world is fucked up enough as it is; lashing out, belittling, and the like only contributes the the problem.

I’ve been through a lot in life so far and close to those which been through even more and know first-hand how dark the depths of despair can get. If I can manage to put even the idea of a smile into the mind of someone that needs one I’ve won more than is possible in getting someone to rage-quit a “debate” thread that’s 50 comments deep.

Off the top of my head, I can only think of primary sources. Would need to dive into some academic tools to find sufficient sources for Wikipedia’s requirements. I’ll make a note to do so, when I get the time to do so.

Yeah. It feels like bad actors at the top use the needy as human shields to deflect from their horrible behavior.