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15 Sep 2024
Staudey	https://weirdsideprojects.bigcartel.com/product/unfinished-projects-forms (from https://fosstodon.org/@metagrrrl@mastodon.social/113132102717658793)	17:24:27
16 Sep 2024
tannji	As I age I am having an increasing difficulty distinguishing between current reality and that which might be considered either satire or parody. I find I have little remaining patience	03:56:54
tannji	* As I age I am having an increasing difficulty distinguishing between current reality and that which might be considered either satire or parody. I find I have little remaining patience, regardless.	03:57:40
moriel5	Thanks, I'll look into it now.	12:50:32
moriel5	It looks like Solus is using the same solution as the big distros, I see, i.e. the shim.	12:52:22
helium1	https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/09/linux-kernel-6-11-released-this-is-whats-new	15:22:08
helium1	EXT4 performance boost of ~20% for fast devices using async direct I/O	15:22:22
helium1	yay!	15:22:24
moriel5	Neat. Meanwhile I am contemplating using Optane drives as swap drives.	15:31:19
helium1	for some server?	15:47:40
helium1	why not upgrade ram?	15:48:14
moriel5	In reply to @helium1:matrix.org for some server? For my personal rig. I have 20GB of DDR3L-1600 (2x8+1x4), and I intend to upgrade to 32 (while trying to find 8GB sticks of unbuffered ECC DDR3L-1866 RAM), however it would be nice to reclaim some storage on my main drive (still on a mechanical HDD).	16:02:20
moriel5	Xeon E3 v3 (Haswell) and v4 (Broadwell) are pretty cheap on AliExpress now, and the the best C226 (workstation equivalent to 8-series) board for my needs, the Asus P9D WS is at a reasonable cost at around $70 (the offerings from ASRock are still in above $200) there as well, though I would need to mod the firmware to add support for Broadwell (and by extension, 1866MT/s RAM).	16:09:17
moriel5	The Asus C246 WS and equivalents are still too prohibitive, as are Xeon E3 V6 (Kaby Lake) CPUs. Otherwise, that would be even better for me.	16:12:05
Reilly Brogan	Broadwell is pretty old by this point, surely you can find something newer for similar pricing?	16:40:24
Reilly Brogan	I'd also recommend switching your os drive to an ssd instead of getting an optane drive just for swap. It will make a much bigger difference in the responsiveness of your system	16:42:31
moriel5	In reply to @reillybrogan:matrix.org Broadwell is pretty old by this point, surely you can find something newer for similar pricing? Unfortunately, not with the I/O and featureset I need. Even what I had listed is 2nd hand/refurbished at these prices.	16:52:07
moriel5	In reply to @reillybrogan:matrix.org I'd also recommend switching your os drive to an ssd instead of getting an optane drive just for swap. It will make a much bigger difference in the responsiveness of your system When I have the budget (well, technically I have one, however it is waiting for the budget to build a ThinkPad L15 Gen1 AMD). I'm not going to switch to a drive that will die on me within a few years.	16:53:39
moriel5	And I already have the Optanes, which I bought (for ~$3 per drive) for use as external drives instead of standard flash drives (due to the insane endurance, with the performance benefit being a nice bonus).	16:55:35
moriel5	* And I already have the Optanes, which I bought (at ~$3 per drive) for use as external drives instead of standard flash drives (due to the insane endurance, with the performance benefit being a nice bonus).	16:55:58
moriel5	My Asus Z97 Pro Gamer just isn't cutting it anymore, due to the lack of PCIe bifurcation (I can live with the small amount of lanes, however I need to be able to have more choices for how they are split amongst the different slots).	16:58:13
Linux in a Bit	After doing some research, the endurance benefits aren’t as major as I thought, the cheap ones aren’t actually better than modern SLC and pSLC SSDs	16:58:21
Linux in a Bit	* After doing some research on Optane drives a while ago the endurance benefits aren’t as major as I thought, the cheap ones aren’t actually better than modern SLC and pSLC SSDs	16:58:38
Linux in a Bit	* After doing some research on Optane drives a while ago the endurance benefits aren’t as major as I thought, in general they aren’t even better than modern SLC and pSLC SSDs	16:59:03
moriel5	True, though not accurate (you are getting much more endurance compared to the capacity if you purchase the 16GB M10 Optanes, like I did).	16:59:54
Linux in a Bit	Now they might be better than a TLC or QLC SSD, but from what I could find on spec sheets, the endurance is at least still comparable to the endurance of those 16GB M.2 Optane drives	17:00:15
Linux in a Bit	In reply to @moriel5:matrix.org True, though not accurate (you are getting much more endurance compared to the capacity if you purchase the 16GB M10 Optanes, like I did). hmm, maybe my sources were off?	17:00:40
moriel5	And the 16GB models, while still pricy for what they are, are a much cheaper option.	17:00:44
moriel5	In reply to @arcushing:matrix.org hmm, maybe my sources were off? They weren't, you just need to recalculate while taking into account the endurance of the lower capacity models of the drives you took a look at.	17:01:56
Linux in a Bit	In reply to @moriel5:matrix.org They weren't, you just need to recalculate while taking into account the endurance of the lower capacity models of the drives you took a look at. Ah, I see what you mean k	17:03:11

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