TCB13

TCB13 , 3 months ago to selfhosted in N100 Mini PC w/ 3xNVMe?

There’s a big difference thought: consistency.

When a MacBook fails it fails for everyone in the same way and if it’s software fixable then it’s a simple fix. With AliExpress boards you get boards that are perfect, others fail after a while, others never work unless they do updates.

TCB13 , 4 months ago to linuxmemes in We get it, it hit 4%

Just need to give great alternatives.

Alternatives, are, well, alternatives. I’m all for alternatives but they are NOT the actual thing.

If one lives in a bubble and doesn’t to collaborate with others then native Linux apps might work and might even deliver a decent workflow with performance. Once collaboration with Windows/Mac users of a specific industry is required then it’s game over – the “alternatives” aren’t just up to it.

You can’t expect to waltz in some office and have people tolerate broken documents of some format and/or the subsequent productivity losses - it just takes you making a few slides for your boss while using LibreOffice and once he opens the document you’ve misaligned items, game over. :)

It also comes down to a question of how much time (days? months?) you want to spend fixing things on Linux that simply work out of the box under Windows for a minimal fee. Buy a Windows license and spend the time you would’ve spent dealing with Linux issues doing your actual job and you’ll, most likely, get a better ROI. Software runs fine, all vendors support whatever you’re trying to do and you’re productive from day zero. Sure, there are annoyances from time to time, but they’re way fewer and simpler to deal with than the hoops you’ve to go through to get a minimal and viable/productive Linux desktop experience.

TCB13 OP , 4 months ago to selfhosted in The domain aftermarket has a big problem

Hey, I’m not the one who typed it… but it’s annoying to see when a name you want is taken on all the major tlds because registrars are holding domains in hopes of selling them.

TCB13 , 4 months ago to linuxmemes in We get it, it hit 4%

Yeah, those are another two big names that are hard to get into Linux.

TCB13 , 4 months ago to selfhosted in N100 Mini PC w/ 3xNVMe?

Okay. reddit.com/…/minisforum_um_series_fixes_megathrea… / archive.is/vwXsX

UM773 Noted Issues (unresolved): It has been observed that using multiple USB ports simultaneously or through a hub (consisting of one standard 500ma device and 2-4 ~150ma adapters) on UM773 can cause an overload of power draw. This overload can lead to the m.2 and USB controllers for the wifi/BT chip becoming unresponsive or unrecognizable.

I got one 2 weeks ago with pve installed, it was running for about 1 day and started to reboot itself constantly with some hardware error code, tried updating the bios, and changing the ssd with no luck. Contacted the miniforum for a return , but they are not that responding

Ey same issue with the 32/1tb UM690. All sorts of stupid errors. Really disappointed with the product.

I have a new Minisforum x500 microPC with odd boot issues. (…) A successful cold boot is a 50/50 gamble. (…) Getting a cold boot to work is a black-magic process of quick power cable plug-in and pressing the power button, in combination.

And so many others…

TCB13 OP , 4 months ago to selfhosted in The domain aftermarket has a big problem

I can’t see who owns it because they’re doing a private registration with the same registrar I used, so as far as whois is concerned it’s the same registration it’s always had.

Maybe it isn’t another person, it’s more likely to be your registrar holding the domain to sell on auction later on. This is the typical GoDaddy behaviour.

TCB13 OP , 4 months ago to selfhosted in The domain aftermarket has a big problem

They’re a finite resource and should be limited to a fixed number per human being. And only transferred for free not resold.

While I don’t agree with the free transfer I agree with the the other part. ICANN should fine and obliterate registrars that keep domains for themselves and individual hoarders.

TCB13 OP , 4 months ago to selfhosted in The domain aftermarket has a big problem

My understanding is that domains do expire unless you pay the fee to renew for another year.

The problem is that this isn’t what happens today. If you register a domain and never pay for it again then providers will often renew the domain and keep it to themselves and try resell it later. This is one of the biggest issues in the domain name market and GoDaddy is one of the worst offenders.

Regarding unused domain names, how would anyone know if a particular name is being unused?

Yes that’s a good question but I’m sure that ICANN with all it’s wisdom and infinite resources and teams could define something reasonable. I believe the first step could be to simply make sure registrars can’t do what I describe before.

TCB13 , 4 months ago to selfhosted in N100 Mini PC w/ 3xNVMe?

That’s because you had the luck of not hitting a BIOS with some bug or limitation. For instance on AMD it is common to see things like:

To run the AMD Ryzen 5 3600X on an Asus Prime B450M-A II motherboard, you will need to update the BIOS to the latest version available that supports the processor.

Because while electrically / socket compatible, when the board was originally released the CPU didn’t exist.

TCB13 , 4 months ago to selfhosted in N100 Mini PC w/ 3xNVMe?

Sometimes it can actually make sense to replace some old hardware with newer stuff, simply because of the electricity cost savings of using newer hardware.

Yes and we usually see that with very old server grade hardware vs new-ish consumer hardware. Once the price difference is around 100$ or so, we’re talking about years before break-even and it may not make much sense.

TCB13 , 4 months ago to selfhosted in N100 Mini PC w/ 3xNVMe?

openwrt is solid enough for potato hardware, whereas opnsense is not

OpenWrt is rock solid for every hardware out there, it has a x86 version as well and there are people running that for more serious stuff.

both operating systems run on the aliexpress hardware, counteracting your claim that some systems don’t boot.

Yes, they may run right now in your specific boards but it is a hit or miss. You’ve zero guarantee a future update update to your OS or UEFI won’t break things and that there will be fixes. There are plenty of online reports of people unable to boot on those cheap boards due to due to UEFI shenanigans, even on minisforum machines.

TCB13 , 4 months ago to selfhosted in N100 Mini PC w/ 3xNVMe?

Okay, you’re into something, they’re considering 8 hours / day at 0.25$ per kWh2 and 25% CPU by default. Still if we tweak that into reasonable numbers, or even consider your 60$/year it will still be cheaper than a cloud service… either way those machines won’t run at 25W on idle, more like 7W.

TCB13 , 4 months ago to selfhosted in N100 Mini PC w/ 3xNVMe?

I think number of devices (drives etc) are more important than actual CPU idle power

Yes, or even the BIOS setup, some of those machines allow to disable CPU cores and un-used hardware.

TCB13 , 4 months ago to selfhosted in N100 Mini PC w/ 3xNVMe?

Just used cpubenchmark.net.

TCB13 , 4 months ago to selfhosted in UGREEN enters Network Attached Storage (NAS) market with diverse Linux-based NASync lineup

I will strip os and run standard Debian.

This is the problem, it seems to be very hardware do it because the UEFI is inaccessible and the OS is signed. Kobol was our one and true hope for an open and well designed NAS solutions however they quit.