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areyouevenreal ,

The person you are talking to isn't an anti-vaxxer though. They are pointing out that vaccine mandates are questionable at best in terms of ethics. The campaign to push vaccines was also fraught with issues that helped create more antivaxxers.

areyouevenreal ,

Concern troll? Are you calling me or them a concern troll? I don't think pointing out how badly run campaigns and regressive legislation lead to reduced vaccine uptake is concern trolling. Concern trolling would be pretending they were concerned for your mental or physical health as a way to make your opinion seem invalid.

areyouevenreal ,

I don't know if I support collectivism. I definitely don't support current society.

areyouevenreal ,

You seem to have forgotten about informed consent.

areyouevenreal ,

How is it a choice when you can get fired for not having a vaccine? You live in a society that requires people to be employed in order to survive. If you need a vaccine to be employed, then it is not a real a choice at all.

areyouevenreal ,

One of the British houses of Parliament

areyouevenreal ,

I thought primaries were still happening? Not the general election.

areyouevenreal ,

Anarcho-communism is by definition socialist. It's also far left wing. Be careful who you are criticising.

areyouevenreal ,

Do you have any evidence that the DNC are against RCV?

areyouevenreal ,

Then you understand it wrong. Communism is socialism by definition. Maybe try actually looking up the definition of socialism that marxists and anarchists actually use. It's a broad term but not a nebulous one as it has a concrete definition: a society where the working class own/control the means of production.

how can something be so courageous and yet so true (slrpnk.net)

Edit: Jesus Christ, people. If you buy a $150 Thinkpad made by slave labor instead of a $1,200 MacBook made by slave labor, you're still supporting a capitalist economy based on slave labor. We all do. We have no choice. The number of smug liberals in the comments saying "well I buy a cheap used laptop" or "well I buy coffee...

areyouevenreal ,

Yep used thinkpad and some kind of Linux sounds more like it.

areyouevenreal ,

Yes several. Some have quadro graphics for professionals too.

areyouevenreal ,

Performance wise? No not any more. Price wise? Again no. Screen quality wise? Only on the Pro. Battery life wise? Yes, with very few exceptions. There are also the software compatibility issues that made me sell mine.

areyouevenreal ,

Cool but kinda slow. Would be okay as a Linux machine I imagine, but so would a used ThinkPad.

areyouevenreal ,

I think you have been looking at Apple Benchmarks. M-series isn't the fastest in multi-core now or when it was released, though it might have been fastest when the first Max chip came out, hard to tell. They had a small lead in single core at one point though I think. It might be faster than the latest AMD by a small lead depending which benchmarks you look at.

https://nanoreview.net/en/cpu-compare/intel-core-i9-13900k-vs-apple-m3-max

https://nanoreview.net/en/cpu-compare/apple-m3-max-vs-amd-ryzen-9-7945hx

https://www.cpu-monkey.com/en/compare_cpu-apple_m1-vs-amd_ryzen_7_4800h

areyouevenreal ,

The second one is a laptop chip, you maybe need to brush up on CPU naming. I actually meant to have a laptop chip for the first as well but I made an error. M3 Max is used in both desktop and laptops. Stop thinking of M series in terms of desktop or laptop, it's meant to be a multi purpose chip. Even with Intel and AMD you see chips and dies getting reused between desktops and laptops.

Anyway here is one with an Intel laptop chip: https://nanoreview.net/en/cpu-compare/intel-core-i9-14900hx-vs-apple-m3-max

Although if we are comparing desktop only chips then AMD have Threadripper Pro and Apple has M3 Ultra. I am pretty sure I know who comes out on top (hint: it's the one with up to 96 cores)

Apple definitely does desktops as M Ultra is only available in desktops and is too hot for Apple Laptops. Although to be fair I could see one of the gaming laptop companies maybe finding a way to make it work.

areyouevenreal ,

Mac Pro? First Ultra class chip came in Mac Studio. They missed an opportunity to call it a Mac Pro Mini.

They've actually improved cooling a fair bit. The two chips I mentioned though are definitely power hungry though. That Intel chip can use up to 115W sustained. I don't think I want to know what the burst power is. The larger MacBook Pro might actually be able to get close to that (I think Apple's solution is on the order of 100W if you push both CPU and GPU simultaneously). Yeah the Apple system is considerably lower power once you start looking at GPUs as well.

Edit: actually looking at it the AMD Chip is only rated at 55W similar to Apple's CPU cores. I think in practice it will be higher though.

Edit 2: Sustained boost of 128W apparently on the AMD chip. Sheesh.

areyouevenreal ,

Buying used means you aren't actually contributing to slave labor at all. Buying new would.

Also where are you getting this laptops are made with slave labor idea? We aren't talking clothing here.

areyouevenreal ,

Yeah probably using NTFS was your issue. I had the same problem with ExFAT.

areyouevenreal ,

There are better inkjets like tank printers using ink bottles. Cheaper per page than even laser printers, and can't detect 3rd party ink (cause it's a liquid lmao). None of this subscription stuff is required. They don't have the gamut of say 7 cartridge ink jets obviously, but still better than laser printers I imagine. The main drawback is the extra maintenance of an inkjet with them drying up and all that.

So stop buying HP in other words.

areyouevenreal ,

Y'all are confusing inkjets for subscription printing. Buy a tank printer or just a decent inkjet and don't take the subscription. Problem solved. Tank printers can't detect third party ink either, because it's just a liquid. Tank printers are both cheaper per page and do more pages to a refill.

areyouevenreal ,

Have you heard of CPU and GPU caches and registers? Even the storage in a PC has cache(s).

areyouevenreal ,

Yes that's because nobody actually uses Inkjets correctly. They aren't meant to be unplugged and left to rot. They are meant to be used. If you only use a printer occasionally but a laser printer.

areyouevenreal ,

Look up Epson EcoTank. There are other companies that make tank printers as well I believe.

areyouevenreal ,

I've never had to take it apart. I have had to run head cleaning a few times, but that's from leaving it unplugged for a while. Aside from that it works alright. I don't get why they would need to take it apart, that sounds like a massive exaggeration.

areyouevenreal ,

Where is this coming from? Do you have any sources?

areyouevenreal ,

Ironically people do actually use Edge on Linux. Beats me lol.

areyouevenreal ,

It's still reporting to Microsoft and has all the restrictions they place on it.

areyouevenreal ,

I am not a massive fan of cocaine, and never have done meth, but I can see that making sense. Apparently meth come downs are brutal.

areyouevenreal OP ,

You miss the part about XDG dirs?

areyouevenreal OP ,

Trying to get a real debrid client to work right. It seems the internal downloader doesn't work, and it supported using aria2.

areyouevenreal OP ,

Already done that. This is the only one that supports working with sonarr and radarr afaik.

areyouevenreal ,

That's going to be almost impossible to do with an iGPU. Makes way more sense to pass through to LXC.

areyouevenreal ,

2-3 clicks? That's hilarious!

These are the steps it actually takes: https://3os.org/infrastructure/proxmox/gpu-passthrough/igpu-passthrough-to-vm/

That's the best case scenario where it actually works without significant issues, which I am told is rarely the case with iGPUs.

In my case it was considerably more complicated as I have two GPUs from Nvidia (one used for host display outout), so I needed to block specific IDs rather than whole kernel modules.

Plus you lose display access to the Proxmox server which is important if anything goes wrong. You can also only passthrough to one VM at a time. Compared to using LXC you can passthrough to almost unlimited containers, and still have display output for the host system. It almost never makes sense to use PCIe passthrough on an iGPU.

The reason to do passthrough is for gaming on Windows VMs. Another reason is because Nvidia support on Proxmox is poor.

This is a guide to do passthrough with LXC: https://blog.kye.dev/proxmox-gpu-passthrough

It's actually a bit less complicated for privileged LXC, as they are having to work around the restrictions of unprivileged LXC containers.

areyouevenreal ,

My point is it's not actually much (or potentially any) simpler to use PCIe passthrough than using an LXC. Yet it comes with more resource usage and more restrictions. Some hardware is more difficult to pass through, especially with iGPUs. I don't even think all iGPUs even use PCIe.

areyouevenreal ,

Not all of them. Have a look at a Raspberry Pi or Apple Silicon devices. In fact most ARM SoCs I am fairly sure don't use PCIe for their iGPUs. This makes sense when you think about the unified memory architecture some of these devices use. Just in case you aren't aware Proxmox does indeed run on a raspberry pi, and I am sure they will gain support for more ARM devices in the future. Though I believe an x86 device with unified memory could also have problems here.

areyouevenreal , (edited )

AMBA/AXI-bus in the case of the Pi. GPUs existed long before PCIe did lol.

One some x86 systems the CPU and GPU aren't connected with PCIe either. AMD has infinity fabric that they use for things like the Instinct MI300 and some of their other APUs

Edit: Oh yeah also ARM isn't just low power anymore. It's used in data centers and super computers these days. Even if it was there is lots of stuff you can do with a low power node, including running file servers, DNS or Pi hole, web servers, torrent/usenet downloaders, image and music servers, etc. I have also seen them used to maintain cluster quorum after loss of one more powerful node. A two node cluster won't have quorum if one fails, so adding a pi as a third node makes sense.

areyouevenreal OP ,

They do? I had no idea. This seems like the correct route to go down then.

areyouevenreal OP ,

Yeah, I did try and find out from them what the DHCP range is. Unfortunately didn't have any luck.

areyouevenreal OP ,

You've never looked up the cost of a 5G MFND from a reputable brand.

areyouevenreal OP ,

Not an option. Costs too much, and my family have already agreed to this provider. It would mean sending their device back. Then there is the risk we get a device and it doesn't work, which already happened once.

areyouevenreal OP ,

I already have a router from another house. Not helpful given it doesn't have 5G. Also walmart? I am not an American lol.

So what this would actually mean, is cancelling a 24 month contract, buying two devices, one a 5G modem, and another to run OpenWRT, for well over £300. Shipping the other device back to the ISP. All with no guarantee any of it will work, given my experience with buying cellular modems previously. This would take probably 1 week plus, and cause more disruption to my parents after having already moved house and one of them being in hospital. That's not taking into account anything that goes wrong with using OpenWRT, which is any number of things given it's unofficial firmware that I have no previous experience with.

Yeah no that's not going to happen. They aren't going to go for that and honestly I don't blame them that's a horrible deal, even if I pay for half the equipment.

areyouevenreal OP ,

Where would I find a device that could run DDWRT or OpenWRT? WiFi 6 is basically a minimum requirement at this point given I already have a WiFi 6 router and WiFi 6 devices. It would be silly downgrading just for the sake of using WRT.

otl , to Selfhosted
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Follow-up: OpenBSD routers on AliExpress mini PCs

I got lots of replies to the last post showing the little OpenBSD internet gateway setup (super interesting; thanks!). Here's more info and pictures:
https://www.srcbeat.com/2024/02/aliexpress-openbsd-router/

Something I've been meaning to share for years now.

@selfhosted

areyouevenreal ,

Normally you use a separate AP to do that. BSDs don't normally have good support for WiFi cards. Consumer WiFi cards aren't really meant for use as APs anyway.

otl , to Selfhosted
@otl@hachyderm.io avatar

Another successful OpenBSD setup

I've been buying these little boxes from AliExpress for years to use as firewalls and routers. My oldest one is almost 9 years old now! OpenBSD installs just fine. Just a BIOS tweak to always boot up after power is restored.

@selfhosted

areyouevenreal ,

Few computers use CoreBoot, and CoreBoot still uses proprietary blobs typically. Normally only libreboot has zero blobs, and they are very rare indeed.

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