And, even further: a rust implementation vulnerability too?

(Waits for C vs Rust war to start…)

I split my loads (gigity) between the power hungry NAS and a passively cooled low power Proxmox host.

For me, most 24/7 activities are low CPU - like Home Assistant, so it needs to be there, but it doesn’t need to do anything.

Other VMs are ansible, uptime kuma, smokeping, etc… the most they use is RAM

Then the (relatively) more power hungry NAS powers up 3 times a day to syncthing everything, maybe upload a backup, and if no-one’s using Immich, etc. then it’ll power back off again.

The only other thing I have yet to downsize is my pfSense box (still a low powered device, but has fans…) and a Raspberry Pi I use for my Zigbee network.

My NAS powers up & down about 3 times a day. Drives are all fine & healthy and some have been in there for years.

I don’t disagree with your core point though…

If the drive just finished spinning down and then it’s triggered for a 1 byte file, spins down, repeat… yeah, that definitely needs sorting out.

Just the initial spin-up lag would do my head in.

But off & on ~ daily, yeah not a problem.

Not really.

Depending on how you install things, the package maintainers usually deal with this, so your next apt update / pacman -Syuv or … whatever Fedora does… would capture it.

If you’ve installed this as a container… dunno… whatever the container update process is (I don’t use them)

I setup a standard Arch install, added BTRFS, NFS, SMB, restic (for offsite backups), etc and haven’t looked back.

I installed Cockpit thinking we’d need a GUI, but syncthing just works to mirror our laptops & phones with the NAS, and with multiple versions (by syncthing) I’m happy so far

The only thing that I had issues with was Immich and (major) postgresql updates, but that’s stablising now. And, TBH, the worst thing was just having to scrap the DB and just let it rebuild it (for a few days…)

I went with BTRFS because I can “see” it with standard linux tools like gparted, clonezilla, etc. So I can backup and modify the NAS OS itself, not just my data.

Apart from updates, I haven’t touched it for years.

Or

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Not heard of foam…

I’m not a programmer (as a day job), so I don’t use vscode, which makes me think I’d be learning to use the “wrong” tool for the job (for me), but I’ll take a look, thanks.

Thanks, yeah, this is kinda what’s happened with Logseq.

Ok, not even heard of that one, I’ll take a look. Thanks

Yeah, personally, I think they’d gradually make it db first and then markdown will gradually become an import / export function.

And I don’t need colab… my notes are mine. Yeah, there’s a few I share (ie home stuff with my partner), but for work, personal stuff, nope… just me.

But yeah, after ~3 years of almost daily note taking for work, it needs a computer with SSD to find things quickly and can take a while to start on the phone (hence using Markor to edit the .md files directly instead)

To your original post, yeah, single maintainer… but Logseq has how many? And it’s stalled really… from an external viewpoint.

I think SilverBullet has a slow steady pace rather than Logseq’s fast initial pace and then … nothing much since they got lots of investment - which someone will want back.

Thanks for the insight.

I need a UI that I can navigate links between files / topics / dates, so whilst I agree about the editor point (I use Markor for quick notes / edits on my phone), I need to be able to look up points during live meetings.

And to your last points, yes, I’m trying to understand it, but it’s on-ramp is an almost vertical wall for a complete starter like myself… but maybe I’m hitting it too fast

Just to address the networking part…

Wifi is a 1:1 link, usually half-duplex (unless you’ve got something like a MuMiMo router) so you’ll transmit a block of video to the phone and then have to wait for the phone to transmit that block to the laptop, then repeat.

You don’t state the screen sizes, but I suspect you’ll only get decent FPS (I presume this is for gaming) with a cable as that will be full duplex.

For the application, maybe take a look at something like Deskflow

nmon

That, along with tmux and htop, are installed on everything I have.

nmon then ld- give me a system health page that shows me where the bottleneck is.

It’s interesting to see how a system behaves when you’re doing something like a backup… it’s not always what you think.

sed -i 's/༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ/¯\\\_(ツ)\_/¯/g'

But, to be fair, how many people are using Win95 apps now?

I think you have enough people here stating their pfSense / OPNSense works fine, so I’d guess you have something unique with your setup - maybe it’s a dodgy cable, or you’re running both In & Out traffic over vlans on the same NIC on your PC and getting problems with unmanaged switches dealing with that…

I had an issue with my pfSense box not negotiating to 1Gb on a Cat6 cable to a switch. I tried all sorts of diagnostics and it turned out to be a problem with the wall socket crimping, so hardware issues do need to be checked… I’m obviously assuming you didn’t use the exact same cables as your firewalla…

Just some different angles to think about…

Lowest common denominator: Plaintext / Markdown files?

They’ll work with Logseq, web browsers, notepad, your phone… and maybe sync it all via syncthing?

That’s what I use.

I also write up my system notes in Logseq with the intention that I’ll just sync in my ansible files too… one day…

Massively offtopic and definitely over reaching, I know, but… from reading this post, as well as journalling, I’d recommend you also consider a counsellor if it’s heavy life issues.

Seeing one myself has helped me a hell of a lot… I only wake at 3am due to work stress now, rather than (all the other stuff)

Try journalctl -xe to get more info

Just as a reality check, disable systemd-timesyncd and verify if that is the problem - tbh, I’d be surprised it’s that.

There can be an issue with things like databases holding up the shutdown / reboot (I have an issue with a systemd service waiting for mariadb that I’ve not found time to resolve)…

I don’t use kde, but perhaps there’s something there that might help point to the issue.

Genuine question: How’s this different to rsync?

I have rsync installed locally, but not remotely and I’m able to sync changes, so how does this differ?

Edit: ok, I read the article a bit further and found the rsync comparison