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e0qdk

@ e0qdk @reddthat.com

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Interests: programming, video games, anime, music composition

I used to be on kbin as e0qdk@kbin.social before it broke down.

  • Putting HDDs to sleep

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  • I've put drives into standby mode with the gnome disks GUI tool on my regular desktop when they were being noisy and I wanted some peace for a while. If the drive was mounted before I put it to sleep, trying to access something on the disk will cause it to spin back up.

  • The Framework Desktop and Linux have shown me the path to PC gaming in the living room

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  • I'm not complaining about Framework's HW there; my old desktop (which uses an ASUS MB, IIRC) had that issue. I'm on my own figuring out WTF is going wrong between the CPU, the kernel, quirks of the motherboard, BIOS, GPU -- or whatever else might be causing it to enter a boot loop if I try to suspend and then resume the system.

    If I had a similar problem with the Framework system, I could go to Framework and say "Fix it!" and expect to get help because they officially support the configuration. That's my point.

  • The Framework Desktop and Linux have shown me the path to PC gaming in the living room

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  • I was thinking of motherboards. Some of my systems have really fucking annoying power problems. If I can't get this thing to suspend properly, for example, I can go back to Framework and try to get them to fix it. My cobbled together desktop? I'm on my own.

  • The Framework Desktop and Linux have shown me the path to PC gaming in the living room

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  • It's hard to build one that you can't make work, but a lot of manufacturers don't actually officially support it. It's a minor point, but one I care about -- especially when dealing with new hardware. I'd have wasted a lot more time trying to debug what was going on with Mint if they hadn't documented the need for a 6.11 kernel on their website, for example...

  • The Framework Desktop and Linux have shown me the path to PC gaming in the living room

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    • 128GB unified RAM
    • 16 cores / 32 threads
    • small form factor (4.5L)
    • similar/lower power consumption than my current daily driver despite much more powerful hardware (a lot of my parts are 10 or more years old...)
    • officially supports Linux
    • <$2K USD (not counting NVME and peripherals)

    That combo was interesting enough to me to order one to mess around with. I could build a more powerful (but probably more energy hungry...) computer in a traditional desktop form factor. I don't think I could build a better SFF computer myself though, and I'm really curious to see just how far I can push the integrated GPU in this thing...

  • The Framework Desktop and Linux have shown me the path to PC gaming in the living room

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  • My pre-order from February just arrived, so I've been poking at it a bit this weekend. I tried putting Linux Mint on it first. It booted but had issues (e.g. ethernet wasn't detected -- although WiFi worked fine); seems like the 6.8 kernel is too old. I've got Fedora on it instead now, and that seems to be working better so far.

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  • Wasn't aware of that one, but I did hear about the bird with a baguette...

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  • The OpenAI logo clenches shut...

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  • Digital Renal Management

    ...simultaneously rolled out with Digital Rectal Management, of course.

  • Handbrake local vs docker on Synology DS920+: same settings, very different results?

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  • Are you running different versions of the software? (e.g. different versions of ffmpeg, maybe?)

  • Anubis is awesome! Stopping (AI)crawlbots

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  • I don't like Anubis because it requires me to enable JS -- making me less secure. reddthat started using go-away recently as an alternative that doesn't require JS when we were getting hammered by scrapers.

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    [Help please] Identify process that is calling a domain

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  • netstat -tp -- that'll show you TCP connections and the associated program, doing a DNS lookup for the IPs they're connected to. You may need elevated permissions to see what some processes are.

    There are a bunch of other options (e.g. -n to get numeric output instead of looking up names, -l to get programs listening for incoming connections, etc); check the man pages for more details.

  • Keeping track of different targets in terminal

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  • I just right click on the terminal to change the profile to whatever I feel like it should be in the moment (usually red). I do it by reflex, basically. I never felt the need to try to set up automation for different servers, but I expect there's probably a way to do that if you really wanted to.

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    WhisperX — Automated Transcripts w/ Timestamps and Speaker Tagging

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  • "You love the robot more than me!" 💔️

  • Keeping track of different targets in terminal

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  • I (manually) set the background color of my terminals depending on the machine I connect to. I currently have profiles for red, green, blue, and black backgrounds with black as my default. I usually use red for ones I want to be especially careful of.

  • How to make an uninterrupted Live Stream, with fallback measures?

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  • I've been trying to figure out a related sort of video streaming setup for work (without Owncast, but with a similar sort of 24/7 goal plus other considerations) and have been looking into using ffmpeg's capabilities to output either HLS or DASH segments + manifests. (FFMPEG can do both but I don't know which would be better for my needs yet.) The sources I'm working with are RTSP/RTP instead of RTMP and I only need streaming to browser clients currently -- although it working with VLC naturally by pointing it to the manifest is nice.

    HLS and DASH work by having videos split into small chunks that can be downloaded over HTTP, so just replacing the manifest allows for continuous streaming (the client pulls it repeatedly) without the server needing to maintain a continuous connection to the client.(Fan out to CDNs works naturally since the video chunks are just files that can be served by any web server.)

    It should be possible to do some creative things by either creating / modifying the manifests myself with scripting or by piping chunks into another instance of ffmpeg from a script. (I've done something similar using -f image2pipe in the past, but that was for cases where I need to do things like create a video from an image gallery dynamically.) That's as far as I've gotten with it myself though.

    I don't know what the right answer is either, but I'm also interested in finding out and hopeful you get additional responses.

  • Need Help Switching Dad to Linux

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  • I'm not sure how to do what you want with customizing Mint directly, but a possibly simpler alternative solution is to just send two clearly distinguishable USB drives (e.g. label them "1" and "2" with a label maker or get two drives with very different colors) and tell him to install (unmodified) Mint from the first and then have him run a program you provide on the second after that's done to make the other changes.

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    Anyone else going basic with their NAS?

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  • I have an older version of TrueNAS on it from when it was still FreeBSD based (instead of Linux). I might replace it with Scale whenever I get around to doing maintenance on it next -- or maybe just go to stock Debian or something since I don't use most of the bells-and-whistles.

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    Anyone else going basic with their NAS?

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  • I run my NAS that way too. I just mount it and play videos with VLC if I want to watch something I have on it. The main reason I have a NAS is because I ran out of drive bays in my main system a few years ago... Works fine for my needs currently; no need to make it more complicated.

  • Why do Americans want to know the month first and the day second?

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  • Historically, I don't know, but personally, I prefer YYYY-MM-DD style dates since they sort naturally in basically all computer software without having to think about it.