I would argue that they are financially motivated to keep proton and Linux gaming going and not just out of the kindness of their hearts. They are competing with Microsoft and their store. When your competition has complete control of the OS you need to run your store on, you are at the total mercy of them. They can’t afford not to keep on their current track. Especially now that they are successfully doing it, going back would be a death sentence.

I have to do this command often at work and I can never remember the letters perfectly. This is actually useful, thanks!

As soon as they came out with scale, I knew core was going to be cut off when scale got good enough. There are just more possibilities with what you can do with Linux. The extra community support can not be understated as valuable to a profit driven company. At the end of the day, they gotta eat too and having one base system instead of two is the way they need to do it. The features are growing much faster on scale than they ever were on core in my opinion.

It is the only thing I can associate with Wayland and Nvidia. What other possibilities can there be?

According to their feature support page for M2, it appears it works now.

https://github.com/AsahiLinux/docs/wiki/M2-Series-Feature-Support

I am new to Wayland, but on asahi it is mandatory. So I am having to get used to it. Which is more noticeable as I had to change from i3 to sway. They are functionally identical but different in how you configure it with the wayland compositor.

Keep in mind that asahi cut out X11 support and went straight for wayland. It can support xwayland, just know that some things may or may not play nicely if the software doesn’t support wayland. As Wayland is the future of compositors, most popular Linux software should support it eventually.

Linux on arm is good, however as it is not nearly as popular in the desktop space as x86, common binaries for certain applications may not exist on arm if it closed source. You may or may not need those, you can make that judgement call.

Battery life is better than I expected but still not nearly as good as Macos. At least until they can come up with a proper solution for low power usage. Which currently a logistical problem of making something Linux kernel upstream compatible instead of applying a functional dirty solution now.

Linux on M1 is noticeably snappier than anything else I have ever used. It has a great future ahead of it. If your workloads don’t rely on heavy gpu usage and all your software can be found or compiled there. It is a pleasant experience. If you have any other questions, feel free to ask. I think some of the other users talked about the common things well enough.

Also yes, dual booting is currently the only supported option. They still need macos for firmware upgrades.

From what I understand, there is an option to run transcoding servers standalone. So a single gen 5 pcie motherboard could run two alveo ma35d encoder cards and plow through a ton of encodes simultaneously. It wouldn’t be cheap of course, but in terms of running a media server hosting video, it is not impossible. This is the kind of thing in which groups of people working together would be more financially viable than separate.

I had to cancel my gym membership because my laziness took over, let’s be honest. I called expecting a huge battle and prepared for a trek. I said “Hi, my name is Bread. I would like to cancel my gym membership.” They said okay and immediately hung up. No new bill the next month.

A bit rude, but I won’t argue with results. Straight to the point.

I have a few questions as you appear to be part of the archive or at least very familiar with it.

Roughly how often are the archives updated?

Do you guys already have a proper backup method or are your seeds acting as that backup?

Any idea realistically how much bigger the archive can get data wise in the next few years? Estimates or educated guesses are fine. I want to know how much I need to plan in advance.

If I take the whole archive, must I deploy it or can it be searched through if I have the whole thing and I want something specific out of it?

I have a spare 100 or so Terabytes and I can fit roughly another quarter petabyte in my server. I would like to help. I will look more into this potentially tomorrow when I have some free time. The preservation of knowledge is too important.

I would say no as it was designed to be turned off if desired to do so. If it weren’t designed for that, then I would say yes.

To add to this, not one person has jail broken a steam deck. Not because it is impossible, but because it would be pointless.

Same here I only do mild stuff like look at computer parts, servers and burglar tools. Damn nosy bastards.

I agree. Love ZFS for the NAS, but for a single drive desktop system, it is almost pointless and in my experience slower for desktop usage. ZFS is great for what it was designed for.

As for why you would want an hba in a non standard server is because of reliability. Sure you could get something cheap but you are gambling with ease of use, bandwidth, stability, and most importantly peace of mind. They may cost more, but I personally think it is worth it. If you are running server software, it may or may not play well with the cheap one.

While I don’t have a specific recommendation for the psu, you would want something modular and a high efficiency rating. This server will run 24/7.

If you do want to go the jbod route, make sure you get an external hba so you can route from your current server to the jbod. I believe you can do a fan swap potentially, I am sure someone has done it before. Personally for me, I said fuck it and built a server with a storinator q30 chassis that has reduced noise. Certainly not cheap, but you get what you pay for.

It also really depends on how seriously you want to take your data hoarding. If you aren’t concerned about drive bandwidth because you aren’t running all the drives at once or if you don’t really care about uptime stability, then it can be done cheap-ishly. Good data protection and redundancy adds up quick though, so keep in mind what data is invaluable and what isn’t. Backups are mandatory.

If you are running a server os like Truenas or unraid with ZFS, you cannot use a usb connection for the drives. For two reasons, ZFS doesn’t like it and will behave erratically but also because the connection can be spotty and drop out. Ubuntu server might be able to be fine with it, but if you ever switch to a data safety focused file system like zfs, you are asking for trouble down the line. I am not sure how btrfs will behave. ZFS doesn’t allow for single drive additions at a time, so you would have to buy multiple at a time.

Unfortunately, this hobby is expensive to do well. What you cheap out on now could bite you in the ass later if you decide to do far more than what you originally intended. However, you know your needs better than I. My media library grew far more than expected and I host for a large group of family members.

1. If they are saying there is a 4tb limit, that might have something to do with sas backplane of the ds4246. If it is older, then this might be a real concern that requires you to buy a new backplane.

2. Good ole’ fashioned redundancy. You probably don’t need it for what you are doing. You would need an hba card that supports that connector.

3. The right hba and cables depends on what you are trying to connect your drives to. Whether it be directly to the drives, to a backplane with individual drive connectors, or to a backplane with one or two cables. How you decide you want to approach it depends entirely on what you want and how much you want to spend. I couldn’t tell you about what is in the ds4246.

You have a problem though, that second slot is only a pcie x4, so you can get a maximum of 8 additional drives without losing any speed. You can get a card that goes over that limit, but then you are limited by bandwidth. To get more drives at full speed, you will need to remove the gpu or use the 1x slot for another drive or two.

If you want my personal recommendation, unless you already have a server rack or plan to need one for other servers, just get a large pc case like the fractal define 7 xl, upgrade your power supply, and buy an hba card and cables that allow you to connect to as many drives as you need individually. Why would I recommend this? Because enterprise servers like the ds4246 are loud as fuck. You don’t really realize how much sound matters until you live with a jet engine. That and because adding a jbod is adding more complexity than you need for your build. More parts to fail. You could probably get your required parts off ebay for cheaper if you’d like.

There is also the question of whether or not your board supports hba cards at all, so keep that in mind for your research.

If you need more drives than that eventually, you are going to need to upgrade to a motherboard that supports your needs. At that point would it be worth looking into a rack mount for more than the 18 drives the fractal case can handle.

If you want more information, I need to know if you plan to use my idea or not. As of right now, you can’t properly use the ds4246 chassis without removing the gpu and using that pcie slot. Or use a card that allows you to but limits your total performance.

If you don’t mind me asking, what is the main purpose of this server? If you need the gpu, I assume you are using it for plex or something.

Something else to think about, safes can get a little humid on the inside. Having something to collect moisture would be a great idea. Don’t need rust on your spinning rust.

Was PayPal the only option to buy it?

I mean, if I was selling new hardware for that cheap too, I would probably have a high approval rating.