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  • Nyfure@kbin.socialtoLinux@lemmy.mlRaspberry Pi Smart TV?
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    2 months ago

    Dont. They are notoriously bad at such things. Lack of Hardware acceleration mainly. These old Chips and problems with single-board-complications are just not worth it at such high prices.
    An Intel N100 MiniPC will have much more compute with less complications.






  • How much time do you have? Because even small models will take alot of time on that kind of hardware to spit out a long text…
    And the small models arent that great. I think the current best and economic model would be a mistral, mixtral or dolphin.
    If you got the power, nous-capybara is very good and “only” 34B parameters (loading alone needs like 40GB of memory).


  • I dont see how e.g. arch would be super hard to maintain.
    There is a nice GUI program for installing programs and updates. (like many modern distros)
    If you dont want to set everything up, go with Endeavour or Garuda.

    I find rolling release to be easier to maintain and keep up to date than non-rolling.
    Specially if you want up to date packages for desktop use.


  • Windows has a request assistance function? wtf… where is that found?
    I only know Remote desktop tools and most of these work perfectly fine on linux as the client or even under Wine.

    [Edit: woah, i did some rambling below here… not related to your specific case here, but some nice information maybe]

    Linux as host is where it gets funny… bigger ones support X11, pretty much none support Wayland.
    To be fair, its impossible to control mouse and keyboard under Wayland without root.
    I think we now have some new desktop packages for gnome and kde which can do that, so now they need to be implemented.

    But i dont see an effort being made for Wayland by the bigger providers in the near future… the market just isnt there and there is lots of uncertainty with the featureset.

    Switched to Rustdesk a while back, works nicely as client, but only picture output with wayland as host.l as of now.
    And i cannot copy&paste under wayland as client… even though it worked before…




  • smartctl

    But 10.000 seems on the low side, i have 4 datacenter toshiba 10tb disks with 40k hours and expect them to do at least 80k, but you can have bad luck and one fails prematurely.
    If its within warranty, you can get it replaced, if not, tough luck.

    Always have stuff protected in raid/zfs and backed up if you value the data or dont want a weekend ruined because you now have to reinstall.
    And with big disks, consider having more disks as redundancy as another might get a bit-error while restoring the failed one. (check the statistical averages of the disk in the datasheet)


  • Async is good because threads are expensive, might aswell do something else when you need to wait for something anyways.
    But only having async and no other thread when you need some computation is obviously awful… (or when starting anothe rthread is not easily manageable)

    Thats why i like go, you just tell it you want to run something in parallel and he will manage the rest… computational work, shift current work to new thread… just waiting for IO, async.



  • It not only has to be not ‘open’ in the explorer, but properly unmounted. Tools like mkfs dont do that for you, its just not their job. (and might be unwanted or stop your from making mistakes like accidentally overwriting the wrong drive)

    try umount /dev/USBDRIVE

    If that still complaints about Device or ressource busy, then something is still using it.
    Either try to close things that might be the culprit, reboot and try again or, if installed and you are compfortable, you can check which processes using lsof -D <path where drive is mounted to> (you can get that location using mount | grep <path to usb drive>)


  • Nyfure@kbin.socialtoMemes@lemmy.mlFor real tho
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    7 months ago

    Just FYI Germany likes to make things more difficult, so with federation every sub-area is separated in many aspects and has own agencies for different things…

    BfDI is only responsible for health and internet-provider institutions (and a few more).
    Otherwise you can send it to the one where the company is located at, or always where you are located at. (they will forward it, but that can take a few months, so better to submit where it has to go).


  • Nyfure@kbin.socialtoMemes@lemmy.mlFor real tho
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    7 months ago

    EU Cookie Directive applies to all website owners within the EU aswell as Websites which target EU users.

    It gives clear rules for different categories of cookies like how you need to display them and for which you actually need consent to be allowed to use them.
    It also sets rules for how easy certain actions have to be and granularity.
    (very simplified)