Really love arch and the AUR. I’ve been tempted to get nix set up for the rare cases when there’s no AUR package or the AUR package is unmaintained. I figure if there’s no package in the AUR or nixpkgs, it’s probably not worth running.
btop reports some gpu, network and disk information that I don’t think shows up in htop, feels a bit more comprehensive maybe? Both are fine, but I too use btop, it’s nice.
Random trivia: I think btop has been rewritten like 3-5 times now? It’s sort of an inside joke to the point that someone suggested another rewrite from C++ to Rust ( https://github.com/aristocratos/btop/issues/5 ). I guess the guy just likes writing system monitoring console apps.
Taking ollama for instance, either the whole model runs in vram and compute is done on the gpu, or it runs in system ram and compute is done on the cpu. Running models on CPU is horribly slow. You won’t want to do it for large models
LM studio and others allow you to run part of the model on GPU and part on CPU, splitting memory requirements but still pretty slow.
Even the smaller 7B parameter models run pretty slow in CPU and the huge models are orders of magnitude slower
So technically more system ram will let you run some larger models but you will quickly figure out you just don’t want to do it.
Seems like arch gets KDE into stable within a couple days of release generally. Or there’s the kde-unstable repo that already has it
Fwiw they’re able to do the same thing by the sound of someone typing a password across the room. Not advocating for fingerprints or anything, just these exotic hacks are everywhere
Just a note, the orange pi drivers are not in great shape. It’s getting better but I have a cluster of raspberry pi’s for development, bought an orange pi without first checking out much about them and it’s rough. Rockchip CPUs are great, and the driver / firmware situation is getting better, but something I’d read up on before buying one.
I’d still look at the N100, it’s about 2.5x the performance of raspberry pi 5, and being x86 you have more options than arm.
There are a lot of tiny PCs these days that can output 4k video and audio. Look for something with an N100 or N200 CPU if you want to go as cheap as possible, they tend to be super-cheap and perform well. I’ve got one of the GMTecs and this wireless keyboard+mouse, works really well from the couch.
There are cheaper/other options but to get you started: https://www.amazon.com/GMKtec-Windows-Computer-Business-G3-dp-B0CQ4XQ2WG/dp/B0CQ4XQ2WG https://morefine.com/collections/pc-box (specifically the M9)
If you don’t like docker take a look at containerd and podman. I haven’t done any cuda with podman but it is supposed to work
One of us! I didn’t have terrible problems but I had the issue where the mouse cursor position was wrong in Firefox and other gtk apps, but they already fixed that in kwin 6.0.2.
I like KDE, at some point a move to Hyprland full-time might be in order but I’ve really liked KDE since moving off of Windows on my last couple systems.
Sorry to hear that, I may have overstated, I think I got distracted/focused mainly at the mouse cursor offset / interacting with something at a different position problem. That seemed to get fixed for me with 6.0.2, I don’t see the dragging thing but I’m on X11 still, maybe that’s a factor
There’s a KWin bug open for this, and a merge request was already merged for it.
I’m having a real tough time figuring out which code goes into which KWin release, but I do see a 6.0.2 tag that seems to include that MR’s change. So I’d look for version 6.0.2 of KWin and retest with that?
TPM & secure boot. Look into sbctl for secure boot if you’re not on something that uses the signed shim like ubuntu. I know some hate secure boot but storing the unlock key in tpm is at least much more secure than having the key sitting on a usb drive
Tang - network based unlock. If you have a separate raspberry pi or something you can set it up as a tang server. You’ll want that thing encrypted too, can set that up to require manual unlock so if someone boosts your servers the tang server never comes up, storage server won’t either
Or just manually unlock the server with a password every boot?
That’s roughly my prioritized/preferred list
The new / rewritten arch install is fantastic. The btrfs layout, with encryption, really nice experience and end result.
It’s the same, I picked up an Orange Pi 5 plus on sale and didn’t even think about the kernel and module driver situation. It’s rough. Joshua-Riek/ubuntu-rockchip and the other contributors do great work to un-fuck the situation and get a non-screwy ubuntu install cobbled together, but in the comments for issues even he gives off a “well, the situation is shit” sort of vibe.
I won’t buy another rockchip sbc.
Are there any alternatives for people with gluetun allergies?
It has been on my list to figure out how to move to forgejo, need to do it soon before the migration process breaks or gets awful.