Magewell Pro Capture card

I’ve been kind of shifting towards use of USB devices over internal cards.

All of the USB devices that I have still can be connected to computers. Ditto for DE-9 serial ports, though I might need a USB adapter.

But I’ve seen ISA->PCI/AGP->PCIe obsolete a lot of old hardware that I’ve had sitting around, and that’s just on the PC. That includes my video capture hardware.

Vanish has -l.

I am hoping that you put your config in a git repository so that you can revert it.

Personally, the idea of “extending the life” by installing Linux is foreign to me because I immediately put Linux on any hardware I get anyway.

Well, that’s still sort of extending it past 0, so…

If you’re willing to wait until 2028 when memory prices are expected to drop, and if you’re willing to get new hardware if memory prices drop, I’d give real consideration to waiting until then. There’ll also probably be better hardware and better models then.

If you can constrain yourself to MoE-based LLMs, they’ll generally deal better from a performance standpoint with not entirely fitting in VRAM better than non-MoE LLMs, as experts may not get loaded into VRAM at all.

Just as a warning, this post is liable to be deleted due to Rule 3. I had an earlier hardware post that I commented on deleted for this reason earlier today.

Why am I not surprised to hear APC is crap compared to Eaton?

Keep in mind that this isn’t my personal experience talking here. I also don’t know if the user in question is correct, or if it might be specific to some portion of the respective brands — both make a wide range of UPSes, from inexpensive to pretty pricey. But I did remember reading that, and it did seem potentially germane to OPs problem, so…shrug

Someone with a multitester or oscilloscope or something and some of those units could probably examine further, see what the actual behavior is for a given model.

My UPS (APC)

https://www.reddit.com/r/homelab/comments/117oa9i/why_is_eaton_ups_so_much_more_expensive_than_apc/

Why is Eaton UPS so much more expensive than APC and Cyberpower?

In what ways is Eaton so much better that it can demand nearly 2x the price?

UK person here, so not sure how it differs country to country, but every APC UPS we’ve had has excelled in utterly trashing the batteries. Where I have to change batteries in an APC every 18-24 months, an Eaton will go five or six years without killing them.

There’s some further discussion talking about how the APC units hold the charge voltage at a high level, and the Eaton ones, once the batteries reach target voltage, bring it back down and only bring the charging voltage up occasionally for brief periods to maintain the charge in the battery.

I was originally going to use for my important documents

Not quite what you’re asking, but if your concern is avoiding data loss, if you haven’t already, I’d set up a backup before I started setting up a RAID or similar setup.

Gotcha. Yeah, the stuff in fstab is just a convenience; it’s equivalent to running a bunch of mount commands at boot. You might be able to just run “mount” again without the '-o remount" option. I was just listing that in case you were seeing some kind of errors in trying to manually mount it.

Nah, that’s good. What I mean is, if it’s in /etc/fstab, it should be possible to manually mount it without a reboot. Have you tried manually remounting it after power comes back?

Does anyone know how I can resolve this issue?

I don’t know why you’d need a reboot to remount the thing. Are you just not familiar with how to add something to /etc/fstab and mount it manually and are relying on some kind of auto-mounting system that only happens to run at boot, or is it giving some kind of error?

If an error, what happens when you do:

$ sudo mount -o remount /mnt/the-mount-point

?

I was going to mention that, but also that while I’m sure that it’d handle power loss while it’s unmounted the filesystem I don’t know what happens if the backing storage goes away while it’s in use.

I mean, you can install each in a VM if you want to play with them.

$ sudo apt install cool-retro-term hollywood
$ TMUX='' cool-retro-term --fullscreen -e hollywood

You don’t need to unset TMUX if you aren’t already using and inside tmux, but including in case someone is.

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history | grep 'keyword'

If it’s bash, it’s using readline, which is in emacs-like mode by default, and so you can probably use Control-R to do a reverse i-search (incremental search). Enter to invoke the command. Control-C to abort i-search.

If a search matches multiple candidates, tap Control-R multiple times to cycle back through results.

EDIT: Also, ! has a built-in search, so if you are sure of the starting string, you can just do that. I generally prefer to use the interactive search to confirm that I’m not invoking something wonky.

$ touch a
$ rm a
$ touch a
$ !rm
rm a
$ 

You copy paste the command.

$ sudo apt update
-bash: sudo: command not found
$

Your distro doesn’t set up/install sudo by default, so your first task is installing sudo, then understanding /etc/sudoers syntax and understanding why the command to atomically replace /etc/sudoers is visudo and why on a multiuser system there’s value to atomic replacement. In the meantime, you probably learn about su and maybe, if your distro has disabled them, how to enable switching to the kernel virtual consoles on tty1 through tty7 so that in the meantime, you can do things as root while staying logged in. Also, you’re going to learn about environment variables, so as to set EDITOR, and where your shell config files live, what a login shell is, and in what shells ~/.bash_profile, ~/.profile, and ~/.bashrc run. Also, you first try running visudo as a regular user, but your distro places visudo in /usr/sbin instead of /usr/bin, so you can’t figure out why it’s not installed and are going to learn about the FHS and mlocate and updatedb so that you can find /usr/sbin/visudo and dpkg -S so that you can figure out which package it’s in and confirm that it’s actually installed and learn about PATH.

$ !!

It keeps its handses on the home row.