If you want to learn more then do LFS. I don’t think Gentoo teaches you much more than a manual Arch install. But very few daily drive LFS. It’s hardly practical. Gentoo is daily drivable but if you don’t care about compiling all your own packages then I don’t think it’s for you.

I’d say just do LFS on an old laptop or a VM.

Yay

I only use flatpak for one Python program because it has a lot of runtime dependencies I don’t want to bother with. I generally wouldn’t use flatpak.

I don’t agree. LLMs are by design probabilistic. Chainsaws aren’t designed to be probabilistic, and any functionality that is probabilistic (aside from philosophical questions about what it is possible to be certain about, YKWIM) is aimed to be minimised. You’re supposed to be able to give the same model the same prompt twice and get two different answers. You’re not meant to be able to use a chainsaw the same way on the same object and have it cut significantly differently. You’re inherently leaving much more to chance by using LLMs to generate code, and creating more work for yourself as you have to review LLM code, which is generally lower quality than human-written code.

Not comparable at all. Power tools work deterministically. A powered chainsaw is not going to have a 0.1% chance of chopping a completely different tree on the other side of the forest. Of course accidents happen; your hand can slip. But a proper comparison would be if you got a computer to look at a large number of powered chainsaws and then generate its own in CAD based on what it’s seen, and then you use that generated power tool. Which, for something as potentially dangerous as a powered chainsaw, you most likely wouldn’t want to do, and would want to have careful human oversight over every part of design.

If you haven’t already, I recommend Watchtower (nickfedor fork—the original is unmaintained) which automatically pulls updates to Docker containers and restarts them. Make sure to track latest, although for security updates, these should be backported to any supported versions so it’s fine to track an older supported version too.

Notesnook notebook with whatever info I need to be able to administrate the system. e.g. what different ports are used for and why the firewall policies are what they are, sometimes write-ups after a troubleshooting session, etc.

The Notesnook instance is self-hosted too, but if the server goes down, the notebook will still be available locally.

Had no idea Qt had 3D rendering… GUI designers get more creative. Let’s see a 3D email client.

Is there any evidence that they would go after random FOSS projects that aren’t hosted or developed in the relevant jurisdictions? Don’t comply in advance.

Conversations move through different topics.

The origin of inefficiency as resistance comes from people in concentration camps deliberately doing poor jobs at forced labour as a form of resistance. If you’re posting on Lemmy right now you can do a lot more than inefficiency. The people who had to resort to inefficient slave labour as resistance could only dream of what you can do.

Omg I never knew about ctrl+L. Life saver. I have no idea why Linux file pickers/file browsers don’t seem to have an editable (and copy-pasteable) path field.

Not anything concrete. Windows is kind of nostalgic for me as I only used it as a young child. But there’s not a specific “I wish X was on Linux”.

Do you live in a city? If you do, there is something of the sort in most cities; you just need to know the right people or look in the right places.

If not, yeah, rough, you could try travelling in to a city though.

Before anyone says anything, no my city is not huge, no I am not in the US. The political left is active pretty much everywhere on earth, sometimes more or less underground depending on the conditions, but they’ll have some sort of spaces for themselves.

That’s concerning. If it was “I generated a function with an LLM and reviewed it myself” I’d be much less concerned, but 14k added lines and 10k removed lines is crazy. We already know that LLMs don’t generate up to scratch code quality…

I won’t use PostgreSQL with ntfy, and keep an eye on it to see if they continue down this path for other parts of ntfy. If so I’ll have to switch to another UP provider.

In my own experience, runit is much faster to boot than systemd. Perhaps your experiences differ but I know a lot of people say the same.

I agree start-up time is not a big deal. I just mentioned it as it’s the only real performance difference I’ve noticed between OSes.

I don’t think Arch is the distro I would go for if I just wanted speed. I suppose it depends on speed of what—generally systemd Linux will boot noticeably faster than Windows, and non-systemd Linux boots noticeably faster than systemd Linux—but once you’re booted up, I don’t think there’s a significant performance difference. Arch is a Linux distro that uses systemd so it’d be the middle option if you’re wanting fast boots. There are other minimalist distros too, some of which end up in arguably faster systems, but Arch is probably the easiest of the minimalist distros due to being well-documented and supported. But the reason for going for a minimalist distro is usually customisability, not performance. On modern hardware the performance difference is negligible. On very old hardware, you should be looking for another distro made specifically for old hardware (I don’t think Arch even supports 32-bit).

There are different server implementations. I run tuwunel and haven’t had problems. It seems about as performant on my VPS (8GB RAM, 4 CPUs at 2.4 GHz, hosting other services not just tuwunel) as matrix.org was when I used that.

if you cannot even htop, then I doubt a daemon could do something.

The point is that a daemon can catch it before it reaches that point by killing processes that are using too much resources, before all the system resources are used up.

Thanks. I’ve had a couple of comments suggesting that it might be a memory leak instead of CPU usage anyway so I’ve installed earlyoom and we’ll see if that can diagnose the problem, if not I’ll look into CPU solutions.

Open a console with top/htop and check if it will be visible when the system halts.

That would require me to have a second machine up all the time sshed in with htop open, no? Sometimes this happens on the server while I’m asleep and I don’t really want a second machine running 24/7.