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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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completely blind computer geek, lover of science fiction and fantasy (especially LitRPG). I work in accessibility, but my opinions are my own, not that of my employer. Fandoms: Harry Potter, Discworld, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Buffy, Dead Like Me, Glee, and I'll read fanfic of pretty much anything that crosses over with one of those.
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Birthday 1987-12-20
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@jscholes Nope! Debian 12 directly installed on a server right here beside me. It's on 3 gig symmetrical fiber, with 64 gigs of ram, and a quad-core AMD CPU.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@jscholes @ireneista I'm using rclone sync to move a little over 900 gigs, of files between 20 kb and 5 mb in size. It's nowhere near maxing out CPU, bandwidth, or memory. But it brings the server to its knees anyway. Anything other than rclone that wants to do any IO takes multiple seconds.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@mcourcel check the spelling, you have it wrong LOL
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@mcourcel www.kagi.com
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@jscholes @ireneista So my understanding is that rclone mounts the cloud using fuse, then treats it as a virtual filesystem. So when sync is touching files to get time/date/size etc, you get high iowait, slowing the entire system.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@Eggfreckles Yeah, I think I'll do something like that next time. This copy only has 17 hours left, so not a huge deal; the other users on the machine can wait a day or so.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@ireneista Isn't the issue caused by how slow the remote end is, though? Because Rclone is pretending to be a filesystem, so the kernel slows IO down because it's constantly waiting for data from rclone. So writing to disc isn't the actual bottleneck.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@crmsnbleyd This was exactly the discussion I was looking for; thanks!
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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I hate the way doing large syncs from slow cloud providers slows my entire machine to a crawl, but because of the way iowait works and how rclone works, I don't think there's a good way around it? Has anyone found anything I missed?
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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Hey : does anyone know what channel.org actually is? Is it providing a useful service for someone, somewhere? The homepage makes it look like enterprise big-tech marketroid nonsense, but for nonprofits. It seems to boost random posts to random hashtags with bots. Is there a purpose other than fake engagement here? Or should I block it to save my notifications from random noise.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@RegGuy I know they have their own index and their own finetunes apparently. What a lot of the AI folks are missing is that when you require users to ask in full sentences, you're not "freeing" them. Instead, you're forcing them to define what they want in more detail, and that very act of defining causes people to narrow down and focus, often in ways that are not helpful. I'm thinking of how a lot of the stuff in "How to ask questions the smart way?" (www.catb.org/esr/faqs/smart-questions.html) mostly involves getting people to stop asking the wrong questions entirely. I just kind of vaguely know I wanna know stuff about "rclone caching"; when I'm doing a search like that, I'm not even quite sure what exactly I want to know, yet. Does rclone caching exist? How does it work? Are there settings? Can I turn it on and off? I'm not ready to define the questions, because I know nothing about the thing.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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Looked at this evening, as I'd never tried it before. The key reason I like better is that Perplexity is another search engine that wants me to type full sentences. How is this better? I want to type "rclone caching", not "Please tell me how rclone caching works and what my options are." Or "airpods pro latest firmware", not "What is the latest firmware version for the Apple Airpods Pro 2?" Kagi does a good job of having AI available when I want it, but still allowing me to search like a normal human being who doesn't want to type so much my fingers fall off. Me caveman. Want short search. Not want lots typing. Want search engine figure out context. Me not provide.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@adam The difference is that I think Doug’s ego wouldn’t permit him to surrender our sovereignty. The only good thing I can say about Doug, unlike his brother, is that he’s not a bootlicker. If his jackboots can’t be the ones stomping on our faces, he won’t allow it to be someone else’s. And our only choice as Ontarions is who gets to stomp on our faces. I suspect Doug’s are at least not steel toed.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@adam The sad thing is he’s the only one willing to go to war with Trump to save our country. I wish some of these other spineless cowards would stand up and show some backbone, because I hate Doug. But I hate Trump a lot more.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@MostlyBlindGamer It also turned out to be right in the fact that I actually did have an APC brand UPS. Obviously we've achieved AGI and it was just able to use the data Google and Facebook have collected about my past purchases to know that. Coincidence? Of course not!
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@hyc Interesting that it continues to exist, and is the default in every major distro, then. Apparently Linux is just as subject to enshittification as everything else.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@tspivey What I did was use a preseed to just reinstall. All the data wasn't on the root partition, so all I lost were some random config files like upsmon.conf that I forgot all about.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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And it's done. I should really change its battery, but it's not complaining.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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Okay, does the AI know more about my own hardware than I do?
Scanning USB bus.
No start IP, skipping NUT bus (old connect method)
[nutdev1]
driver = "usbhid-ups"
port = "auto"
vendorid = "051D"
productid = "0002"
product = "Back-UPS XS 1500G FW:866.L9 .D USB FW:L9"
serial = "3B1711X25292"
vendor = "American Power Conversion"
bus = "001"
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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Thanks, AI! I literally just said I have no idea what kind of UPS I have, so you apparently just assumed it was an APC. I can't wait until companies start leveraging AI for advertising.