Notices by Ed W8EMV (w8emv@hachyderm.io)

@badnetmask

"look before you leap" vs. "he who hesitates is lost"

@badnetmask

It looks like there's an open issue in Flux v2, at least

https://github.com/fluxcd/flux2/issues/5424

@badnetmask There are definitely theater tech folks using Home Assistant for automation, and one the things that theater people do is make haunted houses, and so the line from one to the next isn't very long

@badnetmask my iron rule with Home Assistant is "don't build a haunted house"

@badnetmask

Go is actually pretty nice for cross-compiling, if you were to put an x86 system into your network you could still easily spit out arm64 binaries. C++ would be more complicated is my understanding to cross-build, but I think it's still possible.

Do you have enough memory on the system you are using? There's a 16GB Pi 5, the one I have is an 8GB Pi 5.

The Pi 5 has had some memory bandwidth performance tweaks too, see @geerlingguy at https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2024/raspberry-pi-boosts-pi-5-performance-sdram-tuning

The Pi 5 will run hotter, and thermal throttling would be something to watch out for.

What are you using for a file system? (Network, SD card, SSD, NVMe?) The Pi 5 can be coerced into having NVMe storage which should be faster, but I failed in my attempt because of the very fiddly connectors on the NVMe cable.

@badnetmask Pi 5's will be noticeably faster than Pi 4's.

Build system performance can be bottlenecked by CPU speed, effective parallelism, memory bandwidth, I/O bandwidth, or network. Some languages cope better on small systems than others. Without knowing which "stuff" you are building it's hard to say for sure, but a Pi 5 will be better across most of those.

@badnetmask nice! what was the thing about setting it up that you discovered along the way that you wish you knew when you started?

@hazelweakly

every working big system is always partly broken, in ways that ensure that systems people and operations people will always have something to do.

@hazelweakly “We build our computers the way we build our cities—over time, without a plan, on top of ruins.” Ellen Ullman

@eaton so, billions of dollars to reinvent Mad Libs? Good times.

@thomasfuchs

if you follow @craigmaloney you will see the art of Mastodon disclaimers honed to a fine edge.

@thomasfuchs advertising for Christmas appears around here to have started the day after Halloween.

I think of it as a War on Thanksgiving.

@mattly how do you even pronounce that when you are reading it?!

@thomasfuchs

AOL is the biggest opportunity yet to introduce more "normal" people to Usenet.

@thomasfuchs

"The Net of a Million Lies" was a warning, not a business plan

@thomasfuchs

This 1990 FAQ from Epson says the drive worked in an Epson Equity series computer, with a "non-standard FDD interface".

https://files.support.epson.com/pdf/psb/psb.s-0060a.pdf

You might hunt for "Epson Equity" docs. The few I have read suggest that Epson sourced some parts that were nearly but not quite compatible with standard interfaces of the time, so there may be some goofball surprises waiting.