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Yeah that’s completely normal, looks absolutely fine to me. For more info on how linux uses memory I suggest reading https://www.linuxatemyram.com/

To add: that link suggests looking if your swap usage is changing. Linux is quite happy to stuff some memory that isn’t actually used in swap. If it was right about it not being used you should see the swap usage not changing much, so your SSD isn’t really being used either apart from the initial swap-out. If your swap usage keeps fluctuating wildly there is more going on which might warrant further investigation.

One of the main advantages of Optane doesn’t easily show in a benchmark: it doesn’t have to do any cleanup. Normal SSD’s cheat all the time by caching writes in DRAM and an SLC portion of the NAND. Usually that works fine and you won’t notice, but if you keep writing then at some point performance will plummet dramatically. Also, the SSD’s need a breather every now and then to rewrite that cached data to it’s final place, during which time performance is also worse.

Optane doesn’t need any of that. You can write to it at max speed 24/7 and it’ll just take it and keep going, at ridiculously low latency. Perfect for handling large non-stop data streams, or workloads that need a guaranteed low latency (both for reading and writing). It’s a real shame the concept failed, the tech was fantastic.

Sure, but there are tons of people walking around with cracked screens on slab phones too. The screen is always the weakest part. What would be noticeable is if screens on foldables failed way more than on slab phones, but I haven’t seen any evidence to support that. I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s the other way around: slabs break their screens far more when they get dropped because the screen isn’t protected on the inside like a foldable does.

It’ll die eventually, sure. But the numbers you quote are ridiculously high, it’ll take several decades to get there. So that seems like a non-issue to me.

The first generations had weak hinges, but those were solved several generations ago. I have no idea what you think is killing screens.

Posting from a Flip 5 that I’ve had for almost 3 years now. This is by far the best smartphone I’ve ever had. It fits in both pockets and bags much better. I drop it way less than I did all other phones I’ve owned because it’s so much more natural to hold. And it’s sturdy, apart from a few slightly dented corners it still looks like new.

The only hardware downside is that the screen protector is basically a consumable and needs to be replaced every 1.5 years or so (which is cheap and can be done while you wait in my city). And the biggest software downside is that custom ROMs just straight up don’t exist for flip phones (of any brand it seems). I would love to run Graphene or Lineage on one.

It’s not though, it’s about 1.5 times as thick. And it feels way smaller in your pocket than slab phones do.

I recently had a local issue where I could barely reach B2 as well. It turned out that one of their endpoints was on a DNS blocklist I use. Once I manually unblocked that everything started to work again. Not saying you’re having the same issue but it could be a lot of things between you and B2, careful triage is needed to find the root cause.

Power going out depends a lot on where you live. I can’t remember the last time I lost power at home (in NL), probably a decade ago? And it only lasted 30 minutes I think. Depending on how common it is and how long it tends to last it could be worth it to invest in a UPS or even a generator.

Internet going out is more common over here, which is easily mitigated with multiple uplinks and some kind of dynamic DNS if you feel that’s worth it.

Built my own server to be completely silent since it lives in my living room. Based on an Intel i3-12100 with some NVMe and 5x SATA SSD’s, and running tons of containers. Does about 18W most of the time and it could have been lower with a different motherboard.

All the UniFi stuff (gateway, switches, APs) uses just under 50W though, so there’s little sense in spending more money on the server to shave off a few watts.

Servers are terrible for homelab use. They’re unwieldy, consume way too much power and as you’ve found they’re very noisy. My vote goes to selling the thing and getting a mini PC, an (old) laptop or building something quiet and frugal yourself. In the last case you might be able to reuse some parts you already have. But if cost is important almost nothing beats second hand mini PC’s in value for money.

Hmmm, Fresh looks interesting, didn’t know about that one!

Honestly the barrier to entry of Usenet was always high, finding a working Usenet provider only made it slightly harder in a world where everything lives in your browser.

Not really unfortunately. As much as I dislike linking to Reddit their Usenet subreddit does have a decent wiki with some of the info you’d need: https://www.reddit.com/r/usenet/wiki/index/

I would have expected that too, but they say:

the specific thing that died is not usenet itself. it is usenet as a service your isp gave you.

SnapRAID offers an additional benefit over real RAID-like systems: it functions as a short-term backup. If you sync it daily like I do, that means that if you accidentally delete a bunch of files (old enough to have been synced, I.e. older than one day in my case) you can restore them from the SnapRAID parity.

The reverse is also true of course: if you lose a disk you also lose today’s changes to that data. So it’s most suited to large collections of rarely changing stuff like photos and videos and music IMHO.

Usenet is a weird one on that list. They frame it as Usenet by default from your own ISP, and that is indeed pretty much dead. But on the other hand there has never been more data shared through Usenet than right now. Absolutely everything is available on it, at full download speed, with encryption, without having to upload anything back to anyone.

People who still use (public) torrents to get their stuff have no idea what they’re missing out on. It’s a steep learning curve and not free, but once you have it all set up just right it’s amazing how well it works.

Official Podman Quadlet files? Me likey!

I’ve been using IPv6 for more than 20 years, and I can’t say that about nuclear fusion.

Depends. There are a few things I update by hand, but as long as you have proper backups it’s generally safer to run the latest versions of things automatically if you don’t mind the possibility of breakage (which is very rare in my experience). This is in the context of self-hosting of course, not a business environment.