Ask Noah Show 414

This week on Ask Noah we dig into Cosmic desktop and talk about what to do when self hosting goes wrong!

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01:48 Cosmic Desktop - Dan

• Cosmic will be the desktop for System76 computers
• Built for System76
• Cosmic DE still Alpha/Beta
• Been running Cosmic for over a month

07:38 Caller

• KVM/VirtManager performance
• Virt IO Drivers
• Correct ZFS block size for QCOW2
• Synchronous vs Non-synchronous writes
• ZFS Intent Log (SLOG/ZIL)
• 64k Record size
• Turn on virtualization in UEFI
• Enable "write a shift"
• Check the cables

16:50 Cosmic Desktop - ZFS - Rob

• Hardware
• HDD Failure after re-silvering
• Preventing bit rot
• 3 disks vs 2 disks
• ZFS Send/Receive vs Rsync
• Sanoid
• Limit the bandwidth
• Total data vs Total Bandwidth
• Synology is not open source
• Just install an OS and packages

30:55 Zed Editor

• Website
• Steve uses Nano not Vim or Emacs
• Thoughts on IDEs?
• VSCode and VSCodium
  • Electron
  • Lots of extensions
• Failed to get to the website
• AI is not appealing
• Written in Rust
• Native Linux support

37:41 Steve's Tech failures

• Nextcloud Collaborative Editing
  • Fighting with Collabra
  • Tried docker and podman
  • Tried bare metal
  • Tried a VM
• Nextcloud Deck
  • It works
  • Not awesome
  • Colors not working
  • Trello import
• Frigate took down Home Assistant
  • Frigate filled /tmp and root
  • Hard locked the server
• Tail Scale on IOS
  • Doesn't work intermittently
• Do you enjoy fixing problems?
  • Case by case basis
• Time is the most valuable thing

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