NUC is a pretty wide range at this point... there are some lower power fanless options, there are also larger options that go to a current I9 and support higher end RTX graphics cards.
I've been relatively fond of a few of the MinusForum products... mostly they're laptop designs in a small desktop form factor. Which is what
the NUCs are as well.
My board is also on DigitalOcean, as another mentioned they were doing
as well. For me the hard things are time and motivation... been dealing with a few personal issues, medical issues and work, and really just don't have any motivation at all after that... I try to check into these message areas about once a week though.
I have so many mods in various states of done, or started, or just need to be rewritten... I used to run a very heavily modified Synchronet board, but don't like a lot of the structure, so haven't just put it
back as it is/was... but considering doing that then moving forward.
of them have fans, mine (a NUC7i3BNK) has one of these:That's cool... I've a MinisForum HX90 running most of my home stuff currently, a bit overkill really, but nice overall... idle is really low power.My pfsense box is run an N6005, one of these also might be a decent option... haven't really tri
Yes, it seems very fast, it's quiet, it's small. Came with Windows 10 and offered to update to Win 11, so I did that just out of curiosity. I must say that if I was a Windows user, I'd prefer the version 11.
Pretty slick looking to be honest. But anyway, shortly after that it
was wiped and now has MX Linux on it. :-)
I have Win11 on my laptop, also installed as a curiosity. Honestly I
don't see much benefit here vs win10 :shrug: but one annoyance is the
right click menu in explorer. I think they wanted to "clean up" the
view of the right click menu but all they did was introduce more steps
to do basic things.
I have Win11 on my laptop, also installed as a curiosity. Honestly I don't see much benefit here vs win10 :shrug: but one annoyance is the right click menu in explorer. I think they wanted to "clean up" the
view of the right click menu but all they did was introduce more steps
to do basic things.
Definitely not a fan of the changes to right-click, or the burying of
the task manager. For that matter, the new task manager is much
heavier, and not sure if it will survive trouble as well as older versions.
I was on Insiders through the Win11 rollout... didn't mind it too much earlier on, and was really happy having the WSLg stuff to run gui linux apps in the environment... But it ate itself at one point (didn't have the secure boot or tpm enabled, dual booting linux)... I did try it
again for a while, it ate itself again, and kept resetting the nvidia video drivers and freezing/stuttering etc... so I went back to win10 for anything I needed on windows, and have been in linux most of the time since. --
esc wrote to Tracker1 <=-
I was on Insiders through the Win11 rollout... didn't mind it too much earlier on, and was really happy having the WSLg stuff to run gui linux apps in the environment... But it ate itself at one point (didn't have
the secure boot or tpm enabled, dual booting linux)... I did try it
again for a while, it ate itself again, and kept resetting the nvidia video drivers and freezing/stuttering etc... so I went back to win10 for anything I needed on windows, and have been in linux most of the time since. --
I go through phases. My current phase is 100% linux and it's meeting my needs just fine. Naturally I'll come back around to Windows at some
point but these cycles take a while, long enough for new features and exciting stuff to roll out :)
point but these cycles take a while, long enough for new features and exciting stuff to roll out :)
I've done the same thing. Windows for years and then went to Linux for years. Now currently on Windows again :)
I've done the same thing. Windows for years and then went to Linux for years. Now currently on Windows again :)
Certain electron applications (discord, slack) seem to run much
better in Windows, and I can't be sure why.
Are you using a distro package, appimage, flatpak or snap?
Are you using a distro package, appimage, flatpak or snap?
I'm using arch aur packages, typically. Alternatively there are some direct packages from the official repos but most of these things wind up being in
https://i.imgur.com/wvtIQTx.png
https://i.imgur.com/wvtIQTx.png
Ha. For what it's worth, there are install scripts nowadays that simplify the whole process.
i think i had repo problems. but that was years ago
Are you using a distro package, appimage, flatpak or snap?
I'm using arch aur packages, typically. Alternatively there are some
direct packages from the official repos but most of these things wind
up being in
https://i.imgur.com/wvtIQTx.png
I'm convinced that if you find a vegan who does crossfit and runs arch, you could turn them into some kind of perpetual motion machine just based on the fact they would never, ever shut the fuck up.
DaiTengu
MRO wrote to DaiTengu <=-
I'm convinced that if you find a vegan who does crossfit and runs arch, you could turn them into some kind of perpetual motion machine just based on the fact they would never, ever shut the fuck up.
oh yeah, that is true.
whats funny is my boss used to be a big athlete, a really good
runner (until it destroyed his body). he went to florida to hang
out with distributers and what they did for fun was crossfit.
they pretty much kicked his ass and whats even more funny is when
they visited us, i told them.
I think cross fit is dangerous for some people and can cause
injuries. If you're in your 40s, I don't think it's a good idea
to push yourself hard doing it.
Are you using a distro package, appimage, flatpak or snap?
I'm using arch aur packages, typically. Alternatively there are some
direct packages from the official repos but most of these things wind
up being in user repos.
I think cross fit is dangerous for some people and can cause injuries.
If you're in your 40s, I don't think it's a good idea to push yourself
hard doing it.
Might want to try out of flathub, if it's a limited exposure app anyway (chat apps usually are)... they tend to be ahead of the distro repositories more often than not, though I know AUR tends to be bleeding edge more often than not.
It's hard to tell sometimes as I'm relatively spoiled by my hardware,
but I haven't really noticed any specific issues to the apps you mentioned before (discord, slack) ... I know that some apps don't get packaged in an optimal way.
I have VS Code and Tabby installed directly, but most other electron
apps I use are via flathub (preferred) or appimage (from the github repo). I know the Firefox snap was particularly bad in terms of packaging and startup time.
Wouldn't mind seeing something slightly more streamlined than electron gain popularity... I know there's been a few different options that will try to embed from whatever the main installed browser in the OS is, and in general really like the option to use JS + Browser tech for UI, which is more easily flexible than a lot of UI frameworks in general.
Might want to try out of flathub, if it's a limited exposure app
anyway (chat apps usually are)... they tend to be ahead of the
distro repositories more often than not, though I know AUR tends
to be bleeding edge more often than not.
I'm kind of reluctant to have multiple package managers...as much
as I can just rely on the AUR the better. But you may have a point.
It's hard to tell sometimes as I'm relatively spoiled by my
hardware, but I haven't really noticed any specific issues to the
apps you mentioned before (discord, slack) ... I know that some
apps don't get packaged in an optimal way.
Yeah, I'm using a laptop with an Intel GPU and it struggles with
games, but my web browser activity is snappy due to how I've got
my browser tuned. Standalone electron applications for some reason
run like shit for me. Oh well.
Wouldn't mind seeing something slightly more streamlined than electron
gain popularity... I know there's been a few different options that will
try to embed from whatever the main installed browser in the OS is, and
in general really like the option to use JS + Browser tech for UI, which
is more easily flexible than a lot of UI frameworks in general.
Yeah, electron was clearly needed for a period of time but now I think
it's overused and underoptimized.
Pretty much agreed... would be interresting if bun comes up with a gui target option, I think it's just server-side apps currently. I know there's lighter browser embedded target options with node, deno, as well as other toolkits that will use the OS's browser.
I know Flutter is seeing a lot of enthusiasm at this point... I was really hoping to see Microsoft give MAUI a good, supported Linux target, but they don't seem to be at all interested, and community efforts may
or may not make it.
May use webview_deno next time I'm considering something like electron though. Or possibly using a rust shim around webview with deno from source for a singular app output.
May use webview_deno next time I'm considering something like
electron though. Or possibly using a rust shim around webview
with deno from source for a singular app output.
It's funny, I really dig node, and naturally that means I'm curious
about deno, but part of me worries about certain things failing to
catch on in a big enough way. It's almost like I'm reluctant to
invest the time in trying to learn something until it's ... basically mainstream.
I get it... I don't think Deno is going anywhere though... it was made with a lot of the hindsight from Node, and avoiding a lot of the issues.
I like it even more than node for shell scripting at this point, mostly because I don't need to setup a package.json etc for dependencies. Down side is the ecosystem isn't as rich as node, and npm/node compatibility is being actively worked on... which I have mixed feelings about.
There's some other niceties with Deno that you don't get with node...
and the hosting model is similar to what Cloudflare is doing, but with more optimization options.
I get it... I don't think Deno is going anywhere though... it
was made with a lot of the hindsight from Node, and avoiding a
lot of the issues.
Indeed, and I trust Ryan Dahl. I'm pretty uninitiated, though -
is it strongly typed?
I like it even more than node for shell scripting at this
point, mostly because I don't need to setup a package.json
etc for dependencies. Down side is the ecosystem isn't as
rich as node, and npm/node compatibility is being actively
worked on... which I have mixed feelings about.
Interesting. I've written some CLI tools in node (most notably
an RLogin client) and maybe I should give a whirl porting them
to deno, just for the sake of learning it.
The package.json is a decent enough concept IMO, especially when
an application installs its own dependencies "locally" to the
directory of the main application, and I find dependency hell
isn't really a thing like other platforms (ahem, python, ahem).
There's some other niceties with Deno that you don't get with
node... and the hosting model is similar to what Cloudflare is
doing, but with more optimization options.
Interesting. I am pretty ignorant to all of this. What's
cloudflare doing?
You can use .js(x) files if you want, or you can reference .ts(x) it's pretty ttansparent with deno.
If you use VS Code, and have the Deno extension installed, it should detect if you have a deps.ts in your root, or you can change the ./.vscode/settings.json file to enable the deno extension, which makes
it easier to deal with.
It's a bit different than node... on the plus side, there's a relatively flushed out FFI interface, and the rust extensions are also relatively straight forward to build (distribute slightly more complex).
The socket interfaces are going to be very similar to Node... they seem to be aligning on the newer api for them.
Yeah, it just gets to be a pain to manage when you're trying to write a one-off utility script... I tend to write with a shebang at the top and go from there..
It's a bit different than node... on the plus side, there's
a relativelyflushed out FFI interface, and the rust extensions
are also relatively straight forward to build (distribute
slightly more complex).
Sounding even better here. Very cool.
Cool. So far in my experience socket related programming in Node is
simple, so this is a positive.
Yeah, it just gets to be a pain to manage when you're trying to
write a one-off utility script... I tend to write with a shebang
at the top and go from there..
Ha. Nice. Yeah...the node dependency hell is a real thing I suppose.
I take it for granted that things will get worked out in the
node_modules construct.
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