This looks super useful! Would be interesting to see this as a systemd service built into NixOS, so my gaming machine could always have this running without any manual steps.
jlh
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Pretty interesting tech. Here in Sweden I believe the majority of (sorted) plastic waste goes into incinerators which generate heat for district heating for homes and businesses.
We do have bottle deposits in Sweden too though which means that 85% of clear drink bottles sold are generally able to be shredded into >96% pure PET and resold to bottle factories. (though green PET bottles, HDPE bottle caps, and polyester labels are not yet recyclable). Unfortunately bottle return rates are on a downward trend, I suspect this is due to the fact that deposits haven't increased with inflation and are still sitting at around 0.1-0.2€. These deposits will probably have to be increased to 0.2-0.4€ per bottle to prevent Sweden's plastic waste from increasing more, but considering that the current conservative government in Sweden just eliminated taxes on plastic bags, I don't see it happening any time soon. Conservative voters are too quick to complain when they have to share the cost of their plastic waste.
Plastic recycling is literally a scam. It doesn't exist, but companies will sell it anyways.
If you're not depositing PET bottles at the supermarket, the best case scenario for single-use plastic is that it gets burned for electricity like the rest of the 11 million tons of oil we burn every year.
If you're not using something like synology, it isn't really an issue to run applications and nas on the same machine. I would generally recommend separating them so you have more options in the future if you want to run muliple servers for HA or expansion, but it should be fine either way. It is worth noting that quad core N100 computers are like $150 on aliexpress if you want a cheap application server(s).
KDE has some advantages when it comes to VRR and HDR, but those features will probably make their way to Gnome and XFCE eventually too.
Generally it's simpler if you have your NAS separate from your application server. Synology runs NAS really well, but a separate application server for docker/etc is a lot easier to use and easier to upgrade than running on Synology. Your application server can even have a GPU for media transcoding or AI processing. Trying to do everything on one box makes things more complicated and fragile.
I would recommend something like Debian or NixOS for the application server, and you should be able to manage it over SSH. You can then mount your NAS as an NFS share, and then run all your applications in Docker or NixOS, using the NAS to store all your state.
Haven't tried it myself, but it looks interesting. I figure that GNOME and KDE are probably more comfortable than XFCE for general users and gamers, respectively.
I specifically pointed out Debian instead of Fedora because of my discomfort with what happened to CentOS, even though Fedora comes with more out-of-the-box for desktop-users/gamers.
Linux has already switched to systemd, whether you like it or not. 99.9% of new users will only ever learn systemd, if they even learn what an init system is at all.
Debian switched to systemd in 2013, and IBM was not involved with systemd before 2019. Poettering works for Microsoft, not IBM.
The changes to init were necessary. The init scripts were legacy bloat, even in 2013. Furthermore, the work from the systemd project on creating separate daemons for other parts of the OS have brought a lot of new features and innovation to Linux.
Yeah, that's true. It's hopefully less costly to stabilize just the vulnerable parts of the surfliner than the entire west coast. I don't think it's possible to upgrade the speed on the surfliner much, given the geotechnical situation it's in, and I believe that this is also one of the main reasons CAHSR is being built inland.
But yeah, I have seen some really irresponsible houses on the california coast, like houses built on the outside of seawalls, actively crumbling away.
Seems like a neat technology. Would be interesting to see how they use it at scale.
They should probably still stop building houses on the coastline, though.
Why only 4 years? The fairphone 5 is water resistant and has a replacable battery. The Samsung Galaxy S5 was fully waterproof and had a replacable battery.