Un-selfhosty Musk-y AI bullslop, reported

Heh, tell me about it. knocks on wood

Nice username btw. :)

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Sure. The following are the bits that I’m pretty sure are universal. The rest – mostly configuring my audio interface – is IMO fairly specific to my system and can be found in my dotfiles.

• Limits for Pipewire:

  # /etc/security/limits.d/25-pw-rlimits.conf
  @pipewire   - rtprio  95
  @pipewire   - nice    -19
  @pipewire   - memlock 4194304
  

• Add the realtime group and grant it access to /dev/cpu_dma_latency so Ardour can prevent the system from going into idle:

  # /etc/udev/rules.d/40-realtime-privileges.rules
  KERNEL=="cpu_dma_latency", GROUP="realtime"
  

• Add threadirqs and preempt=full to the kernel commandline
• Disable VM swap readahead since Kinoite uses ZRAM anyways:

  # /etc/sysctl.d/50-audio.conf
  vm.page-cluster = 0
  

• Set IO scheduler to None for SSDs and NVMe:

  # /etc/udev/rules.d/60-block-scheduler.rules
  ACTION=="add|change", SUBSYSTEM=="block", ATTR{queue/rotational}=="0", KERNEL=="nvme?n?", ATTR{queue/scheduler}="none"
  ACTION=="add|change", SUBSYSTEM=="block", ATTR{queue/rotational}=="0", KERNEL=="sd?", ATTR{queue/scheduler}="none"
  

I’m not using a preempt kernel or anything like that; I’ve only gotten into audio when Pipewire had already hit the scene and I’ve found it to be good enough with these settings.

Right, if you insist: Fedora Kinoite, Thinkpad X1 Carbon 4th Gen, some sysctl tweaks for low-latency audio.

Yesterday I realized my password database (which I sync between computers/phones via Syncthing) was broken, because I had failed to regularly manage upgrades for my Syncthing container, and Syncthing had recently released a v2.0. My monitoring was insufficient and so I hadn’t noticed the Syncthing container on my laptop hadn’t been running since ~September. When I got Syncthing running again, I had already made changes to my password database on all three synced devices, so Syncthing generated a number of password.sync-conflict-<date>-<time>.kdbx files. Normally that’s not a big deal because my password manager has the ability to merge two password databases together, but this time around 400 entries showed issues when merging.

So, armed with a big ol’ mug of mulled wine, I bit the bullet and started checking entries manually. After a trip to the KeePassXC bug tracker and the merger code, it turned out that the entries only differred in a few seconds in the _LAST_MODIFIED attribute, which can happen when my laptop is a) on battery, which causes the system clock to go a little off when the voltage drops and b) disconnected from the internet so the NTP client doesn’t have a change to sync time. Both happened a lot during the months the time my password database had failed to sync – we had gone to Paris (lovely place, can wholly recommend a visit) and my GF’s daughter is in the habit of watching shows on the computer without plugging in the power.

So I shrugged, merged anyway, ignored the error messages, deleted the sync-conflict files, and called it a day. Maybe the wine played a role in that decision, maybe not.

Thank you for coming to my TED‌ talk.

Linux. I’m bringing it on myself, though

I’m in IT. My personal laptop is perennially broken because I. cannot. stop. tinkering.

• em dashes
• “delve”
• “Key takeaways” instead of “Conclusion”

Ohhh, I see. Thanks for enlightening me :)

What’s ratioing? Is that ratio-ing? Way too many vowels for my heat-addled brain

I, cannot disguise,
all the stomach pains
and the walking of the cranes
when you, do come out
and you whisper up to me
in your life of tragedy
But I cannot grow
till you eat the last of me
oh when will I be free
and you, a parasite
just find another host
just another fool to roast
cause you
my tapeworm tells me what to do
you
my tapeworm tells me where to go
Pull the tapeworm out of your ass, HEY
Pull the tapeworm out of your ass, HEY
Pull the tapeworm out of your ass, HEY
Pull the tapeworm out of your ass, HEY

Right. As we all know, ed is the standard text editor.

Depends. How many VMs do you have?

I sometimes like to pride myself on my ability to take a different viewpoint, but today it’s absolutely failing me, lol. I really thought this was a movie everyone could at least enjoy.

I guess it hit every nail on the head. That’s all it hit, actually.

That’s a fascinating statement. Could you elaborate a bit?

Yeah, Ardour with some MIDI transport controls for me so I can change playback speed, toggle metronome, and seek with one of these.

I understand that must appear like I’m shooting at gnats with nukes, but you set everything up once and then just drag the file into your project.

I like Ardour.

I may be biased, as an RPG nerd, but man, they hit all the notes so damn well. That was such a good movie.

The FPS sequence made me go

None actually, it’s good enough on the browser I think. Which is definitely not something I can say about Reddit these days. (I still use it through a browser, and without an account, but it’s a major PITA.)

That’s an intrinsic property of new online communities people flock to over time; look up Eternal September where it originally happened to Usenet.

I may not believe in God, but I can definitely respect the man. ✊