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nullify88··on Steam Brick: No screen, no controller, just a power button and a USB port
At a minimum anything with h264 hardware decoding. H265, and VC1 hardware decoding supported but optional. It depends on what your output is. Networking wise, cabled is the best latency and bandwidth wise but wireless also works but can be unpredictable depending on usage and environment.
nullify88··on ZType – Typing Game
One of the features of this game is that you can provide a word list of your own. So you can probably generate a list of words above a certain length which will gradually get harder as more targets appear on screen.
nullify88··on ZType – Typing Game
You can press backspace to unlock from the target you are locked to.
nullify88··on ZType – Typing Game
I tend to play this at work when I need some downtime. If you want other suggestions, give Typing of the Dead a go.
nullify88··on New 16GB Raspberry Pi 5 on sale now at $120
If you were to build it yourself, you can find passively cooled N100 Mini ITX motherboards (I own an Asus N100 Prime) which you can fit with a pico ATX PSU or HDPlex PSU. Pair with a SFF case, you could get it around the size of a mac mini without the brick. Maybe something like a skyreach case.
nullify88··on How to monitor your local weather with Grafana
Perhaps you can have a go with jsonnet. https://github.com/grafana/grafonnet it's not perfect but I believe there's some progress towards dashboards as code.
nullify88··on How to monitor your local weather with Grafana
Very happy to see Grafana adopt this plugin to continue it's development among all the various other data sources grafana can plugin in to. I'm happy to bring Grafana and it's stack to the work place and developers are very happy using it with their OpenTelemetry integrations. Their only complaint is that some of the settings for panels can be difficult to find.

My own wish is that I hope something like this https://github.com/knightss27/grafana-network-weathermap is adopted too. I know it maybe possible using Canvas but Canvas is too much of a blank slate and needs a lot of work to set it up the same way.

nullify88··on Sipeed NanoKVM-PCIe
I run this in a 1u rack. Rather than mess with a pcie riser, you can power the kvm via an internal USB header from the motherboard to the kvm USB header directly for both power and HID.
nullify88··on Are Immutable Linux Distros right for you?
Configuration as code has come as long way too along with these immutable OSs. For example I do not miss messing with preseed or kickstart files (I preferred working with kickstart files). Ignition / butane I find is much easier to work with and is a core part of configuring the OS.
nullify88··on Uv, a fast Python package and project manager
Unfortunately the implementation in HA also broke a lot of addons from HACS for many people running HA in a container.
nullify88··on Kubernetes on Hetzner: cutting my infra bill by 75%
I believe the Cilium CNI has this functionality built in. Other CNIs may do also.
nullify88··on Nginx has moved to GitHub
Alternatively the official site is vscode.dev.
nullify88··on Elasticsearch is open source, again
Since Elasticsearch changed their license, Loki has also appeared as a competitor and the Grafana machine have released a suite of tools that cover the observability categories. It may also be that the license change encouraged users to look for alternatives and there are more now than just being graylog and Elasticsearch.

Clickhouse has proven to also be a very capable database for logs and there are stacks that use it for log storage.

nullify88··on A dishwasher can make or break a restaurant (2017)
Given the history of how we consume stuff like forever chemicals, BPA, roundup pesticides, carcinogenic makeup, and the negligence involved in the Ohio chemical spill and perhaps Boeing, you are very trusting.

It's evident that some of those trusting people are willing to make or save a buck while putting you at risk.

At the end of it, people should probably make their own assessment as to whether they should put themselves at risk. And I don't mind drying a handful of dishes if the alternative is to lace them all with surfactant.

nullify88··on A dishwasher can make or break a restaurant (2017)
I'm quite surprised the majority of people are fine with drinking that stuff. Not just because it noticeably changes the taste of beverages but because it's covered in chemicals and people are fine with it mixing together with their beverage.

Our rinse aid is disabled on our dishwasher.

nullify88··on SurrealEngine: Open-source reimplementation of Unreal Engine with playable UT99
Oh good times om Tactical Ops. I did enjoy Verdon a lot.
nullify88··on Ask HN: What do you monitor on your servers?
Just to expand upon some experiences with some of the listed software.

The architecture is quite different between Thanos and the others you've listed as unlike the others, Thanos queries fan out to remote Prometheus instances for hot data and then ship out data (typically older than 2 hours) via a sidecar to s3 storage. As the routing of the query depends on setting Prometheus external labels, our developer queries would often fan out unnecessarily to multiple prometheus instances. This is because our developers often search for metrics via a service name or some service related label rather than use an external label which describes the location of the workload which is used by Thanos.

Upon identifying this, I migrated to Mimir and we saw immediate drops in query response times for developer queries which now don't have to wait for the slowest promethues instances before displaying the data.

We've also since adopted OpenTelemetry in our workloads and directly ingest otlp in to Mimir (Which VictoriaMetrics also support).

nullify88··on Ask HN: What's your preferred logging stack in Kubernetes
There are many ways to get Elastic wrong, index templates and field types, shard sizes, number of primary and replica shards, node heap size, and those are only a fraction. It's very easy to get Loki right in comparison.
nullify88··on Ask HN: What's your preferred logging stack in Kubernetes
I'm currently migrating from Elasticsearch to Loki, and it's much simpler to run and still meet our requirements.

I think Elasticsearch had its day when it's used to derive metrics from logs and performing aggregate searches. But now as logging is often paired with metrics from Prometheus or similar tdb, we don't run such complex log queries anymore, and so we find ourselves questioning whether it's worth running such a intensive and complex Elasticsearch installation.

nullify88··on The CrowdStrike file that broke everything was full of null characters?
They bought out Humio in Aarhus, Denmark. Now Falcon Logscale.
nullify88··on CrowdStrike Update: Windows Bluescreen and Boot Loops
The sheer coverage of this outage across multiple businesses and industries, the impact must be greater than some of the malicious cyber attacks from ransomware, worms etc.
nullify88··on Linksys Velop routers send Wi-Fi passwords in plaintext to US servers
I thought WPS would have been the solution to the inconvenience of wifi passwords. If I were an ISP receiving too many support cases relating to the wifi password, perhaps WPS should be used more?
nullify88··on NexDock turns your smartphone into a laptop
I still wish Samsung hadn't killed Linux on Dex.
nullify88··on The Raspberry Pi 5 Is No Match for a Tini-Mini-Micro PC
Powertop is a great utility for identifying wakeups and CPU C states, but for tweaking power management flags in Linux, I find TLP (https://linrunner.de/tlp/index.html) to achieve greater power savings at the "cost" of more configuration.
nullify88··on Show HN: Open-source GeForce NOW alternative with Stadia's social features
I'm not sure you would use h265 for "better latency" as the encoding overhead is greater than that compared to h264. Sure, h265 requires less bandwidth but it also is a slower encoder. AV1 is supposedly a fast encoder but hardware to encode it is limited to the recent generation.

Capture method can have a big effect on latency and technologies like the Desktop Duplication API or NV FBC are also necessary for achieving lower latencies by minimising data transfer between cpu and the gpu when capturing and encoding.

nullify88··on Project Gameface launches on Android
But it does seem like there was an opportunity to collaborate?
nullify88··on Raspberry Pi Ltd is considering an IPO
Arm listing in the US was apparently quite a blow to the London Stock Exchange. What kind of decisions drive a company to choose one exchange over another?
nullify88··on DOS game “F-15 Strike Eagle II” reverse engineering/reconstruction war stories
F22 Intercepter over here on the genesis. I recall the game over scene being a image of a skull on a ekg machine flat lining. Used to scare the crap out of me as a kid. Went on to play a lot of F22 Lighting 2 / 3 by Novalogic. Then Delta Force Land Warrior.
nullify88··on Take a look at Traefik, even if you don't use containers
For the purposes of some of my self hosted stuff, I wanted to see how far I could go without VPN and instead use mutual tls authentication with my stuff exposed to the internet. Client certs are issued by cert manager in my k8s cluster and traefik does my TLS Auth.
nullify88··on When do we stop finding new music?
I haven't used last.fm for a long time and it seems like a shadow of its former self, pre acquisition. I've discovered so much music on there, and I'm getting really disappointed by spotifys repetitiveness. Is last.fm still good to discover new music or is it just harvesting scrobbles?
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