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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