Do you have sources on the “burn out” phenomenon?

As far as I’m aware there’s stress buildup from thermal cycles and overheating - but now burn out from keeping the hardware at, let’s say 95C.

It even has integrated graphics - so throw out that GPU, I have my server with a 6700k pull less than 20W at idle!

Good looking UI (designs) and good UX is not the same!

Apple is known for doing both relatively good (especially on the first iphone).

However personally I still dislike the Apple UI (the macos dock eats too much screen space, ios close all where?, ios back gesture,… for example) and UX (the system actively tries to prevent me from doing certain things). I mean, in the end, there often are keybindings that do the job, but those are harder to learn the the emacs keybindings imo.

To be honest, I switched to Wayland years ago precisely because of the better perceived input/cursor experience.

Change my mind, but having an average of half a frame input latency is much preferred when in return I gain that the cursor position on the screen actually aligns with all the other content displayed.

Plus, I’m very sensitive to tearing, so whenever it happens I get the impression that there was a huge rendering error.

Well and on the note that the cursor might visibly stutter, sure. But it’s a bit misleading. A game pinning the GPU to 100 % and running on 5 FPS doesn’t mean that your cursor will be rendered with 5 FPS. So far I’ve only noticed cursor lag/stutters in OOM situations, but neither under heavy GPU or CPU load.

I’m curious, how do you run the 4x3090s? The FE Cards would be 4x3=12 PCIe slots and 4x16=64 PCIe lanes… Did you nvlink them? What about transient power spikes? Any clock or even VBIOS mods?

I’m also on p2p 2x3090 with 48GB of VRAM. Honestly it’s a nice experience, but still somewhat limiting…

I’m currently running deepseek-r1-distill-llama-70b-awq with the aphrodite engine. Though the same applies for llama-3.3-70b. It works great and is way faster than ollama for example. But my max context is around 22k tokens. More VRAM would allow me more context, even more VRAM would allow for speculative decoding, cuda graphs, …

Maybe I’ll drop down to a 35b model to get more context and a bit of speed. But I don’t really want to justify the possible decrease in answer quality.

I’m running such a setup!

This is my nixos config, though feel free to ignore it, since it’s optmized for me and not others.

How did I achieve your described setup?

• nixos + flakes & colmena: Sync system config & updates
• impermanence through btrfs snapshots: destroy all non-declarative state between reboots to avoid drift between systems
• syncthing: synchronise ALL user files between systems (at least my server is always online to reduce sync inconsistencies from only having a single device active at the time)
• rustic: hourly backups from all devices to the same repos, since this is deduplicated and my systems are mostly synchronised, I have a very clear record of my file histories

The added info from pv is also nice ^^

To personalize your setup, is to deviate from the default config to better match your preferences - whatever those may be, however over the top those may be.

That doesn’t imply any optimization, unless it’s what you personally prefer.

I have yet to see a personalized setup with blurred window borders xD

Can’t people refer to it as their personalized setups? Or is that too hard to write?

You can already do so incredibly much by hooking up a few extra LSPs and keybinds (calling external scripts/programs)!

What I’m personally still missing though:

• Code Folding
• More refined subprocess handling, i.e. term-buffer switching or floating term (when excuting gitui via keybind for example)
• Emacs Org-Mode like context aware styling, for i.e. Bold or Italic text hints from LSP
  • Font changes (restricted through terminal)
  • Different Font/Line sizes for i.e. headings (restricted through terminal)
  • Inline images (sixel!)
• Dedicated optional client, a-la Neovide with cursor animations (helps orientation with jumps etc.), and to alleviate the previous terminal restrictions

I came to the conclusion that a fuzzy finder (SPC-f) + goto definition (g-d)/implementation (g-i) is better than a filetree in all my usecases…

I wanted to try to use this with yazi, to get the file picker without having to rely on zellij (or any other terminal multiplexer)…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9_z_gynvmM

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It’s affected by the write-hole phenomenon. In BTRFS case that can mean that perfectly good old data might corrupt without any notice.

~/Documents/projects/<YYYY>-<MM>-<DD>_<name>

Fascinating idea!

I’m using rustic, a lock-free rust-written drop-in-replacement of restic, which (I’m referring to restic and therefore in extension to rustic) supports always-encrypted, deduplicating, compressed and easy backups without you needing to worry about whether to do a full- or incremental-backup.

All my machines run hourly backups of all mounted partitions to an append-only repo at borgbase. I have a file with ignore pattern globs to skip unwanted files and dirs (i.e.: **/.cache).

While I think borgbase is ok, ther’re just using hetzner storage boxes in the background, which are cheaper if you use them directly. I’m thinking of migrating my backups to a handfull of homelabs from trusted friends and family instead.

The backups have a randomized delay of 5m and typically take about 8-9s each (unless big new files need to be uploaded). They are triggered by persistent systemd-timers.

The backups have been running across my laptop, pc and server for about 6 months now and I’m at ~380 GiB storage usage total.

I’ve mounted backup snapshots on multiple occasions already to either get an old version of a file, or restore it entirely.

There is a tool called redu which is like ncdu but works on restic/rustic repos. This makes it easy to identify which files blow up your backup size.

That woul’ve been: Minetest Immortal