chrome uses a lot of resources to do little to no work
#🔌│tech
reef tundra
proud nacelle
Mhm
reef tundra
Every tab gets its own pool of resources (in chrome)
proud nacelle
Pidgin only uses 81m virt, 37.4m res and 27.6m shr
Not to mention every multiple tabs.
Wow I phrased that terribly
What I meant is there's a bunch of processes.
Infact I only use ungoogled-chromium on Windows (in a vm) for the voice chat ability. Otherwise, palemoon or netsurf all the way possible.
reef tundra
That is less than the client would need
proud nacelle
Sad state of the world we live in.
reef tundra
for me the official client needs 4.7% of my memory while the alternative takes only 0.7% While rarely reporting 0.1% core use. (official periodic peak around 1,5% with 0.7 % base core util)
lol
proud nacelle
Yep.
Not to mention the fucking official client has sound issues and desktop sharing issues too since the longest amount of time.
Also pulseaudio being forced.
reef tundra
also it only has 1 process count instead of 9
oh yea
this one can use alsa directly
proud nacelle
Which one are you using?
reef tundra
eyy, no more stutter when pulseaudio has been started after discord while discord just dies finding a ghost pulseaudio
also why doesnt it check that beforehand?
firefox does it
currently using ripcord
proud nacelle
Oh? I thought firefox dropped alsa, did they revert that?
reef tundra
not firefox, the client
proud nacelle
Oh woops.
proud nacelle
I remember seeing ripcord actually.
proud nacelle
apulse to the rescue.
reef tundra
just annoying sometimes
as pulseaudio could be set incorrectly in either on but better check both
alsamixer and pulsemixer
also microsoft teams is the worst piece of incompatible software if encountered yet
proud nacelle
holy shit yes
reef tundra
it is skype
proud nacelle
I can't even run it in like 5 different browsers
Not to mention even the fucking desktop app fails
The only fucking thing that worked was the shitty mobile app
Which I removed afterwards
reef tundra
and everything works in alsa, pulse but NOT IN ITSELF. JUST SEND THE DATA YOU GET DONT ADD NOISE TO IT
proud nacelle
Biggest piece of garbage I've seen yet.
proud nacelle
Long live text chat
reef tundra
Also can it adhere to the modern filefolder structure?
reef tundra
at least it some standard
proud nacelle
Yeah but no one respects it
reef tundra
mpv seems to respect the standard somewhat
proud nacelle
were
reef tundra
or it is aur fixing it already
proud nacelle
afaik the mpv dev flipped out and stopped adhering to it
reef tundra
Dont know about that, cant be bothered to find out. It works and that makes me happy enough
XDG should remove the capital letters in the pathing
proud nacelle
XDG shouldn't even need to exist IMO
There should be documentation instead of where people are supposed to store things.
If a user wants .config moved, they don't need to move XDG_config or whatever, they can just symlink the folder.
As for programs which refuse to follow symlinks, what the fuck is wrong with them?
reef tundra
ehhh you update the export path?
plush summit
Mage I need your help
reef tundra
XDG uses the environment variables to define the paths and some people cant handle having symlinks
file in home = bad (according to their logic)
eh, in the end user defines how it functions
proud nacelle
was afk, r00d, what u need?
no idea if this works but gonna try pinging @365619937122844672
Can anyone tell me if that converted to a ping or not, I can't see it
actually after further looking I think it's supposed to be something along the lines of @plush summit
Huzzah it works
proud nacelle
Hi yeah sorry I didn't respond before
plush summit
if you will listem to me
proud nacelle
Go ahead
plush summit
i cant tell if you just dont care or genuinely go out of your way to avoid me given our past
anywho
proud nacelle
I was afk mate
plush summit
i want to use btrfs snapshots
thats fine
just i dont see you active often
when when i do ping you dont respond (guessing your are busy or hate me)
ANYWAY
i want to create subvolumes for my root and home
proud nacelle
sounds simple enough
plush summit
btrfs subvolume create /mnt/@
btrfs subvolume create /mnt/@home
however
i want the home subvolume to be on another disk
and then i want to mount that subvolume where home is to the root
so i dont take up space of my root partition with my home folder
how do i do this
here is what i tried so far
mount $RootPart /mnt
btrfs subvolume create /mnt/@
umount $RootPart
mount $HomePart /mnt
btrfs subvolume create /mnt/@home
umount $HomePart
mount -o compress=lzo,subvol=@,noatime $RootPart /mnt
mkdir -p /mnt/home
mount -o compress=lzo,subvol=@home,noatime $HomePart /mnt/home
mkdir -p /mnt/boot/efi
mount $BootPart /mnt/boot/efi```But the way I would do it if I wasn't using it, would be something along these lines
plush summit
because i am stuck
proud nacelle
I would create a partition on both disks for brtfs, then mount /dev/disk2 to /home/
At least that's with regular ext2/3/4
I'll look for a solution meanwhile however.
Oh wait
Why are you mounting it at /mnt?
If you want it to be in /mnt still, just use mount --rbind to mount it to /home
Even regular bind should be fine.
proud nacelle
Let me reread to be sure
Ok so you have two disks with two brtfs partitions total right?
reef tundra
does $RootPart have the full absolute path?
plush summit
YES
proud nacelle
Ok.
So you just want to mount your @home or whatever at /home/user/ right?
Since you already mounted it at /mnt/home, at least that's what I can see from the above
plush summit
yes
proud nacelle
Ok you want to use mount bind then.
plush summit
it says there is no valic mount point for /mnt/home
plush summit
do i need to mount and create a directory in the second disk?
even then im not sure how to do that
reef tundra
Also you need root user
plush summit
this is different from mounting with ext4
not a problem
i am doing this durign install
i am automaticaly root durign install
reef tundra
and you chroot into the install later?
proud nacelle
Nono not that.
I searched some of the stuff you posted and found something that might be what you're looking for?
Unless that is what you are using and are redesigning it for yourself
plush summit
i looked long and hard
proud nacelle
Scroll down a bit, there is some brtfs and @home stuff
Not sure if it will be of any use to you however.
plush summit
I DONT thing this is what i want
proud nacelle
Right but ignoring that, what about the mount stuff?
Can you take any knowledge from there?
Because otherwise I'm all out of ideas. I don't use brtfs at all.
proud nacelle
You can't directly mount a thing into another thing
proud nacelle
That literally sounds like mount bind. Unless I really don't understand
You can't mount it to the root however
No way possible.
Since the root is the base of the disk, you either unmount the disk or do not mount the subfolder you are talking about.
plush summit
mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda3
mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda4
mount /dev/sda3 /mnt
mkdir -p /boot/efi
mkdir /mnt/home
mount /dev/sda4 /mnt/home
Which are neither what you want.
proud nacelle
what
plush summit
the fresh slate is having 2 disks /dev/sda3 and /dev/sdb1 formated with btrfs
ive been testing this in a virtual machine before i deploy it on my hardware
proud nacelle
Ok...
What is the 2nd disk
As in, why does it have a folder in it?
If it's gonna be the user, why not just keep it simple and just make the root dir of the 2nd disk as the user?
plush summit
BECAUSE I WAnt to be able to make use of btrfs snapshots
the data needs to be under a subvolume
and preferably, i would like this sdisk with this subvolume to contain my home folder
proud nacelle
Actually, wouldn't
mount -o compress=lzo,subvol=@home,noatime $HomePart /mnt/home
be
mount -o compress=lzo,subvol=@/home (mailto:subvol=@home),noatime $HomePart /mnt/home
Because subvol @ is the root, right?
Or well, the root of that brtfs thing.
plush summit
mailto?
proud nacelle
but @home is whatever
oh shit
did it replace it with mailto?
lmao
hold up
mount -o compress=lzo,subvol=@home,noatime $HomePart /mnt/home
is what you tried right?
oh for fuck sakes
right let me just do this instead then
mount -o compress=lzo,subvol=!home,noatime $HomePart /mnt/home
where ! is @
The correct thing would be
mount -o compress=lzo,subvol=!/home,noatime $HomePart /mnt/home
no?
plush summit
i dont know
proud nacelle
Try it
plush summit
i was hoping you would know
proud nacelle
Because !home isn't root, it's some random garbage at least going from the documentation
plush summit
@ is root
plush summit
i thought @home would be a subdir under @proud nacelle
proud nacelle
It's not valid
proud nacelle
do @/home
plush summit
sorry for the ping
plush summit
well
proud nacelle
can't hurt
proud nacelle
what
plush summit
i looked at that solution
proud nacelle
how the fuck
plush summit
iit didnt work for me
plush summit
¯_(ツ)_/¯
proud nacelle
ffs tomorrow i'm gonna fucking try installing btrfs
and doing what you are trying to do
and as a parting gift
proud nacelle
plush summit
and parted
proud nacelle
I'll play with btrfs tmrw and see if I can resolve the issue
No
Well leaving as in going to bed?
Like
proud nacelle
plush summit
i thought you were leaving wooting
proud nacelle
Haha no
plush summit
never to be seen again
proud nacelle
Yeah bout that
Even if I wanted to
People like @pale sigil wouldn't let me.
Fuck sake
proud nacelle
Why can't I get anything right tonight
plush summit
you pinged them
pale sigil
I’m awake what did I miss
proud nacelle
Oh did I?
reef tundra
The language of the gods
plush summit
SCATTER!
reef tundra
look at that
plush summit
anywho
proud nacelle
On my screen I didn't
proud nacelle
gn
plush summit
sleep well
proud nacelle
I'll take a look tmrw
plush summit
thankyou
proud nacelle
You too.
plush summit
let me know what you find
pale sigil
I don’t think I woke up
reef tundra
you did to a nightmare
proud nacelle
^
reef tundra
reality is one level up
reef tundra
plush summit
||and furries, im just more cancerous than they are||
proud nacelle
Well
That's a you problem
No one is making you be like that
GIMP - Green Is My Pepper
reef tundra
reef tundra
Now you are a unwise toothless
proud nacelle
Was that intentional
plush summit
My first experience with Linux was Arch Linux
proud nacelle
*linux mint*
reef tundra
Ofcourse I always play 67d chess
plush summit
I tried to install Linux Mint on my grandmother's computer and for some reason it has a problem to wear the Wi-Fi turns on every other reboot and then doesn't work for the opposite reboot
reef tundra
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
plush summit
I'm going to the forums and nobody can figure it out
plush summit
It's as Linux as apple is UNIX
reef tundra
its like calling a nuke an solution for cold room
reef tundra
Does the abbacus count
plush summit
What is that
proud nacelle
box for tv and other shit. also modems now that i think of it
too many things run linux
reef tundra
everything began with hello world
proud nacelle
but can't seem to fucking **standardize** on distros, tools, etc.
plush summit
Windows
plush summit
The latest windows update completely broke WSL
proud nacelle
AWSL sounds better
plush summit
You tipe faster than me
reef tundra
Are you trying to give me an heart attack in %any?
reef tundra
speedrun any exploits etc
proud nacelle
lul
i couldn't speedrun worth for shit
actually
speedrun for destroying my linux install
that i can do
plush summit
XD
proud nacelle
an accidental slash here, an accidental argument there, shazam! root is gone!
get banned from club penguin
that's an actual thing
proud nacelle
how the fuck do you ban an email
plush summit
Maybe I should create a furry distribution of Linux
reef tundra
it exists
reef tundra
and i wont talk about it
proud nacelle
i fucking refuse to believe that
reef tundra
i try to forget
proud nacelle
now he's gonna go looking for it
calling it
also tfw banned for playing the game.
reef tundra
There is also a hannah montana distro
proud nacelle
That would be LFS
plush summit
What is the lfs
proud nacelle
*linux from scratch*
plush summit
Oh
I remember one of the assignments was to compile our own Linux kernel and install it
People had weird problems such as segmentation faults
4 out of 40 students got it done
proud nacelle
*[laughs in make cd /usr/src/linux && make -j9 && make install]*
reef tundra
make clean install
proud nacelle
No need to if it's already clean to begin with
And you still don't
Unless you broke something horribly
Like the bad child you are.
reef tundra
you need to clean it from the dirty .o files the make makes
proud nacelle
No you don't?
I literally never clean it mate
Never had an issue.
Issue rises when you have a broken .c file. Then you need to clean.
crimson wigeon
Yeah you're supposed to do mrproper instead of clean
reef tundra
Voooooooo mas
proud nacelle
mrproper and clean do different things too
Be careful
One of them clears .configs
Not a fun time
reef tundra
just rm -rf / to make sure you got it all
proud nacelle
nah
crimson wigeon
If you're not redoing your config every time you're doing it wrong
proud nacelle
Nono
I mean the clean/mrproper
One of them cleans the .config
Bullshit having to redo it all
I've done it multiple times like an idiot
I still don't have backups
Of any type.
reef tundra
true random number generator untill it gives a valid configs folder
proud nacelle
Actually
There is a way for it to randomly generate
But it's not for working configs
crimson wigeon
And you don't include the config in the kernel itself for easy restoration?
proud nacelle
It's for seeing if shit still compiles or not
I am aware that is a thing
But
I forget
reef tundra
Rip no piping in this kernel
reef tundra
crimson wigeon
Gunzip isn't that special
reef tundra
unzip
reef tundra
tar -FLAGSBUTWITCHWERETHEYAHHHHHHHH
proud nacelle
*this is fine*
crimson wigeon
Oh you're that minimal
proud nacelle
What's that phrase
You become the thing you were gainst
against
live long enough to see yourself become monster
urgh
can't remember
potato brain
reef tundra
reef tundra
learn to use your brain. mine is just only good for remembering boomer memes
is it a dlc?
can i unlock the rest of my brain?
proud nacelle
I genuinely hate anyone who puts anime in their video which has no relevance to anime.
reef tundra
that is not vibe check passing grade worty of you mister
this incident will be reported "this incident will be reported"
proud nacelle
Don't know if my last message got sent
But I see the issue r00d was having
ssl error or something blocked me
reef tundra
cant block me if i do my pcie bussiness over usb
reef tundra
because pcie has the root matrix
proud nacelle
*wat*
also
i fuckin figured it out
i think
you literally just need to mount the path
Before he was doing
mount -o compress=lzo,subvol=!home,noatime $HomePart /mnt/home
the correct way is literally
mount -o compress=lzo,subvol=home,noatime $HomePart /mnt/home
reef tundra
from the device to the location
proud nacelle
you can also figure out the subvolume name
by doing btrfs subvolume list ./(root of btrfs)
you just need to fill in what is given after "path"
proud nacelle
then again i might be a retard and i might have misunderstood his question
reef tundra
expectations subverted yet again
reef tundra
no you
proud nacelle
not sure if this will ping him
@r00d l0bster(sleep deprived)
let me guess
i chucked it
@plush summit
mount -o compress=lzo,subvol=home,noatime $HomePart /mnt/home
this should work
tested it before going to bed
remove @, just put the dir name
reef tundra
rm @proud nacelle
proud nacelle
chief
reef tundra
lol it autofilled you
proud nacelle
well fuck you your ship might be anti radar but it sure as hell ain't fucking anti eyes
:eyes:
reef tundra
spying is for the weak. you rush and clear site
proud nacelle
can't rush if we're retreating
reef tundra
Then hold site to take site then move up
proud nacelle
how about
this discussion is making no sensical fucking sense
and that i am tired
reef tundra
hmmm yes but could it
proud nacelle
well no
seriously though
goodnight
no clue if i even pinged him right since my shit is wack
reef tundra
go sleep
reef tundra
sleep you must
crimson wigeon
Network effect 😦
vagrant marsh
Mastodon?
@ashen spindle the cooler moved during transport!
Thats what thry mailed back lol
solar hinge
@vagrant marsh cooler?
vagrant marsh
Yea. That it moved during transport
I call bullcrap. There is no residual thermal paste on the exposed part
old marlin
someone ever heard of salt networking hardware?
vagrant marsh
Yea, made by TrollTech, right?
old marlin
idk
vagrant marsh
old marlin
yea friend moved to switzerland
and he pays 40 CHF for 10G
and got a router from them
zenith sonnet
So, in the end, for gamingnAmpere is just larger Turing chips (similar perf/watt) with better memory
halcyon moss
better price too
zenith sonnet
Or, given equal memory, will it have worse perf/watt
cursive summit
timid chasm
Looks like EVGA RMA'd my 1080 Ti with a 2080. Do they actually not have 1080 Ti's or parts or just want to move 2080 stock out?
reef patrol
Makes perfect sense for them not to have 1080TIs anymore. Honestly even 2000 series seems unlikely.
timid chasm
I figured they'd at least have parts for a repair. They've been selling b-stock 2080's and Ti's like crazy I think though
Figured. I bought a pcie usb-c card a while back for quest link and now I have a virtual link connection
Unless it doesn't work which is terrible
ashen spindle
uhhh I'm pretty sure the quest connects with a regular sub port, usually A not c
dont think they use the usb on a gpu
and it's probably cheaper for them to just send you a card they cant really get rid of anymore, instead of spending work time to fix it :p
timid chasm
that's true
old marlin
oof
halcyon moss
thats a lot of fibre
reef patrol
About 400 lines there. It's a main line cable.
ashen spindle
ohhhhhh I was so confused
reef patrol
So which one is ground?
ashen spindle
I thought thats like a bread with colored sugar crumbs on it
pale sigil
Not sure why but the first image just makes me puke
old marlin
@reef patrol all of them have a bit of ground on them 
reef patrol
halcyon moss
someone is gonna have a lot of fun splicing those together
reef patrol
I guess it kind of looks like if you chopped through a bone, Callum. A clown's bones maybe.
( Carnival music )
pale sigil
Nah that isn’t what makes me sick.
I think it’s the colours that trigger me
Along with it looking similar to ugh what’s that phobia again
reef patrol
Oh the hole thing? Tryptophobia?
pale sigil
Ye
halcyon moss
is it fibre?
pale sigil
Isn’t fibre
thick elk
considering its electrical wires, it definitely is not fiber / optical.
reef patrol
Electrical? In such small wires? Seems... odd? I figured they ran thicker ones to reduce loss of energy. This isn't in a house after all. It's a main line cable they accidentally dug up while redoing the road.
halcyon moss
telephone lines?
reef patrol
Those are... copper. And used purely for internet here. So.. 😄
halcyon moss
couldnt tell from the pixels :p
pale sigil
you can easily tell fibre
ashen spindle
honestly 20gb is a bit much, 14/16 would be more than enough and prob a bit cheaper/cooler
hell even 12 would be nice
zenith sonnet
@timid chasm Show them the Doom 4K benchmark and claim it's not equal
14/16 would be a very odd configuration
Like, 10 chips on the top and 4 or 6 on the bottom?
zenith sonnet
@ashen spindle What they also 'confirmed' is: no Ti cards, but what looks like some Super models?
ashen spindle
ok gigabyte is actually insane
they made a blower style cooler
for a 3090
I need to know how loud this will be
crimson wigeon
MMm can't wait for the jet engine memes
ashen spindle
wanna bet if it goes above or below a 290x in terms of noise?
plush summit
@proud nacelle so what do i need to do?
plush summit
mount $RootPart /mnt
btrfs subvolume create /mnt/@ #makes root subvolume
umount $RootPart
mount $HomePart /mnt
btrfs subvolume create /mnt/@home #makes home sub vol on seperate disk or partiton
umount $HomePart
what do i do now
i dont know them, callum
crimson wigeon
Now you can do something like sh mount -o subvol=@ $RootPart /mnt mkdir -p /mnt/home mount -o subvol=@home $HomePart /mnt/home
plush summit
so
mount -o compress=lzo,subvol=@,noatime $RootPart /mnt```
this is correct for mounting the rootbut when i do bash mount -o compress=lzo,subvol=@home,noatime $HomePart /mnt/home
i get an error that no such directory exists
crimson wigeon
Yes hence why I put the mkdir in there
plush summit
ok
so i have it right in my script
and then to mount boot i dobash mkdir -p /mnt/boot/efi mount $BootPart /mnt/boot/efi
how to i view the btrfs tree to see that everything is where i want it to be on both disks/partitions?
crimson wigeon
btrfs subvolume list <mountpoint> to list subvolumes, just mount to see where all your current mounts are and their options
plush summit
@proud nacelle subvol=home did not work
it threw an error
@crimson wigeon that worked
thankyou
i want to see if it ACTUALLY worked though
crimson wigeon
lsblk might not have all the details but its output shows rather clearly if different devices are being used... To see if it actually worked I dunno, yank the home disk out and see if everything breaks?
plush summit
XD
thats one way to do it i guess
or i could check to see if any data is actualy being put on the home disk
if ther e is not data
then ima have a bad day
my next problem is not being able to chroot into the new install
crimson wigeon
So what's making you unable to chroot?
plush summit
i dont know
i install all of these packages with pacstrap to /mnt
pacstrap /mnt base base-devel linux linux-firmware nano networkmanager grub efibootmgr bash-completion xorg-server xorg-apps xorg-xinit xterm xf86-video-amdgpu mesa vulkan-radeon libva-mesa-driver lib32-libva-mesa-driver mesa-vdpau lib32-mesa-vdpau lightdm lightdm-gtk-greeter lightdm-gtk-greeter-settings plasma-meta kde-applications-meta atom audacity barrier barrier-headless bashtop blender chromium codeblocks darktable desmume discord dolphin-emu firefox firejail fish filelight gimp git jre8-openjdk jre8-openjdk-headless mupen64plus nmap notepadqq obs-studio ppsspp python screenfetch shotcut steam syncthing tor wine whois wireshark-qt
do i need to spesify the btrfs subdir?
crimson wigeon
You do have it mounted there when pacstrapping, right?
plush summit
yes
crimson wigeon
Note that for testing you might want to only install the base system so it doesn't take so long
plush summit
fair
ashen spindle
turbo fan, turbo noise
zenith sonnet
LOL
Well, it works for SFF builds, I guess
Or something that can't take the heat
If it's a reference board, it might be an option with a cheaper fan for water cooling
plush summit
interesting
you cannot install bedrock linux with btrfs file system and subvolumes
i have to choose between btrfs or bedrock linux
vagrant marsh
Choose windows
crimson wigeon
I don't see why
"Until this is resolved, it is strongly recommended not to use Bedrock, GRUB, and BTRFS/ZFS. Any two of the three is fine; consider another bootloader or filesystem." Just don't use GRUB!
plush summit
exept when it doesnt
im done with windoge
what other bootloaders ahve the functionality of grub
crimson wigeon
Sadly I don't know of any that are as feature packed, but whatever I use rEFInd
plush summit
i would like features
looks like im going to choose between btrfs with subvolumes an the snapshots...and no bedrock linux
or i am going to use ext4 with bedrock linux
i dont want ot give up grub because of the features
crimson wigeon
What features specifically?
plush summit
it can boot almost anything
i dont want to need to install another bootloader if an media i want to boot from cannot be recognized by the bootloader
zenith sonnet
Wonder how much supply of GPUs Nvidia even gets from Samsung
Low supply isn't due to a few scalpers alone
crimson wigeon
Ah I see, in my experience rEFInd is pretty good at picking up everything bootable, but sometimes it doesn't autodetect and then I might have to go old school EFI shell
plush summit
yeah
i want to avoid that
as i would need to learn the efi shell
and i dont want to do that
vagrant marsh
thats not a rumor tho
i think their roadmap confirmed this
i think a turbo fan simply fans extra quick
ashen spindle
oh I guess for waterblocks that dont use FE design or Stacking it in a case with another card might be a valid option
still a minority usecase lul
ashen spindle
cursive summit
Someone made a bot on eBay to make the bids insanely high
zenith sonnet
There wasn't much to begin with
cursive summit
Jesus christ what the fuck are these prices
ashen spindle
lots of people at home, waiting since announcement, 20 series was not great
zenith sonnet
Nvidia didn't even try and stop bots and distribute the cards evenly
cursive summit
???
ashen spindle
newegg said they had more traffic that on black friday
cursive summit
Like
zenith sonnet
95% of which was bots?
cursive summit
Locally I can buy this
For cheaper
We have an amazing used market infrastructure in our country
But boy 200 euros for 1050 is a ripoff of massive proportions
zenith sonnet
Tbh, I don't know if Germany has that
cursive summit
Most of Europe has black friday
Not to the point of America
But some sort of sales do happen
zenith sonnet
I meant used market
zenith sonnet
Black Friday has just started becoming interesting in the last 2-3 years here
But the sales are still minor
cursive summit
Yeah nothing impressive
zenith sonnet
Mostly in the range of what they are usually
cursive summit
Alright a little bit of a life hack
zenith sonnet
When a store has a sale
cursive summit
Black friday has stopped being black friday a while ago
It's more or less an end of the year fundraiser for shops now
Rather than discounts
zenith sonnet
Yeah
cursive summit
So what people are doing is buying shit 1 month beforehand
zenith sonnet
Just coincided with my last build
ashen spindle
in america still one of the biggest traffic days for websites
zenith sonnet
But I saved like 50€
cursive summit
Most shops are clearing inventory 1 month before Black Friday
You are getting a rather decent discount then
zenith sonnet
I would not wait for Black Friday to start a build
cursive summit
So November 27th is Black Friday
Look for parts at around October 20th
This year might be great for parts
New cards launch, new CPUs launch
People might sell their PCs for consoles
Corona, people need money
The prices will go down quite a lot I predict
zenith sonnet
I got quite a bit of hardware to sell
But if anything, I'd buy Zen 3 and maybe RDNA2 if it turns out better than Ampere
ashen spindle
that's why its so surprising the demand was even higher
urban lynx
i still dont get the concept of "black friday"
urban lynx
yeah no, i didnt mean that
more like what is so special about it?
why does it need to be something special?
reef patrol
It's just a retail excuse to get rid of old stock.
vagrant marsh
yup
reef patrol
And get people to get their cards out, since they're there anyway.
vagrant marsh
in the netherlands its heavily regulated by law, but i guess in america its very much happening. prices inflated before black friday, then htey give a discount on the products, losing only 5% while the discount says 20%
reef tundra
price gouging bad
reef patrol
Yeah we've also got strict laws on discounts here in Denmark. As a direct result of retailers trying to scam people hard.
Offer has to be limited time, product cannot have been price adjusted in 6? weeks prior (To avoid setting the price higher to make the discount seem bigger) and other things.
reef tundra
human psychology is easy to manupulate
chrome estuary
Sucks to be you locke
I get a 4 day weekend for thanksgiving
Christmas Eve and Christmas Day as well
vagrant marsh
cash cow?
chrome estuary
it only took many years for my company to do the latter
vagrant marsh
japanese spending their money on the japanese market? thats stagnent for the past 20 years?
its not about being atheist or not.
you get days off
reef tundra
double the rate.. and you get a free payed day off
vagrant marsh
yea, but not every company allows that
vagrant marsh
its a day off. im not gonna work on a free day off
reef tundra
Better, makes the pay more
vagrant marsh
you are mad
reef tundra
it it all is set in law, ahhh. The greatness of Unions
urban lynx
i'm actually not sure germany has even one 4 day weekend
vagrant marsh
maybe when first and second chistmass falls on thursday/friday
urban lynx
or monday tuesday respectively
i think it actually does this year i think
ah no. it falls on a friday and saturday
vagrant marsh
damnit
urban lynx
but since my company also gives me the 24th off it's one for me anyway
plush summit
finally finished the script(s)
@proud nacelle what do you think
download part 1 with curl when you boot into the iso
then when you get dumped into chroot run the second part
reef tundra
echo "downloadint part 2 to /mnt/"
in part 1 the pacstrap section could be little cleaner I think
seems https://bash.cyberciti.biz/guide/The_case_statement might be more suitable. With it setting some variable to add to the basic install
crimson wigeon
If you're feeling lucky you can add the shebang to the part2 script and exec it directly in the chroot, perhaps something like arch-chroot /mnt /install_part_2.sh may or may not work
plush summit
i could have used a case there, yeah
plush summit
i could have used case in most places of the if statemenst
proud nacelle
r00d i'm not sure then
because it worked on my end
Created one partition on two drives, one of them was just a regular btrfs with no subvolumes, another with a subvolume.
So honestly I'm left wondering if I don't get the question or if something is broken.
@plush summit
Also I found a 16GB microsd card for $4 CAD. No way of knowing if it's legit though, gotta test it later.
plush summit
/mnt/home worked for me
though i cant install bedrock linux
so i added it as an option in my script
proud nacelle
:thonk
plush summit
can either format with ext4 or btrfs
proud nacelle
plush summit
oh
i want to check for an efi partition, see if it is less than 1G and if it is extend it to make it larger and move any other partitions ahead of it
any way to do this in the script
proud nacelle
I mean the EFI partition is generally the first one
So check for /dev/sdX1
Or you could search it by filesystem type.
As for extending, more than likely there is a commandline way of doing it.
Actually
I remember now
It's literally parted.
gparted is just a gui for parted.
So anything gparted does parted can do in cli.
plush summit
on one of my machines EFI is the third partition
for some reason
yes, they both use the same
proud nacelle
Well
plush summit
which is why i want to extend the one i have
proud nacelle
Another way of doing it is
proud nacelle
Mount the filesystem at a temporary directory
And then look for a specific keyword or item.
For example, look for a folder named EFI or something.
And then unmount and continue if it ain't.
Otherwise go do the other thing.
proud nacelle
Ok well just go from there then
plush summit
the efi partition is always labled as EFI
proud nacelle
Just look for a partition with a label with EFI
plush summit
but i dont know the best way to fetch and use that informatiom
plush summit
fdisk -l returns the partition data
proud nacelle
I ain't a god at linux.
plush summit
but i dont know how to use it in a script properly
proud nacelle
And most of those partition programs offer a "script" mode.
Here's a simple way of doing it
Hold up
Making a proof of concept
blkid -o export | grep -B 1 EFI | grep DEVNAME | rev | head -c 8 | rev
This should give you the partition which EFI resides at.
Actually no I fucked up
Hold up
No I didn't fuck up
What
Anyway try that script
You might need to change the EFI thing to the actual EFI label name.
plush summit
you ok?
plush summit
do you need a hug?
plush summit
let me start arch
proud nacelle
I'm assuming you at least know how to pipe it into a var
plush summit
yaeh i know about pipe
proud nacelle
Alright good
That script is hack though. There's an easier way, pretty sure about it
But hey if it works...
plush summit
i just want to check with something
see if efi exists
and if it does
check the size
if its below a certain size, i want to resize and move any obstructing partitions
proud nacelle
Finding out if UEFI is on is possible via /sys, for checking it, you need to find the EFI label which that script provides.
As for checking the size
Give me a moment
plush summit
EFI
proud nacelle
what the fuck gives
plush summit
EFI system
plush summit
oh
proud nacelle
fuck sake
plush summit
i set a lable myself
plush summit
please done explode ;-;
proud nacelle
side note
fdisk thinks my legacy partition is an efi one
doesn't matter, still gonna keep making script
plush summit
wtf
proud nacelle
ok right
i'm just gonna assume you have less than 10 partitions
is that correct?
proud nacelle
fuck sake
plush summit
yes i have less than 10
though i would like to account for any number of partitions
plush summit
what are you doing and why
proud nacelle
trying to make a script
and because why the fuck not
got one part done, doing the second
why is fdisk being a child
what size are you looking for
1gb?
plush summit
yeah
plush summit
if it doesnt exist then i want to resize to 1GB
its just over half as large as you normaly wayt the efi partition
the reccomendes size is 512 mb
proud nacelle
right
just promise me this isn't gonna be used to try and make a >1tb partition
and this script should work when i'm done
proud nacelle
well
it ain't gonna be flexible past gigabytes/gigibytes
and i cba to make it flexible past that
proud nacelle
because i'm doing it very hackily
just trying to get it working as a proof of concept
plush summit
what if i want my EFI partition to be 16EiB
proud nacelle
what the hell is wrong with you
plush summit
XD