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 (https://github.com/jimsalterjrs/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 (https://zed.dev/)
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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