How do you feel about their GPU selection? I understand the 2U rack limits their choices, but what would you recommend as a good GPU that strikes a balance between performance and price?
My honest opinion is that until the software situation drastically changes, there is zero reason to get anything other than nvidia cards, because the cost of hardware will always be dwarfed by engineering hours in dev, and ROCm isn't there yet by a long shot.
I'm very much looking forward to this changing, for VRAM reasons in particular. But it's not going to happen any time soon.
I use a similar setup with my brother who lives in Europe, but instead of a
MacBook Air, I’m using a Raspberry Pi.
The Pi runs Tailscale as an exit node, and whenever I want to catch a game or a
show, I simply connect to that exit node from my computer and launch the DAZN
web app. It’s not something I use all the time, but it’s a great option when I
need access to a game that isn’t available on my local streaming services.
While this setup works, it’s far from ideal. Having to go through the entire
process is a bit cumbersome. It would be much more convenient if there were a
way to directly access the video feed stream—maybe with a dedicated cable box
that you can control remotely.
I’ve also come across some dubious streaming sites that broadcast virtually
every channel from multiple providers—literally thousands of channels. I’ve
always been curious how they manage to pull that off.
> Most people do not use TailScale. I'd encourage doing the work of understanding why, there is likely a big opportunity somewhere here.
When you use Tailscale extensively, it becomes your new network. Now all your systems depend on a piece of software that you do not fully control. The control plane is not open source, and it is a key component of Tailscale. Headscale is a great effort, but it doesn't have feature parity with Tailscale (1). Moreover, the dedicated team at Tailscale keeps releasing amazing new functionality regularly.
That being said, if I had to buy software from a company, Tailscale would be my first pick. I respect and trust the founders and the early engineers working there.
As a side note, I'm planning to contribute to Headscale. This technology is crucial, and I want to help ensure its success.
(1) The functionality offered by Headscale is sufficient to build a robust mesh network and enjoy its benefits. Kudos to the team and to Tailscale for supporting it.
That's true today, no reason to be true tomorrow, else we would all still be on mosaic or netscape or firefox (who fired the rust/servo team afaict once they weren't as valued)
I use a Mikrotik router and I have a dedicated network for devices I don’t want to access my main network. They can only access my MQTT server. RouterOS (mikrotik OS) is a bit terse and comes with its own cli interface. I managed to modify the default setup relatively easily via the UI to create the two networks I needed. In the future I may install openWRT but at the moment the current setup works well.
Another think that I did recently that was quite impactful (performance wise) was to add a Omaha controller to make my two access poins work together to expose one single wifi network. Before I had them working on their own. The performance of the network has increased substantially. I’d prefer not having to buy a piece of hardware to do that but I am glad I did.
I recently bought a ds720 from Synology. I upgraded the RAM to 6gb. So far I use it to dump my personal backup (restic). Also my Reolink cameras dump video via FTP. Because the ds720 runs linux and docker I am planning on consolidating a few services in the ds720 (home assistant, grafana and Pinole).
Oh, I also got a UPS system for the main components that provide Internet access. I can be without power and have Internet for 2 hours a half. One thing I want to do is to get an alert when the power goes down. The UPS exposes that via USB.
I just upgraded my M1 air to Ventura. I typically wait for apple to release the first software update before upgrading to a major version but I thought I'd give it a try after reading this post.
It was absolutely painless and I did not notice any UI annoyances. I will update this comment if I encounter any issues.
Disclaimer: I use hammerspoon(https://www.hammerspoon.org/) for, among other things, manage my windows and move them around. I do not use any special feature of the OSX UI.
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