Zelaf

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[–] Zelaf@sopuli.xyz 2 points 3 days ago

I'd love to try and make one of those articulated screens that are shown in the ready room and quarters one day. Would be quite neat!

[–] Zelaf@sopuli.xyz 9 points 4 days ago (2 children)

There is this https://github.com/th3jesta/ha-lcars

Its been developed for some time. If you have a screen or a tablet it would definitely worth configuring a dashboard with that.

[–] Zelaf@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 week ago

I'll come to your material science course

[–] Zelaf@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Every morning I wake up sad... until I realise I can make coffee!! :D

[–] Zelaf@sopuli.xyz 11 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Buy a blinding stew

[–] Zelaf@sopuli.xyz 8 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] Zelaf@sopuli.xyz 2 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

I doooo and I still love it! I haven't had the time to update to the latest version yet but it's running very very nicely and has been a big help in my day to day!

[–] Zelaf@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

So I'm also using Beszel and Ntfy to track my systems because it's lightweight and very very easy. Coming from having tried Grafana and Prometheus and different TSDBs I felt like I was way better off.

I've been following Beszels development closely because it was previously missing features like container monitoring and systemd monitoring which I'm very thankful for them having added recently and I use containers as my primary way of hosting all my applications. The "Healthy" or "Unhealthy" status is directly reported by Docker itself and not something Beszel monitors directly so it has to be configured, either by the configuration in the Dockerfile of the container image or afterwards using the healthcheck options when running a container.

As some other comments mentioned, some containers do come with a healthcheck built in which makes docker auto-configure and enable that healthcheck endpoint. Some containers don't have a healthcheck built into the container build file and some have documentation for adding a healthcheck to the docker run command or compose file. Some examples are Beszel and Ntfy themselves.

For containers that do not have a healthcheck built into the build file it is either documented how to add it to the compose or you have to figure out a way to do it yourself. For docker images that are built using a more standard image like Alpine, Debian or others you usually have something like curl installed. If the service you are running has a webpage going you can use that. Some programs have a healthcheck command built into it that you can also use.

As an example, the postgresql program has a built in healthcheck command you can use of that'll check if the database is ready. The easiest way to add it would be to do

    healthcheck:
      test: ["CMD", "pg_isready", "-U", "root",  "-d", "db_name"]
      interval: 30s
      retries: 5
      start_period: 60s

That'll run the command inside the container pg_isready -U root -d db_name every 30 seconds but not before 60 seconds to get the container up and running. Options can be changed depending on the speed of the system.

Another example, for a container that has the curl program available inside it you can add something like

    healthcheck:
      test: ["CMD", "curl", "-f", "http://localhost:3000/"]
      interval: 1m
      retries: 3

This will run curl -f http://localhost:3000/ every 1 minute. If either of the above examples would exit with an exit code higher than 0 Docker would report the container has unhealthy. Beszel will then read that data and report back that the container is not healthy. Some web apps have something along the line of a /health endpoint you can use the curl command with as well.

Unless the developer has spent some extra time on the healthchecks it is often just a basic way to see that the program inside the container is running. However, usually the container itself exits if the program it is running crashes or quits. So a healthcheck isn't always necessary as the healthcheck will be that the container has abruptly stopped. This is why things like Uptime Kuma is something to consider running alongside Beszel because it can monitor when a web address or similar is down as well even if a container exits which as of now Beszel is still sadly lacking.

I would recommend you read up on the Docker Compose spec for healthchecks since with the other options you can also do things like timeouts and what not, combining that with whatever program you're running with the healthcheck you can get very creative with it if you must.

My personal recommendation would be to sticking with Uptime Kuma regarding proper service availability healthchecks since it'll be easier to configure and get an overview of things like slow load times of web pages and containers that have stopped while using Beszel to monitor performance and resource usage.

[–] Zelaf@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I think they mean librarian? Or maybe the libyans

[–] Zelaf@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Can I boop your nose?

 
 

To clarify, if the display is showing a white image will it heat up less in any measurable way compared to if it's off and just showing black?

 

I can still heavily recommend it tho, it's also on the cheaper side of snus here!

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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by Zelaf@sopuli.xyz to c/steamdeck@sopuli.xyz
 

I've been thinking about this for a while. With the repairability of the steam deck and the power available to it, it seems like a no brainer to use it for a bit of school work or casual browsing, Discord etc. Like you would a normal desktop.

There's a new product type popping up called LapDock that's basically a hollowed out laptop but often with a giant battery, UPerfect has one and as well as the NexDock and they seem promising.

My personal biggest gripe is screen resolution and colour accuracy, as well as battery life. As I also do photography colour accuracy would be a great plus for me and as for resolution, I've been using 2k and higher screens for years and going back to 1080p seems like a bit of a turn off. However, UPerfect has monitor only types but having to set that up ontop of a mouse and keyboard while out and about seems less than ideal in comparison to a laptop.

Any thoughts on this? Anyone who's tried it? Anyone who've tried desktop mode on high Res screens and seen any downsides, stutters, playback trouble, etc?

Edit:

I went out and bought myself a USB-C Hub with a PD port, HDMI and 2 USB to get a feel for the desktop experience on my TV at home. Since I do most of my work related things in Windows I installed it on a separate partition using GParted to shrink the home folder and then went through the Windows installer. After installing Valves drivers from their help page without errors everything seemed to work absolutely amazingly!

Everything from 4K playback to Windows animations all goes smoothly. It's a trouble free Windows installation which from my previous experiences is a nice change of pace. The only hiccups I can notice is the occasional stutter and some Windows feeling laggy when resizing and moving, mainly the settings window and other WinUI software with lots of detailing and graphics to them.

I tried installing Deathloop through Xbox Game Pass and that worked wonderfully too. It installed quickly and I tried setting the resolution to 4K and got a solid 15 FPS! I tried 1440p as well and got around 30 and then went to 1080p where I got around 45. Not quite enough for me as I get slight headaches when below 60 but good enough I feel like. In the end for gaming it doesn't really matter since I have handheld for that. Alternatively up-scaling.

As I've tried the Windows experience on the Steam Deck now I'm gonna continue my experimenting with SteamOS and see how that goes. My biggest issue so far has been that the USB-C Hub in Windows works perfectly at 4K 60Hz but SteamOS doesn't seem to be detecting the 60Hz mode at all when the screen is at 4K. I'm gonna troubleshoot and see what I can find. If anyone has had any similar issues and know how to resolve them any pointers would be greatly appreciated!

All in all the desktop experience on the Steam Deck is amazingly smooth. Truly feels like a proper Desktop when things are setup the way I need them to be and I couldn't be happier. The question for a laptop replacement is still in the air for me however. Now that I know that the desktop experience will be as smooth as it is I'm wondering which right way to go about it would be. As a lot of people in the comments on this thread and others mention that the build quality of the NexDock is absolutely terrible, a portable monitor seems to be the better way. I suppose in the end it would boil down to either living with bad build quality to get the more seamless experience. or chucking along a bluetooth mouse and keyboard with a portable monitor which could potentially not be too big of a hassle depending on how lazy I'm feeling during the days.

More thoughts would be welcome! Especially if there's any other users who have any experience with external displays and how they're using them!

 

I really enjoyed its hint of bitterness while still keeping it sweet and tasteful. It's very strong in aroma and taste and unlike most berry flavoured snus it doesn't lose the taste too quickly!

I've also tried One vit which is also berry/fruit based and while the aroma and taste isn't as strong as One Red it's still a lot better than some others!

 
 

I find this amazing. I hope Lemmy takes over as the one Reddit alternative. As I've been experimenting with it today I think it's on an amazing growth path and hopefully more streamlined communities will be setup too!

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