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  • journalctl --list-boots
    

    If you see multiple entries without reboots, those intermediate boundaries are suspend/resume cycles.

    you can get the last resupe time with either

    journalctl -b -1 -g "PM: suspend exit"
    

    or maybe

    journalctl -g "resume from suspend"
    

    I don’t have my laptop with me rn, so it would be nice if somebody can confirm whether this works



  • I have 2 powered RAID enclosures from icybox with 2 multi TB HDD in each one. The RAID is set to mirror the drives.

    They are connected via usb 3 to a raspberry pi which runs borgbackup.

    One is in my own place, just next to the main server.

    The other is at my parents place in another city.

    All my desktops, laptops and servers have borgmatic installed with the two pi’s as two targets. So when I create a backup it gets send to both locations. On my PCs I manually do a borg backup like once a month when I feel like it. The server computers are all on a daily schedule.

    Borg has extremely efficient compression and defuplication. So having 20 historical snapshots of the whole file storage of each device takes about 30% less space than the original size on disk.

    For example my desktop currently uses ~800GB but the borgbackup of said desktop takes only ~500GB.

    The only disadvantage I find is that there is no cross system deduplication.

    The super useful advantage is that I was able to just take the HDD enclosure, plug it into my Desktop and restore whatever files I want. I did an rsync to a blank fs once and it restored everything properly. And it’s pretty cheap. like 150$ total per backup location without any significant monthly costs.

    I used hetzners storagebox for a while for borgbackups but restoring from it was SO SLOW. And my internet connection is not stable enough to do that without interruptions for multiple days. Never again, except for using it as an extra last resort “cloud” backup.















  • I tried pausing and reading and their “arguments” were so yes-man like that they seemed to not really want to debate or lean one way or the other and basically were saying it depends on context or that it could be seen as either. Which is fine, but meaningless in the context of wanting to come up with an answer. Any question can be replied to with “it depends”, without really answering the question in a satisfying way.

    I think it would make more sense to either use an odd number of LLMs, or let them abstain if they are undecided - to try to force them to come up with a clear cut answer.

    Then there is also the issue of swarm intelligence, which does not get used here at all, because it only works if the voters DO NOT discuss their thinking before the vote, thus influencing each other. One LLM could be confidently wrong, but because they all are such yes-man - the strongest, most confident sounding voice linguistically, might overweight the correct “thinking”.

    So yeah, this seems like a bad approach to a really interesting problem.

    Here are some interesting reads on this topic:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackboard_(design_pattern)

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackboard_system



  • I had a case that looked like that, because the nozzle was scraping the previous layer of the print.

    I think that for some reason the layers below were physically taller than in softwas and the additive effect of that stacked and reached critical failure at a certain height. It started as soft scraping and got worse as it went on until it failed like that because it essentially skipped a whole layer. No enclosure/heating chamber btw. It was always the same height for that model, but then a smaller model like a benchie would have no issues on that height. I guess because the filament was warmer due to the smaller loops, so more mendible or less expanded somehow, idk.

    I dried my filament so it stopped making bubbles and ran some filament specific calibration and also I changed the extrusion to be a bit lower. Then the issue was gone.